Rappahannock Education Farm

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Rappahannock Education Farm Our farm grows and donates fresh produce to food pantries and the food bank to reduce food insecurity and provides education on gardening.

Harvest Day!!🎈🎈On this beautiful morning, a nice group of awesome volunteers harvested 439 pounds of nutritious veggies ...
10/20/2026

Harvest Day!!🎈🎈On this beautiful morning, a nice group of awesome volunteers harvested 439 pounds of nutritious veggies 🥗 — including collards, kale 🥬, peppers 🫑 and a few zucchini. We donated these along with some sweet potatoes. 🍠 Today’s harvest went to The Table at St. George's and the Fredericksburg United Methodist Church.

Spinach!!! This afternoon a great group of volunteers, including several from Beth Sholom Temple Fredericksburg Virginia...
10/19/2026

Spinach!!! This afternoon a great group of volunteers, including several from Beth Sholom Temple Fredericksburg Virginia, planted thousands of spinach seeds. Half of our first spinach field is now planted!! “Well begun is half done!” ✅ We’ll get the rest of the field planted this week!! We’re lucky to have such awesome volunteers!!

VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES🎈🎈🎈This week we are asking for volunteers on:* Sunday, October 18, 3:00 to 5:00 PM* Tuesday, Octo...
10/18/2026

VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES🎈🎈🎈This week we are asking for volunteers on:

* Sunday, October 18, 3:00 to 5:00 PM
* Tuesday, October 20, 9:00 AM to Noon
* Thursday, October 22, 9:00 AM to Noon
* Saturday, October 24, 9:00 AM to 11:30 AM, followed by a free Educational Class 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM

This week we will be harvesting Kale and Collards and planting Spinach and Onions. We started harvesting kale and collards on Tuesday October 13 and they are gorgeous!! Looking forward to being able to harvest and donate more of these beauties. This week we’ll also be planting spinach and onions for harvest in 2027.

On Saturday, we will have a WONDERFUL and free educational class on “Preserving the Harvest" — taught by the amazing Linda LaFave, Jim Goehring and Beth Austin. This is a great opportunity. All are welcome to attend. Pizza will be served.

If you are able to volunteer this week, please let us know by emailing us at [email protected] or texting us at 703-606-0446.

With Gratitude

Rainy Morning Accomplishments!! 🎈🎈We had intended to plant spinach this morning, but with the rain ☔️, we shifted our pl...
10/17/2026

Rainy Morning Accomplishments!! 🎈🎈We had intended to plant spinach this morning, but with the rain ☔️, we shifted our plans. One group of volunteers cleaned and prepared the last of our 2026 sweet potato 🍠 harvest for donation and other volunteers did cleanup work in the barn and greenhouse, including adding materials for cucumbers 🥒 and pole beans 🫘 to climb. We donated 195 pounds of sweet potatoes 🍠 to the Fredericksburg Free Fridge & Pantry this morning. The rest of our sweet potatoes 🍠 will be donated next week. It was a good morning at the Rappahannock Education Farm. This Sunday, October 18, 3-5 PM we will plant spinach. All are welcome.

Thanks to a great group of volunteers from Healthy Generations Rappahannock Area Agency on Aging, Inc. who came out to o...
10/15/2026

Thanks to a great group of volunteers from Healthy Generations Rappahannock Area Agency on Aging, Inc. who came out to our Farm today. They did a GREAT job harvesting lots of kale and collards. We donated 659 pounds, including sweet potatoes 🍠, kale, collards and tomatoes 🍅to Saint Judes Catholic Church., Empowerhouse and Germanna Community College. Today’s harvest brings us over 96,000 pounds of veggies 🥗 that we have grown and donated so far in 2026 to reduce hunger and food insecurity in our community.

Thanks to a nice group of volunteers, including a number from the Culpeper Filipino American Community CFAC, we were abl...
10/14/2026

Thanks to a nice group of volunteers, including a number from the Culpeper Filipino American Community CFAC, we were able to harvest the remainder of our sweet potatoes 🍠 this morning. Our 2026 sweet potato harvest is well over over 4,000 pounds.

Thanks to Ted Schubel for taking the time from his busy schedule to visit our Rappahannock Education Farm on Tuesday mor...
10/14/2026

Thanks to Ted Schubel for taking the time from his busy schedule to visit our Rappahannock Education Farm on Tuesday morning. His photos capture the excitement and focus of our amazing volunteers!!

First kale 🥬 harvest of the season!! Today a dozen wonderful volunteers accomplished lots!! 👍 We donated 667 pounds of v...
10/13/2026

First kale 🥬 harvest of the season!! Today a dozen wonderful volunteers accomplished lots!! 👍 We donated 667 pounds of veggies including sweet potatoes 🍠 and kale, along with some of our remaining zucchini, butternut and yellow squash. Volunteers also removed t-posts from our tomato field to prepare the field for future planting. Today’s harvest went to Fredericksburg United Methodist Church, The Table at St. George's and First Baptist Church of Colonial Beach. Thanks to Virginia Community Food Connections for arranging for these pantries to pick up the veggies 🥗 at our Farm. So far this year we have grown and donated 95,677 pounds of veggies to reduce hunger and food insecurity in our community.

Volunteer Opportunities!!!🎈🎈🎈This week we are asking for volunteers on:* Tuesday, October 13, 9:00 AM to Noon* Wednesday...
10/12/2026

Volunteer Opportunities!!!🎈🎈🎈This week we are asking for volunteers on:

* Tuesday, October 13, 9:00 AM to Noon
* Wednesday, October 14, 9:00 AM to Noon
* Saturday, October 17, 9:00 AM to Noon
*Sunday, October 18, 3:00 PM t0 5:00 PM

As we enter mid-October, we’re grateful for a wonderful year of abundant harvests. Thanks to our awesome volunteers, so far this year we have grown and donated over 95,000 pounds of fresh, nutritious veggies. And we still have lots more.

This week we will harvest the rest of our sweet potatoes, and we have kale that we can begin harvesting along with smaller amounts of peppers, zucchini and the rest of our butternut. Then, in early November we will harvest our Fall potato crop of Russett and Yukon Gold potatoes and in November and December, our cold weather crops of cabbage, cauliflower, kale, brussels sprouts and collards should be in full swing.

In addition to harvesting, this week we will plant spinach and onions that will be harvested in 2027.

If you are able to volunteer this week, please let us know by emailing us at [email protected] or texting us at 703-606-0446.

With Gratitude

This morning 26 wonderful volunteers pitched in and we got lots accomplished!! 🎈🎈 Our volunteers cleaned and prepared 19...
10/10/2026

This morning 26 wonderful volunteers pitched in and we got lots accomplished!! 🎈🎈 Our volunteers cleaned and prepared 19 boxes of sweet potatoes totaling 926 pounds. These were donated 🍠 to KG Love Thy Neighbor. Volunteers also planted the last of our kale and collard seedlings. And we prepared a large field for planting spinach where just a few days ago we harvested sweet potatoes 🍠 that were donated today. In preparing this field, we were able to efficiently reuse w**d barrier fabric and drip 💧 tape. With today’s harvest we are now over 95,000 pounds that we have grown and donated so far in 2026 to reduce hunger and food insecurity in our community.

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Fredericksburg, VA
22401

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