We are your Community Farm-Bakery
Little Hat Creek Farm is a small diversified ecological vegetable farm and wood-fired bakery nestled in the rural Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. We are about one hour from Lynchburg, Charlottesville, and Staunton. Our goal is to drive change in our regional food system by forging one-on-one relationships with our community of eaters, providing them with bread and vegetables that are directly linked to the land. 2021 will be our eighth season; we have grown 30-40% every year selling primarily at three fast-paced farmer’s markets.
In our fields, we use ecological farming practices on about one acre of annual vegetables. We grow dozens of varieties of vegetables, focusing on building soil health and producing nutrient-dense food for our community. In our bakery, we specialize in using regional flours to produce naturally-leavened breads, croissants, and other pastries, and everything is baked in a 5’x7′ wood-fired oven that is housed in a 1000 sq-ft climate-controlled bakery building on the farm.
Our passion for regional grain motivated us to help found the Common Grain Alliance, a non-profit that seeks to revitalize the grain economy in the Mid-Atlantic. We are now offering products that allow us to use even more regionally grown and milled grain, including crackers, granola, and cookies. Wheat can be grown sustainably only in combination with other crops like buckwheat, millet, and rye. Thus, our research and development stance is to focus on finding products that make good use of what is available, drawing heavily on old world bread styles as well as current innovations. We don’t mill in-house; instead, we use our purchasing power to support our regional millers. Like you, we buy local.