Every Saturday from April to October, hundreds come to a downtown Charlottesville parking lot for the City Market, which celebrates the region’s diverse agricultural bounty. Most of the shoppers strolling among the dozens of stalls filled with local produce, cheeses, and meats are unaware that many items remaining at the end of the day are [...]
Nearly landlocked by the massive Kluge Estate Winery, Blenheim Vineyards sits unassumingly 20 minutes south of Charlottesville. A small winery with a full-time staff of only four, Blenheim is owned by musician Dave Matthews and run in large part by members of his family. Although Blenheim has been in operation for nearly 10 years, it [...]
The story of Panorama Farm and the family that tends it started out like most: Jim and Bunny Murray moved to this piece of land in Earlysville, with its arresting view of the Blue Ridge Mountains, in 1953 and raised eight boys. Incorporated in the late 1970s, the farm stayed in conventional agriculture through the [...]
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