Meet Our Farmers
Greenling believes in Sustainability and buys as much as it can locally. If it's available locally and is organically produced or sustainably raised, we want it. We support local, certified Organic farms and producers. We also support local farms and producers who use organic methods but are not certified Organic. We visit with all of our local farms and can personally and professionally attest - they're the best around!
These people should be celebrities! Can you imagine them hopping out of a limo with sunglasses and dirty work boots? We can. These people nourish us so we can chase our dreams. Can you tell we're crazy about them yet? Ok, meet the real magic behind the Greenling organism:
Animal Farm
Cas & Gita Vanwoerden
Cat Springs, TX
Animal Farm is located in Cat Springs, sixty miles West of Houston. In the Summer of 1992, owners Cas & Gita Vanwoerden decided to get out of the city and be close to nature. They now have seventy wooded acres with vegetables, horses, chickens and even a few emu's! The Farm also has a Learning Center to provide ongoing workshops and courses, from Organic Gardening, Straw Bale construction and Earth building to Renewable Energy and Eco-Design courses.
What they're raising...
Vegetables, chickens and even a few emu's!
Angel Valley
Farmer John and Jo Dwyer
Jonestown, TX
Angel Valley Organic Farm is a certified organic vegetable farm located at the edge of the Texas Hill Country in Jonestown, TX. They concentrate on selling vegetables directly to customers at weekly farm stands and occasionally sell wholesale produce to local stores, and of course, to Greenling! If you want to learn more about Angel Valley Organic Farm and see what seasonal food they are growing right now.
What they're growing...
Bastrop Cattle Company
Patti Jacobs
Bastrop Cattle Company is a local company. Together with ranching partners, they want to share great beef, while they keep Texas grass-fed beef ranching alive as it is meant to be - produced by local farmers and ranchers humanely with no additives. The best beef comes right off your local ranches!
What they're raising...
Texas grass-fed beef.
Bella Verdi Farms
Darrell Joseph
Bella Verdi Farms (Italian for "Beautiful Greens") is located in Dripping Springs just outside of Austin. It was conceived in 2003 out of the desire to leave the high tech world and do something revolving around a passion for fine food while also being involved with the local community. They are dedicated to providing the finest quality product and varieties to their customers.
What they're growing...
The finest micro greens, culinary herbs and specialty greens. Popular micro greens: Argula, Cabbage, Kohlrabi, Mustard, Tatsoi to name a few.
Caskey Peach Orchards
Cliff & Sylvia Caskey
Caskey Orchards is a small family owned and operated orchard specializing in sweet, tree-ripened freestone peaches. They are located in Hays County, Texas about four miles south of San Marcos. In addition to the many varieties of peaches that we produce throughout the growing season, they also grow plums, nectarines, apricots, apples, pears, figs, and pecans.
What they're growing...
Peaches, plums, nectarines, apricots, apples, pears, figs, and pecans, homemade jams and preserves, and raw honey.
Acadian Family Farm
Rod Ardoin
This small family farm is located in Lavaca County. All the vegetables that they grow and sell are naturally grown and chemical-free. They have more than 20 yrs. of vegetable growing experience and are now in their 2nd year of growing for two farmers’ markets in Austin.
What they're growing...
Basil, beets, cabbage, carrots, fennel, onion, peas, radishes, lettuce, squash, tomatoes.
Dewberry Hills Farm
Jane and Terry Levan
Dewberry Hills Farm is a family owned, pastured based farm located in Central Texas--about 50 miles from Austin. The farm specializes in compassionately raised poultry and beef, and providing healthy and affordable food is their passion. They provide a different way of raising food that works in harmony with the land, the seasons and the creatures in their care.
What they're raising...
Chicken, turkeys, ducks, eggs, beef.
Arnold Organics
Forrest Arnold
Forrest Arnold has been gardening organically for 36 years. After working for 30 years as an electrical engineer, he retired to farm organically full time in Cedar Creek, Texas, only 20 miles from Greenling towards Bastrop. The specialties that he supplies to Greenling are longhorn okra, Swiss chard, and peppers. He gives gardening seminars, has been on the PBS show "Central Texas Gardener", has published articles on organics, and is a former president of the Austin Organic Gardeners Club. He is a firm believer that organic gardening "makes all the sense in the world" for your health and the Planet.
What they're growing...
Longhorn okra, Swiss chard, and peppers.
Full Quiver Farm
Michael and Debbie Sams
Michael and Debbie Sams operate this organic family farm, which includes cows, chickens and pigs. They are best known for their fresh organic cheeses and pastured pork products, and offer five different cheese spreads as well as several raw milk aged cheesed including Gouda, feta and gruyere.
What they're raising and making...
Cows, chickens, pigs, pork products, cheese spreads, Gouda, feta and gruyere.
Call Debbie: 903-498-3884
G & S Groves
David and Beverly Strohmeyer
G&S Groves are two small family farms in South Texas that produce fresh, certified organic citrus. They provide the freshest grapefruits and navel oranges to customers throughout Texas
What they're growing...
Organic grapefruit, lemons, and naval oranges.
Green Gate Farm
Erin Flynn & Skip Connett
Green Gate Farm is a small farm just eight miles east of downtown Austin. They use sustainable growing methods to raise the tastiest vegetables and meat possible. Their produce is all local, all the time!
What they're growing and raising...
Veggies, meat, eggs, milk.
Indian Hills Farm
Hersh and Karen Kendall and Lucille Buckhaults
Indian Hills Farm was started 20 years ago by Hersh and Karen Kendall and Lucille Buckhaults. It is located in a beautiful part of Central Texas with rolling hills, wild creeks, and a gorgeous private lake. Their farm produces organic vegetable and fruits such as peaches, blackberries, pears, lemons, and figs.
What they're raising and growing...
Organic beef, pecans, peaches, blackberries, pears, lemons, and figs
Kitchen Pride
Kitchen Pride family
Kitchen Pride Mushroom Farms is located in Gonzales, Texas, the cradle of Texas independence. They are a family operation that consistently produces a quality mushroom and provides a high level of commitment to all their customers. They enjoy offering Texans a nutritious and tasty product to add to their meals.
What they're growing...
Mushrooms
Montesino Ranch
Scott & Brenda Mitchell
The Farm at Montesino Ranch is a certified organic farm located along the Blanco River, just outside of Wimberley. They plant about 75 varieties of vegetables, fruits and herbs each year.
What they're raising and growing...
Livestock, organic fruits and vegetables, native plants and wildlife.
My Father's Farm
My Father's House International Foundation
My Father’s Farm is located in Seguin, 35 miles from San Antonio. They provide organically grown vegetables and are planning to add cherry tomatoes, lettuce, and strawberries to their upcoming crops.
What they're growing...
Naegelin Farm
Sonny and Doris Naegelin
Naegelin Farm is a true family farm. Doris and Sonny Naegelin’s family has been farming in Lytle, TX for five generations. The Farm sits on 300 acres in the Winter Valley region south of San Antonio. Along with their seven children, the Naegelin’s are keeping the family farming tradition alive by utilizing sustainable growing practices to bring customers over 30 different seasonal crops including fruits, herbs, and vegetables.
What they're growing...
Seasonal crops including fruits, herbs, and vegetables.
Pure Luck Farm and Dairy
Ben Guyton and Amelia Sweethardt
Located in Dripping Springs, Texas, Pure Luck Dairy is known for their award winning goat cheese, as well as other cheese such as feta, bleu and chevre. Founded in 1979 by Sara Bolton, the farm became one of the first Certified Organic Farms recognized in the state of Texas.
What they're growing and making...
Goat cheese, feta, bleu and chevre cheese, organic culinary herbs.
Rio Grande Organics
Bob Ackerley
Rio Grande Organics has 1200 acres of trees that produce pecans consisting of three varieties, and they operate two orchards: the Quemado orchard along the Rio Grande River and the Crystal City orchard along the Nueces River. They are a certified to bring you organic and all natural pecans. To learn more visit http://www.riograndeorganics.com/
What they're growing...
Organic pecans, organic vegetables.
Round Rock Honey
Konrad and Elizabeth Bouffard
In 2002, owners Konrad and Elizabeth Bouffard started Round Rock Honey to bring local and pure wildflower honey to Texas. Each bottle is 100% honey and has been unheated or altered from it’s natural state. Their focus is on quality – quality of the processes, the packaging, the customer's experiences, and of course, the honey!
What they're growing...
Local and pure wildflower honey.
Tecolote Farm
David Pitre and Katie Kraemer
Tecolote Farm is a small, family farm located on the blackland prairie just east of Austin. David Pitre and Katie Kraemer began farming there in 1993, following their time working on small farms in the Matanuska Valley of Alaska as well as near Santa Cruz and San Francisco, California. Fifteen years in Central Texas have refined their growing list to the tastiest and most climate-tolerant varieties available.
What they're growing...
Over 150 varieties of vegetables.
Thunderheart Bison
Thunderheart Bison is an award winning farm that provides grass-fed and naturally raised Bison to customers in the Texas area. By adhering to the path of the natural world in raising their animals, they are creating a model for long term sustainability and biodiversity.
What they're raising...
Grass-fed and naturally raised Bison.
Urban Roots
Youthlaunch.org
Urban Roots is a youth development program that uses sustainable agriculture as means to effect lasting change for youth participants, and to nourish East Austin residents who currently have limited access to healthy foods. Young people will cultivate a local 2 - 5 acre, diversified organic farm, selling a portion of their harvest in the Austin area and donating a portion to local hunger relief programs.
What they're growing...
Organic harvest of veggies.
Veldhuizen Family Farm
Stuart & Connie Veldhuizen (and family!)
Located in Dublin, Texas, the Veldhuizen Family Farm is owned and operated by Stuart & Connie Veldhuizen. In 2003 they began to sell a variety of cheeses, with every family member involved in the process—from tending to cows, milking, or helping in the aging room.
What they're making...
Variety of cheeses.
Vital Farms
Matt O'Hayre and Robert Craft
Vital Farms, located right here in South Austin, produces the only Organic, Pasture Raised Eggs in Travis County. Vital Farm is home to some of the happiest hens in the world. Located on 27 acres in South Austin along Onion Creek, our story begins with healthy, green, organic pastures. This is where our hens live and eat. Every few days our chickens are moved onto fresh native grass. The health of our pasture is reflected in our happy hens and their delicious, healthy eggs.
What they're raising and growing...
Organic eggs and produce.