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| About Manakintowne
We are Jo and Rob Pendergraph and Peter Markham of Manakintowne Specialty Growers. With the help of extended family, friends and assorted interested gardeners, cooks, and young people, we have been growing specialty produce in Powhatan County since 1985.Powhatan County is well situated for a small specialty farm, as it is located in Central Virginia with good proximity to Richmond, Charlottesville and Williamsburg, and many chefs of national reputation. We are in the eastern Piedmont of Virginia, with rolling terrain and moderately rocky and clay soil. Most of the farm is in full sun, and we are close to the highest elevation in the county. We grow in the field, and in three greenhouses year-round. We love food and we always have something interesting growing for the adventurous chef. Our seasonal selections and farm kitchen products can also be found at a limited number of local markets and co-ops. | |
| What we grow
We'll try anything and everything! Our most popular year-round selections are fresh cut herbs, baby salad greens, micro greens, and edible flowers. Seasonally, we grow everything from cardoons, pimientos de Padron and Japanese eggplant to baby fennel, Roma beans and zucchini blossoms. We are probably best known for our extensive variety of greens, from micro to braising size, and for the excellent shelf life of all our produce, which is cut and picked to order. We are always open to suggestions from our customers, in fact, that's where we get our best ideas. Ask us what's new.
 | | Why and how we grow
Our mission as farmers is to be good stewards of the land that sustains us and to provide people with a delicious, healthy and beautiful product. We recognize that the health of our soil underlies the success of our efforts. That is why we use sustainable farming methods, such as crop rotation, cover cropping, composting, mulching with compostable materials such as paper and hay, hand-tending and harvesting, and row covers and careful timing for pest control and season extension. Most of our beds are 100' by 4' or smaller, so each bed and each crop gets attention according to its needs. 
Healthy soil~happy plants~delicious food
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