WELCOME TO OUR FARM
Lewis Farm is a diversified organic vegetable and pasture-based livestock farm that provides produce, flowers, meat, and eggs to our businesses and the local community. Our farm serves as a living classroom for our Junior Crew (local Appalachian Youth participating in our program), where they’re involved in all aspects of production, gaining hands-on, real-life experience.
Our farm sits on land originally inhabited by the Massawomeck and officially established as the Frye Farm in the early 1800s by one of Wardensville’s founding families. This 100-acre farm site is bordered by the Cacapon River. Much of this acreage is Certified Organic pasture land, upon which we raise our livestock. We currently raise poultry, pigs, cattle, and sheep, utilizing multispecies, rotational grazing systems.
Shop our products at the Wardensville Garden Market!
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THE MAKING OF LEWIS FARM
THE GENESIS OF FARMS WORK WONDERS
As the name implies, Farms Work Wonders originated with a farm. In 2016, Lewis Farm began with a small garden, a greenhouse, and a desire to provide ten jobs for local Appalachian youth. Our original 11 Junior Crew and a handful of full-time staff worked the fields of the historic Frye property with the Cacapon River running along its edge. Our early crops mainly consisted of potatoes, tomatoes, beets, okra, lettuce, and herbs, which we proudly displayed at our roadside farm stand, the Wardensville Garden Market.
By the end of 2016, we had set up our first gothic-style, climate-controlled high tunnel, which served as a greenhouse space for starting seeds, allowing us to extend our season and expand our vegetable production. We quickly outgrew that space, adding two additional high tunnels for indoor garden beds and expanding our production fields by the end of 2018. We also upgraded and grew our cold storage buildings to three different temperature-controlled units with a bigger and better packhouse for selling, washing, and packaging produce. After many months of preparation and hard work, we officially became a USDA Certified Organic vegetable farm certified by OEFFA (Ohio Ecological Food and Farm Association) in 2019.
With our new growing infrastructure, we could significantly increase vegetable production. This allowed us to offer more organic produce in our market and supply local restaurants and cafes. In fact, many of the delicious baked goods and “from the farm” dishes at Mack’s Bingo Kitchen + Bakery feature our farm-grown organic produce.
We closely collaborate with our culinary team to create our annual crop plan and seasonal menu offerings through weekly farm walks. You can witness this connection in action at our seasonal Hilltop Supper on-farm dining events.
During our peak season, our retail space expands beyond the market with our monthly Farm Stand, returning to our original roots! You can visit us at our Farm Stand or take a tour of Lewis Farm at our Second Saturday event series, where we host local vendors, musicians, artists, and makers alongside products from our sister enterprises. We love interacting with customers and sharing our passion and knowledge of good food through events like these.
This year, we decided to bring livestock to Lewis Farm, starting with a pasture-raised poultry program. Laying hens and broiler chickens spend their lives on grass, providing sanitation services and depositing nitrogen into our pasture land. Beginning in the summer of 2024, we will also provide eggs, whole chickens, and turkeys (seasonally available) to our sister enterprises, Mack’s Bingo Kitchen + Bakery and the Wardensville Garden Market.
All enterprises in the Farms Work Wonders family reinvest 100% of their profits back into their youth programming. These include the Wardensville Garden Market, Lewis Farm, Mack’s Bingo Kitchen, Mack’s Bingo Bakery, and Dakota Glass Works.
