Paradise
Paradise Organics is owned and operated by Chris Petersheim, in conjunction with Bud Wimer from Crawford Organics. Both farms are located in Ephrata, Lancaster County, PA. Together they supply Weavers Way with bunched cooking greens, lettuce, scallions, bok choy, and cherry tomatoes.

Weavers Way Farms
Weavers Way operates two farms in Northwest Philadelphia — the Mort Brooks Memorial Farm at the Awbury Arboretum in Germantown, and the Henry Got Crops CSA at the W.B. Saul High School in Roxborough. Both of our farmers use chemical-free, sustainable growing practices. They are our favorite suppliers of heirloom tomatoes, and we will be carrying about 15 varieties this year! We’ll also have bok choy, greens, zucchini and summer squash, eggplant, herbs and more.

Lancaster Farm Fresh Cooperative
LFFC is a nonprofit certified organic farmers cooperative of 75 farmers in Lancaster County, PA. They focus on creating healthy, high-quality foods from highly maintained and enriched soils on small-scale family farms. They specialize in delivering the best local organic produce, value-added products and humanely raised and pastured animal products to retail establishments, co-ops, restaurants and institutions. Their offerings run the gamut from cooking greens, radishes and eggplant to potatoes, yams and hard squash.

Sunny Harvest
Sunny Harvest is a cooperative of Amish farmers in Lancaster County, PA. They work together to grow a variety of produce and strive to grow food sustainably and reduce their pesticide use. Weavers Way carries their strawberries, sweet corn, spring salad mix, tomatoes, peppers, cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli and raspberries.

Beechwood Orchards
Owned at operated by the Garretsons, Beechwood Orchards is a fifth-generation family farm in Adams County, PA. They are one of our main suppliers of tree fruits, including apricots, plums, peaches, nectarines, pluots and apples. They use integrated pest management as an effective and environmentally sensitive approach to insect problems.

Three Springs Fruit Farm
Three Springs is in Adams County, PA, and has been family-owned for more than 100 years. Operating as a partnership of David, John and Ben Wenk, the seventh generation to farm, Three Springs has a wide variety of apples, peaches, cherries, apricots, pears.  Farming on 350 acres, Three Springs is a diversified operation with an emphasis on sustainability. Extremely knowledgeable farmers, the Wenks are committed to bringing the finest quality produce their customers, and being good environmental stewards of their land.

Bux-Mont Hydroponics
Owned by Tim Gehman, Bux-Mont is in Telford, PA, on the Montgomery-Bucks county border. Two farmers and two harvest staff supply butterhead lettuce and basil from their four hydroponic greenhouses. Their greenhouses are heated by sun most of the year, with the help of wood and propane stoves in the winter. The water for their hydroponics is supplied from two 3,000-gallon rainwater tanks. Tim recommends using filtered water for storing your basil at home, as tap water may be too chlorinated.

Mother Earth Mushrooms
Since 1921, Mother Earth Mushrooms has been growing mushrooms in Kennett Square, Chester County, PA, where half of the nation’s mushrooms are grown. They supply Weavers Way with both conventional and organic lines of mushrooms.

Frimmer Family Farms
The Frimmers are Weavers Way members who have constructed an aquaponic greenhouse in the back yard of their Mt. Airy home. Using koi to fertilize the lettuce crops growing in water troughs, they maintain a closed-loop growing system.

Neighborhood Foods
Located in West Philadelphia, Neighborhood Foods is a project of the Urban Tree Connection. Their community gardens, urban farms and flower gardens serve as a community beautification initiative as well as an opportunity to teach farming skills, responsibility and healthy habits to children and teens in the neighborhood. Neighborhood Foods operates a CSA and sells mixed greens, tomatoes and peppers wholesale.