Your Farmers
Jerome Niessen
Rappahannock Natural Foods Cooperative provides "Rappahannock Real-real food from real farmers."
The RNF Coop is a small farmers’ coop formed with the idea of allowing customers in the Washington DC area to shop at one reliable source for all their local and natural farm products. We stand behind our products as being locally produced and humanely processed in a local slaughter house.
The RNF Coop enables customers to shop for beef, lamb, pork, goat, chicken, eggs, produce and fruit all in one convenient place—either in our Sperryville, VA. farm store or on the web. Through the Coop, you can buy from the member farm of your choice and your purchases will be delivered to you on a weekly basis at your home or a convenient drop off point.
To accommodate different tastes, we offer a variety of products, from certified organic to plain and natural. But whatever the diet, you will find it specified in the farm section. And it is all local. (Note: In addition to their grass fed beef and lamb, the Coop also offers beef and lamb which had a supplemental diet of grain, but still roamed around freely in the pasture. These products are clearly labeled both at their farm store and online.)
Our members are mostly small farmers from Rappahannock and surrounding counties. Their families have been farming the land for untold generations, some going back as early as the 1700s. All raise their livestock in a humane and natural way without the use of hormones or unnecessary antibiotics. They grow their produce and fruits without unnecessary and harmful pesticides. Cows roam freely in green pastures, chickens scratch for grubs and seeds around the barn, pigs stroll outside or roll in the mud as they please, and lambs dart around in the clover.
To ensure that our products are what we say they are, the Coop visits and inspects each of its members’ farms on a regular basis. We have one non-farming board member from the city who represents our customers and helps us to better understand our customers’ needs.
Jerome Niessen
3 River Lane, Sperryville VA 22740
Add a review