Locally Grown: Ohio
Eagle Creek Growers
Mantua, OH
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Under a 3½ acre greenhouse, the Bonner family at Eagle Creek grows a wide variety of potted plants and hanging baskets almost completely off-the-grid. They heat their entire greenhouse system using energy created from an on-site boiler system utilizing environmentally friendly products such as wood waste, saw dust, and dried manure from local horse farms.
Mills Rest Ranch
Mt. Gilead, OH
William and Vanessa Mills have been raising livestock in Mt. Gilead for ten years. They are part-time farmers and take pride in handling their cattle and poultry with respect and care. Mills Rest Ranch was the first livestock producer to receive a Local Producer Loan.
This loan funded the construction of a new poultry barn for Mills Rest's heritage turkeys, which are in great demand at holiday time. The purchase of an automatic waterer and feeder, a feed storage bin, and poultry netting, among other items, allowed a significant expansion in production. We look forward to strengthening our relationship with this established Whole Foods supplier.
Mills Rest Ranch is a Local Producer Loan Program Recipient.
Snowville Creamery
Pomeroy, OH
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At Snowville Creamery in Pomeroy, Ohio, the cows graze in pasture all year long and the grasses that are in season affect the flavor of the milk. Winter milk from Snowville may taste of hay; spring milk of dandelions. Morning milk even tastes different from evening milk! Warren Taylor, owner of Snowville, believes that milk is perfect when it comes from the cow, so he processes his milk as minimally as possible. Snowville Creamery milk is bottled on the farm the same day the cows are milked and delivered to Whole Foods Market the very next day to bring customers the freshest product possible. As they say at Snowville, they make “Milk the Way it Used to Be!”
Snowville Creamery is a Local Producer Loan Program Recipient.
