WV Living Special Community Issue

Nonprofit social enterprise creates “living classroom” through their farm, bakery, and new production kitchen and restaurant to train local youth. 

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Members of the Capon Valley Volunteer Fire Department and the Wardensville Rescue Squad received the proceeds of the Wardensville Garden Markets 5K Run/Walk. 

The Carla Hardy Communi-Tree Project Provided 100 Trees

Wardensville Garden Market Managers include from left, Ryan Grimm, Vicki Johnson, Anne Kirk, George Maddox, and Josh Stainthorp.

Wardensville Garden Market and Bakery is filled with the delightful aromas of freshly baked pies, breads, and more.

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Student employees of the Wardensville Garden Market contribute funds to Capon Valley Volunteer Fire Department, Wardensville Rescue Squad, Potomac Highlands Animal Rescue, and The River House. 

To reward and encourage their paid Farm Assistants to attend college, train for a trade, or participate in career exploration internships, the Wardensville Garden Market just announced that is has doubled its scholarship program to open to all farm employees.

In June, Experience Learning instructors Sara Dorsey and Nick Muehlbauer spent a day with 7-13-year-olds at the Wardensville Garden Market’s STREAM summer camp. The campers were learning about pollinators that week so we led them through a Field Sampling and practiced using the scientific method.

WV Living Magazine Volume 11 Issue 2

Celebrating “Earth Day on the Farm” in the best way possible-by planting trees to create a riparian “food forest”!

The Wardensville Garden Market is pleased to announce several fun and educational programs coming to their historic Frye farm this spring and summer. 

Earth Day on the Farm sponsored by the Wardensville Garden Market was a big success with over 125 community members of all ages turning out to participate in activities to help keep the Cacapon River clean and improve things for the native wildlife. 

Last Sunday, April 22, the Chesapeake Bay Program partnered with the Wardensville Garden Market for their Earth Day on the Farm event. The Garden Market, located in Wardensville, West Virginia, is a working farm and nonprofit organization that focuses on providing local youth with opportunities in sustainable farming and small business management.

The Wardensville Garden Market announced a major new partnership this week with the worldwide conservation nonprofit, The Nature Conservancy. 

“What this means is that the Beginning Band will have instruments, free of charge,” said Bob Thompson, band director for East Hardy School Complex. 

Last week, the Wardensville Garden Market hosted scientists from the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute for an Outdoor Classroom “Turtle Talk”. 

Summer is coming, and this week the Wardensville Garden Market has announced several events related to their big summer kick-off. 

To reward and encourage their paid Farm Assistants to attend college, this year the Wardensville Garden Market has launched their scholarship program open to all farm employees. 

Janet Sisler presented some startling statistics. “Access to books is the key to reading skills,” she said. “One study found in middle-income neighborhoods, the ration is 13 books per child. In low-income neighborhoods, the ratio is one book for every 200 children.”

This month the Wardensville Garden Market is celebrating its one year anniversary and making big plans for continued expansion in the coming year. 

A historic farm in Wardensville is being revitalized to give local students an opportunity that just might keep them in Hardy County. 

It was a September Saturday, about 10 a.m. The morning fog had burned off the nearby fields. The day would be a warm one in Hardy County.