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Sailor Smoke
Salad Days Farm
Biography
WIC and Senior Farmers Market Nutrition Program participant.
Owners Maggie and Jarrod Dungan began the farm in 2015. Maggie is a first generation farmer and works full time running the farm. Jarrod grew up farming conventionally and works full time in Lexington, farming in his time off.
Maggie’s interest in growing food resulted from an education in nutrition and the family’s desire to be self sustaining. They had always liked the idea of one day living in the country and farming. So after a couple of years and a couple of kids, they made the move to Versailles to do just that.
What’s in a name? Yes, they do grow lots of lettuce, but that wasn’t the concept for the farm name. The “salad days” is actually a term coined by Shakespeare and first appeared in his 1606 Antony and Cleopatra. It originally indicated a distant time of youthful naïveté, but has been adapted to mean a time in one’s life when things are vibrant, full of vim, vigor and at the peak of one’s abilities. Farming encompasses both of these meanings, so Maggie and Jarrod can happily say they’re always living the salad days.
Our Practices
The property is 30 acres, only 2-4 acres is used for production. Using intensive, sustainable practices, the farm is allowed to concentrate on quality, rather than quantity. Mechanization is kept to a minimum to allow the farmers to maintain a connection to the plants and soil. Conservation practices such as minimal tillage, cover cropping, and the encouragement of a beneficial and healthy ecosystem of insects, microbial life, and wildlife (outside the fence of course) are used. The goal is to have healthy soil, to have healthy plants, to have healthy customers.
Certified Organic – Most people know the term, and have their own definition of what it means. Some believe the certification is losing value. From big farms that use excessive chemicals (although they may be “organic”), to the government meddling in small farm’s business and adding cost. While this may be true, Salad Days has always grown using organic methods, but has opted to be certified. Why? It defines them in a recognizable way to someone who doesn’t know the farm/farmer, helping them to make a decision about their choice of purchase. Being certified also adds to the statistics. Support for the program, means more effort, research, money, and importance is given to a healthy food and farming system. A small farm working to make a big difference
GAP Certified – Unless you are in the industry of growing food or buying at a wholesale level this term may mean nothing. So what is it? GAP stands for “Good Agriculture Practices”. Salad Days farm has elected to go through this process and expense of being audited and certified for a number of reasons. The farm has always taken food safety seriously, but like organic, how is one to really know without external certification? GAP certification has historically been for large farms seeking sales to large chain grocers and distributors. Proving that small scale farms using intense, sustainable growing practices can be vital to our food system is important to the farm and being GAP certified is another way to show that there is a place for small farms in all markets.
Lean Principles – While this isn’t a certification or even exclusive to farming, it is another approach the farm takes to ensure a quality product. It begins with identifying customer value and building a system of management and production that eliminates waste, inefficiencies, and ensures constant improvements to all aspects of the business and team. Work smarter, not harder.
San’s Healthy Choices
Sav’s Garden
Biography
Welcome to Sav’s Garden! My name is Savannah and I started Sav’s Garden in 2023 with the aim to bring you sustainably produced, fresh, and beautiful cut flowers that are grown in central Kentucky. Agriculture is my life’s work and my education in agroecology allows me to implement scientifically proven practices to steward the soil and land that I grow on and to support the surrounding ecology.
Smith Family Farm
Biography
WIC and Senior Farmers Market Nutrition Program participant.
The Smith Family Farm has been at LFM since the beginning of the market in 1972. We have the fresh,
in-season veggies at a reasonable price for our patrons. Gourd art by Jefferson.
Spurlocks Seasonings
Biography
We are a spice and chili peppers company.We currently have 3 different types of Seasonings and plan
on having 10 different types of plants available this year.
Steve’s Plants
Biography
WIC and Senior Farmers Market Nutrition Program participant.
Working hard to bring you the freshest veggies, berries, herbs, and other plants April til October, 5 days a week.
Stone Jack Bakers
Biography
We’re Stone Jack Bakers and our hearts are true. We’ll bake everything that we’ve got for you, yes we will! At Stone Jack Bakers we work hard to deliver the freshest scratch-baked, gluten-filled goods so you can keep on truckin’! We’re just two fun-loving, hard-working Breadheads baking things from scratch that we like to eat and we know you’ll love ‘em too. We call it Workingman’s Bread; your favorite sliced sammich breads, crusty loaves, rolls, cookies, sweet thangs and more! We are so GRATEFUL for all y’all!
People to Know: Taylor Hollingsworth, Travis Belt, Jerry Garcia & Billy Strings
Stonehedge Farm Produce
Biography
People to Know: Adrienne. Victoria.
WIC and Senior Farmers Market Nutrition Program participant.
Stonehedge Farm specializes in gourmet and traditional vegetables, quail eggs and quail (processed
and live), and pastured beef. Located in beautiful southern Woodford County.