Specialty Herbs & Vegetables for Local Restaurants
Grown with organic and sustainable, minimum-impact farming.
Specialty Herbs and Vegetables
We focus on growing specialty herbs and vegetables for restaurants in Philadelphia and Lancaster.
Sustainable Greenhouses
Green Meadow Farm cleverly uses waste oil from a multitude of local business to fuel the heat in our greenhouses, keeping tropical plants thriving during the winter.
MINIMUM IMPACT FARMING
Green Meadow Farm utilizes our own growing method which we call minimum impact farming, and includes methods borrowed from organic and sustainable practices.
Green Meadow Farm is located on the eastern boundary of Lancaster County near the town of Gap, Pennsylvania. The business, originally Spring Grove Farm at a former location, was started in 1981 by Glenn Brendle. Our present location now comprises 42 acres, 14 of which are gardens and 6000 sq ft of greenhouses.
We have three greenouses, one with tropicals including bananas, one for microgreens, and the other is utilized for propagation and as an herb house. We focus on growing specialty herbs and vegetables for restaurants in Philadelphia and Lancaster. We currently have a small herd of Black Angus Steers, and a flock of chickens. The steers are being raised for food, they are always pastured with access to barn shelter, a wooded area, and a creek. Along with grass, their diet is supplemented with spent grain from Iron Hill Brewery. The chickens roam free on the farm and have their hen house for evenings to protect them from prey. We use their eggs but they continue to live out there life on the farm after they stop producing.
We are committed to minimum impact farming and
do our best to work with nature, not against it.
The main focus is on appropriate technology with lowest impact inputs. Currently the farm is heated and electrically powered using waste vegetable oil (WVO) from the customer restaurants.
Two vehicles have been converted to WVO fuel, and more are planned. The heating portion of this project has been running since 2001 and an electrical generator is online and on demand during power interruptions.
