Chester County Ag Council
Home | Farm Guide | Farm Guide Features
Meet Chester County's Farmer of the Year Darryl King, take a stroll through a peony farm, discover how a micro dairy can make a big impact and learn how horses can change your life. And of course, celebrate Chester County's top crop: mushrooms.
Micro Dairy, Big Opportunity: Pigeon Creek Farm
Styer's Peonies: Evolution of a Flower Farm
Farmer of the Year: Darryl King, Manor Hill Farms
The Healing Power of Horses: Thorncroft Equestrian Center
Get to Know Chester County's Top Crop: Mushrooms
In this issue, we interviewed the county's Farmers of the Year, new and beginning farmers of all kinds and backgrounds (hemp, mushrooms, poultry and lavender) and talked to farmers with a long history in our region about how their farms are evolving. Read all of their stories in the links below:
Farmers of the Year: Sonya Beltran and the Beltran family
Hemp: A New Frontier for a Colonial Crop
Celebrating the Past, Preparing for the Future
An Unlikely Farmer: Liz Hopkins of Honeymoon Farm & Medina Mushrooms
Willistown Conservation Trust's Rushton Farm
Farmers of the Year: The Gable Family of Conebella Farm
From Their Cow to Your Kitchen
Nottingham's Kaitlin Bell Makes Farm Show History
Farmers Rise to COVID Challenge
If you grow or sell Chester County farm products and would like to be included in the guide (there is no cost!), please contact Ann Lane at 610-344-6512 or alane@chesco.org.
Want to know where to buy award-winning cheese, Christmas trees, honey, alpaca fleece and everything in between right here in Chester County? Check out our 2022 Guide to Local Farm Products for over 125 farms and retail outlets selling locally grown goodness. We've proudly produced this magazine celebrating Chester County agriculture and the people who make our food system possible since 2002.