Wayside Produce Farm (540) 879-9556

Dayton, Virginia · Shenandoah Valley

Grown the way
the soil intended.

A small family farm raising fruit and vegetables year round without pesticides or any other synthetic material.

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0 Pesticides or synthetics, ever
Year round Field and greenhouse crops
2008 From urban asphalt to country soil
Family Owned and worked

How we grow

Regenerative, stewardship agriculture

Our goal is to protect our small piece of the earth and the plant-supporting biology it contains, while fostering a sustainable farm ecology built on healthy, symbiotic relationships between all its parts.

Minimal tillage

We disturb the soil as little as possible and cultivate with hand tools, so the living web underground keeps working for the plants above it.

Cover crops & compost

Cover cropping and generous applications of compost and other natural sources of fertility feed the soil, not just the crop.

Habitat for helpers

We landscape for pollinators and predatory insects, letting nature handle pest pressure instead of reaching for a spray.

Greenhouse & field

A mix of field and greenhouse growing means fresh food from our farm in every season, not just summer.

Rows of tomatoes and greens growing inside the greenhouse
Inside the greenhouse
A hand cradling a ripe red bell pepper on the plant
Tended by hand
Red and pink zinnias blooming between vegetable rows
Flowers planted for the pollinators
Long rows of beans and peppers in the main field, greenhouses and hills beyond
The main field: beans, peppers, and alliums in late summer
A field of sweet potato vines with the farmhouse and a wide blue sky
Sweet potatoes filling in before the fall harvest

What we grow

Ask us for a crop. Odds are, we grow it.

From asparagus to zucchini and virtually all the “possibles” in between, a parade of clean, colorful, flavor-rich, and nutrient-dense fruits, vegetables and herbs move in carefully coordinated fashion through our fields and greenhouses over the course of a year. Here's a sampling of what might appear in your 2026–27 fall share:

Tomatoes ripening on the vine
Tomatoes
Long red peppers on the plant
Peppers
Ripe strawberries
Strawberries
A bed of frilly green lettuce
Lettuce
Rows of leeks and onions in front of a greenhouse
Leeks & onions
Trays of seedlings in the propagation greenhouse
Next season's starts

Availability follows the seasons. Call to hear what's fresh this week.

Find our food

From our soil to your table

Now scheduling fall & winter shares

The Easy CSA

We offer our own version of those popular Community Supported Agriculture programs. Ours is informally known as the Easy CSA, being designed to provide a greater degree of flexibility than is often the case. Unlike the average, ours is available year round, requiring no up-front payment and no long-term commitment. Instead you'll pay as you go and come and go as you desire.

Simply sign up, select a size (with size commitments never locked in), and schedule your first Friday harvest share. You'll then pay for it, as well as a refundable deposit to cover the expense of a share scheduled but not cancelled prior to the 24-hour deadline. From that point forward you're at liberty to place yourself on either a recurring weekly or bi-weekly pickup schedule (with cancellations and holds available to you at all times) or on a “will call” basis, needing only to schedule and pay for a share prior to any given week's Thursday noon deadline.

Other than that the basic premise remains the same. You'll receive a 1–2 or 3–4 person share of the best of our always varied, glisteningly fresh, seasonally special selection of chemical-free grown produce, ready for farm pickup or (for a modest charge) home delivery.

Call (540) 879-9556 to sign up
  • Seasonal variety, harvested fresh for your share
  • Shares crafted to provide dietary balance and weekly interest
  • Access to a year-round supply of naturally grown fruits, vegetables and herbs, with full transparency in farming methods
  • Flexibility in share size, share scheduling, and pickup mode
A box of ripe heirloom tomatoes in red, yellow, and green
Picked the morning of your share
The Wayside Produce Farm delivery van parked by the barn
Farm pickup on Fridays, or home delivery

Restaurants & stores

We supply a number of iconic farm-to-table restaurants, caterers, and natural food stores in Harrisonburg, Staunton, and Charlottesville. Chefs and buyers, get in touch. Referrals happily provided and farm visits accommodated.

Neighbors

Growing for more than the market

We enjoy supporting neighborhood food banks and individual families in need, and we open the farm to interns who want to learn this kind of growing with their hands.

Interested in interning or partnering with us? Give us a call.

Love your neighbor as yourself.

Matthew 22:37–39

Our story

From urban asphalt to country soil

The Wayside Produce Farm family and staff standing together in front of the greenhouse
Family and staff behind Wayside Produce Farm, September 2026

Located along a busy road but in the heart of the pastoral Shenandoah Valley, we are a small family farm growing a wide variety of fruit and vegetable field and greenhouse crops year round without the use of pesticides or any other synthetic material.

We practice regenerative, or stewardship, agriculture: minimal tillage, hand-tool cultivation, cover cropping, generous applications of compost and other natural sources of fertility, and pollinator and predatory insect habitat landscaping. Our goal is to protect our small piece of the earth and the plant-supporting biology it contains while fostering a sustainable, overarching farm ecology characterized by healthy, symbiotic relationships between its various elements.

The results are made available to our farm-to-table restaurant, caterer, and natural food store customers in Harrisonburg, Staunton, and Charlottesville, and to you by way of a variety of flexible CSA programs. Additionally, we enjoy supporting neighborhood food banks and individual families in need, as well as providing interning opportunities.

We do all this to honor the One who led us from urban asphalt to country soil in 2008 in pursuit of this work, and in response to the call to love our neighbors as ourselves.

Get in touch

Call us about harvest shares or a farm visit

Our roadside stand is no longer open for walk-in shopping. Easy CSA harvest shares are picked up at the farm on Fridays or home-delivered for a modest charge. Please call ahead if you'd like to visit.

5098 John Wayland Hwy, Dayton, VA 22821 · Click to open in Google Maps

Location

5098 John Wayland Hwy
Dayton, VA 22821

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Visits

By arrangement. Call before you come so we can meet you.

Phone

(540) 879-9556

The best way to reach us about how it works and what's in season.

Email

waysideproducefarm@protonmail.com