Today's Main Ingredient: Bring Farm Food to Your Table

Jamie Stunkard is the owner and chef at Nature’s Grace Healthfoods and Deli on Main Street in Honesdale, PA. Nature’s Grace has been open since 1981, providing an atmosphere where people can feel encouraged to explore the many elements of a healthy diet and lifestyle. Jamie is a licensed certified nutritionist, and graduated from the American Health Science University in Colorado. He received his degree in Naturopathy from Westbrook University in 1997 and is board certified by the American Naturopathic Medical Certification Board. His consuming interest is helping people explore the path to better health and sustainability.

Dave Nonnenmacher is the owner and operator of Nonnenmacher Acres, a large market garden outside of Honesdale, PA. Born and raised in Wayne County, Dave is a retired guidance counselor who lives to have his hands in the dirt. “Nonnenmacher Acres” has been in his family since the Civil War. Although his primary goal is providing for his own family, he has been selling produce to at least one local restaurant since 1985.
Since retiring, he has the freedom to try new things. He was the first one in the local chapter of PASA to grow sweet potatoes, crazily growing 21 varieties one year! He specializes in growing winter squash and Asian vegetables. In recent years, he has also been experimenting with lesser known fruits, such as hardy kiwi, American persimmon, and paw paw. Dave is always willing to share his knowledge and experience with others, and hopes we never have to grow survival gardens.

Evan Morgan is the owner and operator of Food for Beings, a large market garden in the rich bottom soil of the Dyberry Creek, near Honesdale, PA. Evan practices intensive, small-plot farming. He lives close to the land and follows natural growing methods, raising vegetables “with deep reverence for all beings.” Evan offers subscriptions to his harvest via a weekly CSA vegetable-box. He saves as much seed as he can and enjoys experimenting in the garden. You can reach Evan at foodforbeingscsa@gmail.com.

Bobby Morgan oversees the blueberry fields at Paupack Blueberry Farm, not far from the east shore of Lake Wallenpaupack. The farm is family-owned and operated since 1964 when Donal and Shirley Coutts purchased 41 acres in Paupack Township. Some of this land was already in cultivation with Northern Highbush Blueberries. Bobby is married to Carol, one of the Coutts’s daughters, and together with other Coutts siblings, their generation has grown the business.

Today the farm grows more than two dozen blueberry varieties. There’s now an on-farm store and gift shop, which sells all things blueberry, including—you guessed it—blueberry pies and other baked goods. But the farm’s primary business every summer is pick-your-own berries, which opens near the end of July or beginning of August and lasts until Labor Day weekend. Contact the store at 570-226-9702 for information.

Liz Krug is co-manager of Fullers Overlook Farm in Waverly PA. Through her career as a social worker, working with community organizations around food justice issues, Liz found an interest in farming. Wanting to further understand where food comes from, she apprenticed for several seasons at Riverbank Farm and fell in love with growing food. It was the perfect combination of feeding people, stewarding the land, and being part of a sustainable future. A decade later, she loves the continual learning farming brings, feeding her community, and growing her family on the farm.

Erica Madden is the founder of Good Find Farm, a small vegetable and herb farm, certified organic through NOFA-NY. As with any project, it’s evolving as she and her team learns the land and integrates new knowledge. In the fourth year of business, Good Find Farm is located at 25 Stone House Road in Damascus PA, where they have an on-farm store every Saturday in-season from 10 AM to 4 PM. They also sell on Saturdays at the Tucker Square Greenmarket in New York City. Please say hello when visiting and purchasing all their delicious vegetables.