Howdy!

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 Welcome! We are Jason and Ella Moses and we are the proud owners of J&E Farmer’s Market!

Our farm and home is located in beautiful Lunenburg County, Virginia! Jason grew up on the very farm that we now raise our 8 children and grandchild on!

We love Lunenburg County. It’s quiet, it’s beautiful and it makes the perfect place to homestead! Homesteading is important to us. We found ourselves wanting to be able to provide for our family by being self-sufficient. We grow and raise some of our food and have set up our home to be efficient!

Homesteading allowed us to teach our children valuable skills too! From animal husbandry, gardening, cutting firewood, building, cooking, and butchering, the farm has allowed them to retain skills not often taught outside the home.

We saw a rise in homesteading and new farms in Lunenburg which inspired us to start a farm swap & market in Lunenburg in 2022. Our first farm swap was so successful! Hundreds of people came from our community. We met so many people in varying degrees of their own farming and homesteading journeys. Some of them weren’t new to farming and had lived on the same farm their whole life. Some lived in town and grew tomato and pepper plants on their front porch. Some were in the planning stages of creating their own farm. Yet they all had the desire to support local and to purchase food and animals that were raised right here in Lunenburg. They knew exactly where their purchases came from. The farm swap has continued to draw new people during each event!

Then….we had an idea. We wanted to take the old Victoria Livestock Market and make it a community hub for supplies, animals, produce and equipment. We wanted those in our community to have the opportunity to purchase locally. We wanted our community to have the resources to provide for their families. We wanted to provide a place for the hard working farmers and homesteaders to bring their goods to sell to further support themselves.

So we did it! We followed our dreams and purchased the old Victoria Livestock Market! The building sat unoccupied for years and years and was overgrown with brush. The lack of upkeep resulted in the building needing lots of repairs and remodeling. Hard work isn’t a new thing for our family so we welcomed the task! With repairs still under way we are excited to re-open the market as “J&E Farmer’s Market” in 2023!

The support of the community has been overwhelming! With the new market under remodel we couldn’t be more excited to start this next chapter of our journey with you all!

Happy farming!

Jason and Ella