Our Tips For Cooking Fresh & Eating Local in 2022

Create the perfect colorful, winter salad with fresh greens and other veggies from Wardensville Garden Market in Wardensville. Offering delectable, locally grown veggies year-round, the market is home to carrots, radishes and more—sure to keep your taste buds happy and healthy this season.

Homemade honey is a sweet treat great with toast, cereal or on top of a juicy fruit salad. Mountain State Honey Company in Tucker County owns and operates about 2,200 hives of honeybees producing honey year-round. Kick-off your days with their creamed honey on a toasted bagel or a light drizzle over a strawberry.

Offering a selection of delectable grass-fed beef, chicken and pork, Triple E Farms LLC’s family-owned farm near Romney is a great place to get a variety of organic meats. Try out a flavorful roast, ribeye steak or something more unique to change up your dinner plans this season.

Brighten up your morning palette with a selection of chicken eggs, duck eggs and quail eggs from Powder Keg Farms in Hampshire County. The farm’s free-range heritage breeds yield multi-colored, certified naturally grown eggs—ideal for a fresh omelet or protein shake.

Create the most beautiful and scrumptious array of cheese for your next girls’ night with Shepherds Whey Creamery in Martinsburg. Start subtly with a sharp cheese like Winter’s End, or taste their strongest cheese, Snow Buttons for a flavorful punch. These cheeses pair phenomenally with locally sourced jams.

Do you like a savory finish to your dishes? Try out the wide variety of salts made by J.Q. Dickinson Salt-Works in Charleston. Their Ghost Pepper finishing salt blends excellently with eggs, potatoes or a fresh garden salad. For a seriously flavorful experience try the Bourbon Barrel Smoked finishing salt.

Chow-down with the family on a whole chicken with breakdown service—custom cuts made to your whole chicken order—at Deep Mountain Farm in Fayetteville. Offering a delivery service up to 1.5 hours from the farm for bulk/multi-family purchases, this is a great dish for get-togethers and gatherings.