The farm

Your diet and the quality of the food you buy can have the single greatest impact on the health of you and you family.  The hardest part can be getting started.  I thought our first real blog post should be to direct people to resources for finding high quality food suppliers in Northern Virginia.

Our patients are always asking “Where do you by your meat?” We buy most of our meats and poultry from Polyface Farm.  Polyface Farm was made famous in Micheal Pollan’s book The Omnivore’s Dilemma. If you have not read this book it is worth your time. It may change the way you see where your food comes from and why, how it is produced, matters. Polyface is located in Swoope, Virginia (about 3 hours away) and makes deliveries to drop off points in Northern Virginia. We just put an order in at www.polyfaceyum.com and pick up the food  Continue reading →