Lois's Produce, LLC

We, Lois and Gary Allensworth started raising vegetables in 1983 with one acre of tomatoes to raise money to put braces on our oldest daughter, Stacey's, teeth. We have two other children, Danny and Cindy, and they all worked on the farm in the beginning. There is also four grandchildren, Grace, Ava, William, and Elsa. We currently farm on 110 acres of land that has been in Gary's family since 1882 and trade as LOIS'S PRODUCE LLC. The farm is losated on the Rappahannock River in Westmoreland County Virginia about 1.5 miles down river from Leedstown. We grow a large variety of main stream vegetables starting with asparagus, onions, radishes, and strawberries in the spring and ending in late fall with Sweet Potatoes, broccoli, caulifliwer, cabbage and etc.. During the growing season we have green beans, yellow beans, lima beans, english peas, blackeye peas, cucumbers, squash, tomatoes, sweet corn, pepper, eggplant, and elephant garlic among other items. Lois's Produce is one of the largest growers of elephant garlic in Virginia. We retail our products in the Northern Virginia and Washington DC area at six different farmers markets. We also sell our products to a number of brokers, grocery stores, and chefs.