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Valentine's Country Meats and Bakery

This week's featured vendor sells naturally raised meats.

No hormones, no steroids, no nonsense.

That’s the approach Valentine Miller takes toward raising his livestock. Miller owns and operates Valentine’s Country Meats and Bakery in Orange, VA, and sells his products at the Mount Vernon Farmer’s Market.

Born and raised on the farm, Miller has taken over the family farm to butcher “all-natural" meats. Their cattle, pigs, chickens, lambs, and rabbits are all raised humanely and are grass-fed and free range. None of their meats have antibiotics, growth hormones, or steroids. Meat products are vacuum packed and flash frozen to preserve their rich flavor and are sold to restaurants, retailers, and farmer’s markets across Virginia.

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Valentine’s Country Meats is truly a family-owned and operated business. Miller and his wife, Darletta, have owned and operated Valentine’s Country Meats and Bakery for the last twelve years. Their three children help out around the farm.

“My wife and daughter make a lot of our homemade baked goods,” said Valentine. 

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Top sellers at the Mount Vernon Farmers’ Market include pies, free-range beef and pork, and free-range eggs. Customers often comment on their unique colors, said Miller, who raises more than a dozen different breeds of chickens.

“People like the different colors,” remarked Miller. “Some are blue, some are green.”

Selling goods at farmer’s markets is a long-standing tradition for the Miller family.

“My father, when he was a boy, would go with his mother to the (Stanton) farmers market and sell meats they’d butcher and homemade butter and cheeses about 65 years ago,” recalled Miller.

What is Miller’s favorite part about selling his wares at the Farmer’s Markets?

 “We enjoy coming out and meeting all the people,” he said.

For more information, visit their website or call (540) 672-1296. Be sure to visit their stand at the Mount Vernon Farmer’s Market every Wednesday from 8 a.m. – noon. 


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