Great Escape Farms is a small family farm located just outside Romney, WV, USA. We have been in business since 2015 and sell unique edible plants, produce YouTube videos on gardening and homesteading, and are setting up as a Permaculture/regenerative agriculture showcase farm.
Plant Nursery
Our unique edible plants are propagated and grown on the farm with only a few exceptions.
Each plant either produces edible berries, fruits or is itself entirely edible. When we say unique, we mean that our plants are generally items that you cannot find locally at that big box stores. Things like Elderberry, Pawpaw, Hardy Kiwi, Persimmon, Honeyberry, Hardy Fig, Turkish Rocket, Sea Kale, Anise Hyssop, Hazelnut, Hardy Passion Flower, and many other items.
Great Escape Farms practice regenerative practices as much as possible. With the exception of extreme drought years, our nursery’s water needs are derived entirely from rainwater harvested from our outbuildings. As of 2023, we make our own potting soil on site using mostly inputs from the local area.
We sell our plants at local farmer’s markets and at the farm. We no longer ship plants due to shipping and regulation issues.
YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/@greatescapefarms
Our first video was posted in 2015. The video was poor quality and the audio was horrible. We learned as we went along, improved equipment, content, and editing. We have come a long way since then. We now have over 400 videos posted, over 23 thousand subscribers, and over 5 million views.
Most of the videos are plant related and showing how to propagate plants, care for them, and showing garden tours through the years. We also have homesteading videos on how to make certain things, how to fix the many things that break around the homestead and even how to set up your own rainwater harvesting system. Check out the link below to see the channel.
Regenerative Agriculture Showcase
We average a farm tour a week throughout the year. Many of our visitors are from within 50 miles of our farm. We also have some that travel great distances. Most of the out of towners discover us through YouTube videos and have come from as far away as New York City and Dallas, TX.
Some of the draws to the farm are the rainwater harvest systems, and permaculture / regenerative practices in place and planned. We teach people things like how to protect plants from deer and how to slow down water and hold it on the land after a fast-moving thunderstorm. Another big topic of interest is how to companion plant and design growing areas to maximize production while reducing external inputs and chemicals.
While many of our regenerative agriculture plans have been implemented, we still have a good bit of work to do. Our goal is ultimately to become a showcase for regenerative agriculture through the design science of permaculture.
Tour of the Website
I would like to give you a little tour around the web site.
I’ll start with the menu bar right below the picture of the farm:
- Home – Takes you to the the main Great Escape Farms landing page with the most recent 10 blog posts.
- Contact Us – This page gives our phone number, email address, and contact information for Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Pinterest.
- About Us – This page gives an overview of how we came to be and what we are about.
- Great Escape Nursery – This menu item takes you to our nursery pages where we sell propagated plants.
- Amazon – You can support our work by going through this link and making your purchases at Amazon. We do receive a small commission if you purchase these items. It does not cost you any more to purchase them through us vs. directly from Amazon.
On the right sidebar there are several items:
- Email Signup Forms – There are two email signup forms. The first one is for folks local to our WV location that want to be informed about what markets we are going to during the year. The second one is for people further away that just want to see updates that we make to our site and video pages.
- Search – Allows you to search our website for specific topics.
- Recent Comments – Allows you to monitor what comments have recently been made.
- Archives – This section links to previous articles, grouped by month.
- TAGS – This area allows you to look at all articles that are associated with a given tag. For example, if you click on the tag Perennial it will take you to a page with all articles that are related to Perennial plants on this web site.
- Categories – All articles are in one category. If you select a specific category, all articles in that category will be displayed.
At the bottom of the page you can select Next or select a number to see a different page of blog post results.
Want to Help Out a Small Business??
If you are local you can support our small business by buying plants at Great Escape Nursery . You can also help us by shopping on Amazon just by going through our storefront! As an Amazon Associate, I earn commission from qualifying purchases. There is no additional cost to you! Our storefront at Amazon is located at this link: https://www.amazon.com/shop/greatescapefarms. Buying from either location helps our business produce more content for you.
If you like this blog post and want to find out more about Great Escape Farms check out our Great Escape Farms Overview. Here you get an overview of all the wonderful stuff we are involved in. Also, sign up for our email list at the bottom of the linked page.
Great Escape Farms is now on Patreon! You can support us for as little as $1. If you enjoy our work and want to help support us, please check out our Patreon page at: https://www.patreon.com/gef.