Shenandoah Valley · Waynesboro, Virginia
Regenerative farm goods, grown slowly and traced honestly.
Every egg, every mushroom, every harvest from our quarter acre is grown without shortcuts — and proven with blockchain traceability you can verify yourself.
Our method
Regenerative & organic
Traceability
Blockchain verified
Location
Shenandoah Valley, VA
Our promise
Soil first, always
From our quarter acre
Every product comes from this address. We grow slowly, harvest at the right moment, and only sell what we'd put on our own table.
Pasture-raised eggs
Rhode Island Red & mixed flock
Our twelve hens roam freely on living ground. Deep amber yolks. Rich flavour. Cartons labeled with each flock's latest soil data.
Specialty mushrooms
Phoenix Oyster & Shiitake
Grown on pasteurised straw substrate — no synthetic inputs. Harvested at peak flush. Available fresh or as dried slices.
Heirloom produce
Seasonal varieties — April to October
Tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, salad greens and fresh herbs. Named varieties, grown in living soil, harvested to order.
Hen-enriched compost
Finished, bagged — May to November
Hot-composted garden and kitchen waste, enriched with chicken manure. One of the most nutrient-dense composts you can buy locally.
Mushroom grow kits
Ready-to-fruit inoculated substrate
Grow your own oyster or shiitake mushrooms at home. Each kit produces multiple flushes and comes with full instructions.
Raw local honey
Shenandoah wildflower — seasonal
From our backyard hives. Unfiltered, unpasteurised, harvested once a season. A genuinely local product — our bees, our land.
Join the Earthwell CSA and receive a curated weekly box of whatever is growing best. Eggs, mushrooms, seasonal vegetables, fresh herbs, and occasional extras. Every week is different. Every box is honest.
Your box includes
CSA details — 2026 season
Scan. Verify. Trust.
We use blockchain technology to record exactly how each batch was grown, when it was harvested, and what went into it. Scan any QR code on our products and see the proof for yourself.
We harvest and log
Every harvest is recorded on the Polygon blockchain — product, variety, date, growing inputs, and notes. Immutable and permanent.
QR goes on every label
A unique QR code linking to that batch's blockchain record is printed on every carton, bag, and jar we sell.
You scan and verify
Point your phone at any QR code. See the exact record — verified by the blockchain, impossible to alter after the fact.
Earthwell Farm
Heirloom dry-farmed tomatoes — Brandywine variety
Grown slowly in mineral-rich soil. No irrigation. No inputs. Just deep roots, patient sun, and a harvest worth waiting for.
Harvest record · Batch #14
Polygon transaction
0x4f2ca8b...e9d1
Block #47,291,034 · June 14, 2026
earthwell.farm/trace/14
Verified on Polygon blockchain
Every batch we've sold — permanently recorded. Click any entry to see the full provenance.
What we stand for
Pillar one
Soil health is the foundation of everything. We measure it, improve it, and talk about it honestly. The land is not a resource to be extracted from — it is a living system to be tended.
Pillar two
AI, IoT sensors, and blockchain aren't add-ons. They make better decisions, prove our claims, and help other farmers do what we do. Technology in service of the land — not the other way around.
Pillar three
Farmers, customers, and communities share a stake in how food is grown. We build for the humans in this system — transparent to consumers, useful to operators, honest with everyone.
Notes from the field
April 12, 2026
A quarter acre. Twelve hens. A belief that technology should serve the land, not exploit it. Here's how Earthwell came to be.
Read moreApril 28, 2026
From inoculating the substrate to the first flush — the full cycle of how Phoenix Oyster mushrooms go from spore to your kitchen.
Read moreMay 6, 2026
We built our own Ethereum-based traceability system. Here's what it does, what it doesn't do, and why it matters to us.
Read moreJoin our list. First to hear about seasonal harvests, CSA openings, and what's ready for pickup this week. No noise — just the farm.
Direct from our farm
Everything sold here comes from our quarter acre in Waynesboro. Each product is blockchain-traced — scan any QR to verify.
Pasture-raised eggs
Mixed flock · Rhode Island Red heritage breed
Our hens roam freely on living ground year-round. No antibiotics, no supplements. Deep amber yolks and full flavour — the way eggs should taste.
Phoenix Oyster mushrooms
Fresh · harvested to order
Grown on pasteurised straw substrate with no synthetic inputs. Meaty texture, mild flavour. Available fresh or dried. Restaurant quality, farm direct.
Shiitake mushrooms
Fresh & dried · hardwood substrate
Grown on hardwood substrate. Rich, earthy flavour with a firm texture that holds up to high-heat cooking. Available fresh in-season or dried year-round.
Heirloom tomatoes
Brandywine, Cherokee Purple, Green Zebra
Named varieties grown in living soil. No irrigation except deep root moisture. The flavour difference from a grocery tomato is not subtle.
Raw wildflower honey
Shenandoah Valley · unfiltered & unpasteurised
From our backyard hives. Harvested once per season, minimally processed. Complex floral notes from the Valley's diverse wildflower landscape.
Hen-enriched compost
Finished · 1 cu ft bags
Hot-composted garden and kitchen waste, enriched with chicken manure. Dense in nitrogen and microbial life. One of the most nutritive composts available locally.
How to order
We take orders by email or text message — pickup Saturdays in Waynesboro, or local delivery for CSA members. Contact us at hello@earthwell.farm or text (540) 555-0182 with what you'd like. We'll confirm availability and arrange collection.
Our story
Not the other way around.
Earthwell Farm began behind our home in Waynesboro, Virginia — a quarter acre of ground in the Shenandoah Valley that we decided to treat as a living experiment in what farming could look like when technology serves the land instead of extracting from it.
We have twelve laying hens. We grow heirloom vegetables in living soil without synthetic inputs. We compost everything. We keep bees. We grow mushrooms in a converted outbuilding. None of this is remarkable on its own — small farms like ours have existed for generations in this valley.
What's different is the layer we've added on top. Every harvest batch is recorded on the Polygon blockchain. Every product carries a QR code that links to that permanent record. When you scan an Earthwell egg carton, you're not seeing marketing copy — you're seeing the actual record of when those eggs were collected, which hens laid them, and what their living conditions were. Permanent. Unalterable. Verifiable by anyone.
We built this system ourselves, using AI tools and open-source blockchain infrastructure. And we built it for two reasons: because we believe you deserve to know where your food comes from, and because we want to help other farmers do the same.
The B2B consulting arm of Earthwell — helping aspiring farm operators write fundable business plans and implement traceability systems — grew directly out of the experience of building our own. We don't advise from the outside. We farm this ground ourselves, and we bring that credibility into every engagement.
The Shenandoah Valley is some of the most productive agricultural land in Virginia. We intend to use it honestly.
What sets us apart
Notes on what we're growing, what we're learning, and what living soil actually looks like from the inside.
From the field
We write the way we farm — with specificity and without hype. Real observations from real ground.
April 12, 2026
A quarter acre. Twelve hens. A belief that technology should serve the land, not exploit it. Here's how Earthwell came to be — and what we're trying to prove.
Read moreApril 28, 2026
From inoculating pasteurised straw substrate to the first flush of Phoenix Oysters — a detailed look at how our mushroom operation works and what we've learned.
Read moreMay 6, 2026
We built our own Ethereum-based traceability system using Claude Code. Here's what it does, what it costs, and why we think every small farm should have one.
Read moreMay 14, 2026
We installed our first two hives in February. Here's what actually happened — the surprises, the learning curve, and why year one honey is not what you think it is.
Read moreMay 22, 2026
We sent our first soil samples to the Virginia Cooperative Extension lab in March. The results surprised us. Here's what we found and what we're changing because of it.
Read moreJune 3, 2026
Hardneck garlic goes in the ground in autumn and comes out in July. Here's why it's one of the highest-return crops for a small regenerative operation in the Shenandoah Valley.
Read moreBlockchain verification
Every Earthwell product has a permanent blockchain record. Enter a batch ID or scan a QR code to see the full provenance record — who grew it, when, and how.
Try batch 14 for a sample record
Earthwell Farm
Heirloom dry-farmed tomatoes — Brandywine variety
Batch ID
#14
Harvest date
June 14, 2026
Farm location
Waynesboro, Virginia — Shenandoah Valley
Growing inputs
No synthetic inputs. Grown in living soil amended with our own hen-enriched compost. No irrigation — deep-root dry farming method.
Grower notes
Exceptional flavour this season — the dry summer concentrated sugars significantly. Colour was deep with very few blemishes. Harvest weight 18.4 lbs from three plants.
Blockchain verification record
This record is permanent and cannot be altered. Verified on the Polygon blockchain.