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3 February 2020

Acumen Solutions, Baker Tilly, and Infinitive Executives Join JK Community Farm Board

Acumen Solutions, Baker Tilly, and Infinitive Executives Join JK Community Farm Board

February 3, 2020 Farm Sets 2020 Goals to Alleviate Hunger in DMV STERLING, Va. – JK Community Farm (Farm), a 150-acre farm in Purcellville, Virginia that grows crops and livestock and donates them to nonprofits to alleviate hunger, has announced the addition of three new board members—David Joubran, Brad Nicklin, and Denis MacFarlane—and set its 2020 harvest goals. “We are excited to have amazing representation from the business community on the [...]

6 November 2019

How do we keep our soil healthy?

How do we keep our soil healthy?

November 6, 2019 Members of our community continue to let us know how grateful they are that our 150 acre community farm is not a housing development…so are we! But more important to us is that the land is enrolled in a conservation program and we are taking care of our soil. We love the beautiful landscape of Loudoun County and are happy to be preventing land degradation in our county. Land [...]

24 October 2019

Doesn’t organic just mean dirty

Doesn’t organic just mean dirty

October 24, 2019 This week we were asked the question, “doesn’t organic just mean dirty?” No! But what is organic? And why are we so passionate about organic and locally grown food? The fruits and vegetables we are consuming contain fewer nutrients than they ever have in the past due to farming techniques, and the amount of time it takes for our food to get from farm to table. Fresher food not [...]

20 October 2019

Barn Dance to Benefit JK Community Farm’s Efforts to Help Fight Hunger

Barn Dance to Benefit JK Community Farm’s Efforts to Help Fight Hunger

October 20, 2019 Purcellville’s Sylvanside Farm Hosts Fundraiser PURCEVILLE, Va. – Sylvanside Farm, a popular venue in Purcellville, is hosting a Barn Dance with games, dancing and barbeque to benefit the hunger fighting efforts of neighboring non-profit JK Community Farm. Started last year by JK Moving Services to alleviate hunger in the community, the farm grows chemical free, healthy produce and protein to those struggling with food insecurity in the [...]

13 May 2019

JK Community Farm 1st Plant-A-Thon Draws 100+ Volunteers to Help Fight Hunger

JK Community Farm 1st Plant-A-Thon Draws 100+ Volunteers to Help Fight Hunger

May 13, 2019 PURCELLVILLE, Va. – To help kick off the growing season, teams of volunteers will plant seeds all day and compete to raise funds to help support the work of The JK Community Farm, a separate nonprofit started by JK Moving Services to help alleviate hunger in the community. In all, volunteers will sow 9,000 seeds of a variety of vegetables on seven acres of land in this first [...]

12 April 2019

JK Moving starts farm to alleviate hunger in Loudoun

JK Moving starts farm to alleviate hunger in Loudoun

April 12, 2019 Leesburg, Va. — JK Moving Services, a global moving, storage, relocation, and logistics enterprise, announced the opening of the JK Community Farm, a JK Moving signature charitable initiative that will have a lasting and healthy impact on struggling families within the Loudoun community and beyond. The farm is a philanthropic effort designed to alleviate hunger by growing and harvesting crops and livestock and donating them to nonprofits, including [...]

24 October 2018

JK Moving named a top corporate citizen

JK Moving named a top corporate citizen

October 24, 2018 JK Moving Services in Sterling is being honored as a top corporate citizen by the Washington Business Journal for its partnership with Loudoun Hunger Relief. The award will be presented during the Journal’s 2018 Corporate Philanthropy Awards on Nov. 9. This year, the company established the JK Community Farm, a charitable effort designed to alleviate hunger by growing and harvesting crops and livestock and donating them to Loudoun [...]

22 October 2018

Loudoun Hunger Relief to Pick Up JK Community Farm Final Season Harvest for 2018 as Young Volunteers Clear Fields

Loudoun Hunger Relief to Pick Up JK Community Farm Final Season Harvest for 2018 as Young Volunteers Clear Fields

October 22, 2018 Initiative to Alleviate Hunger Reports Year-End Yield PURCELLVILLE, Va. – Loudoun Hunger Relief will pick up the season’s final crop of produce grown at The JK Community Farm, a nonprofit started this year by JK Moving Services to help alleviate hunger in the community. The final season harvest caps off a great start for the new charitable initiative with donations topping 30,000 pounds of chemical free produce and [...]

15 June 2018

JK Moving and Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy partner to protect property in Loudoun

JK Moving and Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy partner to protect property in Loudoun

June 15, 2018 Leesburg, Va. — Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy (LWC) and JK Moving Services, a global moving, storage, relocation, and logistics enterprise, announced that they are partnering to protect an 87-acre parcel of land in northern Loudoun County called Stumptown Woods that has more native species of plants and wildlife indigenous to Loudoun and Virginia than is typical. To protect the land, JK Moving has purchased the property for nearly $1 million [...]

7 May 2018

Start of something good at JK Community Farm

Start of something good at JK Community Farm

May 7, 2018 Volunteers joined JK Community Farm Manager Michael Smith on Monday to plant the first crop at the farm: onions. The charitable farm is starting on 10 acres, where volunteers will plant, grow and harvest onions, potatoes, sweet potatoes, lettuce, Swiss chard, kale, tomatoes, peppers, and bush beans. In the first year, JK Community Farm is expected to donate 53,000 pounds of crops along with meat, at an estimate [...]