Three Monkeys Farm

Loudoun County, VA

“If you buy grain that Deep Roots has milled, only a few hands have ever touched it. You can follow it all the way back to the source. And I can tell you what I put on the fields and everything about it.”

-Trent Tebbe

Owner of Three Monkeys Farm

Every year Trent Tebbe turns 14 acres of Leesburg’s Morvin Park into 20,000 pounds of rye. He found the park’s farm incubator program while looking for land to grow on, and the park too was looking for someone to sustainably cultivate the property’s broad, open fields. Drawing on his experience growing up on a grain farm in Indiana, Tebbe took the opportunity to get back to his agricultural roots and apply the local, organic ethic to grains.

Under the stress of heavy development, maintaining green space is a critical issue for Loudoun County. Three Monkeys Farm is part of preserving that land and the region’s agricultural history. 

Tebbe’s goal with regional grains is to shorten the distance between the field and the plate and reduce the gap between food and land. The farm offers visitors to Morvin Park the chance to see where and how their food is grown.

Tebbe puts rye in the ground in the late fall, when temperatures are going down and the days are a little shorter and other native grasses have turned brown. Rye is cold hardy and can grow just above freezing, so the young blades peek out before winter sets in. Through the winter, they’re establishing roots and when the temperature warms in the spring they take off. The rye is knee high in the early spring and 5 to 6 feet tall in the summer when the heads are harvested.

Over 90% of that harvest goes to Deep Roots.

Find out more about Three Monkeys Farm at https://www.instagram.com/threemonkeysfarmva

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