Family Continues Farm Traditions at Oak Marr Market

By LeighAnne Manwarren

If you're a regular at the Wednesday morning , then you're probably used to stopping by Valentine’s Country Bakery & Meats for homemade baked goods and all natural meats.

The third-generation Miller family runs the farm in Madison County, Va. Darletta and Valentine Miller have been selling baked goods for 17 years and before this, the family owned and ran a dairy farm, Darletta Miller said.

“I had worked in a bakery for six years prior to our marriage so we decided to start going to farmers' markets and making baked goods and then probably about five years ago, we decided to add meats to that,” Darletta Miller said.

Among their products, Valentine’s Country Bakery & Meats sells eggs, chickens, sheep, rabbits, beef, cinnamon rolls, pies, breads, dinner rolls and cakes.

During the fall, Darletta said they make pumpkin rolls with cream cheese filling and apple cinnamon nut cake.

“It is good to be able to make and have products for our customers that are homemade and homegrown and home-raised, because it is a lot healthier than all the junk they put in the stores,” she said.

Valentine’s Country Bakery & Meats sells all-natural raised meat. The animals grass fed and not given any hormones or antibiotics and all the baked goods made from scratch, Miller said.

“We had a customer come in the other day who said it was the best meat he has ever tasted and ever since he has come back every week,” she said. “It is good to know that people do recognize the difference between store-bought and homegrown meat and they enjoy what we have.”

To learn more about Valentine’s Country Bakery & Meats, visit their website, http://www.valentinescountrymeats.com/.