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Welcome to our farmhouse store

803 Route 202, Readington, NJ

Our working farm, where we raise our livestock, grow our crops and tend our vineyard, is located in the beautiful “Skylands” region of northwest Jersey.  But our huge Farmhouse Store and production facility is located on more than 300 acres right off Route 202 in Readington, NJ. Our store is full to the rafters with appetizing homemade and imported products that will elevate your meals to heights any chef would envy.

Spring, Summer or Fall, enjoy our delicious sandwiches, salads and hot dishes on our outdoor picnic grounds overlooking the picturesque Vacchiano fields.

 
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A little history

Our Working Farm

At Vacchiano Farm, we are real farmers working a real farm – one hundred acres of beautiful, fertile land in the western part of New Jersey known as the Skylands Region. We founded Vacchiano Farm as a family enterprise in 1983, and have proudly participated in farmers’ markets throughout northern New Jersey since 1992. Our parents’ families still tend generations-old farms in Italy, and we carry on their traditions here with respect and care.

Our farm lies in the heart of Warren County, an American Viticultural Area, and a distinguished wine appellation prized by vintners for more than two hundred years. Our mature vineyard consists of eleven+ acres of American hybrid wine grapes, and we offer well-rounded red and supple white wines. We use our oak, stainless steel and glass casks to develop distinct characteristics for our vintages.

We raise many types of crops and livestock – this diverse “patchwork” of products takes best advantage of our farm’s nourishing earth, and our dedication to providing variety. We tend our land and livestock daily to keep them in prime condition. In a typical year, we harvest over fifteen acres of vegetables. We are especially known for our tomatoes – we currently grow over twenty-five varieties – and offer a full complement of greens, herbs, corn, peppers and more. Our spring and summer crops yield a wide array of delicious berries and fruits.

We take particular pride in nurturing our animals. We raise our own beef, lamb, chickens, ducks, and Traditional and Heritage Breed turkeys in a healthy farm setting, using the land and local, natural feeds. The animals roam free with plenty of fresh air, mineral-rich well water, and all live on a purely vegetarian diet of high-protein grains. The animals are allowed to mature naturally, without the use of antibiotics, hormones or growth stimulants. Our beef is slaughtered in a small-scale USDA inspected and approved facility. We butcher the sides into a full range of delicious steaks and other cuts, and grind our own beef. We do all poultry processing on our farm and provide the best-tasting and most tender chickens you’ll find.

Supplementing our produce and meats, we offer a variety of specialty foods and baked goods that are tasty additions to your table. Savory potpies, flaky fruit pies, intensely flavorful sauces, breads, cheese and traditional sausages are made from scratch in our own facility, which is inspected by the Warren County Board of Health, assuring cleanliness and freshness.

We love what we do, and are proud to preserve traditional farming techniques while using up-to-date and environmentally conscientious methods. While we use some modern machinery to make our work easier, all that we do on the farm would have seemed perfectly normal a hundred years ago. We employ Integrated Pest Management (IPM), minimizing the use of controlled substances so we can provide you with foods that are clean, healthy and delicious – the foods that we, and our children enjoy.
Three generations of the Vacchiano family are proud to bring you the finest authentic flavors of the Garden State.

Yours,
Anthony Vacchiano 

 

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Sophisticated Table Wines from the Skylands Region

Vacchiano Vineyard was established in 2005 as a family vineyard project. Tony Sr has had a passion for authentic wine his whole life which has now been passed down to his children and grandchildren. Over the years there have been many successes and many challenging lessons—the biggest of which is what types of grapes to plant in Northern NJ in rocky soil on a hill! So right now, all of our grapes are American varieties which originated in Oregon and Michigan (fellow cold winter states) because of this our wine is considered a “table wine” rather than a specific variety. As a family we have had unique opportunities to learn wine making skills from both Napa Valley as well as Naples, Italy and are striving to bring the two together in New Jersey!

We are proud to provide you with two types of dry red table wine, a sweet red table wine, and a dry white table wine. As a family farm we continue to strive to be as sustainable as possible and found we were wasting a lot of blueberries and strawberries (due to being fragile when ripe) so we decided to create a strawberry wine and blueberry wine—what is more NJ than that!

You can purchase our wine at the Madison Market (Thursdays) and Montclair Market (Saturdays). We currently do not have a tasting room or location on our farm to purchase products but see below for wine outlets!

 Wine outlets:

Colonial Pantry – 5 W Main St, Mendham, NJ 07945

*If you are interested in becoming a wine outlet please contact us at vacchianofarm@gmail.com

Our Very Own TV Stars!

Anthony (Dad) and Anthony (Son) invite you to enjoy the most intensely flavorful meats you’ll ever experience delivered direct to your door:  The Vacchiano-Raised Skylands Beef, Poultry and Pork!  By aging, preparing and packing in-house they retain all of the richness that Supermarket and Butcher Shop meats lose at the processing plant.

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