Meet Farm Manager, Jean

Jean has been involved in farming since an early age. Whether she was gardening, completing 4-H projects, raising livestock or working her 20-year career in the veterinary world, there really hasn’t been a time where she wasn’t farming in some sort of fashion.

During early childhood she spent summers at her grandmother’s home helping to tend to her extensive flower and vegetable gardens. She was fascinated with the fact that you could take a seed, plant it, nourish it and reap the success of a bountiful harvest. She found the same was true for raising livestock - which lead her to Vet Tech school and 20 years in the field.

After departing from her career, she was hired at Whispering Meadow Farm to take care of the grounds. She started mowing grass, but this quickly turned into gardening and eventually managing the entire farm. In 2018, the first 30 elderberries plants were put into the ground. The farm now has twelve different varieties and approximately 1500 Elderberry plants. Never did she imagine that her love for gardening would turn into farming elderberries, much less the start of the business, Virginia Elderberry. Today, alongside Debra, she strives to grow and produce the highest quality elderberry products for their customers.