Shenandoah Valley Organic intends to erect a 75,000 square foot plant in Harrisonburg VA. Corwin Heatwole, founder and CEO of the chicken company noted, “Our production team and our farmers live here in Virginia and come with tremendous experience in the poultry industry. We are fortunate to live in this beautiful Valley but are close to large East Coast markets where organic poultry demand is high.”
The company was founded in 2014 and has received three tranches of venture capital funding respectively in 2017 ($3.7 million); 2018 ($5.5 million) and most recently in 2020 ($15 million) for the plant.
Bettina Ring, Secretary of Agriculture and Forestry for the state of Virginia stated, “In 2013, we were proud to help Shenandoah Valley Organic to get started with one of our first AFID awards. The partnerships this project highlights, between farmer and processor as well as the private and public sectors, are great examples of how we can help bring economic vitality and opportunity to all corners of the Commonwealth.”