Plants & People

I spent much of my life living on the family farm in Stumptown, Va. My family bought the property in 1953 in order to run a summer camp, which lasted until 1979. My parents raise cattle and crops there.

We’ve recently started doing some conservation projects on the property. Here are a few images of the planning stage and the installation done by Shenandoah Habitats with funding from the Alliance for the Bay.

Photos of the Farm through the years

Photos from Bee-Friendly Beef event held by Virginia Working Landscapes Aug. 3, 2023.

Bean Hollow Grassfed Farm
Tripsacum dactyloides, a crop wild relative of maize
Ratibida pinnata, grey-headed coneflower, found in the plots at Bean Hollow Grassfed. I picked one up at Watermark Woods the next day to start growing it in my yard and saving seeds for the Farm.

Article on the summer camp my family ran for 25 years on the property

Air photos from the 1930s onward. Note the former apple orchards, the regularly-spaced dots.

Sinkhole (remnant vernal pool?)

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