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.

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.

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

Sinkhole (remnant vernal pool?)

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