Growing a Sustainable Future, Right Here at Home
Designated Urban Farm | Disabled Combat Veteran Owned | Woman Owned
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Designated Urban Farm | Disabled Combat Veteran Owned | Woman Owned •
Welcome to Meadowood Farm, a historic four-acre farmstead in Hanover, Maryland, just outside Fort Meade. We are Brian and Vickie, and this little farm is our family’s newest adventure.
A Farm With A Story
Meadowood is part of the historic J. Warfield Farm, a property whose agricultural roots reach back generations.
The farmhouse dates to 1887, and the preserved farmstead still includes buildings that speak to the land’s working past, including the carriage house and other agricultural structures. Today, the property is protected through a historic preservation easement designed to insulate its agricultural character and historic setting.
We love being part of that history.
Meadowood gives us the chance to do something we have dreamed about for a long time: grow food close to where people live, create a place where neighbors can meet the people producing their food, and show what a small working farm can look like inside a modern community.
We are starting slowly, learning the land, listening to our neighbors, and letting the farm grow into what it is meant to become. For us, preserving our farm is more than keeping the buildings standing. It also includes helping the land remain useful, productive and connected to the people around it. We want Meadowood Farm to feel rooted in what came before while also showing what a small community farm can become today.
What We’re Growing
Good farms take time, so we are beginning with a few things we know and love. These include: a pollinator meadow, beehives, chickens, fresh eggs, peppers and other seasonal crops.
From there, we will keep growing.
Flowers, more produce, fruit trees and other farm products may find their place here in time. Much of that will unfold as we learn what grows best on this land and what the people around us would most love to have close to home.
There is something exciting about not having the whole farm figured out yet. You get to watch it grow with us.
Welcome To The Warfield Sisters Market
Every Wednesday during market season, Meadowood Farm comes to life. The Warfield Sisters Market brings together local growers, makers and producers with fresh food, handmade goods and familiar faces.
It has the feel of an old-time neighborhood market — the kind of place where you can get to know the person handing you your food. Neighbors walk over. Families stay for a while. People bring home dinner, sit together, meet someone new and return the next week knowing a few more names than they did before.
The market makes local food easier to reach while giving our community a natural place to gather.
The Farm Is Just Beginning
Meadowood has been part of this landscape for generations, but our chapter here is just beginning.
Follow along as we plant, grow, learn and bring this little farm back to life.