Meet the Farmers
Hi, We’re Brian & Vickie
We are first-generation farmers, a husband-and-wife team, veterans, and the people behind Meadowood Farm.
Long before farming became part of our lives, we both learned the value of community through our years in the military. Brian was stationed in Japan at 19, and Vickie in Germany at 24. Those experiences taught us how much it matters to have people around you who show up, help one another, and work toward something together. Those experiences stayed with us and have shaped our values and focus on farming today.
After leaving the military, we built careers, blended our families, and eventually found our way to farming, almost by accident. A few rows of grapevines at Hansel Hill Farm turned into vegetables, animals, bees, a greenhouse, and more projects than we could have imagined when we planted that first row.
We had no inherited farmland, no equipment passed down through generations, and no family farming knowledge to fall back on. So we learned. Sometimes beautifully. Sometimes by building the greenhouse four times until we got it right.
Farming taught us to be patient, pay attention, adapt, and keep going when we were disappointed or something did not work out the first time. More importantly, it showed us how much can grow from a relatively small piece of land when you are willing to start somewhere.
Our Next Chapter
Meadowood is the next chapter of that story. This historic farm gives us the chance to explore a different kind of small-scale farming: one that sits right inside a community, close to the people who we hope eventually eat the eggs, honey, flowers, fruit, and produce grown here.
It is also the place we plan to call home. We are excited about that part. We want to wake up here, work the land, care for this historic property, and get to know the people around us as neighbors as well as farmers.
There is something wonderful about imagining a place where you might walk down the road for eggs, stop at the market for dinner, or know exactly who tended the bees that made the honey in your kitchen.
That kind of everyday connection is a big part of why Meadowood feels right for us.
What Farming Has Taught Us
One of the biggest things we have learned is that farming does not have to mean hundreds of acres, huge equipment, or generations of experience.
You can grow something almost anywhere. Maybe you have several acres. Perhaps you have a backyard. And maybe you just have one sunny spot on a patio or herbs growing on the kitchen counter. Growing one thing is still growing something.
That belief shaped much of what we built at Hansel Hill, and we are bringing it with us to Meadowood. We want people to see that small farms matter and that local food can be part of everyday life, even in places that do not look like traditional farm country.
Meadowood gives us another way to live that idea.
Putting Down Roots
For us, Meadowood is more than another farm, it’s our new home. We are not just putting roots in the ground, we are living out our story on the property as well.
We feel incredibly lucky to care for a historic farm with such a long agricultural history and to have the chance to help bring farming back to the land in a way that makes sense for life today.
And if you see us at the Warfield Sisters Market, please come say hello. We would love to get to know you.