Mountain rising over the green pastures of Midway Farm at dawn
Est. 1785 · The Blue Ridge, Virginia

A Virginia farm
with deep roots.

For more than two centuries, Midway Farm has rested between mountain and meadow — a quiet keeper of land, family, and the long grace of time.

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An introduction

A place that has always been here.

Midway Farm sits in the soft fold of the Virginia mountains, where old pastures climb toward the ridge and a country store still stands at the bend in the road. It has been kept by the same family since the late eighteenth century — through wars and weddings, seasons of plenty and seasons of mending. What endures here is not grand. It is patient.

This is its quiet record.

The historic country store at Midway Farm
A story from the land

The Old Country Store

For generations the little wooden store at the bend in the road was the meeting place of the valley — a counter for flour and lamp oil, a porch for news, a shelter from August thunderstorms. Its boards are softened now by a hundred summers, but the door still opens, and the quiet inside still remembers every voice it ever held.

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Photography

The land, in every season.

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Summer on the farm
Winter pastures
The barn in summer
Sunset over the barn
Two and a half centuries

A history measured in generations.

1785

Original land grant signed by Patrick Henry.

1830s

The country store opens at the bend in the road.

2020

Recognized as a Virginia Century Farm.

Today

Stewarded by the next generation.

"We have the world to live in on the condition that we will take good care of it. And to take good care of it, we have to know it. And to know it and to be willing to take care of it, we have to love it."
— Wendell Berry
Sunset over the Virginia farm road

Step inside the long, slow story.