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Like the Oklahoma Land Rush of 1889, Rappahannock residents arrived early and in droves to purchase plants, furniture and bee hives from the annual sale at Waterpenny Farm in Sperryville on April 25.
Ecologically grown vegetables and flowers for the garden, native trees and shrubs, hanging planters and handcrafted furniture were available from a group of vendors, including the Rappahannock County Public Schools’ Farm to Table program, who return annually to launch the spring planting season. Triple Oaks Bakery was there to sell its yummy gluten-free baked goods and the high school culinary class provided breakfast, including terrific quiche. Plant-a-row program volunteers signed up backyard farmers for their worthwhile community project.
Among the vendors were James and Holly Hammond, interns at Waterpenny Farm. This young couple has set their hopes for the future in finding a way to incorporate farming into family life, as do Waterpenny farmers Rachel Bynum and Eric Plaskin. James, originally from Greensboro, N.C., and with some farming in his family background, had a corporate career in the com* puter field. Holly, whose family operates a large scale U-Pick farm in Arizona, had developed a catering business after her graduation from Arizona State University in 2003.
This couple re-evaluated their goals in life, hiked the Appalachian Trail, and decided to pursue a farming life style. A search for internships on www.attra. ncat.org, the Web site for National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service (funded by USDA), led them to Waterpenny Farm. The detailed descriptions of farming methodolo
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