More Virginia Farm Photos

Peace and silence

I continue the previous post from my wonderful vacation with my wife and family in Shenandoah valley area with more photos.
Thomas Jefferson loved the Shenandoah Valley. As a young man, he crawled past stalagmites and mirrored pools in the Valley’s limestone caverns and spent many a night quaffing ales in Staunton. He described the confluence of the Shenandoah and Potomac rivers near Harpers Ferry—the Valley’s northern boundary—and their passage through the Blue Ridge Mountains as “one of the most stupendous scenes in nature . . . worth a voyage across the Atlantic.” Jefferson considered Natural Bridge, the 215-foot-high stone arch near the Valley’s southern boundary, “the most sublime of nature’s works.”
Over the years, the Shenandoah Valley has never strayed far from its small-farm, small-town roots. Agriculture still rules—the area is home to four of Virginia’s top five agricultural counties—but farmers are adapting, raising grass-fed livestock and organic produce and working hand in hand with talented chefs. And growing wine grapes. Jefferson, a devoted oenophile, would be thrilled that dozens of wineries have taken root. Breweries are popping up all over the place, too—a natural given the region’s grain-growing traditions.
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