About

Welcome to Lepanto Farms!  We are a small family farm in Chesapeake, Virginia.  We hope you enjoy following us as we try to get this thing off the ground (or into it).  Starting in early 2013 with just under nine acres of bare field and some woodlands with a couple of glaring legal problems and a beat-up gravel road, we hope to be building this summer and adding chickens and cows within the next year or less.

My husband and I graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy, drove ships, got out, and had kids.  Everything was settled (as much as possible with four kids), and then I started reading too much (I’m going to have to start a “book of the week” feature).  After enough on the insanity of industrial agriculture (especially meat and egg production), additives, massive sustainability issues (both natural and tax related), etc., I felt we needed to do something differently.  I guess I’m odd like that; I can’t just read something, say, “Wow, that’s terrible!”, and go back to what I was doing.  I didn’t want my kids growing up eating like that, not knowing what really good, fresh food tastes like (“fresh” does NOT include the mealy tomatoes at the supermarket), and oblivious to where their food comes from.  We have no intention of ever being a massive farm, or even financially successful by the usual measures, but we hope to create a better style of living for ourselves, our children, and as many friends and community members as we can inspire, too.

Eventually (read: not this year!), we hope to have the farm open to tours for homeschoolers and maybe for volunteers to help when harvests get out of hand (I hope!) to gather in donations for local food pantries.  Farm to Fork events would be awesome, too.  At some point, we might have a farm stand, but there’s a ton to do and figure out between here and there.

Thank you for your interest, and God bless you!