This Is the Place
There’s a moment in late winter where the farm still looks quiet- but everything important has already begun.
Lisa built something special here. We are grateful for the years she spent shaping this land, learning it, tending it, and feeding this community. And now, we’re here to carry it forward-fully, seriously, and with both feet in the work.
We are here to farm.
Over the past weeks, Adam has been doing what he always does when he meets a new piece of land: learning its language.
He starts with a map.
Starts as a sketch- then he adds the layers of the property: slopes, water flow, sun exposure, existing beds, edges, access points. It’s how he understands how a place breathes. Where water lingers. Where it runs. Where soil wants to warm early. Where it holds cold.
This is how a season begins for us- not with planting, but with attention.
Adam studied at MICA in Baltimore, and that way of seeing never left him. He still draws, still maps, still uses his hands to understand form and space. Farming, to us, is not separate from that. It’s a living art, made with soil and weather and time instead of canvas and paint.
Every bed placement, every path, every row orientation is a decision. A composition. A balance between efficiency, ecology, and beauty.
But this isn’t abstract. It’s practical, too.
These maps turn into field plans.
Field plans turn into seeding schedules.
Seeding schedules turn into harvests.
Harvests turn into your CSA boxes.
That’s the chain. That’s the work.
And we are already in it- ordering seed, repairing tools, building out plans for the warm season ahead, and getting ready to grow as much food as our four hands can.
We take that responsibility seriously.
This land will be actively, intentionally, and fully farmed.
This is the place.
And we’re getting to work.
Erika & Adam
Oak Spring Farm
