Chicama Run Family Farm

This weekend was the Loudoun County Spring Farm Tour. Over the years as more and more farms have joined, and we are in our 10th year, the traffic has gotten less and less. We attribute this to a lot of things - the county cut the funding (shocker) and we don't have a lot of new attractions.

Ok, as a farm, it's really hard if you aren't a big agri-tourism farm to come up with something new each season, it just can't happen. Joe's said no new animals ;) but yeah, even animal lover that I am, I can't justify having animals here that don't serve a purpose.

However, we have our moments and each of these is truly precious to us.

This weekend, I had a tween tell me this is her favorite place to visit - and they have been coming here almost 10 years. She didn't have a cell phone that she was staring at, she even brought some friends with her - and everyone was laughing and looking around!

People were coming up to me shocked that Alexis was now DOING the egg gathering tours - and they remembered the first year when she was just sharing the baby chicks with people! Hey, she made the cover of the next farm tour with that!

We had customers give us hugs, thanking us for being here and for the work we do.

Overall, we don't just have customers, we have friends. We have watched kids grow but still come back, we watch the new ones as they look around and see their first real live chicken!

Though we have our ups and downs, and sometimes we get seriously frustrated.... a LOT of work goes into this and we thank everyone who says we are so organized because it never feels like it.....we love each minute of it and have created some amazing memories that will last a lifetime - not just for us - but for many! This in itself is truly humbling and we are thankful to be blessed with making it this far on a journey neither one of us expected to take during our lifetime.

So you may hear us vent and fuss....but at the end of the day..... we can say we love it and we are thrilled to have made so many friends and we can't wait to meet more!

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