BURNT HILL PROJECT

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buy a farm.

Press feature : the Washington Post

“The alert popped up on Drew Baker’s phone one Sunday morning in July. A 117-acre parcel of farmland near Clarksburg in northern Montgomery County, Md., had come on the market. And he recognized the address.

“We had already looked in that area, so we knew it was promising,” says Baker, vineyard manager for Old Westminster Winery in Westminster, Md. “My wife and I went there, saw the site and immediately dropped a pin,” he says, referring again to his phone. Standing at the top of a ridge, looking west toward Sugarloaf Mountain and the Blue Ridge, he sent the GPS coordinates of the site to Ernest “Bubba” Beasley, a geologist in Charlottesville who was helping Baker scout for new vineyard land…”

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