Fincastle Farm

06/05/2026

The simple life. 🩷

06/01/2026

The farm was especially beautiful today. 🌾

05/29/2026

4 years ago today one of my first customers posted a picture of their chicken! I had just had this crazy idea to quit my job, start a farm, then I raised my first chickens, processed and bagged them and had a customer promote me! I look back at those times as some of the best in my life. ❤️🐓

05/10/2026

Peonies from the farm for Mother’s Day! 💐

05/07/2026

For sale! This is on Facebook Marketplace and I couldn’t figure out how to share it on the farm page.

04/26/2026

You don’t need fancy tools to make good food. Dad wasn’t using this mixer anymore at his hunting cabin. I had been making mashed potatoes in my stand mixer and couldn’t get the texture like moms. So, the Proctor silex to the win! They were perfect! 🥔

04/26/2026

Thousands across the U.S. are closing the book on farms that have been in their families for generations, either by selling to a larger entity or declaring bankruptcy.

It has transformed food production and local communities. Critics of farm consolidation say it’s also led to less crop diversity, presenting risks for the broader food system.

The disappearance of small farms has carried steep consequences for rural America, upending the transfer of wealth—long attached to the land—between generations. And the tough economics are making the search for successors more challenging.

Children of farmers today have more opportunities to work beyond agriculture than they did decades ago, and families are typically smaller, shrinking the pool of possible candidates.

“When farmers owned the land and lived on the land, they took care of the land and they formed communities that worked together and solved problems and took care of everybody,” says fifth-generation farmer Don Guinnip, 74. “You’re not going to have that in the future.”

The natural choice to take over Gunnip's farm, his son and daughter, left for college and now work in corporate fields. His siblings made the same decision years earlier.

“It’s disappointing to me,” Guinnip says, holding back tears.

🔗 Read more: https://on.wsj.com/4e8tDvY

04/22/2026

04/19/2026

If you haven’t made breakfast yet, this is a reminder of this waffle recipe (in comments). It’s the best! 🧇

04/17/2026

Grown on the farm (by dad)! There is no comparison to store bought. Definitely worth planting. And waiting for. 😁

Edited to add a picture with local steaks!