27/09/2026
Two years ago today, we woke up to the most devastating sight we had ever seen on this farm.
I can still remember the feeling of looking around and not even knowing where you start.
Trees and barns that had been here longer than we had were flattened. Places we loved looked completely different overnight. There was damage everywhere.
And somehow, today also marks something much happier.
This fall marks five years since we opened The FARM 1780 to the public.
Five years ago, we took a farm that had belonged to The Monts family for generations and made a pretty big bet that our community would care enough about what happened to it to become part of its future.
And you have.
You’ve come to dinners when we weren’t sure anyone would buy a ticket.
You brought your kids for field trips and camps. You picked flowers and berries. You bought pumpkins we grew in our fields. You celebrated birthdays and milestone events and ordinary Saturdays here. You ate food grown here. You came back, and then you brought friends with you.
And when Helene came through, you checked on us. You offered help. You showed up.
I don’t think I fully understood five years ago just how important that last part would be. Preserving a family farm doesn’t happen just because one family loves it enough.
It happens because a community decides it matters, too.
Every time you choose to spend a Saturday here, buy your pumpkins from us instead of adding them to the cart somewhere else, sign your child up for a camp, come to a dinner, pick a bucket of flowers, tell a friend about us or simply keep coming back; you are helping make sure there is a reason for this farm to keep opening its gates.
And we need that.
Because places like this don’t stay simply because they’ve been here a long time.
Lexington has changed tremendously in the 240 years our family has been farming this land. Some of that change has been wonderful. But as our community grows, I think it becomes even more important that we don’t lose the places that remind us where we came from.
The history. The old trees. The open spaces. The stories. The places where our kids can get dirty, see where their food comes from and experience a little piece of the Lexington that existed long before any of us did.
Those things are part of the fabric of this community. And once they’re gone, we don’t get to recreate them.
So we need you to keep showing up.
Come spend time here. Bring your kids. Buy the pumpkins. Pick the flowers. Come eat with us. Tell your neighbors about us. Bring the friend who has lived in Lexington for twenty years and somehow still doesn’t know we’re here.
Because every time you do, you’re doing more than supporting our family or a small business.
You’re helping protect a little piece of Lexington.
Two hundred and forty years after our family first started farming this land, we’re still here. Still growing things. Still finding new ways to make an old farm work in a very different Lexington.
And after seeing how much can change overnight, I don’t take that for granted anymore.
We hope you don’t either.
Come see us. Keep showing up. Help us make sure this place is still here for the generations who haven’t gotten to love it yet. 🌱💚
-McKenzie
