Twenty-plus years ago, Franny and Walter Kansteiner acquired three Merino sheep. Since then, their Gum Tree Farm near Middleburg has become home to a flock of 70, producing home-grown and hand-made organic wool luxury items.
Navy Rear Admiral Brent Scot, Chaplain of the Marine Corps and Deputy Chief of Chaplains for the Navy, will preach this year’s ecumenical sermon at Middleburg’s 41st annual Free Church Homecoming, Sunday, June19 at the Middleburg Baptist Church.
Everyone has a story about traveling abroad, that maniacal Parisian taxi driver going 80 down the Champs Elysee, that first, frightening London ride in the rental car with the steering wheel on the wrong side of the car, the mystery meat in a Hong Kong restaurant you later discovered was filet of feral cat.
Farmers in some parts of Virginia experienced one of the rainiest months of May on record, and they’re finding it difficult to keep their spirits afloat when so much field work has to be put on hold.
“The wet weather has really slowed down all farm work,” said Ellis Walton, a Middlesex County farmer and member of the Virginia Farm Bureau Federation board of directors. “You can’t care for small grains and can’t get started on corn and bean planting because it’s been too wet to put equipment in the fields. No hay has been cut for weeks. I still have a half-inch of standing water in my own yard.”
As a young girl, Lillibet Motion lost her mother to breast cancer, and ever since, she’s been looking for a way to have some influence in helping to find a cure. She finally got that chance last month when the Avon 39 Mile Walk for Breast Cancer came through Washington.
The life story of Christopher Riddle, a racehorse turned riding horse, continued to take more twists and turns. As recounted previously in Middleburg Life, Christopher was raised and raced by my family, until an injury forced his retirement from the racetrack.
Polo has been John Gobin’s life for as long as he can remember. Practicing, playing, and teaching the game, he’s also carved out a niche for himself around these parts in recent years by overseeing all phases of the sport at Great Meadow Polo in The Plains.
The Middleburg Museum is in search of its forever home. In December, 2014, Bet- see Parker bought the former Middleburg house of the late Nancy and Howard Allen, longtime residents and founders of the Fun Shop, with the spe- cific intent to donate it to the Middleburg Museum.
Greenhill Winery & Vineyards’ annual red & white polo party held at the winery’s members-only…
