109 Church View Lane
540-463-3639
Potter Siblings Marnie and Chas with Kelsey & Josie, the Sixth and Seventh Generations
The Potter Family traces it's farming history back 7 generations. In the mid 1800s, Issac Potter began farming along Buffalo Creek near Collierstown. The family later owned and operated the mill at the bend of Collierstown Road, Potter-Wade Mill. Generation three, Ray Lee first share cropped, and later purchased the property that is now Churchview Farm.
Charlie Jr. (generation five) and his wife Joan restored the
farmhouse in the 60s and raised their family on the farm.
Their oldest daughter, Marnie, and their son Chas are active
participants in the family farming operation
Chas, generation six, owns and farms another operation, 
Cave Hill Farm, at the foot of House Mountain. Marnie
and Seth Caldwell and their girls, Kelsey and Josie, support all aspects of the operation, from feeding to marketing.
The tradition lives on, with extended family in close proximity and a passion for raising cattle and farming the land.
Our Commitment to Locally Grown Food
There is a great tradition of farming in Rockbridge County. In the "old days", people produced their own food, and bartered or traded for the things they
could not grow on their own. As progress came to the Valley, peddlers delivered locally grown food directly to markets and homes. Continued "progress" led us to to the supermarket phenomenon and our general expectation that we could buy anything. We thought little about the miles the food traveled before it got to our table. Today, thankfully, the new "progress" is moving us back to our roots. People are learning that growing and buying food produced locally, is far superior and more ecologically wise, than buying food grown thousands of miles away.
Our family has been growing beef for
over 100 years. And we have been eating our own beef and selling halfs and quarters to our friends for many
of those years. With the renewed understanding of the general public that eating food grown within a few miles of your home is the far superior to eating food that has been trucked or flown in from thousands of miles away, we are thrilled to be able to provide high quality, healthy meat direct to your table. We welcome your visit to the farm. And we will be delighted to show you around and answer any questions you may have about how we grow and process our beef.
Our Animals
a custom mixture of farm grown silage, brewers grain (hops, and other byproducts of beer production) and peleted corn. The mixture is fresh and tasty and produces a beef that is subtly marbled and extraordinarily tasty.