About Us

David and Elizabeth moved their family to Gordonsville spring of 2024 with big dreams for their acreage in mind. David, a central Virginia native, always dreamed of having a large farm, specifically horses and cattle. Elizabeth spent her childhood and early adulthood in southern New Hampshire, where she worked on several locally owned farms during high school. She found her love for chickens when the alapca farm's free range bantams went broody and hatched chicks they didn't plan for. With one quick call to her parents at work, begging to raise 6 of the chickens (all expenses paid by herself), she took them home that evening (in true Elizabeth fashion, was not on the same page as her parents, but they say it's better to ask for forgiveness, right?). Elizabeth got to work with some basic plans printed off the internet and no carpentry knowledge. She did end up with some help from family friends and her uncle, and together they built a small walk-in coop and temporary fencing so she could later free range her chickens. Elizabeth, albeit a millennial, likes to think she was before the chicken craze trend, as she would tell everyone she went to school with that her chickens were "cute", and they didn't believe her until they saw them for themselves (a reminder, this is before cell phone and internet were popular). All of this leads to now, when they said, 'go big or go home' and had upwards of 100 birds their first year.