I am increasingly disgusted with the conservation easement holders. First, they seduce farmers in to putting their farms in to conservation easement and then they turn a blind eye when something like this happens! Shame Shame Shame. These hypocrital conservation easement holder types even sue those innocent farms that gave up their land rights with burdensome conservation easements…yup these easement holders allege to protect the small family farmer and then take them to court over frivolous matters. Virginia is going to hell with these conservation easements. What good are they if they aren’t fighting to save Crooked Run Orchard? Keep in mind these same conseration easement holders are behind the local county decision making.

I encourage every individual in Northern Virginia to fight to help save Crooked Run Orchard. Go to every court hearing and every county meeting. Contact local media and expose this horrid situation. Write a book about it. Do a documentary. Blog about it. Without action, this type of evil will continue to grow and destroy our family farms. Donate to Crooked Run today and demand that the conservation easement holders for this property pay for legal reprsentation for Crooked Run. Sue any conservation easement holder that does does not rise up to protect this type of taking of conservation easement land. Don’t hold back – let the world know of this great tragedy.

Someone please stop the madness and get rid of these jokers ruining Purcellville now!!!

The Fitzgerald Family

I am heartbroken to hear of the proposed plan to destroy part of your property to create an unnecessary road. I moved to Arlington about a year ago, having lived here as a child, and the one thing I had forgotten– or perhaps it has become worse since then– was the air. It is a tragic, dystopic thing out of a novel, that in an area thoughtful enough to have more parkland set aside than any major city suburb I have lived in– which really isn’t much, considering– there should be days on which I am warned to not go outside because the air is toxic. And I am warned against playing in creeks where I played as a child because the water is poison.

Clean, green space is the most precious resource that Northern Virginia has in a rapidly urbanizing world. Habitats are becoming more and more ephemeral, and they cannot be replaced once they are gone. I would ask the mayor to remember that life is precious– and this road will cause more destruction of that life that humans claim we treasure, in more far-reaching ways than we can imagine. Farms harness life, but they generate it, and that is something that this world needs.

Thank you and good luck protecting your farm,
Laura