Working Countrysides

What exurban sprawl takes away

Every year, in spring and late summer, my wife and I drive out west to Burnside Farms, a pick-your-own flower farm in Nokesville, Virginia, in Prince William County. Spring is tulips, summer is sunflowers.

Those visits make for lovely, relaxing, refreshing evenings, and I’ll be writing specifically about the flower farm soon. But this post is about the d…