The history of Kinloch Farm dates back to 1823 under the founding stewardship of the Turner family. The Chrysler and Dancer families also made Kinloch their home prior to 1960 when Stephen and Audrey Currier purchased the property with the intention of building a family legacy for generations to come. Virginia was familiar to Audrey’s side of the family with Audrey herself attending the Foxcroft School in the late 1940s.

Under Stephen and Audrey, the farm’s footprint ultimately grew to include four adjoining properties. Kinloch was an ambitious and people intensive endeavor driven by the Curriers’ belief that, through their employment and personal connections made in the community, they could help improve the economic and racial disparity prevalent in Northern Virginia in the 1960s. The Curriers’ primary work was national in scope and active in the area of civil rights and they understood the significance of Washington, D.C. being only 40 miles east of the Piedmont. The landmark Bull Run Mountains, which represented a “green belt” to the city of Washington, were purchased by the Curriers, along with a neighbor, for citizens to enjoy as a protected natural area and public treasure for years to come.

Farming under the Curriers consisted of a traditional Piedmont cow to calf operation, making hay, growing corn and selling animals to the local livestock exchange. Following their death in 1967, the second generation took control and pivoted toward practices that were organic, novel and holistic in scope. The first four acres of vinifera grapes in the Piedmont were pioneered by Kinloch. In 1984, Kinloch was certified as an organic farm by the Virginia Association of Biological Farmers, the first such verification body in the state and, in that same year, the Leathercoat Restaurant opened as an early form of farm-to-table dining. Kinloch held and managed the National Devon Association records. By supporting and helping rebuild a new livestock exchange, creating a farmer’s market (Archwood Green Barns) and owning and operating an abattoir, Kinloch played an important role in bolstering the development of the agricultural infrastructure of the county.

In the past four decades, under the stewardship of Andrea Currier, Kinloch Farm has grown to reflect the family’s shared values in protected open space, land and wildlife conservation and regenerative farming. The Piedmont Environmental Council, Virginia Outdoors Foundation, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, John Marshall Soil and Water Conservation District, and Virginia Working Landscapes have all been critical partners in Kinloch’s evolution and commitment to a set of continuously refined “best practices.”

Today, the third generation of Curriers are enthusiastically engaging in the family legacy with a retail market for Kinloch grassfed beef, honey and other locally grown foods. They are supported in this effort by a team of long tenured professionals in the fields of agriculture, conservation and business. With decades of investment in Kinloch’s land, animals and people and a strong sixty year relationship in the Piedmont, we are committed to bringing our relationship even closer in the goal of sharing our heritage with our Piedmont community.