Farm
Homestead Farm
An Allnutt-family pick-your-own farm and market at 15604 Sugarland Road in Poolesville, MD — Montgomery County, the Sugarloaf Mountain agricultural reserve. Seasonal pick-your-own produce and orchard operation. Closed for winter, reopens in June. Strict on-farm policies (no pets, no birthday parties, no professional photography, no checks) signal a deliberate production-first orientation rather than agritourism-first.
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Homestead Farm is a family-owned pick-your-own farm at 15604 Sugarland Road in Poolesville, MD — Montgomery County, in the Sugarloaf Mountain region of the Montgomery County Agricultural Reserve. Operated by the Allnutt family.
Operations:
- Pick-your-own seasonal produce + orchard
- On-farm market with a published harvest schedule
- Seasonal: closed for winter, reopens June
Notably strict on-farm policies: no pets, no birthday parties, no professional photography, no checks (cash or credit/debit only). The visitor-policy strictness signals a deliberate production-first orientation — the farm isn’t trying to be an agritourism destination; it’s a working farm that lets visitors pick.
Why it’s listed
The specific filter is production-first U-pick in the Montgomery County Agricultural Reserve — Montgomery County’s 93,000-acre permanently-protected farmland district, one of the strongest county-level agricultural-zoning regimes in the US (since 1980, has prevented suburban development on the reserve’s land base). Homestead Farm is one of the operating farms in that reserve. The strict no-frills visitor policies are the editorial signal: the farm prioritizes harvesting production over creating an agritourism atmosphere.
Bioregional fit
Poolesville is in Montgomery County, MD — Chesapeake Bay watershed inland zone, [[chesapeake-tidewater]] bioregion. The Agricultural Reserve is in the western part of the county, near the Potomac River and Sugarloaf Mountain.
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- Instance of: [[farm]] · [[agritourism]]
- Contained by: [[chesapeake-tidewater]]
Sources
- Homestead Farm
- OpenStreetMap: original tag
Related concepts: [[farm]] · [[agritourism]].
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