Pleasant Hills Farm

Experience the pleasures of farm life just 30 minutes outside of our Nation’s Capital. While visiting our historic working farm, you’ll see our free-range chickens and wandering ducks as well as our horses and donkeys grazing in the pastures and perhaps even a barn cat or two. You can also participate in one of the many farm experiences we offer. We have a farm-to-table CSA where we offer our produce, flowers and eggs, grown following organic farming principles.

We have two different accommodations on our farm; our pool guest house and our glamping tiny house trailer. The Pool Guest House can sleep four. Take in a breath-taking sunset from the front porch or take a dip in the newly renovated pool and hot tub. We also have a vintage FiberStream trailer, not far from the pool and with similar stunning views across our 10.5 acre farm.

We are within walking distance to Seneca Creek hiking trails and a short 5-minute drive to the C&O canal. We offer bikes as well as kayaks for rent. We are also minutes away from two of our favorite wineries – Wyndridge Winery and Rocklands Farm and a short-drive to Sugarloaf mountain, where you can hike or try more local wine at Sugarloaf Winery.

Horse boarding facilities available onsite for an additional price. Field and Stall boarding.

If you’re traveling with children, please let us know so that we can discuss risks like the hot tub and pool, and farm equipment on the property.

Pleasant Hills was founded and named by the Gassaway family in 1765. The original manor home, in which we live, was said to be built in that year from clay bricks kilned on the property. To this day, our home preserves much of it’s history with the original slate roof as well as internal doors and flooring.

The farm was occupied by the North during the Civil War to protect Washington from evasion on the Potomac River. Following the Civil War, the farm was owned by the Kelley Family, who operated a successful dairy farm. Since then, much of the original farm has been developed into the lovely neighborhood in which we live, Spring Meadows in Darnestown Maryland, but little has been farmed.

Our desire in purchasing the remaining 10.5 acres of the original homestead is to return it to a productive and profitable local farming operation using organic and sustainable farming practices so that generations to come can enjoy it as much as we do.