My name is Jennifer Warthan. I’m a farm wife, a Mama, a photographer and I spend my days surrounded by crops, children and animals.
My husband and I have lived in the same small town all our lives. We love where we live, we love the friends we’ve known our whole lives, we love being surrounded by family and we know we’re at home.
We have three mischievously adorable little girls and one strapping farmer boy (his words, by the way). We have a big old farmhouse and we decided to fill it up!
We work about 1200 acres of beautiful Virginia farmland and the whole process fascinates me even though I’ve been around farming my whole life. I hope you enjoy reading about the varying seasons and our good times on the farm!
I’ve been lucky enough to be featured in the Richmond Times Dispatch, Rocket City Mom, Holly Clouse Photography, the National Peanut Board, the Sussex Surry Dispatch, the Tidewater News, the Pioneer Woman, the Maternal Lens, on the walls of Aromas Coffee and Tea, and in the gallery of the Wakefield Foundation. I’m also a contributor to the Prince George Electric Cooperative magazine and a member of the Professional Photographers of America as well as the Isle of Wight Arts League. Most days though you can just find me in my kitchen!
Jennifer Warthan | Photographer
Waverly, Virginia
jennifer@warthanfarms.com
757.899.0178
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23 comments
I love the picture of the cotton spilling out of the trailer. I would love to see you take that exact photo and submit it to canvasondemand.com and make a nice piece of artwork for your home out of it.
I took a photo of a windmill and had it printed on gallery wrap and it looked great.
Here is the link – I think you might like it:
http://www.canvasondemand.com/
Does Kristy get a commission or something???
Aren’t you cute! I was hoping to see a photo of you. Now I feel like I know you.
Thanks! Although I have to tell you that I have a lot more pudge these days… that will hopefully be going away in about 7 weeks!!
My dh and I also have lived here all our lives except for college. And you know I don’t remember what I learned in college. We both have ag degrees. So I guess we just built on from there. Hope everything is going well with #3.
judi
Jennifer – I just wanted to tell you how much I love your site (after stumbling upon it from Cary’s site). The great pictures and stories of everyday farm life really draw people in to what is an underappreciated (and vanishing) way of life. I’m a former farm kid myself, having grown up on a blueberry/peach farm, and am just now realizing what a gift that kind of childhood was (now that my parents are selling the place). Thanks for letting us farm vicariously through your family!
- Phil (www.felipebeach.wordpress.com)
I love your how-we-farm pictures and stories. It’s a great way to tell the world how American farms REALLY operate and produce food for the world. There are only a few of us left in this profession and lifestyle and you are telling it very well. I wouldn’t trade it for anything even though my kids had to grow up without a lot of things their town friends had. Now that they are grown they, along with us, seem to think they are better off because of it.
I found you from your comments on “Pioneer Woman”. Have to admit I spend as much time reading comments there as I do the posts, actually more.
Thanks for sharing your life!
Love your site! The pictures are just great. You have beautiful children and a handsome hubby, and the peanut harvesting account was fascinating.
My favorite spot, though, had to be the big jack-o-lantern entry.
So glad I “found” your blog …
I have just found your blog and love it! I also grew up on a farm and still live out in the country. There is nothing like it.
Thanks for such a great site, I am sure I will enjoy it.
Found your blog through PW and your photography IS gorgeous. I love it. Can’t wait to read more.
Just found your blog – LOVE IT! And your photography is AWESOME – you have a real talent! I will enjoy following you! Thanks!
Since I have been commenting on your blog recently I decided to tell you something about myself. I am a 50 yr old that lives in the great state of Alabama, which happens to have the #2 football team in the nation at this moment!!! Roll Tide!!! My husband and I have been married for 29 years this past weekend! He is truly the love of my life and I think that he would say the same. We have 2 teenage children, a girl 18 and a son that is 14. They are great kids and I feel blessed that they have their heads on straight and give their father and I no trouble. Raising teenagers is scarry these days. We live in the country on the same place that I grew up. My husband is retired military and after having spent 20 years travelling around we came to my home to “retire”. He is from California. We ride and show horses as a family hobby that keeps us together most weekends throughout the year. I found your blog through PW and enjoy it greatly. I care for elderly parents so the computer is my outside link to the world sometimes. I still feel blessed to have both of my parents 85 and 83 years young and wouldn’t trade my life for anyone’s. Hope this post gives you some insight to the people that read your blog. We are regular folks in various stages of life enjoying it whatever it hands us. Take care.
Della, I am so glad you wrote! I love meeting people and am amazed how many people read my little ‘ol blog from all over the world.
I hope you keep coming back!
Just found your blog – I’m just down the road at the Creek!
I just found your blog and I love it! I will be back.
Lovely site and terrific photos! Thnx for sharing!
Traci
Thank you Tracilee!!
A former Waverly girl myself…I love this blog!!! You have a beautiful way of looking at the world!! Thank you!
just found you a couple of days ago. Lived on a farm when I was small and miss it. (my heart is still there) Looking forward to checking in on you. Nice photos…..(emphasis on NICE!) Tugging on my heart in a bad way……that farm life! Thanks!
Jennifer,
I love your view on life, very refreshing.
I will be back. Keep enjoying life!
We just moved back to the States from Germany and we used to visit a pumpkin patch there every year. My neighbor in Carrollton just informed me of the College Run Farm in Surry; I found your link on their site.
I am an Iowa girl whose grandfather was born in 1917 on the family farm, we got to live there a few short years and your pictures take me back. I was getting ready to leave your site when I saw the picture of the cowboy boots together…what a great depiction of your family. They seem to have taken on your personalities, adorable.
Jennifer you have a beautiful family. Farming is a way of life with its ebb and flow from season to season. So glad you enjoy the farm.
Hi, just discovered your blog via the pioneer woman. I love all the details of farm life and the amazing photos. I live just north of London in deep suburbia so it is providing me with pure delicious escapism, thank you.
Hi Jennifer!
Thanks for leaving a link to your site on my blog! I love finding new blogs to read. I just wanted to let you know that I think your photography is absolutely beautiful. You have such a lovely family too! Can’t wait to discover more on your blog.
City Girl to Country Girl
Hi Jennifer,
Just stumbled upon your blog and thought I would leave some love. I am a photographer myself on a 110, 000 acre cattle station so I always love reading about women in similar positions. My blog is also filled with rural images of our home and life, stop by anytime! Love your last line …. “Most days though you can just find me in my kitchen!” lovely work!!