Our Story
Hi!! We’re a Bel Alton, Maryland farmer and a gardener. We’re Johnny and Brittany, and we didn't start out knowing how to farm or garden. Learning together along the way is one of our favorite parts of the story.
We met in elementary school, became friends in middle school, and by the end of our junior year of high school, we realized our effortless friendship was actually us falling in love. We got married. We now have two wonderful daughters, a few animals, and a market garden we love growing in.
In 2023 we moved onto the farm and started Your Neighbor's Farmstand, for a reason that was never complicated: we wanted our family eating food we grew. We wanted to share with our neighbors. It turned out our neighbors were happy with us wanting to share good food while it’s fresh.
So now we grow a bunch of produce! Sweet corn from mid-July, tomatoes until the frost takes them, plants in the spring, and a little bit more in between. We are blessed to be able to have lots of growing space at our home and at Johnny’s mom & dad’s farm, which is a stunning and diverse piece of land that sits just outside of La Plata, where there are hens in the barn year round and cattle in the pasture (you can find that farm raised beef and more at his brother's store, in La Plata).
Johnny has a love of soil science and crop production, Brittany simply loves the magical feel of growing from seed, and the peace that a day in the garden gives her. In the middle of all of that: there's a stand out front that mostly runs on trust: that’s Your Neighbor’s Farmstand, the original honor stand on our home farm in Bel Alton, Maryland.
Please come find us and eat fresh and local. If you aren’t local, find a farmer local to you that you vibe with! Know a farm that isn’t on our map yet? Tell us about it.
We also hope you’ll tag along with us as we grow our own farm and hope to help grow our community of farmers with us. We’re sharing the ups and downs on our farm journal!
What our farm map stands for
Integrity. Built by people, never by AI. Every listing is checked by a person, and we only print what the business itself says.
Transparency. Free forever for farms. It never costs a grower or small business anything to be listed or to be seen.
Respect. Every business gets the same fair chance to be found. No paid spots, no rankings, no stars.
Connection. Farms and the people who want to support them, visible to each other.
Accessibility. Free to use, no account, plain words, and easy to read on any phone.
The farm map built by the people who grow our food and the people who eat it. Find a farm near you.

