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Hobbit Hill Farm is a small, family-run, USDA Certified Organic blueberry farm just outside Harrisonburg, Virginia.
What began as a simple desire to grow blueberries has become something more — a multi-generational effort to restore the land, grow food with care, and create a place where families return each year to start their summer together.
For a few short weeks each year, the farm opens to the community. Kids wander the rows. Buckets fill. The pace of life softens. What you experience today is the result of decades of work — shaped by the land, carried forward by a family, and built with the hope that it continues for generations to come.
the history
Hobbit Hill Farm didn’t start as a finished idea. It started with a piece of land — and a long-standing desire to grow blueberries. Years ago, before the blueberry farm existed, owner Tom Pack had tried to grow blueberries in town in his back yard. The plants never lasted long, but the idea stuck. That idea went back even further — to a family trip he took as a kid, where he had a slice of wild blueberry pie at a small campground in Maine. “It was the best thing I’d ever tasted.”
Tom brought in plants, prepared the soil by hand, and began building the blueberry patch from the ground up — without the benefit of the internet, a clear roadmap, or a mentor. And it wasn’t easy. Those first plantings were the beginning of something that would take time, patience, and care to grow into what it is today. Like most good things, it had to be learned, tested, and built slowly over time. There were seasons of trial and error. Years of slow progress. And moments that set things back further than expected — including a flood that came through the property and reshaped parts of the land entirely. Still, the work continued and over time, the patch took root.
In 1985, Tom and Martha Pack purchased the farm. A few years later, they moved their growing family here — raising five daughters on this land. It wasn’t a polished beginning. They moved into an old farmhouse without central heat, and built what would become home while learning the rhythms of the land along the way. When they arrived, something stood out. The soil was naturally acidic — something almost unheard of in this part of the Shenandoah Valley, but exactly what blueberries need to grow. So they took the opportunity.
In 2014, nearly 30 years after the original blueberry plants were planted, Tom and Martha’s youngest daughter, Haley, stepped into the farm to carry the work forward. By that time, some of the original plants had died, and many were struggling to thrive. Much of the work since then has been restoration — bringing life back to the original bushes, rebuilding the soil, and planting hundreds of new blueberry plants to carry the farm into its next chapter.
None of this has been done alone. While the blueberry patch started with Haley’s dad, its restoration has been shaped by the whole family — in ways both big and small. Tom and Martha continue to be a steady presence. Tom brings decades of knowledge about the land, while Martha brings something just as essential — perspective, steadiness, and the kind of support that keeps everything moving forward when things get hard.
Haley’s sisters and their families have also been part of the work from the beginning — helping plant new rows, stepping in during the busiest parts of the season, offering ideas, solving problems, and showing up whenever they’re needed. Some moments are planned. Others aren’t. Long days preparing the patch for opening. Late nights working to protect the crop from an unexpected freeze. The kind of work that doesn’t always get seen — but makes everything else possible. For Haley and her four sisters — the “Pack Girls,” as they are lovingly called — the farm has become something the family is carrying forward together, with the hope that it continues for generations to come.
We're growing more than a blueberry patch — it’s family, legacy, & tradition being carried forward season after season.
