Burnt Hill Farm opens to the public today.

The 177-acre property at 25001 Burnt Hill Road, in Clarksburg, Maryland, is located 30 miles north of Washington, D.C., and 45 miles west of Baltimore, and overlooks Sugarloaf Mountain and the Appalachians.

It’s founded and run by three siblings in their 30s — Lisa Hinton (winemaker), Ashli Johnson (operations), and Drew Baker (farmer) — who have overseen the growth of Old Westminster Winery over the past 10 years.

Both places require reservations.

As for the name, per the website , farmers in the 1800s found it difficult to grow crops on the steep, rocky ground. Instead, they burned timber to make charcoal, lye, and potash for cooking, soap making, and fertilizer.

Those settlers certainly wouldn’t recognize that ground today, where 50,0

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