Battle of Brandywine Farm Cultivates Organic Produce And Ghost Stories

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Depending on the timing of your visit to Thornbury Farm in West Chester, you could be digging up vegetables, digging into bread recipes or digging around the old farmhouse, looking for ghosts.

The organic producer, community-supported agriculture host, learning center and historic attraction garners a lot of intrigue. Its summer farm market is popular, its historic standing as the first quarried house in Pennsylvania and the first public library in Chester County is noteworthy, and its mass burials of soldiers from the Battle of Brandywine is nothing short of spooky.

“The lights go off and on, the doors randomly close — the typical ghost stuff,” the farm’s Randell Spackman, The WC Press Outdoors’ current Owner of the Month, said in an interview. “But if you ask them very nicely, they’ll stop because we have what they call intelligent haunts, where the ghosts will stop and talk to you.”

Though Thornbury Farm has garnered a top haunted rating and a premiere TV episode for the fifth season of “Ghost Hunters”, it doesn’t bother Spackman nor his family of seven.

“It’s sort of like living next to a busy street — after a while, you don’t hear the cars,” he said.

Read more about the farm and its diverse offerings, including the supernatural, in The WC Press Outdoors here.

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