The Land Group

Walk any piece of land and it tells you a story.

A fence line that’s straight or sagging. A ditch that carries water or one that’s clogged and forgotten. A wood that’s alive with light or dark and choked with brush. You can tell in minutes if the ground’s been looked...

Buying land feels like a dream until you’re standing on it with the keys in your hand. Then it hits. “Now what?”

Most new landowners go through the same thing. Day one, you’re brimming with ideas. Gardens here. Chickens over there. Maybe a cabin by the woods. Day two, the overwhelm...

Land isn’t just acres on a map. It’s where kids learned to drive a stick in the hayfield. Where Thanksgiving turkeys were fried in the yard. Where fence posts leaned the same way for fifty years, and no one dared straighten them.

Which is why, when it comes time to divide...

Blurring the lines between architecture, nature, and self

In her 1937 memoir Everybody’s Autobiography, Gertrude Stein wrote the oft-quoted line, “There is no there there.” That phrase has always stayed with me—perhaps because I’ve always believed so strongly in a sense of place.

Where we live, work, and move through the world profoundly shapes...

March 3, 2025

After Sunset at Kingston

Measuring time is clearly easy. We all do it every day. I am consistently late for nearly everything. It is not, however, because I cannot tell time, it is because I am over optimistic about time and my eagerness to accomplish as much as I...

In 1949, Mr. Aldo Leopold authored The Sand County Almanac.  His writings have proven to be a watershed moment for conservation.  They shaped and broadly underpinned the conservation principles still implemented today.   

I started my Sunday early having awakened before the sun.  It is truly a gift to be in this...

7:25 Monday: March 18, 2024

The Spring Equinox is tomorrow. A day of equal light and equal dark. This planetary event marks the first day of Spring, while Easter and the Resurrection are only a few days away.  Easter in fact is intended to occur after the first full moon following...

The Land Group is pleased to share that we have completed our 6th annual Chesapeake Land Report. The land evaluation data is provided to you here as well as on our website. From the data set this year, I will broadly state that the land market remains strong on the...

Good Morning…

Hope this note finds you well!

When my daughter Aurelia was 9 years old (English Teachers Stop Reading), she said “Fall is the Most Best Time of Year.”  I could not agree more. October and November is simply the best time of year throughout the Chesapeake…

As the temperatures fall, trees,...

7:07 AM - October 26, 2023

Today is a Thursday.  The fog is clearing over the big field having been recently turned over for a planting of winter wheat.  An orange haze fills the spaces between the pines giving a them shape and contrast in the morning sky.  The birds are...

By: Nick Campanaro

The Land Group closed 22 poultry farms in 2022 totaling 115 individual chicken houses and 3.4 million square feet. Our involvement in this market prompted us to do a detailed analysis over the last two years (2021 & 2022). We analyzed 38 sales in which we either participated...

By: Nick Campanaro

For nearly a decade, The Land Group has been involved in both the sale of land for new construction poultry farms as well as the sale of existing poultry farms. 2022 was a record year for poultry farm sales at TLG and we finally decided to dedicate a...