A farmer’s daughter makes a home in horse country.

"Someone may see beauty in a rock,” says Tom Massie, “but to me it’s something I have to farm around.”

His daughter, Aney Melissa Hoehn, sees beauty in rock. The slope behind the home she lives in with her husband Dave, a software engineer, is full of rock. She’s terraced, built steps and retaining walls and planted, and planted and
planted.

“Dave and I picked this spot years and years before we moved here,” says Aney. That spot is 60 acres of land on a Rappahannock County, Va. farm, ...

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