Whistle Stop Plants and Produce Heathers whatever’s

01/24/2025

Announcements soon to come !! So exciting !!
Whistle stop got the push that was needed! Can’t stop the flow

10/23/2024

Saturday October 26
Open house
Commercial equipment
Inventory

02/27/2024

Who remembers the movie What about Bob? It was filmed in Moneta and on Smith Mountain Lake.

02/26/2024

Shop local grown! Know where your food comes from.

02/26/2024

Happy Monyaaaayyy. Positive vibes for a great week.

02/22/2024

Who else has been seeing the buttercups? 26 days until SPRING

02/22/2024

Tag your favorite supermarket worker

02/21/2024

Do you think electric companies should be privatized. Some argued against it before SML was created. Read the very interesting history of this area even before it was settled. Link in the comments.

The road from idea to completion of the Smith Mountain Dam was anything but easy, however. It finally took a U.S. Supreme Court decision to pave the way for Appalachian Power Co. to build the dam as a private venture.

The warning in Justice William O. Douglas’s dissent was stronger: “The dam sites on this navigable stream are public property. The technical title to the bed of the stream may be in private hands. But those private interests have no compensable interest as against the control of the Federal Government. ... This is familiar law that emphasizes the public nature of the project which the Court now allows to be used for the aggrandizement of private power interests. This project is as much in the public domain as any of our national forests or national parks. It deals with assets belonging to all the people.”

02/20/2024

🩵 Who else can smell when it's going to rain 💙

02/17/2024

Whistle Stop…..connected to early Huddleston

the community known as updike became Huddleston in 1910, in honor of the man responsible for “the richest little railroad in the world.” But its history long preceded the new name.

Records of the first settlers along Goose Creek include the Headen family and date back to 1787.

Surrounding Smith Mountain Lake Parkway in Bedford County lies a community named for one of the wealthiest American industrialists of the 20th century, a native New Englander whose contribution to

02/15/2024

From the gardens at The Edgar Casey Museum in Virginia Beach. He was the father of holistic medicine. He searched the entire country for the place that had the best healing properties and he settled on Va Beach because he said the sand had special properties in it. I found out recently that The Chesapeake Bay was formed from a meteor crashing into Earth. They may be unrelated, but it is interesting.

02/14/2024

Happy L💚VE Day