About us

Our Mission

The goal of The Farm team is a simple one: recruit, develop and elect women to office. We hope this website will be a resource for women who aspire to hold elective office and for those who wish to support them.

Our History

In late September 2008, a small group of women gathered at the farm of the first and only woman elected statewide in Virginia – Mary Sue Terry. The purpose was to discuss reinvigorating Democratic women into the electorate statewide. Most of the women who came were involved in the historic national election playing out in front of our eyes in one way or another. Women came from all regions of Virginia all with different backgrounds. Some were elected officials, some gubernatorial appointees, some elected Democratic Party officials but ALL were activists interested in electing more Democratic women to elected office in Virginia.

With the energy brought to bear due to the historic race for the Democratic nomination that year between Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama, Mary Sue and this group of influential women decided to take advantage of the enthusiasm and explore how to capture the power of this electorate to benefit Democratic women in our state in years to come. While Senator Clinton may have added over 18 million cracks in the Glass Ceiling, Mary Sue Terry can claim quite a few of her own.

After a trip to check on the calves being born on the fields behind Mary Sue’s house, the women got down to business. Calves weren’t the only thing being born on that farm – The Farm Team came into being as well.

Photos from the original meeting can be viewed here.