Founding:
The story of the founding of FarmHouse is well-chronicled. The spring of 1905, while attending a Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) Bible study, a group of young men studying agriculture at the University of Missouri enjoyed one another's fellowship so much that they decided to organize a club, rent a house, and live together.
These men had no intention of starting a fraternity. Founder C.B. Hutchison remarked, “The basic point in our minds was to find a place where we could live and work together to promote our mutual interests in stimulating companionship and fellowship. To make sure no one would think of our club as a fraternity, we gave it what we thought was a non-fraternity name. It was to exemplify agriculture and rural living despite the fact that, of necessity, it had to have an urban locale.”
That "non-fraternity" name was FarmHouse. Originally open only to students of agriculture, FarmHouse now accepts men from all academic fields. Although members now pursue a variety of academic interests, FarmHouse still "exemplifies agriculture and rural living."
Today, you can find FarmHouse on thirty campuses across the United States and Canada. Virginia Tech will be the thirty-first.