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Shane and Stephanie Marshall have their conditional use permit. By a unanimous vote, with no opposition from the crowd, Buckingham supervisors approved the Brickyard Bulls request during their Monday, Jan. 13 meeting. 

The Marshall family wants to set up a country store and events center at their Brickyard Bulls Wagyu cattle farm, located at 3323 Axtell Road in Scottsville. The land is zoned agriculture (A-1). As per the Buckingham zoning ordinance, that means a retail store and events center needs a special use permit. The idea would be more of a specialty shop, rather than say a Mast General Store or something like that, a place to sell their farm’s meat. 

“As far as a general store where you can pick up a pack of Nabs and a Coke? That’s really not what I’m going for,” Stefanie Marshall said back in November at the planning commission meeting. “We intend to sell our beef. We plan to have freezers with glass doors, to sell local honey, maybe some other products that local people have, that they would be willing to put in the store.” 

As for the events, the Marshall family’s plans cover a wide range. They want to hold cooking classes at the farm, micro weddings, agriculture tours, themed evenings with wineries, distilleries and breweries. They would like to hold cattle industry seminars and tours, Wagyu Association meetings and some community events, as well as opportunities for local schools to send kids out on a field trip, to learn about the farm. 

After discussion last month with the planning commission, the Marshalls agreed to a max of 300 people for events, with only 10 events a year at that number. There would be no restrictions on the number of events held involving less than 150 people. Also, any event over 150 people would mean notifying the sheriff.