Cheri Woodard's Rappahannock story began long before the property listings

Before real estate became her best-known business, Cheri Woodard grew herbs for Patrick O'Connell at the Inn at Little Washington. The connection came through Faith Mountain Herbs and Antiques, one of several ventures she built after moving to Rappahannock County in 1974.

That history gives her work at Cheri Woodard Realty a perspective formed through more than buying and selling property. She has been a shopkeeper, catalog retailer, gallery owner and entrepreneur in a county where the landscape and the people who live on it are closely connected.

Based on Main Street in Sperryville, the real estate company works with country homes, historic properties, farms, equestrian properties and land. These are places whose appeal may be tied as much to acreage, setting and intended use as to a conventional list of bedrooms and bathrooms.

Woodard's long relationship with the area gives the company's story a local foundation. Her own move was motivated by a desire to live closer to nature. Gardening remains an interest, and the succession of businesses she has created reflects an enduring willingness to find new ways to work in the place she chose as home.

The firm is a team enterprise. Adam Beroza serves as principal broker, while Woodard continues her work as a Realtor. The office combines individual agents' experience with support for buyers and sellers navigating properties across Rappahannock and neighboring counties.

For country-property owners, preparing a sale can involve more than advertising a house. For buyers, the search may be about finding a setting for a different pace of life or a particular use of the land. The firm's focus on this part of the market gives those conversations a clear place in its work.

Woodard's career connects those transactions to a longer story of living and building businesses in Rappahannock. The herb garden, the shop and the gallery are not separate from that experience; they are part of the background she brings to helping someone else consider a future in the country.