To the editor: River Farm is at a crossroads. As the American Horticultural Society considers what to do with their beautiful property on the banks of the Potomac in Mount Vernon, there are various possible paths. Put most simply, one option would be for AHS to keep the property and continue to run it as they have for the last 50 years, and the other option would be for them to sell it. The offer to buy the property comes from Nova Parks and the Northern Virginia Conservation Trust and has involved many partners in state and local government that are interested in seeing this property become public parkland. The end result of this would be a property that is forever preserved and forever open to the public.