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Greene Valley Farm

Greene Valley Farm is named after the Greene family, who settled this valley 200 years ago. This farm is Marie's home place, and where she grew up.

Our purpose is to share the fun, fears, and failures of small-scale livestock farming. Our basic philosophy is to be good stewards for this place that has been entrusted to us, to operate in a sustainable fashion but not be nutty about it, to be more and more self-sufficient, and to make-do with what we have rather than investing in lots of expensive equipment. We love to have your comments and criticism. We certainly don't know it all, and most usually learn something new every day.

10/01/2024

Ree and I have done hurricane relief work in Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, coastal Carolinas, so the sensory and emotional experience is not unfamiliar:

The stink of the endless mud.

The piles of soaked furniture, carpet, drywall, insulation everywhere.

Roads washed out or buckled. SLOW driving.

Trees down everywhere, broken off, sawed off, or just turned over with roots showing.

Trashed cars and trucks in every stream and low place, some upright and looking good, except full of mud, some on their top with just the wheels sticking up

Every stream and the trees around them filled with the debris of human existence: clothes, tents, kayaks, plastic bags, refrigerators, gas tanks and grills, unknown pieces of sheet metal, fuel tanks, plastic parts of every variety.

The constant roar, whine, thump, of generators, helicopters, dump trucks, and heavy equipment.

Hollow-eyed people, some busy, some just standing stunned, all with one question: "you got power yet?"

But when it's OUR town, OUR neighborhood, it's a whole different experience.

09/07/2024

Said goodbye today to a faithful shepherd, mother of dozens, guardian of hundreds, never a problem or ill-tempered moment no matter the circumstances or the weather.

" Go on Samantha, you good dog you. Go on girl, we're coming too"