In 1996, our family of four - Clark, Katherine, Meredith, and Jonathan - moved from the suburbs of Greenville to a 100-acre site that had been clear-cut for hardwood timber and embarked on the journey to create a self-sustaining farm.

This area of South Carolina was dedicated to cotton production around the turn of the twentieth century and, after years of monoculture, the soil was stripped of nutrients and was poor in organic matter. Although that may seem less than ideal as a farm setting, with time, patience, and a lot of elbow grease we've worked to enrich our land and manage it productively by combining time-tested traditions with more recent developments in sustainable agriculture.

Over the years, we've gone through several changes in focus - in our earliest days on the farm, we raised rabbits and chickens before progressing to Dexter cattle, and finally to Tunis sheep. The one constant, though, has been the garden: the original reason we moved to the farm.

A comparably recent addition to our repertoire - fleece sheep - came after Katherine took up handspinning. Shortly thereafter, she taught Meredith to knit and a new venture was born. Tunis sheep are the centerpiece of our sheep operation as they are an excellent dual-purpose breed.

As we enter our second decade on the farm, we're looking forward to expanding our product offerings while finding new ways to support sustainable agriculture in South Carolina, and we hope you'll join us in that effort.