Welcome to Red Fern Farm

Our family--Clark, Katherine, Meredith, and Jonathan--moved to a farm much like the Douglass's of Green Acres fame. If you're not old enough to remember the old sit-com, it goes something like this -- a couple of city slickers move to a dilapidated old farm and the result is a comedy of errors!

The Homestead

We have had our share of errors and comedy, but we have also taken an unproductive 100 acre site that had been cut-over for hardwood timber and left for dead and tried to create a self-sustaining farm.

This area of South Carolina was in total cotton production around the turn of the century and after years of monoculture the soils remain stripped and poor in organic matter. Why bother to farm on that, you wonder. Well, it begins with a seed (a seed of thought planted in a fertile imagination). It proceeds to a philosophy, organic and sustainable. It comes to fruition in deed (honey, would you drive to Alaska and pick up those two Dexter cows for sale in the bulletin)! In a society of immediate gratification, we have by choice truly stepped back into the last century. But oh, what a journey!

Clark & Katherine Mizell
2031 Harris Grove Church Road
Gray Court, SC 29645
(864) 876-2392
katherine@redfernfarms.com