Our Green Fence Farm Team

NICK: CEO, King of the Sheep, Master of the Goats, Garden Design Expert, Chief Fencer and Crap Hauler, Head of the Green Fence Farm Division of Transportation

Nick comes to farming after a long, even distinguished career as a Intelligence expert for the Air Force and the Department of Defense.   After throwing all that over, as well as chucking a perfectly good PAYING job teaching Intelligence at American University, Nick busies himself building endless fences to contain the Green Fence Farm's   endless parade of animals, vegetables and equipment.   He is currently working on getting into the Guiness World Book of Records for "most farm vehicles owned by a single farmer."

KATE: CFO, Legislative Director, Farm Director, Director of Agriculture, Family Director, Chief Cook and Bottle Washer, Fiber Freak

Though Kate would prefer to spend her days spinning (wool, not around in circles), knitting, cooking and moving mulch from one spot   to another in a Camus like exercise in existentionalism, her responsibilities as CFO have required her to keep her Senate job -- at least until the word "income" enters the Green Fence Farm lexicon.   Her extensive and expensive education at University of Chicago and Oxford University, Brasenose college -- as well as almost 20 years in policy work in the U.S. Senate -- have given Kate not one single skill or instinct applicable to her new career on the farm.

VIVIAN: Vice President in Charge of Chicken Slaughter Quality Control,, Honorary Deputy, Security Team, Captain of the Green Fence Farm Break Dance Club, Varsity Soccer (for her school, not the farm; we tried to put together a team, but the sheep lost interest and started eating the field and the chickens kept getting flattened by the ball).

Viv has been with Green Fence Farms since its infancy -- and with this particular management team since her infancy.   She is the one responsible for insuring the inside of your chicken doesn’t look like, well, the inside of a chicken.  She is continuing her education at Washington International School where she is eagerly studying anything BUT agriculture or any subject that might give us any hope that she might want to work on the farm full time someday.  Sorry Austin, it’s all yours.

VANESSA: Recent Graduate,   Public Relations

Vanessa didn't sweat through four years of a competitive DC private school -- and commit to four years freezing to death at the University of Wisconsin -- in order to end up shoveling soiled straw out of an unstable barn.   Though she realizes that there is a certain cache in being able to tell people that her parents have cracked up and traded perfectly respectable professional jobs for sheep farming -- at very least it might get you a second interview -- she is not going to change her ambitious life plans to indulge our skewed vision.   However, she does serve the important role of explaining to various family and friends that, though her mom and dad may seem (and often smell) a little odd, they are, most likely, not dangerous.

 KENT: Head Pilot for the Green Fence Farm Aviation Division, Chief Oenologist, Prince Consort

LEAH AND LILY: Security

240 pounds of loyal Great Pyranees on duty 24 hours a day keeping the sheep safe from bears, coyotes, foxes, owls and hawks -- also groundhogs, mice, slow birds, chipmonks and snakes, though these fall more into the category of "snack" than of "security risk."  Lily and Leah are sisters and about a year old.  Yes, they live outside year round, doing their job protecting the sheep.  They are the happiest dogs I know (don't get me STARTED on people who bring these beautiful animals indoors and expect them to be good housedogs.  Please, if you see this picture and think they would make good pets, think again.  They shed, they bark all the time, the want to roam the perimeters of your life and guard you from all threats -- like your husband, your friends, your telephone.  They like to sit in laps.  Let them live outside doing the work they are hard wired to do!).  Security Team Meets:

OK all the rest of you who belong on this page -- or who are at the moment featured in a picture that isn't you or that you don't like-- I need to download your pictures -- if you don't want ME to pick how you will be known to the world, please send me the picture you would like me to use.   If you're nice to me, I just might...and throw out the ones I have of most of you wearing huge Mexican sombreros.