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

Kate’s 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.

Our Green Fence Farm Team

VIVIAN: Vice President in Charge of Chicken Slaughter Quality Control, Honorary Deputy, Security Team, Captain of the Green Fence Farm Art 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 for a career in computer animation, which is the farthest thing from

agriculture she could think of.  Sorry Austin, it’s all yours.

AUSTIN:  Chicken Slayer, Knight of the Tractor, Head Serf

Austin has inherited his father's appreciation for the simple, finer aspects of farm life: driving around large, noisy piece of machinery (preferably with some sort of lifting or pushing device attached)., electrifying stuff, moving piles from one side of the farm to the other, and grilling outdoors with a shotgun in one hand and a beer in the other.  With those talents, he is well situated to move up in the ranks of Green Fence Farm from serf to, um, well…serf (we keep forgetting; there is no hope for advancement in a feudal system).

VANESSA: Teacher in Training,Public Relations

Vanessa didn't sweat through four years of a competitive DC private school ─ and five years freezing to death at the University of Wisconsin, LaCrosse’s School of Education ─ 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.

MALIN: Photographer, Adventuress

Despite having a really high powered job which involves regularly getting quoted on the front page of the business section, Malin took most of the photos for this website (at least the ones that are in focus). We are hoping by acknowledging her immense contribution here (without you, Malin, our website would just be a collection of those little smiley face icons you can download for your instant messenger), she won’t realize she should be charging us.  Malin also is an Arctic adventurer and will be undertaking a multi-country trek this winter to record the Inuit people’s reactions to global warming. Check out her incredible website here.

JEFF: Web Master, Design Consultant

Husband of Malin and father of Vivian, Jeff is clearly integral to the Green Fence Farm team. As a trained architect/engineer and a designer of massive public works projects worldwide, Jeff would like it made clear that he has had nothing to do with the several very shaky farm structures on the Green Fence Farm property. He will, however, be glad to explain to the press or horrified onlookers why it is those buildings fell down when they inevitably do. In addition, he also claims no responsibility for the collection of misstatements and self-important eco-drivel that makes up the bulk of the website.  He will however take credit for making all that dross look nice.

KENT: Head Pilot for the Green Fence Farm Aviation Division,

Chief Oenologist, Prince Consort

Green Fence Farm is committed to the best, so when we recruited someone to oversee our corporate jet fleet, we only signed up the best ─ years of experience flying really big planes for the Air Force, management experience as an Air Force Colonel, and an admirable ability to hold his liquor – the latter helping him fill the time until the farm acquires something besides a chicken that can fly (and then, not even so well), allowing him to do double duty as our wine expert, and keeping up with his lovely wife (see below).

FREDDA: Non Affiliated Staff, Editor

Fredda would like to make it clear that she has nothing to do with this entire silly enterprise.  And while she certainly thinks the people involved could find better ways to spend their time, she has long since given up giving advice to her children. She will however, continue to point out grammatical and spelling errors in Green Fence Farm publications ─ even if it is just throwing them into the wind (and for that, Mom, we thank you).

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, chipmunks 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!).

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.