Green Haven Farm is a space where loving family members abide and extend welcome to larger circles. It is a haven of growing things, a special farm well planned for a warm center that family and others can enjoy and dream of enjoying when they are away.
You can find Green Haven Farm where the road bends gently right then continues past blooming bushes, a bed of hosta, and a waving old glory. You come to rest under omnipresent trees: one ancient beech and three old maples with canopies that have guarded and tended old family and new family through every turn of many seasons. Farms are special at any time. They involve an intimacy with and respect for nature. From the first song of the blue bird in spring to the foot prints of woodland visitors in winter, abundant life is always here.
Butterflies seem to know they’re welcome at this farm, and bees hum all day in summer. They claim the new flowers each year after the soil has been turned over and planted again. You can see the proud sun flower stretching tall; you can see the gray-green lichen, beautiful but timid, around the tree roots; you can watch cows grazing behind white fences; and you can see the swallows build their mud nests.
At every new sun rise, Green Haven Farm involves shared labor, shared laughter, and shared love. There are legacies of years past, as well as new choices, to be tilled and reaped. Life continues with fellowship, warm and hearty, close to family, close to earth and its creator, and close to a larger and larger circle of friends.
“Those who labor in the earth are chosen people of God.”
-Thomas Jefferson