Once Upon a Time…

Once upon a time, a young man who was raised on a farm, developed a deep love for farming, the great outdoors, his neighbors, and the small town community where he lived. When he grew up, he worked hard, learned many things and became a successful serial entrepreneur, but he always missed farm life. He learned to shoe horses, to butcher animals, to run a retail store, to cook for crowds, and how to run solid businesses. The more he dealt with centralized food suppliers in his catering business, the less he liked them and the more suspect he became of their methodologies. He wanted to prepare healthier more wholesome food, and help others do the same. In spite of his successes, he wanted to follow his heart and get back to the farm. He wanted to find a way to make his dreams of local, decentralized food sources a reality.

Meanwhile…

There was a small-town girl who grew up working in her family’s two stores and spending time riding horses and communing with nature on her grandparent’s farm. When she came of age, she left for the big city and enjoyed helping big companies re-invent their approach to retail marketing. She flew back and forth across the country from one project to the next and was successful, but knew there was more. Still a small-town girl at heart, she missed the face-to-face interactions with customers, the getting to know them personally. She missed the great outdoors and her grandparent’s farm. She dreamed of country life, of owning her own shop in a charming small town, filling it with hand-selected treasures from family-owned businesses and making shopping there a treat – a real experience – for her customers.

And Then…

One day, these two met and they started talking about their dreams, and that’s when the magic happened. That’s when they started planning and working to make their dreams come true. Those intertwined dreams resulted in the creation of Dry Branch Stock Farm and Dry Branch Farm Market in Danville Kentucky!

Oh yeah… and the two just happened to fall in love along the way and they are busy living happily ever after on their farm in the Kentucky!

A farm fairytale - Dry Branch Stock Farm in Danville KY