About US

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Glenn Ross Szarzynski worked for more than 30 years for the U.S. Forest Service, taking care of forests and natural resources in the western United States, including Alaska, Idaho, and Colorado, before moving to the Shenandoah Valley to care for Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains from Waynesboro to Roanoke. As an Incident Commander, he worked on forest fires thousands of acres large in the western states and in Virginia. These experiences humbled him to nature’s ways and prepared him to care for the earth’s resources as a farmer. He farmed in the evenings after work and on weekends until retirement from the Forest Service and then was able to farm full-time. He learned about regenerative practices, such as rotational grazing and about the cattle breed, South Poll, that we have on Mountain Glen Farm in Raphine, Virginia. Glenn enjoys riding his motorcycles, attending church, and cooking.

 Christine Black Szarzynski is a writer, teacher, and farm wife. For many years, she worked writing and teaching jobs in Washington, D.C., Alabama, North Carolina, and Virginia. She also ran businesses in Maryland and Alabama. Her poetry and essays have appeared in Sojourners, Friends Journal, Brownstone Journal, The Epoch Times, The American Journal of Poetry, The Virginia Journal of Education, The Veteran, English Journal, Iris, Dappled Things, Adbusters, and other publications. She learns a lot about the future of agriculture and food by writing about farmers and researchers in agriculture for publications, such as Stockman Grass Farmer, The News Virginian, The Harrisonburg Citizen, and The News Gazette. She works with her husband on their farm. Christine enjoys church with Glenn, attending worship and singing with Quaker Meeting, and singing with hospice’s Threshold Choir.