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• Gaines Green, a part-time United States Department of Agriculture field employee for Nelson County, measures the capacity of a silo at Mark Reding's farm on County Rt. 247 in Howardstown.
• Gaines Green, a part-time United States Department of Agriculture field employee for Nelson County, measures the capacity of a silo at Mark Reding's farm on County Rt. 247 in Howardstown.
• Gaines Greene, 71, listens to Terry Troutman during lunch at the Boston Community Center.
• Gaines Greene praises his dog, Sarah, a Kelty, after rounding up sheep from a pasture off Route 62 in Boston, Ky.
• George Buerer, Irvington, shears some recently purchased sheep by Gaines Greene (right) as he watches and helps Mr. Buerer when needed at G & G Sheep Farm in Boston, Ky.
• It's feeding time at G and G farm, Boston, Ky., as sheep run and jump toward the barn. Gaines Greene is a retired school teacher who took up full-time farming after retirement. He has a herd of 150 to 200 sheep and raises them for meat.
• Janet Bee, who owns a house and land near Boston, allows Gaines Green to grow hay and beans on her fields, rent-free. The two pause for a moment to catch up.
• At the Greene household, laundry is dried the natural way.
• Before calling it a day and heading to bed, Gaines Greene washes his hands after feeding his sheep.