My Goodness Farm and Foods

My Goodness Farm and Foods My Goodness Farm & Food was established in September 2016. It's a work in progress, but the idea is "We're growing goodness from seed to stalk."

If I were looking at our page for the first time, not knowing anything about the farm or the farmers, I'd think it was a dog farm. "These people are farming dogs!" Well, the dogs are a big part of the farm and they, by design and their nature, make a big contribution. Until recently, we had four dog contributors, all with important roles. Eli the Weimaraner left us recently after a short but nasty

battle with bone cancer. He was a dear and loving friend to the farmer couple and their families, those that got to know him. Rai and Angelo are two Maremma Sheepdogs. They are classified as "livestock guardian dogs" and they protect the cattle (four angus heifers), goats (a mix of goats, Boer-cross and cashmere producers), turkeys (Bourbon Reds and Blue Slates), and chickens (too many varieties/breeds to list but at the end of the day we'll end up with a rainbow coalition of eggs and have meat birds in the freezer and on the table). But wait there's more - we also have Ian, a full-of-energy, no-kidding around, stock dog in training, a Border Collie. He's currently attending weekly training sessions, going quite well, learning to turn his strong instinct for gathering others into a useful tool for the farm. High hopes and expectations for this little guy. Chris and Matt, co-proprietors of My Goodness! Farm/Food/Fiber, are two mid-journeyers who made the leap from urban farmers to rural farmers in the fall of 2016, purchasing an existing farm in southern Middle Tennessee, one that was in need of much rehabilitation - house, outbuildings, fields, and forested land. Pick a direction to look. It will look quite spectacular but there will be much work to be done in that same direction. Choosing to get underway and perform repairs, additions, and grow while farming, a conscious decision was made to jump right in. So far a day has not gone by when we have had regrets. We added a small garden in the spring which evolved into a larger one, not intending to market in the first year or two. With more experience gained we'll look to sales income to be part of the overall "need to make a living" side of life. So that's it for now, in a thick nutshell. Black walnut, perhaps. We look each day to improve our lives, with the goal of caring for our small 50 acre plot in a sustainable way, remembering each day that we are fortunate for what we have, grateful for each other, friends, family, the guys, the working dogs. We attempt, difficult in this day and age, to stay somewhat apolitical, choosing unification over division. We choose practices or growth toward practices which will leave a better earth for those who follow our brief existence. Thank you for viewing our page. Matt & Chris Lewis
My Goodness! Farm/Food/Fiber
Lynnville, Tennessee

Double Bud chillin’ in the front yard after spending a few months with lots of grass and a new group of gals to keep com...
08/26/2025

Double Bud chillin’ in the front yard after spending a few months with lots of grass and a new group of gals to keep company with on a farm in a neighboring community.

We love our livestock guardians.
04/17/2025

We love our livestock guardians.

Buford, the heroic Anatolian Pyrenees, found and led a missing two-year-old to safety after 16 hours alone in the Arizona wilderness.

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Calved 3—Jan-25 out of MGF Valor. Welcome to the world, MGF Resistance.
02/02/2025

Calved 3—Jan-25 out of MGF Valor. Welcome to the world, MGF Resistance.

Look what I found esta mañana! Heifer calf, “Novia” out of April.
11/25/2024

Look what I found esta mañana! Heifer calf, “Novia” out of April.

11/07/2024

On one hand, Ramona looks forward to the day when "Sir" (that's what they call me) replaces the cattle fence with goat/sheep fence so she no longer can stick her head through and get stuck.

On the other hand, when that happens she won't be able to stick her head through the fence and get to all that great grass, etc. on the other side.

There’s no replacing Rai, but here’s a glimpse of Bianca, aka Bayah. Big white dog from Ontario, needed a home.
06/18/2024

There’s no replacing Rai, but here’s a glimpse of Bianca, aka Bayah. Big white dog from Ontario, needed a home.

Lost track of our new black lab puppy, found her "hunkered-down" on the back service porch. She's rather large for just ...
04/15/2024

Lost track of our new black lab puppy, found her "hunkered-down" on the back service porch. She's rather large for just 2 - 3 days old, big feet, too!

03/26/2024

Angelo doesn't run around and play tag-you're-it with puppies!

I didn't post anything about the new calf last week, 19-March calving. She had a rough start of it and I needed to stay ...
03/26/2024

I didn't post anything about the new calf last week, 19-March calving. She had a rough start of it and I needed to stay realistic. Here she is, one week old, first time this far from her barn + front and back barnyard safe haven. She's looking strong, taking long pulls from first-time mom "Hope". She spent a good part of her first day in the big world tangled in and under a barbed-wire fence, I suppose it's been long enough we can give her a name. Barb, what else? (rhetorical question, her name is "Barb")

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451 Keene Road
Lynnville, TN
38472

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