Family Stories
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The story of a family, a farm, and a legacy still growing in Jackson, Tennessee.
Beginning in the 1950s, the Mosley family purchased and worked this land in Madison County, raising a large family and building a largely self-sufficient agricultural operation. The farm was the center of daily life. Children worked the fields after school. Summers were spent picking, preserving, and helping wherever hands were needed.
The family grew cotton, corn, potatoes, okra, sugarcane, and vegetables. They raised livestock, preserved food for the winter, and smoked meat. They made molasses. They wove baskets and built rocking chairs. A school once operated on the property.
The farm provided more than food. It provided life lessons, skills, security, and opportunity, and a work ethic that still runs through the family today.
“When you pour into people, what you give continues to grow through future generations.”
A family theme shared at the October 2026 gathering
The most lasting thing our ancestors grew was people. They invested in their children and grandchildren, and that investment is the reason this land is still in the family and still has a future. ULM Farms is the next chapter of that tradition.
The family purchases and begins working the land. Cotton, corn, potatoes, okra, sugarcane, livestock, food preservation, molasses, handcrafts, and a school on the property.
Generations gather, work, and learn on the farm. Knowledge and responsibility pass from elders to children.
ULM Farms begins farm planning and educational collaboration.
Multiple generations share memories, write love letters to the land, map the property, and set restoration priorities.
Virginia Tech faculty and students walk the property.
Soil, water, education, research, and community.
This space is being prepared for family stories, oral-history recordings, historical photographs, intergenerational interviews, and reflections from family members, including children and grandchildren. Contributions are shared voluntarily and reviewed before anything is published.
Coming soon. Submissions reviewed before posting.
Coming soon. Submissions reviewed before posting.
Coming soon. Submissions reviewed before posting.
Coming soon. Submissions reviewed before posting.
Coming soon. Submissions reviewed before posting.
Coming soon. Submissions reviewed before posting.