Stories from the Farm

Two years after Hurricane Helene devastated Western North Carolina, life has gone back to normal for many of us. For others, it never did. I still think about why some of us were okay, the people who lost everything, and how living through those days changed the way I see suffering elsewhere.

When I was about 12, someone gave my dad a herd of bison. We had no proper fencing, no handling facilities, and very little idea what we were doing, but that didn’t stop us from trying. Years later, seeing bison in Custer brought back one of the wildest memories from my childhood.