Flynn Family Farms, LLC

Back in the 1980’s, my father decided to spin his summers away from teaching by farming. He commonly said that he, “wanted his boys to know what real work is like.” Thus we began haying. it started on just 20 acres, but by the early 2000s grown to 250 acres of ground with 15000 square bales stacked by hand and 500 rolls per year.

Over the years, the operation changed as my brother went to college and then returned when he could from his aviation jobs. It changed for me in 2004 when higher education called for greater devotion. For nearly 20 years I was out of haying. By 2018, my brother’s job took him to south Georgia and I found myself in Danville with 4 young kids and a desire to remove ourselves from neighborhood life. In 2020, my parents moved to Danville, but during the summer months, my father drove back and forth to Louisville to roll hay for others.

In 2022, a friend of mine asked me if I had ever found a farm, and I told him that there was one I was looking at, but wasn’t for sale. He new the gentleman and thus began the process of gaining our farm. In January 2023 it became ours. While we toyed around with the idea of cattle farming, I quickly realized that what I new best and what we already had equipment for was hay production.

The Spring of 2023 we plowed 55 acres with a 4 bottom and 3 bottom plow. Much of this ground had never been tilled and it showed with the rock that was there. Luckily having 4 kids paid off. The Summer brought us our new storage hay barn and our first batch of alfalfa hay. There were only 2000 square bales that year, 750 rolls of grass hay, and a lot of sweat. But it was just the begining.

This past season has been nothing but phenomenal as we produced 4000 square bales of pure timothy and 6000 square bales of alfalfa. Next year will just be better.