June 15, 2025

10 thoughts on “Opinion: Still have Questions about Little Farm

  1. Mr. Green has asked some very good questions here, which have NOT been answered to date. As stated in another opinion piece in this Mirror, all animals were seemingly well cared for and enjoyed very nice accommodations. I don’t think anyone is accusing the Cooks of maltreatment of any of the animals at LFR during their time there. What IS NOT clear is the non-profit status of the LFR, where all the donated money went, what money was used to transform that house and what will happen to the profit when/if the Machipongo property sells? And I am also curious as to the location and/or fate of the animals NOT listed in a previous accounting. The bottom line is that it is extremely suspicious that Northampton citizens in general, and LFR supporters specifically, were left in the dark regarding the entire disappearance to Tennessee. I think we would ALL like to have some answers.

  2. Mr Green has standing to file a lawsuit. Why doesn’t he do it and stop the rumormongering, if he is so concerned.

    1. Mr. Wheaton, to have standing to file a complaint, I would need to credibly allege damages. The Cooks’ attorney recently sent me the following e-mail, which reads in part: “As a registered 501(c)(3) your donation is 100% tax deductible.” This statement is enigmatically (cleverly?) worded, but to date I choose not to delve behind the wording; I will use it to substantiate the charitable nature of my contribution in 2022. If I am not damaged, my filing a couplaint would risk a counterclaim for abuse of the judicial process or worse, malicious prosecution. A careful reading of the primary article shows that I had far greater concerns than those connected with my own donations; there’s no need to repeat them. Most of all, I am left with a profound sadness; a resilient farm animal sanctuary would be the greatest thing to have come to Northampton in many years; it came, and within a bit more than a year, it disappeared without explanation or an accounting to contributors and well-wishers. There are other husband-and-wife farm animal sanctuaries with a few hours’ driving distance of The Little Farm’s former site: Life with Pigs outside Williamsburg, VA and Sisu Refuge near Albertson, N.C. Sisu, particularly, is in a difficult area; it is surrounded by pig farms, and they have rescued pigs that have fallen off trucks or somehow escaped and hid in the surrounding woods for months. They have to drive hours, sometimes a half day or more, to reach a farm animal veterinarian, but they do it–they have the backbone to stick it out. It appears to me that the Cooks did not have the same will to make a go of it in Northampton. It’s sad, because now we have recorded yet another initially glowing but ultimately failed venture in this relatively empty county, the poorest county in the Commonwealth.

  3. Rumormongering?

    What an odd and unique perspective!

    A strange perspective, actually!

    But, it is America, and thanks to veterans like Mr. Green, who are able to articulate a viewpoint in a clear and concise manner so that it makes sense to the average person without a JD concerned about these not-for-profits, which they should be, given that today, with the internet, anyone anywhere (and yes, I have direct experience with it) can claim to be a not-for-profit using the internet to raise funds for this or that purpose, often to save animals or the environment, people in America do get to have odd, unique and strange perspectives on things without fear of government suppression, as would be the case in Ukraine today under the fascist dictator Zelensky.

  4. I was just wondering about them the other day. I gave money more than once and hope it was used for the animals. Indeed if they are scammers I pray they are swiftly stripped of all their possessions and tossed into a muddy hole.

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