BROADBAND: HELPING YOU FARM
Turning over an old leaf Family farm provides career and passion for Galloways Story by JOHN CLAYTON
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ob Galloway is still working the Graves County farmland his grandfather and father turned before him. The once-small farm has grown from just a few acres to more than 370 with tobacco, corn, soybean and newly added hemp crops. Even so, it is still very much a family farm — in more ways than one. Galloway, who owns and operates the farm, has help from a host of other Galloways: his wife, Kim; his father, Bobby; and his uncle, Kenneth. The last two are both retired Graves County educators and administrators. His 16-year old daughter, McKenna, can occasionally be found behind the wheel of a tractor, and 7-yearold daughter Kennedy is “in charge.” His younger brother, Jonathan, also helps whenever he can. Then, there’s the extended family. “My employees – the guys that work for us – they’re almost like family,” Galloway says of the farm workers who annually trek to Kentucky each crop season. “They put their lives on hold and come up here and live with us for six or seven months and help us make a living. You get really close to those guys and get to know their families, their kids and their parents. That’s one of the major aspects of it.”
8 | July/August 2020
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