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-A lot of people think
this is the middle of nowhere.
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You've really got to want
to come here to enjoy our food.
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We have customers that come in
that said
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they've been driving
by this place for years
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and never really noticed that
there was a restaurant here.
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Let's go, girls.
Come on.
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We don't do any advertising, so
everything is by word of mouth.
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So, we're in the town
of Meredith, New York,
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about three and a half hours
from New York City,
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on a farm at the top of
a mountain.
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I'm Patrick Rider.
This is my wife, Thanya,
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and we own and operate
Greenane Farms.
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We had this old dairy barn
we converted into a restaurant,
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and in that restaurant,
my wife and her sisters
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and their brother
and the rest of her family
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produce some
really fantastic food.
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-When you're driving in
at the restaurant,
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and you saw the barn,
you never expect
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to walk in and look at this.
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-There you go.
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-Bye, bye, amigo.
-Bye.
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-[ Chuckles ]
"Bye, bye, amigo."
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First and foremost,
we're a livestock farm.
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We farm about 1,000 acres.
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We don't use any antibiotics
in anything that goes to meat.
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Consuming our own meat
is important because we know
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where it comes from,
we know how it's been treated.
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When you take care
of your animals,
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you end up
with great quality meat.
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You put it into the hands
of somebody
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that really knows
how to cook it,
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then you end up
with something --
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a really great meal.
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We met in Mexico 20 years ago.
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It was for sure love
at first sight,
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and we've been together
ever since.
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This bale is going to be
about 1,000 pounds.
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They'll eat this
in a couple hours.
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When I was consulting in Mexico,
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I got an opportunity
to see firsthand
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how a lot of the food that I was
consuming was being produced.
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The way that they were raising
livestock,
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the chemicals that were
being applied to the produce,
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I was stunned.
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These are some of
our sheep and goats.
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We don't confine them, either.
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She's just kind of curious
and coming up
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to see how we're doing,
see if she can get a free treat.
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We were thinking about
starting a family
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at that point, you know,
so this is going to be
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the time we're going to
start a family.
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We're going to do it back
in the States.
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That came together
at the same time
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that I really learned
about industrial food,
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and I kind of said, "You know,
I think that's just one
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more reason to come up here
to Upstate New York."
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-And when he mentioned
New York,
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the first that come to mind,
that was Manhattan, right?
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I said, "Well, I can live
in Manhattan for sure."
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I didn't really know exist
New York state.
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-We started driving and driving
and driving,
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and then of course,
the city disappeared,
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and we were in
the middle of nowhere,
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and Thanya recognized that we
were in the middle of nowhere.
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This is my son, Patrick.
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He's 4 years old,
and he's quite a helper.
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All right,
hold right onto the bottle hard.
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You know, we really kind of
thought of it more
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on the scale
of a small homestead.
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We're going to have
a few cattle.
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We're going to have
a couple pigs.
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We can produce our own meat.
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We can grow our own vegetables,
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and that's really
how it kind of all started.
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-But I love it,
end up love it here.
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I mean, it's amazing.
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-I don't think we ever
really thought
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initially about
starting a restaurant.
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That was never in the plan,
but as time went on
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and as more customers
got to know us,
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we got more and more requests
for prepared foods.
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You know, before you know it,
she said, "You know,
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well, why don't we
just open a restaurant?"
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-It's one thing when you
can feed a family,
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and you do, like,
a party for 20 people,
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but when you're running a
restaurant, it's way different.
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We prepared for a year
basically, and then we said,
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"Okay, let's open."
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I was really afraid to do this
because I'm a Mexican,
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and I think I'm the only Mexican
in the town.
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Who's going to come over
to have dinner here, right?
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And I said, "Yeah, I don't care.
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I want it here."
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I'm living here in the country
without worry,
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without having this thing
that you got to lock door.
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You got to lock your car.
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You got to watch your back
all the time.
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I mean, it's amazing
having my kids here
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and feeling this freedom
and this safety.
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I mean, it's priceless.
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