In 1928, following his leadership of America’s first tank corps in World War I and before his legendary exploits in World War II, George S. Patton and his wife Beatrice purchased a horse farm in Hamilton, Massachusetts, on Boston’s North Shore. They named the place “Green Meadows.” Patton’s son and namesake, George Patton IV, himself a highly decorated major general with multiple combat tours in Korea and Vietnam, retired to Green Meadows in 1980. He set about converting the land to a “pick your own” blueberry farm. It evolved to a commercial farm stand and ultimately to a Community Supported Agriculture Collective offering local-grown, organic-certified produce. The family’s commitment to sustainable agriculture was cemented.