The Grateful Dead and fresh produce might not sound like things that go together. They do if you're in Sublette County, Wyoming. That's where a 5,000-square-foot greenhouse that used to be called Satchitananda Farm is quintupling in size to 25,000 square feet and taking a new name to celebrate.
It's a name inspired by the Grateful Dead, the 1960s and '70s rock band that spawned generations of followers called Deadheads. The new name is Silver Stream Farm, inspired by the opening line of the band's song "Cassidy."
"I have seen where the wolf has slept by the silver stream," the lyric goes. "I can tell by the mark he left, you were in his dream."
The song, said Silver Stream Farm Chief Operating Officer Nicci Hammerel, was written just 15 miles away from the greenhouse's location at the Bar Cross Ranch in Cora, Wyoming.
"John Perry Barlow, who was part of the family that owned the Bar Cross Ranch in Cora, was good friends with Bob Weir, one of the lead singers of the Grateful Dead," Hammerel told Cowboy State Daily. "And so, when Bob Weir came up to visit John Perry Barlow at his ranch, the two of them together wrote an entire album."
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