After retirement as a county agent with the University of Tennessee, I have spent the past 23 years helping farmers market their products over the World Wide Web. In 2001, I developed a website to promote and sell the Whitehead Family Farm. With nine heirs no one was willing to buy the others out. I had never tried making a website and getting it on the web. I went to the library and checked out a book about “Making Websites for Dummies”. It turned out okay and my ophthalmologist wanted me to make him one for his Red Angus Farm.

Since those two sites were receiving some traffic, I decided to develop myself a website and specialize building agricultural websites. I did not know of any other company specializing in developing agricultural websites in Tennessee. After the Bryan Group was formed, I purchased a small hosting package where I could build a few sites and charge according to the size of site. It was not long until I needed a much larger hosting package with an unlimited number of sites I could develop and host. We have built well over 100 websites as well as hosting and maintaining them as a one stop shopping service to farmers and ranchers. We have worked with many wonderful people from Virginia and South Carolina on the East Coast to Washington and California on the West Coast and many states in between. Some examples have been organizational and business sites as well as livestock sites, including beef cattle, sheep, goats, horses and donkeys. In addition to dog and hobby sites, I have also donated some civic and homeowner association sites with domain registration, hosting and maintenance.

Time does catch up with everyone and it is time to scale back. I started phasing back sometime ago and not taking on anymore new sites. Now, I am just maintaining a very few on a month to month basis. I will keep my own site up as well as my wife’s Laura’s Kitchen as long as my health continues.

Thank you to everyone who has been a part on the Bryan Group over the past 23 years. Below, are some memories over the years.