Greenwood Farms

Greenwood Farms, a Tennessee-based small business partnership specializing in breeding and training pack animals, supplies horses and mules to federal land-management agencies as a prime contractor under total small business set-asides. The vendor operates exclusively in a single capability area — procurement and delivery of live pack and riding animals meeting federal specifications for backcountry operations — and has delivered $440 thousand across fifteen purchase orders to the National Park Service and U.S. Forest Service regions over the past two decades.

Greenwood Farms competes entirely under total small business set-asides and has received 100% of its recent awards on that basis. The vendor's customer concentration is bifurcated between Forest Service regional commands and the National Park Service. The Department of Agriculture Forest Service accounts for twelve of fifteen awards (93% coverage by count) split across three regions: the Northern Region (R1) anchors the dollars with four awards totaling $129 thousand, the Pacific Southwest Region (R5) holds five awards worth $83 thousand, and the Intermountain Region (R4) holds three awards worth $79 thousand. The Department of the Interior National Park Service holds two awards worth $147 thousand combined — the Pacific West Region's recent August 2026 Yosemite National Park purchase order for five horses and five mules at $97.5 thousand (due October 1, 2026) and the Intermountain Region's award worth $49 thousand. No parent vehicles, IDIQs, or GWACs appear in the source; all work flows through direct purchase orders.

Representative work spans pack-animal logistics across remote terrain. Recent examples include the August 2026 NPS Yosemite order for five horses and five mules meeting specified height, weight, and age requirements for backcountry operations at elevations from 3,000 to 12,000 feet; a September 2025 Forest Service Intermountain Region purchase of three mules for $48.6 thousand to support packing operations; and a June 2023 contract with the Northern Region for a mule team supporting Natural Resources Protection Training and the Wildland Fire Branch at $14 thousand. All animals are gelded males warranted for terrain capability, veterinary health, and multiday satisfaction guarantees. Place of performance is the vendor's Gallatin, Tennessee headquarters.

Activity has declined year over year — three awards in 2022 to one award each in 2024, 2025, and 2026 — with the most recent award reaching completion October 15, 2026. The vendor carries no subcontracting footprint and does not pursue IDV vehicles or government-wide contract positions.

pack mules, riding mules, furnish any quantity anywhere