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Coy Mitchell

Coy Mitchell

Coy Mitchell is a Floyd County, Virginia community member and a Director of the Floyd County Farm Bureau, associated with the Mitchell Dairy Farm on Alum Ridge.

Aug 7, 2026

speaker_1HOST
0:26
Coy, would you tell us about yourself and how you run or control the property that these green boxes are on?
0:32
Coy Mitchell, a dairy farmer on Alum Ridge.
0:35
My grandfather owned the land, dad owns the land, and that these green boxes have been sitting on since day one of green boxes being in Alum Ridge.
0:44
and found out by some of the neighbors calling and complaining that the county was wanting to remove them at landowners' request.
0:51
And I'm like, well, that's hard to do when the landowners didn't request them to be removed.
0:55
And I've tried to make a call to the county and not gotten very far with why they're taking who the landowner they claim is supposed to be.
speaker_1HOST
2:46
Okay.
2:47
What have you seen about any kind of mess or anything out there with bears and so forth? There is some bears in there and I pass them green boxes multiple times a day doing farm work and you do see some bear damage from time to time, three or four times maybe since first year but most of the damage is people stopping and throwing trash out in front of the green box instead of putting it in the green box and then everybody's dog, cat, raccoon and coyote is scouting it all over the parking lot down there.

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