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- 2. Our Story
- 3. Coweta County Georgia • 2050 Hwy 154 Newnan Georgia 30265 • 30 miles south of the Atlanta airport off interstate 85. • Between Atlanta and Montgomery, Alabama.
- 4. Mike & Judy
- 7. Multiple Locations • Four different locations • Two we own and two rented • Dairy and Eggs – Joseph and Ashley • Farm Stand and Vegetables Mike & Judy • Two Rented pastures – Grass fed Beef • All within 8 miles of each other
- 8. Vegetable CSA • Vegetable CSA- 3 sessions 12 weeks each * April through December * 4 share $16 per week *7 share $28 per week *$35 one time membership fee * All picked up at the Farm * Customer selects farmers market style * 150 members 700 shares per week
- 9. Vegetable CSA Pick up Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday
- 10. Milk and Egg CSA • Choose Milk or Eggs or both, any quantity • Choose any day to pick up • 13 weeks per session, year round • $8 gallon $4 half -Milk • $6 dozen $3half - Eggs • Farm Stand is open daily for pickup 8 to 7
- 11. Farm Stand Sales • Friday and Saturday from 9 to 4 • Anyone can buy vegetables these days • Self-Serve any day from 8 to 7 • Keep milk and eggs for CSA separate from available milk and Eggs
- 12. What We Sell at the Farm Stand • Eggs from chickens on pasture • Raw Milk, Butter, Cream • Vegetables & Fruit, 80% ours 20% local farms • Grassfed beef • Granola • Local Goats Milk Soap • Local Raw Honey • Beeswax Candles
- 13. Our Farm Stand
- 15. Country Gardens Farm Stand
- 16. Steve the Bee Man
- 18. How We Get the Word Out • Weekly E-mail newsletter 5,000 subscribers • Facebook page, 3 or more posts a week • 4,800 page likes, average 1,800 reached weekly • On the web Yelp, Google, Local Harvest, Weston A. Price, Eat Wild, Country Gardens Farm, Teaching Farmers Blog • Farm Tours, Classes on Growing, Cooking and Preserving Good Food
- 19. Grass-Fed Beef
- 20. Black Baldies
- 21. Angus Based Cattle • Angus Hereford Cross and Red Angus Cross • All steers, no mama cows • 450 to 500 pound steer calves • Small to medium frame, finish about 1100 lbs • We keep them about them about 18 to 24 months • Harvest about 15 a year • 80 acres of pasture
- 22. Grass-Fed Beef • No Grain, no antibiotics, no added hormones • Grass, Hay and Alfalfa pellets, mineral salt • Rotational grazing, moving every two days • Electric fence, reels and step in posts
- 23. Dairy Facts • 22 Cows, 90% Jersey • Average about 45 gallons per day • Milk between 15-20 cows at any one time • About 4 pounds per day of Non GMO, Non Soy Grain • Supplement with rye grass bailage • Milk one time per day • Graze 20 Acres • Annual grazing crops of rye grass, sorghum, pearl millet and clover
- 24. More Dairy Facts • Milk using two vacuum Nu Pulse bucket milkers • Hand pour into a 150 gallon stainless steel chill tank • Bottling into plastic gallon & half gallons and glass half gallons on request
- 25. Dairy Cows
- 26. Milk Parlor
- 27. Making Butter
- 28. Annual grasses
- 29. Laying Hens on Pasture • 500 Isa Brown Hens • Average of 27 dozen eggs per day • Fed a layer ration of Non GMO & Non Soy Grains • Supplement with Oyster Shells • Use Apple Cider Vinegar in the water as a supplement • Spray with Elector psp, main ingredient is Spinosad as needed for lice • Protected from predators by two Anatolian-Pyrenees cross dogs • Mobile hen houses made out of greenhouse frame and C channel runners
- 30. Guard Dogs with Hens
- 32. Brown Eggs from Hens on Pasture
- 34. Classes at the Farm
- 35. Judy Teaches Cooking and Preserving
- 36. Cub Scouts
- 37. Farm Tours
- 38. New Book on Growing Organic Vegetables