Hope Grows Farm, Dover GA

Our next venture, I guess you could say Plan C, was Hope Grows Farm in Dover, GA. It is around an hour norwest of Savannah. They are a small farm doing what we want to do so we thought we could learn a lot from them, and we did!! They have a website and blog link from there that you can see more about them. http://www.hopegrowsfarm.com/

They have laying hens, broilers, turkeys and Berkshire pigs, as well as a nice garden. We stayed there for two weeks and were able to see their procedures as well as go to market with them. Thanks for the fun time, even though it was pretty hot. However fans do help a lot in a house with out air conditioning.The garden

The mobile chicken coop. The laying hens are moved to fresh green grass every week

The laying hens

next batch of broiler chicks put out to 'pasture. These guys are moved every day to fresh green grass and sunshine, following the Polyface farm style. Great tasting chicken by the way!!

Oh here is how we know! They took a batch of broilers to process while we were there and one escaped, but not for long. He made a great chicken salad and chicken stock from chicken feet, among other things! Here we are butchering!

At the market in Savannah

Savannah is an awesome city! I want to go back when we have more time to explore it.

River street!

Cobblestone streets laid by slaves

Just romantic!A cool coffee shop/restaurant we ate at while there, note the sign
Another one in there is one that reads, "Food just like your mama should've made! LOL

The farmers, Elliot and Arianne, 'kicking us out"

Ben also got a hair cut while there!

LOL finally got too hot for him!