In Patrick’s words
Just food you can trust, straight from the source.
Some of my very earliest memories are of my great grandfather, Joseph “Shy” Powell, and farming. He began his farming career as a dairyman, milking his own cows and delivering fresh milk to local customers on a daily route. I grew up riding on the armrest of a tractor seat beside my dad as he worked these fields for my grandfather, M.M. “Papa” Shivers, and later I operated some of those very same tractors in these fields as I worked for my father, Steve.
I am the fourth generation to work this south Georgia red dirt, but I am the first to grow many of the crops that I now grow here. The previous generations grew three or four different crops per year on a couple thousand acres. I now grow anywhere from 12 to 17 different crops per year on just a few hundred acres.
The farm has shifted away from traditional industrial agriculture and more into direct to end consumer products, with a focus on healthy, non-GMO, fresh foods. No preservatives, no middlemen, and no nonsense. Three generations later, the farm has returned to its direct to end consumer roots.
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