CSA COMMUNITY SUPPORTED AGRICULTURE
Mill Creek Farm & Timber (MCF&T) has 65 acers to grow located in Panola County Texas. MCF&T has a long history of agriculture. Our family farm of 500 acers was established before 1951, Growing cotton sugarcane rooted in dairy operations.
steward Brady rich, of MCF&T with my son and my wife want to help local family produce quality food. From our farm to your table, our family land is your farm. MCF&T is interested in developing local CSA produce, eggs, and protein that supports environmentally friendly practices, which typically include reduced pesticide use, crop rotation, and organic farming methods. Moreover, supporting local food systems significantly reduce the carbon footprint associated with food transportation.
MCF&T convinced with fluctuating fuel market prices and our current model of producing food. MCF&T can solve or avoid many of our current problems adapting to our current local LOUISIANA / TEXAS customers in a 100-mile radius. MCF&T will transport your livestock or produce to a local market or processing partners
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Our Goals
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Our Goals *
MCF&T set a three-year goal to attain livestock by purchasing $15,000 of livestock swine, goats, and chickens each year beginning by 2025. by allocating $5,000 a year over a three-year period using USDA loans.
our land is your farm, when you become a select Associate you may obtain livestock by letter of intent. MCF&T associate with their local farmers share in profit of live stock sales, without the reasonability of day-to-day care of feeding or financing, boarding livestock. Our land is your farm, when you become a select MCF&T associate for a share cost market fee of 25 % your capital is paying for farm livestock implement for fuel feed vet care and boarding livestock. MCF&T associate will profit share a purchase 75/30 agreement on all livestock by reimburse our MCF&T associate on day of sale proceeding years kidding calving harvest crop. at risk of severe weather or sickness all capital MCF&T may reburce MCF&T associate with livestock crop insurance.
MCF&T is processing 25 CSA memberships our farmland is your family table. This closed model direct CSA farming allows MCF&T to focus on smaller scale livestock direct sales to save members 40% to 60% on grocery bills. will allow MCF&T Not over stocking our farm numbers MCF&T can focus on direct sales to 25 CSA members not quantity over quality. CSA member may qualify for MCF&T associate this allowing your grocery bill to vanish from offsetting share 0f live stock sales. MCF&T is a closed private farm open only to membership .
Reducing livestock numbers to develop policies for care and comprehend the financial responsibility, physical well-being of our heard and flocks is essential to our process. knowing that our membership will have access to the best egg poultry beef lambs goat chevon (adult goat) or kid or beef protein.
Furthermore, while saving MCF&T residual income from mineral rights & cell tower funds & timber sales for three years, funding our farming business in winter cultivating stage.
MCF&T will concentrate on accounting marketing habituate and health policies to care for our livestock. MCF&T will not be adding investors in this period, nor staff only memberships.
Our goals are to concentrate on small things.in the lord’s book “His master replied, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant! You have been faithful with a few things; I will put you in charge of many things. Come and share your master’s happiness!’ For small steps achieve long distances”
TO apply for membership contact MillCreekFarmandTimber@gmail.com
Some of our smaller, short term goals include:
Having a flock of 400 hens for egg sales
Having 2 male and female boar goats for breeding
Having 4 pigs for slaughter
may turkeys for thanksgiving
one green house producing strawberries'
Some of our bigger, long term goals include:
Having a flock of 1,250 hens
Having a herd of 70 boer goats
Having a herd of 25 pigs
Having 4 greenhouses producing ideal for both warm-season crops (tomatoes, peppers, squash in spring/summer) and cool-season veggies (lettuce, broccoli, kale in fall/winter) vegetable produce strawberries blueberries peach
https://nhg.com/education/planting-guide/winter-0-0 zone 8 offers a long, versatile growing season (approx. April-Dec frost-free),