Petit Jean Farm

So which is it?

PETIT JEAN FARM  

-  or  - 

PETIT JEAN FARMS

Both are correct...

Petit Jean Farm is a family-owned and operated LLC located on Petit Jean Mountain.  We raise some animals (mostly sheep) and market a wide range of home-grown products (mostly meat).

Twenty years ago we built a people friendly barn near a good road (Winrock Drive) which continues to operate like a roadside farm market.

It is always "open" and you are always welcome.  If we are near the barn, we are happy to visit.  If we are away from the barn, you can come anyway and enjoy the self-serve honor system that has operated for more than 10 years.  (It will continue to operate until we have our first thief.)

We have many friends...some are customers; some are farmers.  Most of the farmer friends are also neighbors.  If you are a small, independent farmer, you better have  friends, family, and/or neighbors.

When you buy food products from Petit Jean Farm, you are buying from our neighbors and friends as well as from us...thus Petit Jean Farms.

       We are not a coop...

       We are not a corporation...

       We are not a cult...

We are not anything other than friends and neighbors. 

I am the old guy, so it makes sense that I spend more time in an air conditioned truck running up and down the road selling stuff.  Most real farmers are glad to know someone who likes to go to town.

Westphal/Neighbor Farmers

Turtle Rock Farm

Croswell Family

Turtle Rock Farms, located on Petit Jean Mountain, is home to Jeff and Sarah Croswell and their 6 children.  Family-centered farming is at the core of this small diversified farm.  Turtle Rock Farms raises pastured chickens, heritage turkeys, and provides their customers with organically grown herbs, garden produce, fresh-milled organic flours, and hand-scrubbed eggs.  Taste the  difference a family can make!

Price Brothers

Danny and Russel Price play a most important role in a small farm neighborhood.  They have equipment!  Obviously most farm equipment costs too much for any individual farmer to have very much of it around.

The Prices' are the wildlife experts.  They have food plots, deer stands, cameras, etc. around the property.  Predators on Petit Jean Mountain are thick enough to run a small livestock farmer quickly out of business.  Danny raises sheep (and horses) and Russel raises cattle (and horses).

John McGowan

There's never any doubt about someone who loves the land.  Almost every evening you can find John doing something that leaves the farm a better place.  His tractor/bushhog keeps weeds under control and large animals in fresh grass.  His own cattle and horses are always in good flesh...you never see John alone though...his herding dog is always nearby.

Amish Farmers

Stutzman's Pantry

Tasty, homemade bread and jams made by an Amish family in Belleville, AR.  The Amish community is small, but never disappoints with the traditional, homemede food.  Just take a taste of the jam and you'll be reminded of the way Grandma's jam tasted.

Dennis Miller Farm

Whole raw milk comes from the Dennis Miller farm just west of Petit Jean Mountain in the heart of Amish country.  This milk has been hand-milked (345 squirts/gallon) by members of the Miller  family.  Their herd is made up of forage-fed (Omega 3 fatty acids) Jersey cows with the top 40% of the gallon jug being cream.  Most modern customers have never tasted real milk.

Farmers/Neighbors

Rick & Meri Pruett

Pruetts live on Petit Jean Mountain.  Their pigs live outdoors in a wooded area with access to a barn in bad weather.  Their outside living space is rotated to clean ground on a regular schedule.  They receive fresh forage as often as possible including Austrian winter peas during winter months.  All feed ingredients are natural forms of protein and energy including locally grown corn directly from the farm.

Kelly Wages

It's an unlucky animal that gets born on a factory farm or anyplace else where people do not love their animals.

Most of us love our animals, but Kelly could be the only one who actually hugs them on a daily basis...even his ostrich!

Cattle, sheep, chickens, and one ostrich live a very good life on this farm.

Kelly's other all-important talent is the ability to buy equipment/tools at a very low price and turn them into workable assets.  He can do that same trick with animals too.