Kelley Farms

Farming Full Time

Updated Oct 7, 2026

  • More than 10 acres
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Brandi Kelley

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Dear Landowner,

Every piece of rural acreage possesses a unique ecological story, and the best way to honor that land is to implement an agricultural system that continuously restores its fertility, enhances its biological security, and elevates its long-term asset value. I am writing to formally introduce my family, our diversified agribusiness framework, and our vision to step forward as dedicated, high-discipline stewards of your property.

Our farm operation is structured upon three non-negotiable standards: structural self-reliance, a 100% internal family labor model (utilizing my own management background paired with the dedicated daily labor of my children, Emmalee and Ryan), and a strict zero-chemical, plastic-free building mandate. We are not seeking to build a standard, intrusive industrial farm. Instead, we are proposing a closed-loop ecosystem project that actively heals the soil while generating premium, boutique-tier revenue.

If we partner to bring our vision to your acreage, here is precisely how we intend to utilize, protect, and enhance your land:

·        Rotational Soil Restoration Matrix: We maintain a highly disciplined, downscaled foundation inventory of climate-hardy heritage livestock—specifically purebred Pineywoods Cattle, Gulf Coast Native/Florida Cracker Sheep, San Clemente Island and Arapawa Goats, and rare Florida Cracker and Caspian Horses. Rather than overgrazing, these animals are kept in constant, tight pasture rotations. This specific multi-species grazing lane strategy clears out invasive briars and scrub brush naturally, disrupts parasite reproduction patterns without toxic chemical applications, and deposits rich organic matter to rapidly rebuild your topsoil density.

·        The Guard Donkey Security Shield: To guarantee absolute biological security and eliminate regional wildlife threats without installing permanent, unsightly commercial barrier fences, our vulnerable sheep and goat lanes are enclosed by a protective guardian corridor of American Mammoth Jackstock and Miniature Donkeys. This provides a natural, quiet predator shield that actively secures the property perimeter.

·        Agnostic, Zero-Footprint Sled Infrastructure: To completely protect your land from permanent alteration, soil erosion, or property scarring, our entire infrastructure is built on a 100% portable ground-skid sled system. Our livestock shelters, poultry coops, and gothic growing vaults require 0.00% poured concrete and absolutely no public grid utility hookups. Each unit features its own roof-mounted solar panel and low-voltage air circulation fans. They sit flat on the pasture and are smoothly pulled forward to fresh grass via tractor, ensuring your property's natural drainage profiles are left completely undisturbed.

·        Biological Night Shields & Guano Income: At the rear of the property, we implement custom, untreated timber Cypress Bat Towers. This serves as a highly scalable, organic night shield, aggressively clearing your acreage of mosquitoes and flying crop pests entirely chemical-free. The lower base features an integrated stainless-steel collection tray to safely harvest pure, unadulterated wild bat guano—one of the highest-value organic soil amendments on the market—for direct on-farm use and commercial boutique sale.

·        Varroa-Sensitive Lab Apiaries: We integrate a specialized, zero-maintenance honeybee foundry onto the field borders. These colonies provide vital pollination services across your property's local flora, drastically increasing regional plant health and wild clover density while yielding premium, raw comb honey and pollen shards.

·        Integrated Multi-Tier Composting Drawers: Beneath our mobile 25 Layer Chicken coops, heritage Narragansett Turkeys, and Silver Fox Rabbit hutches sit steep, 45-degree metal gravity chutes. These drop droppings directly into self-contained, top-opening pull-out processing drawers stocked with Black Soldier Fly Larvae (BSFL), Red Wigglers, and native Pill Bugs. This vertical bug matrix liquefies and digests raw manure at the source, completely neutralizing ammonia odors within minutes and turning animal waste into clean, weed-free, premium cast-compost.

Furthermore, because our multi-volume agribusiness dossier is heavily backed by non-repayable federal capital tracks—including USDA Value-Added Producer Grants (VAPG), NRCS Conservation Cover cost-shares, and Southern SARE technology funds—we bring all of our own infrastructure funding to your gate with zero financial liability or cost to you as the landowner.

We are ready to treat your acreage not just as a place to operate, but as a living ecosystem that we will protect, enrich, and build up. Thank you for your time, your consideration, and the opportunity to explore a partnership that secures a thriving, regenerative legacy for your land.

Desired Transitional Agreement

  • Sale
  • Lease
  • Cooperative Model
  • Business Partnership
  • Farm Management

Description of Desired Transitional Agreement

We are interested in any layout that can help us have our own home and land to make our dreams come true while building up a foundation that helps endangered heritage conservation species thrive and prosper while keeping them safe and happy.

Type of Current Production on Farm

Produce / Land Cover

  • Aquaculture/Hydroponics
  • Fallow
  • Flowers
  • Fruit Trees / Nursery Stock
  • Hay
  • Herbs
  • Row Crops / Grain
  • Timber
  • Vegetables / Fruit
  • Vineyard

Livestock

  • Bees
  • Cattle
  • Equine
  • Fish
  • Pigs
  • Poultry
  • Sheep / Goat

Additional Information on Produce or Livestock Needs

While our year-one operational layout is strictly structured around a highly disciplined, downscaled foundation inventory to guarantee immediate debt-service clearance, our 10-acre modular grid is engineered for staggered scalability. This statement outlines our long-term production milestones for expanding our specialty produce lines, maximizing our regional livestock breeding targets, and introducing complementary agricultural assets as the farm moves into its secondary operational phases.

1. EXPANDED PRODUCTION GOALS FOR SPECIALTY PRODUCE

To build upon our baseline high-tunnel saffron and mycology rows without increasing our footprint infrastructure expenses, we will implement the following high-yield botanical expansions:

  • Rotational Intensive Cover Cropping: We will integrate multi-tier fields of native Crimson Clover, hairy vetch, and daikon radish directly into our mammalian grazing tracks during down cycles. This builds deep root-zone nitrogen density naturally, eliminating the cost of commercial fertilizers while providing a high-protein, zero-cost forage boost for our grazing herds.
  • Perimeter Crop Windbreaks: We will plant dense, structural boundary rows of native Elderberry (Sambucus canadensis) and specialized Yucca cultivars directly along our high-tunnel margins. This creates a natural windbreak to shield our infrastructure from extreme weather while yielding a high-volume, secondary annual harvest of specialty berries and regional floral components for direct direct-to-consumer processing.
  • High-Volume Invertebrate Frass Enrichment: Utilizing the clean, dehydrated insect leftovers (frass) harvested from our on-site vermicomposting and bait drawers, we will expand into intensive organic row-cropping of high-value native Florida greens (such as specialty mustard variations and root crops), maximizing soil output per square foot.

2. DOWNSCALED SCRUTINY LIVESTOCK EXPANSION TARGETS (PHASE II)

To protect our year-one debt-to-income ratios from heavy upfront asset purchases, larger mammalian and specialized avian breeding targets are explicitly scheduled as Phase II expansion assets, funded entirely through retained year-one farm surpluses:

• Heritage Large-Animal Herd Scaling: As our pastures reach optimal forage density through intensive rotational management, we will gradually increase our foundation counts of purebred Pineywoods Cattle and Gulf Coast Native/Florida Cracker Sheep to hit a self-sustaining regional market supply baseline.

• Specialty Avian Flock Diversification: We will introduce dedicated, low-impact breeding trios of rare, climate-hardy waterfowl—specifically Cotton Patch Geese and specialty heritage Narragansett Turkeys—using our mobile, clear-span timber barn designs to capture premium niche markets for heritage poultry assets.

• Managed Ratite Conservation Sanctuary: In Year Three, we will establish an isolated, high-exclusion perimeter paddock to introduce a foundation breeding pair of Emus. This sector will focus strictly on the production of high-value fats, oils, and specialized alternative agricultural products, managed entirely as a distinct, independent research and diversification track to ensure it never impacts our primary dairy or crop liabilities.

 

🔄 SYSTEMIC INFRASTRUCTURE ALIGNMENT

Every asset introduced under these expansion goals will adapt seamlessly into our active portable ground-skid sled network. The 250-gallon water walls, low-voltage solar circulation fans, and top-opening mechanical composting drawers are pre-engineered to scale with this increased production load, guaranteeing that your land's natural drainage and soil profiles are left completely unmarred while our farm output grows.

Equipment and Infrastructure Details

We are prepared to use grants to fund any additional equipment or infrastructure we need along the way with our innovative layout that puts us on the list for some of the best grants available. 

Preferred Farming Status

Full Time

Farming Experience

1 to 5 years

Farm Education/Training

  • On the job

Additional Info on Experience/Education

  • cold-weather sheltering systems.
  • Horticultural Crop Production: Successfully managed intensive small-scale vegetable and botanical garden plots, navigating seasonal crop rotations, soil health optimization, and natural weed suppression. This hands-on knowledge directly applies to our year-one high-tunnel saffron and medicinal mycology timelines.
  • Closed-Loop Composting & Farm Maintenance: Personally designed and maintained biological waste decomposition setups, specializing in the utilization of earthworm matrices (vermicomposting) to process raw manure into stabilized, high-potency organic fertilizer amendments. This experience guarantees our farm's mobile sled-mounted composting drawer systems will be managed with maximum efficiency and absolute zero environmental leaching.

SUMMARY OF CAPABILITY

My career has equipped me with a robust understanding of how to run a lean, profitable corporate entity. By merging this business logic with practical, low-impact heritage animal husbandry and zero-waste composting techniques, I am fully prepared to manage our production grid as a highly secure, financially stable agricultural asset.

Desired Locations

  • Baldwin
  • Banks
  • Barrow
  • Burke
  • Clarke
  • Columbia
  • Dawson
  • Elbert
  • Fannin
  • Forsyth
  • Franklin
  • Gilmer
  • Glascock
  • Greene
  • Habersham
  • Hall
  • Hancock
  • Hart
  • Jackson
  • Jasper
  • Jefferson
  • Jenkins
  • Jones
  • Lincoln
  • Lumpkin
  • Madison
  • McDuffie
  • Morgan
  • Newton
  • Oconee
  • Oglethorpe
  • Putnam
  • Rabun
  • Richmond
  • Stephens
  • Taliaferro
  • Towns
  • Union
  • Walton
  • Warren
  • White
  • Wilkes
  • Bartow
  • Butts
  • Carroll
  • Catoosa
  • Chattahoochee
  • Chattooga
  • Cherokee
  • Clayton
  • Cobb
  • Coweta
  • Dade
  • Dekalb
  • Douglas
  • Fayette
  • Floyd
  • Fulton
  • Gordon
  • Gwinnett
  • Haralson
  • Harris
  • Heard
  • Henry
  • Lamar
  • Marion
  • Meriwether
  • Monroe
  • Murray
  • Muscogee
  • Paulding
  • Pickens
  • Pike
  • Polk
  • Rockdale
  • Spalding
  • Talbot
  • Troup
  • Upson
  • Walker
  • Whitfield
  • Appling
  • Atkinson
  • Bacon
  • Berrien
  • Bleckley
  • Brantley
  • Bryan
  • Bulloch
  • Camden
  • Candler
  • Charlton
  • Chatham
  • Clinch
  • Coffee
  • Cook
  • Dodge
  • Echols
  • Effingham
  • Emanuel
  • Evans
  • Glynn
  • Jeff Davis
  • Johnson
  • Lanier
  • Laurens
  • Liberty
  • Long
  • Lowndes
  • McIntosh
  • Montgomery
  • Pierce
  • Screven
  • Tattnall
  • Telfair
  • Toombs
  • Treutlen
  • Twiggs
  • Ware
  • Washington
  • Wayne
  • Wheeler
  • Wilkinson
  • Baker
  • Ben Hill
  • Bibb
  • Brooks
  • Calhoun
  • Clay
  • Colquitt
  • Crawford
  • Crisp
  • Decatur
  • Dooly
  • Dougherty
  • Early
  • Grady
  • Houston
  • Irwin
  • Lee
  • Macon
  • Miller
  • Mitchell
  • Peach
  • Pulaski
  • Quitman
  • Randolph
  • Schley
  • Seminole
  • Stewart
  • Sumter
  • Taylor
  • Terrell
  • Thomas
  • Tift
  • Turner
  • Webster
  • Wilcox
  • Worth