The Shepherds' David

Farming Full Time

Updated Apr 1, 2025

  • 6 to 10 acres More than 10 acres
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David M Fitzgerald

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Desired Locations

Plan

We are a small regenerative operation with livestock (dorper, Katahdin, chicken, beef cattle) looking for pasture land for lease to expand our herd. 

Would be very open to any restrictions or requests from the owner. LIke the location of the property due to proximity to our other growing facilities.

 

Please call or text me directly to my cell phone 336 480 4234. Leave a message if I do not answer. I will return your call.

Desired Transitional Agreement

  • Lease
  • Cooperative Model
  • Business Partnership
  • Farm Management

Description of Desired Transitional Agreement

Open to anything except a straight purchase. 

 

We are needing liquidity to fund growth in our flock and other sites.

 

Type of Current Production on Farm

Livestock

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

Additional Information on Produce or Livestock Needs

Soil and pasture health through regenerative farming practices. 

 

Rotational grazing in paddocks and species and ecological diversity to most closely immulate the natural environment. 

Our business model is the furthest thing from conventionl /industrialized / BIG AGRICULTURE.

Our process promotes wonderfully healthy livestock, requiring minimal intervention from medications and dewormer due to the rotational program. We compost and spread our own chips that have been composted onto the pasture to increase top soil naturally.

Preferred Equipment and Infrastructure

  • Barn / Storage
  • Fencing
  • Well / Pond / Other Water Source
  • Access to Electricity

Equipment and Infrastructure Details

would prefer a property with basic utilities setup and perimeter fence.

 

If perimeter fence is not in place, its not an issue. We can work on that. As for shelter, we can provide, unless already on the property (Shelter for livestock).

 

Looking for at least a year or longer on lease term if possible. Open to lease to purchase if that is something the owner is wishing to look at down the road. 

Preferred Farming Status

Full Time

Farming Experience

6 to 10 years

Farm Education/Training

  • College / University
  • On the job
  • Other

Additional Info on Experience/Education

Family and generational sustaniable farmer. 

Following Salad Bar Beef and Polyface farms buisness model to regenerate the soil, grow healthier pasture and obtain maximum quality animal production, health and yeilds. 

Sustanability, and price competativness are what we strive to offer without comprimising the quality, health or otherwise of the livestock in production.

Desired Locations

  • 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