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A New Chapter Begins for Nature's Gourmet Farm

written by

Ben Simmons

posted on

December 29, 2019

Hello from the farm,

2019 Has Been A Pivotal Year For Nature's Gourmet Farm!!! A couple of key highlights are:

1) Completed the first on-farm USDA Poultry Processing Plant in MS. This will allow us to raise and distribute our pastured NON-GMO chicken anywhere in the USA

2) Installed feed bins to be a distribution point for Resaca Sun NON-GMO feeds. This helps our farm as well as other like minded farms with feed availability & cost

3) In 2019, 336 people have signed up on our website to be customers

We are GRATEFUL to our many loyal customers who support our farm principles with your food dollars. This allows us to grow and expand our product offerings as well as improve convenient access in your area.

CONVENIENCE
- Hopefully by now you are aware of important changes coming in 2020. Beginning in January we will change deliveries to Saturdays

**1st Saturday Each Month (Jan 4th) we will deliver to Mobile, Ocean Springs, and Gulfport
**2nd Saturday Each Month (Jan 11) we will deliver to Hattiesburg and Picayune
**3rd Saturday Each Month (Jan 18) we will deliver to Flowood, Eastover, Ridgeland, and Madison

Click this button to see a map of all delivery addresses, dates, times, etc. AND, remember to update your preferred delivery location.
Locations

PRODUCTS
- here is a brief summary of changes to better serve our customers

**Pastured Chicken is the #1 asked for product. That is why we built the USDA plant. We are no longed restricted to only 1,000 chickens per year and have plans to raise about 3,000 in 2020. Additionally, all chicken will be sold via our website vs. the reservation system used in the past. Currently we will process Dec 31 and Jan 8th and then twice monthly thereafter.

**Pastured Free-Range Eggs. Infastructure is now in place and the hens are due January 2nd to double our egg production

**Pastured Pork. I suspect inventory will be tight for March & April until the next pigs reach maturity. Overall, production will double for 2020

**Grass Finished Beef. We will be able to supply 20-25% more in 2020 from our farm.

AUTHENTICITY
- At Nature's Gourmet Farm, we are not a faceless brand. We're real people with a real farm and we know how stressful it is to find trusted food sources. This is most likely the #1 reason families buy our products. People are tired of marketing gimmicks and deceptive claims about what is in their food and how it was "actually" raised.

We believe food should be raised with transparency so you can make a confident and informed decision. We communicate our farm principles via our website, YourTube Channel and farm blog post. We not only discuss our principles, but we also show you. And, you are always welcome to visit our farm to see first hand.

Never before has it been more important than now to "Know Your Farmer".

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