![]() “Being a happy, financially solvent family farm seems like a great mission,” she adds. These days Bobby and Bronwyn focus more on producing lamb and less on growing crops which gives them a better work life balance. She brought the idea that their quality of life should be part of Ofuskee’s well-defined farm vision even if maxium output was not achieved. ![]() Even though he was using sustainable farming techniques, the long, hard hours had Bobby close to a burnout when Bronwyn came into the picture. Bobby started farming this 20-acre plot of land in 2008 using permaculture and sustainable practices to raise mostly pigs and market crops. The Tuckers see the livestock and the crops at Ofkuskee as tools in the farm’s holistic soil management plan, and, second to that, as part of the farm’s offerings. You’ll have to spot them among the dense grass, where young farmers, Bobby and Bronwyn Tucker have put them out to graze intensively, methodically moving them around the property. What you may not see, at least not from a passing glance, are the animals Okfuskee Farms is known for–their sheep and pigs. Photo by Bronwyn Tucker.įrom the road at Okfuskee Farm, you see a modest farm house, a packing shed, a double green house, a freshly planted shade house and grass growing across gradually terraced fields dotted with young trees.
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