FOR SALE Yes, it’s true. Six Figs Farm is for sale. We are looking for the right person who can take the amazing potential we’ve created, and do even better with it than we did. Is that you?
FIRST, WHAT ARE WE OFFERING? A turnkey established regenerative farm, with the UGA soil tests to prove our astonishing results. We will be happy to introduce you, and endorse you, to our current customer base. We’ll help you transition to the farm life. The farm will include everything to grow, harvest, and sell elderberries, figs, muscadines, blueberries, gooseberries, pawpaws, persimmons, mulberries, aronia berries, wild blackberries, annual row crops, and much more. You can step right in and plan out your 2025 harvest.
THE SOIL We’ve practiced Regenerative Agriculture for 5 years now. In the beginning, we had old pastures with Georgia red clay. Now, we have fertile soil. Our soil test results show amazing changes that can be continued into the future, making the soil more and more nutrient dense, and reducing inputs- more info here. We were awarded the 2021 Conservationists of the Year for Walton County because of our systems. You can read more about that here and more about Regenerative Agriculture here .
ORGANIC POTENTIAL We have not used any dangerous pesticides or herbicides during the 7 years we’ve been here. We’ve gone above and beyond organic standards.
LOCATION LOCATION LOCATION Strategically located for vibrant On Farm sales, numerous area Farmers Markets, as well as wholesale opportunities to restaurants and other retailers in the Atlanta, Athens and surrounding areas. This farm is surrounded by large properties, promising a suitable buffer from encroachment by any high density subdivisions. This is a fully operational and established turnkey farm, with enough acreage to expand and grow as you see fit.
SMALL FARM LIFE our kids have gotten to experience growing up with freshly harvested food that they helped plant, learning how to care for farm animals, and having the knowledge and understanding of where food comes from. As a family, we have been blessed to be part of bringing safe, fresh food to our customers tables, as a vital part of the local farm movement.
POTENTIAL So much financial potential in this farm business. We have brought the land to a high level of fertility via regenerative agriculture and gone beyond organic standards. We have built up already thriving income streams. In only three seasons of sales our gross income jumped from 2021 – $9,008 to 2022 – $22,067 to 2023 – $33,670. The opportunities are outstanding, with huge potential to increase much, much more.
FARM HOUSE The charming two-story brick farmhouse, that is solid and in great shape, is walk in ready for the small family, or offers an immediate rental revenue stream of $1500 to $1800 per month. Otherwise, there’s plenty of acreage, if you choose to build your dream house, and use the current house as a bunkhouse for your crew and/or guest house for visitors.
ESTABLISHED PERENNIALS Our established perennial crops include sizeable quantities of mature elderberries, figs, asparagus, and muscadines, among others – plants that take several years to begin harvest. Ours are already producing and you will be harvesting your very first season!
POTENTIAL EXPANSION IDEAS:
ELDERBERRIES– are easy to propagate and elderberry products are in high demand. We have currently about one acre of elderberries planted, roughly 300 bushes.
CSA (Community Supported Agriculture)- People are really excited about CSA boxes- we sold out all 16 shares of our recent subscription in 2 hours on a Sunday morning. We prepped our customer base via the email list (then 835 subscribers), and they were enthusiastically asking to pay up front $300 each, for the 10 weeks of veggie boxes. CSA boxes with farm pickups, as well as drop off/pick up points, can be tremendously profitable in this area. As an ace in the sleeve, having asparagus and figs, as well as other perennial fruits and veggies, makes this farm’s CSA box extremely competitive in the market. The concept of CSA boxes guarantees that you have repeat customers coming to your farm, and they are willing to pay you before the season has even started. This is guaranteed income and guaranteed customer traffic to the farm! Many of the customers will then also purchase other items, while picking up their order, in the farm store. As an example,
In January, you sell 100 CSA boxes for 45 weeks of the year, at $35/box= income in the beginning of the year of $157,500.
LOCAL CHEFS AND RESTAURANTS– selling to local chefs is an option we haven’t explored, however it can be very profitable.
FARM WINERY WITH A TASTING ROOM- Off and on we have considered making and selling wines. Our current orchards with elderberries and muscadines can easily be expanded, as well as increased honey production for mead. In Georgia you can also get permission to sell from farm, in a Tasting Room, which will be yet another reason for customers to come to the farm. GA R&R – ORC
APIARY- We keep honeybees in our apiary, for plant pollination and honey. This property could support a much larger scale apiary, and customers are educated and excited about the health benefits of honey local to them.
FARMERS MARKETS- the farm is conveniently located within 10-50 miles of many Monroe, Atlanta, Athens, Walton County, Gwinnett County, Morgan County, and Barrow County farmers markets, as well as “Farm Stores”. There are an almost unlimited number of places to sell produce. Selling at several farmers markets increases your business exponentially. You can also offer your CSA customers to pick up their box at a Farmers Market you attend, saving them the drive time.
MARKET WAGON, as well as small farm stores in the area– there are many small farm stores that offer produce from local farms. We’re happy to tell you about them.
About our Perennials
We have planted the following:
95 Fig trees, approximately 19 varieties, all stages of maturity. Most are bearing. More about our figs can be found here.
300 Elderberry bushes- elderberry jam and jelly, tea, shrub, and fruit leathers, as well as elderflower jelly, shrub and tea.
Gooseberry bushes-10 People drive long distances to our farm during gooseberry season to get our gooseberries- so good!
Black Currant bushes-6
Mulberry trees-8
Blueberry bushes-20
Asparagus crowns- we’ve planted 400 crowns of asparagus- all is now mature and able to be harvested for 6-8 weeks in the spring
Muscadine vines-28
Persimmon trees- 8 trees, a mix of astringent and Fuyu Giant a non-astringent. 3 years old, should start bearing in the next year
Pawpaw trees- 18 trees, from 6 years to newly sprouted. We harvested 35 pawpaws this year. Should be bearing much more fruit in the upcoming years.
Aronia bushes- 8 bushes. 2 years old. First harvest was 2024, harvested 1 gallon
Wild blackberries grow in abundance all over- harvest as many as you can. Wild blackberry jam is a customer favorite.
Jujube trees- 2
Pear trees- mature and producing- 2
Plum trees- mature and producing- 3
Apple trees- 1 is mature and producing, 1 is 3 years old. Both semi-resistant to cedar apple rust
Peach trees- two 4- year old trees
Included Farm stuff: the details
A four-wheel drive Kubota L3301 tractor (1415.8 hrs) with diamond plate sunshade roof and just about every implement you can need; front end loader, bucket, stump bucket, hydraulic grappling, 3-pt pto wood chipper, pallet forks, clamp on brush forks, personnel work platform, 3-pt carry-all frame, quick hitch, box blade, grader blade, ball hitch attachment, middle buster/potato plow, trencher, cultivator, rotating tiller, Tillmore toolbar with mechanical weeding tines and discs, bush hog, 8′ finishing mower, flail mower with hydraulic side shift, steel tow behind lawn roller, Millcreek M204 pto driven hydraulic row mulcher.
11000 W whole house back-up generator, dual fuel and electric start.
2020 Toro 50″ Timecutter zero turn mower, 23 hp Kawasaki engine.
50″ Ohio Steele Lawn Sweeper
Hooper Tandem Utility Trailer 7’x20′ 10’000 lbs
30′ x 72′ high tunnel currently in place
Transferable 30’x72′ high tunnel grant for $18,000.
Elderberry destemmer.
Outfitted wash/pack station
Movable coop, chicken tractors, electrical fencing and chargers, incubator and brooder supplies, as well as a Yardbird Chicken Plucker.
Irrigation supplies and materials too many to list.
Wood chip mulch sufficient to cover much of next years mulching needs.
We will help you get started, introduce and endorse you to the current customer base, help with resources, and if needed can be available for advice.
“Transition to Certified Organic” plan written by a paid industry consultant. It gives detailed info on how you can transition to Certified Organic status.
Farmers Market setup- canopies and tables
Seed starting lights and trays
So many seeds to being planning out your farm journey.
The Farm Business
If you’d like to keep the name, social media, and large and engaged email list, that can be discussed. We have 2200 Facebook followers, 2750 Instagram followers as well as an email subscription list with 865 (and growing) enthusiastic and engaged people who receive our weekly newsletter. We’ll happily introduce you to our current customer base and followers, let them know why we think they should trust you, then you can take it from there. In addition, all our “secret recipes” for our unique and popular jams, jellies, shrubs, teas, salad dressings, fruit leathers, and more- the things that have helped us stand out in the marketplace. Elderberry jam, elderberry tea, etc. Building traction in the farm business in marketing is hard and takes time. We’ve got the traction you’ll be wanting.
