Field day session (held at the Groce Family Farm located near English, IN). Lunch will be provided by

Darby and Luke during the on farm session free of charge. It will contain all local ingredients, including

some of Groce Family Farm's pastured poultry, local fruit, local bread and more!

8:00 - Meet at farm (snacks provided)

8:30 - Begin walking tour: The Groce Family Farm story, overview, farm values, context and more.

8:50 - Walk-in freezer, managing inventory, packing CSA shares, farmers market setup

9:10 - Poultry brooder: Systems, equipment, pros and cons of hoop house design. Heating, ventilation,

indoor overflow/pasture area.

9:30 - Tree systems overview: Design to fit your context including shade, profitable crop, family fruit,

nut, medicine, livestock feed, mulch, microclimate, etc.

9:45 - Pigs in the woods: Lite, portable and profitable.

10:35 - Grass-fed cattle: Grazing dynamics, equipment. How we manage higher stocking rates.

Experience renting land, utilizing contract graziers, cutting hay, buying hay. Cash flow considerations.

11:30-12:30 – Lunch: All local including fresh made bread, local fruit and chicken salad with Groce

Family Farm chicken!

12:30 - Sheep: Fencing, parasites and predators and market - what it takes to manage them all. Working

with netting. Pros and cons and scalability. Why we scaled them up and then down and where they fit

now.

1:15 – Open cell grazing chickens: Why and how we got started in our system. Why we continue to use it.

Regrets, lessons, scalability, risks, solutions, predator questions.

1:45 - Ducks: Why they are so great if you have processing and a market. Actually easier to raise and

harder to kill than a chicken.

2:15 - Turkeys: Profitability, scale, how we found our niches with wholesale and retail. Grazing behind

netting.

2:45 - Walk back, final questions, discussion, feedback.

3:00 - Workshop over, however anyone who doesn’t need to leave can come check out the chicken

system on the other farm two miles East. This is a new joint venture we are testing with another local

farmer growing for us.