After 12 years in the Central Arkansas area, we decided to take our family in a new direction. We are now the proud owners of 100 acres of beautiful land in Salem, AR. Jason is a mathematics teacher, entrepreneur, and farm visionary; Sarah is a librarian, picture taker, baker, and coordinator of details. Calvin is 8; he likes rocks and sticks. Jason's appreciation and love for cattle farming came
from growing up on his grandfather's 60 acre farm in Pine Snag, AR. The desire to return to this way of life began to stir after owning his own restaurant and working in corporate America. Even living in subdivisions, a garden was a big part of our summer. Our garden in Park Hill (North Little Rock, AR) was up against a very busy street. People stopped us all the time on walks or in their cars to comment on our garden. One summer, we got a letter addressed to "the Gardener," and it expressed how much joy it gave this person who saw our garden daily on her commute. The seeds for Ozark Family Farm were planted when Jason did a project in graduate school that examined the organic beef market. Demand seemed high yet people were unsure of where, how, and from whom to get the higher quality beef. It took several years for the ideas to germinate and for our lives to reach a place where we could take a new direction, but in 2014 we reached a point of change.
