Type of opportunity:

Lease (1 to 5 Years), Lease (5+ Years), Lease with Option to Buy, Business Partnership.

Equipment & infrastructure:

Well / Pond / Other water source, Processing facilities.

Number of years experience:

10

Personal experience and production goals summary:

Radius Farms goal is to bring local, nourishing, quality food to North Carolina through land stewardship practices that preserve and regenerate our land resources. The core product of Radius farms will be pastured broiler poultry, meat and eggs and grass fed dairy. We aim to give people the best tasting, most nutritious, and highest quality food possible.

Radius Farm’s objectives:

● Raise a flock of 300 ready to lay pullets.

● Build portable infrastructure needed to raise pastured poultry, meat, and eggs.

● Begin collection and selling of eggs

● Begin production of pastured broiler chickens and pork

● Acquiring 2-3 Jersey Cow and 2-3 Nubian Goats for dairy production

● Close four restaurant accounts

● Produce and sell 20,000 pastured broilers annually

● Produce and sell 6,000 dozen eggs annually

● Produce and sell 8,000 lbs of pork annually

● Produce and sell 7,000 gallons of dairy product

Sample Numbers

Broiler Chicken Production Cost Per Bird

● Chick- $1.10

● 6lb of Feed- $1.50

● Shrink Bag- $0.47

● Electricity/Gas/buffer-$1.00

Total per bird: $4.07

Broilers are in brooder for first three weeks of life and on pasture for last three weeks. It takes roughly 6 pound of feed to bring a chicken to the target weight of 3lbs. Birds will cost $4.00 per pound and will average $12.00 per bird which is just a hair over 30%

Egg Layer Cost of Production

● Chick- $1.10

● Feed over Lifetime- $58.40

● Eggs produced over lifetime- 528 (44 dozen)

● Cost of egg cartons- $20.68

● Gas/utulities/buffer- $4.00 Total per hen: $83.08

Total return: $176

Production percentage: 47%