Little Portion Hermitage
Farmer: Richard Ims
350 CR 248
Berryville, Carroll County, AR
72616
 
 
Phone: 479-253-7710 x 116
Email: monasteryfarm@littleportion.org
Website: www.monasteryfarm.com

Nature of Operation:
    not certified organic

Markets Served:

  • CSAs
  • Farmers Markets
  • Retail Stores
  • Restaurant Sales
  • Web Marketing
  • Wholesale
  • Institutional Sales
  • Mail Order
  • Value-Added Processing

Product Categories:
    Vegetables


    Fruit

    Eggs/dairy

    Herbs/flowers

    Value-added products

    Farm supplies/services

    Feed

    Meat/fowl

 

Farm Description:
    We are the Brothers and Sisters of Charity, a Monastery existing for the service of the Lord. We live a contemplative life and try to sustain ourselves best we can. A small group of about 30 Brothers, Sisters and Families have lived here for 25 years.

Practices:
    Biointensive, raised beds, three greenhouses heated by an outdoor wood furnace and heat exchangers as well as radiant floor heating. Chickens are raised 200 at a time....Pasture fed with no antibiotics, steroids or anything unnatural and humanely treated. Goat meat herd is beginning. Mushrooms and eggs as well. We grow veggies year round...outside and in greenhouses.

Describe your product specialties and highlights:
    We are a Fertrell organic supplement dealer including soil supplements and animal feed suppliments. We also raise pasture-fed cornish/white rock chickens which are USDA processed and inspected for sale to individuals, restaurants and grocery stores.

Where we sell our products:
    At Little Portion Monastery or at local farmer's Markets. Delivery provided to local Commercial accounts. For a listing of retail outlets, see our website.

Web/Mail Order Items:
    Mushrooms, religious items, Chicken