a need in Lincoln County for locally raised meats and hand-crafted products. In 2019, they made farming their full-time job, starting a farm store out of their home that was open every Thursday. The store did well enough that in the fall of 2021, they opened a new store – The Market at Buckley Farm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Instead of only one day a week, The Market is now open Tuesday through Saturday. It offers a variety of products from pasture-raised meats to hand-made goat milk soaps to prepared dinners made in their commercial kitchen and local artisans\u2019 goods like honey and pottery. The farm has grown from a few chickens to about 200 laying hens, hogs, and cattle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The farm is more than a commercial endeavor. The Buckleys have raised all four children on the farm. The children are involved in the farm\u2019s day-to-day functions, and learn how to do the work alongside their parents as much as possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“I think it’s a lifestyle of just being around Eli and following along and just naturally learning how to do those things with us,\u201d Jessica said. \u201cI\u2019m so thankful that we get to do it as a family. I\u2019m thankful that my children get to experience this way of growing up.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Buckley Farm practices regenerative farming and focuses on traditional livestock breeds. Those concerns, along with the size of the operation, set the farm apart from others in the area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThere\u2019s a lot of different ways to farm, you know. It\u2019s not just big fields and row crops. It\u2019s not just big cattle farms \u2013 you can do it very small scale,\u201d Eli said. \u201cIt\u2019s not what you see on Pinterest either.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Voted 2022 Best Agricultural Entrepreneur by Lincoln County FFA Alumni (Tennessee) and 2022 Best Business by the Fayetteville Lincoln County Chamber of Commerce, life on the farm is good. \u201cKnowing your farmer and where and how your food is grown is an important part of keeping our community strong and growing,\u201d Jessica said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Buckleys said they are completely honored to raise their family and run their business in Fayetteville, a place so kind and supportive of small family-owned businesses.\u00a0-GN<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" LESS THAN two miles from the Fayetteville square, a 50-acre farm provides local products to the Lincoln County community. Eli and Jessica Buckley, owners of Buckley Farm, are native to Fayetteville and, after a few years away, chose the city as the place to grow both their family and their business. The Buckleys wanted their […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":14015,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-feature"],"yoast_head":"\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/goodnewsmags.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/DSC_3998-1024x733.jpg\")