History

In 1985, we, Jan and Rinske de Jong,came to the land of opportunity with a dream to start a dairy of our own. We started "Working Cows Dairy" in October 1985. We milked 180 cows for a dairy farmer in Cottondale Florida and for that we could use his barn and 40 acres. We leased 55 cows, with the $ 5000.we had saved in Holland, and started milking about 20 hours a day. In the spring of 1986 Jan planted watermelons on part of the land and had a fruit stand on Hwy 231. We stayed on this place for 2 years and left with 29 cows to a rented place in Grand-Ridge Florida. There we had three boys Jonny,Mendy and Ike. We worked our way up from 29 cows to 4 years later  220 cows. We moved again to the place we are now located in June 1991.