About This Farm

On September 20, 1985, we left The Netherlands thinking we were going to take a vacation in Florida to see if there were possibilities to start a dairy. We found a Dutch couple that needed help badly but could not afford it. They were willing to let us use 40 acres and their milking barn to milk 55 cows we leased with the $5,000 savings we had and his 180 cows 2x a day. This is how Working Cows Dairy was founded. During the 2 summers we were there, Jan planted watermelons on part of the 40 acres