Land with Home for Sale in Barnesville, Georgia

Thousand Hills Cattle Ranch

A Turnkey Working Ranch & Farm-to-Table Enterprise in the Heart of Lamar County, Georgia

156 Perdue Road | Barnesville, Georgia 30204 | 17.25 Acres

Tucked into the rolling countryside of Lamar County, just a short drive from the historic charm of Barnesville, Thousand Hills Cattle Ranch is the rare kind of property that arrives fully realized. This is not simply a home on acreage — it is a complete, purpose- built agricultural enterprise where every fence line, every building, and every acre has been thoughtfully developed to support a life lived close to the land. For over a decade, this ranch has been home to a family that raised cattle the way it was done before industrialization ever entered the picture: slowly, personally, and with an unwavering commitment to quality. Whoever takes the reins next inherits not just infrastructure, but a legacy of natural, regenerative stewardship that has already won the loyalty of customers across Georgia.

The Homestead

At the center of the property sits a beautiful, customized and well-appointed home. You truly must see this home to appreciate it. Every detail of the home is well thought out, and that is evident from the moment you walk through the door. Comfortable and efficient, this primary residence boasts 1,176 square feet on the main level, with a matching 1,176 square foot daylight basement, giving the household 2,352 total square feet of living and flex space. A wraparound porch and deck crown the top floor, offering sweeping views over the pastures and a natural gathering place for morning coffee or evening sunsets. Below, a brick patio extends the living space outdoors at ground level, shaded and private. The home is built for real self-sufficiency: dual-zone HVAC keeps every room comfortable year-round, a 350-amp electrical service provides ample power for a working property, and a 24kW Generac backup generator with automatic switchover means the lights — and the well pump — never go dark, even when the grid does. A 500-gallon buried propane tank and a private residential well producing 5 to 8 gallons per minute round out a home designed to run independently, comfortably, and quietly for years to come.

Built for Horses and Cattle, From the Ground Up

Step outside the home and the property reveals itself as a fully operational livestock facility, with every structure purpose-built for daily ranch work. A timber frame carport,

27 by 41 feet, offers covered parking and storage with power, water, ceiling fans, and motion-activated lighting — practical comforts that make everyday chores easier.

For the horse lover, a two-stall horse barn measuring 36 by 16 feet includes two run-out stalls, automatic waterers, an upper hay loft, and lower storage, all overlooking a lighted

75 by 150 foot riding arena and pasture — ready for evening rides long after the sun goes down.

The true centerpiece of the working ranch, however, is the cattle handling facility: a substantial 40 by 60 foot structure with a 16 by 60 foot enclosed lean-to that houses an office, a half bath, and a generous storage and workshop area lined with shelving. The facility sits on a gravel base with power, water, and lighting throughout, and is equipped with a Tarter 180-degree, 20-head Cattlemaster sweep system complete with slide gates and alleyway, feeding directly into a Rancher XL hydraulic chute with integrated scales and headgate. A six-paddock layout allows cattle to be sorted, moved, and worked with remarkable efficiency, all backed by dedicated 200-amp electrical service.

Supporting structures extend the ranch's working capacity even further: a 40 by 60 foot equipment shelter with power, water, and a gravel base; a 40 by 20 foot hay shed with power and motion lighting; an 18 by 40 foot feed shelter outfitted with troughs and restraint gates for hay and feed storage; and three 18 by 25 foot run-in shelters scattered across the more open pastures, giving livestock shade and shelter wherever they graze. A final 12 by 20 foot closed-in shed with its own porch, built-in shelving, power, water, and motion lighting offers yet another flexible storage or workspace option.

Land Designed to Work

The 17.25 acres have been developed with the same intentionality as the buildings upon them. A graveled circular drive leads visitors in, while a dedicated gravel road runs directly back to the cattle handling facility, keeping ranch traffic separate from the home.

The entire perimeter is fenced and cross-fenced into seven distinct pastures, with multiple gates positioned throughout for easy livestock movement. Nineteen acres of pasture are equipped with irrigation, and most carry power as well, allowing for precise management of forage across the growing season. Every pasture has been tilled and reseeded in crabgrass or Jessup fescue, ensuring quality grazing is already established and ready for the next herd.

Water is abundant and redundant here. Beyond the homes residential well, the property boasts a new well drilled to 500 feet producing an impressive 18 to 20 gallons per minute, plus a dedicated irrigation-assist well at 125 feet delivering roughly 30 gallons per minute for use during irrigation season — a rare and valuable feature for any agricultural operation in the region.

For those who love to host or travel, the ranch offers two RV hookups — one with 50- amp service and one with 30-amp — both fully equipped with power, water, and sewer, along with a dedicated RV dump station. Eighteen young pecan trees, a mix of Creek and

Avalon varieties, are already in the ground and under irrigation, the beginnings of a future orchard. A terraced garden area, planted with fruit trees, berry bushes, and its own automatic watering system, offers a private space for growing the family's own produce alongside the ranch's livestock operation.

A Turnkey Farm-to-Table Enterprise

What truly sets this property apart is a fully built-out, state-licensed ranch store, meat processing facility, and commercial kitchen — a 3,000 square foot building situated on its own surveyed two acres, giving the next owner the ability to sell directly to the public from day one. The building serves three distinct functions under one roof: a state- licensed meat processing and cut shop, a fully equipped commercial kitchen, and a state- licensed retail grocery store, each designed to support a direct-to-consumer business model that eliminates the middleman entirely.

The facility includes a full bathroom and a second-floor office and storage area, and runs on its own dedicated 200-amp electrical service backed by a 24kW Generac generator with automatic switchover — ensuring the cold chain never breaks, even during a power outage. A 500-gallon propane tank, graveled parking front and back, and double receiving doors at the rear streamline daily deliveries and operations. Inside, commercial-grade cold storage anchors the entire operation: a 14 by 24 foot sub-zero walk-in freezer, an 8 by 14 foot hanging cooler for aging, a 48 by 20 foot cut shop and kitchen, and an 8 by 16 foot cool room just off the kitchen. Together, these spaces give an incoming operator everything needed to process, package, and sell beef, pork, chicken, and more — without a single additional build-out required.

The Ready to Eat Brand

The brand “Thousand Hills Cattle Ranch” includes a premium beef strip jerky, beef and pork snack stick and an all-beef summer sausage product line that is sold not only in the ranch store but also nationally. The ready-to-eat line has been in production for over 5 years and has grown every year. The growth of the product line necessitated the complete revamping of all the labels and cartons. All products carry a GS-1 UPC identifier, all labels and packaging have been approved for distribution nationally by the

USDA and all include required nutrition facts panels. Cartons and labels rival other national brands and are outperforming in their current marketplaces.

The brand has been approved for membership to SUSTA, the “Southern United States

Trade Association” that opens doors for small custom producers of US products internationally. The membership includes a cost share component for marketing and upgrading products for export as well as cost sharing to attend market trade shows nationally and internationally. The 2027 cost share component caps at $50,000 and the third year as high as $750,000 for successful brands.

A Legacy of Natural Stewardship

This ranch has been home to Thousand Hills Cattle Ranch, a naturally-raised beef operation built on a philosophy that predates modern industrial agriculture. No antibiotics. No hormones. No vaccines. Instead, cattle here have been raised the way they were in the earliest years of American ranching — grown slowly on pasture, personally known and inspected by the family that raised them, and finished at roughly 30 months before being processed at a local, family-run, organic-certified abattoir and dry-aged for two weeks to develop deep, natural flavor.

“Grown locally, we combine todays knowledge of genetics, nutrition, and health management with regenerative agriculture practices, animal husbandry, and welfare.

Thousand Hills cattle are personally cared for. I know each one of them, manage each one of them, and will inspect each one of them before processing. This is my promise to you,” the ranch's founder has said of the operation — a philosophy that has been built into every fence post, every pasture, and every square foot of the processing facility on this land.

Over the years, that promise has extended beyond the ranch's own cattle to include other natural producers of natural proteins. Naturally raised beef, chicken, pasture-raised eggs, non-GMO pork, and even wild-caught frozen seafood, all offered through the property's own retail store to a loyal base of customers throughout Georgia. For a buyer looking to step into an already-thriving natural food enterprise, or simply to enjoy one of the most completely developed livestock properties in the region and brand in the nation, Thousand Hills Cattle Ranch offers something exceedingly rare: land, buildings, water, and infrastructure that have already been built — and a story already worth telling.