Farm
Riverview Plantation is a Working Farm
Yes, Riverview Plantation has built its name on quail hunting and an unmatched luxury hunting experience, but our guides and staff also work the lands and continue a family tradition that stretches back generations.
The rich soil of the Flint River floodplain offers the perfect resource for agriculture, and we don’t feel like we’d be doing right by the land if we didn’t make use of it. That’s why, beyond creating the prefect quail habitat, we also grow fruits and vegetables. Some of these end up on the plates of our guests and in our sumptuous recipes, and some are sold to grocery stores and other markets.
Our agriculture crew have become experts at growing and harvesting blueberries in the early growing season and blackberries in the late growing season. We also tend citrus trees – even if they are sometimes affected by colder temperatures this far north. We also grow Pearl Millet to help feed our teeming quail population – that includes several hundred acres of milo under center pivot irrigation to sell to neighboring plantations while putting 15,000 – 20,000 bushels in our own grain bins for supplemental feeding of our quail.