George Couch, who shares in headquarters management, estimates that it costs only 30 cents per meal to feed the headquarters family. “We serve about 2 million meals a year,” Couch explained. “And when we divide the $350,000 a year that it takes to operate the farm along with kitchen expenses by the number of meals served, we arrive at the 30-cent figure.”

How is it possible for a farm ‘not to sell an ounce’ when it produces each year 80,000 gallons of milk, 50,000 pounds of cheese, 60,000 dozen eggs, and over 300,000 pounds of beef, pork and chicken? Who uses all this food?

The large Christian family associated with the world headquarters of Jehovah’s witnesses does. Some 375 members of this family work at Watchtower Farm, and about 1,350 more of them live in Brooklyn, New York.