Pat Hardy is owner and operator of Cloverleaf Farm, which consists of 35 beef cattle, 50
mature sheep, and 26,000 layers and roosters. Pat leases several other tracts where
he runs 120 head of beef cattle, and grows 110 acres of hay. Recently, with cost-share
funds from the Sugar Creek 319 Water Quality Project, Pat installed over a mile of
barbed wire fence, 300 ft. of cross fencing, four 300 gallon concrete water troughs, over
1300 ft. of pipeline to the troughs, heavy use areas around the troughs and syrup tanks,
a stream crossing with a culvert, and a drilled well.
Pat and his wife, Pat, have three children and four grandchildren. He is extremely
active in his community and serves as a volunteer 4H Leader, a Piedmont Soil & Water
Conservation District Supervisor, President of the Morgan County Farm Bureau,
Chairman of the Morgan County Ag. Authority, Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors
of Southern States, Past President of the Piedmont Area Poultry Association, Past
President of the Morgan County Cattle Association, and past Vice President of the
Georgia Club Lamb Association.
For his efforts, Pat was selected the Morgan County Chamber of Commerce Volunteer
of the Year for 1990. In 1991, he was also selected Commercial Cattleman of the Year
and received the Chamber of Commerce Farm Family Award. He has received the
Friend of 4H Award and, in 1998, the Block and Bridle Producer of the Year. In 2002,
Pat was honored by the Piedmont Soil and Water Conservation District as Morgan
County’s Conservationist-of-the-Year.