J & H Game Farm was started in 1968 by Jim and Joanne Johnson, Jim's brother Don, and Joanne's brother Bill who was completing college with a degree in Conservation and English and was expected to run the recreation business. The first purchase was a 305 acre parcel in the middle of the woods. A year later the farm we now operate out of, became available and we purchased that. Bill graduated and had a lucrative offer from Pennsylvania so Jim and Joanne sold their dairy farm and moved seven miles north and started operating J & H in 1970.

You could not make a living from hunting then, so Jim worked outside the game farm for 20 years. Our oldest daughter Diane was married in 1981 and her husband Steve started working part time. Steve and Diane now work full time.