Type of opportunity:

Sale (Standard), Sale (Owner Financed), Lease (1 to 5 Years), Lease (5+ Years), Lease with Option to Buy, Internship / Mentorship, Incubator / Mentored Lease, Business Partnership, Employment with Transfer. More info: Long term lease with option to buy but open to other arrangements. Open to partnering and land share.

Equipment & infrastructure:

Fencing, Well / Pond / Other water source, Greenhouse, Farmer housing, Cold storage (cooler/freezer). More info: Water on site, small housing for one person, a greenhouse and fencing would be amazing but that can be put up.

Current production on farm:

Woodlot or forest products. More info: I currently grow a variety of native and edible bareroot trees and perennials including hazelnut, chestnut, pawpaw, persimmon, elderberry, magnolia, sea buckthorn, aronia, willow and others.

Current farming practices:

Ecological production but not certified. More info: I grow everything with great care and attention, beyond organically. No sprays, no pesticides of any kind. I grow many of the trees in air prune beds, wooden boxes with screened bottoms which encourages healthy and robust root systems. I practice no-till growing and prefer to grow in permanent raised beds, building up the soil with organic matter.

Previous farming experience:

Volunteer, Employee

Number of years experience:

8

Other qualifications:

Incubator program, Farm business training.

Production goals:

Flowers, Herbs, Orchard, Woodlot or forest products. More info: Small scale 1/2-1 acre, no-till organic permaculture nursery growing native and edible trees and perennials including hazelnut, pawpaw, persimmon, chestnut, elderberry and others. Long term goals to expand into ecological agroforestry and perennial polyculture system. To provide healthy, productive plants to the community that will provide food for many years to come while supporting the health of the surrounding ecosystem.

Personal experience and production goals summary:

Hello community,

I am looking for land to buy or lease to expand my small scale permaculture nursery growing organic native/edible bareroot trees and perennials including hazelnut, pawpaw, persimmon, chestnut, elderberry and others. Ideal growing space would be .5-1 acre relatively flat/gently sloped with a mix of both sun and shade. I would like to also grow woodland medicinals including goldenseal, black cohosh, and others so some woodlands and a longer term set up would be ideal. Long term goals to expand into a perennial polyculture system incorporating regenerative agroforestry using the surrounding forest. I have worked on organic farms of all kinds since 2014 and started my nursery business 2 years ago. Attended business planning class with Mountain Bizworks in Asheville, NC.  Participated in start up incubator farm growing a small organic market garden outside of Boone, NC in 2018. I am now looking to set down roots and hope to find suitable land within 30 minutes of Asheville Ideally land will have suitable housing on site, one bedroom/one bathroom, can be tiny and/or rustic. Please contact me if you have or know of anything available. Thank you!