Looking for the following:
Type of opportunity:
Sale (Standard), Sale (Owner Financed), Lease (1 to 5 Years), Lease with Option to Buy, Internship / Mentorship.
More info: I would love to set up and run an organic farm offering fruits and vegetables in the Wake/Chatham County area. I am looking for a reasonable priced piece of land or lease.
I don't really need five acres. I would be fine with 1 to 2 acres.
Equipment & infrastructure:
More info: I am open to opportunities that are available.
Qualifications and goals:
Number of years experience:
4
Other qualifications:
More info: We moved here from Illinois a year ago. While living in Illinois, I fell in love with gardening and grew an amazing large garden for four years. I had far too much produce the summer we moved, so my daughter and I sold the bulk of the harvest at the local farmer's market and she used the proceeds for college. It was so much fun and such a joy to share my ability to grow yummy food with our community. I am looking for a piece of land where I can again grow an even larger garden or small organic farm with a goal to provide organic food for sale in the local community.
Production goals:
More info: In Illlinois I had a lot of success with raspberries and strawberries. Those were the most popular fruits that we sold at the farmer's market. I grew around 10 different varieties of raspberries. I am not sure how raspberries will do here, but I would love to try. I learned that fruits sell incredibly well at the farmer's market, so I am interested in growing blueberries, blackberries, raspberries, strawberries, and melons, as well as fruit trees. I am open to growing vegetables as well.
Personal experience and production goals summary:
See my production goals paragraph.
The summer we took our produce to the farmer's market, we set up a facebook account entitled Francom Family Gardens. It contains no new posts as we have lived here for over a year, but you can see posts from what we sold the summer of 2022.
