Looking for the following:
Type of opportunity:
Sale (Standard), Sale (Owner Financed), Lease (5+ Years), Lease with Option to Buy.
More info: The Veterans Healing Farm (VHF) is a 501c3 nonprofit established in 2013. Today their mission is to enhance the mental, emotional, and physical well-being of our nation’s Veterans and their families. The vision is an end to Veteran suicide, which may not be in the news every day, but these tragedies continue every day.
They accomplish their mission through three primary programs; agritherapy, therapies and therapeutic workshops (non-pharmaceutical), and Veteran-focused events. The VHF was informed in January by the landowner that she was retiring and we have to be off the land by August. More info about us www.veteranshealingfarm.org.
Equipment & infrastructure:
Well / Pond / Other water source.
More info: Ideally we are looking for 12-15 acres in Henderson County (but open to other locations) with a creek, river, pond, on it. Out of the flood plain. Need electric and potable water. We can put in septic if needed. Farming or agritherapy is only one of our programs we offer Veterans.
Current production on farm:
Flowers, Herbs, Honey bees, Vegetable production.
More info: We produce approximately 5,000lbs of produce every year and donate it all back to our Veteran community at the Charles George VA, and the Safelight Women's Shelter, and the Veterans Restoration Quarters (180 bed male Veteran homeless shelter, and IAM food pantry, Rescue Mission, etc.
Current farming practices:
Ecological production but not certified.
More info: We use organic practices.
Qualifications and goals:
Previous farming experience:
Volunteer, Employee, Manager
Number of years experience:
11
Other qualifications:
More info: We can always use help across the board.
Production goals:
Flowers, Herbs, Honey bees, Vegetable production.
More info: It is the therapeutic process of organic farming that is the main goal for our Veterans, not the number of heads of cabbage at the end of the season. We do not seek a production farm.
Personal experience and production goals summary:
I've been the Executive Director for three years now. On tours when someone asks a specific agricultural question, I ask them if they've ever seen the old show, Green Acres. I'm Mr. Douglas. I continue to learn about farming and beekeeping and medicinal herbs all the time.
