Type of opportunity:

Sale (Standard), Lease (1 to 5 Years), Lease (5+ Years), Lease with Option to Buy. More info: I am looking to buy land or to lease land for sustainable growing vegetables to sell to the public and to raise some animals for personal consumption (minimum land to buy is 6 acres, for lease I can start with less acreage). Also, I am looking into buying > 20 acres of timberland.

Equipment & infrastructure:

Fencing, Well / Pond / Other water source, Farm equipment. More info: For lease, I am hoping to lease in a farm that has equipment, water available, and some infrastructure. If it is land to buy, I am willing to invest in slowly building the infrastructure.

Current production on farm:

Fallow, Field crops, Flowers, Hay or pasture, Herbs, Vegetable production, Woodlot or forest products. More info: For Vegetable farm, I am looking for land that was fallow, field crops, flowers, herbs, in Vegetable production, maybe in pasture (depends on the pasture). For timberland, I am looking for tract of land that already has timber or it has been cut 8 or more years ago.

Current farming practices:

Certified organic, Transitioning to organic, Ecological production but not certified. More info: For the vegetable production farm, I am looking for farms that are in ecological (sustainable) productions practices but are not certified, are transitioning to organic or are certified organic. For Timberland, I do not have requirements, except that the land should not have been used to dump chemicals or toxic substances, or garbage.

Previous farming experience:

Volunteer

Number of years experience:

35

Other qualifications:

Academic degree in agriculture or related field. More info: I spent all my summers of my childhood in my father's farm in Argentina. I received a degree in Agronomy in Argentina and an MS and PhD in plant genetics and Breeding in US. I have worked as a plant breeder and plant geneticist for 20 years and have my backyard Veg garden for + years. However, I want to go back to farming and to produce food. I would like to combine food production with local food needs.

Production goals:

Flowers, Herbs, Vegetable production, Woodlot or forest products. More info: For the timberland parcel, it would be used for woodlot and forest products. For the vegetable farm, I was planning to grow Vegetables, Flowers, and herbs depending on economics which I need to get a handle of.

Personal experience and production goals summary:

I have studied agronomy and plant breeding. I have worked as a field plant breeder for many years in Maize and soybean so I know what it takes in conventional farming to grow good crops but my only "real hand-on production" knolwledge is from spending summers in my father farm in Argentina and growing my own Vegetable garden in NC. I have no experience how to sale produce in the US, farming and farm labor laws in the US and the laws that apply to food safety for human consumption in the US. I am very rusty on how to calculate profitability, cost and income projections, etc. I have no knowledge about how to find costumenrs to sale the farm products (i have read all the online infroamtion of plocal produce markets), and market prices and sale practices,