Type of opportunity:

Sale (Owner Financed), Lease with Option to Buy, Internship / Mentorship, Incubator / Mentored Lease, Business Partnership, Employment. More info: I want to raise meat, poultry and look into more exotic species for meat. I would like to grow various vegetables and be able to work with CSAs and other alternate sources of local community based sales channels for the production.

Equipment & infrastructure:

Barn, Fencing, Well / Pond / Other water source, Greenhouse, Livestock facilities, Farmer housing, Farm equipment, Processing facilities, Irrigation equipment, Cold storage (cooler/freezer). More info: The more equipment and infrastructure the better. I'd really like to have the best available, but it's amazing how much work you can get down with a shovel.

Current production on farm:

Cattle (Dairy/Beef), Field crops, Hay or pasture, Hemp, Hogs, Poultry (Broiler/Layer), Sheep/Goat (Dairy/Meat), Vegetable production. More info: I would like for the farm to have two or three different types of meat producing species. I want to have bees and a nursery for trees such as Dogwoods.

Current farming practices:

Conventional, Ecological production but not certified.

Previous farming experience:

Volunteer

Number of years experience:

5

Production goals:

Aquaculture, Cattle (Dairy/Beef), Christmas trees, Field crops, Hemp, Herbs, Hogs, Honey bees, Orchard, Poultry (Broiler/Layer), Sheep/Goat (Dairy/Meat), Vegetable production, Vineyard, Woodlot or forest products. More info: I want to have more of a traditional farm, but with a little added twist of some unique product that makes the farm stand out.

Personal experience and production goals summary:

I grew up along the Ohio River in West Virgina and summers were spent, bailing and stacking hay, clearning and repairing/building fence line and chasing stray cattle and goats.  My grandfather, two uncles and cousin all owned nurseries or farms and I would spend the days cutting weeds away from the saplings, digging up stumps and clearning and reclaiming land.  My grandfather use to grow White Oak, Hemlock and both white and pink Dogwood trees.  My experice was mainly digging up, balling the roots in burlap and cutting weeds.  I would dig out roots of trees that grew too tall.  My uncle raised cattle in a forrest setting.   He had 7 miles of fenceline that I helped install and then maintain.  My cousin took over the nursery business from his father (my uncle) and still produces some from the land but mostly it's grown over.  I have some experice working in and around farms.  My parents didn't want that life for them or for me so I was sent to college and have not been back on the family farmlands in any meaningful way other that to walk from one side to the other.

I want to produce poultry and goat meat mainly.  I have had a dream of also producing Elk on the land for both meat and for supplying to various hunting outfits.  I want to provide a table full of food for a fair price.  The production goals all depend on the size of the land and what it's willing to support.