Type of opportunity:

Sale (Owner Financed), Lease (5+ Years), Lease with Option to Buy, Business Partnership. More info: My partner and I are looking to focus our agricultural careers towards a community, education, and agritourism based business with a foundation in regenerative and ecosystem-based growing practices for plants, animals, fungi, and wild lands. Quality land access and on-site farmer housing have been the most challenging components to this career’s success, but with the right partners/land owners we can achieve great things for our community!

Equipment & infrastructure:

Well / Pond / Other water source, Farmer housing. More info: Finished, quality housing, storage shed/barn, and well/spring water for drinking and irrigating are required.

Current production on farm:

More info: No current production necessary.

Current farming practices:

None, the property is not being farmed. More info: Ideally, no chemical pesticides will have been applied to the land in the last 10+ years.

Previous farming experience:

Volunteer, Employee, Manager

Number of years experience:

5

Other qualifications:

Farm business training, Academic degree in agriculture or related field.

Production goals:

Flowers, Herbs, Hogs, Honey bees, Orchard, Poultry (Broiler/Layer), Sheep/Goat (Dairy/Meat), Vegetable production. More info: Thanksgiving turkeys, grass fed lamb, specialty vegetables, homestead rabbit, homestead garden, on site farm store, agritourism (workshops, tours, farm stays, events, etc.), potentially berries.

Personal experience and production goals summary:

With 8 years of farming experience, 1 year of farmer business training, a bachelors degree in biology and environmental ecology, and 3 years of owning our own small farming business under our belts, my partner and I are looking to stretch our legs and set roots onto land we can call our perennial home. We are looking for property to lease long term, or lease-to-own with a livable home, at least a half acre of vegetable growing space, at least 10 acres suitable for poultry and sheep, option for ecotourism (farm-stay, farm store, tours, etc), and within 45 minutes of a large metro/city.

Our greatest passion and reason for farming is to connect our community to their food, it is truly what we love doing. We have experienced how impactful it is to bring people out to the farm and show them how food is grown. Our goal is to spread a lot of good within the community, especially in our home state of North Carolina if we can. 

When we involve community through agritourism, we believe we can overcome the scarcely touched on topic that nuclear family farm businesses are not financially or humanly sustainable. Creative methods of generating income with farm stays, you-pick fruit, educational workshops, an on site farm store, and fun events expand the community's interest, involvement, and support of local farms while sustaining the farm business as well preventing the land from being overworked in an attempt to generate enough food to sell to turn a profit. 

Resume:

Avery Hunter Morgan Resume.pdf