Looking for the following:
Type of opportunity:
Sale (Standard), Sale (Owner Financed), Lease (1 to 5 Years), Lease (5+ Years), Lease with Option to Buy.
More info: We are a young family currently running a successful small market farm (vegetables, flowers, and herbs) and CSA. We are farming on family land in NY state, but looking move our farming endeavor to western NC, where we used to live. Our focus is on diverse, ecological, biointensive, no-till farming. We also have a couple sheep for wool production, which is used to make hand spun yarn.
Equipment & infrastructure:
Barn, Fencing, Well / Pond / Other water source, Farmer housing.
More info: We operate on a small scale and really could build the minimal infrastructure needed. A barn for the sheep would be ideal. However, farmer housing would be ideal.
Current farming practices:
Biodynamic, Certified organic, Transitioning to organic, Ecological production but not certified, None, the property is not being farmed.
Qualifications and goals:
Previous farming experience:
Employee, Manager
Number of years experience:
6
Other qualifications:
More info: I have volunteered and worked on farms for about 5 years and am finishing up the first season of running our own farm, which was very successful. My husband grew up on a 50 acre hobby farm and is a carpenter. We are very handy and driven.
Production goals:
Flowers, Herbs, Honey bees, Sheep/Goat (Dairy/Meat), Vegetable production.
More info: We currently operate a no-till, biointensive market garden on less than 1/4 acre. We’d like to continue doing that, but with the option to grow to 2 acres of vegetable production.
Personal experience and production goals summary:
We know our farming endeavor will be successful in NC because it currently is in NY after our first season. We truly miss the mountains of western NC and want to bring our farming adventure there.
