Farming part-time for homestead
Updated Sep 21, 2025
Seeking
- 0-5 Total acres
- 0-5 Acres of cropland or tillable land
Desired locations
Hi. I want to contact people who grow a minimum 80% of their food in a 15 minute radius of Asheville, North Carolina.
Plan
Farming status: N/A
Plans: detailed below
Practices: detailed below
Desired infrastructure
Equipment and infrastructure details
I want a tapped spring. I want a place indoors with space for a queen mattress. I want a government-approved compost toilet with access to the poop. I want a root cellar. I want a used solar panel, wiring cables, battery, charge controller, and inverter that is large and efficient enough to charge all the electric tools. I want a used electric lawn mower, weed wacker, and fence. I want a carbon-fiber shovel, spade, pitchfork, and rake. I want a used wheel-barrow and two, 5-gallon buckets. I want a used row cover that is made from a single, 5-year-lifetime-to-biodegrade material.
Preferred type of opportunity
Opportunity details
I want to live on land with friends, gardens, chickens, and PV solar.
Desired farming practices
Practices details
I want to double-dig a four foot by the-maximum-length-allowed-by-the-land-and-people foot bed with a spade and shovel the first year. I want create soil matter from a compost system that uses materials from a forest, sawmill, field, lawn, kitchen, and/or compost toilet materials within a 10 min wheelbarrow-carry of the garden. I want to shovel a minimum of three inches of humus on top of the beds 3 days before every new planting. I want 100% of seed to come from the previous year's crop. I want to collect leaf litter to apply on all beds. I want to dig out plants, lay cardboard, and pile wood chips on 24-inch-wide pathways. I want to grow plants or seeds in all beds 360 days of the year.
Production goals
Goals details
I want to grow 73 lbs of wheat in a single year, for free.
Farm experience
Years of experience
2 total years of experience
0 years employed as a worker (non-manager)
0 years as a manager
Education, training, and employment experience
Experience details
I independently built a 620 square foot vegetable garden in Asheville, NC in 2024 and worked in Eagle's Nest Foundation's 1.5 acre garden as a Garden Intern under Richard Flunker in Brevard, NC in 2024.
I managed the Love Project's 780 square foot and Shope Farms' 800 square foot vegetable gardens; and assisted in the Joe's Home and Jones Cove Garden Cooperative gardens as the Center for Inspired Education's Community Garden Intern in Asheville, NC in 2025. In the Love Project garden, I built a 780-square-foot worth of fence, beds, borders, and paths to grow 10 kale, 14 squash, 40 beet, 20 radish, 48 carrots, 8 spinach, 15 potatoes, and 31 sweet potato plants.