Farming part-time for homestead
Updated Sep 5, 2025
Seeking
- 0-5 Total acres
- 0-5 Acres of cropland or tillable land
Desired locations
I want to grow free food on at least 1500 ft2 of land within 15 minutes of Asheville, NC for the 2026 growing season.
Plan
Preferred type of opportunity
Desired farming practices
Practices details
I want to double-dig a four foot wide by as-long-as-the-land-and-people-allow foot long bed with a spade and shovel the first year. I want create humus in a compost pile that comes 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 at least three inches of humus on top of the beds before every new planting. I want 100% of seed to come from the previous year's crop. I want to seed grain with a hand-seeder and vegetables by human hand. I want to create a mulch with leaves. I want to mulch all beds. I want cultivate all in-bed weeds with a scuffle hole.
Production goals
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 6,200 square foot 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.