Neal Raye

Farming part-time for homestead

Updated Jan 24, 2025

  • 6-10 Total acres
  • 0-5 Acres of cropland or tillable land
  • 6-10 Acres of pasture
25view

Neal Raye

Sign in or create a profile to bookmark or contact farms.

Create Profile Sign In

Looking for 5-10+ Acres with House to farm a variety of fruits and vegetables using Permaculture & Homesteading

Organic, Regenerative, Biodynamic, Permaculture, Homesteading 

Certified Master Gardener with University Extention Services. 

A few acres with housing is all I need to create a permaculture homestead! More would be better. Fifty years of experience living and learning, born and raised by Master Organic Gardeners, who were also raised on homesteads! 

I have Good credit (700+), great references, no pets, no smoking! I pay my rent on time, you never have to ask for it! Never! I have 30 years of experience in property management and owned my own rentals. 

Came here to create a Permaculture Homestead Academy to invite the next generation how to live off the land creating their own food sources. 

  • Farmer housing
  • Well / Pond / Other water source
  • Sale (Owner Financed)
  • Lease (1 to 5 Years)
  • Lease w/Option to Buy
  • Biodynamic
  • Regenerative
  • Ecological production but not certified
  • Aquaculture
  • Cattle (Dairy / Beef)
  • Field crops
  • Flowers / Herbs
  • Hay or pasture
  • Honey bees
  • Orchard / Vineyard
  • Poultry (Broiler / Layer)
  • Sheep/Goat (Dairy / Meat)
  • Vegetables
  • Woodlot or forest products

Years of experience

0 total years of experience

Education, training, and employment experience

  • Farmer training program

Experience details

8 years of organic gardening training with Dad & Grandpa (mom's Dad) (1970-1978)

Continued education with University Extention Services (1981-2005) 
Attended monthly classes learning various aspects of Farming & Ranching, soil health & pruning, etc. Also books, magazines, websites, forums on organic gardening, permaculture, homesteading, ranching, regenerative & biodynamic farming practices and similar subjects.

Assisted others in their endeavors to build family homesteads, creating food for the family first, then creating a cashflow with products produced and selling at local and regional farmers markets, created marketing campaign for CSA subscription. (2005-2020)

Certification Master Gardener

Desired locations

  • Alleghany
  • Ashe
  • Avery
  • Buncombe
  • Burke
  • Caldwell
  • Cherokee
  • Clay
  • Graham
  • Haywood
  • Henderson
  • Jackson
  • Macon
  • Madison
  • McDowell
  • Mitchell
  • Polk
  • Rutherford
  • Swain
  • Transylvania
  • Watauga
  • Wilkes
  • Yancey