Stephen Dear Sr.

Farming part-time for homestead

Updated Nov 4, 2025

  • 0-5 Total acres
  • 0-5 Acres of cropland or tillable land
  • 0-5 Acres of pasture
Enjoying a Saturday in South Ga

Stephen Dear

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Looking to lease or purchase a small, sustainable, self-sufficient, farm for myself, my son, and his children

I hope to use this opportunity to learn how to earn and a living through sustainable farming and for my grandchildren to be educated on that lifestyle. I want them to enjoy working in hand with the earth, which will benefit both them and nature. 

  • Farmer housing
  • Barn
  • Greenhouse
  • Irrigation equipment
  • Well / Pond / Other water source
  • Sale (Owner Financed)
  • Lease (1 to 5 Years)
  • Lease w/Option to Buy
  • Lease w/Mentoring
  • Employment / Internship / Mentorship
  • Conventional
  • Orchard / Vineyard
  • Vegetables

Years of experience

4 total years of experience

2 years employed as a worker (non-manager)

-2 years as a manager

Education, training, and employment experience

  • Other

Experience details

I worked on a farm in my formative years as a teenager, beginning at age 13 to the age of 17. My father bought a farm when I was 25 and we made it into a functioning sufficient farm with a nursery dedicated to raising long leaf pines. We also planted stands of pine trees, raking, baling and selling the straw biannually. We provided maintenance to all necessary equipment and systems required to provide the highest yield. That included irrigation, weed and pest mitigation, farm machinery, etc.

Desired locations

  • Bladen
  • Brunswick
  • Carteret
  • Columbus
  • Craven
  • Duplin
  • Greene
  • Johnston
  • Jones
  • Lenoir
  • New Hanover
  • Onslow
  • Pamlico
  • Pender
  • Robeson
  • Sampson
  • Wayne
  • Wilson