Violet Aurora Farm and Forage

Farming full-time for income

Updated Aug 7, 2025

  • 11-50 Total acres
  • 0-5 Acres of cropland or tillable land
  • 11-50 Acres of pasture
J

Jeffrey Complo

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

Create Profile Sign In

Seeking farmland for lease, or rent to own, with 1+ acres to be immediate vegetable production and future expansion.

Currently farming for income status is paused and I am testing varietes for resilience amd adaptability.

Upon aquisition of apace to produce, I plan to immediately launch a market garden operation. I have experience turning multiple fallow and undernourished spaces into vegetable producrion very quickly.

This will lay sales foundations, and the project will expand into a staple food crop productions of flour corns, and heirloom rices, eventually leading into animal husbandry. 

My farming practices fall somewhere between John Jeavons square foot gardening, and the wildness of Fukuoka. I have preference to fermeted fertlizers and homemade herbal pest management instead of commercial producta.

  • Sale (Owner Financed)
  • Lease (1 to 5 Years)
  • Lease (5+ Years)
  • Lease w/Option to Buy

Opportunity details

Ideally a rent to own situation is preferred, but I am also very open to a long term lease.

  • Regenerative
  • Ecological production but not certified

Practices details

I plan to develop a self reliant ecoculture operation with very minimal if any external inputs needed.

  • Cattle (Dairy / Beef)
  • Field crops
  • Poultry (Broiler / Layer)
  • Vegetables
  • Woodlot or forest products

Years of experience

15 total years of experience

5 years employed as a worker (non-manager)

10 years as a manager

Education, training, and employment experience

  • Farm internship / apprenticeship
  • Full time farm employee
  • Farm business owner

Experience details

I spent several years working on a high volume market garden farm. I learned introductions and practices to biodynamic and biointensove methods. 

Beyond my personal experiences of operating market gardens I have been mostly self educated. 

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