Morganton, Burke County
Updated Mar 17, 2025
Available
- 24 Total acres
- 24 Acres of cropland or tillable land
- 0 Acres of fenced pasture
- 0 Acres of unfenced hayland
Oak Hill Community Farm Incubator Program
Morganton, Burke County
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The farm includes approximately 24 acres of bottomland fields with USDA prime farmland soils in the Canoe Creek floodplain.
Property features
Feature details
Program participants will have access to well water, as well as equipment, including high-tunnels (16' x 72' each), a Kubota 38hp hydrostatic tractor with front end loader, forks, and attachments (plow, disc harrow, auger, bushhog, box blade), CAT 305 mini-excavator with hydraulic thumb and buckets (12" and 24"), trailers (10', 14', and 18' utility trailers, and a 16' dump trailer), and a variety of power and hand tools. Power tools include chainsaws, leaf blowers, a walk behind brush mower, a zero-turn radius mower, and brush cutters.
Current production on farm
Production details
The property is currently being farmed by our mentor farmers, the Lee family of Lee's One Fortune Farm. They produce a diversity of vegetable crops, including many Asian vegetable varieties, as well as rice and flowers.
Incubator farm participants may grow annual and perennial vegetables, herbs, and cut flowers. Farmland cannot be used for livestock/animal husbandry or ornamental nursery plants. Other crops not listed on this site are open to discussion.
Current & past farming practices
Practice details
Prior to the opening of Oak Hill Community Park and Forest, the bottomland fields were leased to farmers producing corn under conventional farming practices. Since January 2024, the farm has been under the management of Lee's One Fortune Farm, who use traditional farming practices. Although the farm is not certified organic, the Lee's focus on natural inputs and therefore do not use synthetic pesticides.
Opportunity
Job or Learning Opportunity
Opportunity details
The Oak Hill Community Farm Incubator Program is part of the larger Oak Hill Community Park and Forest, located just outside of Morganton, NC. The goal of the program is to uplift beginning farmers by providing them with access to farmland (in the form of 0.5 acre plots), equipment, and purposeful mentorship from Tou and Chue Lee of Lee's One Fortune Farm. Program participants will hone their farming skills, improve their marketing potential, and have access to exclusive promotional opportunities. For more information, please visit our website at: https://www.foothillsconservancy.org/oakhillpark/communityfarmprogram/
Conservation easements or other programs
This land is protected under conservation easements or other programs.
Oak Hill Community Park and Forest is a 652 acre park owned and operated by Foothills Conservancy of North Carolina. Portions of the property, namely the streams and riparian areas, are protected under a conservation easement with North Carolina Land & Water Fund. This includes Canoe Creek, which runs near the farm plots.
Additional Details
Additional information about this property
Program participants will receive purposeful mentorship from Tou and Chue Lee, as well as gain access to educational workshops and events.
We ask that program participants commit to ecologically sound and sustainable farming practices.