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Seeking pasture land and succession buy-in

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  • Lower Mainland - Fraser Valley -
  • Vancouver Island & Gulf Islands -

Land Seeker Details

Training
  • Agriculture-related degree - Plant Sciences
  • General degree - Environmental Studies (MA)
  • General farming (3 years+) - Growing food, raising animals, and producing value-adds over a decade experience
Do you have a business plan?
Yes - Have a current business with strong revenue
Do you have financial resources available to start your farm?
Yes - Business revenue. We’d also love to buy-in to a farm looking ahead to succession planning.
Do you have access to other financial resources (such as a financial partner, loan, etc.) to start your farm?'
No

Project

Farm Name
Fern + Roe Hide Tanning
Farm Project Description

Hello! We are Mara and Mark Santamaria-Cur, we are located in Central Saanich. We run a natural micro hide tannery on the island and specialize in local fibreshed textiles education. We are looking for pasture land to raise a flock of sheep. We do not currently own a flock, we’d be starting this flock from scratch, with experience in animal husbandry. Our ideal land match is a farm looking ahead to succession planning, whose farmers want a new generation to buy in and take over production. Between the two of us we have experience in food growing, animal raising, certified arborism, construction, and degrees in Environmental Studies, Urban Forestry, Plant Sciences, and Environmental Policy and Communications. Our main joint venture at this time is Fern + Roe, our business in which we teach people how to create natural leathers and rugs mainly from island sheep farms. We’d love to raise our own flock, starting as soon as we connect with a pasture/farm. Longer term, we’d like to buy into a farm that is seeking partners or the next-generation of land tenders, and we are ready to do so. We have a strong community on southern Vancouver Island and would prefer to stay on island, but feel free to reach out if we sound like a good fit if you’re in southern BC as well. Thank you for reading!

Preferred Arrangement
  • Registered Lease on Title -
  • Lease -
  • Transfer / Succession -
  • Sale of Land -
Duration of the desired agreement
Ideal date to obtain land by
2024
Participant in BC Land Matching Program
Yes

Land & Features Desired

Total Land Size (acres)
Wooded Area (acres)
No
Cultivable Area (acres)
Possibility to expand area currently available (acres)
No
Zoning
Either
Preferred current state of the surface of the cultivable area

Pasture land with or without current fencing. Access to an outbuilding or ability to provide our own.

Open to landowner residing on property
Yes
Need farm buildings
No
Need fenced land
No
Need farm machinery and tools
No
Need established water source and infrastructure
Dependant on size
Need on-site housing
No
Production type
  • Livestock - Sheep
Type of agriculture
  • Organic -
Soil needs
Will acquire commercial insurance
Yes - Already insured
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