Farm management (3 years+) - Experience managing four different farms over ten years.
Other experience/agricultural/business training - Young Agrarians Business Bootcamp
Do you have a business plan?
Yes - We are currently putting together our business plan for this project.
Do you have financial resources available to start your farm?
Yes
Do you have access to other financial resources (such as a financial partner, loan, etc.) to start your farm?'
Yes - We intend to use available grants to maximise our farm's success and positive ecological and community impact.
Project
Farm Name
TBC
Farm Project Description
We are a young couple with a mixed background in the agricultural, environmental, trades and non-profit sectors. Between us we have over ten years’ experience in working on and running farms. My partner has managed four farms, is a trained butcher and carpenter, and ran his own farm, butcher shop and contracting businesses. I have experience as a farm coordinator, working as a project coordinator for environmental non-profit projects including my own non-profit project, and I have a background in research biology projects of grassland ecosystems.
We are both passionate about creating sustainable, resilient and connected local communities, and believe that community-oriented farming is a foundational part of this. Our farm vision is that of a medium-scale organic livestock and produce farm run based on regenerative agriculture and permaculture principles as much as possible. We want to contribute positively to the local ecology and local community with this project and serve as an example of food cultivation in harmony with the environment being a possible and accessible thing through workshops, work parties, a CSA program, U-pick days and more. We want to grow some larger field crops and have a small annual market garden and orchard. We want to raise egg chickens, pigs, and eventually dairy cows. As we acknowledge a truly sustainable and well-run farm takes time to establish, we have our farm planned out in sections and phases to be completed over the span of around a decade or so.
Preferred Arrangement
Registered Lease on Title -
Lease -
Transfer / Succession -
Sale of Land -
Other - Property caretaker position or similar
Duration of the desired agreement
1+ year, ideally indefinitely.
Ideal date to obtain land by
1st February, though available from November.
Participant in BC Land Matching Program
Yes
Land & Features Desired
Total Land Size (acres)
Ideally 12 acres but open to smaller.
Wooded Area (acres)
Yes - Ideally around 5 acres.
Cultivable Area (acres)
3 acres crops, 3 acres pasture.
Possibility to expand area currently available (acres)
Yes
Zoning
Either
Preferred current state of the surface of the cultivable area
Cleared.
Open to landowner residing on property
Yes - We are open to a respectful arrangement with likeminded people.
Need farm buildings
Yes
Need fenced land
Yes
Need farm machinery and tools
Yes
Need established water source and infrastructure
About 3000L/acre/week during growing season. We don't need any specific infrastructure.
Need on-site housing
Yes - We need a 50ftx50ft site with water and power for our home and work space.
Production type
Vegetable - Mixed vegetables, potatoes, squash.
Livestock - Chickens, pigs, maybe cows.
Orchard/Fruit - Possibly plums, pears, apples.
Greenhouse - Tomatoes, winter greens.
Bees - Maybe in a later phase after the farm is established.
