1 acre or less
About
Message- Opportunity available:
- Mentoring
- Internship
- Lease
- Lease-to-own
- Available facilities and equipment:
- Housing
- Irrigation capacity
- Irrigation equipment
- Greenhouse
- Fencing
- Agricultural machinery
- Cold storage
- Processing facilities
- Other
- Preferred arrangement model:
- Lease
- MOU
- Partnership
- Purchase of land
- Transfer/succession
- Licence
- Available acreage:
- 1 acre or less
- 2-5 acres
- Soil type on farm:
- Loam
- Clay loam
- Sandy loam
- Current farming practices:
- Ecological production, but not certified
- Biodynamic
- Current land use:
- Livestock
- Market garden
- Hay or pasture
- Fallow
- Woodlot
- Vegetables
- Fruit/berries/grapes
- Other use
- Preferred farming experience for farmer:
- Practical farming experience (including work as a farm intern or employee)
- Desired farming practices by a new farmer:
- Certified organic
- Ecological production but not certified
- Biodynamic
- Agricultural products I am interested being cultivated on my property:
- Flowers
- Fruit/berries/grapes
- Herbs
- Seeds, seedlings or nursery stock
- Vegetables
- No preference
- Years experience of new farmer:
- 1-2 years
- 3-5 years
- 6-10 years
Farm description
Neighbourly Farm is growing! This ecological farm-based village near Dornoch in Grey County is ready to add one or two more households in 2025. We can offer secure land access and year-round, independent, affordable housing in a village setting for an ecological farmer, craftsperson or food-based entrepreneur looking to build a business in areas such as: Baking Beekeeping Butchery Fermented foods Flowers and small fruits Herbalism Market Gardening Mushroom cultivation Woodworking Other food or ag-related or land-based enterprises – bring us your proposals! Note, there is no room for another livestock enterprise. And we are unfortunately unable to accommodate homesteaders, weekend farmers, or semi-retired individuals at this time. The land is 228 acres of fields, hedgerows, forests, a spring-fed pond and a creek, all backing onto Mountain Lake wetland. Outbuildings include large-scale barns and workshops, former dairy, sugar shack, studio spaces and more. In 2025, we have housing for 4-5 separate households. Your current neighbours on the land include Johann and Magda Kleinsasser, well-known elders in the ecological farming community who ran Whole Circle Farm near Guelph for many years. Christian and Ally, first-generation farmers, have established Rich Pastures Farm on the property (richpasturesfarm.ca), a mixed regenerative livestock operation consisting of cattle, pigs, and chickens. And we recently welcomed Maxine, an experienced farm worker who is now running her own market garden.
Farm opportunity
If you are serious about starting up your own enterprise at Neighbourly, email info at neighbourlyfarm dot ca and tell us what enterprise you would like to pursue, what experience you bring to it and other qualities you offer the community. (Inquiries that only say something like “I am interested – tell me more” will be ignored.)