1 acre or less
About
Message- Opportunity available:
- Mentoring
- Business partnership
- Lease
- Available facilities and equipment:
- Housing
- Irrigation capacity
- Fencing
- Agricultural machinery
- Other
- Preferred arrangement model:
- Lease
- MOU
- Partnership
- Available acreage:
- 1 acre or less
- Soil type on farm:
- Sandy loam
- Current farming practices:
- Conventional
- Current land use:
- Livestock
- Hay or pasture
- Preferred farming experience for farmer:
- Practical farming experience (including work as a farm intern or employee)
- Current or past farm business owner
- Desired farming practices by a new farmer:
- No preference
- Agricultural products I am interested being cultivated on my property:
- No preference
- Years experience of new farmer:
Farm description
The 26 acre farm near Lumby is fenced and cross fenced with approximately 10.5 acres in hay field, and 12 acres in pasture. The owners run sheep on the pastures in the lower part of the farm and have been adding better fencing to some of the upper pastures to rotate in sheep to help manage brush and weeds. There are two pastures used by a few older horses. There is a large barn with hay storage, sheep paddocks and lambing jugs, and room for raising meat birds. There is a chicken coop, equipment shed, tractor shed, a workshop and a large fenced garden. There is also a groundwater license that will allow for some irrigation. The property backs onto crown land. We are also listed as a habitat stewards with the Okanagan Similkameen Stewardship Society. We also have approximately 50 bird boxes and we are a hummingbird banding station.
Farm opportunity
The landowners live on the site and wish to continue the existing farming (sheep, hay, eggs and meat birds), but would like help so they can reduce workloads as they age and stay on the farm. They are currently in the process of building additional 805 sq. foot 2 bedroom suite accommodation on the property for the help. They are hoping to engage the interest of a young farmer(s) and are open to discussion on how to share existing operations and add new opportunities. They have tractors and haying equipment on the property. The large garden also grows raspberries and haskap berries. They are not organic, although the garden is, but they undertake integrated pest management, rotational grazing and low till systems to manage noxious and invasive weeds in their hay field and pastures.