1 acre or less
About
Message- Opportunity available:
- Business partnership
- Available facilities and equipment:
- Housing
- Irrigation capacity
- Processing facilities
- Greenhouse
- Preferred arrangement model:
- Purchase of land
- Available acreage:
- 1 acre or less
- Soil type on farm:
- Loam
- Sandy loam
- Current farming practices:
- Ecological production, but not certified
- Current land use:
- Vegetables
- Other_L
- Fruit/berries/grapes
- Other use
- Preferred farming experience for farmer:
- No preference
- Desired farming practices by a new farmer:
- No preference
- Agricultural products I am interested being cultivated on my property:
- Vegetables
- Flowers
- Other
- Fruit/berries/grapes
- Herbs
- No preference
- Years experience of new farmer:
- 1 - 2 years
- 3 - 5 years
- 6 - 10 years
- No preference
Farm description
I have a 2-acre parcel located in a semi agro-zone inside a highly agro-zone, 30 minutes from Montreal. I have been cultivating 1 acre in medicinal plants and vegetables for the last 10 years and the land is enclosed by two very small ‘’forests’’ where we also grow medicinals (I also harvest wild plants from surrounding land and on a friend's organic farm nearby). The soil is mainly a sandy loam I arrived here in 2014 we've created a garden from scratch, all by hand on land that had been abandoned for 30 years. Everything is organic althought not certified. A big proportion of the plants we use medicinally are perennial, naturally leading to a permaculture system. I raise seedling, cultivate plants, create therapeutic products and collect and sell seed all for medicinal plans. Additionally I do consultations, and one of my main activity is teaching. I do traditional herbalism with the objective of producing the most effective and powerful plants possible. The production is unmechanized (everything is done by hand), so that we use only the active part of each plant when it is at its optimal stage. There is a 4 bedroom log-house I live in and rent rooms to students or potential workers in the summer. The recent garage building is now a workshop with dryers and seedling room on the ground level, and transformation and teaching smaller room that we built upstairs in 2019. In the garden, I built a large covered deck where we have a functional kitchen and classroom (since COVID rules did not allow me to teach inside). We literally live in the garden on working days.
Farm opportunity
The property is going to be for sale in Spring 2025. 2,5 acres properties on this street are being sold between 1,2 and 2 M It includes a 4-bedroom log-house built in 1977 (1850 livable sq feet on 2 stories + 800 livable sq feet of finished basement including one more small bedroom) A 2-story garage 20x30 feet, with a finished transformation room on the second floor, an indoor "green-house" (20x10) for seedlings in the Spring and 2 dryers on the ground level. In the garden you have a small old shed that needs repairs and an other old small lug-shed (120 years old milk shed) that I moved here and use as a tool-shed. There is a large L-shaped deck (24 x 24 feet) covered on a surface of 12 x 24) with a fully equiped kitchen, a propane shower and a compost toilet in a mini trailer nearby. There is another uncovered deck 10x10 at the other end of the garden Abouth half of the garden is covered with plastic mulch for 2 years now. There are already lots of perenial growing (i will take some with me, but I will leave plenty). Among others : Marshmallow Helecampane Horse radish Lemon balm Astragalus Eleutherococcus senticosus Maral roots Meadowsweet American Seneca Valerian (grows wild everywhere) American aranica Burdock (grows wild everywhere) Mulein (grows wild everywhere) St-John's worth (grows wild everywhere) Hops Yarrow Beebalm or bergamot Anis hysope Hysope Catnip Motherwort Belladona Sage Thym Minths Lavander Echinacias comphrey chamomilles malvas Wild roses Withe willow Many linden trees 1 small honeycrisp apple tree 2 beauté flamande pear trees 1 plum tree Several Hawthorn Several Cramp bark trees And many others