1 acre or less
About
Message- Opportunity available:
- On-farm employment
- Mentoring
- Internship
- Business partnership
- Available facilities and equipment:
- Housing
- Irrigation capacity
- Irrigation equipment
- Greenhouse
- Fencing
- Agricultural machinery
- Cold storage
- Preferred arrangement model:
- Partnership
- Transfer/succession
- Lease
- Available acreage:
- 1 acre or less
- 2-5 acres
- 5-10 acres
- Soil type on farm:
- Sandy loam
- Sand
- Current farming practices:
- Ecological production, but not certified
- Current land use:
- Livestock
- Field crops
- Market garden
- Hay or pasture
- Woodlot
- Vegetables
- Fruit/berries/grapes
- Preferred farming experience for farmer:
- Grew up on a farm in Canada
- Grew up on a farm outside of Canada
- Practical farming experience (including work as a farm intern or employee)
- Studied agriculture at a post-secondary institution
- Current or past farm business owner
- Desired farming practices by a new farmer:
- Ecological production but not certified
- Agricultural products I am interested being cultivated on my property:
- Field crops (grains or beans)
- Fruit/berries/grapes
- Hay or forage
- Livestock
- Seeds, seedlings or nursery stock
- Vegetables
- Years experience of new farmer:
- 1-2 years
- 3-5 years
- 6-10 years
Farm description
Interested in being a part of our farm to be self sufficient? We are wanting to share the farm with someone who is able to earn an income from a rented field or skill while sharing the chores of keeping our farm going. .Write me with your resume matthew at matsfineoils dot com We have a very wonderful organic lifestyle that is debt and mortgage free and want to share it with someone who is equally enthusiastic about regenerative farming. . We have tractors and draft horses with every piece of equipment necessary for growing seeds for our vegetable oils and flour. We are totally self sufficient food for ourselves horses, cow and chickens as well as having solar electricity, diesel generators that run on sunflower, oil plenty of water and a greenhouse. See our internet site for an idea of what we have. Give us a shout if you are interested at matthew@matsfineoils.com . See our web site at matsfineoils.com On our farm, we press Sunflower, flax, camelina and hemp oils from organically grown crops from our farm. We also produce rye and spelt flour along with corn meal from our fields. We have heritage chickens and organic eggs. We are self sufficient in water, feeding ourselves and our animals, as well as electricity from solar cells and generators that run on our sunflower oil but grid is available if necessary. As well as the four draft horses we have four tractors, a combine and a swather with all of the equipment needed for tractors and horses in the fields, for harvesting and planting. We practice regenerative farming using pastures and animals, having crops only after a few seasons of pasture to restore soils with cover crops and compost. There is lots of water and there is a greenhouse. We have a welding shop, machine shop and wood working shop and all the equipment necessary for making and maintaining our equipment. We have a wood lot were we log with the horses. We heat our water and buildings with a wood fired stoves in the winter and have evacuated tubes in the summer for hot water. The farm is debt and mortgage free and have a good customer base for our oil and flour sales which could also be customers for a vegetable or other businesses. We are non religious. Email us at redsell@eastlink.ca thanks -mat
Farm opportunity
Here is an opportunity for a family, couple or person to share a farm