Farming Partnership 10+ acres Saint Helens

Description

We are looking for an experienced individual or couple/family with experience and passion for regenerative agriculture, and experience growing food and medicine and raising farm animals. We would like to collaborate in a farm based enterprise and ideally create a small nonprofit and community.

We have 40 beautiful, secluded, mostly forested acres an hour from Portland – 10 miles up in the hills of St Helens, Oregon.

Infrastructure:

There is a 30×70’ new high tunnel with water and electricity. A large established but neglected garden for perennial and medicinal plants, as well as cultivated beds for annual crops.

We have well water, rain water harvesting and 10k of water storage in tanks with room to expand. There are also two walk-in coolers.

Mostly we have been focused on growing staple crops like squash, potatoes, beans, and corn, as well as medicinal plants.

We have a small orchard of chestnut trees established, and unfenced fields that would benefit from grazing animals (7-10 acres).

The property is on an east facing ridge with big sky and lots of sun. The land was chosen for seclusion as well as not being contaminated by neighboring forestry or agriculture practices. 

We would like land stewards/farmers to live onsite. We have hookups for a trailer or tiny house on wheels, and we have a 20 ft yurt that could be put up. There is also an option to rent part of the house and an insulated, heated pole barn/ shop that could be used for indoor seed starts and/or storage/workshop. 

We also have established relationships with many CSA farms in the region, and a local food hub in Ckatskanie. 

Owner’s Short Term Vision for the Property

Farming partnership: growing produce, keeping goats/sheep and poultry, staple crops, and possibly a native plant nursery.

Owner’s Long Term Vision for the Property

Long term we want to create an arts, education and ecology center with an artist residency, and ecological education program either a forest preschool and/or herbal medicine and regenerative farming site. We would love to have a community of aligned land stewards and families living on the land.

Current Use

Currently the land is mostly not in use. There are some herbs, chestnut trees and staple crops in the ground.

Available Water / Irrigation

Well and rain catchment.

Buildings and Structures Available for Farm Use

Insulated/heated pole barn, 30x70’ high tunnel, walk-in cool bot fridge.

Any Restrictions That Could Limit Agricultural Production

Water can be a limitation. It would be good to add more water storage.

What are you doing as a landholder to ensure a safe and welcoming environment for everyone on your land and in your community?

Our priority is vision alignment and farming experience. We are open to meeting any and all who are enthusiastic about cultivating and stewarding the land. We will be on site, so it is very important to us to establish a strong working relationship. We are open to working with folks with any ethnic background, gender identity or sexual orientation.