Seeking Lease, potential collaboration

Land Seeker Description

Short-term: Looking for a small plot to lease

Medium-term: Looking for a site that I can work for 3-7 years minimum, depending on site, crops, and other variables. Interested in collaborative approaches to agriculture and producing agricultural products.

Long-term: Looking for a country home!

Agricultural professional for 10+ years.

CV Includes:
Professional involvement in transition of more than 10,000 acres to exclusion of synthetic biocides.
Work with/for impact investors in agriculture and ecology, in PNW, US, and abroad.
Involvement in development of farmer-centric technology.
Farm work and management in vineyards, multi-crop farms that include fruit, vegetables, grains, herbs, spices, oil seeds.
Winemaking with/for top natural winemaking entrepreneurs.
Grant-writing
Equipment operation.

What features of the property are essential?

Water rights, irrigation, equipment, electricity, no synthetic biocides for many years.

Describe your farming experience

I've worked in perennial and annual crops, mostly fruits and vegetables, as well as field crops like pulses, grains, oil seeds, etc., and been successful in winemaking, grant-writing, and site design and development. I've also been involved in due diligence for site acquisitions, networking impact investors with progressive rural leaders, and public processes related to drought resilience in the Pacific Northwest and beyond.

Agricultural work includes work on 3 different continents, multiple countries.

I own Regenerative Design Services LLC, a full-service rural development support company that has ongoing work internationally and domestically. Most clientele are philanthropy interests supporting regeneration work at regional/watershed scale.

Regenerative Design Services LLC provides full-scale support to agriculturists through some philanthropy-funded programs, producing healthy yields of nutritionally-dense produce while shifting cost structure to compete with conventional operational models. This includes everything from biofertilisers, to water infrastructure design that is competent within the Oregon surface water permitting context.

I've done field work, equipment operation, operations and facility management, and humanitarian agriculture + engineering work abroad.

Are you currently farming?

What are your short term goals for the land

Start small, produce sustainably, develop a sustainable operating capacity.

What are your long term goals

Multiple revenue streams, site purchase, hone model, begin second growth phase.

Describe your housing needs

It would be great to have on-site housing.

What will you do as a farmer to ensure a safe and welcoming environment for everyone on your farm and in your community?

I've been doing this for a long time all ready, and am happy to share my experience both lived, and in service. I am trained in conflict management and resolution, and I know how to help others be aware of principles, and less attached to positional bargaining.