Company description
Simple Gifts Farm is a small, diverse market farm located in Western Massachusetts. We run a 250-member CSA program and were 18-year members of the Amherst Farmer’s Market. In 2017, we opened a full-service farm store on-site to converge our CSA and retail marketing efforts. While vegetables are our main crop, we integrate livestock into our production system to build soil fertility and to produce meat and eggs.
We lease a total of 30 acres from North Amherst Community Farm (NACF), a nonprofit formed by a coalition of passionate neighbors who own the land and have preserved it in perpetuity for farming. NACF selected us as farm tenants to ensure that the land remains an organic farm, a wildlife corridor, and a place for local residents to enjoy nature and walking trails. We run the farm as an ecological unit, working to improve the health of micro and macro-organisms alike, and connecting our CSA members and neighbors with their local food supply.
We devote 10-15 of our acres to vegetable production, 5 to forage crops, and the rest to more permanent pasture. Much of our vegetable production is mechanized, though most of the harvesting occurs by hand. We have five season-extension hoophouses and four greenhouses heated by renewable wood chip fuel, which allow us to remain open year-round.
business description
Turn-key community/market farm operation in a great retail location ready for the right farmer to hit the ground running. Well-established PYO strawberry operation, Year-round Farm store and CSA, and local wholesale accounts. Long-term lease on 33 acres includes ownership of all buildings on property.
Seven-bedroom 1830s farmhouse comprehensively updated in 2019. 4 barns, including one with town water, electricity, and insulated year-round wash/pack facility. Multiple greenhouses for year-round production. Woven-wire/high-tensile fencing can power electric fence on the entire farm. Irrigation well and buried waterline brings reliable 75 GPM water to entire farm. Two Solar arrays; multiple walk-in coolers allow extensive storage of root crops. Extensive equipment for organic vegetable, pasture-raised laying hen, and grassfed beef production systems.
Sale type
seeking buyer
Price
Negotiable
Contact instructions
This job expired on October 30, 2023
Deadline
no deadline