Seeking profit-driven regenerative grazing or certain permaculture enhancement entry point.
Preferred location: Lenawee, Livingston, Monroe, Oakland, Washtenaw, Wayne
Desired Transitional Agreement: Farm Seeker/Farm Owner Partnership, Lease, Lease to buy, Sale, Working arrangement with future partner
Jan 28, 2025
Desired Acreage
- < 1 Acres
- 1-5 Acres
- 5-10 Acres
- 11-25 Acres
- 26-100 Acres
- 101-250 Acres
- 251-500 Acres
Desired Infrastructure
Desired Land Usage
Goals, Values, Vision
Aging out of the workforce & would like to return to ranching/farming where profit-driven “higher and better use” practices are being applied.
Background includes 1) four years seasonal assistant foreman on western 5K acre family sheep & hay ranch, 2) two agricultural internships with Farmland Reserve in Salt Lake UT, 3) general family ranch & farm work/upbringing weekends & summers. (own small percentage today, running for board of directors Feb 2025.)
Education includes internships, Bsc Accounting & MBA Supply Chain & Finance with courses in a) managing farms & family businesses, and b) agribusiness strategy.
Farming Status
Current Farming Status
Not currently farming
Farm Experience/Education
Farm employee, Farm internship/apprenticeship, Farm owner, Farm management, Formal agricultural education
Mentoring
I am seeking mentorship
Farming Plans and Practices
Farming Method
Certified Organic, Organic Practices, Conventional
Very interested in profitable rotational grazing at scale and certain other profitable permaculture methods.
Sufficient profitability must be the focus, not to be greedy, but so an outfit is financially healthy.
Personal conviction about sustainable agriculture: it’s wonderful, and I want to be involved, but it must be financially worthwhile or it won’t make it due to global price competition being so strong.
