Kalamazoo, MI, Kalamazoo County
Lease, Working arrangement with future partner
Mar 1, 2025
Acreage
- 78 Acres Available
- 25 Open Tillable Acres
Infrastructure and Equipment Available
Past/Current Land Usage
Vision for the Farm
With climate change and over-use of chemicals in farming, we are transitioning from poison, plug-in, fertilize, kill bugs and sometimes chemicals to harvest, to sustainable for our wildlife and human life.
We are in an ideal location for any agricultural business that appeals to the population who want to embrace a re-wilding society. We support organic farming even though we cannot have it on our farm - yet. There is community interest in back-to-nature and homesteading and we are open to integrating that cultural need on our property.
Past/Current Land Usage
Acreage description
This property is located on the west side of Kalamazoo, near the 131 and I-94 highway interchange.
We have woods and fields, with a house, a barn for tools and repairs, a horse barn, a fenced track system, automatic waterer and dry lot. There are thirty-eight acres of woods on the east side of the property and the tillable twenty-eight acres is on the west side of the property. Road frontage has the house and a horse barn, with three separate driveways for farming equipment, horse barn and house.
This is an ideal property for a business, since we are only a couple of miles from the main commerce area, and it feels like the country because the houses on the main road spreadout. The tillable acreage is behind the house and horse farm.
Description of the property’s current condition, current use(s), and past use(s)
We are building our horse barn one stage at a time, until the mortgage rates come down low enough for us to refinance and pull-out equity to complete it all at once.
Our nonprofit Equine Assisted learning activities keep the activity level here busy. We have horses and host regular Equine Assisted Learning programs that offer personal and spiritual growth with our co-facilitators, the horses. We are developing community of collaborators who are beneficial to everyone because we refer each other to people within our respective communities. We are always open to providing a safe place to grow, heal and explore how to create a better world together.
We are offering a Hip Camp sites with privacy and quiet conducive to getting in touch with yourself and tuning out the din. Do you offer experiences that may be benficial to people stopping in for a few days?
We found a hay farmer to transition our tillable 38 acres from production farming to sustainable, native grasses. Just because the tillable land is leased does not mean there is no opportunity for smaller scale farming here. Herb gardening, vegetable gardening, flower gardening, mushroom gardening, bee keeping, grape farming, and more, remain options for leasing our property.
Additional Information
There is a growing interest in intentional communities in the area, and we seem to have the property to consider setting one up.
If the property is being continuously farmed, we can keep our Ag-exempt status. The minute we are not farming, the township will revert the property to residential and ownership will become unaffordable to us.
We are open to discussion about finding a ways to develop young farmers and craftsmen (and women) who want to get back to the land and simpler ways.
Soil Type(s)
KaB, OsC, OsE
Transition Agreement
Lease, Working arrangement with future partner
We are of retirement age and expect to let this property go in the next ten years. If our chosen farmer is interested and capable of buying the whole property, it could be negotiated at that time.
We do not have a house to lease to a farmer at this time, but please talk to us about living on site seasonally. Industrious, resourceful, hard-working and disciplined people are always needed here.
Sale Price or Estimated Market Value
United States
Price for Lease Per Acre
United States
Production Preferences
Preferred Farming Method
Organic Practices
