Alan Gorkin
11+ years experience
Focus Perennials/Orchard
Updated July 10, 2025
Seeking
- Farmland
- 0-5 acres
- Business partnership
Alan Gorkin
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Create Account Log InSemi retired professional horticulturist looking for a small property to lease for a possible wholesale enterprise.
Farming experience
11+ years experience
Currently farming
No
Highest level of farming experience
Agricultural degree or training program
Description of farming experience
I have owned a retail nursery and been a property manager with greenhouses for the last 20 years.
Farming plans
Tenure arrangement desired
Business partnership
Tenure arrangement description
Would like to rent property, possibly with a tenant home . Willing to be creative.
Planned farm enterprise: Primary
Perennials/Orchard
Planned farm enterprises: Others
Cut flowers, Forest/Foraging
Farm enterprises description
My wife and I are both Horticulturists. Her expertise is in herbs and herbal products, mine perennial and annual plant production.
Written business plan
In progress
Business planning description
Primarily would like to produce field grown annuals and perennials for sale .
Specifically smaller size 1 qt perennials, mostly natives.
Seasonal bedding of very unusual annual species.all marketed to the trade.
Farmer housing needed
Yes
Water source needed
Yes
Farm infrastructure needed
Description of infrastructure needed
Small amount of acreage-1 acre including hoop house (winterized) and possible cold storage room for cut flowers.
Access to equipment needed
No
Additional information
We are 2 professional horticulturists looking to start a small growing/ wholesale operation.
We are educators as well and look to be a source of information for local landscapers.