MycoEvolve

11+ years experience

Focus Homesteading

Updated January 28, 2025

Gathering baseline soil samples at a riparian buffer in early spring 2024 before we restored it with native polycultures Checking on the 2200 native plants we bareroot potted up, half inoculated (and half not) with native mycorrhizae we grew following a guide we recently published One of the degraded riparian buffers where we helped facilitate restoration in year 1 In our earlier days working with saprophytic mycelium in attempt to remediate part of a polluted riparian area Teaching about applications of mycology and restoration in regenerative agriculture to a local herbal gardening class Co-leading ecological restoration workshops at a local superfund site for school groups and community members

Seeking

  • Farmland
  • 6-20 acres
  • Sale
J

Jess Rubin

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Ecological restorationist, educator, regenerative gardener, homesteader looking for land to ground our home and service.

Farming experience

11+ years experience

Currently farming

Yes

Highest level of farming experience

Farm management experience

Description of farming experience

I have farmed since 1996 when WWOOFed across BC, and Mexico on permaculture and biodynamic farms, apprenticed at Temple Wilton Community Farm, managed Cornell Student Farm, Dilmun Hill. Since then worked on many organic farms and served as a professional gardener, landscaper, conservation crew leader, and restorationist. I tended perennial medicinal gardens, food and pollinator gardens wherever I lived. Through MycoEvolve and former service iterations we support many individuals, farms, businesses, and organizations in ethically rewilding their landscapes through informed, regenerative practices: design, installation, maintenance, compost, hugelkulture, inoculation, cover crops, and research

Farming plans

Tenure arrangement desired

Sale

Tenure arrangement description

We are open to various arrangements such as lease to own, mortgage, outright sale, conservation easements on part...

Lease to own is more economically viable. Mortgage is our second choice. We could be open to obtaining loans if need be for outright sale but would prefer to remain debt free. 

We would like to tend this spot for years to come and leave it in our will for others to continue with the conservation and regenerative practices we apply.

Planned farm enterprise: Primary

Homesteading

Planned farm enterprises: Others

Agroforestry, Perennials/Orchard

Farm enterprises description

We teach and support others from our practice where we live and work:  a low throughput homestead with regenerative systems designed where bedrock, waterways, topography, ecosystems and trophic networks inform our approach. Ideally we have hearty perennial (and some annual) food and medicinal (maybe fiber too) gardens to feed the trophic web, family, staff, participants with surplus for the local community.

Growing veggies, herbal medicine, orchards within carefully designed Fukuoaka inspired agroforestry practices (no-till), an endangered plant trail, multi-functional riparian buffers, sustainable forestry, deliberate fungal inoculation, and a living native nurseries for root and seed stock.

Written business plan

Yes

Business planning description

It is currently written for our active ecological resilience service we currently tend. This includes a quiver or tools, agricultural supplies, library, staff, projects, and various community connection networks.

This next step of relocating to land to ground our work in a long-term home, education center, and conservation/restoration homestead will require updates that are forthcoming.

Farmer housing needed

Yes

Water source needed

Yes

Farm infrastructure needed

  • Barn/farm buildings
  • Greenhouses/high tunnels
  • Roadways
  • Electricity/power

Description of infrastructure needed

Ideally there is a tool shed or barn to store our current equipment and a dwelling for living and office, meeting space. We would like eventually a yurt for teaching, an outdoor kitchen and a few tent platforms or tiny houses for interns and staff. We also envision a few other small homes and a community house to share resources with other humans who live on the land with us. A root cellar and greenhouse connected to or near our home, electricity, well or spring, whatever septic is needed for town regulations, and roads would also be welcome. We aim to create composting toilet systems and off grid infrastructure for long term resilience as well as water filtration & catchment upcycling.

Access to equipment needed

No

Additional information

Consider meeting to see if we are a good fit as future tenders of this land. Through our collective training, years of experience, and dedication to earth care we will provide responsible, consistent, and deep service to benefit the many below and above ground inhabitants. Our finding an affordable place nearby that supports conservation, regenerative agriculture and ecological restoration will allow us to further our current socio-ecological reconciliation, and eco-literacy enhancing services in this community and beyond. As we practice where we live on land what we do in our work, we can offer this as a hearth and support to benefit current and future generations. 

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