Shelby and Zachary

11+ years experience

Focus Perennials/Orchard

Updated March 14, 2025

Zachary and Shelby in the beeyard

Seeking

  • Grazing
  • 21-50 acres
  • Sale
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Zachary Allen

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Farm family looking for our family farm. We want pasture and woods to create a bee sanctuary and syntropic orchard.

Farming experience

11+ years experience

Currently farming

Yes

Highest level of farming experience

Farm management experience

Description of farming experience

We have worked in many different agricultural operations. Zachary brings a decade of vegetable farming experience, but currently more focused on tree crops, mainly syntropic growing techniques and how they can be applied to temperate climates. Shelby is ag school trained. She managed a top-bar beeyard and has worked with dairy goats in a tropical orchard and with cut flowers. 

Farming plans

Tenure arrangement desired

Sale

Tenure arrangement description

We prefer to purchase the land. Open to lease-to-own or life-long lease.

Planned farm enterprise: Primary

Perennials/Orchard

Planned farm enterprises: Others

Agroforestry, Perennials/Orchard

Farm enterprises description

Bee sanctuary, temperate syntropic demonstration farm, regenerative organic fruits and nuts, medicinal and culinary log-grown mushrooms, beeswax products, medicinal herbs and value-added medicinal products, meadery, ducks, poultry, rotational grazing of livestock, education, agri-tourism, healing retreat, native plant nursery, permaculture homestead, agro-ecological, biodynamic, some vegetables 

Written business plan

In progress

Business planning description

Value-added medicinals from bee products, mushrooms, and medicinal herbs. Artisan meads. Additional income from livestock, orchard crops, and educational endeavors. 

Farmer housing needed

Yes

Water source needed

Yes

Farm infrastructure needed

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

Description of infrastructure needed

Spring water desired, fencing is helpful, nursery space, woodlot for mushroom logs. 

Access to equipment needed

No

Additional information

We are holistic farmers, seeking to restore whole farm ecosystems, with regenerative practices and a permaculture outlook. We aim to make medicinals through a diverse selection herbs, mushrooms, and bee products and grow a variety of tree crops with pastured animals.