Farmland

Beautiful Combo of Woods & Fields

Danville

Farmer Housing

Conservation Easement

Updated July 21, 2025

482 Total Acres

  • 218 Tillable Acres
  • 85 Pasture Acres
  • 177 Forested Acres
  • 2 Farmstead Acres

Beautiful Combo of Woods & Fields

Danville, VT

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On our lovely, spacious land in North Danville, we have acres, tools, a farm store, existing customers, and knowledge to share. Come start your own operation, or join with us in raising beef, lamb and pork, making hay and caring for the forest. 

This landowner is a

Farmer or farm family

Quality of land

All owned and leased acres are Certified Organic from as early as 1995. Hay land is predominantly deep, well-drained Calais Loam. Forestland also includes wetter Cabot soils. All open land is managed under a Small Farm Nutrient Management Plan that contains detailed soil test information, manure application records and hay yield targets that make up the GoCrop program.

All open land is currently in perennial grass/clover/alfalfa, but portions were tilled in the past for the production of organic corn silage. Most acres are tillable but not stone free. 

Elevation of the land base ranges from 1200’ to 1700’ and is upland ground resilient to flooding with persistent snow cover in the winter. 

Enrolled in Current Use

Yes

Protected with conservation easement

Conservation easement

Conservation easement details

The 297-acre home farm is conserved in two parcels by the Vermont Land Trust, and  each contains a provision for a farm labor house and a farm building site, in addition to the existing house and farm buildings.

The balance of the leased land has been under agreement for as long as 35 years, through multiple successive landowners.

Current forest management plan

Yes

Certified or qualified organic

Yes

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Farmer housing

Yes

Farmer housing details

Long term: As part of the easement agreement, there are two potential building sites on the property. Shorter-term housing (such as yurts/tiny houses) are also a possibility. Alternatively, we could help you find a nearby rental as we begin to establish our working relationship. Properties close by do occasionally go on the market, which would enable aspirants to build equity apart from a collaborative production arrangement on the farm.

Water source for farm use

Available

Type of water source

Drilled well, Shallow well or spring reservoir, Irrigation system, River/stream

Water source details

Farm has two water sources. The house and heifer barn are serviced by a spring located deep in the woods, far from sources of contamination. The other two barns are on a drilled well, which was dug for the dairy operation. Each source has a 1000-gallon cistern for reserve. Although adequate for raising livestock, they may not support more than residential scale vegetable/fruit production. 

Some home pasture systems have targeted, approved access to stream watering.

 

Farm infrastructure

  • Barn/farm buildings
  • Fencing
  • Roadways
  • Electricity/power

Description of farm infrastructure

The farm complex contains three livestock barns that can house up to 150 head of cattle, and a small number of sheep and pigs. The 50'x120’ hoop barn is set up to run up to 40 cow/calf pairs with associated calving pens, nursery area and calf-creep pens. The warm dairy barn is split between a 20-head free-stall section and 32 tie stalls. Square bales are stored overhead. The cold-pack bedded heifer barn houses 50 head of cattle with headlocks, and a small sheep area.

The equipment barn houses all the farm’s equipment, as well as a wood shop.

Two sawdust sheds are filled continuously.

On and off-farm pasture systems feature extensive high-tensile fencing with corrals throughout.

Access to equipment

Available

Equipment details

Field equipment includes: 4 tractors, disk hay mower conditioner, 2 rotary rakes, hay tedder, round baler, bale wrapper, square kicker baler and wagons, farm trucks and wagons, 8’ ag. bagger, feed cart, skidder, rotary cutter, 4 wheeler.

Cattle handling equipment includes: crowd panels, sweep tub and squeeze chute.

 

Collaborative model

Tenure arrangement details

We would welcome animal farmers who are interested in collaborating with us on our existing operation, animal farmers who would like to run a complementary operation on the land, or vegetable growers. We are passionate about the landscape, and want it to be cared for and productive. 

If you have an idea that we haven't mentioned here (medicinal gardens? mushroom production? something totally different), don't hesitate to reach out, and if it seems viable, we can explore it, together. 

We have a dedicated existing customer base, and a thriving farm store that could be significantly expanded. In addition to our own meats, the farm store is currently stocked with chicken from our friends at Cross Farm in Barnet, as well as eggs, coffee and grains from local producers. 

To help educate our customers and prospective customers, we've also offered cooking classes in our farmhouse kitchen. 

We're excited about all of the different ways the food-producing community in the Northeast Kingdom can grow.