Assets included in purchase of the Farm Business Corporation: ($424,995)
- 2016 Isuzu NRR refrigerated delivery truck with 18’ box and power liftgate
- 85 hp Kubota M8540 utility tractor with loader – 3400 hours
- 70 hp Kubota M7070 utility tractor with loader – 400 hours
- 25 hp Kubota L245H cultivating tractor with 3-row basket weeder
- 2 – 10 hp Farmall Cub cultivating tractors
- 10’ Kongskilde heavy cultivator
- 12’ Brillion cultipacker
- 6’ Maschio power harrow (only used 3 seasons)
- 8’ Maschio rotovator
- 6’ Howard rotovator
- 6’ Sovema flail mower (only used 2 seasons)
- 6’ potato hiller
- 30” potato lifter, pto-powered
- 3 - 24” Troybilt rototillers
- 30” BCS rototiller
- 80 – 3” x 30’ aluminum hand move irrigation pipes
- 6’ heavy duty bed lifter/undercutter
- 10’ seed drill
- 12 – 20’ x 96’ unheated high tunnels
- 1 – 30’ x 95’ unheated high tunnel for tomato production
- 1 – 24’ x 96’ double poly (inflated) heated greenhouse for seedling production (oil furnace)
- 1 cargo van - for field use
- 4 pallet jacks
- 1 bin stacker with electric drive
- 1 bin stacker without electric drive
- 2 chest freezers
- Vegetable seeders and harvest tools, tubs, and totes
- Assorted small tools: hoes, shovels, hoses, wheelbarrows, and many shop tools
- Two, year-round, consistent farmers’ markets with a 30-year history of predictable weekly sales
- Over ten years of detailed, veg-by-veg, weekly sales records for each farmers’ market
- Consistent weekly wholesale orders from a home delivery company, along with winter root-crop sales to Discovery Organics
- Marketing infrastructure – tables, canopy, Instagram, Facebook, customer e-mail list (approx. 2450 households),
- Online store with 100 – 300 orders per week
- Excellent reputation for quality and consistency and a loyal customer following
- Organized, efficient, production systems guided by a detailed seeding/planting schedule.
- Well established supplier contacts for supplemental produce, farm supplies, and maintenance
- Detailed office manual and standard operating procedures (SOPs) to produce each vegetable crop
- Up-to-date employee handbook and job descriptions
- Reputation of one of the leading organic market vegetable farms in the B.C. interior
- Consistent annual net income of $50,000-$100,000 after all expenses incl. lease costs have been paid
The new farm business owner will also benefit from the knowledge and skills of an experienced farm manager & lead staff team in addition to mentorship from the current farm owners of 30 years.