GRANVILLE, NY, Washington County
Acres Available
Open Tillable Acres
Wooded (or other) Acres
Condition & Current Use
Green Table Farm was established in 2012 to raise produce and poultry for our NYC restaurant, The Green Table, and catering and events company, Cleaver Co. in Chelsea Market. When the restaurant closed in 2018, we switched our product line to certified organic pastured poultry, eggs and added value products with direct to customer sales at the Union Square Greenmarket in New York City. We retired from the business of farming at the end of our 2021 season, and would like to lease the property and infrastructure to another good steward of the land. Sale is also possible. You could continue a poultry business and/or vegetable farming, or other enterprises might include livestock, flowers, berries, increased grain production, mushrooms or agro forestry activities.
Soil Types
Farm History & Past Use
The farm was originally three dairy farms. In 1980 it was sold to a part-time farmer who raised pigs and most of the fields were in hay production. We bought it in 2012 and have been certified organic since 2016. We purchased and renovated the original farmhouse in 2018. It is that house that can be available first to the next farmer/steward.
Tenure Options
The owners would like to find farmers to continue using and maintaining the existing infrastructure for a farming enterprise, and properly steward the land in organic and regenerative practices. Use of existing infrastructure and long term tenure is the goal, partial sale or full sale also possible. There are 2 houses on the property, one or both of which could be available for purchase or lease.
Price for Lease Per Acre
Sale Price or Estimated Market Value
Are you willing to mentor a new or beginning farmer?
Do you require a farmer who qualifies for agricultural assessment?
Production Preferences
Livestock / Crops Description
The farmer/owners used the farm for vegetable production to supply their restaurant and catering business in NYC from 2012 until 2018 until the restaurant was closed. We then ramped up the poultry production and raised certified organic pastured chickens, eggs and turkeys for Greenmarkets. The farm is well suited for grazing, but if permanent fencing is required it would need to be installed and shelters built. We used portable solar fencing for the poultry. The vegetable production was concentrated in a level ~2.5 acre area of raised beds and in 2 high tunnels and 1 greenhouse. Production of vegetables and flowers could be increased and other crops, such as berries, added by expanding cultivation into additional fields. Equipment is available for grain seeding and combining as well as general farm use. The garden is enclosed with a permanent deer fence with locust posts. The other open fields ~25 acres are up on a hill with the pond and adjacent to woods.
Crops Permitted
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Vegetables
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Fruits
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Flowers or Ornamentals
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Grains
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Hay
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Maple
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Other Crops
Livestock Permitted
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Cattle - Beef
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Cattle - Dairy
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Equine
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Goats/Sheep
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Pigs
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Poultry
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Bees
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Other Livestock
Preferred Farming Method
Farm Infrastructure
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Barns - Equipment Storage
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Electrical access
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Equipment
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Farmer housing
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Water access
Equipment
Lots! Tractor, Kubota, old combine, grain cleaner, various plows - come see it.
Water Access
There is a 1 acre pond between fields up the hill. The vegetable production and greenhouses/garden area are watered from a well dug in 2019 and each house has its own well, so 3 wells total.
Farmer Housing
One house is the original mid nineteenth century farmhouse on the property. The ground floor was gut renovated in 2018 and has new everything - floors, kitchen, bathroom, wood stove, heat pump. Second floor has one larger and 2 small bedrooms.
The larger house where we live is a 2 Bedroom split level ranch. The main living floor has 2 bedrooms, kitchen with new (2022) Refrigerator and electric stove (2021), pantry, full bath, living room with wood stove and loft. The lower level has a full laundry, bathroom with shower, open work space and 2 smaller rooms which were formerly bedrooms and we use for farm operations. Heat Pump heating in both houses installed in 2022.
Hartford School District..
There is a third spot on the dirt road with a building pad where there was a trailer which we had removed when we purchased that piece in 2022 which has water, electric and septic.
Additional Property Information
No pesticides or herbicides. Organic certification is not required, but industrial chemicals will not be allowed.
Is the Property Conserved
Current Land Zoning
Is the property located in a NY Agricultural District?
Can the public be on the property as a part of the farm business?
Additional Information About This Property
The farm is on two sides of a very quiet dirt road that is maintained by the town of Hartford. The east/south side of the road has both houses along it. The garden, greenhouses and equipment barns are on the west side of the road as well as the pad where there was a home trailer that has power, water and septic, and is adjacent to a wetlands and buffered by 20+acres of woods behind that. Up the hill from the road on the east/southeast side there are several large open fields (~25 acres), the pond, and gorgeous views of the Green Mountains and the Adirondacks, as well as (~190 acres) of ample woods. The property is currently 4 different tax lots: 2 are zoned as agricultural - 197.30 acres and 23.10 acres; and 2 as residential - the split level ranch with with 1.10 acres, and the original farmhouse with .99 acres.
