Sixty acres, ready to plant. The farm needs a tractor.
Cherbourg has sixty acres of farmland and a community that has already decided what to do with it: citrus, avocado and potatoes, grown at Cherbourg, sold across the region.
The soil is ready. The market is there, in the towns and kitchens within a morning's drive. The plan runs alongside the food hub the community is already leading. As Mayor Simpson put it, the approach is careful: sustainability, community leadership, long term food sovereignty. What stands between the plan and the first planting is machinery. Sixty acres cannot be worked by hand. The farm needs a tractor. That is the whole gap. Not a strategy. Not a framework. A tractor.
- Stage one: the tractor, with implements to follow
- Sixty acres under community control
- First crops: citrus, avocado, potatoes
- Sales channel: regional wholesale and the future Cherbourg food hub
- Employment: farm roles plus seasonal harvest work for young people
One partner, one asset, one plaque on the shed if you want it.
An agronomist or a farm business planner.
Machinery, irrigation, freight.