Venturopoly Farms

12 small farms for sale or lease

  • 40 certified-organic acres

    Michigan · $625,000, or 5-year lease-to-own · checked Oct 23, 2026 · source

  • 117 coastal acres, 3 homes

    Washington · $979,000 · checked Oct 23, 2026 · source

  • 300 acres of grazing to lease

    Oregon · lease rate negotiable · checked Oct 24, 2026 · source

Aerial photo of Wallowa Valley, Wallowa County, Oregon, with its contour lines and streams drawn over it.

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Hay and pasture ground west of Joseph, Wallowa County, Oregon. Not a listing. Imagery USDA NAIP, contours USGS 3DEP (40 ft), water USGS NHDPlus HR, sections BLM PLSS. Public domain.
Sheet 3 · Wallowa Valley · Oregon Checked Oct 20, 2026

The free farm from this list

I read the farm listings so you don't have to, and keep the few worth a drive. The weekly email sends one in full, like this one from issue 1.

69-acre organic hillside farm with a 2010 farmhouse and campground

69 acres · Windsor County, Vermont · $850,000 for the property, sale with life estate, short-term joint occupancy · checked Oct 23, 2026

Why it made the list

The combination of 4 year-round springs, 35 acres of open ground farmed organically since 2001, and an energy-efficient 2010 farmhouse with a certified kitchen sets a strong foundation on this west-facing hillside looking toward the Green Mountains. It also has an established, state-permitted campground with cabins, wash houses, and tent sites tucked into the corners of the land. Much of the parcel is steep, and the central barn is not built for large livestock, so you will need to walk the slopes and plan for animal shelter.

Check before you fall in love

  • Verify the current asking price and what is included, as one listing shows $800,000 while another shows $850,000 for the real estate alone with the campground business, 2 John Deere tractors, and tools priced separately.
  • Review the pending conservation easement application to see how its proposed terms, timing, and building envelope would affect future use and construction.
  • Clarify the housing and workspace arrangements under the life-estate or 2-year joint-occupancy options, since the current owner's home and business activities would remain on site and a buyer might need temporary housing.
  • Confirm whether the 2 greenhouses total 2,000 square feet together or 2,000 square feet each, and check the transferability and conditions of the Act 250 campground permits.
  • Walk the fields with the USDA soil survey in hand, noting that 53 of the 69 acres sit on 15% to 60% slopes, ledge and clay layers sit beneath the topsoil, and spring wetness periodically restricts use in some areas.

Source: Vermont Land Link. The email also has what's there and what the farm could be.

Also on this list

Members get these in full, with photos, what to check, and what each could be.

  • 10 acres for sale with a 1906 schoolhouse, 2 heated greenhouses, and a permitted campground.
  • 105 acres for sale by owner: 20 fenced pasture acres, 80+ timber acres, house, 4 cabins, and micro-hydro.
  • 81 acres for sale: 74 tillable acres, 3-unit farmhouse, commercial kitchen, and 1890s barn.
  • 222 certified organic acres with two houses, barns, high tunnels, and a pond, for sale or long-term lease.
  • 90 acres with 80 tillable, a pond, a stream, and a 2-bed house on a 20-plus-year lease.
  • 221 acres for sale: 90 fenced grazing acres, 2 homes, pond-fed pasture water, and a 2023 steel barn.

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Josh Galt III smiling, holding a leg of wild boar over a butchering table
A leg of our grass-fed, milk-finished wild boar, from our island farm on the Mekong in Cambodia. Photo: Josh Galt III.

Who reads them

I'm Josh Galt III. I've farmed in British Columbia, Oregon, Cambodia, Malaysia, Mexico, and Costa Rica: goats, rabbits, and horses on our family's place in the west hills of Portland, sheep and grass-fed wild boar on an island in the Mekong, and a black soldier fly farm in Malaysia.

This year I went through about 1,100 farm listings for my own family's move back to Oregon. V-Farms is that search, written up: the best small grazing farms and homesteads I find, for sale, for lease, and caretaker deals.

V-Farms takes no money from sellers, developers, or brokers, and no commissions. Readers pay for the list, and that's all.

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P.S. 4 of the first 12 farms I chose for issue 1 had already gone under contract, sold, or come off the market, while their farm-link pages still said for sale. So every farm here gets checked against the realtor listings first, and each one carries the day we checked it.

Josh Galt III