54 yo male seeks farming partner(s)

Recently divorced, long time separated after 28 years.  Ive wanted to farm homestead my life, she did not. I am a believer in my immune system she vaccines. I got the farm in NW Colorado, but it's too much for one person (there is a young man that helps with many chores and is investing financially but lives off farm).  Me I'm a spiritual poet that enjoys just being one with all that is.

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If you've dreamed of becoming a homesteader, instead of buying or renting a farm of your own, you could share this one with me for a fraction of the cost and without long-term commitment. No experience is necessary--in fact, this could give you the chance to come and try out the lifestyle on a short-term basis to see if it's right for you. This would make an excellent sabbatical for someone who needs a change of pace for a while. Who knows? You might like it so well, you'll never want to go back!

The farm is 250 acres with excellent water  We'd be sharing a large 4+, 2BA log home with another young man who works in town 10,000 people ten miles away with much culture.  There is a small very poorly insulated 800 square foot cabin on farm also (rented to a college student).   I have grown lots of potatoes, onions and some other crops.  Have run hundreds of chickens and a few pigs with my dairy cows there is a barn that can house 20 cows in the winter, not heated today (but I am in the process of ordering a wood gasification generator, that will allow the farm to be off grid, yet tied with fiber optic internet).  

Instead of renting an apartment in the noisy, polluted city, or shelling out hundreds of thousands of dollars for your own farm, consider carving out a life for yourself out here in the laid-back foothills of NW Colorado and grow your own organic/grass-fed/cage-free food! Your part of the rent/expenses would be $600/month rent, 1/4 of the utilities, your own food, transportation, etc. At this point, I've got a virtually endless supply of beetle kill pine that with a saw mill will provide building materials, generator fuel and heat (most buildings are plumbed together for heating. - the cabin is not but it's going to be repurposed (because of the conservation easement into a three two bedroom, earthen dwelling).  

It would be up to you what type of work and how much you'd like to do and when you'd like to do it.  There is also ample work ten minutes away, online with our connectivity and potentially paid farm work in the summer.

If this sounds like something you'd like to try, reply here and let's talk about it! Feel free to ask any questions you might have.

So what have I left out? Do you have any questions? Ask away!

Your post is lovely and you sound like a kindred spirit, but there is a discrepancy I have in the manner of approach - are you doing an eco farm, or are you habitually renting? The two do not really go hand-in-hand, in my opinion. With that amount of land, the place could and should be its own source of income, with people devoted to it. The time it takes to go elsewhere and earn the money to rent, fairly well negates the energy that should be going into the land. If even one person were going full time on food crops, then there would be enough prosperity generated to cover a good portion of the bills, or all of them. Am I wrong? It's always seems to be a matter of the separation between and earth-based lifestyle and an urban or suburban one.

Danny, there absolutely should be enough revenue to support numerous people.  The reason for rent, is that if one wanted to escape the city and dip there toe in the water great, they can try. If they have a job they can work remotely and want to test the lifestyle that is okay by me.  There are taxes, insurance and maintenance that need to be covered.

As far as the land being able to provide enough revenue, it should, but I am not taking the entire risk any longer.    Trading labor (in some form) to cover those expenses (when available winter is not optimal, though we can house about 30 cows and then milk them, but that is the future and other people) would be fine.  Growing other crops, produce, poultry, pigs, vodka from the waste whey all great and possible things. The issue is me taking a risk solely....

Btw, the goal is those who stick long term own a part of the farm