Land available for a small farming enterprise.

I am in Southeastern Nebraska near Omaha and Lincoln and would be willing to allow someone to grow some crops on my land.  I have a tractor that we can use to plow/till etc.  This would be at no charge.  I would just like to help someone trying to get started.  We can negotiate details, but I have 18 acres.  I would not want to plant all of that in crops as I have fruit trees that I have planted and I have plantings for bee pasture.

Good luck with it Michael, thanks for being open to collaboration!

-JP

PS I am too far away in TN, but if I travel your way, I'd be happy to help you and your permaculturist.  It might be helpful if you described the terrain, the surrounding area and posted a few photos of your fruit trees and bee pasture. Again, good luck with the project!

Good advice.  First, the soil.  It's used to be a flood plain and it's good soft black loam.  A rarity in Nebraska which is usually brown clay.  I don't have any pictures that would show it all, since it's 18 acres, but here is the view from near the road looking back over some of it.  It's sloped but all in all, pretty flat.  Not hilly.  I have a lot of chicory, clover, milkweed, asters, goldenrod etc. that I have planted.  I have a number of fruit trees that are producing.  Cherries, apples, pears, peaches, plums.  Most of those go to waste because I don't have time to harvest them and it's far more than my family can eat.  I probably should build a cider press.  I have some American Chestnuts that are producing very small nuts.  I assume they get larger as the trees get larger.

Thanks for the additional info! Sent you a PM

This is just outside Nehawka, Nebraska, which is south of Omaha and East of Lincoln and North of Nebraska City.