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Interior view down the length of the finished hoop house toward the far door.

For landowners

We are looking for a spot to grow on. If you have ground sitting idle, we want to hear from you.

We do not need a farm, but that would be nice! A large backyard, a spare side lot, or an unused corner of a bigger parcel is usually enough. This page explains what would happen on your property.

See if your land fits
Where this stands

We are looking for a site now, and we want to be growing again at the start of the year. If your ground might fit, we would like to hear from you.

How much space it takes

Less than people expect. We grow fermentable produce on beds and trellises rather than open rows. What we do not grow ourselves we buy, certified organic and locally grown where possible. Even the most cautious estimate fits inside the one-acre Fallbrook lease we already built on in 2013, with more than half the acre left over.

How we built the last site

In 2013 we leased an acre in Fallbrook and spent nine months building on it, working things out on paper before anything went into the ground. Here is what that looked like.

  • Rainwater

    We worked out roof area and rainfall on paper before we built the roof.

  • Solar

    We costed the full system on paper before ordering any panels.

  • Irrigation

    We sized the pipe and pump from engineering references before we built.

  • Frame

    We compared three build methods and chose one.

The finished hoop house standing in an open field in Fallbrook.
What we put up on the last acre we leased.
String lines pulled across bare ground marking out the building footprint before digging.
We measured and marked the layout before digging.
Inside the covered hoop house looking at the far end wall, bare earth floor, the first timber grow table built and plywood stacked on a pallet.
Inside, before the beds went in: the first table built and the rest of the timber staged.
The full run of bent conduit ribs standing in the field with timber end wall framing and base boards, before any covering went on, the Fallbrook hillside and houses behind.
The frame standing on the pad, before the cover went on.

The solar went the same way. We priced the whole system on paper first, down to the panel wattage and the battery bank, and only then ordered the panels and put them up on the acre.

A large blue polycrystalline solar panel standing on end in a shop, still in its ITS Solar shipping wrap, next to the cardboard carton it came out of.
The first panel out of the box, after the whole system had been costed out.
Two blue polycrystalline solar panels mounted on a steel tilt frame above a chain link pen at the farm, the greenhouse and its timber grow tables on the right, a plowed field and the Fallbrook hillside behind.
Eleven days later, up on a tilt frame out at the farm beside the greenhouse.
A solar panel on a tilt frame in full sun above a fenced enclosure, with the plowed field, the edge of the covered hoop house, and houses on the Fallbrook hillside behind it.
Still out there in October, field turned over and the hoop house up alongside it.

We would do the same on your property: work everything out on paper before building anything.

What we are looking for

  • A usable patch of ground

    Ideally a few thousand square feet, almost anywhere in North County, with Vista the center of the target. It does not have to be flat or pretty.

  • Water we can draw from

    A spigot or a line is all we need. We supply the meter if there is not one, and we read it every month like we did on the last site, so you always know what we used.

  • A signed lease

    We agree on terms and sign a lease before anything happens on your property. Everything is done legally and in writing.

  • What happens at the end

    The lease spells out what gets built, what stays, and what we remove when we leave.

What you get

  • Idle ground put to work

    Something growing on ground that was doing nothing. The setup is small and light and stays out of the way of everything else on the property.

  • The same planning as 2013

    We work out rainwater, solar and pumps for your ground on paper before anything gets built, the same way we did on the last site.

  • A lease written for your property

    Not a generic template. It names your property and this state, and we answer every question about it before you sign.

  • Direct contact with the person doing the work

    You deal with the one person who built the 2013 farm and will do the work on yours. No middleman.

Get in touch

Tell us a little about the ground and we will show you what we built last time and how much room it took. You decide from there, no pressure.

Send this to pickles@palomarautomation.com