ORGANIC CHEESE MANUFACTURING AND DAIRY FARM
| Asking Price: | $647,000 | Inventory: | $50,000 ++ |
| Gross Revenue: | $250,000 (comments below) | Real Estate: | $425,000 ++ |
| Cash Flow: | $50,000 (comments below) | FF&E: | $200,000 ++ |
| ++ included in the asking price ** not included in the asking price | |||
| Gross Revenue Comments: Increasing annually, with new cheese cafe | |||
| Cash Flow Comments: Live free situation on 112 beautiful acres | |||
A FULLY INTEGRATED CHEESE MANUFACTURING AND MARKETING FACILITY, WITH 112 ACRES, RESIDENCE, BARNS, HERD, FARM EQUIPMENT, CHEESE FACTORY AND CAFÉ SHOP.
A New York State Organically Certified Working Dairy Farm, that produces and markets Organic New York State Cheeses …At a Profit! Clover Mead is a wonderful working farm and cheese producer, with a comfortable circa 1820, fully modernized and charming comfortable three bedrooms, 2 bath home, and set on richly organic 112 acres of farm land with views of Lake Champlain.
The farm, in addition to the home, also comes with a working Cheese Manufacturing business selling market acclaimed chesses at farmer’s markets, co-ops, and other outlets. It has its own retail shop, barns for the resident 20 Jersey cow herd, all necessary farm and cheese making equipment, a cheese cellar, and vegetable garden. The farm is amid a quality rural lifestyle with Lake Champlain and the Adirondack High Peaks nearby, and an easy drive to cosmopolitan Montréal.
In addition to absorbing all of the real estate costs, the owner’s live “rent free”, enjoy produce etc., and Gross revenues on a limited 5-day “dinner only” non-summer program averaged $ 250,000, and have been 50% higher on a full dinner/lunch basis. Owner’s earnings of $ 44,000 in 2005 included cash and substantial perks of housing, food, etc for the resident Manager/ Chef. Easy potential is for sales above $ 300,000 and return to owner, in addition to “free housing and board”, of more than $ 55,000.
Turnkey price has been established at $ 647,000 including herd, equipment and cheese inventory, and seller will assist in orderly transiton .
A New York State Organically Certified Working Dairy Farm, that produces and markets Organic New York State Cheeses …At a Profit! Clover Mead is a wonderful working farm and cheese producer, with a comfortable circa 1820, fully modernized and charming comfortable three bedrooms, 2 bath home, and set on richly organic 112 acres of farm land with views of Lake Champlain.
The farm, in addition to the home, also comes with a working Cheese Manufacturing business selling market acclaimed chesses at farmer’s markets, co-ops, and other outlets. It has its own retail shop, barns for the resident 20 Jersey cow herd, all necessary farm and cheese making equipment, a cheese cellar, and vegetable garden. The farm is amid a quality rural lifestyle with Lake Champlain and the Adirondack High Peaks nearby, and an easy drive to cosmopolitan Montréal.
In addition to absorbing all of the real estate costs, the owner’s live “rent free”, enjoy produce etc., and Gross revenues on a limited 5-day “dinner only” non-summer program averaged $ 250,000, and have been 50% higher on a full dinner/lunch basis. Owner’s earnings of $ 44,000 in 2005 included cash and substantial perks of housing, food, etc for the resident Manager/ Chef. Easy potential is for sales above $ 300,000 and return to owner, in addition to “free housing and board”, of more than $ 55,000.
Turnkey price has been established at $ 647,000 including herd, equipment and cheese inventory, and seller will assist in orderly transiton .
About the Business
Year Established:1904
Employees:3 full time - 3 part time
Facilities:Clover Mead’s 112-acre site is generally flat and half wooded. The rest of the land is pasture, vegetable garden or residence and farm structures. It is located 12 miles to the west of Lake Champlain, with views, at the northeast edge of Essex County, near the nationally famous tourist attraction of Ausable Chasm. There is a charming three floor fully updated 1820’s Farm Residence with three bedrooms, a modern country kitchen, paved stone patio, enclosed dining porch and kitchen garden. The Main Barn of 7000 square feet contains a two bedroom farmer’s apartment, storage for forage and equipment, a four-stall milking parlor, a spotlessly clean cheese manufacturing room that is fully equipped, an adjacent waxing and packing anteroom and mechanical facilities. A newly constructed 750 square foot Cheese Shop and Café is adjacent, and contains walk-in cooler, standing display refrigerators, counter prep and stove equipment and a number of guest tables. There is a new in-ground temperature controlled Cheese Cellar that can accommodate 5000 pounds of ageing or stored product, an Equipment Storage Shed, and three Quonset / plastic Structures that include a calf nursery “mootel’, a greenhouse and a specially configured 50’x30’ cow shelter. Clover Mead is fully equipped and turnkey both as dairy and cheese manufacturer: the herd comprises 20+ resident Jersey cows and there is miscellaneous farm equipment such as new tractor with attached loader, spreader, etc., and all necessary cheese making vats and molds and processing and wrapping items.
Market Outlook and Competition:One of the few certified organic farms in upstate northeast New York, with established marketing outlets for its higly praised cheese products.
About the Sale
Reason For Selling:There is a unique opportunity available to the seller to move his organic farming and cheese manufacturing skills into a larger operation in a new and potentially satisfying challenge.
Seller Financing:Prefer cash so that sellers can get into another larger scope opportunity
KEYWORDS: Organic farming, cheese manufacturing, cheese shop and cafe, jersey herd, full cheese making equipment, farmers markets, ageing cellar, circa 1820 residence, 3 b/r home, Champlain valley, lake views,112 Acres
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