City Beet Farm is For Sale!

Farm / Business: CITY BEET FARM
Vancouver, BC

About the Farm

City Beet Farm is a small scale, multi-site urban farm, located on traditional Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh territory in Vancouver BC.

Since 2013, City Beet has been transforming lawn space into productive food and flower gardens to enhance food security and build community. Using mostly hand tools and a small crew of 2-3 employees, the farm works a regular weekly schedule harvesting from June to October, in the Riley Park, Mount Pleasant and Southlands neighbourhoods. Most of our produce is sold through a CSA (community supported agriculture) program, which provides members with 6-8+ vegetable items (e.g. bunch of carrots, kale, bag of spinach, pint of tomatoes) per week for 20 weeks, based on what is in season and ready to harvest. The growing space is made up of residential front and backyards and one larger plot in the Southlands neighbourhood (twenty-four 90 foot beds). In total, we grow on about 0.5 acres. In 2025 our CSA had 90 member-households, and the farm has offered weekly and bi-weekly bouquet subscriptions as well since 2019.

We (Liana and Duncan) have nurtured and grown City Beet for five years now, from 2021-2025. In that time, we have added four new front-yard growing spaces, transforming them from lawns into approximately 4000 additional square feet of space for growing rows of vegetables and flowers. We have an incredible community of customers committed to visiting us weekly throughout the summer every Wednesday afternoon outside the Federal Store Cafe to buy our produce. Our landowners care deeply about putting their yard space to good use. Between foodbank partnerships, wholesale, CSA, and market, there is more than enough demand for our produce: our CSA has a waitlist every season.

Owning City Beet has been an excellent adventure. It has given us the opportunity to learn about farming and running a small business without leaving our community or taking on large levels of debt. We have loved farming in the city, feeding and talking to our neighbours, and have made so many friends and connections at the helm of City Beet. We are ready for our next thing, and are setting our sights on becoming rural farmers at a larger scale in the next few years. We want to make sure this unique business will continue to serve Vancouver neighbourhoods in good hands and provide a new set of farmers with their own foundational, low-risk first ecological urban farming experience. If you think that might be you, read on for further details regarding the farm and the sale process.

Farm Assets (What's included in the sale)

City Beet has an array of equipment that will be familiar to people with organic farm experience, as well as some unique innovations that optimize it for growing food in the city. Included in the sale is everything you need to run the farm, both tangible and intangible assets, including, for example:

Tangible Assets include:
- Truck
- Refrigerated walk-in trailer
- Caterpillar tunnel (14' x 60')
- Greenhouse (10' x 16')
- Seed starting equipment
- Hoes, shovels, and other farm tools
- BCS 710
- Washing & packing equipment
- & more

Intangible Assets include:
- Business name
- Customer list
- Website
- Social media accounts
- Business records
- & more

The above are examples of the key assets included in the sale. Full lists of assets will be made available to interested parties during the due diligence process (more on this below).

Opportunities

The business is at a great size to be scaled up, to potentially integrate other services, such as consulting and garden design, or to contribute to additional social goals as the new buyer (that's you!) desires. We have built strong partnerships with community partners, including Mount Pleasant Neighbourhood House, Jewish Family Services, and especially Little Mountain Neighbourhood House and City View Church, which could be built on and expanded. Our “Veggies for Neighbours” program has helped us build these relationships and apply for funding to grow local food for our neighbours who face food insecurity. The community of customers at City Beet has never been stronger (our CSA reliably sells out every year and grows as we acquire more growing space) and we have loved getting to know our eaters on a first-name basis, meeting their families and friends, and seeing them every week, and year after year. We are proud to have grown many babies’ first strawberries!

This unique business would be suitable to be taken on by graduates of the UBC Farm Practicum or KPU’s Richmond Farm School, or anyone with some farming or gardening experience. We have an excellent relationship with The Federal Store cafe where we do our CSA pickup, and sell at our pop-up market table once a week.

If you are looking to embark on a new experience and want to apply your skills in organic farming, but are not ready to leave the city, this would be the perfect opportunity. We can offer in-depth descriptions and guidance related to the unique features of this farm model to new owners, and will share with new owners all farm records including seeding dates and quantities, as well as records of recent offers and contact information for owners of land that could be added to the farm.

Risk Mitigation

Farming is hard work and can be unpredictable. Thanks to the CSA model, the business has survived any and all challenges of organic farming with a very supportive community. In the CSA model, customers commit to supporting a farmer throughout the season and sharing the risk brought on by unforeseeable events. The diversified selection of crops guards against crop failures and the effects of heat domes. The farm has been profitable every year.

Farming is also very fun and joyful work. We hear passersby at our market and in our gardens appreciating how special it is that a business like this is enlivening our streets. Our homeowners are amazing people who want their land to support their community. We offer homeowners in our 13-yard network weekly vegetables in exchange for the use of space, soil, and water. Many of them have been with the farm since it was started!

Mentorship

We would be happy to provide mentorship to the new owners during your first season to ease the transition and ensure a successful first season. We can negotiate the particulars of the arrangement during the sale process, but such mentorship could include regular phone calls, on-farm supervisions, introductions.

Sale Price

$86,000.00

The aim of this price is to offer an accessible entry-point into farm business-ownership for the buyer while fairly reflecting the value of the farm for us. Further explanation of the valuation method will be provided to potential buyers in the due diligence process. We would be happy to discuss setting a schedule of payment in instalments for the buyer as needed.

Sale Process

If running City Beet sounds like your next adventure, email: info@citybeetfarm.com

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After you reach out, we will set up a time to speak via zoom in late January or early February. Once you have met with us, potential buyers will have the opportunity to access certain farm records in order to perform due diligence. Interested parties will then be invited to submit formal offers in late February, 2026, with an exact deadline tbd.

We are excited to share more with anyone who is interested and to see whether this could be the right fit for your ecological and urban farming journey.

Media

We have given numerous farm tours over the years, and have been featured in local and national news outlets. You can learn more about the farm on our website and in the following selections:

• CBC News 
• CBC News

Above photos of Liana and Duncan in the About the Farm section taken by Asalah Youssef.