Farms Profile 2025
Manahawkin, NJ, USA
Small scale suburban farm across two locations on leased land. Growing most market garden vegetables, herbs and microgreens.
Farm Budget
Overview
Total Revenue:
$41 883
Total Expenses:
$26 949
Net Profit:
$14 934
Profit Margin:
~35.7%
Income
Production:
$40 487 (97%)
Value Add:
$1 396 (3%)
Expenses
Payroll Labor:
$11 517 (27% of revenue)
Production:
$5 522 (13% of revenue)
General Overhead:
$3 478 (8% of revenue)
Sales Marketing:
$2 947 (7% of revenue)
Land Occupancy:
$1 429 (3% of revenue)
Equipment:
$1 027 (2% of revenue)
Other:
$900 (2% of revenue)
Operations
Total Beds
43 beds (50ft)
Greenhouse Area
368 sqft
Employees
1 full-time
Selling Months
Full-year
Year of First Season
2023
Farm & Environment
Topography
Very flat no slope
Soil Type
Sandy loam
Hardiness Zone
7a-b
Temperature Range
Minimum in winter usually never goes below 0, rarely below 10 at night, daytime lows are rarely below 35. Summer is often above 85 with very high humidity above 75%
Frosts
Mild winters. First frost 11/1 last frost 3/15, most winters have been mild with low temps in the mid 30s and day time highs in the upper 40s
Well source, overhead wobblers, and drip. All automatic on irrigation timers.
Owner Profile
Chris Adams, Kristin Adams and Assistant Farm Manager Brielle Piterski
10 years of farming experience, starting and operating two small-scale farms. Beach View Farms and Sassafras Hill Farm are both in Southern Ocean County NJ.
Agronomy and soil science background from college. Also USDA NRCS technical service provider consultant.
Building community, a local food resilience and for my children
Detailed Financials
| Item | Amount | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| CSA | $5 665 | CSA sales for current year |
| Farmer's market | $3 595 | |
| Farm stand | $5 930 | |
| Other income | $15 953 | Workshops, consulting, farm-tours, etc. |
| Restaurants sales | $9 344 |
| Item | Amount | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Resold Items | $1 396 | If you buy in products from other farms/producers that you sell on your farm |
| Item | Amount | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Fuel and Propane | $823 | |
| Repairs and Maintenance (Vehicles) | $115 | |
| Tools | $89 |
| Item | Amount | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Accountant's fees | $500 | |
| Bank charges | $60 | maintenance fees (as opposed to credit card processing) |
| Customs and postage | $33 | |
| Liability Insurance | $2 525 | Includes auto coverage in general liability |
| Licenses and permits | $80 | |
| Memberships | $50 | |
| Office supplies & expenses | $230 |
| Item | Amount | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Electricity & Utilities | $429 | |
| Location (Property Tax or Rent) | $1 000 |
| Item | Amount | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Taxes | $900 | income tax |
| Item | Amount | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Payroll costs | $360 | to include payroll processing fees and other expenses associated with payroll |
| Payroll Taxes | $966 | |
| Salaries and Wages | $8 432 | |
| Training/literature | $229 | professional development whether it's a training, conference, or book. |
| Workers Comp and Disability Insurance | $1 530 | any insurance associated with employees. If your insurance policy bundles all insurance, separate it out as best as you can. |
| Item | Amount | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Fertilizers & amendments | $1 129 | including cover crop seeds |
| Greenhouse heating | $1 250 | |
| Seeds, Seedlings (Vegetables) | $3 078 | |
| Soil Analysis and Testing | $65 |
| Item | Amount | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Credit Card Processing Fees | $1 690 | square, strip, or other fees associated with selling. Also included here are fees for selling platforms like LocalLine |
| Other Selling Expenses | $58 | market fees, supplies for the farmers market or farm stand, etc. |
| Selling Supplies and packaging | $1 007 | |
| Website hosting and maintenance | $192 |
| Item | Amount | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Agryl P-19 Row covers | $417 | |
| Broadfork | $325 | |
| Display: Market display, farm display | $400 | |
| Electric 15 liter backpack sprayer | $312 | |
| Hammer, pruning shears, grinding wheel, knives | $250 | |
| Harvest cart | $0 | |
| Hoes and other weeding tools | $212 | |
| Insect netting | $325 | |
| Irrigation systems | $694 | |
| Jang seeder and rollers | $1 695 | |
| Kilotech KRS 1000 electronic scale, from Tzanet | $320 | |
| Landscape fabric, blowtorch and ground pins | $1 350 | |
| Market equipment (folding tables, wooden boxes, etc.) | $500 | |
| Market tent | $120 | |
| Mesclun spinner + 2 baskets | $0 | |
| Metal rods | $0 | |
| Other | $0 | |
| Rakes, shovels, forks, wheelbarrows | $0 | |
| Rubbermaid bins (37.9 liters): 50*14 | $700 | |
| Rubbermaid tubs (68.1 liters) :30*12 | $360 | |
| Sandbags | $0 | |
| Silage tarps | $899 | |
| Sowing and sprouting equipment | $0 | |
| Tilther XT | $595 | |
| Tomato harvest crate | $177 | |
| Trellising equipment | $295 | |
| Unforeseen | $8 250 | |
| Various Tools (2 Drills and spare batteries, Round saw, Ratchet kit, Screwdriver kit, measuring tapes, Jigsaw, Level and chalkline, Plumbing kit, Grinder, Torch, Many types of tape) | $1 200 | |
| Website (design) | $192 | |
| Wire hoops | $350 |
| Item | Amount | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Cold room | $3 000 | |
| Equipped 16x24 greenhouse/nursery (heating, automatization, irrigation, ventilation,) | $2 240 | |
| Nursery Layout (work furniture, potting soil basin, seedling tables, water heater if required, seedling lamps if seedling room) | $1 500 | |
| Tunnel (5m x 30m ) | $2 700 | |
| Washing station layout | $3 500 |
| Item | Amount | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| BCS 2-wheel tractor | $0 | |
| Delivery truck (You can rent it the first years 5k/6 months) | $5 000 | |
| Equipment | $19 938 | |
| Flail mower (BCS attachment) | $0 | |
| Power harrow (BCS attachment) | $0 | |
| Rotary plough (BCS attachment) | $0 | |
| Rototiller (BCS attachment) | $0 |
| Product | Wholesale | Market |
|---|---|---|
| Arugula | $10,00/pound | $6,00/7oz. bag |
| Baby Mustard Mix | $10,00/pound | $5,00/8 oz. bag |
| Basil | $3,00/2 oz. bag | $5,00/2 oz bag |
| Beans | $0,00 | $5,00/pint |
| Beets | $3,00/bunch | $4,00/bunch |
| Bok Choy, baby | $2,00/pound | $3,00/bunch |
| Carrots | $3,00/bunch | $4,00/bunch |
| Celery | $3,00 | $4,00/bunch |
| Cherry Tomatoes | $3,00/pint | $5,00/pint |
| Cilantro | $2,00/bunch | $3,00/bunch |
| Cucumbers, greenhouse | $1,00/each | $2,00/each |
| Eggplant | $4,00 | $5,00/pound |
| Fennel, baby | $2,00/each | $3,00/each |
| Garlic | $2,00/head | $2,00/head |
| Kale | $0,00/bunch | $4,00/bunch |
| Leeks | $3,00 | $3,00/bunch |
| Lettuce Heads | $2,00/head | $3,00/head |
| Lettuce Mix | $10,00/pound | $5,00/7 oz bag |
| Microgreens | $5,00/2.5 oz. clamshell | $5,00/2.5 oz. clamshell |
| Onions, fresh | $3,00 | $5,00/bunch |
| Peppers | $5,00 | $6,00/pound |
| Radishes | $2,00/bunch | $3,00/bunch |
| Radishes, Winter | $4,00/pound | $4,50/pound |
| Scallions | $2,00/bunch | $3,00/bunch |
| Spinach | $5,95/pound | $5,00/6 oz. bag |
| Summer Squash, baby | $2,99/pound | $3,00/pint |
| Swiss Chard | $3,00/bunch | $4,00/bunch |
| Tomatoes | $3,29/pound | $4,29/pound |
| Turnips, Salad | $2,00/bunch | $3,00/bunch |
| Winter Squash | $3,00/pound | $4,00/pound |