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Refresh Farms

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Refresh Farms

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Refresh Farms · a Firm Six sister company

Land that earns more than rent.

Large parcels sit unused for years between the day they are bought and the day the first building goes up, paying full tax and doing nothing for the neighbourhood. We turn that waiting period into a working farm: real commercial growing, agricultural tax reclassification, community access, and infrastructure designed from day one to come out clean.

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Two ways in

Why it matters

Idle land costs money and goodwill at the same time.

Full tax on land producing nothing

In many jurisdictions land in active agricultural production qualifies for a dramatically lower property tax rate. Most holders of pre-development land are paying full commercial or industrial rates instead.

The wait is measured in years

Phased build-outs and entitlement windows leave land fallow behind fencing for years, sometimes a decade, with carrying cost running the whole time.

An empty lot is a reputation cost

Neighbours see a fenced field and a developer who has not delivered anything yet. A working farm with public access changes what the site says about you.

The sustainability story has no proof

Trees, biodiversity, local food and community programming are things you can point at, on the site, during the years you are still waiting on approvals.

Leveraging land

Four steps. We can join at any of them.

Feasibility and farm design

We study what the parcel can actually grow, design the farm around it, and map the regulatory path, coordinating with planners, assessors and municipal staff. Clients who are not ready for a farm can stop at this stage and just take the answer.

Build it to come apart

Modular grow pods built from shipping containers on rooftop solar, polyhouses on gravel and fabric pads, field production in the ground. No permanent foundations and no encumbrance, so the farm comes out or relocates on your timeline, not ours.

Establish production, secure the reclassification

Agricultural tax status requires a real farm, not a lawn with a sign on it. We stand up genuine commercial production, coordinate the assessment and site inspection, file the applications and handle the annual reporting that keeps the status in good standing.

Operate, program, and hand the land back

We run the nursery, the sales and the community programming: markets, workshops, pollinator zones, honey. You keep the tax savings and the story, with no operational burden and no recurring funding obligation after startup.

Two ways in

Most holdings fall into one of two situations.

Land you are holding

Use case 01

Put idle parcels to work while you wait

A site moving through entitlement or held for a later phase can produce for years before a shovel goes in the ground. Production scales to the window you have, and it comes off the land when you need it gone.

Revenue against a parcel that is currently pure carrying cost

Active, visible use of a site during a long approvals process

Community and food security story that helps at the council table

Buildings you are designing or operating

Use case 02

Build production into the asset itself

Controlled environment agriculture inside the envelope. Back of house, service levels and roofs become permanent growing space, serviced by systems the building already has. The crop is a choice, from mushrooms to leafy greens.

Permanent revenue line inside the building envelope

Amenity and differentiation a competing project cannot copy quickly

Crop chosen to the room: mushrooms today, leafy greens where the light and load allow

Team

Jeff Huber

Co-founder · Operations & Agronomy

Master Grower with more than twenty years commercialising agriculture technology. Helped design, build and commission one of the largest fully automated indoor vertical farms in North America. MSc, mycology and controlled environment agriculture.