Sacramento Valley

Regenerative Real Estate

If you bring the tailgate, I’ll bring the pie.

If you live in the Sacramento Valley, you know how extraordinary it is. You’ve likely seen the Valley’s magic: the beautiful patchwork of 2 million acres of farmland, including almond blossoms in the spring, underneath the Pacific Flyway route for 1 billion migrating birds, and quaint, small towns of welcoming communities. 

If the Sacramento Valley is your destination to grow food in your back garden or backfield, I can help. Whether you’re looking to buy your first acreage as a new farmer or homesteader or to participate in the regeneration of agricultural lands on a larger scale, I promise to bring honesty, experience, creativity, and hard work to help you achieve your goals. 

I believe the best work gets done sitting across from each other. 

So if you bring the tailgate or kitchen table, I’ll bring the pie.

The phone works great too! Call anytime: 707-210-2595.

Avis Kalfsbeek

Avis Kalfsbeek is a California licensed Real Estate Broker with over 25 years of experience, specializing in regenerative and organic farmland and conservation real estate in Northern California. 

As a fourth-generation California farmer, Avis works to contribute to regenerating healthy working lands, nutritious food systems, and abundant communities for our great-grandchildren and beyond.

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Specialties

  • Conventional land conversions to regenerative/organic farming

  • Landowner succession planning strategies

  • Lands for production of nutrient-rich foods

  • Family farmsteads and ranchettes

  • Vineyards and wineries transitioning from monocropping

  • Organic

  • Regenerative

  • New, diverse, and women farmers

  • Wildlife refuge recreational lands

  • Urban and small-town homesteads

  • Carbon plan strategy

  • Environmental stewardship

  • Ecosystem services market development

  • Agrarian trusts

  • Market gardens

Land Owners & Sellers

By 2030, 400 million U.S. acres will change hands as thousands of farmers and ranchers retire. For context, that’s 36 times the size of California’s Central Valley, often called the country’s breadbasket.

It is said that farmland makes up 5% of Bill Gates’ investment portfolio. I attended an investor presentation of a successful farmland fund, which, while converting some conventional farmland to regenerative systems, uses classic corporate strategies to maximize investor returns by doubling and tripling farm lease rates. This is not a sustainable model that supports farmers or a movement toward more nutritious foods.

It is time for new models so regenerative farming can move forward, inclusive of small, diverse farmers, with a long view. I hope to be a partner for those interested in working together on this new path of inclusion.

It is a new land legacy: yours.

  • I’d be pleased to be a resource for your succession planning goals. I can assist you in beginning or continuing this critical process, including providing publications to guifr you, and, if needed, referring you to other estate planning professionals. If you plan to sell all or a portion of land to a non-family member, we might discuss exploring options that may help new farmers. These scenarios could create a lasting legacy that may better match your values of land stewardship than a sale la a large corporate entity.

I will work diligently to help you achieve your goals. Let’s magnify your land legacy together. I’d be honored to assist you.