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Earth Asset is a real estate counseling and brokerage firm that focuses on landscape-scale working forests and farms, conserved land, and luxury estates.  We understand the benefits and nuances of renewable energy systems, green designed and built structures, regenerative food systems, ecologically significant and regionally iconic holdings, and hybrid properties like SHO Farm and Sanctuary at SHO.  

We engage with clients around ethical land stewardship and rewilding, agroecological-agroforestry-permaculture farming projects. This means everything we do demands that animals — wild and domestic — are ascribed intrinsic value, conferred roles as land steward partners, treated with respect and kindness, shown compassion, and their habitats enhanced. An apsiration of each project we participate in is that wildlife and farm animals be protected from abuse, cruelty, and all forms of killing, including hunting, trapping, and animal agriculture commoditization.

Our services are grounded in 50 years of combined experience, and 20 years at SHO Farm, our nearly 1,300 acre mountain farm and animal sanctuary. SHO Farm is the living laboratory in which we trial and gain boots-on-the-ground experience with the bespoke land stewardship principles and practices that we counsel our clients about.  It showcases integrated, multi-faceted renewable energy systems, green buildings, and a cold-climate perennial food system.  We not only oversaw the design, build and installation of this $12 million dollar project, but we live and work at SHO Farm and have a genuine understanding of what it means to maintain these systems. 

Benefit from our successess and failures, and leverage our wisdom to achieve your land stewardship goals.

 

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Sanctuary at SHO: redefining animal agriculture | partnering with 100+ rescued ducks to steward non-harming perennial food systems
Food Lab at SHO: vegan gastronomy in a cold climate | fermented ramp leaves, oyster mushrooms, black trumpets, chanterelles with chive oil & vermont natto
SHO Farm: vegan wild farming in a cold climate | lion's mane mushroom cultivated on beech logs selectively coppiced from our field-forest edge
SHO Farm | one of our land stewardship practices is to ensure abundant, continual & diverse wildlife food sources like these chokecherries
Photo © Susan C. Morse, SHO Farm's wildlife biologist | one of our land stewardship practices is to ensure safe & healthy habitat for wildlife like this fawn
SHO Farm: vegan wild farming in a cold climate | pear onto hawthorn omega graft
Sanctuary at SHO: redefining animal agriculture | partnering with 100+ rescued ducks to steward non-harming perennial food systems
Food Lab at SHO: vegan gastronomy in a cold climate | forest dashi: wild reishi, turkey tail & chaga with cultivated shiitake mushrooms create the base for this japanese staple broth
Cathead Point | a case study of how earth asset’s due diligence enhances land-based wealth - this 100 acre conserved lake michigan estate owned by melissa’s family for 30+ years was sold by earth asset in under 1 year for a record-setting price to a conservation buyer
SHO Farm: vegan wild farming in a cold climate | one of our most unique and medicinal cultivated crops, wu we zi, five flavored berry, or shizandra berries, growing on farmhouse-mounted stainless steel wire-trellis
SHO Farm: vegan wild farming in a cold climate | electric utility vehicle by intimidator, quiet, powerful and durable
Sanctuary at SHO: redefining animal agriculture | partnering with 100+ rescued ducks to steward non-harming perennial food systems
Food Lab at SHO: vegan gastronomy in a cold climate | wild hops brewed into tea and then added to water kefir to create hop-flavored probiotic beverage -- melissa spotted these gems while foraging in our upper fields near an old, uninhabited farmhouse
Food Lab at SHO: vegan gastronomy in a cold climate | wild hop-infused probiotic water kefir