Borrower Spotlight

Finicky Farm

Northfield, Massachusetts

Who they are

Husband and wife team Jesse and Desiree Robertson-Dubois both attended Hampshire College before beginning extensive careers in farming and agriculture - experiences that planted seeds for a future vision of a different kind of operation. Finicky Farms is a part of the growing and innovative agrovoltaic industry - where agriculture is combined with solar energy production. They graze sheep and goats, managing pasture and producing meat along the way, while solar arrays provide shade and generate clean energy.

Loan Overview

Mortgage to purchase property they’d previously rented - to accelerate growth and increase their profitability.

In Jesse’s words

“Working with Walden has been great, because for our family, coming into the opportunity to buy a place of our own finally in mid-life, having mostly farmed for a lot of our lives, we didn’t have a lot of capital to run out there and buy a farm. Having a big part of our business be related to solar grazing, normal financing through the Farm Services Agency wasn’t available to us in the same way it would’ve otherwise been...and Walden was willing to be flexible and see the value in this kind of unique business model.”