After 20 years of work to establish a successful, sustainable farm on Vashon, islanders Amy and Joseph Bogaard are selling Hogsback Farm and looking for a farmer to take over ownership.

The Bogaards are asking $750,000 for the working farm that includes a main, four-bedroom house built in 2000; a smaller farm manager’s cottage; intern cabins and infrastructure such as greenhouse, orchard, chicken shed and well-tended soil.

“It’s a little bit more than just the house,” Amy Bogaard said last week. “We’re kind of selling the business too.”

While the couple has not managed the farm for years — it’s been under the care of former intern-turned-manager Brian Lowry — Bogaard said that she wants farming to continue on the property.

“We’re trying to sell it to a farmer,” she said. “It doesn’t even have to be somebody who has experience. If someone is just looking for a career change, that’s great. I hadn’t done any farming when I bought this place. You can pick it up.”

The Bogaards are moving into a new home they are building just up the street in the same Dilworth neighborhood.

The property dates back to the strawberry farm days of pre-World War II Vashon. The Bogaards bought the farm from Tokio “Tok” Otsuka in 1996. Otsuka and his family grew strawberries before they were sent to internment camps in California and Wyoming in the 1940s.

For more information about the farm, visit amybogaard.wix.com/hogsbackfarm. Interested buyers can contact Bogaard through the website.

— Anneli Fogt