Desert Sage Farm LLC

Desert Sage Farm LLC, a small business limited liability company based in Mackay, Idaho, operates as a native shrub propagation and hand-planting contractor serving the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management exclusively as a prime contractor under total small business set-asides. The vendor's federal work centers on growing Wyoming big sagebrush and antelope bitterbrush seedlings to specification and hand-planting them across Idaho and Oregon rangeland, fuels reduction, and wildfire-rehabilitation sites under NAICS 115310 (Support Activities for Forestry) and related nursery production codes.

All twelve of Desert Sage Farm's recent awards (combined potential value $3.5 million, 100% obligated) flow from the BLM. The BLM Idaho Region dominates the footprint at ten awards totaling $2.8 million, with the BLM National Office accounting for the remaining activity ($340 thousand for antelope bitterbrush propagation in Vale, Oregon, supporting Willowcreek Fire rehabilitation through October 2025, and one BLM-wide award for $371 thousand). Representative work includes a $475,500 purchase order awarded April 2026 for growing 335,000 Wyoming Big Sagebrush and 20,000 Antelope Bitterbrush plants with hand-planting across four BLM-managed Idaho sites (Dog Creek Unit 4, Hot Springs 2, Lower Red Rock Flat, South Wedge) by October 2026 under prevailing-wage requirements; a $371,250 contract from March 2025 for propagating and planting 275,000 sagebrush and bitterbrush seedlings across two Idaho locations through October 2025; and a $26,040 purchase order from April 2025 for delivery of 25,000 antelope bitterbrush and 3,000 big sagebrush seedlings to a refrigerated facility near the Pocatello Field Office by April 2025. Activity is sparse and episodic—one award per year in 2021, 2022, and 2023, then two in 2025 and one in 2026—with only one award ($475,500) reaching ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months. Desert Sage Farm operates no subcontractor relationships and participates in no parent IDIQs, GWACs, or BPAs; all work flows through direct purchase orders from the BLM.