Eleven-year-old homestead for sale
Our
farm is now SOLD!
Before you get excited,
please be aware that access is this property's major downfall. It's
what you might call Extremely Private. You'll
have to cross half a mile of 
off-road terrain between the
parking area and core homestead and the creek floods past its banks a
few times a year.
That said, for the right
owner, the resulting tranquility and isolation is an asset rather than
a curse. Pet owners will never find a safer paradise for their cats and
dogs. Okay, yeah, and maybe for your wife's goats, mules, chickens, and
other critters as well. Don't say I didn't warn you.
Anyway, back to the
selling points....
Our farm is 58 acres, but only the center acre or so is in use. The
rest is forest that ranges from 20 to 50+ years old and offers woodland
walks, abundant firewood, and tasty mushrooms.
The interior includes a
little over half an acre of no-till garden. The area looks considerably
weedier at the moment than is shown in this picture from October 2013,
but the soil is rich and ready to go. I even planted a bed of fall
lettuce to get you started!
Bearing perennials
currently include raspberries, strawberries, grapes, apples, hardy
kiwis, asparagus and more. Basically, we've been feeding ourself almost
entirely off this property for over a decade. It will be easy for you
to step in and do the same.
Another half acre of the
homestead is fenced with cattle panels and contains a 110-square-foot,
five-sided barn. Rotational pastures outside and a milking stanchion
inside make this space move-in ready for your small herd of dairy goats.
Okay, okay, you know
where the goats are going to live...but what about you? The center of
the homestead is a 10x50 foot mobile home (1960s era) with a new metal
roof and two large porches. We're leaving behind most of the
furnishings, including the fridge, 
stove, and chest freezer, so
it won't cost much to get your center of operations up and running.
I should warn you that
the trailer interior is very rough in places, but it's livable. Utility
hookups include electricity, phone, and cable internet fast enough to
stream Netflix.
Two water
systems are also available --- drinking water from a well (pumped
through a sediment filter and UV light for purification) and irrigation
water from the creek (stored in a 1,000-gallon tank that gravity feeds
into the house). The creek pump can be hooked up directly to a system
of sprinklers as well.
Additional living space is
found in the 8x16 foot cabin with porch and metal roof. Meanwhile, the
36x45 foot tobacco barn (pictured previously) was reroofed in 2012 and
is full of potential. Finally, a composting toilet/deer blind rounds
out the outbuildings.
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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I have never understood where or how they grew tobacco on your farm? Here in SW Ontario it is always the sandiest farms.
Hello Anna & Mark! Thank you for the reply, & apologies for not getting back to you sooner.
I am sending you an email, rather than make a long comment here.
How much are the taxes?
The parking area and the 1/2 mile trek you mention -- is that all on your property?
If not, whose property(ies) must you cross, and what kind of access (can't remember the right legal(?) term) do you have?