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Post by mnjrutherford on Mar 27, 2010 20:25:07 GMT -5
Hey listen up people, I can line US up with a place in central Tennessee that is 2,600 acres, 6,000 sq ft home, HUGE barn, kennel with 1 bdrm apartment... Serendipity Acres. I've posted about it before. I THINK the web page is www.myserendipity.com. Telsing, if you are SERIOUS, that really could be HGville... Oh yea, Bunkie & I are the shoemakers.. |
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Post by ottawagardener on Mar 28, 2010 9:33:24 GMT -5
I'd have to convince my hubby to quit his job as a prof. and go back to the land. The fact that we are getting a farm is a big step for that city boy. He's actually really getting into it but he worries about 'money' so I suspect that he wouldn't cut off our bank-line. Niagra is really nice Jo, really nice and we have free health care here. So if someone knows a rich patron, that'd solve all our problems.  What can I be? Do I have a specialized skill? Hmmm... I can lift fairly heavy rocks. I'll be field-hand # 7. Who's with me? |
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Post by ceara on Mar 28, 2010 21:11:29 GMT -5
Where I live you can get a decent sized house with around 100 acres for about 150k. But not many jobs here.
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Post by ottawagardener on Mar 29, 2010 7:29:52 GMT -5
Nice! A bit of a communte for my hubby. I hear it's pretty 'round there too.
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Post by ottawagardener on Apr 6, 2010 6:22:01 GMT -5
Looking at many more farms and getting demoralized. We saw a huge one with 79 acres, most of it in hay which another person was cutting but they weren't managing the fields just taking the hay off the land which means they were getting depleted. I just can't do that to soil.
We also saw the near perfect plot yesterday with 5.5 acres of sandy (albiet a bit rocky in parts) land near a nice town with a great house but it was right on a busy road. I didnt' have a big problem with this but it didn't give you the peace and QUIET normally envisioned in such an endeavor.
Farm? Where are you?
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Post by plantsnobin on Apr 6, 2010 6:35:15 GMT -5
The road we live on is one big reason I want to move. There is a casino down the road, and when it was booming we could have to wait a long, long time just to pull out of the driveway because of the traffic. Plus the noise. You'll find your place. When you pull up and the place instantly feels like 'home', you'll be glad you saw all those other places, just so you'll know how lucky you were to find the perfect one.
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Post by bluelacedredhead on Apr 6, 2010 6:56:45 GMT -5
79 acres is Really Big? Telsing, you really are a City Girl.
And think of yourself as being able to "rescue" some of those poor depleted hayfields. You can reseed them and lovingly apply manure to feed their need..
It's like gardening only on a grander scale.
Um, and I simply have to say something about a common spelling error on here.
Niagara has 3 a's. It is Niagara , NOT Niagra that rhymes with Viagra...Since that stupid drug came on the market, I've seen this spelling more and more. If it's your SpellCheck on your computer that's doing that, throw it out! Or at least quit using it...grrrrr
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Post by canadamike on Apr 6, 2010 8:09:00 GMT -5
 I had the same reaction Wendy!! Do not worry about field depletion too much when it comes to hay Telsing. Some patches of good hay have been producing for decades. They are exceptional, but it happens. We tend to forget mother nature is the world's greatest fertilizer...and all that carbon in the hay comes from the air too...
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Post by steveont on Apr 6, 2010 8:09:45 GMT -5
Yeah, for some reason, the area around here is not cheap. :/ feds!!   the area out towards carleton place/mississipi mills/smiths falls still has some good value, with 7 opening up, will be easy too hit the queensway to down town!!! our area, nope!! way too much compitition!  |
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Post by ottawagardener on Apr 6, 2010 8:39:21 GMT -5
79 acres is really big FOR MY PURPOSES. I only need around 5 acres. If I get a larger parcel then I'm paying more for land than for house which is not the equation I'm looking for. I don't need that much so why pay for it? I know that there are much big industrial farms - saw some of them. It's just not what I'm looking for. Actually, I am a small farm girl (small farms in BC about 10 acres). My father was a hobby farmer from since I was little so I was plucking rocks out of the veg patch, watering the animals (my hands cracked and bled every winter from the cold and wet), even butchered the poor things (I hated doing it as I was handed the killing implements at around 8 and had fond feelings for the critters). On the other hand, I've also lived in big cities and small towns so I am not really a country girl or a city girl. In fact, I'm a woman As for spelling. Sorry. I don't spell check these posts and make mistakes commonly. We'll blaim the drug companies. Just the other day, I realized that I was spelling a common word wrong but was convinced it was the correct spelling. I'm in my thirties folks - the shame. Ask Michel, I kept spelling his name wrong. Anyhow, I apologize. I noticed that too Steve. |
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Post by ottawagardener on Apr 6, 2010 8:51:21 GMT -5
 Here is Michel who accompanied me to a local, small hobby farm with my girlie whirlies who love the man by the way. |
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Post by seedywen on Apr 6, 2010 10:25:45 GMT -5
Telsing,
Have been in your situation(looking for suitable farm property) twice. Finding the 'right' place seemed to take forever!
Many days the desire to become 'landed', trumped patience.
Big-time.
Both times finding the place took, a year or two. The upside to to those forced periods of 'waiting', has been that twenty years later, can still gaze around this litttle farm, feeling it was right for our family's needs and ultimately worth every penny.
Hope the following suggestions might be helpful.
Make a check list of your most important criteria for purchase. Soil, water, utilities, sunshine, access, buildings, etc. What compromises, you're prepared to make around any of the above.
Realistically what is 'doable' to bring some of the less desirable features in terms of time, effort, money up to the level of your intent. And what situations might just be 'throwing money at the place's problems' and never really fixeable in a satisfactory way.
1)Find a realtor who you can relate personally to and who will look at properties, through 'your eyes'. (or at least as far, as you have shown/explained it to them.) This way they will be more likely to notify you in advance, of properties coming on to the market.
Not only will this help screen out other countless properties, saving you oodles of time/ anguish:) but also often the 'best' properties are often nearly sold before they get listed.
2) Network, network, network. If you find a geographical area that might 'work' for you, hubby's commute times, access to schools, medical, etc. put up ads in local papers, bulletin boards, Craiglist etc. Ask people who work at feed stores etc. if they know of any properties coming on to the market any time in the future. Get everyone looking for Telsing and family:)
People retiring and moving or getting too old to care for their properties, with children not interested in taking over the farm, are examples of situations that friends/neighbours might have advance information about. If a suitable property is coming on the market, you want to be first in line!
3)Have your financial situation, primed and ready to roll so that you can move 'fast' on the sale. Like pre-approval mortgage situation well-in hand, ways to accessing your savings, earmarked, 'farm'etc. This way, even if you find yourself, in a 'bidding war' type situation, your financial cards are stacked, increasing your chances of a successful bid.
That's a few things coming up off the top of my head. Got to go milk the goats now!
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Post by mnjrutherford on Apr 6, 2010 10:39:16 GMT -5
Der spring is sprung!
Der grass is green!
I wunda where dem boidies is?
Der liddle boids is on da wing!
Ain't dat absoid?
Der liddle wings is on da boid!
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Post by steveont on Apr 6, 2010 10:48:46 GMT -5
i also try too keep my spelling correct as i am a co-mod on a board!! sometimes does not work out though!! at least my co-mod can spell!!
a lot of the big, industrial farms buy up land and then sever off the house barn and 5-10 acres, these do not normaly hit the market, all done by word of mouth!
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Post by canadamike on Apr 6, 2010 13:41:18 GMT -5
Telsing, I love them too, and they are so beautiful  Don't worry about spelling Tel, it is just the Niagra/Viagra thing that had me explode in laughter...as Niagara is the canadian hot spot for honeymooners, the Viagra-Niagra connection is just impossible not to make ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ''Marry me honey and we will go to Viagra'' |
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