Private Homestead
Want complete and utter privacy? Great views? A real homestead where you can do your own thing within one watching over you and complaining? Look no further than this Amish-built farm that has had so many important updates from its inception. The property lies down a deeded ROW, a private lane, .7 miles from the main road. This lane goes only to you and to no one else.
There are 99.7 acres here (the owner feels 106 is more accurate - it can be surveyed to see if he is right) and the owner says 40 of them are tillable, in corn and newer hay seedings, High lime Palatine and Wassaic soils, with Nellis in much of the woods, all quality stuff. The remainder of the land is divided between pasture and woods, with woods occupying the greater share. In the woods are 500 potential maple sugartaps, also hickory and beech, along with some cedar and hemlock. Many trees are 2 or more in diameter. (...
There are 99.7 acres here (the owner feels 106 is more accurate - it can be surveyed to see if he is right) and the owner says 40 of them are tillable, in corn and newer hay seedings, High lime Palatine and Wassaic soils, with Nellis in much of the woods, all quality stuff. The remainder of the land is divided between pasture and woods, with woods occupying the greater share. In the woods are 500 potential maple sugartaps, also hickory and beech, along with some cedar and hemlock. Many trees are 2 or more in diameter. (that means big money if you harvest them). In the back is a newly dug farm pond. There is a stream through the pasture and woods which ends at a large creek, also on the property. Water for the home and barns is from a new 190 drilled well - no sulfur either.
You will find bearing apple, plum, peach, pear and cherry trees in the orchard and asparagus, 50 grape vines, strawberries, blueberries, rhubarb + 5 rows of something you will not see elsewhere - Navaho raspberries (huge sweet berries that produce until they frost). One branch of a dwarf peach tree bore 100 peaches.
The home was originally built as an Amish residence in 1986 and has 1920 square feet of living space plus a full dry walk-out basement. All full-dimension lumber was used. The owner has recently painted both home and barn, put in new wiring, a new septic, new windows, new roof, R30 insulation in the attic, new kitchen and bath. There are 2 new full baths, and most of the house has new sheetrock, done to a higher standard than the Amish typically employ.
It has a wrap-around porch, summer kitchen (w/wood cookstove), and an attached woodshed. Inside is a new oak galley kitchen, pantry, dining (with 2 sets of double French doors) and living rooms plus a sunroom, full bath and a master bedroom downstairs. On the second floor is a hall, 4 bedrooms and a huge second full bath.
Heat is by an air-tight wood cookstove with a parlour stove used for the coldest days. Electric is by a combination of solar (2000 watts), wind (2000 watts), and if you need them, 2 - 2000 watt and a 4000 watt generator, which can all be hooked in tandem if wished. The bigger generator can run for 14 hours on a gallon of gas. Electric can be run in from public poles, but would be expensive ($25000 estimated). They have 2 TVs going and all the electric they need from their own system - with no bills from the electric company and no worry about outages. Recognizing concerns some folks have over living off-grid, they are installing solar panels to generate 6400 watts (a normal home would need 4000). When the power goes out yours will be the only lights around.
The main barn is 38x90 and has a flat drive-in entrance to the loft, no posts or beams in the way either. In the stable are 27 stanchions and an addition (30x40) with 7 straight horse stalls and 2 pens for smaller animals. Like the home, it has had French drains installed so it stays dry. It has 2 14x40 silos. In the barn is an ice house which keeps ice through the summer.
Youngstock have been housed in a dedicated section of the machinery shed. This building is 30x70 and has a corn crib across the west end. There are also some small buildings for other usual farm purposes. And there is a sugar house just inside the woods.
A former workshop is being converted to a guest home. It is 24x44 and studs are in for 2 12x12 bedrooms, utility room, and a single bath. Across one end is a 14x24 shed which would function like a huge mud room.
The price is now $350000. Taxes are around $4000 (he gets a couple of discounts - ag value, enhanced Star and combat veterans) These are anxious owners and they want offers, so dont be afraid to set your own price and see if it gets accepted. Terms might be possible as well. Included are all woodstoves, all appliances, 3 generators, 3ph snowblower and enough snow fence for the entire drive.
Available separately are his machinery: New Holland 55 Workmaster 4WD tractor, Ford 9N tractor, sickle bar mower, good JD 328 baler, 2 hay rakes, a tedder, drags, a tilt-bed hay wagon, Ford 3 bottom plow, 4 bush hog.
