My ex partner an I are selling our hand built Acworth farm. It's a great place.
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This 42 acre family farm has almost all you need to start farming. <br>
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The main house is hand built of hewn logs and constructed in the piece en piece style. The materials are native, including the field stone for the foundation, 1st floor and central chimney. The walls are log and the wood for cabinets and trim milled on site. The roof is slate and has a herringbone design running through. The barn is from the mid 1800’s and was salvaged and reassembled on a stone foundation in 1990. It has a two bay garage, a woodshop and other workshops and tool storage. Hay loft above with antique hay forks for loose hay and a vegetable washing/garden shed built off the back with soapstone sink. Other outbuildings include: 1)a 23x24 animal barn with both open bays and closed stalls, 2) an art studio with a sales room and large bedroom above, 3) 3 bay equipment shed with attached (equipped) blacksmiths shop on one end and three season sleeping space on the other, 4) rustic, 12x16 finished wood heated, log cabin, 5) a completely equipped maple sugarhouse down by the brook. There a pounded deep water well with plenty of pure, clear water. The buildings are all wood heated. Electricity from the grid.<br>
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The surrounding acreage is in the permaculture style having all the garden space and orchards near the house. The rich sandy loam soil has been improved for 33 years and grows beautiful fruits and vegetables and grass. There is a 60 tree heritage apple/pear/peach orchard, approximately 80 blueberry bushes and various rows of raspberries, currants, black raspberries and gooseberries. The herb garden is surrounded by circles of strawberries. There is approximately 5 acres of pastureland upon which horses, cattle, sheep, hogs and poultry have been raised. The woodlots are comprised of mixed hard and softwoods that has been sustainably managed for the last 33 years and some protected stands. The brook, with old mill site, runs past the gardens and orchard and down around the sugarhouse. There is a small man made, spring fed pond for swimming and irrigation . The neighbors arent too far away, but you can't see them and from the front porch the sun and moon rise over the forested hills. This is a beautifull and special place where you can live a green and sustainable lifestyle and grow healthy food for family and/or market.<br>
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http://m.landandfarm.com/property/organic_permaculture_farm-2612851/
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