A potential homestead in Castlewood, Virginia
A friend of a friend is
selling some land about twenty minutes from our farm, and I promised to
spread the word in case any of you were interested. It's priced at
a thousand bucks an acre and has a lot of potential, full of ponds,
forested mountain-land, and open fields. There's an electric
hookup on site and spring water piped down to an old house, plus logging
roads make for relatively easy access. Here's the Craigslist ad for more information.
At 177 acres, the
property has the potential to be bought by several homesteaders and
managed as an eco-village or education center. Or, perhaps more
realistically, if two or three homesteading families went in on the
property together, you could share the land without anyone digging their
financial hole too deep. If you're interested in these shared
options, leave a comment below and chat with each other --- it would
make my day if several of our readers got together and relocated nearby!
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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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That is a beautiful piece of property! Wow! Do you have a geo-tag or address for it? I'd love to look at the satellite pictures. If we sold everything and bought a camper to live in I think we could get together enough for 30% to 40% of the land cost. I think 4 families with $50-75k each could turn it into a working farm in a few years.
Anna, are you familiar with any of the legal structures that you could use to make something like that happen?
Maybe one day. Hopefully sooner rather than later, God willing.
-Papa and Mama Bear & 4 cubs