I have been researching a move from NW Ohio to Southern Kentucky/Tennessee for when we finally retire. My plan is to find an established farm that needs a few upgrades/improvements with barns, and fenced pastures for our animals (we have horses, goats, and chickens now on our 10 acre farm). We have been looking at 50-100 acre parcels in some of the backwoods hollows on small county roads, with few neighbors. Most of these properties have a stream, about 50 acres of woods, and the rest in pasture land. We would like to build a greenhouse, and have a big garden that could finally get the attention it deserves (when we retire).
The idea is to buy it in the next few years, and slowly groom it to the way we want it over a period of a year or more, making a trip to the property occasionally to mow, fix, upgrade, and move more items South so the initial "MOVE" won't be so daunting, and exhausting.
RE taxes are 1/2 of what they are in Ohio, and much of our food would be produced on our property. We have also looked at possibly implementing a solar array, and if the stream is year round, possibly a water wheel generator for power.
I know many of you probably think that this is too much like w#rk, but staying active keeps your body, and mind in good shape....I will never idly sit still and be bored !
The idea is to buy it in the next few years, and slowly groom it to the way we want it over a period of a year or more, making a trip to the property occasionally to mow, fix, upgrade, and move more items South so the initial "MOVE" won't be so daunting, and exhausting.
RE taxes are 1/2 of what they are in Ohio, and much of our food would be produced on our property. We have also looked at possibly implementing a solar array, and if the stream is year round, possibly a water wheel generator for power.
I know many of you probably think that this is too much like w#rk, but staying active keeps your body, and mind in good shape....I will never idly sit still and be bored !
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