SUSTAINABLE LIVING ON YOUR OWN PROFITABLE ORGANIC FARM
SUSTAINABLE LIVING ON YOUR OWN PROFITABLE ORGANIC FARM
Key Details
Rural Property for Sale
Land: 16.02 ha
$1,250,000 - $1,350,000
68 Peacock Creek Road, Bonalbo NSW
Sales Contact
Jeremy Millar
jeremy.millar@aplgroup.net.au
In these troubled times with rocketing prices, shortages and an uncertain world, families are increasingly seeking a more relaxed lifestyle, somewhere to build a safer and healthier future for their family, somewhere to make a good living while contributing towards a healthier planet. Sounds interesting? In which case you really ought to take a close look at what Nutshell Farm has to offer.
For a price that is less than many Gold Coast or Greater Brisbane family homes, 40-acre Nutshell Farm in the beautiful Northern Rivers of NSW is both certified organic and certified biodynamic, has an established profitable business, exceptional infrastructure and is ready for you to move in without the need for any further investment. Uniquely in a farm of this size, it is turning in an established, secure and growing income that would be the envy of most farms four or five times the size. Plus, there is no compromise when it comes to family life. It has a beautiful, fully renovated five-bedroom, two-bathroom house with stunning views across the valley to the foothills of the Richmond Range National Park.
The current owners have spent the past nine years creating a truly unique farm and country lifestyle, so let’s highlight a few features. Nothing has been spared, no corners have been cut and the farm is being offered for sale on a walk-in walk-out basis, with on-going support from the current owners to ensure a seamless transition, no matter what your current knowledge or skill level may be.
Take a look at a few key features:
• Sustainability is underpinned by outstanding water security thanks to a solar-powered bore and 25,000-litre header tank and three dams, one of which is large capacity.
• An in-ground watering system services the majority of the paddocks for efficient stock watering.
• Domestic water security comes in the form of 135,000-litre capacity storage tanks.
• Biodynamic soil improvement has resulted in amazing soil fertility and pasture growth, ground cover and an enviable carrying capacity.
• Perimeter security is assured thanks to the farm’s total ring-lock and barb wire fencing, most of which is new.
• Animal containment is a combination of ring-lock and permanent electric fencing. This subdivides approximately half the property into multiple interconnected paddocks for efficient stock rotation and pasture management that is suitable for a variety of animals including cattle, pigs, sheep and goats. The front pastures of the property and are fenced into 4 paddocks, with a separate 7-acres set aside for hay production.
• A massive 35-metre by 16-metre by 6-metre-high steel shed is more than adequate for machinery, equipment and storage for hay (produced on the farm). Plus there is an additional machine shed.
• The farm currently grows and harvests around 65 bales of high-value certified organic and certified biodynamic hay a year from one harvest. Two harvests a year are feasible in good growing years.
'Profit from the day you move in'
While the layout of the paddocks ensures that Nutshell Farm is ideal for a variety of livestock, it is operated currently as a profitable, premium-priced, certified organic, heritage breed pork business with long-standing supply agreements established with certified organic butchers in NSW and Queensland. It offers the new owner a proven and immediate income stream that is secure and not subject to the fluctuating vagaries of selling through livestock markets.
The current owners also sell direct to the public and negotiations are well advance with new butchery customers that will see turnover increase by around 70 percent in the next financial year.
In additional to pigs, Nutshell Farm is also home to a 20-plus herd of Jersey and Galloway cattle, chicken, guineafowl and goats. There is also a flourishing organic vegetable garden, and mixed fruit orchard and a small olive grove.
And if you have a desire to diversify, with the existing infrastructure and stock holding the property lends itself easily to a permaculture or syntropic farming operation.
"But I am not certified! I know nothing about farming!"
Not a problem.
The current owners have negotiated a transition arrangement with their certification body. This will enable the new owners to retain the current owners’ certification for twelve months while achieving their own certified status. This will enable supply agreements with existing customers to continue with a seamless transition and profit from day one.
'More about the Farmhouse'
As the photographs show, the single-storey farmhouse can truly be described as a “country style haven”. It has recently been renovated, updated and decorated top-to-bottom, inside and out.
It has five double bedrooms, with the large dual-aspect master bedroom providing direct access to the wrap-around veranda, a spacious and elegant ensuite bathroom and a walk-in wardrobe with exceptional storage facilities. The room has an overhead ceiling fan and air-conditioning for year-round comfort.
Three other double bedrooms, one of which also has direct access to the veranda, all have generous-sized built-in wardrobes and ceiling fans, while the fifth bedroom has been converted into a farm office and a much-welcomed food store and pantry.
There is a second bathroom with a good-sized bath and a separate toilet adjacent to a laundry /utility room. An external laundry facility on the rear patio boasts a second washing machine for work clothes and a large laundry sink that provides a convenient place to wash-up before coming into the house after work.
The large kitchen is a real entertainer’s and foodie’s dream, again offering panoramic views down the valley. It has a ceiling fan and air-conditioning and incorporates large drawers for easy-access storage, a near-new 90cm Italian Ilve cooker, with gas top, electric oven and built-in extractor and an under-bench dishwasher. The kitchen also features an informal dining/family area with direct access to the rear patio. This has enabled the current owner to engage in her passion for preserving and bottling the farm’s produce and to share her knowledge and enthusiasm hosting courses for small groups of enthusiasts.
A main entrance hall leads to the spacious air-conditioned sitting room, with stunning views across the front of the farm and on to the Richmond Ranges National Park. It is complete with a ceiling fan and a large built-in wood-burning fire for year-round comfort. This in turn leads to a separate dining room, which also has stunning views towards the north of the property and has direct access to the kitchen. The kitchen, lounge and dining room all feature cathedral ceilings.
'Truly a Family Environment'
Moving to the country can be daunting, however much you and your family yearn for the rural life and a chance to get “Far from the Madding Crowd”.
Often, convenience is the price you pay to live in a rural location, but at Nutshell Farm, day-to-day shopping needs are just 4km away. The nearby village of Bonalbo has a general store, a pharmacy, a rural store, a service and fuel station and a couple of places to sit and enjoy a coffee. It also boasts an hotel, a bowls club, a nine-hole golf course and tennis court.
The village has an MPS hospital, a doctor, an ambulance station, a rural fire station, and a school for children from kindergarten through to high school. There is also school bus transport with pick-up from the farm gate for children to a variety of schools in Casino, including a well-respected private school.
Wildlife abounds and the area is dotted with idyllic watering holes - one being less than a kilometre from the farm – waterfalls and walks in the Richmond Range National Park, again just a few minutes’ drive from the farm gate. Plus, there is a scenic drive through the oldest sub-tropical rain forest in the Southern Hemisphere and drives to Kyogle, Casino, Lismore and Tenterfield.
'So why are the current owners selling this idyllic farm?'
If they were twenty years younger wild horses would not drag them out, but challenging health issues and advancing years mean the time has come to hand the reins of this truly unique farm, home and business opportunity to a new owner.
Details of the walk-in, walk-out equipment, stock and business financials are available, in confidence, to verified potential buyers.
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