2 acre 1800sqft house permaculture southern Georgia USA z8b

Coming Soon, a rural 2 acre permaculture property 5 miles outside of downtown Moultrie Georgia, currently planned to list at $179,000. It is in Zone 8b and gets an average of 50 inches of rain per year; with the main wet season during summer and another during winter but even the dry months average 2+ inches (this is of course pre-geoengineering ramp up). Over the past 20 months we've built 10 large garden beds right behind the house, created 19 irrigated circles with various fruit and useful trees/shrubs and have 95% of what we planted on auto irrigation (it would be easy to add more irrigation zones). There are 5 irrigation zones near the house utilizing a rainmachine 16 zone controller and there are 7 zones near the back acre utilzing a Hunter Pro-C expandable controller. There is still plenty of space within the circles for more plants and lots of space where more gardens/circles/plantings can occur. See attached jpg for an overall view, however there are many plants not listed, both in ground and in pots/barrels (also the trees are not that size, they are only 2ft to 8ft tall). If the price is right we can include almost everything we own since we're moving out of the country. This would include things like a 46" Craftsman PRO riding mower, mower pull cart, Champion rear tine tiller, lots of Dewalt tools, lots of tools for house/mechanical maintenance, lots of tools for yard/plant maintenance, 2 large fridge/freezer selectable deep freezers, 11 rack dehydrator, grow tent, 2 large led lights, nature's head composting toilet (we haven't used for #2), 100+ quart/half-gallon mason jars, 50+" flatscreen, pots, pans, dishes, sofas, etc., etc., etc.

The house has a brick facade, is 1800sqft with 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms, a living room, dining room, kitchen and a cement floor "workroom" plus a 1 car garage. The bad part is that the previous owner had left the house abandoned for a few years and during that time someone broke in and purposely flooded both bathrooms and the kitchen. (Therefore the sale would need to be cash because I'm not sure if banks will loan). The rest of the house is fine, we've had new carpets put in and other than right by the kitchen and by the master bathroom it's all fine. The floors in both bathrooms feel solid and so does the kitchen minus a bit of give near the sink; there is 2 spots in the master bedroom outside the master bathroom that are not load bearing (the bathroom floor being tile made is so that the water damaged just outside the doorway). It's just my wife and I (and 2 dogs) so we haven't prioritized fixing the floor; I had planned on doing that down the road.

To the south of our property is cattle grazing, to the west across the road is a strip of farmland used once a year for cotton, to the north is a neighbor, to the east is pine trees owned by those who have the cattle. The neighbors are fine/good; next door is a single mom with 2 young kids, after them is an older lady and her sheriff son, after them is a young couple with 3 kids (they have chickens and ducks and will be getting other animals); those are the only neighbors nearby. If there is interest I can upload a video of me walking around the property. I do "lazy" permaculture; I'm not a fan of keeping everything cut to the ground; I like letting weeds grow for the many benefits that they provide and because it's too time/gas consuming to clear everything. The pond is not completed; I've hand dug the general shape to about 2-3 feet down. I've started to hit heavy clay so I had planned on going deeper and taking the clay to seal the pond so that I wouldn't need to use a pond liner.

Let me know if you have any questions.

Send me a video, kirkman9992@gmail.com

Mark Ranfone wrote:Send me a video, kirkman9992@gmail.com

I'll put a video on youtube and I'll paste the link in this thread and will email you the link. That may take a few days. In the meantime I've attached a picture of the house. I forgot to mention in the original post (which I can't seem to edit) that the house has a large attached screened porch and an adjoining uncovered concrete patio which is good for grilling/etc or could easily be made into a greenhouse since the house provides two walls. Also the entire property is fenced; 6ft chainlink fence professionally installed in the front and around the neighbor, then 7-8ft tall field fence that I installed around the other 3 sides (this has kept the deer out which is essential and adding rabbit fencing at the bottom will now be easier and useful). All the fencing is 4-6 inches within the property, making it this properties' fence and not jointly owned which is great. The property used to be something like 6 or 7 acres but the original owners sold the back acreage; nothing is being done with the acreage and it belongs to the farmer whose house is about a 1/2 mile away; it's doubtful but possible that the acreage could be purchased in order to have a bigger homestead. However I think 2 acres is plenty to take care of for 2-3 people and in this climate it could provide most if not all of the food needed by those people. 3-4 crops can be gotten in a year due to the mild climate. Many plants can be grown in partial or full shade because of the abundance of sun/heat; and those things that are in the summer shade get winter light coupled with the mild climate make it so much grows in the fall/winter too. Of course there are challenges to this type of climate but every climate has challenges.

Youtube video tourish

Here is a link to a video "tour" of the property. I took this video mostly to be able to look back at years later to see the difference; I've done that before and it's nice to compare. That being said the video isn't a great tour video but it's all I have before the freeze; touring right now would be great for the garden bed and barrel growth that has occurred since but the rest would be mostly dormant.

I have narrated the video "tour", here is the link:
Homestead Narrated Tour

As I mention in the video, keep in mind that 95% of the trees were planted in May of 2023 or even later and the video was taken in October of 2023; so the food forest won't look impressive yet. Also there is so much space left to put in understory plants throughout the property.