380 Stonehouse Road

Upper Barron QLD 4883

The farm has lots of room for expansion, with plenty of growing tunnels set up but currently underutilized, allowing for many other types of crops to be grown.
Please see below for farm info.
93 Tunnels.
12 are 12 m long. 81 are 24m long. Some could be used as 50m tunnels. Half are 6 m wide. Half are 6.5m wide. All have domed roofs and galvanised pipe frames. All have 240 volt power for lights and 24 volt solenoid valves. Watered by pumps from tanks filled with creek water & topped up with rain water.
Irrigation
Each tunnel has both drip and overhead irrigation. Watering times can be programmed & are run automatically by Irritol controllers, 9 in total.
Tanks
1 x 10,000 gallon for house and shed supply. 2 x 3000 gallon concrete tanks, 1 x 5000 g plastic, filled daily by a 7.5 hp electric pump at the creek. Another 1000g plastic tank is used for fertigation.
Tractors Machinery
1 x 20hp compact John Deere, 1 x 20hp International fitted with PTO pump & 400ltr tank for spraying.
2 x 1m Rotary hoes. 1 Celli & 1 Howard. 1 x 4 Howard. 1 x Iseki that pulls the covered trailer used primarily to transport flowers to the packing shed. Tractors are available for purchase only.
Wind breaks
Established wind breaks protect the tunnels.
Land is almost flat 3 hectares are available
Shed- Machinery Tools & Fertilizer
A large shed for machinery, tools and fertilizer etc.
The chemical room is enclosed and has a cement floor and underground drainage tank for chemical waste.
Fertigation
2 x 200ltr plastic drums, one for part A mix and one for part B mix. 1 x 5000ltr plastic tank for mix to be pumped out onto the beds.
Tunnel Fittings.
Shade cloth most 50%, some others 30%. Plastic roof. Lights 30 per 24m tunnel. O/H irrigation with B500 & drip irrigation. 240 volt power point. 24 v solenoid valve. 2 x 1 taps. Suit flowers, vegges or fruit.
Central location. Bitumen frontage. 6 minutes to Malanda, 12 minutes to Yungaburra and 15 minutes to Atherton.
Carriers
Several local freight carriers call to collect produce to deliver to customers or other transport e.g. airlines.
Water Supply
Creek (spring)
7.5 hp Southern Cross pump fills the tank daily. Automatic setting. 20 megs available to irrigate crops. Three tanks catch rainwater off the roofs.
Cold-rooms
2 x 6.5m x 6.5m x 2m Concrete floor. Cold-rooms in the packing shed set at 4 6 deg. 1 x 2m x 3m set at 10 deg.
Flower trolleys
2m x 1m, 2 tier with 4 wheels to easily push in and out of the cold-rooms.
Packing Shed
Concrete block & zincalume with benches and bunching tables. 15kw solar power system. Loading dock. Carport.
Access 250m gravel road from the bitumen road. Internal roads all gravel or dirt.
Frost free country.
For more information call Exclusive agent Brendan Williams or email me from the link on this page.