Last Listing description (December 2017)
Kyabram -Lancaster-Shepparton area 3 acre hobby self-sufficiency farm $ 270,000
This is an ideal property for a family that want to move from the suburbs to the country. It is 9km from Kyabram and 30 km from Shepparton and set in a quiet rural flat grazing region of Victoria.
It would suit a mechanic who wants to work from home, or a small animal breeder, or a computer person who can work from home. Alternatively, work is available in Shepparton and Kyabram.
A nearby primary schools is available or high schools in Kyabram or Shepparton.
The property comprises of a 3 acre rural block. One large front paddock is about one and a half acres and the house block is about half an acre, with a rear block being about one acre. This rear block is divided into 7 large and small grazing, holding and fruit tree paddocks. There is also a small corral.
There are gates everywhere, allowing access to any paddock from anywhere else.
Most of the property has irrigation: all the rear has sprayers and sprinklers, both manual and automatic. The front paddock has no formal sprinklers although portable sprinklers would be suitable. However, now that the nearly 6 year drought has ended, we don t really need to water the front paddock.
The house block is about half an acre and has a very large range of formal flower beds with just about every type of flower. There is also a large vegetable garden, covered with netting to ensure no birds get in to eat our veggies.
There are also various apple, orange and pear trees as well as an olive tree.
The house garden and vegetable garden, as well as the rest of the house paddock, is all automatically watered by a 13 station fully automated watering system. It is programmed from inside the house and operates carefree.
Or water supply is for all practical purposes unlimited as it is not metered, although we do have a 'formal' allowance of 3 million litres, which is far more than we could use.
Water syphons automatically from a nearby channel straight into our dam, and the dam supplies all garden and toilet water as needed via an automated pumping system.
Drinking water is available from 2 large 32,000 litre water tanks which harvest rainwater of the roofs. This would last a family for 2-3 years without any rain.
The house is a renovated 3 bedroom and one and a half bathroom weatherboard home in good condition, with timber floors in the lounge, dining and kitchen areas, and carpeted in the bedrooms.
All services are available including water, both stock, domestic and drinking, as mentioned, electricity which includes a two and a half KW solar harvesting, saving around $1500 per annum off your bills, television from all local stations, Internet via wireless or telephone. Telephone is available via standard cable or wireless, or both if required.
There is a double garage plus a large carport plus a huge 11m x 13 m shed plus another 3 smaller sheds and another 6 x 3m carport.
There is a large circular driveway behind the house with a160m long tree-lined driveway approach from the front road.
All fences are excellent.
The house has a front and rear verandah, the rear one being ideally situated for entertaining as it overlooks beautifull lawns and gardens and adjoining rural farmland.