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View Poll Results: How many acres do you own.
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Less than 1/4
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6 |
1.30% |
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1/4-1
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21 |
4.56% |
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1-3
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42 |
9.11% |
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4-10
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109 |
23.64% |
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10-40
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131 |
28.42% |
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40-100
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73 |
15.84% |
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100-300
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46 |
9.98% |
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300-1000
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16 |
3.47% |
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1000+
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6 |
1.30% |
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none
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11 |
2.39% |
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02/17/07, 06:28 PM
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Registered User
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Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Tidewater
Posts: 2
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76 about an hour away, and 8 we live on. Use about 3.
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02/17/07, 06:34 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Maryland/Florida
Posts: 194
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we have 38.4, mostly pasture with a couple acres of sugar maples in the corner.
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02/17/07, 11:24 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: MS
Posts: 3,839
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We have a little over 100 acres.
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02/18/07, 05:31 AM
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Humble Shepherd
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Northeast Ohio...60 minutes east of Cleveland
Posts: 323
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73 ............35 woods, rest fenced paddocks all tillable when needed, but kept in 3 to 7 acre fields ...works out great for farming with draft horses
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02/18/07, 08:49 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: New England
Posts: 72
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From 12,000 sq ft to 2 acres.  I'd love more, but where I live (and it is my home...I want to stay) land is $$$$$$$ and all the old farms grow McMansions. I feel blessed to have found what we did.
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02/18/07, 08:49 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: la playa
Posts: 348
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Currently 20 paid for acres of prime desert(I grow the biggest wild jackrabbits around...lol) but I'm trying to buy 3 adjoining 20 acre tracts. Barring that I'm looking for another 40 acres wayyyyy out in the wilderness to go hunting on. I'll start building my cob/adobe house in the next week or two.
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02/18/07, 11:41 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Texas
Posts: 1,504
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Originally Posted by TnTnTn
We own about 122ac or so and are proud of them!! Some pasture but mostly timber with mature hardwoods like oak, poplar, maple, hickory and a few pines. We have a perennial spring branch and numerous springs, a 35' waterfall and several smaller waterfalls. It is a great place to live and work for. TnTnTn
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That sounds just about perfect.. sigh... but I'm happy with my 12.65. I have about an acre with yard, chicken pen, storage shed, workshop, old travel trailer I plan to fix up, flower beds, roses, and newly planted trees. The back yard is entirely shaded in old oaks.
We have probably about seven acres in coastal pasture, the rest is wooded. All we need now is to put in a tank (pond for you northerners) to conserve rainwater runoff. The place is crossfenced into three areas, one is probably no more than an acre and a quarter. The house is fenced out of the other two fields.
But oh.. perennial springs and waterfalls.. how do you ever manage to go inside?
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02/18/07, 12:54 PM
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Join Date: May 2006
Location: near the current river in mo.
Posts: 1,370
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10 with 3 moblies on it had to buy so we could ecah live in one and keep our medical from SS.
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02/18/07, 01:08 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Posts: 413
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02/18/07, 03:23 PM
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None of the Above
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: NE Kansas
Posts: 1,739
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25 that is mostly wooded and a creek. I have about 7 around the house that I keep mowed. Mostly unusable, but very secluded. I can see the neighbors only in the winter when I stand on the chimney when I am cleaning it out.
The creek can be a real pain when it rains alot and the tubes get plugged.
The driveway goes over/through the creek depending on weather conditions.
We have alot of paintball fortresses in the woods for when my boys and there friends want to take me or each other on. It's fun to get camoed out and go lurk in the woods and brush and hunt each other.
Lots of atv trails. The creek is a major one if the water is not to deep.
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02/18/07, 05:58 PM
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Moderator
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Join Date: May 2002
Location: Mid-Michigan
Posts: 4,536
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Well, the legal description comes out to 40.5, so I voted in the 40-100 category 
We currently rent out about 25 of it to a local farmer, and use the rest for ourselves.
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02/18/07, 07:22 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: northern arizona
Posts: 210
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Have a little over 5 right now and would like more but bought this place 8 months ago for the astounding price of $130000. Five years ago they couldn't give it away.
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02/18/07, 07:56 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: SW Missouri
Posts: 594
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I have 14 wonderful acres. I wanted more like 40 but as it turns out this is plenty to handle at the moment. Maybe one day I will be able to get more for recreational use.
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02/18/07, 08:30 PM
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Country Girl
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Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Oregon
Posts: 3,057
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I have 3/4 acre and use all of it
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02/18/07, 08:56 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2002
Posts: 879
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500 acres, most of it in alfalfa. Several big grassy slews that run through, and we have water rights to a hot spring.
Tracy
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02/19/07, 05:22 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: NE Ohio
Posts: 3,030
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We have 5, half in woodlot. It's just right for a big garden, chickens, and heating with wood. If I could have my dream homestead, I figure 20-25 would suit us perfectly, but I'm grateful for what we have!
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Reformed hoyden. Please forgive me if I relapse.
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02/19/07, 05:50 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Posts: 61
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I have a tiny 1/4 acre. My closest neighbors house is 50ft away from mine  . On my tiny plot I've got 8 hens, a pretty large garden & I'm going to add grapes & fruit trees this year.
Here on long island a 1/4 acre of vacant land goes for 250,000 or more....so there is no way I'll ever have my acreage here. Most of the farm land left on Long Island is on the North Fork, just east of my house & the vast majority of it has been bought up by builders or wineries.
My goal is to buy land(20-40acres) in TN or KY in the next couple of years & move down there in 5-10 years. Then I'll grow a niche crop like ginseng or garlic or bamboo, have my goats & alpacas & way more chickens & hopefully be off grid!
I think its neat how much of a range there is in what we have, great poll!
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02/19/07, 06:08 AM
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Another American Patriot
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Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Living in the Metroplex. Moving to the country in Oct. 2009.
Posts: 2,313
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As far as I'm concerned land is worth everything and one could never "own" too much, though the 16 we have and use and will one day live on is making us pretty happy!
Here's a view looking southeast from the top of the hill ... near where the little guest cabin will go.
Smiles,
doohap
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02/19/07, 08:00 AM
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Max
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Near Traverse City Michigan
Posts: 6,560
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my wife, my brother, and I share 80 acres. My wife, and I have ahouse, and my brother has a house on it.
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02/19/07, 01:51 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: Texas, Residing in DFW area, working toward North of Stephenville!!
Posts: 55
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We have 30 acres in the north end of the Texas Hill Country!! One well, one storage building, a 40' 5th wheel for living quarters while we build, a stripped out 12 x 60 MH for storage, a 24' travel trailer for guest quarters, and a pop-up camper that unfortunately became a toy for a jersey bull that found his way onto our place.
The neighbor is making up for it, though the pop-up will most likely wind up being parted out and scrapped into a utility trailer. 
I will begin building my goat paddocks this spring, and we plan on living full time on the place by this time 2008 if work does not move us to the Georgetown area!!
Mark
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