Pasture, orchard, and water on a clean grid — run by two people, phased to a real budget. Scroll the land, end at the numbers.
ExploreA self-sufficient homestead that feeds a family of five (plus the dog) year-round, with surplus to share or sell. The farm doesn't pay the mortgage — your income does; the farm pays you in groceries, resilience, and a life. It splits into five buckets, laid out south → north in three bands: public front · animal middle · private core. Scroll through them below.
660 × 660 ft: a public front at the road, a fenced grazing middle, and a private core at the back. See the layout map and the acreage by bucket.
Explore the landThe set-back house, well, septic, power, water, and the tractor — ~95% of the budget and all the debt. The platform everything else stands on.
See the build & costRaised beds, the 16×40 greenhouse, compost — the highest yield per square foot and the part that feeds you in year one. The grocery-bill killer.
Into the gardenAbout 80 fruit and nut trees — a 51-tree U-pick orchard in 4–5 rows, plus silvopasture — and berries. Cheapest bucket to run, slowest to start — then it compounds for decades at almost no cost.
Walk the rowsOne milk cow, a beef calf a year, a laying flock and meat birds. The protein and fat of the plate — and the manure that feeds the garden and orchard.
Meet the animalsA stocked pond, buried water lines, windbreak, and pollinator strips. No income — it's what makes every other bucket cheaper and more resilient.
Follow the waterCore build ≈ $540k for a livable home plus the full farm — of which the entire working farm (garden, orchard, animals, water) is only ~$78k, mostly your own labor. The home + land carries the rest and all the debt. Ongoing cash from the farm: roughly $1,400–2,700/yr, half of it beef processing that hands you a freezer of beef.
Want cash on top of groceries? The income niche — a roadside produce & jam stand plus a few beef calves, targeting the ~$50k cottage-food cap — is part of the plan.