388ha Farm with main house and 2 cottages for sale near Uniondale, Western Cape.
This lovely farm is set in a valley around 50 minutes-drive from George, and 30km from the town of Uniondale. Travel down a good dirt road and you come across this superb farm with main farmhouse, large shed and two cottages.
Entrance to the farm is over the stream through a lightly forested area and then onto the main farmlands.
To your left are verdant blocks of lucerne and Peach tree orchards, further up to the right is the circular pivot area under oats.
From the main house and cottages, the views are spectacular across the valley to one side, and the mountains to the other. Completely crime-free and completely safe and secure.
Active farming is going on here with oats, lucerne and peach tree orchards fully operational. This is augmented by a large warehouse shed to store all farming equipment and lucerne bales for sale or own use. A cold room and drying plant complete the shed areas. There are possibilities of planting another 30ha and putting that under irrigation.
Both cottages have been beautifully renovated to give one three really nice homes. Extend and build on to the main house, or one of the cottages, to create your own dream farmhouse on the farm and take advantage of those spectacular views. Maybe, purchase the farm with some family members and enjoy the farm at your leisure.
Do not miss out on the hiking and exploring, this farm has a varied topography which includes mountains, hills and valleys and hidden beauty spots that are really breath-taking.
Crops:
Lucerne: 2ha – made up of 4 blocks.
Oats: 11ha under pivot
Peaches - 6 separate peach orchards – approx. 3000 trees.
Water:
Dams: 6 x dams
Mountain water stream from fountain in the mountains feeding through piping into either dams or direct irrigation – delivering around 6 000l/hour.
River water turn from the river through a sloot – delivering around 20000l per hour.
Borehole – 5 x boreholes.
Currently first borehole is fully operational delivering 8000l per hour with 3 others to be equipped shortly.
3 x boreholes being equipped will deliver around 25000 l/ hour, 10000l/h and 5000 liters per hour respectively.
Water use licenses in place.
Possibilities:
Arable land of 30ha available for further planting apart from the hectares under crops above
More lucerne, and oats does really well.
Seed production: peppers, beans, potatoes.
This is Apple, Pear and Plum country.
Nut varieties to look at: Pecans, Almonds, Walnut, Pine nuts.
Outbuildings:
1 x large shed – split into 3 sections - with drying area, lucerne store and functioning cold room.
1 x extra shed
5 x workers houses
Houses:
3-bedroom main house with Kitchen, lounge, dining room, 1 x full bathroom, shower, bath, toilet and one guest toilet
Workshop/ studio storage area behind this house
1 x 2-bedroom cottage with open plan kitchen lounge dining area and 1 x bathroom
1 x 3-bedroom cottage with kitchen, lounge, dining areas a
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