It took a few years in life, but today we closed on a piece of property. Welcome to Maple Hill Farm! Pretty exciting to finally own a piece of dirt that has hunting potential. One of my bucket list items was to eventually own a piece of property that I can step out the back door and hunt. There has never been a lot of things on my bucket list, but this was one of them! Next year good Lord willing another one will get checked off the list as we hope to start building our new house on this property. I have always wanted to build my own house, with my own hands, and that is still a possibility to some extent. However, I know at 50 years old I am not physically what I was at 25.... so I will do as much as I feel we can still tackle and sub-contract out the rest.
This piece is 87 acres, a good mix of timber and what was formally crop ground that is now hay ground. Our western border is a creek that typically always has water and a couple of county roads that dont see a lot of traffic. The limiting factor in the neighborhood is "food", we do have a few oaks in the area, but crop ground is pretty limited within a 3 mile area. There are 3 small "ponds" on the property and we hope to rework the 2 ponds in the northeast corner into a larger one at some point. Big enough to sustain some fish. The Red "X" is the general location of where the new house will sit and the property drops off elevation wise 200-300 ft as you go down to the west property line. Which will give a great view of a large portion of our property. Probably not much, if any habitat work, will get done this calendar year. I will spend the winter trying to get a feel of how deer utilize what currently exists and then develop a plan from there.
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