Hillside Villa and 6 outbuildings on 78.5 acres of wooded hillside. Ideal site for master gardeners; a young, child-rearing family looking to function at home through home and garden production, writing, computer capitalism and home schooling while recognizing the value of natural settings and living gently in the woods; or, with additional house sites, perhaps an extended group interested in living in a natural setting. 15 miles to Interstate 79; 25m to Spencer; 60m to Charleston; 120m to Morgantown. Beginning at 200,000 but thinking BO by June, 2012. Sale funds will largely be devoted to furthering development of smaller-scale symbiotically integrated anaerobic digestion/biogas systems.See the Website URL for full description, diagrams and many photographs. Please note that many of this site's allowable entries are inappropriate for this abode.Primary Abode-- 3650 sq.ft., two-story wooden great house - originally a 1920s Montgomery Ward package house; very significant interior and exterior additions and make-overs between 1976 and 2004;-- living room, kitchen, pantry, full bathroom with composting toilets, utility room plus 12 other rooms for use as bedrooms, guest rooms, offices, workshops, playrooms or whatever; -- 11' X 22' attached greenhouse with gravity-fed waterfalls and 8' X 18' pond (half under living room), 2'-4' deep, heatable with free gas;-- 12' X 14' cut stone basement - opportunities for year-round mushroom culture;-- porches and balcony - sturdy rails for winter bird feeding with 58 linear feet of large growing boxes;-- naturally air-conditioned;-- free gas for domestic useLand-- 78.59 recently (2006) surveyed surface acres at the mouth of a 200+ acre watershed -- mineral rights separated in 1920s;-- about 70 acres of forested hillside [mixed mesophilic forest - mostly cut twice since European arrival - much oak, poplar, some black walnut, cherry, beech, hickory - sustainable harvest plan initiated - significant sustainable harvest planned within 10 years];-- about 8 acres of bottom -- cut for hay but ideal for industrial hemp;-- nearly 2-acre bench with home, garden, barn and outbuildings;-- gravel road right-of-way and creek running from head of holler;-- 3 uphill water catchment ponds -- including blue gills, largemouth bass, catfish;-- incipient permaculture site -- several design pieces initiated and in place;-- 100 yd. stone and gravel driveway leading to well-maintained gravel road - 11/4 mile to the hard road; -- several additional building sites.
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