387 Smith Ridge Rd, Dennysville, ME 04628

This property is an exceptional 50-acre wooded lot with a cottage, greenhouse, pole barn, and outbuildings. The property is densely forested, is located on the eastern coast of Maine and is a small working farmstead. The heavily insulated 800 square foot cottage rests upon a full finished and heated basement with a full-size Murphy bed, laundry facilities, and a separate root cellar. The first floor is composed of a bathroom, open kitchen/dining area, and a separate multi-purpose bedroom/living room with a full-size Murphy Bed. It has a newly installed heat pump for heating and cooling. An enclosed porch with a wood stove serves as the primary entrance on the north side of the cottage. The cottage is connected to a carefully maintained septic system and has a backup 10,000-watt Guardian generator. The large steel covered pole barn houses a heated shop with wood working equipment and a shop kitchen for annual food preservation. Ceilings are 12 feet high with skylights. The shop has a newly installed Modine propane heater. The 1100 square foot greenhouse was manufactured by the Rimol Company. Nineteen 12 inch deep raised beds rest upon a gravel floor. The eight-inch-deep gravel floor contains air circulation tubes to bring warm air from the ceiling to the floor. The property has four outbuildings and a chicken coop and run. The sale includes a John Deere 41 horsepower diesel tractor (front-loader, logging winch, and backhoe), shop equipment and supplies, a backpack chain saw, a remarkably productive well (20 gallons per minute) including a small well pump house equipped with a manual well pump for emergency use. When originally purchased ten years ago, the wood lot had not been managed and no trees had been cut during the previous sixty years. The woods is approximately half softwood and half hardwood. The owners employed the help of a certified forester to guide their selective cutting of timber to bring about better tree growth. After careful evaluation, the forester estimated that fifteen to twenty cords of hardwood and softwood could be cut sustainably for firewood and timber. A woods evaluation and management plan are available for review. (A Central Boiler wood boiler that heats the cottage, pole barn, and greenhouse is functional but not currently being used.)