Ferndale Ln, Vermont, IL 61484

Every once in a while, you'll come across a farm that makes you stop and truly appreciate the Midwest, the chase of a whitetail deer, and what mother nature provides. This farm is nothing short of enchanting!!! There are two points of access into this farm from the north from Ferndale Road and the south from Snake Den Branch Road. Pull into the farm from the north to the home base. An older farmhouse makes a great hunting camp with a full kitchen, living room, three bedrooms, and two bathrooms. A two-car garage is to the east of the house, along with a pole building and open front shed to the west of the house. Directly to the east/southeast of the house is a valley that would make a great location to build a large pond with the potential to be a deep pond and a great fishery. Walk out the house's back door to a high point that gives you a high vantage point of the bottom tillable field. From here, you can enjoy sunrise and sunset or sit and scout summer velvet inventory over a summer bean field. Just west of the buildings is a roadway that leads you down to the entrance of the bottom field. From the entrance of the bottom field, you can head southwest along the bottom side of a grassy hillside. This hillside is a south-facing slope and would be a great hillside to burn, kill the fescue and plant warm season grasses for bedding cover. Further south down the trail, it turns back northwest up a hill to the pinnacle of the farm. You can see the entire bottoms and sugar creek valley from this high point. This spot would be a great vantage point to watch and learn how deer move through the farm from a distance and what stands/blinds are key locations to close in on throughout the year. Continue northwest from the pinnacle to a standing bean field with a thick south-facing slope adjacent to the bean plot and a great late-season blind location. Access to this plot is from the south and north ends, making entry and exit nearly bulletproof. Sugar creek runs through the southeast portion of the farm, with several tillable acres on the southeast portion of the creek. The seller left several acres of standing beans on the southeast part of the field, with a block of timber to the south of the plot overlooking the standing beans. There is a strategic stand location on the west side to put a box blind or lock on stand for late/early season hunts overlooking this plot in an excellent pinch point. Head back to the north side of the farm, and the east of the house is a block timber with a great south-facing slope made up of mixed hardwood timber. A select timber harvest on this section of timber would increase the carrying capacity and bedding habitat for those cold winter days. The east eighty acres of this farm are very well diversified and what I would consider the workhorse of the farm!! The southeast tillable field borders a large block of timber/bedding cover, and this field serves as a destination food source for deer living on the neighboring farm. Head further north, and you'll find a valley the seller refers to as the bowling alley. Aerial maps of this part of the farm do not do this section of the farm justice. This valley has a long skinny field, with half of the field planted to food plots. This field is surrounded by thick timber and has a great connecting habit to the northwest/southeast. There is an excellent place halfway up the south-central hillside to place a box blind overlooking this food plot, and it would make a great gun season location being noninvasive. There is one additional plot located in a timber plot on the west-central part of the east part of the farm that is a natural travel corridor where deer naturally pinch down by a stand location traveling to and from the adjoining farm. Overall, this is a dynamite midwestern hunting farm with much potential beyond what the current owner has already implemented. Increase food plots, select timber harvest to increase holding power, and implement CRP plantings and warm-season grass plantings on hillsides. This farm will be as tuned up as they come, producing quality whitetails year after year. Give the listing land specialist a call today for more information or to schedule a private showing of this farm.