As a yoga retreat site, what is your unique selling point? It’s a crowded market and that looks like plain old farmland to me. While peaceful and quiet, why would I stay there and not somewhere more scenic?
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As investment, I bought this, instead of stocks. Any ideas on what to do with it?
Location:
- 75km (1hr) to a big international airport. Airport has direct flights to most EU capitals (2-4hr flights)
- 50km to city center
- 25km from nearest large residential area (500,000+ population)
- 5km from massive organized industrial area (government supports factories here)
- 35km from a rich residential area
- 1km away from the village (its old and mostly depopulated) and animal husbandry area
Access:
- There is public transportation, but one has to walk 1.5km after leaving the bus.
- There is no direct road access to the land. You have to walk like 200m after leaving your car.
- 1km road to here is non-asphalt and its a bit bumpy ride. When it rains, it gets bad here. It rains rarely
It is quite peaceful and quiet there. You can hear interesting bird sounds sometimes. You see no buildings, no cars and no humans anywhere near you when you're there, which feels great imo. You notice the air quality after you leave your car. I personally absolutely would want to live here for a while
Ideas
- Trying to clarify this rn, but I think I can make $120-160/yr/decare from leasing the land to a farmer. Land is 25 decares
- "Unique co-living opportunity with vegan food & yoga sessions" In other words, remote work / digital nomad village for people who want to work REALLY remotely :) I'd have to arrange electricity (solar panels and powerbanks), internet, toilet, shower, water, tents, mattresses/pillows/sheets, food, drinking water. (Though I don't know what people will do when they're bored here? Any ideas? Meditation would get boring after some point)
- Sadly location isn't touristic, but it is 1hr flight away from extremely touristic areas. One of those areas, a city, was the most visited city in the world a few years ago.
- I've met a few volunteers and they seemed quite willing to volunteer for whatever I decide to do here (if I do anything). For those unfamiliar: WWOOF and Workaway
Also- Any suggestions on where I should ask this question on the internet?
Dirt farming
I couldn't tell you what to do with it but if I move to europe I will work on your commune and help with whatever as long as you'll have me lol
25 decares is a lot of land, you could have an entire city there. If the land is viable for farming you could allot enough of it to produce whatever you would need to sustain the population of the property, and have the rest of the place developed into living spaces and recreational areas like you said. A sports park, little golf course, botanical gardens, animal sanctuaries. Thats stuff for citizens to do besides meditate.
I mean, this is a real opportunity to create generational prosperity not just for you but for everyone who is involved in building it up. I hope that, whatever happens, you keep it safe from people who would see it turned into more wealthy suburbs or a cash crop operation that kills the soil in a generation.
Good luck to you on your journey and, again, I'd be thrilled to be a part of it
Dude I would homestead the shit out of that. Better be careful or they'll have a bunch of lemmings (Lemmy nerds?) show up with a trowel and high hopes.
There's some great ideas in this thread but sadly I think most of them are fairly high risk.
Doing anything in this kind of scope is going to cost a lot of capital. If it goes wrong all that money is gone.
I would lease it to a farmer.
Maybe reserve a corner where you can build up some basic facilities. I'm not sure what's popular where you are but here in Australia you can find places like this on hipcamp where you can camp for a few dollars a day.
Use your income to build basic facilities over time. Toilets, showers, kitchen, solar.
Hemp and No-Till see what works afterwards but it's a market call what you plant! That's my understanding. Maybe you could do something like Lavander though?
Rewild it with native flora, do yurts and whatever to attract people to live in a sustainable way with community gardening. Activities can initially revolve around returning the land to a more natural state. As things mature people will invest in the community themselves, creating their own activities etc.
Pawlonia trees. Fastest growing wood in the world
Create a startup in reasearch and development of fully autonomous robotic electrical helicopters with swappable batteries and shiny plush seats for the passengers etc.pp. Collect huge venture capital for it.
Don't forget to brag about your $1 salary!
Go broke after 3 years with a shrug.
Rent that land for some nice money to your startup as a test airfield.
/s
Step 1, dig big hole, step two, become one with tge ant people, step 3 never see daylight again
Land is one of the few things you can just sit on and it's guaranteed to gain value, they're not making any more of it, as a matter of fact we're losing it to climate change with desertification and rising sea levels.
If it's farmable land I would rent it out to a farmer and make some extra cash, and if at any point you need some money you can always sell a few acres, otherwise it would be better than any amount of Cold hard Cash to hand down to any children you may have.
Is there water access on the property? Potential for drilling a well?
Without a steady source of water, farming is problematic.
It has clearly been used as farmland already. And in most places where farming is common we could traditionally rely on rain, though I guess climate change is making everything funky.
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Any zoning issues? May be worth splitting it up, lease some for farming for now, set up a couple of acres for a small utility/living area so you can visit and stay for short periods or permanently so you can get a sense of actually being there... Seasons, smells, sounds, wildlife, infrastructure like roads will all impact what the experience or opportunities actually are and often bday depending on the time of year.
Looks like a whole lot of nothing. Farming is the only thing you can do if even that
We really need forestland to bind C-atoms from the Co2 in our air. That would be the most heroic approach. Also wholesome since it creates habitat.
forest management resulting in slow money
Ideas 1, 2, and 4 could come together with a permaculture food forest/farm. First task would be to cover crop the land to protect from soil loss and start replenishing some nutrients. Then, you have some time to make a good, phased plan of how you'd want to develop it.
Talk to experts and professionals whichever direction you take. They'll often save you much more than they cost.
It's my field of fucks I have left to give. Where did you find it?
That seems like far too little rain to do much farming without totally draining local aquifers.
I might be wrong but this area is relatively wet despite little rain. There's even a small swamp in middle of my parcel. There's a big river 1km away
BMX Park
There are many people who want food grown in natural environments and where the animals are taken care of. A bit like Clarksons Farm on tv.
are you leasing it to a farmer? or are you building a poop resort? i can't tell which one it is because you listed both
If you build it
They will come