Huge News!!!

Dear readers, we have momentous news: We’re moving. After 16 happy years here on the Rural Revolution homestead, we are ready to move on.

Why? Because with just the two of us, the house is simply too big. This is a home for a growing family, not a couple whose children have grown and moved out.

This means our property will be for sale by early summer. Currently we’re remodeling, getting rid of junk, and generally cleaning things up. Our goal is to fix it up inside and out and make it shine like a pearl. I’ll be posting photos as we go to illustrate our progress.

The next logical question is, where will we be moving to? The answer is: We don’t know. We’re searching through six counties in northern Idaho, from the Canadian border to south past Lewiston. We still want a farm (just with a smaller house), so if anyone knows of 15+ acres with a fixer-upper house for sale, please let us know.

If you’re looking for a self-sufficient homestead in the country, consider making our home yours. At this point, we plan to sell the property ourselves (“for sale by owner”) and anticipate having it ready to put on the market by early- to mid-June. (Please note, we cannot carry a mortgage for anyone.)

Here are some of the amenities the property offers:

• 20 acres, fenced and cross-fenced (roughly two four-acre pastures on one side of house, seven acres in partial woods on the other side of the house, an acre wheat pasture, about an acre fenced garden area, three acres around house/barns/driveway)
• 3600 square-foot home (not counting an inside loft of another 300 sq. ft.)
• Four bedrooms, two baths (additional bedrooms could be created from existing spaces currently used as office spaces)
• On-demand hot water heater
• Propane appliances (range, washing machine, dryer); electric fridge
• 30 gpm well, 610 ft. deep (static level 450 ft.); brand-new 5-gpm well pump installed June 2017
• Wood and propane heat
• Beautiful new Baker’s Choice wood cookstove installed December 2015
• 500-gallon propane tank
• Large fenced yard for dogs
• 36×48 ft. barn with attached livestock awning, feed boxes, and 45×45 fenced feet lot
• 22×55 ft. bull pen with two-pen shed and feed boxes (attached to barn)
• Three-bay machine shed with gravel floor
• Three animal pens attached to machine shed with gravel flood
• 32×70 fenced corral adjacent to animal pens
• 25×30 ft. shop with concrete floor and double exterior doors attached to machine shed
• 10×25 ft. insulated shop room with concrete floors and heater attached to machine shed
• Two-room chicken coop (10×20 ft.) with adjacent 6×10 ft. shed
• Hugely productive quarter-acre tire garden
• Mature pear trees
• Young 1/10-acre orchard (4 peaches, 4 apples, 4 hazelnuts, 2 plums)
• 50×50 pond, 14 feet at deepest end, adjacent to garden
• Garden, orchard, pond (7/10 acre total) surrounded by eight-foot deer fence
• Terrific neighbors, with an automatic invitation to our legendary neighborhood potlucks
• Off-road privacy, 1.3 miles down private road
• One hour from both Coeur d’Alene, Idaho and Spokane, Washington

We ask for serious inquiries only (no realtors). When the time comes to put our homestead on the market, we’ll have a dedicated website available with loads of photos.

If interested, please contact us at ruralrevolutionhomestead4sale@mail.com