25+/- acres Productive Organic Farm and Ranch,
Atascosa County, Rossville Community
$224,000
Productive organic farm and ranch, once part of the Navarro land grant. 25+/- acres. Rich red sandy loam, home of the Poteet strawberry. Perfect for truck farming thirty miles into downtown San Antonio for restaurants, farmers' markets, or start your own CSA. Fenced, and cross fenced, pasture operation has included Nubian dairy goats, Jacob sheep, and llamas. Ideal for horses. Ag exempt. 1/2 acre blackberry patch on drip irrigation yields great quantity of fruit in May and June. Aggie-improved varieties for sale or u-pik-em. An array of cinderblock raised vegetable beds has more than 1500 square feet of well developed chemical free planting and growing medium. Maturing fruit and nut trees. 700+ foot frontage on FM 2504, but hidden from the road and from neighbors by lush, largely edible landscaping on extensive drip systems. One domestic well in the Carrizo Sands Aquifer, and access to community water. Rainwater catchment. Earthen tank.
Historic home is more than 150 years old. Original house (18' * 14' inside) has limestone walls 18" thick, and is now the living room with woodburning fireplace. Sandstone cellar of same vintage and dimensions is under the living room and still offers protection from marauding Comanches. The large open-plan kitchen/dining area dates from the 1960s and is 30' by 15' with enclosed 20' by 7' porch used as a summer kitchen. The oversize master bedroom is 20' by 15' with windows on three sides to catch the summer breeze and a porch 13' by 8'. The second bedroom is 16' by 13' with a 7' by 7' cedar-panel office and a 20' by 8' screened porch. Currently, house has two full bathrooms, one with clawfoot bathtub, and one with laundry. Every room opens onto a porch. The woodburning fireplace and woodburning stove make good use of the many oak and mesquite trees on the property. House is plumbed throughout for LP heaters. The old hand dug well (more than 40' deep) is still in place with an antique stone watering trough. Massive centuries-old oak trees surround the homesite.
Extensive outbuildings include barn and corrals, artist's studio (currently a three room weaving studio) of 800 sqft. Another 288 sqft. separate kitchen has been used commercially for making jams, packing honey, and vegetable processing. 120 sqft. greenhouse. 120 sqft. guest cottage with electricity but no plumbing. Pump house/tool shed. Other garden and storage buildings.
Price reduced from $249,900
George Thompson (830) 276-4880
1035 FM 2504 at River Oaks Dr deljardin@juno.com
or
Brian Walton (512) 965-8820
C21 Ruple Properties
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