Farm For Sale - Dunbar, Nebraska

This Heritage Homestead is for sale! CLICK HERE

50 miles to Omaha and 40 miles to Lincoln
$210,000 (subject to change if we remodel the kitchen)

 

Home buildt in 1880. I has 3-4 bedrooms (the one on the main floor we use as an office) and two bathrooms (one is new with jet tub, seperate shower and two seperate sinks plus walk in closet). On bath and one down. Needs kitchen work and downstairs bath needs some work. Beautiful dining room with bay window. Woodwork is UNPAINTED and lovely. Approximately 1800 square feet. Basement is only half with the remainder crawl space. The attic is insulated and huge. At one point the previous owners blew insulation in the side walls except the kitchen (which is an add on). Wood floors except vinyl in the Bathrooms and Kitchen and carpet in the Living Room.

Picture towards the road which is blacktop and the old Highway 2 just 1/2 mile south of the new Highway 2. Across the front is planted in Lilacs of various colors (about 50 plants), tons of various colored peony's and Iris.

Parking is huge and needs re-rocked but a semi could drive on it. To the left is an oversize three car garage with a new in2013 metal roof. The red bard needs a roof bad or just torn down. It's an old corn crib but would make a great shop. The big barn is HUGE. Has 9 open front stalls in the front, a huge center area for hay and to park tractors, etc and inside stalls. The east end needs redone but the roof is metal and fairly new. The small red barn was our goat barn. It has three birthing pens an area for the animals and a small milk area. It has a concret floor. The roof is metal and new in 2012. Not shown is the chicken coop that has a metal roof and a completely enclosed run (we have lots of coons). There is currently a lot of cattle panel fencing. The farm stead sits on 5 acres and there are 5 acres of grass to the left of this picture. Half is fenced with several gates and the posts are in for cross fencing to make 4 paddocks. The other half is open and we hay that getting 5-7 big bales from it every year.

Not shown is our garden production area. There is 18-20 grape vines (Red, White & Blue), Three asparagus beds, about 30 Rhubarb plants, Strawberries, Red and Black Raspberries and a large raised bed vegetable production area. There is also a large planting of thornless Blackberries and Echineca plus many new fruit trees. We also have huge plantings of Daylilies.

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This Heritage Homestead is for sale!  CLICK HERE

The folks who have committed to working here this summer will still have the opportunity to intern here for 2014 production.

New Jam's and Jelly's

This time of year we always offer specials on last seasons Jam's and Jelly's that are left over.  That way we always offer the freshest product.  If you order through NebraskaFood.org then you will be able to take advantage of our special pricing in February and March.

All our Jam's and Jelly's are made with local honey as sweetener.  We never over power the natural taste of the fruits and veggies with sweetener.  Most of our Jam's and Jelly's are made with our own fruits and vegetables that are naturally grown.  When we do outsource our products we always use organic.  We often freeze the freshest produce for jelly and jam making in the winter months.

This week we are making Strawberry and Peach jams...............YUMMMMM

What Happens When Your Farmer Breaks Her Arm?

You do have a farmer, right?  Someone locally that raises some of your food.  It's common knowledge that food grown locally is higher in nutrients simply because it's fresher, if for no other reason.  Your local farmer is someone you can trust, he grows the fruits and vegetables the way you'd grow them, if you could; clean and pure, without GMO contamination, pesticides and herbicides.

Heritage Harvest Home(stead) can be your local farmer if you live in southeast Nebraska or even into Iowa and Missouri.

If we are your farmer you'll already know that Jean broke her arm at the shoulder in early November.  The first Dr said that it would NEVER heal and that I would have a frozen shoulder, second Dr has said that I may only have 90% movement but my therapist thinks anything is possible and I could get 100%, I'm going for that one.  At any rate we have another 9 months until healing and therapy is complete.

Additionally this set of grandparents are now parenting a 1 year old granddaughter who brings us all kinds of joy and needs lots of attention.

Sooooooooooooooooooooooo, we have decided to go into training mode!  We are now offering a special HOMESTEAD TRAINING CLASS that will go from mid-March through October in three sessions; Spring, Summer and Fall.  We will cover all things HOMESTEADING from our 30 years of experience in growing our own foods and moving from the city to the country.  In exchange for HOMESTEADING CLASSES you will work beside us and for us, receive the training and a box of Fruits and Vegetables every week.  It's a win, win!!!  We help you by passing on knowledge and you help us in a time we really need it!

We have a bunch of applicants and will accept only 6 for each season with preferences to someone who wants to participate for all three seasons.  We will be choosing our participants with in the week.  If you want to be considered send us an email with your name, address, email address, experience and why you'd like to participate to our EMAIL addy.