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YES, THAT'S A "FOR SALE" SIGN IN OUR YARD!

7/27/2016

 
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Welcome home to your small farm dream!
If you've driven by the farm lately you may have noticed that there's a "for sale" sign out front, and for followers of our blog and social media pages that should come as no surprise. If you've ever driven by our farm and thought to yourself, "I would love to have a farm like that", or you've been following our story but aren't local and like the idea of moving to a farm in Ohio, now is your chance! We put a lot of work into the farm and house in the past 6 years so it's ready for new owners to move in and embark on their own farming adventure! Will those new owners be you?
CLICK HERE to view the MLS listing. 
Please note that a pre-approval letter is required prior to scheduling a showing. ​This is for our benefit as well as yours. 
3 bed ● 1 bath ● 1,335 sqft ● 17+ acres ● $259,900 
We occasionally hear someone say that our house is "too small" based on square footage, but once you step inside you realize that our house has an open floor plan and plenty of space. Is our cottage-style farm house a "McMansion"? Of course not! If that's what you're looking for you're in the wrong place. Our "little" house is plenty big enough for a small family or a couple like us. The trend in homes today is toward smaller houses - tiny even - for good reason. You have the space you need to live and less space to clean and heat or cool. Who needs a gigantic house with unnecessary rooms when you can go outside and enjoy 8 acres of woods and a perennial stream, a wrap-around deck, an outdoor seating area and fire pit, or animals out in your pastures?

Here are the Individual Room Dimensions (ft2):
  • Living Room: 14x24
  • Kitchen and Dining Area: 9x26
  • Bathroom: 8x5
  • 1st Floor Bedroom 1: 10x14
  • 1st Floor Bedroom 2: 10x14
  • 2nd Floor Bedroom: 14x24​

The first floor bedrooms have double-doored closets and the second floor bedroom has a walk-in closet. Kitchen and bath cabinets, a linen closet, and coat nook provide plenty of additional storage space in the living area.

​Not included in the square footage of the house is the 850 ft2 unfinished basement with three separate rooms that are clean, dry, well-lit, and fully functional. The furnace, hot water heater, and laundry area are in the main part of the basement, and what used to be a garage is now a workshop with walk-out access to the backyard. We've put in loads of shelving and workbenches that we plan to leave for the new owners that provide all the space you need for home storage and personal projects. 

If you're still looking for something "big", look no further than our custom built 
36x64 (2,304 ft2) pole barn with 12' overhangs on three sides (total footprint 60x76)! Add to that two chicken coops, two loafing sheds, and a greenhouse and you've got all the space you need for small farm living! A farm property like ours is enjoyed and utilized as a whole, and cannot be summed up in one number like a house in a neighborhood in Anywhere, USA. 

House, Farm, and Property Slideshow

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PROPERTY LOCATION

Located less than a mile from the CJ Brown Reservoir and Buck Creek State Park!
Only 5 minutes away from I-70 and close to the Clark County Farigrounds.
​Also close enough to town to run to the store for a gallon of milk,
​but still far enough away to enjoy country living!
CHECK OUT ALL THE STUFF THERE IS TO DO
​IN SPRINGFIELD BY CLICKING HERE!

property UPdates and features

Below are some updates we've made to the house and farm along with some features in more detail than you'll find in the online listing.

​HOUSE UPDATES
  • impact resistant, cool metal color, steel roof with matching gutters
  • Water Furnace geothermal heating and cooling plus new ductwork
  • EPA-rated energy efficient wood fireplace insert with new chimney liner and brick chimney top
  • reverse osmosis drinking water filtration system
  • fresh new zero VOC paint throughout the house
  • recently updated kitchen with new Frigidaire appliances: range and microwave 2016, dishwasher 2015, fridge 2011
  • water and energy efficient Whirlpool Cabrio washer and dryer (new in 2011)
  • recently updated bathroom with new vanity and sink
  • digital antenna wired in
  • perennial landscaping
FARM UPDATES
  • custom barn with skylights, overhangs, store, and barn quilt, built with Perma-Column concrete footers that will never rot 
  • parking lot at barn with separate driveway from the house
  • pastures fenced for rotational grazing
  • 12x16 and 4x4 chicken coops with automatic doors and *chickens
  • goat run-in shed
  • loafing shed
  • greenhouse
  • no chemicals on most of the property since 2011 (none since 2015 in select areas)
  • approved farm sign location with posts and sign (will paint white for new owner) 
  • hazelnut trees
  • recent professional survey with new markers installed (download survey map below)
HOUSE FEATURES
  • Clark-Shawnee school district
  • no adjacent neighbors, corner lot, bounded by creek and roads
  • low taxes (CAUV)
  • French and sliding doors onto wrap around deck
  • recently refinished oak floors throughout most of the house
  • circular drive
  • cottage style architecture
  • access to highway, parks, bike trail, shopping
  • basement with storage and workshop space
FARM FEATURES
  • rich alluvial soils (download soil report below)
  • corn base acres and FSA ID established
  • Woodland Stewardship Management Plan (download plan below)
  • Agricultural zoning
  • mulberry trees
  • wild raspberries
  • dye plants and trees
  • trees for syrup tapping
  • loads of potential firewood
PROPERTY FEATURES
  • recreational fire pit
  • woods and creek
  • mushroom foraging
  • bird and wildlife watching
  • hunting, trapping, and fishing
We won't need our farm equipment
where we're going so it's all negotiable!

This includes our John Deere 2320 tractor with bucket, John Deere riding mower, various gas powered farm and property maintenance equipment, beekeeping supplies, fencing, various hand tools, and more! 

Make us an offer! We're motivated to sell.
If we don't like it we'll counter but you'll never know unless you try! 

View Property-Related Documents 

PROPERTY SURVEY - click on file below to download
​Note that this was done before the county took about half of an acre of the property to replace the bridge over Beaver Creek on Croft Road. 
kroninger_survey.pdf
File Size: 263 kb
File Type: pdf
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CUSTOM SOILS REPORT - click on file below to download
soil_report.pdf
File Size: 1254 kb
File Type: pdf
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WOODLAND MANAGEMENT PLAN - click on file below to download
wood-mgmt-plan.pdf
File Size: 6540 kb
File Type: pdf
Download File

Regency I2400 Wood Fireplace Insert - click here to view link in a new window
Meridian Steel Roof by McElroy Metal - click here to view link in a new window
Water Furnace Geothermal System - click here to view link in a new window
Perma-Column concrete pole barn columns - click here to view link in a new window
Pullet Shut automatic chicken doors - click here to view link in a new window

Aerial Video Tour of the Property


Meet The Chickens*
​that come with the farm!


Have the farm store
​you've been dreaming about!

Our Root Down Acres farm store, located in the barn, during the 2015 holiday season.

Enjoy your very own Woods and creek!


got wildlife?

The diversity of our property makes it suitable habitat for a variety of wildlife and plants. We are also in the migratory flyway of the Sandhill Crane and enjoy watching and listening to them fly over every fall. We even saw a Bald Eagle fly over one afternoon! Below are lists of many (certainly not all - I'm writing this from memory) of the different kinds of wildlife we've seen on the property (listed in no particular order) and a few trees and plants of note. 
BIRDS
  • Canada Goose
  • Mallard 
  • Wood Duck
  • Great Blue Heron
  • Kingfisher
  • Pileated Woodpecker
  • Hairy Woodpecker
  • Downy Woodpecker
  • Red Bellied Woodpecker
  • Northern Flicker
  • White Breasted Nuthatch
  • Carolina Wren
  • Eastern Towhee
  • Gray Catbird
  • Baltimore Oriole
  • Scarlet Tanager
  • Eastern Bluebird
  • Tufted Titmouse
  • Carolina Chickadee
  • Song Sparrow
  • Blue Jay
  • American Robin
  • Northern Cardinal
  • House Finch
  • American Goldfinch
  • Mourning Dove
  • European Starling
  • Brown Headed Cowbird
  • American Crow
  • Turkey Vulture
  • Red-Tailed Hawk
  • Cooper's Hawk
  • Red Winged Blackbird
  • Phoebe
  • Common Grackle
  • Barn Swallow
  • Chimney Swift
  • Killdeer
  • Dark-Eyed Junco
  • Yellow-Billed Cuckoo
  • Nightjar
  • Ruby Throated Hummingbird
FISH, REPTILES, & AMPHIBIANS 
These animals are not my forte so this list is definitely not complete!
  • Garter Snake
  • Crayfish (or crawfish in Louisiana)
  • Minnows
  • Darters
  • American Bullfrog
  • American Toad
  • Northern Spring Peeper
MAMMALS
  • Beaver
  • Muskrat
  • Mink
  • White Tailed Deer
  • Woodchuck
  • Virginia Opossum
  • Raccoon
  • Fox Squirrel
  • Gray Squirrel
  • Eastern Chipmunk
  • Bats (not sure what species)
  • Coyote
  • Red Fox
  • Striped Skunk
  • Eastern Cottontail Rabbit
  • Various mice, moles, voles, and shrews
  • Sasquatch (just kidding!)
TREES AND PLANTS OF NOTE
  • Burr Oak
  • Silver Maple
  • Box Elder
  • Black Walnut
  • Black Locust
  • Osage Orange
  • Ohio Buckeye
  • Eastern Redbud
  • Pitcher Plant
  • Eastern Trillium
  • Mayapple
  • Purple Phlox
  • Edible mushrooms including morel, pheasant tail, and wood ear
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Disclaimer: This blog post is for general informational purposes only and the MLS listing is the official source for information. 

*Chickens may be included depending on the buyers' intent to care for them. Chicken breeds include Buff Brahma, Buff Orpington, Silver Laced Wyandotte, Ameraucana, Rhode Island Red, and Barred Rock. We have approximately 25 hens and 1 rooster. They were hatched January 2, 2013.

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