Eco-Home / Homestead / Property for Sale

Home, Barn, Cabins, Trails
and 100 Acres (Potential Education Centre/ Retreat Centre/ Outdoor Education/ Summer Camp/ Sustainable Living)

Carleton County, New Brunswick

This property was the home and inspiration for Falls Brook Centre, an ecological training centre.

A unique property, which sits at the foothills of the temperate Acadian hardwood forest in Carleton County, New Brunswick and offers amazing potential for new owners.

100 acres of beautiful forested land with 12 kms of forest hiking trails, a pond with small streams, orchards, large vegetable gardens, greenhouses, tree nurseries, a huge 2 storey barn, a Conference building, a Forest Museum, 4 cabins to accommodate 16 people, a sauna house, and a lovely 5 bedroom, 2 bath main home.

This property has entertained guests from all over the world. It is ideally located near the Knowlesville Art & Nature Centre, creating a special place to educate young children.

The opportunities are vast with this property — from farming, Air B&B, lodgings for seasonal sport activities, hosting festivals & craft shows, meditation/hermitage, education and more.

Cabins have solar hot water heaters, conference centre is solar powered and main house has Solar panel capability for power outages. Wood Heat in all buildings. Being sold furnished.

Special features and potentials:

• Education centre (e.g. outdoor education, summer camps, conferences) This has been and still is a draw for education at all levels: A forest school just 5 minutes down the road, forestry students coming to be in the forest learning. Workshops with indigenous peoples, government sessions and various wellness activities.

• Farming / market gardening: with raspberries, blackcurrants, red currants, blueberries, rhubarb in abundance; small income potential in u pick sales, processing for resale of jams and jellies. Whole property is managed with organic integrity. No longer actually certified organic, but adherence to all organic regulations: Full vegetable garden 100 x 100’ and large greenhouse ensures good eating. Producing for sharing and potential sales. Plenty of water storage. A large apple orchard, with pears, plums and hascaps.

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  Self-sufficiency/ Homestead:
  
  Possibility for off-grid homesteading and self-sufficiency or some aspects of that. More of a community initiative, a village participant, rather than a single homestead.

• Natural features, biodiversity: A full program of forest restoration has been implemented and recorded. Plantings for species just one zone south to follow and monitor the changing climate; burr oks, red oak, black ash and hemlock have been planted over 25 years with oaks now producing their own acorns. Forest trails are marked with species features and signage along the way. Boardwalks, benches, hanging bridge and scenic lookout enhance the walking experience

• Retreat centre: Capacity as a retreat centre, with rooms for 20+ people; Conference Centre with breakout rooms

• Main House: Heritage house built in the 1850s with regular and ongoing maintenance: 5 bedrooms; two bathrooms; full basement, with cold storage room and two full size freezers; summer kitchen, fully equipped for restaurant style service. One deck overlooking pond, two enclosed verandahs, one a fully quipped office. Living room, kitchen. Woodshed. Walls in the main kitchen have tin on the walls, with fleur de lys designs, and the ceiling in the living room is also tin.

• 4 cabins for rent: Long and short term

The land and infrastructure has been developed to showcase a variety of small income endeavours, anyone of which could be developed further; collectively or individually.

$1,200,000 CDN.

Contact

For more information or to arrange a viewing, Contact Jean Arnold: arnoldjean22@gmail.com

Serious inquiries only, please.

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