Shopping For Acreage

[Timmah!]

I've started to shop around for some tract(s) of rural land for gardening & with an eye towards investment, construction.  Good times & can't wait to get some of my heirlooms in the dirt!  Looking at the ~25 acre range, with several smaller tracts a handsome possibility for variety & agrestic repose.  Will be the Gentleman Idiot Farmer...ESQ!  

Making this post for updates on the progression of my fun little pursuit.  Mostly for myself & informational, modest amusement value for those who would choose to monitor the progress & even offer some relevant commentary.  And NO, it's not for 'dogging', shithead. 

[TBB]

Glad you included the word Idiot in your description  

Of course you'll post pictures - how about a contest - post pictures of the plots you're looking at - after you select one - the first person to guess it gets a dish named after them

[MikeB]

Be sure to take a shovel with you when you look at lots.  Dig several spots throughout the plot to see what the soil is like.  Hate to see you buy 25 acres of clay !!!!     Fuckin land around here is getting crazy expensive.  

[Timmah!]

3 hours ago, MikeB said:

Be sure to take a shovel with you when you look at lots.  Dig several spots throughout the plot to see what the soil is like.  Hate to see you buy 25 acres of clay !!!!     Fuckin land around here is getting crazy expensive.  

Good heads-up; I've dug into Kentucky Crider while gardening!  Reasonably fertile, but so dense you could fire the walls of the 3 foot-deep cylinders I dug for hybrid 5-gallon bucket planters & made fucking Tandoors from them!

Edited March 31, 2022 by Timmah!
Spelling, nomenclature.

[MikeB]

Our lot has clay.  Had to truck in dirt for garden and wifes flower beds first year after building, 38 years ago.  Need to get the garden going again.  Been years since we planted one.  But we still do the flowers.  Well the wife does.  She loves dirt therapy !!  Me, not so much.  

[Timmah!]

2 hours ago, MikeB said:

Our lot has clay.  Had to truck in dirt for garden and wifes flower beds first year after building, 38 years ago.  Need to get the garden going again.  Been years since we planted one.  But we still do the flowers.  Well the wife does.  She loves dirt therapy !!  Me, not so much.  

Dude, lasagna layering with compost & precompost materials, a little Dolomite (I've got unbelievably hard water here, so plenty of limescale which my Red Wigglers like.  Can build your own soil rather easily.  No time like the present!

[WeednFeed]

I have some good friends in the state of Iowa. I’ve travelled down 5 times over the years to hunt pheasants on their land. The first year they told me they were tilling 6000 acres, they also left a very high % of a res in CRP. 

As years passed the grandchildren all started to acquire more farms. Every year I went there we attended at least one farm auction. As a family operation they look to increase the size of the acreage they till. I’ve not been back for 8 years but I believe they were tilling 10,000 acres at that time.

Now to the point! They showed me many TOPO maps from the state of Iowa clearly showing the thickness of the topsoil on every property in the state. Where I live a property would be lucky to have 12 inches of topsoil. 
Iowa has topsoil from 2-14 FEET! I was shocked. I have walked and driven on thousands of their acres and I am mesmerized at the quality of the topsoil. Is is like nothing I’ve ever seen. I have literally taken out TONS of rocks from my 6000 plus square foot gardens, I’ve added sand, compost, wood chips peat moss manure, and leaves to my soil and yet My topsoil is only 12 inches. 
@Timmah! contact your EU to see if they have similar maps showing the soil quality and quantity in the areas you are looking. As suggested BRING A SHOVEL. The soil may have been striped off years ago and not recorded. Poor soil can be improved with many free amendments old leaves in the fall sawdust from a local mill. Get a trailer or truck gather free manure from small backyard chicken coops etc.

The most important thing when you’ve made your choice GET THE SOIL TESTED free from the EU I think. Depending on the size of the garden I would suggest you buy a TROYBILT tiller buy the hoarse by a second hand one they last a long time and the parts are available. There are many YouTube videos showing how to work on Troybilt tillers. A tractor would even be better lol.

Good Luck

[KaptCrunch]

also minerial right to the soil of parcel of land buying , Jed Clampette stuck oil   LoL 

Edited March 31, 2022 by KaptCrunch

[WeednFeed]

https://pss.ca.uky.edu/soilatlas
 

@Timmah! if I remember correctly you are in Kentucky. The link is to the soil maps publications 
 

Edited March 31, 2022 by WeednFeed

[Timmah!]

23 minutes ago, WeednFeed said:

https://pss.ca.uky.edu/soilatlas
 

@Timmah! if I remember correctly you are in Kentucky. The link is to the soil maps publications 
 

Yessir, did these things with the help of my local Agricultural Extension Office about 10 years ago when gardening an old plot.  Very useful to know the helpful resources at one's disposal,  & thanks!

[MikeB]

Ohhh !!  A Hillbilly !!!  Im a Buckeye !!  Neighbors !!  I worked for years with a bunch of people from Paintsville, KY.   We use to joke, they all came up in a Greyhound Bus and were dropped off in our home town.      Many went back to KY after retiring !!  Back to the "Holler" !!!!  Well "Hollow" for us Buckeyes !!!

[RobMc]

@Timmah! if you wait awhile until your senile old Pres infuriates Putin enough to press the button you will probably get the land cheaper?

[Timmah!]

14 hours ago, MikeB said:

Ohhh !!  A Hillbilly !!!  Im a Buckeye !!  Neighbors !!  I worked for years with a bunch of people from Paintsville, KY.   We use to joke, they all came up in a Greyhound Bus and were dropped off in our home town.      Many went back to KY after retiring !!  Back to the "Holler" !!!!  Well "Hollow" for us Buckeyes !!!

"Holler"?... Holla!:  https://youtu.be/f9eHp7JJgq8?t=13

 

[MikeB]

Ambulance vs Amblance.   Antenna vs Antanna.   Push vs Poosh.    

[Timmah!]

3 hours ago, MikeB said:

Ambulance vs Amblance.   Antenna vs Antanna.   Push vs Poosh.    

I meant 'Holla' as an urban term used to give a shout-out to someone or something...as you reminded me of Loretta Lynn's song with the reference to pronunciations, & why I started her performance just as she begins to sing the verse including the term 'holler'.  Threw in the 'holla' as a contrast of urban to rural, with the common thread of hard-scrabble existence being a commonality of both settings...it reminding me of the guy telling me how he got shot in the head slinging dope in Detroit; approaching me unsolicited at the end of my little jaunt around part of Saunders Springs Park I had recorded just the day previous. 

[TBB]

1 hour ago, Timmah! said:

I meant 'Holla' as an urban term used to give a shout-out to someone or something...as you reminded me of Loretta Lynn's song with the reference to pronunciations, & why I started her performance just as she begins to sing the verse including the term 'holler'.  Threw in the 'holla' as a contrast of urban to rural, with the common thread of hard-scrabble existence being a commonality of both settings...it reminding me of the guy telling me how he got shot in the head slinging dope in Detroit; approaching me unsolicited at the end of my little jaunt around part of Saunders Springs Park I had recorded just the day previous. 

You mean like "Hola Shit"