- Middelburg Holiday Working Farm on 125ha
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Eastern Cape,
Chris Hani,
Middelburg EC
- R1 850 000
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- Web Reference: D2.5.1 AGMAR 0002
The farm currently has a 2 star grading and an AA Recommended Accommodation certificate. It is sold as is and will include the ground, the house, shed, stores, fixed infrastructure like dams, diesel engines for pump and generator, windmills, fencing, sorting pens, feedlot pens and solar system (new (9 months) batteries, new inverter/charger, reconditioned Lister engine total replacement valued at R150 000).
The typical Karoo style homestead (+/- 400 square meters, replacement value at +/- R1.000.000) was built in the early thirties. It has printed tin ceilings, Oregon pine - wooden floors (except for the kitchen, kitchen scullery and bathrooms), and wall paintings. Electricity is generated by 8 x 100 watt solar panels converted to 220 Volt, backed up by a diesel generator.
The farmhouse has been partly professionally rewired. Although there are electricity points in most of the rooms, the main electricity cables have been installed with trip switch boards, but some plug/light points and switches still have to be connected. Water heating is done by Gas and Donkey (wood burner). These could be replaced by solar powered geysers.
There is currently a fixed telephone line, satellite TV and a satellite Internet connection.
A. The main house is equipped as follows:
2 lounges, 5 bedrooms (1 en-suite and 1 separate bathroom and toilet), kitchen, scullery, pantry, laundry, outside toilet.
Room details:
1 lounge (5.2 x 4.9 meter) with fireplace.
Another lounge with bay windows (6.1 from middle window x 5 meter).
1 guest room (4.2 x 4.3 meter) en suite. It is a patio room thus not part of the inside house.
1 guest room/office in the house (4.9 x 4.9 meter)
1 main bedroom (5.1 x 4.9 meter) with connection to main bathroom.
1 guest room (4.9 x 3.7 meter)
1 guest room (4.9 x 3.7 meter)
1 dining room (4.9 x 3.7 meter)
1 farm style kitchen (4.9 x 4.9 meter) with built in braai/barbeque, a 6 plate gas and 1 Aga stove.
1 kitchen pantry (1 x 3 meter)
1 kitchen scullery (3 x 4 meter)
1 entrance hall (5.1 x 1,8 meter)
1 corridor of (12.3 x 1.8)
1 covered stoep of (3 x 23 meter)
Outside the house: 1 laundry and 1 labourers toilet and an old fashioned water cooled cold room and one small fire room.
B. Big zinc store (18 x 12 meter) for the storage of Lucerne, tractor and other implements.
C. A smaller zinc store (5 x 7 meter)
D. A 3 roomed building (5 x 9 meter) used as workshop, storage room and slaughter room.
E. A Rondawel converted into a braai/barbeque as part of the integrated paved entertainment area
F. Double garage.
G. Small building for the power plant, with the 8 x 100 watt solar panels, the generator, the storage batteries, the charger, the inverter and switch boards
H. Two labourer’s cottages.
Water supply:
Water is stored for animals in one cement dam and 2 zinc dams. For human consumption 3 plastic water storage tanks are used: 5000 litres for the main house, 1000 litres for the guest room, and 5000 litres for the staff quarters. All of these are kept full by means of water being pumped (windmill and/or a diesel pump) from two strong boreholes. Two smaller (one currently being built) and one larger earth dams are used for flood irrigation. The one diesel pump is also set up to connect 8 sprinklers for irrigating grazing or crop fields. A stream (being fed by a large dam on a neighbouring farm, which passes the house, delivering maximum of +/- 36000 litres an hour, keeps the earth dams full most of the times. There is still a third old borehole which can be reinstated to compliment the current ample water supply.
Cultivated lands:
There is currently 6ha Lucerne and oats planted which is flood irrigated with the water of the larger earth dam.
Two smaller cultivated lands (+/- 1ha) are near the house and can either be flood irrigated or irrigated with sprinklers, and so far nearly 2ha was planted with potatoes.
There are still another 10-15ha which can be developed for cash crop plants such as potato's and corn, and/or permanent grazing for animals.
About 30 young pecan nut trees and 30 young apple trees should start producing during the next year or two and these trees are irrigated by one of the small earth dams.
There are a few grape vines, other fruit trees such as pear, cherry, figs, peach and apricot trees, prickly pears and a small vegetable garden is kept for the daily use of fresh vegetables, all under drip irrigation.
Camps:
There is +/- 50ha bush river camp, with rocky hills and many trees, divided into two camps for the Boergoats, and several other camps (7 camps) for the horses, cows and possibly in the future Dorper sheep. All the camps have access to water.
Feedlot:
There are 4 feedlot camps all with water and some with shelter, and a sorting pen and sickbay pen together with a loading ramp. These feedlot camps can house up to 400 - 600 small stock animals in total.
A large variety of natural game like Kudu, Steenbuck, Mountain Reedbuck, Fallow Deer, Duiker, etc, are roaming free on the farm. So far we have counted more than a hundred species of birds. A large dam on one of our a neighbour's property, where also the currently advertised backpackers and camping facilities are, could be stocked up with fish in the near future, and possible arrangements could be made with neighbours for extended walking trails. For those who like to hunt, either for real or with a camera, there are ample opportunities to hunt on the farm or with arrangements on neighbouring commercial agricultural farms or on neighbouring private game hunting farms. San rock paintings can also to be found in some of the caves of a neighbouring farm.
The farm can also be bought as a going concern, and the following can then be included for an additional amount of R 250 000 or each one can separately be negotiated.
Animals valued at R 80 000 (see below for details)
Tractor and implements valued at R 120 000 (see below for details)
Farm Website, Accommodation customer database and goodwill. R 50 000
2030 John Deere tractor.
1 3/4 Cubic meter scraper.
2 Trailers
1 x 14 disc-harrow
1 Tooth ripper
1 x small road grader
1 x hammer mill (LM) hammer
1 x John Deere Baler
1 x 7 or 5 ft John Deere lucerne cutter
1 x 2 furrow plough
1 x 4 rotating rake (Claas)
1 x bulldozer blade.
Wind pump equipment, etc.
13 young Boergoats.
5 pregnant milking cows (3 Fresians and 2 Jerseys)
1 Jersey bull
2 calves (+/- 8mths old)
If you are interested in this property you need to ask yourself the following questions:
Do you want to change your life style, or are you looking for an opportunity to make a quick buck?
Have you ever been in the Karoo area of South Africa and if so what was your first impression?
As this place is 50 km to the nearest town, and your nearest neighbour is 6km away, it is very safe and peaceful. Do you enjoy solitude and looking after yourself?
Look also at Google Earth coordinates:
S: 31.18.25.6 E: 25.21.37.3
GPS Co-ordinates: S -31.30064 E 25.36040
Size of land: 125ha
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