This is a beautiful, comfortable, passive solar, high energy efficiency, low maintenance home that will take care of you with minimal work and investment for many years to come. You will live in an open space that feels cozy and spacious at the same time. In the living area, dining area, and kitchen you will look out through large south windows at wildlife and open sky in a setting of fields, woods and stream valley. The open kitchen is complete and efficient. The full bath has a composting toilet that is easily converted to a flush toilet. A 500 sq ft loft is open and spacious, and quickly converts to bedrooms when company comes. Interior paneling and siding are native white pine. You will have a huge 800 cu ft of storage closets on the north side that disappears as a paneled wall when all the doors are shut. This house is sophisticated in its simplicity, incorporating many practical and innovative design features. It has high passive solar gain in the winter, superinsulation and tightness, and the small free standing wood stove will keep you comfortably warm all winter on a meager full cord of fire wood. Passive ventilation keeps the house below 70 all summer. The total electric bill is less than $60 a month all year. The 80 acres includes 2 miles of ski/hiking trails that wind through fields, hardwoods, beautiful spruce and balsam, down to the creek. This area is rich in wild food, and if you want you can get most of your food free from the surrounding land: maple syrup, wild rice, berries, wild edibles, mushrooms, and abundant easy hunting and fishing. 10 acres of your land is pasture/tillable, ready to raise animals. You can get most of your produce from a large organic fenced garden and established fruit trees. You can store that produce in an indoor root cellar that will keep it fresh from Oct-Apr. You can park two vehicles in the garage and still have room for a workshop. A classic travel home that came with the property serves as play house, overflow bunkhouse, and storage. You can have picnics and work parties under a 12 x 16 shelter. This is a home designed and built with quality and care that will allow you to live comfortably for next to nothing for many years to come. Just think what it will mean to be able to get all your food and heating fuel for free from the land in the years to come! For more pictures go to green homes for sale, browse homes, wisconsin. Feel free to call me at 715 322-4349 to talk more about this home. Neighborhood Description This is truly a unique setting, this house sits on the border between rural farm land to the south and a huge area of public wilderness to the north. The land is joined by public forest on two sides that is empty of people except for a couple of weeks a year. Across the road to the north is 100's of square miles of wild public land with all the habitats and wildlife of the Northwoods. The Wild and Scenic Flambeau River is just a couple of miles away. Your neighbors are friendly, helpful, and diverse: multi-generation farmers, working families, young families, retirees, back-to-the-landers, progressives and conservatives. Glen Flora is 5 miles away with a gas station, store, post office, and churches. 15 miles to Ladysmith with many retail stores, services, large grocery stores, an excellent public library, and county seat. Eau Claire and Rice Lake are 1 to 1 1/2 hrs with complete services. Minneapolis/St. Paul is 2 hrs. You are on a paved trunk road that loops to the highway, so there is only local traffic but it gets snowplowed right away.
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