Comprehensive couple of acres producing organic

If you've always liked the idea of self-sufficiency but like to be near urban amenities and education this delightful 8193m2 only five minutes to Tauranga Crossing's retail centre and near a wide choice of schools may be your answer.

This comprehensive couple of organic acres will supply your family's 'five a day' with plenty to sell or give away. Home is a Lockwood with pitched ceilings enhancing light and space including a mezzanine outside the master suite. From the covered deck you overlook your acre or so of grazing and surrounding organic kiwifruit grown by great neighbours. This property has been tended using organic principles for three years. (It is not certified organic.) Two studio rooms with bathroom behind the double garage add attractive work space or accommodation.

There's also a 72m2 implement shed/workshop and another shed which was the passionfruit packhouse. While the most income can come from the potential to increase the production of the passionfruit, figs and grapes espaliered under about a third of an acre of net, there is also a 120m2 greenhouse growing vegetables and strawberries (which fruit from September till April), a henhouse and an extensive spread of edible trees, bushes and vines around the property. Water for home use and irrigation comes from rain water and the Tautau irrigation scheme and is stored in two tanks.

Loved and tended by enthusiasts happy to share their organic cultivation knowledge, this property offers the opportunity to potter happily and the satisfaction that comes from growing your own food. You also have the option for more intensive horticultural production for wholesaling or selling direct at Farmers Markets.

You can keep a few sheep, couple of cows or a pony in the post and rail (sheep proof) paddocks or have neighbours graze them.

If it's time the family learnt where food really comes from, or time you slowed down and savoured the process the good life awaits you here!