Small Farm / Lifestyle
Retiring from farming? Emigrating? Returning home? But still need a challenge? Ideal place to raise a family
Waipara’s Best Kept Secret
43ha (106 acres) of unique lifestyle/small farm land only 3km from the village and school. With secluded building sites, majestic views, picnic areas and swimming holes on the Weka Creek (which runs through the property and has not gone dry in 40 years) this property is unique. It further boasts 4km of tourist railway running along and on its North East Boundary.
The vendor, who founded both Glenmark Wines and the Waipara wine Industry was keeping this as his retirement block as this was the last of 14 blocks of the original 1000 acre family property.
Water:
The lower thirteen blocks have an entitlement to take water from the on property storage dam.
The allocation for this block being 19+ Million litres. There are two 17acre sites ideal for vineyard on a lower terrace meaning that both can be irrigated by GRAVITY. (no pumping costs) Pumping would be required for the upper flats
Nestled at the foot of the Weka Pass on the higher side of the Valley it has lower creek side terraces of light soils ideal for grapes and higher terraces suitable for a variety of irrigated horticulture. The valley has a rapidly developing grape, wine industry also blackcurrants and olives. Areas of the block are very suitable for forestry/bio fuel, asparagus, watercress and truffle establishment and livestock.
Added to this is some 4km of vintage railway with rights to run inside the edge of the property giving a unique opportunity for a link up with the now well
established tourism / visitor in the area.
View property; Google Earth –Waipara, NZ….43° 01’ 58.40S…172° 43’ 56.29E
About Waipara and the vendor;
www.waiparawine.co.nz
www.wekapassrailway.co.nz
www.decanter.com/archive/275770.html |
