What would you do with 5-10 acres of land?

Answer 1

Get a permit to build on it (stormwater pollution prevention permits) since it is more than one acre.

Answer 2

My dream is to be self sufficent. 5-10 acres would be a dream.
Is there a home, or is it rough bush? If there is no home, I would have to build. Assuming I have won the lottery, I would builda solar/wind-powered home. Probably straw bale. They are extremely easy to heat and cool, and very fire resistant. I would plant an organic garden large enough to feed my family, one that takes advantage of crop seasons and progression. I would also build a root cellar. I would have a smoker to preserve what meat and fish I could. I would build a sugar shack and learn how to make syrup; both maple and birch syrup. I would have an orchard with apple, peach and pear trees. I would have berry bushes too. I would learn how to make bread from my own home grown grains. I would also learn how best to manage my woodlot.
I would have had a well dug deep enough to ensure I would not run out of water mid-august.
There's lots more I would do, but there's not enough space here.

Answer 3

I've always been bad with visualizing how much an acre of land is. But I would guess I would build and earthship, plant an orchard and a garden, get some chickens to pick my weeds, and a bunch of sheep (GF likes to make felt from wool).

Answer 4

Live on it.
Farm organically for food and at least potentially a cash crop. Experiment with various forms of solar energy conversion as a means of approaching energy self-sufficiency and demonstrator project for solar system sales.
By the way, excluding considerations of the desirabilty of the land, there are about 57.5 million square miles of land surface for about 7 billion of us. That's about 5 1/4 acres a head. Energy sufficiency on our acreage based on solar input would mean a sustainable footprint. That's an achievable enough goal to make money working toward.

Answer 5

If i had money to go with it i would first off take a few acres maybe 3 and build a nice home then the other 7 there would be barn house to home exotic animals, a few guest homes, and on the remaining an area for target range and place for gun range maybe raise rare snakes lol. Around the whole place a grid that is linked to an invisible security system to where i can watch anyone who enters or leaves my property.

Answer 6

I have 5 acres in the country..we live off of the land..we grow all of our own vegetables..we have fruit trees and we even have chickens..we worked in the big city and decided to move to the country when we retired..smart move..no stress at all

Answer 7

hang on to it until property values sky rocket again...then piece it off 1/2 acre at a time. You could make a fortune if you time it right!

Answer 8

Permaculture:

Nothing for the first year but observe the natural system.

Then I would zone it

Zone O Home

Zone 1 Forest food garden it is located closest to the house.

2 Also part of the Forest Garden: Orchards of hard and soft fruits and berry crops.

3 Main crop systems.

4 fuel and fodder systems. Specifically, trees for fuel and habitat, perennial grazing/green mulching perennial food stuffs

5 Aquaculture Ponds

6 Wild life - where we continue to learn from nature and natural systems.

I would use the natural contours of the land to collect and store water and trees to provide micro climates and shelter belts.

Then I would use the Key Permaculture Principles:

Relative location - design so that you have minimum distance between locations. For example it makes sense to put a compost heap near where the leaves fall.

Multiple functions for each element. For example a free range chicken provides meat and eggs, manure, helps to weed the soil, eats bugs, self reproduces (has chicks) self cares.

Stress-free Yield maximum yield is labour intensive. Stress free yields produce a yield with little or no maintenance. You plant an apple tree once and it continues to produce a yield year on year as opposed to annual vegetables.

Energy Efficiency use the most efficient method. There is no merit spending 4 years digging a pond by hand when a week with a digger would do it. The benefits of the pond outweigh the costs to the environment of the technology used.

Biological resources Use natural resources such as wicker instead of plastic. Hemp instead of Polyester.

Energy Flow use existing natural energy flows: wind, wave solar or running water. Do not use manpower let nature do the work. We can direct energy flows of water in contouring (Yeoman's Keyline Planning) to ensure that water is stored and evenly distributed instead of running off the land (on a hill).

Natural Succession: Imitate nature. Let systems evolve in natural succession. Pioneer species act as green manure for fruit trees and protect agains frosts and insect damage.

Diversity: Provides resilience and resistance. Diversity of animals and plants.

Stacking: multiple layers of growth, from the tallest oak down to Fungi growing in mulch below.

Appropriate Technology: maximize use of technology by sharing and using to its maximum load.
Information and Observation replaces Energy

Answer 9

set up trails for a 4-wheeler...raise pumpkins...and build a cool looking barn with a full court basketball court.

Answer 10

Well if you like money as much as I do and the land is desireable for people to build on you can subdivide it and sell it off. Its a great way to make money!