Rustic eco property home in Madalya, Victoria with Passive and Active Solar Design, Endless Wildlife, Ready for your Greenchange

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Please submit the Property Inquiry Form for further info you will need to consider first about this property to see if it suits your requirements.

You will also be included in the Buyers Group for this property who will be first contacted if the current contract does not proceed.

Built mostly with re-used materials, passive/active solar design with many options to be your greenchange family home, escape from the city to a beautiful part of Victoria; low impact eco tourism; a weekender to restore and revive.

Trust for Nature Covenant for beautiful regenerating temperate rainforest.

The property is 85 acres of healthy, in the Strzelecki Ranges, along the Jack River, and includes three waterfalls and swimming holes.

For more details and how to visit the property, please submit the property inquiry form.

Damp and Wet Forest ecological vegetation classes make the property a beautiful, diverse habitat with abundant wildlife.

Sightings of goanna, southern barred bandicoot. Over one hundred bird species have been identified, along with wombats, wallabies, possums, snakes, kangaroos, koalas, echidnas, antechinus, platypus, burrowing crayfish, rakali.

This home has been built strongly with the philosophy of the three ‘Rs’ —reduce, reuse and recycle.

Heated with a wood combustion stove servicing a hydronic floor and domestic water system, a evacuated tube solar hot water system also heats domestic water.

Electrically powered by a micro-hydro system on Jack River in addition to new solar panel array produces power 24/7.

Master bedroom with ensuite downstairs, upstairs loft and potential of 3 – 4 bedrooms in current dormitory area.

Downstairs includes office, large kitchen, living areas. 2 ½ Baths, large carport, septic system.

The office downstairs works well for anyone needing this sort of separate entrance, as well as anyone wanting to set up a home based business.

The garden has been created and developed since 1991, using river soil, extensive composting and mulching.

Veggie gardens and orchards, garlic enterprise previously including selling at markets

Here is a list of what has been grown here:
Apple trees, pear trees, peaches, fig, mulberry, lemon trees, hazelnut trees, avocado trees, lime tree, tangelo, persimmons, mountain pepper trees which can be harvested.

Organic garden has included – broccoli, cauliflower, cucumbers, pumpkins, corn, lettuces, basil, strawberries, potatoes, asparagus – in perennial bed, rocket, beetroot, carrots, onions, artichokes (perennial) , eggplant, tomatoes, spring onions, raspberry, blueberries, garlic, mint, french sorrel, thyme, chives, rosemary, coriander,

Domestic Water – 25,000 gallons, gravity fed.

Additional firefighting water – 32,000 gallons separate.

The water systems can be combined if needed.

Sprinkler system and bunker for fire protection, with a 5m2 cellar/bunker for last resort bushfire emergencies.

Separate workshop, large variety of equipment included with property: tractor, chainsaws, slashers, drills, etc.

Live the dream as permanent or weekend residence in idyllic private bush