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As investment, I bought this, instead of stocks. Any ideas on what to do with it?

Location:

  • 75km (1hr) to a big international airport. Airport has direct flights to most EU capitals (2-4hr flights)
  • 50km to city center
  • 25km from nearest large residential area (500,000+ population)
  • 5km from massive organized industrial area (government supports factories here)
  • 35km from a rich residential area
  • 1km away from the village (its old and mostly depopulated) and animal husbandry area

Access:

  • There is public transportation, but one has to walk 1.5km after leaving the bus.
  • There is no direct road access to the land. You have to walk like 200m after leaving your car.
  • 1km road to here is non-asphalt and its a bit bumpy ride. When it rains, it gets bad here. It rains rarely

It is quite peaceful and quiet there. You can hear interesting bird sounds sometimes. You see no buildings, no cars and no humans anywhere near you when you're there, which feels great imo. You notice the air quality after you leave your car. I personally absolutely would want to live here for a while

Ideas

  • Trying to clarify this rn, but I think I can make $120-160/yr/decare from leasing the land to a farmer. Land is 25 decares
  • "Unique co-living opportunity with vegan food & yoga sessions" In other words, remote work / digital nomad village for people who want to work REALLY remotely :) I'd have to arrange electricity (solar panels and powerbanks), internet, toilet, shower, water, tents, mattresses/pillows/sheets, food, drinking water. (Though I don't know what people will do when they're bored here? Any ideas? Meditation would get boring after some point)
  • Sadly location isn't touristic, but it is 1hr flight away from extremely touristic areas. One of those areas, a city, was the most visited city in the world a few years ago.
  • I've met a few volunteers and they seemed quite willing to volunteer for whatever I decide to do here (if I do anything). For those unfamiliar: WWOOF and Workaway

Also- Any suggestions on where I should ask this question on the internet?

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago

Research what you are allowed to do with that land. In my country you are not allowed to simply buy agricultural land and start building stuff on it and that is the case in most civilized countries.

[–] [email protected] 84 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Build a large wall around the entire perimeter of the property.

Construct a tall stone tower in the middle of the property and paint it completely matt black.

Poison the land around the tower, so nothing, not even grass can grow.

Have packs of wild, feral dogs roam the property.

Dress in dark grey robes, and spend the rest of your days on the top of the tower, screaming obscenities at any passers-by, or shaking your fist angryly at the sky.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago

Move the stone wall out each night and slowly claim more land like an insidious virus

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 days ago (1 children)

*Mount a fiery red spotlight at the top of the tower and move the beam randomly around the property in case of hobbits

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

You also need to move the stone fence out each night to expand your domain

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

Start up a workers cooperative and a collectivized farm, you could also do the digital nomad stuff and make a worker owned digital syndicate. Turn it into a leftist center where theory flows like water and discussion of revolution flows through the air like the songs of the workers >:3

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

Ah. Someone found my field of fucks. See that I had none left to give.

[–] [email protected] 72 points 3 days ago (5 children)

Plant potatoes. Charge rich families to come out and harvest potatoes as a "total farm experience". Sell them as a "rustic handgrown" crop.

Take the profit and buy a shit ton of meth and smoke until your heart explodes. Die with a smile as you escape late stage capitalism ✨️

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

This is also what I suggested (not exactly but about the same concept). Biggest problem might be, that its maybe a bit far off from the next city.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Plant a shtload of trees and bushes, let it go 'wild', put cottages in between, spaced so they don't see each other.

A 'back to nature' retreat around the corner.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

It can actually be a lot of work to do this. Researching species appropriate to the biome and removing invasive ones

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Looks like a farm, maybe plant something?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (7 children)

Put potato in the ground, makes more potatos, shit's crazy

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 3 days ago

Sell it and remember that you first figure out what you want and then you buy the suitable land for it.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 days ago

Do nothing, watch nature claim it back.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 3 days ago (11 children)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

Plant a lot of trees. Be the owner of a forest. Just be proud.

[–] [email protected] 150 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Plant some dang trees for starters, unless it's only going to be land used for farming.

[–] [email protected] 92 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I vote for the dang trees. I like trees.

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[–] [email protected] 100 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Plant something ASAP on that naked land or it will all be carried away by rain and wind.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (4 children)

Looks like someone was farming it before, OP should contact them first since they will know about the potential and problems. Maybe make a percentage-of-profits deal rather than a lease. The timing is good for a crop, if they move quickly.

Or rewild it with native plants. Maybe some young trees on the windward edge, and seeds for a meadow

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

You can still plant something on it, but you have to be fast if you want to harvest it. Alternatively you could plant grass/clove on it and the figure out what to do with the land afterwards.

However, if you want to do a "split profits" deal you have to make sure, that you dont take to much for yourself, because most farmers won't do this if leasing it is actually cheaper. Also it might be hard to get someone to lease it for a single year and at this time most stuff is already planted which makes it even harder.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Vineyards around here have set up wedding venues. People pay stupid amounts of money for weddings. If you can set up a few areas that are particularly photogenic you'd be good. Much of the land you could just leave to nature, which could be a huge part of the appeal. Make a few trails and like 2-3 buildings for the wedding and reception.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

First of all, what the fuck, how are people paying 1.2k lease per nectar and are still able to make a profit of it (this is possible if you plant vegetables, but most farmers dont do vegetables).

Secondly, if you are willing to maybe invest a little bit more I would try to market this as a "DIY" garden. Basically what you do is, plant the field with vegetables, divide the field into smaller sections and then people pay you for having the opportunity to raise and and harvest their own vegetables. Harvest everything you can't sell by yourself and sell it to your local supermarket.

Pros:

  • Lots of cash. If you just charge people like 20$/month for e.g. 50m2 (which is quite a lot) that would come down to 1000$ per month assuming that you are able to rent all sections to other people (which will devinetively not happen). Even if you only rent out 50% its still 500$ per month.

  • Not very work intensive. You dont really have to do that much. Just regularly check on the field and care for all parts that are not rented out.

Cons:

  • Further investments are needed. You would have to supply the field with water. The best way would be to buy a cheap forklift and some containers, fill them up with water and drive it there. If you already have a car that can tow trailers you could also use that to supply the field.

  • High instability: You can't really calculate how this will work out, because you can realistically only calculate this for this and maybe the next year. This is also highly dependent on how gods you can reach the field.

The field may be a bit off for this concept, but if you manage to market this to the city population (not necessarily the city population, but more of the urban population that live in denser areas) you can make quite a lot of cash of it. I think with the uprise of uncertaintys about the availability of food and maybe declining supply chains this might get more relevant in the future. For this to work I would suggest to start small. Just seed clover on the rest of the field that you dont plan to use. This has the advantage, that you dont loose soil due to erosion, but you also allow the soil to regenerate and ultimatively clover is able to fixate nitrogen in the soil which is OBE of the most important nutrients for growing anything. If you let the clover grow for 2 years it can fixate iirc up to 200kg/N/acre which is quite a lot, bit this really depends on a lot of different factors.

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[–] [email protected] 86 points 4 days ago (3 children)

For now? Lease as much of that land as you can. Cover crop the rest. You do not want bare, tilled soil sitting there for a year+ as you figure out bigger plans.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

What's the legality of that land?

Where I live there's no way a plot of land is suited for both farming and a Hotel.

If you build something in a place where residential/commercial buildings are not allowed you are in for a lot of troubles.

If the weather provides the safest bet for the most profit would probably be plant some easy trees or some plant that would not need a lot of caring, and just sell the products.

That for money. If I were you and I had money to throw I would just built a retire House for myself and collect my returns in peace of mind and health. But then again, residential buildings may not be allowed there.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

These "laws" are just manmade constructs, I only trust the word of god. (And god told me to build a compound and fill it with devotees and guns)

[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Take a tupperware container set and test the water supplied to the field for PH value using a pack of litmus papers, then test the four corners and center of your field by scooping up some dirt, adding some water, and testing with litmus paper. Next, drain out the water and let it evaporate and look for signs of crystalization or condensates. Seal some of your soil samples to see if a healthy soil biome blooms in the sample, fungus and such.

A good healthy soil will have a strong biome. It and its water supply should be close to PH 6 to 7 for most tall grass and similar crops. There should be little to no saline in your soil, signs of that might indicate a brine pit forming in the water table near your land.

The most valuable single-season crops are crops that you can process yourself rather than selling to a granary. For examples: milled flour, corn byproducts, alcoholic ingredients, beets for sugar, bamboo, or switchgrass fermented into propionic acid biofuel. The major downside to being your own processor is that you're also your own distributor which is very difficult.

Sometimes subsidies make unprofitable crops profitable, sometimes granaries or local brewers offer a good price for specific crops. Be sure to check the local market thoroughly.

Make sure to join up with any farming groups in your area and get insured for any farming you do. Also get somebody to provide some bee boxes.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You should devinetively watch out with planting bamboo. Do not, under no circumstance, plant bamboo that spreads with its roots because that shit might be a nightmare to get rid if afterwards.

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 4 days ago (10 children)

Sell 1x1 foot squares of it in a vending machine at a random gas station in the middle of nowhere.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I wish I had enough money to buy 25 acres without a clear idea of what to do with it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This isn't 25 acres. Its 25 decacres which is about 6 acres or 2.5ha or 25.000m2

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Whoops. Point still stands.

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[–] [email protected] 61 points 4 days ago (3 children)

No answer here, just wanted to say you inadvertently wrote one of the most interesting geolocation challenges I've seen.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Farm things?

[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 days ago (1 children)

You could look into rewilding the land

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 4 days ago (9 children)

How close are you to high voltage transmission lines? This might be good for an commercial sized solar farm.

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