[Beats32]

Does such a thing exist? We currently farm on 40 acres in Maine, but my husband is from Kansas and we lived out there for several years before relocating back to New England to be closer to my family. Thinking in the next few years we might make our way back to the Midwest. I like the idea of being in a gated community; he isn’t going to settle for anything less than 10-20 acres that we can continue to raise some livestock on. Budget around $525k probably. Any suggestions? Thank you.

[Threestep2]

Gated community with 10-20 acre lots for 525k?

[grampaTom]

I saw you were looking also in Kansas and Missouri.

I lived in such a community in Oklahoma that was actually built for horse owners. They frowned on milk cows and absolutely excluded pigs and chickens.

I think you might want to consider buying a home in a gated community and have your husband buy an acreage nearby for his farming (that's what my deceased FIL did).

[ketchikanite]

Originally Posted by Beats32

Does such a thing exist? We currently farm on 40 acres in Maine, but my husband is from Kansas and we lived out there for several years before relocating back to New England to be closer to my family. Thinking in the next few years we might make our way back to the Midwest. I like the idea of being in a gated community; he isn’t going to settle for anything less than 10-20 acres that we can continue to raise some livestock on. Budget around $525k probably. Any suggestions? Thank you.

In Oklahoma if you buy 10 to 20 acres then you put up your own fence and gate. Folks buying that large of an acreage don’t want any part of a homeowners association in Oklahoma.

[Threestep2]

Can anyone show me a listing of 40 acres useable land within reasonable distance to civilization at OP's pricepoint? I do not think OP plans on pitching a tent and homesteading:>)
We have been looking for seven years for 10+ acres within an hour of OKC airport. Even Luther has been discovered.

[NW Crow]

Did you create the term "planned ranching community" for yourself or did you find it somewhere?

On quick look the only places I found it used were in South California for turning big ranches into planned urban communities and during the New Deal to turn sharecroppers into independent farmers on plots of governnent owned land.

The concept has possibility, for a certain kind of person with satisfactory outside income. There might be some places similar in Rocky Mtn West but probably mostly on high end of price scale. I know of a few kinda like this but very upscale. Might be more likely to find there than in southern Midwest.

Do you want to share any ranching resources / functions with neighbors (pasture, barns, equipment, hired help, etc.) or just live side by side on non-market viable / hobby lifestyle parcels with a fence / gate?


You might look for land held by a multi-member, multi-generation family where one member wants out. But be very careful about the neighbors, property surveys, who owns what, etc.