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I see a few mentioned "Maintenance". You can maintain any amount you want and leave the rest woods. The woods takes care of itself. That said we probably mow about 2 acres. The yard area gets mowed by a Lawn Tractor, the fields by a Farm Tractor.
That's what we do, maintain 1/4 or so and let nature be her best on the rest. We have BIRDS galore because of this!
50 acres or more, only need to maintain one acre for the house, utilities and vehicle parking. The rest can be left alone or utilized as needed for various endeavors.
I see a few mentioned "Maintenance". You can maintain any amount you want and leave the rest woods. The woods takes care of itself. That said we probably mow about 2 acres. The yard area gets mowed by a Lawn Tractor, the fields by a Farm Tractor.
Woods still need maintenance periodically to remove invasives. Where I live if I left the woods to take care of itself the Chinese privet would be so thick you couldn’t walk through it.
We currently live on a 1/2 acre. I'd prefer an acre just to give us extra distance from the neighbors and a bit more privacy, but a 1/2 acre is working out nicely. The older I get the less yardwork I want to do and the bigger the lot, the more there is to maintain.
Woods still need maintenance periodically to remove invasives. Where I live if I left the woods to take care of itself the Chinese privet would be so thick you couldn’t walk through it.
Same here. Brazilian Pepper, air potato vines, carrotwood trees and bitter melon vines are invasives that would completely take over in no time and did in the past. They almost destroyed the trees there. I’m not too crazy about the muscadine grape either, but I won’t totally eradicate it like the invasives.
We had our lot mechanically cleared of the Brazilian Pepper, but are doing daily battle with the vines, trying to get them to a manageable level and solarizing the Brazilian Pepper tree stumps. It’s going to take a few years. A stand of spindly oaks are putting out leaves and suckers all over their trunks now that they aren’t covered in vines and can see the sun for the first time in years.
We have a house on a 1/3 acre and bought the empty lot adjacent to make our property > 1/2 an acre (where all the invasives are). I look at heavily wooded areas differently now after cleaning this lot up. In SWFL, invasives grow too well.
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