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Old 07-19-2011, 07:32 PM
 
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Can anyone recommend some of the best small towns surrounding Springfield for raising a little livestock and growing fresh veggies and orchards?
Nice towns to live/good places to be a farmer please.
Thanks!
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Old 07-20-2011, 07:17 PM
 
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Too many to count!!!
How close do you want to be to Springfield?
Are there any other factors to take into consideration?
Are you talking about some really large-scale farming, or more like hobby farming?
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Old 07-20-2011, 09:16 PM
 
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Hobby farming!
Hubby's best job prospects as a paramedic are in Springfield, so anywhere in a commutable radius works for us. (40 minutes to St. Johns most likely?)

I'm looking for 10-30 acres with a decent house and some type of barn around the 140k range. I'm going to be planting a lot of veggie gardens and an orchard (if I can't find a place with some trees already going) and I'd like to get into mini dairy cows (just a couple) and keep up my back yard egg ducks.

I'd like to be a hard working blue collar class farmer alongside other hard working blue collar farmers. Hopefully no yuppies trying to take the farms out of the farmland ("eew! cows stink! outlaw cows!" "ew! the bees pooped on my house! civil suit!")

Good soil for my garden would probably be my deal maker. (reasonably fertile, not too stony)
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Old 07-21-2011, 08:12 AM
 
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Check out North of Springfield (Willard, Bolivar), and East (Strafford, Rogersville).
The commute coming from the South can be kind of crazy, and there are more farms in the locations I listed.
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Old 07-21-2011, 11:51 AM
 
Location: SW Missouri
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I'm looking for 10-30 acres with a decent house and some type of barn around the 140k range.
I hate to be a bubble buster, but to find a place like you described for the amount of money you mentioned - will take a stroke of pure luck or you will need to start looking farther out than you plan. To possibly find a place with 10 acres and a liveable 3 bedroom house / mobile home in the price range you gave, you might want to look around the Buffalo area. I think 65 is four lane to Springfield from Buffalo now.

Might try HotPads - Map Search for Real Estate, Apartments and Houses for Rent, Foreclosures and Homes for Sale. And good luck with your search.
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Old 07-21-2011, 06:15 PM
 
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You'd be surprised Dave, I've been watching rural real estate outside Springfield for a couple months now and have about 4 or 5 current listings bookmarked that'd work, we're just not ready to leave yet. I *could* handle a little further out though. We have a 45 minute commute to work as it is and that's a junk job.

Looking at some of the town info sites, I *am* really interested in Buffalo though (even before your comment.)

I'm dead set against mobiles though. Mobiles are to homes what Wal-Mart is to clothes. I'm sick of fall apart synthetic houses. I'd rather have old and fixable.

Last edited by dusky_beauty; 07-21-2011 at 06:26 PM..
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Old 07-21-2011, 06:28 PM
 
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I agree with Bcuz, check out the areas between Bolivar and Springfield. They are about an hour apart. Both towns have hospitals (Springfield has two). There are lots of farms. Absolutely you can get one in your price range, especially if you are not expecting a brand new house with stainless steel appliances and granite countertops.

We bought our place last year, it fits your description and was well within that price range, and just a little bit out of the geographic area I am describing.

Good luck!
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Old 07-21-2011, 06:51 PM
 
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Yeah, I'm not exactly a picky prissy princess when it comes to my house. I own mud boots, I keep labradors and great pyr dogs and I've brooded ducklings in my bathtub. Well built, in good repair, and warm in winter, dry in wet covers my bases.
Walls, doors, a wood stove and an efficient kitchen is good.
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Old 07-21-2011, 11:20 PM
 
Location: Rolla, Phelps County, Ozarks, Missouri
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I'm looking for 10-30 acres with a decent house and some type of barn around the 140k range.
So many people like you have discovered Southern Missouri and moved here because land is cheap that it is no longer as cheap as that.
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Old 07-22-2011, 12:19 PM
 
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So many people like you have discovered Southern Missouri and moved here because land is cheap that it is no longer as cheap as that.
I'm sure prices are on the increase, but I'm not so sure I should call up United Country and accuse them of fabricating their listings. LOL

Another area I am looking at is Mountain Grove, Cabool and Houston as I did track down a hospital around there, but I'm pretty sure hubs would prefer working at a St. Johns facility.
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