OVERVIEW Of Our Farm:
Spruce creek Farms is about a 125 Acre grain farm with all but 17 Acres
just south east of Shelbyville Indiana. Most of the main farm is tillable
except for 2 small woods, a small stream and the lots where the houses
and barns etc. sit.
Buildings include 4 houses and a mobile home. 3 large post and beam
barns, a 30' x 64' open face tool (tractor) shed, a 18' x 20' small shop
building a 20' x 30' "seed house", 4 round metal grain bins (total of just
under 7,000 bushels), 2 wire rod type ear corn cribs (total of 3,000 bushels)
and several other storage buildings including a small unused house in poor
condition which dates from the 1850's and which I fear is beyond hope.
I would love to find someone that would take it down or move it.
My wife and I live in a house we put up new in 1976. It is a little
over 2600 sq. ft.
My retired mother lives in the house I grew up in but it has been built
on to twice since those days.
Our son rents the mobile home from us and lives there with his 6 yr.
old son. He works full time and farms with me as well.
The other house at this location is rented to nice couple that have
been there a good number of years now.
There are 17 acres located over in a neighboring county which has about
100 sq. ft. of tillable ground. it is all river and woods (Big Flatrock
River). It has a house which we rent out and next to it is a concrete block
shop building (43' x 30') which was built in 1934 as an automotive service
garage and gas station. We also rent that out separately. It is currently
empty and I am thinking of maybe making a mini craft mall in it with about
6 small shops. It is in a small village that attracts some tourism due
to having a very long covered bridge in it and is also surrounded by Amish
families.
Where we live and farm...
We live at the red star just outside of Shelbyville IN. If you look
to the east a ways you will see the Village of Moscow (pronounced like
"coe" not like "cow") where the 17 acres mentioned above sits.
If you look at the top left corner that is Indianapolis galloping our
way.
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