127.5 Acres in Tenants Harbor, ME - $923,000

Never before offered- Modern 5 bedroom home on acreage in MidCoast, Maine. This two thousand six hundred square foot home sits well back from the road on 127.5+/- surveyed acres in Tenants Harbor. This bright and well-designed house is not visible from the road. The 700’ long curving driveway leads to a elegant yet simply landscaped front yard and invites you into the home. The main entrance opens to a screened in porch overlooking the flower beds, attractive to humming birds and other pollinators. Inside you’ll find lots of natural light leading you past the living room and home office into the high-ceiled kitchen and dining area with a soapstone wood stove. Of course, you could enjoy morning coffee on the deck with views of the expansive back yard, fruit trees and gardens. The master bedroom and bath on the first floor make for single level living with plenty of room for guests upstairs. The wide stairway brings you to up to the bedrooms for your growing family or visitors from away with plenty of space to romp and play. Natural light spills into every room upstairs, one is large enough for an art or yoga studio. The walk-out basement entrance is paved so it’s easy to bring in firewood for the wood stove or the wood stove off the kitchen. An oil furnace provides heat when you’re away from home or would rather not burn wood. Even the basement feels bright and airy. One room could serve as a office, work-out room, entertainment/game center or hobby nook. The kids can have their own play area, there’s ample space for a foosball or pool table. All of the mechanicals, including a newly installed radon remediation system, are easy to access for maintenance. The neat as a pin work bench screams for your next project. The insulated cool room is a wonderful space to keep the canned goods and could be used as a cheese cave or fermentation room. There’s even a spot for the recyclables under the stairs. The smooth concrete floor is durable and easy to sweep. The three car garage with an over-sized door provides extra space for storage, workbenches, shelving, or other amenities. This large area means you can keep tools, equipment, big-kid toys and other items under cover and out of the weather while the garage stays organized and clutter-free. The largest residential parcel from Cutler Cove to Marshall Point could be yours. This house has never been on the market and you’ll want to snatch it up and keep it in your family for generations. This is the only five bedroom house on more than a hundred and twenty-seven acres in picturesque Tenants Harbor. The home was built in 2000 by a couple who wanted to raise a family, garden, harvest firewood, hunt and enjoy their property all while being close to area amenities. The deck on the back of the house opens to an expansive backyard cleared to provide optimal southern exposure for several substantial vegetable gardens including a large fenced area to keep the plants safe from the numerous deer and turkeys that live on the property. A family could grow an impressive percentage of their food and maybe even supply a local market or the numerous restaurants with the surplus. Several different cultivars of apples grow in three different areas on the property. One group is just of fthe garage, easy to pick some for family snacking or to bake an apple pie or ten. The second planting is just on the edge of the forest which makes it more comfortable for deer and other critters to feed on the fruits. The third cluster of fruit trees creates a tasty opening in the woodlot. Speaking of wildlife, the property has food plots planted specifically for whitetail deer. They and other species benefit from high quality browse close to cover. Watch the food plots right from the house or the strategically placed deer stands. Walk along the well maintained trail system with the kids and the pooch knowing that you own a park sized parcel in one of the most desirable areas in the MidCoast. The trails are wide enough for a side by side or tractor if that’s more your scene. Access deer stands, sneak up to the water’s edge to get a look at the ducks or cross the water to pick blueberries. The timber stand is a mixed-age woodlot. The woodlot provides more than enough firewood for the home. Because it hasn’t been clear cut, the diversity of tree species provides more kinds of food and cover that benefit and support a great number of both flora and fauna. Animals need food, water and cover. This property provides all three, all year long. Select timber harvests also increase forest resiliency against pests, disease and weather events like extreme wind or late season snowfalls. If you continue to manage this forest with the same eye toward stewardship, you’ll have continuous timber production while providing a healthy home for a wide range of organisms. And, let’s face it, a mixed age forest holds more visual appeal. A variety of diameters and species attracts the eye and makes walking off trail quite a bit easier. Anyone who’s tried to swim through the underbrush on a clear cut can attest to that. Continue the practice of cutting the crooked and low value trees and you’ll be building forest equity for future select harvests. 117 acres of the property is in the State of Maine Tree Growth program. The benefits of enrollment in the Tree Growth program will convey with the new owners in the form of lowered property taxes. The creek and surrounding wetlands provide habitat for numerous species of ducks, geese and other waterfowl. Whether you hunt birds with binoculars or a twelve gauge, you’ll appreciate the prime habitat this property offers. Make watching the swallows dive and swoop over the marsh grasses part of you morning coffee walk. Or come out a sunset to see the bats do their thing. Herons stalk the tall grass while ducks swim in deeper water. Delight in trying to cut a new deer track after a fresh snowfall on the morning walk before coming back to cozy up with a good book next to the crackling wood stove in the dining area filled with wood you cut from your woodlot. Watch the birds return in the spring while the land shakes off the winter chill and wakes to turn green again. Plant the garden and tend the seedlings through the spring. Bask in summer’s quiet warmth in your large back yard or head to The Happy Clam or another of the delightful area eateries and revel in the fact that you live in a place that people visit from all over the world. Finally, it’s fall in New England and you have a dynamic color and light show in your back yard. You picked what you grew in your gardens, the apples are in the cellar and the buck you patterned all year long is in the food plot. This is the way you want to raise a family and you’ll struggle to find a better place to do it. Whether you want to raise a family, retire or have a family compound, you won’t find another property like this one. The area is beautiful enough to be the backdrop for several high profile Hollywood projects, including the lighthouse where Forest Gump ended his run across the country. You can bike or drive to any amenities or cruise the coast before heading home to your sanctuary. If you decide to rent the property when you and the family aren’t using it, because it’s in a very desirable area, filling the reservation book should be a breeze. Maine has a vibrant restaurant scene due to locally grown fruits and vegetables as well as world class fisheries. Hit up The Causeway or Ancho Honey for smart casual adventurous eats or head to Primo in Rockland if you’re feeling upscale. The property is big enough to be the haven for wildlife because it’s the largest parcel in the area. Continue to develop the wildlife management strategies to support diverse and healthy wildlife populations on your nature preserve. This includes providing food through the existing food plots, water from your own wetlands, and shelter for wildlife, creating habitat corridors to connect fragmented habitats, and managing hunting by harvesting quality whitetails. By cutting firewood (this year's supply is already cut, split and stacked) from your own land, you have the opportunity to select the best trees of each species to keep increasing the value of your property. Not just in monetary terms but also from the aspect of habitat improvement. Just over three hours by car from Boston or you can fly into Knox County Regional Airport. The two hour drive to Bar Harbor is among the prettiest in the country. So it’s very easy to get here but just a warning, you won’t want to leave. Please, no drive-bys. Qualified, pre-approved buyers, agents and brokers are welcome to tour the home and property on June 13th from 3-7pm or by appointment through Showing Time. Notice required.