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As investment, I bought this, instead of stocks. Any ideas on what to do with it?

Location:

  • 75km (1hr) to a big international airport. Airport has direct flights to most EU capitals (2-4hr flights)
  • 50km to city center
  • 25km from nearest large residential area (500,000+ population)
  • 5km from massive organized industrial area (government supports factories here)
  • 35km from a rich residential area
  • 1km away from the village (its old and mostly depopulated) and animal husbandry area

Access:

  • There is public transportation, but one has to walk 1.5km after leaving the bus.
  • There is no direct road access to the land. You have to walk like 200m after leaving your car.
  • 1km road to here is non-asphalt and its a bit bumpy ride. When it rains, it gets bad here. It rains rarely

It is quite peaceful and quiet there. You can hear interesting bird sounds sometimes. You see no buildings, no cars and no humans anywhere near you when you're there, which feels great imo. You notice the air quality after you leave your car. I personally absolutely would want to live here for a while

Ideas

  • Trying to clarify this rn, but I think I can make $120-160/yr/decare from leasing the land to a farmer. Land is 25 decares
  • "Unique co-living opportunity with vegan food & yoga sessions" In other words, remote work / digital nomad village for people who want to work REALLY remotely :) I'd have to arrange electricity (solar panels and powerbanks), internet, toilet, shower, water, tents, mattresses/pillows/sheets, food, drinking water. (Though I don't know what people will do when they're bored here? Any ideas? Meditation would get boring after some point)
  • Sadly location isn't touristic, but it is 1hr flight away from extremely touristic areas. One of those areas, a city, was the most visited city in the world a few years ago.
  • I've met a few volunteers and they seemed quite willing to volunteer for whatever I decide to do here (if I do anything). For those unfamiliar: WWOOF and Workaway

Also- Any suggestions on where I should ask this question on the internet?

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[–] seeigel@feddit.org 1 points 32 minutes ago

Sell it and remember that you first figure out what you want and then you buy the suitable land for it.

[–] fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 1 points 39 minutes ago

Honestly the vegan Yoga Retreat idea could be really cool. If I had a bunch of plans I would do a commune, although I'd rather do an Urban ecocommune personally but you have enough land to get some serious permaculture done. What sort of climate do you have?

[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 22 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

Plant potatoes. Charge rich families to come out and harvest potatoes as a "total farm experience". Sell them as a "rustic handgrown" crop.

Take the profit and buy a shit ton of meth and smoke until your heart explodes. Die with a smile as you escape late stage capitalism ✨️

[–] ThrawnSolo@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

And they would totally dig that shit up and call it an experience too. Do it.

[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 1 points 51 minutes ago* (last edited 50 minutes ago)

Unfortunately though I think OP being an hour from an airport is gonna preclude tourists from being a financial factor in the area.

And there was so much meth to be had...

[–] Caitlyynn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 hours ago

💫Ascention💫

[–] Temperche@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 2 hours ago

Pawlonia trees. Fastest growing wood in the world

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 14 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Take a tupperware container set and test the water supplied to the field for PH value using a pack of litmus papers, then test the four corners and center of your field by scooping up some dirt, adding some water, and testing with litmus paper. Next, drain out the water and let it evaporate and look for signs of crystalization or condensates. Seal some of your soil samples to see if a healthy soil biome blooms in the sample, fungus and such.

A good healthy soil will have a strong biome. It and its water supply should be close to PH 6 to 7 for most tall grass and similar crops. There should be little to no saline in your soil, signs of that might indicate a brine pit forming in the water table near your land.

The most valuable single-season crops are crops that you can process yourself rather than selling to a granary. For examples: milled flour, corn byproducts, alcoholic ingredients, beets for sugar, bamboo, or switchgrass fermented into propionic acid biofuel. The major downside to being your own processor is that you're also your own distributor which is very difficult.

Make sure to join up with any farming groups in your area and get insured for any farming you do. Also get somebody to provide some bee boxes.

Plant an orchard.

[–] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Put, like, three single family homes on it.

[–] ZeffSyde@lemmy.world 1 points 36 minutes ago

This will look so much better when it's smothered in Kentucky Blue grass and drive ways. /S

[–] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 4 hours ago

There's some great ideas in this thread but sadly I think most of them are fairly high risk.

Doing anything in this kind of scope is going to cost a lot of capital. If it goes wrong all that money is gone.

I would lease it to a farmer.

Maybe reserve a corner where you can build up some basic facilities. I'm not sure what's popular where you are but here in Australia you can find places like this on hipcamp where you can camp for a few dollars a day.

Use your income to build basic facilities over time. Toilets, showers, kitchen, solar.

[–] Gtoasted@feddit.org 1 points 2 hours ago

Parking Lot

[–] MadBabs@lemmy.world 14 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

You could look into rewilding the land

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 12 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

as an investment

Edit: but, also:

[–] nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 4 hours ago

are you leasing it to a farmer? or are you building a poop resort? i can't tell which one it is because you listed both

[–] turkelton@lemmy.world 13 points 7 hours ago

Edible forest

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 35 points 11 hours ago (3 children)

Sell 1x1 foot squares of it in a vending machine at a random gas station in the middle of nowhere.

[–] x00z@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

With a hidden rent fee.

[–] milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 1 points 5 hours ago

Imagine you get like 200 of those bought at random across the land, and no more, then you try to do something with the remaining land!

[–] ksigley@lemm.ee 11 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I would totally buy a gapcha token for one 1x1^2ft of inaccessible land from a vending machine.

[–] OhVenus_Baby@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 hours ago

This is why it'll sell, people like obscure shit.

[–] fritobugger2017@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Pine trees for pulp wood? Pickle ball court?

[–] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 1 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

Tbh, starting a sustainable timber operation seems like a pretty good idea if you can afford to wait 15-20 years for the investment to start to pay off. Idk, I guess you could offer it as a camp/hunting ground in the meanwhile.

[–] fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 1 points 37 minutes ago

If you do a permaculture Arrangements you can really diversify while you wait for the trees to grow up, although by then they might be more valuable alive than dead especially if you pick the species to benefit the whole permaculture system

[–] fritobugger2017@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

Annually or sometime a couple times a year, rake the pine straw, have it bailed, then sell it to folks doing landscaping or have someone pay you for the right to do that.

In Georgia, roughly 100 acres of pine trees sell for around $1.5mil to $2mil when they are ready for harvest which is 15 to 20 years.

[–] CascadianGiraffe@lemmy.world 20 points 11 hours ago

Regenerative Agriculture / Permaculture

If you plan to lease out to a farmer, find one that won't fill it with herbicides and pesticides. And maybe look to only lease part of it while you work to recover other parts.

I'm looking to buy land that needs to be recovered and have the budget that will likely lead me to a place like this that doesn't have direct road access. Good luck!

[–] iamai@lemm.ee 7 points 9 hours ago

Hemp and No-Till see what works afterwards but it's a market call what you plant! That's my understanding. Maybe you could do something like Lavander though?

[–] BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee 10 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

make real life whiterun from skyrim. i saw land for sale as a kid and that was my only plan if i had bought it

[–] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 7 points 8 hours ago (3 children)

Hire one single dude to ask tourists whether they get to the cloud district very often.

[–] milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

"I used to be a tourist like you, till I took an arrow to the knee."

[–] samus12345@lemm.ee 2 points 4 hours ago

*in the knee

[–] CrazyLikeGollum@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

"I'll have you know there's no pusseeee!"

[–] BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee 2 points 8 hours ago

hire a dude to lean on a post 12 hours a day occasionally saying "well met kinsman"

[–] Tronn4@lemmy.world 23 points 13 hours ago (5 children)
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[–] Bosht@lemmy.world 12 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Couple ideas:

  1. Sit on it. It'll just passively build value over time
  2. See if any cell service providers want to setup towers. They provide passive income as well, monthly
[–] milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 4 points 5 hours ago

Sit on it.

It's been three hours.... Bored now, can I get up?

[–] Dorkyd68@lemmy.world 6 points 10 hours ago

Step 1, dig big hole, step two, become one with tge ant people, step 3 never see daylight again

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

I had a family member who owned land in the sticks. He said you can earn a passive income letting a farmer use it. He let a guy bail hay to sell.

Meanwhile, sit on it for 20-30 years. The land multiplied in value many times over. Eventually, it got sold to a development firm to build multiple neighborhoods after the nearby city continued to expand in that direction.

[–] mmddmm@lemm.ee 68 points 17 hours ago (4 children)

Plant something ASAP on that naked land or it will all be carried away by rain and wind.

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[–] RaoulDook@lemmy.world 117 points 18 hours ago (5 children)

Plant some dang trees for starters, unless it's only going to be land used for farming.

[–] whotookkarl@lemmy.world 8 points 11 hours ago

Orchard farming, just add more tree

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