Our 1 Acre Block

The block itself is in the rural NSW town of Yass – the dream itself started a long time ago but we went looking for something in this area and we found this in our price range (actually probably a thousand or two more than I wanted to spend). So we ended up purchasing the land in 2006.

The size is just over 1 acre approx 35 metres wide and over 100 metres deep with a slight slope to the south west corner.

Previously people had horses on it so they sprayed the Patersons Curse – Of course it just keeps on coming back. Here is what it looks like when we purchased it.

It is locate just behind the Yass Show Grounds (OK there is a block between) and it is close to the main town – the block is classified as rural but we are only approx 2kms from the main street.

A blank canvas if I had ever seen one. But a year later we would have our house here.

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Welcom to One Green Acre

Hi there and welcome to our blog, I guess to introduce us my name is Andrew and my partners name is Lee-Ann, but please do visit the about us page for more info. But basically we moved from St Peters, Inner Sydney to Yass, rural NSW. We went from a 170m2 block to 1 acre. We want to live off the land and save those carbon credits.

Eventually we will have vege patches, fruit trees and some chickens and pigs, but first I need to get rid of the Patersons Curse (sometimes called Salvation Jane)  which covers the land and fix the drainage around the house – but more on those later.

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