Friends, countrymen, intellectual community--

If you want

-a quiet place to host a small gathering or retreat

-a fiber internet-connected but otherwise unplugged location for monthlong sabbatical

-an “internship” for your kids to do farm work

-a place for a vacation home with like-minded friends living nearby

We have

-ability to host a weeklong gathering of up to 20 people in one house

-a working fruit farm with 400+acres of forest land

-three lakefront houses (currently occupied) and two rustic cabins (currently unoccupied) on premise

-(currently building an additional house for renting 2 miles off-premise, estimated ready by Sept 2024)

-many amenities for teambuliding or for quality life (on prem: garden, lightning talks, squat rack, swimming, 4 canoes, windboard, stand-up paddleboard, catamaran, fishing boat, rifle ranges with regulation biathlon targets, 6+ miles of maintained ski & hiking trails, music room with piano, cello, guitar, shapenote songbooks, nd:YAG laser, laying hens, cozy coats/boots/snowpants lending library for all sizes, wood-heated outdoor (tent) sauna, poetry nights and game nights)

-85 years of family history in the area (fishing knowledge, hunting knowledge, who to hire and where to live knowledge)

-wonderful people (friends who grew up here, and friends from online communities who've moved here to raise families)

-very permissive zoning

Why am I doing this?

Because of my involvement in a geographically limited industry, and because of already having deep capital investments in the farm founded by my grandfather, this swamp is my settling place. But I love the culture, conversations, and friendships afforded by Boston, SF, Austin, NYC, Reno, and don’t want to be cut off from these communities because of my rurality. So, if you’re looking for a place for quiet retreats, choose mine! Because I’m invested in continuing face to face friendships even after “moving back home,” I want to provide the amenities to make vacations easy and fun. That said, I’m a private person by nature and not on twitter, so I appreciate friends sharing this with friends! With a bit of elbow grease, I hope for my swamp to become a schelling point, whether for weekends, sabbaticals, vacations, writer's retreats, internships, or homestead development.

Location

-2.5 hours from MSP airport;

-15 minutes from fleet farm outfitter, full grocery store, walmart, farmers’ market, hospital;

-6 minutes from staples grocery store, coffeeshop, wooden floored dance hall;

-17 minutes to club-groomed mountain bike trails and cross country ski trails.

-0 minutes to swimming lakes

How to use this information

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If you’re interested, use the contact form to book retreat dates or a sabbatical cabin, or to discuss other possibilities.