To enter this property you must drive in through a wooded corridor that provides shelter of a multitude of birds and is the habitat of wombats, wallabies and even wedgetails. This country opens up to reveal Birkenburn in all its glory – rolling pastures, a mix of cleared country and native trees. Brimming with beauty and steeped in history, this 1623 acre property has been held by the same family since the 1890s.
Birkenburn comprises of magnificent undulating pastures and wooded hillsides dotted with dams and divided by creeks. The boundaries front the Great Dividing Range and the Bobbaduck Hills to the east, the wide valleys with low wooded hills provide excellent shelter from the cold westerly winter winds. The property has a long history of pasture improvement and has been selectively top-dressed over the years, and today has a coverage of native and improved pasture species including microlaena, sub and white clovers, and phalaris. Sitting at 780m to 834m above sea level and receiving an average 28 inches (700mm per annum) of rain, the soil is mainly sandy loam which is ideal for pasture improvement.
There are permanent and semi-permanent creeks and a network of large dams to supply water to the paddocks. Over the past 14 years an intensive management practice (cell grazing) has been implemented ? most paddocks are subdivided into 20 ha lots to allow intensive stocking regimes and easy movement between them.
Additional farming improvements and infrastructure includes a 6 stand electric shearing shed with steel sheep yards, a large fully enclosed hay shed, historic shearers quarters with basic accommodation for 14 people and a set of timber cattle yards. This property has traditionally carried sheep (2.5 dse per acre) and it is well suited to running cattle, sheep or horses. It certainly would be a beautiful property to ride horses through with it’s undulating country and variety of flora.
Birkenburn is accessed via the Kings Highway and is only 10kms from the convenience and amenities at Bungendore. Braidwood is only 39km away and for those wanting to commute, Civic is an easy 45 minute drive.
During the summer months this region enjoys an easterly sea breeze, you can get whiffs of the of the beach and fish and chips at Batemans Bay. You can satisfy the urge for the sea and salt very easily as the coast is only an hour and a half away. In winter, day and weekend ski trips are easy as it is 2 hours to the skifields.
Birkenburn is the whole package – it offers lifestyle opportunities, farming income, future subdivision potential and it is a place for you, your family and friends to thrive. It is Australian farming at its best – steeped in history and surrounded by beauty.
Call Ellie Merriman now to see what you have been missing on 0402 117 877.