Property Overview:
Set on 30.79 private, heavily timbered acres in East Tennessee, this custom log home is engineered for full self-reliance, energy security, and long-term sustainability. Featuring complete power redundancy, established permaculture food production, abundant wildlife, and direct border access to the Cherokee National Forest, this property offers a rare combination of security, isolation, and grid-tied or off-grid capability.
Key Self-Reliance & Infrastructure Features:
- Power & Energy Redundancy: Fully owned (not leased) solar panel array paired with 3 Tesla Powerwall batteries (3 years of production data available). Backup dual wood-burning heat, including a high-efficiency soapstone wood stove, providing independent secondary heating without reliance on fuel deliveries or the electric grid.
- Food Security & Permaculture: Fully established greenhouse and extensive edible food forest. Mature fruit-bearing plantings include apples, plums, pears, peaches, mulberries, pawpaws, persimmons, blueberries, blackberries, goji berries, elderberries, honeyberries, and Nanking cherries.
- Medicinal & Culinary Garden: Established beds of asparagus, yarrow, fennel, comfrey, elecampane, skullcap, St. John’s wort, and additional functional botanicals.
- Water & Site Improvements: Extensive site grading and earthworks already completed, expanding usable land and opening prep/building pads for secondary structures, outbuildings, or livestock setups.
- Communications: Active Starlink satellite internet system in place; high-speed fiber internet is also available at the road for dual-redundant connectivity.
Land, Perimeter & Security:
- Border & Buffer Zone: Backs directly up to the Cherokee National Forest, providing thousands of acres of additional wilderness buffer and unmatched privacy. An established ~1-mile interior trail provides direct, private foot access into the National Forest.
- Wildlife & Harvesting: Mixed hardwoods and timber stand offer active, on-site hunting habitat for white-tailed deer, wild turkey, and small game.
- Defensive Layout: Private setting with natural terrain buffers, strong set-back from the primary access road, and multiple vantage points across the surrounding valley and mountains.
Home Features & Recent Upgrades:
- Structure: Custom 2,812 total SF (2,692 finished SF) solid log construction offering 3 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, plus a flexible room ideal for an office, armory, or 4th bedroom.
- Hardened Capital Improvements: Newly installed 50-year architectural shingle roof, new high-efficiency exterior doors, new double-pane windows, and new seamless gutters.
- Outdoor Living & Observation: Wraparound covered deck along the front, side, and rear for covered outdoor storage, gathering, and perimeter observation of the surrounding terrain. Includes a pre-wired hot tub connection.
