2920 Jackson Road
Duncan, British Columbia
4,100 ft² 5 Bedroom Home on 7 Acres

Our farm is called "The Natural Stone Arts Studio Ranch" and this very name is carved into a large slab of white-gray granite 12' long x 3' high x 6" thick.

We have lived here now by God’s Grace for 36 blessed years and love to stay for another ten years or more, and that may happen if that is the supreme will of our Heavenly Father. However both my wife and myself are having certain physical handicaps that would make it more attractive to go a bit smaller.

Situated near popular Cowichan Station, this picturesque 7 acre farm with Southern exposure features a 5 bedroom family home with office/library, 3 bathrooms as well as  outbuildings including a solid main barn with hayloft - 56' x 46', machine shed/workshop - 72' x 24', quonset hut shed/shop - 35' x 42' x 15’ high' There is also a large dining room with fireplace and large kitchen with dining room and solarium.

A brand new yard light has just been installed and our yard is mostly blacktopped.

The property has in the past been used for animal husbandry (12 cows, 70 pigs, 15 sheep, 3 horses, meat birds and 850 laying hens).  There is lots of hay and a large vegetable garden and orchard.  We have juiced and stored (annually) 300 quarts of home made apple juice.  The barn features an 8' x 4' walk-in cooler that stored our eating apples, eggs, vegetables and milk.  Fields are presently in hay (4.5 acres) and Christmas and ornamental trees (approx. 1 acre with 400 Douglas Fir). We have 4.5 acres in hay.

The property is fenced and cross-fenced.  We have very good neighbours and enjoy the fresh air and a  beautiful view of Saltspring Island and Maple Mountain and the Koksilah Ridge.

Our home offers 3 woodstoves graced with custom stonework and a feature fireplace designed with 70 different kind of stones collected from the Mexico border right up to northern BC.  The open living space is ideal for both the growing and extended family.  There is a built-in vacuum system upstairs and down.  2 good, clean water wells with 2 pumps (one deep, one shallow.)  There is also a 180' deep well that is dormant. It would be good to use for irrigation. Oil home heating furnace.  2 hot water tanks.  The roof on our home is as new as are the majority of the barn and machine shed (35 year fiberglass shingles).

We ourselves heat 95% with wood.  We have a beautiful solarium, with plants and one fig tree, that has been decorated with my artistic stone, brick, slate and ornamental wood and steelcraft.  We remodeled our whole basement and is decorated with pleasant colours with all new carpeting.  Our home features all newer plumbing.  Our large garage has a very quiet garage door opener.  I made hot and cold water taps in insulated housing in the carport.  Here my wife pre-washes my work clothes in an old antique wringer washer, before putting the laundry in her clean washer and dryer.

The home is wired for self-produced electrical power. Our standby 15 kilowatt generator (can be bought for an extra $4500.00) lights up the entire farm and home and can also be used for welding jobs down the field or on jobsites and is pto driven by a diesel fueled 62 pto Kabota 4x4 farm tractor with HD frontend loader. The loader has very tough industrial wide AG tires all with inner tubes and all filled with fluid for solid ballast. This loader comes with shuttle drive with approximately 475 hours (and can be included for an additional $45,000.00). This tractor is the best tractor I ever owned and just never lets me down.