Our Land

 Our ten acres is located in King County WA, halfway between Seattle and Mount Rainier. Our town is Enumclaw Washington. We have an existing four stall horse barn that we are planning to remodel soon. The bones of the building are good, but it needs a pretty significant upgrade. This ten acres was originally part of a 40 acre horse ranch. The previous owner had his land divided into four ten acre parcels back in the 1980's. We first viewed the land the week between Christmas and New Year's 2018. We finalized our purchase in March of 2019.

Our ten acres has about seven acres of good grassland pasture. Our house sits on just over one acre and we have a two acre forest and wetlands. There is a drainage waterway that serpentines across our property running south to north. There is water in the waterway about five or six months out of the year. Its typically running by December and dry by May. During major winter storms it runs about two to three feet deep and quite rapidly. We love it! My wife has worked with our county, state and a conservation district to have the waterway dredged, new culvert installed and native planting. I did in-kind work with my tractor spreading the material and will be building the future fence on each side of the waterway some 1100 feet of fence. The waterway empties into a wetlands at the northwest corner. Jill has also worked with the conservation district on this site to remove blackberry and other invasive species and re-plant with native plants. The water from this waterway and wetlands reforms into more waterways that eventually find Pussyfoot Creek which runs into the White River and eventually the Salish Sea (Puget Sound). The waterway, wetlands and forest have been a major source of enjoyment for us as we have worked to restore this area to a more natural wildlife corridor among all the farms in our area.

Our land has some interesting topography with some slopes and plenty of good flat pasture. We do have some large Cottonwood and Alder trees along the waterway and a few shade trees out in the pastures as well. When looking for land Jill said she wanted to be out in the light, not too close to the trees, so we built out in a pasture with a forest to our north and spectacular views of Mount Rainier and the Cascade foothills to our south.