Golden Ridge Farm

Description: Stock and lifestyle farm in the Bathurst area, this farm is ideally suited for cattle , sheep, goats and or vegetable farming. The farm is in a excellent location, close to the historic village of Bathurst. The farm has a large dam that supplies water under contract with the municipality to the village of Bathurst. There are good open hilltop pastures fenced into camps for grazing your livestock, in the valleys you will find natural indigenous bush and the spectacular dam.
Location: 5Km from Bathurst.
Farm size: 163 hectares
+/-90 hectares of lands planted to pastures, of this there is +/-7ha planted with a mix of tree lucern and grass currently being drip irrigated. The remainder of the farm is natural indigenous bush in the valleys making it ideal habitat for game.

Water:

Large earth dam 430 000 cubic meter capacity.
Supplying 400 000 cubic meters/annum of water under contract to Bathurst municipality
Own use 20 000 cubic meters/annum for drip irrigation of tree lucerne or can be used for vegetable production.
-1 Borehole – 3500 cubic meter s (currently not in use)

Rainfall: Receives average 600mm year

Livestock Carrying capacity: Potential to accommodate 45- 50 LSU on the farm
Naturally occur ring game in the area
Camps: Stock fencing around the lands and on the boundary
Facilities and infrastructure:
Farm house 3 Bedroom, 2 bathroom, kitchen, lounge, dinning room, undercover parking bay for 2 vehicles.

Workshop and shed with pelleting plant used to dry and make animal feed pellets from the tree lucerne.

Small building housing the backup generator at the homestead.

Shade cloth covered tunnels for growing vegetables.

Additional house on the farm needs renovations.

Power supply: Eskom and Solar for the house.