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Heartwood Homestead

15221 Vantine Rd SE
Tenino, WA 98589

$765,000

3 cabins | 400sqft tiny house | 37 acres of mixed forest, meadow, and pasture

This off-grid homestead offers established solar power, multiple tiny homes and cabins, and a new well — all set within a verdant mix of meadow, prairie, and forest. Both a sanctuary and a springboard, it’s ready for the next steward to live, create, and restore in harmony with the land.

Connect with Aly Tibbetts
(206) 886-8212
aly@chooselatitude.com

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Open grassy field surrounded by trees with a trampoline on the left side and a partly cloudy sky.

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Where privacy, beauty and readiness meet

With thoughtful infrastructure already in place, from solar arrays to creative living spaces, Hearthwood Homestead is poised for your vision to take root and grow.

Notable features include:

37 acres of mixed forest, meadow, and pasture
Three 6kW solar arrays
21 gpm well drilled in 2024
30-foot yurt, three cabins, and a 400 sq ft tiny house
Grid-tied “Shed-Quarters” with laundry & bathhouse
Spring and seasonal creek
Fenced gardens and multiple electric-fenced pastures
Zoned RR1/5, allowing for up to seven homes with ADUs

A rural landscape with a hillside covered in dry grass and shrubbery, scattered trees, and several houses. Multiple solar panels are installed on the ground, and dense green forested hills are visible in the background under a partly cloudy sky.

Story of Place

Haven in the South Sound

Just outside Tenino, a creative hub where artisans, makers, and innovators quietly shape their craft, lies 37 acres of restoration in motion.

A round yurt with a metal roof, surrounded by dense greenery and trees in a hilly landscape, with a narrow dirt walkway leading to it.

A forest trail among tall trees with green foliage and ferns on the ground.

Here, open meadows transition into shaded forest, where alder, maple, and cedar mingle with native shrubs and wildflowers. A seasonal creek winds through the land, bringing both movement and habitat to this dynamic ecosystem.

The living spaces are as diverse as the landscape. A 30-foot yurt provides a central gathering space. Three cabins and a 400 sq ft tiny house offer flexibility for guests, creative work, or community living. The grid-tied Shed-Quarters delivers modern conveniences — office, bathhouse, and laundry — while three solar arrays power most structures. A newly drilled 21 gpm well ensures abundant clean water, and fenced gardens and pastures await cultivation or grazing animals.

Only after walking the trails and feeling the land’s rhythm does its deeper story emerge. More than a decade ago, this property was logged. Since then, it has been intentionally replanted, tended, and protected. What has grown here is not simply recovery, but a flourishing landscape — a living testament to care, vision, and respect for the natural world.

Whether your dream is an intentional community, private retreat, regenerative farm, or simply a home immersed in nature, Heartwood is designed for versatility and ready for its next chapter.

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A rural garden scene with a small red shed, a fenced greenhouse covered with plastic, and tall trees in the background, under a partly cloudy sky.

An Invitation to Stewardship

Heartwood is more than a property — it’s a living partnership. The current stewards have built lightly and with intention, creating a foundation for someone who values connection to the land as deeply as they do.

“ Here, you can grow food, host community, create art, or simply live in a place that restores you. The land is ready to meet you.”

- Listing Agent, Aly Tibbetts

Here, possibility is written into the very framework of the land. With RRR 1/5 zoning (Rural Residential/Resource – One Dwelling Unit per Five Acres), future stewards have the flexibility to create in ways that honor the rural character — whether that means building additional homes, expanding the existing spaces, or weaving in resource-based projects that enrich the land. The guidelines are designed to protect the landscape’s integrity while allowing your vision to take root and grow. Learn more about RRR 1/5 zoning here.

Close-up of blackberry plant with ripening black, red, and green berries among green leaves.

Interior of a cozy wood-paneled room with a green sectional sofa, decorated with round pillows, a window on the right, and a wooden desk on the left. Colorful felt ball garland hangs on the ceiling, and a string of flowers decorates the top of the window.

Trees & Shrubs

Bigleaf Maple, Vine Maple, Douglas Fir, Cottonwood, Cascara, Garry Oak, Cedar, Beaked Hazelnut

Nootka Rose, Osoberry, Oregon Grape, Mock Orange, Red Flowering Currant, Pacific Ninebark

Fruits & Berries

Blackcap Raspberry, Thimbleberry, Red Huckleberry, Elderberry, Saskatoon, Salal, Trailing Blackberry

Groundcover & Wildflowers

Fireweed, Foxglove, Goldenrod, Honeysuckle, False Solomon’s Seal, Trillium, Iris, Pearly Everlasting

The Five Roots
of Regeneration

● Health & Wellness

Clean water from your own well, fresh air scented with cedar and wildflowers, and quiet space to reset both mind and body in the country.

● Sustainability

Solar power, rain, and soil — systems already in place for self-sufficient living from day one.

● Community

The mix of tiny homes, yurt, and cabins provides an ideal foundation for shared living, retreats, or multi-family homesteading.

● Ecology

Dynamic edges between meadow, forest, and creek create rich habitat. The restoration plan supports biodiversity and long-term ecosystem health.

● Spirit

Dynamic edges between meadow, forest, and creek create rich habitat. The restoration plan supports biodiversity and long-term ecosystem health.

The Five Roots are the foundation of what we believe contributes to a holistic environment that helps both people and planet to thrive.

Learn more about our framework in the Home as Sanctuary book.

Land Acknowledgement

For countless generations before colonization, the Tenino and their relatives lived in relationship with these lands and waters — gathering along the prairies, forests, and creeks that still shape the South Sound today. Their seasonal rounds brought them to places like McIntosh Lake and the surrounding meadows for fishing, hunting, plant gathering, and community gatherings.