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Southern Wisconsin Sanctuary

W4020 Jennings Rd.
Rio, WI 53960

$499,000

3 bedrooms | 3 bathrooms | 2,489 sq ft | 28.9 Acres | Built 1972

For over 50 years, this rural home has nurtured family and farmstead businesses. Now, it awaits a new steward.

Live close to the land

Nearly 29 acres nested within a balance of mature woods, pasture, agricultural land, and wetlands. Southern Wisconsin Sanctuary’s south-facing orientation invites natural light and warmth, while geothermal heating and cooling provide economical and eco-friendly comfort year-round.

Notable features include:

• Organically managed deer-fenced garden acreage with potting shed and root cellar

• Apple orchard and nut tree planted woodland

• Geothermal heating and cooling system

• Proximity to a community of organic and regenerative practitioners

• Eligible for immediate organic certification

Home Awaits in a Living Systems World

This home and land is part of a long story of care. A sanctuary awaits you.

“We have been doing things to save the land, to make it better for people and the animals. I felt good about that—getting it further along.”

- Owner

This 28+acre property offers a thoughtfully laid out home well-situated on land consisting of a balance of mature woods, pasture, and wetland.

The home’s south facing attentive design flow invites the outdoors in and geothermal heating and cooling creates economical and efficient indoor comfort year-round.

You'll find a 1+acre deer fenced organic garden, potting shed, root cellar, apple orchard, and meadow framed by forests of oak, walnut, hickory, and pine. A spring fed pond welcomes you to wetlands that buffer public nature preserve to the north.

Life List

Wildlife:

• A rich diversity of wildlife including deer, wild turkey in the pastures and woods

• Songbirds too numerous to mention, raptors soar overhead, owls serenade in the wee hours

Plant + Tree Life:

• Meadows teeming with naturalized herbs and flowers

• Woodlands of oak, hickory, walnut, maple and pine with mushrooms and berries to forage

• Wetlands with abundant native flora

Garden/Veggies/Fruits:

• Heirloom apple orchard

• Asparagus beds

• Berries

• Perennial herbs

Regenerative Ways

This land and home beckons those who share a passion for regeneration and holistic well-being and presents a haven for those who cherish nature and sustainable living.

Bring your aspirations to the land.

“You have to nurture the land. I did work to make it better for all those years. You’ll harvest the increasing rewards.”

- Owner

The five roots of regeneration

Health & Wellness

Buffered in all directions from conventional agriculture, this property offers organically managed perennial and annual gardens and orchards, abundant room to roam, woodlands to take a forest bath, a bright home with southern exposure, new no-VOC paint throughout, induction electric cooktop safeguards indoor air quality.

Sustainability

Geothermal heating and cooling, commercial kitchen on lower level and potting shed and root cellar adjacent to the gardens and orchard offer opportunity for entrepreneurship and self-sufficiency.

Community

There are a number of potent and enaged local organic and regenerative farms in the area to collaborate with and learn from, including Burr Oak Gardens LLC, Luna Circle Farm, and Full Circle Designs and Farmstead.

These farms are giants in the local foodshed, each in their own right. In true Southern Wisconsin tradition, they and their neighbors are eager to welcome new stewards of the land to the community.

Ecology

So much ecological goodness here to walk, swim, and play in.

Open land to graze, tend, plant, harvest, and enrich.

A spring-fed pond to visit and observe the more-than-human world that makes their home here too.

Woodland for forest bathing and foraging, wetland to safeguard and explore.

Spirit

Your place of peace and retreat. The life forces are strong and alive here on this diverse landscape. Steward and care for the land and renew yourself.

Land Acknowledgement

The Southern Wisconsin Sanctuary occupies ancestral lands of the Ho-Chunk Nation, People of the Sacred Voice, a place their nation called Teejop since time began.

Proximity

This property’s location is an ideal distance from the bustle of all that Madison has to offer, just 50 minutes to the north but a world away.

• 0 minutes to nature

• 4 minutes to Jennings Creek State Wildlife Area, a 530 acre park for public access, with camping at Silver Springs Campground

• 9 minutes to Peter Helland Wildlife Area, a 3,543 acre property used for public access and hunting

• 39 minutes to Dane County Regional Airport

• 50 minutes to Devils Lake State Park

• 50 minutes to Madison, where one could sell at the numerous, vibrant Farmer’s Markets

Mark Voss

(608) 556–8143
mark@chooselatitude.com

This property is advertised through the Wisconsin MLS #1961754