Okeechobee Ranches For Sale In Beautiful Florida

By Mattie Knight


This year the town of Okeechobee is celebrating one hundred years as a community. The area has a lot to offer prospective ranchers. Okeechobee ranches for sale are available in small plots or grand ranches with thousands of acres. For people who have lived in suburban or urban America, it is impossible to imagine this much land without a freeway or shopping mall. If hundreds or thousands of acres is too intimidating, smaller plots around ten acres are also available.

There is no doubt that you get the most for your dollar with an Okeechobee land purchase. If you are thinking of a smaller, more manageable plot, ten or twenty acres will make a nice sized ranch. A four bedroom ranch house complete with well water and an enormous kitchen will be a wonderful place to make your new home.

Known for its agriculture, these are working ranches. One website has forty two ranches for sale. This lifestyle is meant for people who are experienced in growing agriculture or raising livestock. Ranching is a meaningful way to spend your life, but it is a lot of work. Make sure this is something you love.

Some of the ranches are ready for you to make a home. Others need developing for housing, which really is required if you own five thousand acres. It will not be a quick drive to the nearest convenience store. Seasoned ranchers who know how to work the land are sure to find the ranch that is the right size and provides them with plenty of land to grow their choice of agriculture.

Some of the properties look luxurious, with a barn, a pond and a beautiful lodge. The privacy cannot be beat. The outdoor enthusiast and enjoy fishing, hunting and horse back riding. The water source is typically from well water. It is a wonderful way to live, but very rural.

If you are in the mood to be social, the community prides itself on its hospitality. In March 2016, there will be a three day Okeechobee music and arts festival. The line up of musical talent is quite impressive. The festival will have five stages for musicians and performers. This would be a fun way to get to know the area and its people before you purchase the ranch.

You will not be far from Lake Okeechobee with seven hundred fifty square miles filled with fresh water fish. The Lake is known far and wide for its speckled perch and the large mouth bass. The waters are unparalleled for fresh water fishing, a nice break from the ranch chores. The townspeople call the lake the Big O, which is part of the Okeechobee Waterway that flows into the Atlantic Ocean. Folks who do not want to out in the water alone can purchase a fishing trip with a local tour guide.

Maybe you have dreamed of owning a horse ranch where families and children can learn to ride. There is plenty of land to board or breed horses. This is the type of ranch that would be open to the public, which is great for the social minded rancher. Whether your ranch grows crops or raises livestock, both are great ways to raise a family. The young ones will have plenty of opportunity to be a part of the 4H Club. There is land as far as the eye can see. Welcome to a home where the livestock roam.




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