If you were given one thousand acres of land that you didn't need to pay taxes on, but you couldn't sell it- what would you do with it?

[Fitness-Fanatic]

[ksoma]

An acre is 66 feet by 660 feet.
1,000 of them?
If all lined up in a row, I would have a mini kingdom, 660 feet wide, and 6600 feet long. But let's make it twice as wide, and half as long.

1,320 feet wide, and 3300 feet long. That is a LOT of space to do things with. Over 4,300,000 square feet.

I think I would divide it into 6 parts.
1) Where I live. My house, yard, back yard, pool, sheds, workshop, driveway, garage, playhouse or fort for kids, etc. Go nuts. You could probably fit all of that on one acre and it would still feel huge.

2) tree growing operation. Plant the trees 10 feet apart from each other, and you can grow 6*66 trees per acre, or 396. These can be fruit trees for an orchard, or flowering trees for looks, or fast growing trees to be harvested for lumber, and then replanted.
At 1/6 my total acreage, I would have room to plant almost 66,000 trees, over about 166 acres.
I could even devote some to exclusively be a fruit orchard, or trees for lumber, etc.

3) vineyard and wine processing facility. about 166 acres could be devoted to growing and harvesting grapes, and making, bottling, and storing wine. I don't even drink wine, but the idea of having that for gifts, to sell, or just to make for the art of it, is appealing.

4) farm land. I would love to have a berry growing area (can even be the kind you make open to the public. They come, pick fresh berries, pay you like $3 for every pint they collect. Beat supermarket prices, while making you money hand over fist). Also veggies (tomatoes, peppers, lettuces, etc) that can be kept for personal use, or sold. a lot of high end restaurants love having a farm supplier. 166 acres devoted to growing, harvesting, and storage.
I'll also have a bee keeper. Vineyard, farm, trees? Lots of flowers. Take advantage of it, and make honey!

5) "wild growth." This land would probably have a man made creek put in (maybe with a little waterfall!) as well as trees and bushes planted, etc, but then it would be left to grow on it's own. This would be the part of my land for camping in, taking a hike in, etc. 166 acres of intentionally seeded wild growth.

6) development for homes. You can fit a lot of homes on 166 acres. people who want to come work on my land get rent free housing and a job with no real commute, as well as access to what I grow, and the camping area.

[Bas96]

I'd probably start playing The Sims in real life. Or more like civilization type of strategy games.
You know, having a plot of land to farm, build a couple of houses for the employees, build a mansion like Scarface's for myself, make myself the mayor, build more houses for the villagers, establish a trade post, get money to roll in and out of town, connect it to the main roads, make sure there are laws and people to enforce it, build one or more offices, supermarket, gas station, hospital etc. Basically, a city as big as I can fit in the size. And of course, we need a sign with the town's name on it, with the number of citizens below it. Like the wild west type of sign you would find, but only in modern day design.

[DeeDeeDeVour]

I've been dreaming of such. I'd use a portion of it as a sanctuary for abused & rescued animals. My family and my man would like a golf course. I guess we can put them both in.

[DeeDeeDeVour]

@Fitness-Fanatic: Thank you for the MHO selection. :)

[vishna]

I'd leave build a small home and start a garden and rescue farm for companion animals and farm animals.

Or

I'd leave it as is so it'd be a refuge for wildlife.

[OldSchool_Metalhead]

i'd just let nature take over again and i'd be out there every day enjoying it

[Ankitasingh466]

Give it to an organisation who can gather money and build a hospital on it.

[Jjpayne]

It depends if I had the money to build on it and if I could build whatever I wanted without worrying about regulations. But I if I was broke and brought the field. Organize the biggest game of dodgeball with eliminations leading to the best players. If money and building were no object bulid a park/ amusement park and charge free admission

[Jjpayne]

I feel kinda bad, everybody has ideas for eco friendly stuff and using the land I'm just abusing land... But I did want to share it

[Prankster13]

I would create a giant maze/ adventure/ obstacle course/ survival game empire. It would be incredible. I would be unstoppable once you enter. Like a controller in the Hunger Games. It would be like a real life game. It would be epic. I want to do this now. Please give me land. You can have 50% of all revenue from tickets to get in. I should go to shark tank with this. This is awesome.

[Gatefatherloki]

Farm, plant trees for privacy, fire peasent to build a Fort, upgraded to a castle if possible, declare my self high king be spreading fake new about pulling God's sword in a stone. Wage a civil war against Canada's ruling monarch. Burn the rule, and right new ones about the order of succession.

[kenworth]

I would build my house on it then build a barn and some paddocks and treat and adopt mistreated horses. I would also take maybe 20 acres and start a garden so. My family could have frest vegetables all the time plus about 20 acres for fruit trees

[axeki]

Drop some greenhouses on a small part of the land, surround them with giant sequoia trees then innoculate the ground with edible and hallucinogenic mushrooms to enchant the forest. The greenhouse will home some of the best weed strains from around the flat earth..

[NearlyNapping]

Nothing. Which means I'd let nature take it back. Although a thousand acres isn't very much land for something like that.

[mak16]

I will simply give it to homeless people for free to live in and i will make them to work in along with a whole new town for them where i will be the mayor and the town will be named as "Angles"!!! What says guys..:)?

[macdaddy36]

Open an animal sanctuary and take in abandoned/neglected wildlife

[constant_freeflow]

What animals do you want to save?

[FinalVow]

live on it and not have to deal with people I don't like ever again oh the blessed silence and tranquility.

[dropkicknj13]

I would probably die of happiness, and then be sad that I didn't get to do anything with it lol

[Justacatlady]

Farm half of it, and have an animal sanctuary on the other half.

[Hannah591]

Rent out to farmers, plant some trees, use it for charity work

[KAF87]

Sell carbon offsets. Convince the government to install a wind farm. Grow ginsing.

[Hannes-ZeB]

I would gow my own Forest.

Only because Forests are cool and good for the environment.
I would let people chill Inside the forest but i also would kick everyone out who Puts his trash Inside my Forest

[Pikachula]

Make it a campsite , dutch people love camping.
So I would just make money out of it

[_Gecko]

Typisch Nederlands👌🏻

[Pikachula]

@_Gecko snapje 😂

[_Gecko]

VOC mentaliteit. BAM

[Brand-O]

1000? Wow, I'd be happy with 250 archers... Build a really nice house with a shop, make a mud-pit, make a shooting-range, raise bison.

[SidKnee]

Farm it, this is an undestined area with as far as I know no known ailments or problems of any sort. Then build a home and charge people for my organic food.

[Ajinkya93]

Obviously i would produce good agricultural yield, develop an adventure park, build resorts, villas and maybe a mini las Vegas, many things will fit in 1000 acres its like owning a whole village.

[Alice2398]

Build my own house and maybe a little b&b to make money from

[NYCQuestions1976]

Amazing house for my son, baseball stadium, football stadium, grow food, lots of outdoor pets and farm animals.