Saturday, May 02, 2009

Answers To More Questions

Concerning the business.

The business ' Pioneer Farm Ltd ' is not a part of the property sale. It can certainly be looked at if anyone wants to purchase the company.

Question- Does your business make enough money to support 2 people living in PEI year round?

This is a very difficult question for me to answer. After we built the farm Jim became ill and I have been trying to operate mostly alone and actually had a burnout/ breakdown last summer and hospitalisation myself for a month. Under these circumstances we were unable to continue on. My belief is that there are endless possibilities and that with 2 healthy people and some savvy business management you would be able to make a go of it. There are basically 2 tourism operational months in the year but outside of that there are lots of things that we were going to do, but could not because of his illness. You would have to come up with a business plan and see for yourselves.

Can You See the Water from Your Home?

Most definately yes, you can see the water from the home it is a glorious view. We have a huge window in the main house as well as patio doors that lead out to the porch.
We put in a dock in the summer and we row or canoe out to the sand bar which takes us 10 mins it is a little piece of heaven. The property is 3,000ft of ocean frontage and 1,000ft of river frontage bordering on Little Pierre Jacques river.

Where are you located?

We are 15 mins from O'Leary on the way to West point off route 14 at Glenwood at the end of route 176 which is called Macdonald road.

How much of the land has existing trails ?

We have made good headway in developing trails and this is something that is always on the to do list. In the winter there are about 3 kms worth of trails for sleighing, skidooing, snowshoeing or cross country skiing. We Tend to stay out of the woods in the summer as it is pretty buggy in there. but we do have a road /trail that is signed for a public nature trail with all the local trees descriptions of etc and I use this trail for wagon rides and llama trekks too in the summer.

On our website http://www.pioneerfarm.ca/ there are some media links, 2 great videos by Global news and Eastlink tv on the main page when you scroll down also The Canadian Tourism Commision last sept took a video that was posted on you tube and the following is the link. 2008www.metacafe.com/watch/2527879/pioneer_farm_prince_edward_island_canada/

I hope some of these questions help. Last week was a hard week 3 of the goats left Dudley, Tinkerbell, and her baby Tootsie. They will be at Avonlea village this summer and for the rest of the year will be looked after by the farmer in charge of the animals at Avonlea
village. Our peacock Asmaani also left to go to a new home in Hunter river-sad times.


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