Riverbed Ranch Road, Wellsville, UT 84339 - Cache County

About the Land

Riverbed Ranch homesteading community was an alfalfa farm for decades. The currently-available lots at Riverbed Ranch range from 2.2 to 2.5 acres. Each lot comes with at least 2.5 acre-feet of water rights. Riverbed Ranch is nestled between the Keg Mountain and Simpson Mountain ranges, is about a half-mile wide and 3 miles long. The land has been successfully farmed since at least the 1950s, and likely earlier than that. The land happily grows garden veggies, and is well-known for the high-quality alfalfa it can produce.

Current lots available "for sale" by previous owners are: 93, 95, 121, 172, and 203. Contact us for a lot map. We're actually in Juab County, not Cache. It's just that our town isn't listed as an option, so we pick random ones for our ads.

About the Project

Riverbed Ranch is a creation of OSR Green, LLC and the Utah OSR Land Cooperative, a non-profit land developer created for the benefit of those who join the co-op. This is not a political or religious project, it was organized under Utah law as an agricultural cooperative using a leading co-op attorney. Unlike traditional land developers, the co-op's focus is on saving shareholders money, not on maximizing profits.

Requirements

There are no CC&Rs and no plans for an HOA (Almost all of us would resist one ever being formed).

Each shareholder, however, agrees to build the following within 3 years:

1. A passive solar home, of at least 600 square feet, that requires little or no energy to heat or cool. We recommend at least 800 square feet of living space.

2. Shop or Barn for animals and/or storage (no minimum size)

3. Greenhouse, minimum 600 square feet, 1,200 recommended.

4. Garden/orchard

5. 6" well with a 2 horse power pump with 400' of lift.

6. Approved sanitation system.

Motivation

Our current shareholders value this agricultural cooperative as an ideal opportunity to enjoy:

Self-Sufficiency - Providing for their family's essential needs without having to rely on markets or the government for food, water, power or sanitation.

Family - Providing their children a more carefree rural lifestyle, where they can learn to work.

Safety - A place of safety for their families, from things either now or in the future, and

Heath - The health benefits of growing your own more-nutritious, non-GMO food untainted by pesticides and herbicides.

Benefits

A share in the Utah OSR Land Cooperative gives you these benefits:

1. A cooperative's equivalent of a title to 2 acres at the Riverbed Ranch farm-steading community

(it's called a proprietary occupancy agreement and can be bought and sold).

2. At least 2.5 acre-feet of water rights (more if you really need them),

3. A vote in the cooperative for board members,

4. Opportunity for group purchases of products and services needed to build your homestead.

5. Opportunity to sell your products and services through the co-op (eventually),

6. First stab at job openings within the cooperative, and

7. The opportunity to spearhead the creation of sub-cooperatives to provide jobs and goods and services to the co-op members and/or outside customers.

Features

The Utah OSR Land Cooperative's Riverbed Ranch farm-steading community does or will feature:

- High-speed satellite Internet through Skylink or Hughesnet,

- A homeschool co-op,

- Monthly pot-luck socials,

- A greenbelt area running up the middle of the community, that will eventually include a hiking trail, honeybee-friendly trees and bushes, a road, and maybe someday, a creek.

- And LDS branch (if that's of interest)

- Co-op store which currently offer gasoline and diesel fuels.

- Lots of awesome neighbors who are happy to help others.