Lillian Farmland + Development
Baldwin County, Alabama⁞1455± ACRES
Fertile Farmland in the Heart of Booming Baldwin County, Alabama just 30 minutes to Pensacola, FL & Gulf Shores, Alabama!
- 1,455+/- acres Irrigated Farmland, Baldwin County, AL, Located between Pensacola, FL & Gulf Shores, AL
- Desirable area for development
- Perhaps one of the best land investment opportunities along the entire gulf coast.
- Located in the 7th fastest growing MSA in the Country
- Baldwin County is also the fastest growing County in Alabama serving over 7 million people each year and generating over $5 Billion in revenue
- Located just 5 minutes from a boat launch on Perdido Bay
- Currently under a year-by-year farming & hunting lease that provides a six figure income
- Crops planted in years past are corn, soybeans, peanuts, and cotton
- 450+/- Acres under (4) irrigation pivots
- (2) wells on the property supplying water to (2) pivots
- A clear spring-fed creek crosses the property supplying water to an irrigation pond supplying water to (2) pivots
- Beautiful natural timberland along the creeks providing excellent habitat for wildlife
- Game-rich area with deer, turkey, and doves
- Highly ranked Social Storm Property with fertile soils, great water, great location, safe neighborhood, great recreation, sustainable resources such as timber, cattle, crops
Exceptional Ag Investment with Significant Higher and Better Use Potential!
Lillian Farmland + Development is a 1455+/- acre farming operation located in booming Baldwin County, AL just north of Orange Beach and Gulf Shores, it is less than a 30-minute drive to white sandy beaches, Pensacola hospitals & shopping, and only 30 minutes from Fairhope, named one of the most notable small towns in America. Baldwin County is now the 7th fastest growing MSA in America and the fastest growing county in Alabama. The Alabama gulf coast serves over 7M people each year generating over $5B in revenue. The growth in Baldwin County is no secret and its business-friendly environment, safe neighborhoods, great schools, and low property taxes continue to attract businesses and people from across the country. The development opportunities here are real and its current use as farmland creates immediate income for investors.
LF+D provides a unique blend of two separate asset classes - anchored by its income producing farming lease coupled with an ever-growing demand for residential development, hobby farms, and recreation. The diversity, location, and size of these parcels create a unique opportunity to own irrigated farmland, sod farm, cattle land, recreational land, self-sufficient homesteading, or development.
The farmland consists of 873+/- tillable acres with 4 center pivots (1 electric & 3 diesel) covering approximately 450 acres. There are 2 active wells providing water to 2 pivots with the other two pivots water supply from irrigation ponds supplied by the spring-fed creek flowing through the property. The balance of acreage consists of natural timber along the creek bottoms providing excellent habitat for wildlife and recreation. The rotation of crops in years past has been corn, soybeans, peanuts, and cotton. There is an active farming and hunting lease on a year-to-year basis that provides a six-figure income on the property.
The world is quickly changing, and more people are looking for freedom, security, and self-sustainable lifestyles. Baldwin County is one of the few places left where you can raise a family the All-American way with a house and enough land to be completely self-sufficient, distanced from the crime and crowds of big cities, but also close to great schools, restaurants, beaches, and boating.
LF+D is an ideal Social Storm Property that exemplifies the self-sufficient, independent living that makes this country great. This Social Storm Property belongs to a unique asset class with key property attributes that investors gravitate to for safety in times of uncertainty and buy for financial and recreational reward during good times.
We recognized a key difference in most properties is that here, if the country’s stability decreases, the value and demand for these sub-asset class properties increase. These properties have fertile soils, great water, security, great recreation, sustainable resources, and raise hard assets such as timber, cattle, and crops. The nation’s top investors are adding properties in this asset class to their portfolio. In fact, Bill Gates is now the largest farmland owner in the US. Why buy a social Storm Property?
The opportunities here are endless. This is one of the best land investment opportunities in the entire gulf coast region! To Learn more please contact, Tim James, Jr. or Peggy Summerville.
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Bruce Ratliff is a retired elected official (Property Appraiser Taylor County). Bruce brings years of experience in ad valorem tax knowledge. His property tax background gives JKA Associates & clients a unique insight into the complicated tax process. Bruce held several positions in the Florida Association of Property Appraisers, including member of the Board of Directors, President, Vice-President and Secretary, and served on the Agricultural & Legislative Committees for the Association. The real estate business has been part of Bruce’s life since childhood. His mother, Shirley Ratliff owned Professional Realty of Perry, Florida and his father, Buster owned Ratliff Land Surveying which Bruce was General Manager of before his political career.
From murky farm ponds to pristine glacier-cut lakes and everything in between, Knox Daniels’ expertise stems from a lifelong fascination of water and the creatures that live in and around it. He recognizes and helps clients appreciate the value water features bring to a property. “My goal is to help buyers realize and sellers maximize the value different water bodies bring to a property, not only in a recreational sense, but also for social storm reasons.” After extensively traveling the country for collegiate BASS fishing tournaments, Knox graduated and worked for the Southeast’s finest fisheries and wildlife biologist, Greg Grimes. With Grimes’ company, AES, Knox managed many of the southeast’s finest private lake estate/impoundment properties, and learned the intricacies of upscale property management. Learning from Greg and other biologists, Knox honed in on the specific conditions and habitat needed for optimal gamefish growth in private lakes. He has also worked as a property manager on several thousand acres and for a commercial developer, facilitating the dirt work and builds of several apartment complexes, but his true passion has always been in the outdoors. “I’ve always had an insatiable fascination with ponds/lakes and am grateful to be able to help to place clients on the properties of their dreams and make their personal fisheries/wildlife goals reality with JKA.” – Knox Daniels
As a landowner of his own family farm, Lick Skillet, along with family land that has been passed down and enjoyed together at Keaton Beach for 40 years, Jon knows what it means to be a steward of the last best places. As a third-generation land broker with more than 30 years of experience in advising landowners in this niche, Jon is known for his innate ability to harvest a land’s unique intrinsic value. Touting several notable sales under his belt, Jon personally closed Rock Creek/Molpus – 124,000 acres of premium timberland at $142,000,000 – which was known as the largest timberland land sale in the Southeast for eight years running. He is a co-founding member of LandLeader and achieved the real estate industry’s highest honor, “2022 National Broker of the Year – Recreational Land Sales,” by the Realtors® Land Institute.
Prior to joining Jon Kohler & Associates, Walter Hatchett served for 30 years as a land manager to several of the south’s most esteemed properties, including Rock Creek. As a former property manager himself, and a consistently ranked “Top Sales Producer” nationwide and achieved “APEX Top 20 Land Broker” multiple times, Walter has a keen eye for the best in habitat management.
With Madison County roots, Lori grew up on her family farm at Pettis Springs along the historic Aucilla River. A love of the land was instilled in Lori very early on by her father who was a local farmer. Lori understands the importance of good land stewardship and has witnessed first-hand how her own father, a former 2-term member of the Florida House of Representatives whose district encompassed many rural counties of the Red Hills Plantation Region, with a little bit of sweat equity, so lovingly worked their own family land. These are core values she carries with her today, and nothing gives her more personal satisfaction than to represent some of the south’s best land stewards.
Hailing from a long line of outdoorsmen, Tim learned a great deal from his father and grandfather. He saw first-hand what it means to be a good land steward. He believes land is so much more than a place to hunt, fish, and grow timber or crops. “It’s an identity, a resting place, a safe haven and a way of life, said Tim.” Tim’s family ties to Alabama run deep. During his grandfather’s first term, Governor James was responsible for signing into law Alabama’s first state duck stamp which helped to ensure funding for the procurement, development, and preservation of wetlands for migratory waterfowl habitat. He also established Alabama’s lifetime hunting license, so it is no surprise that Tim is an avid outdoorsman with a keen eye as to how best to improve habitat for the greater good of its wildlife.
Jason has been assisting landowners for the last 28 years in Georgia and South Carolina obtain achievements the owners did not realize were possible. His degree in Biology from Georgia Southern stemmed from the desire to know how things in nature work. His plantation roots began at just 16 years old outside of Albany, GA and the last 20 years were spent in the Lowcountry of South Carolina. His entire career has been spent developing a global approach to plantation management. That plan included sales. Sales is in Jason’s blood- his mom had a 45-year career as a real estate broker. After college, he chose to pursue his passion of making properties great. In 2011, Jason sold his first plantation. Since then, he has assisted buyers and sellers with over $20 million in sales while most of that time working as a full-time General Manager of a large Lowcountry plantation. Today, he is committed to using his unique skill set and experience to guide landowners through the many challenges of plantation ownership.