Treat yourself to a small mortgage and lots of space for living sustainably. Elphinstone is less than 15 minutes from Castlemaine, and half an hour from Bendigo. It takes an hour to drive to Coburg, and you can catch a train to Melbourne from either Kyneton or Castlemaine.

Elphinstone has an excellent primary school, general store/post office, recreation reserve and local hall, and pub.

This is a happy little house with big outdoor areas, and room to breathe. It would suit a small family who loves gardening and wants to live out of the city. It has 3 bedrooms with new built in robes, polished floorboards, new kitchen, gas and wood heating, solar hot water, 1 kw PV cells with 2 kw inverter, roof insulation, permaculture garden and small orchard, reed bed off septic, native garden, chicken house and run, fern house, outdoor cob oven and powered shed.

Grow your own fruit and vegetables, cherish the small electricity and water bills, and get involved in an artistic, rural community right in the heart of the sustainability capital of Victoria.

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