Jemia Ranch
The Best Valued High Quality Property in the $1M Range in North Florida!
- 155+/- Acre Idyllic Ranch in Madison, Florida
- Significant Income from Pinestraw
- Fenced irrigated garden and irrigated fruit trees
- 7,000+/- square foot brick main house with professional grade appliances, expert millwork, Florida room, and 3 large bedrooms with bathrooms, and 2 half baths
- Guest house with summer kitchen PLUS Smoke house
- Absolutely no deferred maintenance that we can see on this property or the improvements
- Less than an hour to Dekle and Keaton Beach for great fishing and a little of an hour to Steinhatchee
- Covered parking with storage and upstairs game room
- Equipment barn partially enclosed and horse barn
- Rolling pastoral property already fenced for cattle
- Five interconnected ponds for superior water cycling and stocked with various fish
- Spring – Was the destination for historic stage coach canopied road on property
- An additional 440 +/- acres available just 10 miles away
- Priced 14% below 2020 Appraisal!
A Beautiful Property, Great Homestead & Idyllic Florida Ranch, & Great Recreation. Five Stocked Ponds, a Spring, Main House, Guest House, Smokehouse, Summer kitchen, Horse Barn, Rifle Range, Fenced for Cattle, a Greenhouse, Fenced Gardens, Irrigated Fruit Trees, Chicken Hut, & More!
Jemia Ranch is a beautiful property and exceptional homestead. Everything here has been done with the highest attention to detail. The property is 155+/- acres in Madison County, Florida. Available at $999,999 including furnishings - Priced 14% below 2020 Appraisal!
Jemia is conveniently located just 20 minutes to I-75 and only 30 minutes to Valdosta, Georgia and 40 minutes to Tallahassee, FL. It is also only 20 minutes to the hospital in Perry, Florida. For great fishing, it is less than an hour drive to Dekle and Keaton Beach, FL and a little over an hour to Stenhatchee, Florida.
The series of ponds at Jemia Ranch are one of the finest fisheries operations we’ve seen. They are hooked up to a well, but more interestingly, are all interconnected and the water is constantly moving from one to the next and flushing through the ponds.
The owners in the past ran a great cattle program operation here on Jemia Ranch with over 300 head at one point. More recently, they retired from ranching and refocused the productivity of the property towards timber production.
The property’s perimeter is still fenced, and with some cross fencing, a new owner could easily have the option of ranching, and what a beautiful sight it would be to look out on the expansive, rolling, fertile land and see cattle grazing in this belt in Madison County.
The 7,000 sf main house features a first-floor master bedroom and bathroom with one opening out to its own veranda and a guest bedroom and ensuite bath. Also on the first floor is foyer, living room,, formal dining room, chef's kitchen, and a breakfast nook and sitting room off of the kitchen, laundry room, large pantry, and two half baths. The second floor has a large and open office, a family room, and a second floor master bedroom and ensuite bathroom. The home has expert millwork throughout, Low "E" windows, Renai water heaters, plantation shutters, and wood doors throughout. The owners built the house in 2000 with a keen eye for utilizing space and creating tremendous amounts of storage. The kitchen is a chef's dream with Viking and Sub-zero appliances, granite countertops, and a large island. A large heated and cooled sunroom spans the back side of the house with beautiful views of the property.
As if the main house's kitchen wasn't great, the 1,100 sf guest house and summer kitchen is incredible, too! Again, featuring Viking and sub-zero appliances, the guest house has a large kitchen, living room, large pantry, and one bedroom and bathroom. It opens out to a glassed in/screened in outdoor pavilion with picnic tables, a half bathroom, deep fryer, and ice maker for more outdoor entertaining. A few steps away is the "cook house", a stand-alone all brick building with a built-in smoker with covered parking for ATV's and such.
Attached by a covered walk to the main house, is the three-car carport which has a large storage room and an upstairs large game room. All of the buildings are connected by covered concreted walkways all lined by gardens, flowers, and native shrubbery.
In the backyard is a small but practical greenhouse with covered porch area which leads to a large fenced in area with fenced garden, irrigated fruit trees, and a chicken house and run for egg laying hens.
For the farming operations, there is a large barn, partially enclosed and air conditioned for storage, as well as a small horse barn that could easily be converted back into stables.
Historically, this property was well-travelled before electricity by people who made the trip to the spring that is located on the property. The remnants of the old stage coach road lined by the canopy of huge 100-plus year old live oaks are still intact.
Most of the rolling pastures were converted into pines about five years ago, but could easily be put back into cattle.
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Jemia Ranch
- 155+/- Acre Idyllic Ranch in Madison, Florida
- Located just 30 min to Valdosta, GA & 40 min to Tallahassee, FL
- 7,000+/- square foot brick main house with professional grade appliances, expert millwork, Florida room, and 3 large bedrooms with bathrooms, and 2 half baths
- Just 20 min to I-75
- Five interconnected ponds for superior water cycling and stocked with various fish
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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.