The GreenWay's Environmental Protection Vision is to preserve and enhance wildlife habitat while providing an outstandingly beautiful environment for residents.
For bird watchers, GreenWay is in the migrating bird fly zone. Dozens of species of migrating birds pass by in the Spring and Winter. Walk in an 8 acre forest that you own. GreenWay is a wonderful place for exercise, gardening, relaxation, and interaction with neighbors, children, and pets.
GreenWay's Self-sufficiency Design has preserved areas of food producing land. This can enable community food self reliance allowing residents access to home grown food at your own back door. Locally grown food is more nutritious, fresh, and tasty. In addition, food production is an excellent, profitable, and soothing hobby. Residents have laying hens, and some are talking about sharing a Gersey or Jersey milking cow.
The GreenWay's Home Construction Vision is to demonstrate that homes don’t have to be huge, plastic, and pricey to be valuable. Smaller and medium size homes save forest land and are less expensive to heat and cool. Our homes give you long-term energy savings that are beneficial not only to your pocketbook, but the environment of the planet.
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GreenWay is more than just a subdivision,
it is a community with local food production possibilities and edible landscape, it's a recreational area, its a wild-life preserve, it's a life-style. |
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What is GreenWay?
GreenWay is a 41 acre, 20 lot, conservation cottage community nestled in the heart of Virginia's Shenandoah Valley. It is a nationally recognized model for developers to preserve open land and use the design principles of conservation subdivisions.
GreenWay has location, location, location! Wow, million dollar views and rural privacy! It is only 5 miles, or 13 minutes, to downtown Lexington, Virginia, 20 minutes to Buena Vista, 40 minutes to Roanoke, and 3 hours to the Washington, DC beltway.
We feel it is not enough just to preserve open space. We have made it better through edible landscape plantings of nut and fruit trees, hardwoods, seed bearing shrubs, and other vegetation that serve both human and wildlife inhabitants. We are on the flyway for migrating birds, AND have plantings that will provide food timed for their journeys north and south. We have planted over 360 hardwoods, nut trees, conifers, and shrubs. See more about GreenWay Plantings in the news.
GreenWay Homes can help you design and build your dream home. Our community is expanding quickly. GreenWay Homes maintains a mailing list to notify people as homes become available for sale. If you would like to be on our e-mail list and receive our newsletter, e-mail us at pat@GreenWayNews.com.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQS) has the answers to many specific questions you might have about GreenWay.
The subdivision plat is in the Photo Tour. 70% of the land will forever remain community owned, open land as conservation areas, pastures, gardens and play areas.
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GreenWay residents build foot bridge to pasture.
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Here is a summary of GreenWay Neighborhood:
• Nearly 70% (31+ acres) of the site is dedicated to conservation land owned by the lot owners through the Home Owner's Association. This land includes a 3,600 square foot barn that could be converted into the commmunity center by the Home Owner's Association. A community center as a place for meeting, dances, music jams, and hobbies will provide added benefit and add equity in your home's value. View corridors, riparian buffers, agriculture, wildlife habitat, and recreation also add attraction to the real estate. Permaculture principles and ecological design are integrated into the neighborhood including edible landscape and wildlife habitat.
• House sites and roadways are optimized for privacy, vistas, ease of access and the least possible site disturbance. Every lot has an outstanding view.
• GreenWay offers the best of both worlds. House lots are1/2 acre which are easy to care for — all with direct access to the 31 acres of common land. This gives you plenty of room for privacy while still retaining and preserving the rural character of the land we all cherish. Smaller lots are easier to maintain in our busy lives. The common land allows for large gardens, orchards, two barns, pastures, and other land for the gardener or farmer to express their green thumbs where we can all appreciate Nature.
• Structures owned in common by the Home Owner's Association gives the lot owners equity and access to resources that they might not be able to afford individually. For example:
• 3,600 square foot Pole Barn to use as a workshop, garden center or for eventual remodeling into the community center.
• Hay Barn or Stable & almost 15 acres of pasture
• Recreation areas (Hiking & Exercise Trails)
• Community or market Gardens
• 8 acres of fenced forest - we have goats, serving as walking hedge clippers, to keep the underbrush down
• Moderately sized homes (average size around 2,000 square feet) are affordable and have less visual impact on the landscape. Homes have finished, walk-out lower levels that are dry and earth bearmed.
• Road names reflect what residents value: Bird Song Lane, Wing Walker Way, GreenWay Place, and Sweet Grass Trail - named after Sweet Grass Montana.
• The entire 41 acres is managed organically. Unlike most other sudivisions, our covenants encourage residents to keep livestock for grazing pastures and have production gardens on the property. We do not allow lawn maintenance that contains herbicides and pesticides.
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There are opportunities for farming activities including grazing and annual and perennial crops. Grazing hillsides with horses, cows and goats is more ecological than mowing.
Several residents have laying hens for the best eggs ever.
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• GreenWay also welcomes and encourages small-business entrepreneurs and home offices.
What's so good about GreenWay Cottage Community?
Location
GreenWay is located in the beautiful Shenandoah Valley, Rockbridge County, Virginia. In GreenWay you are only 5 miles to downtown Lexington and 6 miles to Buena Vista. Just the right distance from the busy commercial centers in the county. Lexington offers lots of restaurants, coffee houses, and hotels. Close enough to easily run to town for shopping and events, but still come home to peace and quiet on roads that are never congested. Along the way there is always something to see: wild turkeys, deer, hawks, eagles, foliage, birds, cows, horses, and beautiful farm and forest vistas.
The Shenandoah Valley, and more specifically Rockbridge County, is one of America’s premier recreational playgrounds. Fresh air, sunshine, open space, national forests, and beautiful vistas are in abundance. It is a great area for hiking, mountain biking, and hunting, and offers world class trout fishing, kayaking, canoeing, and camping. The valley is loaded with history, with places such as Robert E. Lee Chapel, Stonewall Jackson House and Cemetery, the George C. Marshall Museum, and the universities. It is convenient to major cities, airports, and major highways.
The valley offers mild winters, pleasant summers with a breeze, and wonderful springs and falls. Rainfall is spread throughout the year. It is not very muggy and there are not many bugs. The Shenandoah Valley of Virginia is horse country. Home to the Virginia Horse Center, which hosts horse shows, hunter/jumper courses, and the annual County Fair. At the Horse Center there is free admission to most events. The people of Rockbridge County are friendly. The cost of living is not very high comparatively. Home values are increasing steadily, as well as population. It is a great retirement area. The Shenandoah is the valley of the shining light with outstanding sunrises and sunsets.
Rockbridge County offers warm springs, vineyards, mills, herb farms, organic farms, and farmers markets. There is great entertainment with the Theatre at Lime Kiln, Fridays Alive music in the park, Balloon Rally 4th of July at VMI, and other events. Washington and Lee University, Virginia Military Institute, and Southern Virginia University make available to the public continuous entertainment and world class speakers. For continued education you can audit classes at the Universities. Day and evening programs are also available at the local Dabney Lancaster Community College.
1/2 Acre Lots
With 1/2 acre lots, each opening onto green space, there is less land for the homeowner to maintain; mow, fertilize, plant, landscape, and irrigate. Each lot within GreenWay retains privacy and room for a garden, pets, or minifarm. Like a lake side lot opens to water, every GreenWay lot opens onto 31 acres of community owned land that is preserved for recreation, walking, food growing, and farming, including 17 acres of pasture that can feed horses or cattle.
Local Food Production
Unlike conventional subdivisions, GreenWay has fertile farmland, forest (for firewood) and pastures available and owned by the residents. There is space for a community garden. Next growing season there will be community pumpkin and melon patches. Eidlble landscape plantings are throughout the neighberhood.
Private Roads
Low traffic, with neighborhood traffic only. Roads can be used as walking trails. Walk at daybreak without smelly or noisy cars whizzing by. GreenWay has winding gravel roads that are low maintenance and absorb rainfall to recharge wells.
Tree Plantings
Hardwoods and softwoods and edible landscape plantings are in abundance at GreenWay. These plantings increase property value. They are growing assets, wildlife habitat and food, and beautiful scenery. They create windbreaks, absorb carbon dioxide and generate oxygen, and they cool the air, provide firewood and building materials.
Community Wells
As residents you do not have to maintain your own well. The GreenWay Home Owner's Assoication pays maintenance and repair costs on wells. GreenWay wells are large capacity to make sure there’s plenty for each house. Fewer well heads on the landscape make it easier to place septic drain fields in optimal locations. Well water is tested periodically to ensure pot ability and water safety. There are no chemicals or chlorine added to water.
Water is recycled through drain fields and cleansed through the earth to return to the water table for eventual re-use. The earth acts as a huge filter that continuously re-supplies our water systems. If there is ever a problem with a pump or a well runs dry the homeowners association takes care of it and fixes the pump or drills a new well. All four wells in GreenWay are metered to measure water usage for each household.
Fenced Pasture
Stable your horses, have cattle or goats, share with others who have livestock. Livestock for 4-H projects for your kids or grand kids. Preserves the rural characteristics for the community, keeps maintenance costs down by grazing versus mowing, and quite frankly there’s something deeply satisfying about seeing livestock grazing contentedly in a well tended pasture.
Residents stable horses at GreenWay
on common pasture.
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Pastures can be leased to community members for additional HOA income, which keeps the HOA dues lower, or provides funds for additional community improvements. Additional pasture space can be fenced for people who want a little barn on their own lot.
Stable
Housing for up to 4 horses, with center aisle and loft hay storage adjacent to fenced pasture, accessible from Lot 6 or from Sweetgrass Lane at the red gate. Additional stables or run in stalls could be built on some lots.
The Stable at GreenWay.
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Rain Gardens and Swales throughout the Subdivision
As each lot is built upon, we shape the swales and depressions to stabilize the soil and slow water runoff. This allows the soil to absorb water rather than allowing the rain to quickly run off the land. The helps return it to the water tableand helps to recharge our wells. This also helps to prevent roadside erosion.
Fenced Forest
Fenced forest is a natural area for habitat for wildlife, goats keep undergrowth down so GreenWay residents can have walking trails through the forest. Micro climates and environmental nitches make an interesting landscape for wandering at peace with nature. This makes for cool summer pasture for horses or livestock and a natural conservatory
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Room for farm animals & pets.
Resident goats at GreenWay keep the forest underbrush cleared.
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Big Pole Barn
We envision this former sheep barn could be remodeled into a community center for dances, pot lucks, and gatherings. It ha room for activities such as specialty workshops, pottery, playrooms, library, and office space. The barn is currently used by GreenWay homes for building materials storage until the subdivision build out is complete. A photo is below.
Horse trails
Rockbridge County is a haven for horse lovers. The country setting at GreenWay is a bonus for all who love to ride. Additional trails are located only a few miles from GreenWay.
Stunning Views
The views at GreenWay are awesomely stunning with the Blue Ridge Mountains providing their beautiful presence. At GreenWay there is a deep connection to nature and the solar system, watching the moon rise and sun rise and set. You can see the Milky Way on every clear night, and all the constellations. This also enhances property values, inspiration for your inner muse, and is deeply pleasing to the eye and inner being. Nature’s every changing artistic masterpiece and natural palette are always in view at GreenWay. The GreenWay building code assures that light pollution is kept at a minimum, with low wattage, outdoor lighting.
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| The Blue Ridge Mountains rising just across our little valley provide breathtaking scenery.
The sun rises, moon rises, rainbows and "artist's light" leave most of us in awe.
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Easy Access to I-81 & I-64
We are close to the Interstate Highway network for easy access to all parts of the country via I-81 and I-64. Less than 1 hour by car to major commuter airport in Roanoke or 1-1/2 hours to Charlottesville. Only 3 hours to Washington DC. Only 4 hours to the Virginia beaches and coastline. If you have a local or home based business it is easy to ship materials and finished products.
Greenway House
What makes the houses so special? It is a combination of healthy and ecologically sensible building materials.
HOME FOR SALE! 151 Bird Song Lane
This Home has been discounted for a SUPER sale at only $349,900. It appraised at $425,000.
What Make the Bird Song Home so Special?
Systemized Building Construction:
Superior Walls Pre-Cast Foundations:
Superior Walls precast concrete foundations are currently being used in GreenWay Homes. These precast concrete foundation panels are carefully manufactured inside a temperature controlled environment to maintain consistent high quality production. These panels can also be installed in virtually any weather condition, as they are installed on crushed stone. Crushed stone transfers the load of the house structure as good or better than concrete to the virgin soil below.
To view information on Superior Wall Foundations, visit www.superiorwallsVA.com.
Hypo-allergenic Construction:
No sneezing, itchy eyes, or runny noses due to particles and chemicals in building materials. GreenWay Homes are built with materials that reduce harm to your body from toxic off-gassing from chemicals used in everything from building materials, to furniture and cleaning supplies.
Why do we build hypo-allergenic homes? Because of a life long suffering of asthma and allergies. Andy Lee has now achieved nearly 100 percent relief from coughing, hacking, sneezing, energy depletion, depression, anxiety and so on that are caused by allergies. Living in a healthy home that we built has helped restore my health.
Air filtration:
Helps reduce respiratory ailments, makes the air fresh and friendly to breathe, removes toxins from air, removes air borne particulates.
People with health problems such as allergies and asthma can be healthier in GreenWay homes.
Open floor plan:
Optimal use of every inch of space. Rooms aren’t cramped and lifeless. Instead they flow together for harmony and grace.
Solar gain:
Lots of natural light through optimally placed windows. Natural warming and natural cooling using optimal window placement and roof overhangs and building placement. Decreases heating and cooling bills by hundreds of dollars annually. More than pays for itself in comfort, energy savings, and reduction of fading of rugs and furniture. Natural light fills most rooms.
Bamboo floors:
Bamboo flooring is more stable than Maple and harder than Oak. Bamboo grows to harvest in 6 years and is harvested again and again from the same grove. Bamboo is certified as a "Rapidly Renewable" and "Low-Emitting" Material by the U.S. Green Building Council. In addition, Bamboo makes an absolutely stunning floor. Why are we cuttting down our hardwood forests that take 30 to 100 years to mature when we have the option of Bamboo?
Blown in polyurethane insulation:
There are many advantages of polyurethane insulation.
1. This insulationprovides a more efficient form of insulation than the traditional fiberglass.
2. It provides an allergen free method of insulating the home. There are no air borne fiberglass particles to contend with that often lead to health problems.
3. After installation, blown-in polyurethane holds permanently in place as to never sag, thus providing lasting insulation for your home.
4. There is no off gasing, including no formaldehyde.
Fiber cement siding:
Fiber cement siding provides lasting protection with very little maintenance without sacrificing the beauty and character of wood. It is fire resistant, and resists damage from cold, windy climates, wet, humid climates, resists insect and flying debris damage. It does not sag or discolor like vinyl siding.
Rain water harvesting:
GreenWay Homes are designed for rain water harvesting systems to be installed. Water is one of our most valuable resources and GreenWay feels that rain water harvesting is of maximum benefit to the environment, as well as the the people consuming it. It is proven that rain water is healthier than water from the earth.
Gravel driveways and walks:
Gravel darives and walkways are low maintenance. Concrete or asphalt driveways and walk ways are available options.
Universal Visit-ability:
We use design features that make entry, using, and living in our homes easy for everyone. We use single lever faucets and door handles, ramps, wide doorways, and lever door locks even in bedrooms.
Walk out basements:
Earth-bermed homes are cool in summer and easier to heat in winter. The basement provides recreational space, storage space, extra bedroom space, and give the home higher resale value. Daylight basements can be converted to a guest apartment, or extra space.
Bonus rooms:
Many of our homes have an unfinished bonus room built over the garage. This space can be converted to a guest apartment, away space, hobby or workshop, studio.
Porches and decks:
Porches and decks help to bring the outdoors in. They extend living space, offer resale value, and provide a place to meet and greet visitors, and spend time relaxing.
We use Trex decking because it doesn't have the poisons contained in pressure treated wood . Trex decking is made of recycled milk bottles and doesn't splinter, warp, crack, or rot like lumber does. It is often used in boardwalks by the ocean because of its stability.
For more information on GreenWay, please review the additional contents of this site, phone, or email us.
Phone 540-261-8775. Email: Pat@GreenWayNews.com
