Ten Spoon Winery for sale
The owners placed a conservation easement on the 21.5-acre property earlier this year, meaning it can't be developed into new housing.
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The owners placed a conservation easement on the 21.5-acre property earlier this year, meaning it can't be developed into new housing.
The property owners approached the city last year proposing to place their 21 acres, including the winery, into a conservation easement.
The 21-acre conservation easement would preserve some of the habitat and agricultural soils on the valley bottoms that are quickly being lost in Missoula as growth spreads ever-further from the city center.
While the rest of Missoula fills in with housing and other development, residents of the Rattlesnake could see a large swath of developable land set aside as open space and protected in perpetuity.
Montana has a reputation for some of its local fruit — mountain huckleberries and Flathead cherries provide two ready examples. But wine grapes are a relatively new contribution to the