First public preview · 1–2 October 2026 · Register to receive the Founders' Circle release pack
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Bedford Estates · Peri-urban Chegutu

What if your retirement had a harvest?

Two hectares. One title deed. A three-bedroom country home, an orchard, and a working field that is farmed for you — whether you live next door or four thousand miles away.

Meet us at the conference, 1–2 October 2026. Bring your hardest question. We have brought the drawings.
House Type 01, the Barn-Form: twin stone-clad gables, a long covered terrace and a dark standing-seam roof, with blueberry bushes and a working garden in the foreground.
House Type 01 · The Barn-Form · concept visualisation, Metamorphosis AIDPM
2 ha
Per plot, on average
1 title
Individually deeded
2 homes
Architect-designed
~110 km
To Harare CBD
Four questions worth asking

Most people ask these within a minute.

We would rather you asked them than wondered. Open any card for the short answer — then come and ask us the long one.

01

Can a retirement home earn in hard currency?

That is the idea. Each plot carries a hectare planted to export blueberries and orchard fruit, alongside a share of protected greenhouse cropping. The house is where you live. The land is what works — and export fruit is sold in dollars.

Ask us: how the income is reported to owners →
02

Can you own a farm without ever having to farm it?

Yes — and that is the whole point. Planting, irrigation, harvest, packing and cold chain are handled by a central agronomy team across the estate. Skills, infrastructure and weather risk sit with people who do this for a living, not with you.

Ask us: who the agronomists are →
03

Can you safely buy what you have never stood on?

You should insist on three things from any off-plan seller: an individual title deed in your name, a deposit held by a conveyancer rather than a sales agent, and dated evidence of the site rising. Hold us to all three.

Ask us: to show you each one →
04

Why Chegutu, and why now?

The land sits on the productive belt north-east of Chegutu, on the Mupfure side — red clay loams, gently undulating, well-drained, and farmed long before it was anything else. The Harare road and the rail line run within minutes. Harare is a little over an hour.

Ask us: about the soil and water →

The fifth question is yours.Bring it to the stand, or leave it in the form below and we will answer it personally.

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The concept

Five things arrive on one deed.

Not a house with a bigger lawn, and not a farm with a cottage. A working country address, designed as one thing from the start.

The land

2 ha, title-deeded

Room for the house, a working orchard or paddock, and a planted buffer.

The home

3-bed · 190–198 m²

Single-storey, stone, render and standing-seam steel. Built to outlast its first owner.

The field

Blueberry & orchard

An export crop with sustained global demand, planted and harvested for you.

The greenhouse

Protected cropping

Keeps production running through the shoulder seasons, not just the export window.

The team

Agronomy & cold chain

The expensive, skilled parts — handled once, for the whole estate.

Two house types · Metamorphosis AIDPM

Two houses, one land.

Both single-storey, both three-bedroom, both just under a two-hundred-square-metre ceiling. They differ in posture, not in specification.

House Type 01, the Barn-Form, arrival side: a sheltered porch between two stone-clad gables, a paved approach and a vegetable garden.Concept visualisation
House Type 01

The Barn-Form

A quiet twin-gable home facing its garden, with a long covered terrace running the full garden side and a single open kitchen-lounge-dining volume at its heart.

198 m² under roof3 bed · 2 bath + WC21.6 m² covered terraceScullery · pantry · dresser
House Type 02, the Farmstead, street approach: a central pitched entrance porch on stone columns and a stone chimney.Concept visualisation
House Type 02

The Farmstead

A more formal farmstead facing the working land — a central entrance porch on stone columns, a deep timber-deck verandah, and a master suite with walk-in closet.

190 m² under roof3 bed · 2 bath21 m² verandahDedicated solar inverter room

A palette fixed for good

Stone-clad gables, rendered masonry, a matte charcoal standing-seam roof — held at scheme level so the estate reads as one place in twenty years.

Built for the climate

Deep eaves, cross-ventilation, conventional masonry and locally made joinery. Low maintenance, long working life.

Services on every stand

Borehole and septic per plot, sized for productive use. Grid at the boundary, every plot pre-wired for solar and battery.

Floor plan
Aerial view of House Type 02 in its working setting: orchard and blueberry rows, a packhouse, a paddock with cattle and a barn beyond the boundary wall.

A working address, not a bigger lawn.

Quiet enough to hear what the land is doing. Productive enough that it pays attention back.

Location schematic Bedford Estates lies north-east of Chegutu town, near the Mupfure River, with the railway and the road to Harare running close by. Harare is about 110 kilometres to the east. MUPFURE RIVER RAILWAY TO HARARE · ~110 KM → CHEGUTU BEDFORD ESTATES North-east of town N
Schematic · not to scale · for orientation only
The place

Peri-urban Chegutu, on the Mupfure side.

  • On the working agricultural belt north-east of Chegutu town — gently undulating, well-drained red clay loams.
  • Chegutu town centre a short drive for groceries, schools and services.
  • The Harare road and the parallel rail line within minutes; Harare CBD about 110 km east.
  • A single spine road following the natural fall of the land, with landscaped buffers to the perimeter.
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The Founders' Circle · ten plots · positions released with the pack
The Founders' Circle

Ten plots go first. So does the pack.

The first ten plots anchor the estate — the gatehouse, the first homes, the first rows in the ground. Their release pack sets out plot positions, pricing and payment terms, and it goes first to the people who register now.

We are deliberately not publishing prices on this page. They deserve a conversation, not a headline.

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  • The Founders' Circle release pack — plot positions, pricing and payment terms
  • Both house types in full, with floor plans and schedules of accommodation
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