First thing, GM, hats off to both of you, and
@doug mirabelli , I recommend to you the town of Wendell. its a very nice area with a lake nearby, Wendell State Forest and a pretty tight community. It is a cross of people, you will run into your hippies for certain, Wendell has been a place to live and grow in peace long before it became legal, albeit a few hiccups. There are other hidden gems, like Shutesbury - Erving - Stay outta Northfield, the Chief is a dick. And then you have the Berkshires, Colrain, Heath, Ashfield, all awesome places if you like the sticks and can handle the winters. Just wanted to mention that...
Some quick tips I can offer you if you are that far out I dont imagine you have wifi so are probably using game cams. Place your trail cam up high, like 12 feet. I like to find a tree with no usable climbing branches, I bring in a couple of screw in steps and use them to install the camera, use a stick wedged behind it to make sure it is angled down. Make sure its not pointing at another branch thats going to trigger the cam every time the wind blows. Install your cam (s) and stash the screw in steps nearby, so you dont have to lug them in and out every time. If there is one or two lower branches, snap them off, dont cut them, or saw them partway as close to the trunk from underneath, then snap it off. Point is to make the camera unreachable or extremely a pain to get to, whoever is there wont want to waste a lot of time if devious intentions are afoot. Also, one does not usually look up to see a trail cam, most people seek them at knee to hip level.
Your dogs are definitely your best friends and can see/hear/smell people far away. However, if you have extended property, I suggest something LOUD that scares off the interloper, or that the dogs can hear at a distance would prob set them to barking. I have used Driveway Alarms often, they are triggered by the crossing of a beam and run by battery which in turn trips an alarm of your choosing. Look around Im sure you can find something like this. Anything that makes noise, because the thief is going to be trying so hard to be quiet, once an alarm sound is triggered, of any type, they usually boogey right out of there. Try and set your beam at about 4-4.5 feet so the bears and rabbits and foxes can go under it. You might have some deer trigger it, but once they do, they wont be back to that spot, they will probably learn to go around.
Solar power Motion detector floodlights, another personal favorite. Once a thief is lit up he usually lights out.
Ive seen some real hillbilly thief deterrents, ones I wont mention here simply because they cause mayhem and serious injury and these days youd probably be sued by someone that said they just got lost in the dark, because there is no way they would make it off your property without a stretcher.
But technology gives us a little better edge on protecting our property without having to hurt someone, as much as we would like to for the moment. Ive seen bells and cans strung on a string, strings run to the house from the grow, some ridiculous stuff and some that actually worked. Thats all I got for now, Hope it helps.