Our Hobby Farm Tour

    This is an old corn crib that we restored in 2004.  My parents moved it to their farm when they got married.  I used it as a chicken coop when I was a kid and when I got married I moved it from my parents house to our house.  We replaced the roof, some old boards and painted it spring of 2005.  

    We moved a second building the winter of 2006. It’s a milk shed from an old farm down the road. It is now my garden shed.  Scroll down to see the milk shed.

 

Here’s our 16 foot bridge going to an island In the middle of our pasture.  I planted 200 spring bulbs on the island last fall, unfortunately it’s not quite as colorful as I anticipated.  I’ll have to double the number for next year!  After I bought this farm my first outdoor project was building a bridge so I could get to my island.  It’s made of rough sawn oak. I had to drill every nail hole to get the nails through. 

December 2005, we heard that an old milk shed was going to be bulldozed so we decided to jack it up onto skids and drag it home. We waited until it was snowing so the road was slick and used the truck to drag it home.  The fun was the challenge and trying to see if we could actually do it.  It worked!  Just before the frost was out we moved it into place as a garden shed.  I painted it and put a little deck on it.  We had to completely replace the roof but we were able to salvage the cupola.  The railing on the deck came from inside the old farm house that was knocked down.  It now holds dried flowers, shovels, and gardening tools.

Our male cat, Boots.

Odie with a mouse.  They played for hours together.  Then Odie ate it.  Sounds mean, but that’s our barn cats’ job.

Our farm was part of a nursery many years ago. We have many High Bush Cranberry shrubs, pear trees, plum, cherry, apple, strawberries growing in our horse pasture, asparagus, and grapes.  The coolest thing was in the spring seeing so many established blooming trees.