With a field of corn, you get to redo the planting every year and you even rotate where it’ll be. But how do you figure out how a field should look for plants that will be there 10-12 years? It’s a semi-permanent design! We used to dream about how we’d lay out a field and talked about straight lines, designs, everything. But we couldn’t really work on it until we
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I’m the organizer and planner. I make lists. I check things off and love bullets. We had a list of things to look for when looking at land. We have a list of all of our ideas and when we’d like to implement them over the next 3 years. And, we have a Master Plan for the development of the 15 acres. What does that mean – a Master Plan?
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The field grass was 2 feet tall and we had a clothes line. Those are 2 things we never experienced while living in a neighborhood. Moving to the “country” has been eye-opening and satisfying. My parents were gardeners, but I don’t think they’d thought one of their kids would ever end up on a farm. But ever since we got married, we’ve had plants and especially in our last house,
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It all started in May 2010. Ever since Tim and I had been dating, we had always talked about “having something outside of the corporate world”. We had many ideas along the way and at one point even talked about the idea of a bed & breakfast. Then, in May 2010, we visited an herb farm – with a focus on lavender. I came away from that visit with all
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