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• 2006-Feb-16 - Naming your homestead

Wow, I am actually posting, people all over the world are fainting in awe and amazement!  Likely no one missed me at all, there is so much great stuff here!  I was thinking awhile ago about naming our home.  My family in England have named their houses, and I just love that idea!  So I have been thinking and pondering.  My soap business is called Horsefeathers, so I guess that would be a natural name.  But I really would like to call it "The Shire" even though we are in the city and we don't seem very shire-ish. We love TLOTR, and I often think about how much we are like hobbitses ( well, aside from the furry feet, but maybe my dh would fit that description!) We are peacful, funloving, simple people who love to garden and work the land.  There is a house nearby named Rivendell, so I think that The Shire would be perfect!  So my question is, have any of you named your homestead, and what is it?  Why did you name it that?  If you haven't named it, what would you choose?
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• 2006-Feb-16 - Name

Posted by spinninggrandma
My home is Ash Lane Farm. We have a short lane that goes from the county road to our house and it has Ash trees on both sides. All my life, I've wanted a lane with trees on both sides ... it's not as long as I have dreamt about ... but it's a real lane!!! And it just CAME to me ... I was talking to my granddaughters the day we purchased our place and said ... I need a name - it has a lane, it has ash trees ... and there it was!!
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• 2006-Feb-17 - Naming Farms

Posted by Greenberry
Since naming farms and homes isn't a tradition in my area, I haven't named mine. The business name, Greenberry House, comes from the first name of my great-grandfather.

Around here property tends to be named after the people owned them longest. My mother lives on the "Calloway Reynolds place", even though Mr. Reynolds died in 1930 and her father bought the farm shortly after. There's a "Green Cockram farm" owned by people not named Cockram and the "Pendleton Place" purchased by a person from North Carolina. I know this doesn't help; you just got me thinking along these lines! Naming your home what you want sounds fine to me!
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• 2006-Feb-17 - Pondering

Posted by midwesthomestead
We're pondering a name for our place, just because we want one! We just moved out here this October past. We decided to live here through all four seasons and see how our place looks--what grows, what critters n birds we have etc....and hopefully a name will come to us! Tis fun!

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• 2006-Feb-17 - Untitled Comment

Posted by crewchief
We don't "officially" have a name, but we always refer to it as our "Little Slice of Heaven" :)
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• 2006-Feb-17 - Sisyphus Acres

Posted by vgauthier
It is a strange name I admit, but we live in the mountains in NOrthern NH ~ meaning we get flurries just about every night in winter. They don't amount to much most times, just a dusting ~ but my father has this compulsion to scrape every last drop off the next morning, only to see it covered over again the next evening. Sisyphus is a figure in Greek mythology assigned to an eternity of fruitless toil ~ and that story reminds me of my father's endless war with "Mother Nature"...lol.

Valarie
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• 2006-Mar-24 - Our Homestead's Name...

Posted by FairHillsFarm
Hi there!
We named our homestead "Fair Hills Farm", since there are many hills. (We're at the foothills of the Apalachian.) The hills are beautiful though, hence the name "Fair Hills Farm". We also have a pond, and a creek, and various trails and fields.
We are aquainted with LOTR as well, and "The Shire" sounds like good creative name for a homestead!
God Bless,
-Read Family

Edited by FairHillsFarm on 2006-Mar-24 at 03:10
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• 2006-Mar-25 - Untitled Comment

Posted by Anonymous
I grew up on land that my great grandfather bought in 1919. I was the fourth generation of my family to live on that land. So I feel a strong connection to land and a place. My kids also had the opportunity to live there for a while. But for several years we have traveled with my husbands job and haven't been able to have a home of our own. But last July we decided to settle and we bought a home with a little acreage in another state from my family home. We love our little homestead and I wanted to have a connection to the past so we named it Sugar Bend Farm, after the place I grew up. My great grandfather grew sugar cane in the field where the road made a turn and went to the end of the lane. Years later when 911 finally reached our area, they were looking for a name to name the road. A family member recalled that they referred to that area as Sugar Bend because of my grandfathers sugar cane. so they officially named the road that. I thought it fitting to carry that with us to our new home so that we can continue that connection.
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• 2006-Mar-26 - Untitled Comment

Posted by DaisyChain
We named ours DaisyChain Farm partly because we grow cut flowers for market and because the name of one of our first goats was Daisy. I kinda like HorseFeathers Homestead! <g>
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• 2006-Apr-28 - i think The Shire is wonderful!

Posted by VTLinda
And, if I were you, I'd jump right on it! In fact, if I had a place big enough to carry a name, I'd call it The Shire!
Cheers!
~Linda in Virginia
(You see, I'm a Tolkein fan and LOTR movies addict, too!)
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• 2006-May-10 - hi

Posted by Justdoit4Him
hey Ellen. nope, sorry, i haven't named my home. i hope your day is going well,
Leah
xoxo
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• 2006-Nov-20 - naming...

Posted by Anonymous
I love it when people name their homes, farms or ranches! I've even done searches on them - LOL
we named our 10 acres of SW Colorado, "Paradise Ranch". Not that it's original but there's a lonnnnng story behind the name, and I can tell you we fought hard to get it and are fighting hard to keep it. One of these days I'll get it together and put up my own blogsite here with the story of our journey, and some pictures...
-Laureli
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