A Tour of The Property – FINALLY!
Missy finally finished editing this video that’s been sitting on our camcorder tape for about a week. In it you’ll see our property from the vantage of the back yard. We have about 10-12 acres that you can’t see in the video, which sit on a wooded hillside behind the pasture. But what you see here is the area where we’ll spend 99% of our time until we clear that hillside for sheep… someday.
We have a total of 15.8 acres here of beautiful bottom-land in Carroll County, Virginia. We are tucked away in the Blue Ridge Mountains just minutes away from the Blue Ridge Parkway on a small road just off of the Crooked Road Music Trail. Eventually we hope to have a few farm cabins and run a relaxing farmstay vacation business.
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Beautiful!
Uggh… I wish we’d have moved those ugly plastic lawn chairs we were sitting in.
Awesome! May you always be so blessed.
Looks awesome man. Sitting outside by the stream would be so relaxing. Were those cows in your video? I didn’t know you were gonna start a whole farm.
Alex those cows are in our pasture. They belong to an old timer up the road. It’s win-win for now since we don’t have any cows, sheep or horses right now and don’t have a tractor to keep the pasture mowed.
Wow…..you two are really living your dream. I wish you all the best. Thanks for letting us take this journey with you.
Your farm video is just wonderful. It looks like a lovely place to live!
nice. good luck with the farm. does the creek run all year or dry up in summer? creek seems pretty close to house, hope no flooding issues?
dean
Dean,
Both creeks on the property run pretty strong all year round. They DO flood, as pictured here: http://www.livingoffgrid.org/the-first-flood-of-2010-snake-creek/
That is a big worry for us, but we’ve been told that it doesn’t ever get up to the house except once in 50 years and even then it only got up to the crawl space. The house sits on a foundation of cinder blocks about 4 feet high and we don’t have a basement. I’ll just have to make sure we don’t keep anything electrical or not water resistant on the floors of our outbuildings.
Also, I checked into flood insurance and was told that they couldn’t quote it until the Virginia state senate reconvened and finished some bill they were working on ??? God bless our government; always on the ball. What am I supposed to do if the whole place gets washed down the creek between now and then?
that is sad they put holds on insurance. it’s cheap though, get high deductible as flood chances are rare, and if does flood damage be $$$ high, so a $4000 deductible is nothing (what i have).