In other words, this place is move-in ready – unlike the old farmette we bought! It is on 17.4 acres with a 3-bedroom home, a new 400 sq foot cabin, a new workshop and several other outbuildings. They are asking $199.500.
The video below shows some sheep care 101 stuff that we were learning, and includes a castration procedure called banding. There isn’t any blood and it is a non-invasive procedure, but I just wanted to give fair warning.
Below is a video highlighting some of our favorite demonstrations at the annual Shockey’s Old Timey Festival in Hillsville, VA. One of my favorite things about living in the country is that people still know how to do this stuff.
Yesterday was the second time I’ve taken paid-time-off (i.e. ‘vacation time’) to go “help out” on another farm. So far it has been the best way for me to learn new skills and meet new friends. I’ve also taken a few weekend days to work on other farms in the area. I’ve learned some new [...]
We haven’t been posting much lately because, as usual, we’ve been working like mad-folk and by the time we plop down at night to eat dinner we are just too exhausted to think about writing a blog entry. But don’t take that the wrong way… A: I love writing the blog and sharing our experiences; [...]
We went over to the Floyd Country Store to see some good ol’ fashioned bluegrass music. It was a banjo picken’, upright bass smackin’, guitar strummin’, harmonica blowing, sweet voice singin’ good time.
There is a marshy area at the bottom of the hill behind our house. Following the water up the side of the hill, I came to the source – a fresh water spring bubbling up out of the rock. This marshy area has been on the property for several years at the very least; our [...]
Denver has been great to us, but it is time to move on to this next chapter – for better or worse – and give it our best shot. We’ll find out if that’s good enough sometime within the next few years. I hope you will continue to come back and share the journey with us.
With a mixture of telecommuting, self-sufficiency skills, frugal living, fertile land, and agritourism we hope to turn our dream of balancing technology and simplicity in rural Appalachia into reality.
We believe that humankind has lost some important things in the march toward progress. That is not to say progress and simplicity are mutually exclusive. We believe we can have both, and this site catalogs our journey as we try to do exactly that.
The Transplants
Missy & Everett
TreeStone Farm
Tommy
The Old-Timers
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