The Time Has Come…. We’re Going Home!

After nine months of planning and years of dreaming, the time has finally come. Next week Missy and I are going to head off to Europe for one last itch of the travel bug, and upon our return in two weeks we’ll be headed for Hillsville!

As I’m sure I’ve mentioned a hundred times (it’s all I can think about lately), we have purchased a former 15-acre dairy farm in southwest Virginia right in the heart of the Blue Ridge Mountains.

The wonderful company I work for has been forward-thinking and kind enough to allow me to prove to them that I can do my job effectively by telecommuting. Missy has been getting more and more freelance jobs as well, all of which contribute to this rare opportunity to try and make a dream into reality. So what is the dream exactly?

Your great-grandparents may have sold the family farm after the Great Depression, or your family may have even held onto some of it all the way up until your grandparent’s time. But chances are, most American families these days no longer have a “family farm” at all. We can’t give America her family farms back, but we can open ours up to America. And that is exactly what we intend to do. We will be getting to work building our three farmstay rental cabins this summer and should be accepting guests in time for the “fall season” along the Blue Ridge Parkway (12-min. away).

With a mixture of telecommuting (thanks to high-speed internet access), 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. Subscribe to this blog if you’d like to follow us along.

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