Thank you for bringing us along for the ride on this epic love story that continues with you and Chris. Know I find great peace and beauty in your photos and stories. 💛
We used to run about two hundred head of cattle, now we lease our land to farmers in the area and it is used for various planting crops. So we still get to see it farmed but we are not doing the work we once were beside up keep that's around our home.
What a great story! Love all the pics and your home is beautiful.
I wish there were still some of the buildings that my Grandfather and his brothers used in their citrus farming. All of them were lost in the late 70s to the "progress" of putting homes on the property. Sadly, all of the menfolk had either passed or moved away and there was no one interested in maintaining the groves and the taxes were burying my family because the land was worth more than the crops were bringing in. So the decision was made. All of the cirrus keeping barns, machinery barns and general "catch all" barns were torn down., My dad went and got some boards from one of the barns and mounted deer antlers that my grandfather had killed when he was at his place in the Ocala National Forest. I have 3 sets, as do both of my sisters. So there is a little piece of my legacy left!
Gosh that’s so sad and I know and understand the feeling—we hear those stories a lot around here and our taxes have doubled since we moved here in ‘21. Can’t even imagine how ungodly they’ll be 20 years from now. We’ll have to work til they put us in the ground alongside the stallion.
Thank you for bringing us along for the ride on this epic love story that continues with you and Chris. Know I find great peace and beauty in your photos and stories. 💛
Thank you, Julia! Love bringing you along and sharing in the joy of this farm. It's all so much better when shared and multiplied!
Loved reading this
It takes a lot to live on farm with all the up keep. Me and my family live on our farm that's been in the family for hundred plus years. Xo
It sure does--and it's work we love to do knowing who came before us and for the hope of who may follow us someday. What type of farm??
We used to run about two hundred head of cattle, now we lease our land to farmers in the area and it is used for various planting crops. So we still get to see it farmed but we are not doing the work we once were beside up keep that's around our home.
Pull out your Abstract of Title! That will list every owner the land has ever had! 😃
Oooh yay! I didn’t know this! Doing it this week. Thank you!
What a great story! Love all the pics and your home is beautiful.
I wish there were still some of the buildings that my Grandfather and his brothers used in their citrus farming. All of them were lost in the late 70s to the "progress" of putting homes on the property. Sadly, all of the menfolk had either passed or moved away and there was no one interested in maintaining the groves and the taxes were burying my family because the land was worth more than the crops were bringing in. So the decision was made. All of the cirrus keeping barns, machinery barns and general "catch all" barns were torn down., My dad went and got some boards from one of the barns and mounted deer antlers that my grandfather had killed when he was at his place in the Ocala National Forest. I have 3 sets, as do both of my sisters. So there is a little piece of my legacy left!
Gosh that’s so sad and I know and understand the feeling—we hear those stories a lot around here and our taxes have doubled since we moved here in ‘21. Can’t even imagine how ungodly they’ll be 20 years from now. We’ll have to work til they put us in the ground alongside the stallion.