It's Finally Happening!

It’s been over two years in the making…

…and after looking at countless properties and writing offers and being super frustrated, we finally found a piece of property for our forever homestead.

Y’all, it’s FINALLY HAPPENING!

Finally a place to raise our child in the great outdoors.

A place to raise chickens and have a huge garden.

A place to store all of our trailers and construction equipment indoors and out of the Iowa elements.

We will have to build a new home, and it will sit roughly where this shed is pictured in the photo below…

I can’t wait to sit here in the evening and watch the sunset over the crops from my back deck! Maybe this time next year we can make that happen.

There are a few other buildings on the property, one is a huge morton building which will store all of our trailers and equipment. We also will have a couple grain bin’s, and Adam already has a plan to turn one of them into an outdoor kitchen (?)

It doesn’t get much more ‘Iowa’ than an acreage with grain bins and a view of row crops!

So what’s next for us?

For now we aren’t going anywhere. We need to sell our house and build a new one on this property, which we don’t close on until October. Since there isn’t much work that can be completed during the winter months in Iowa, we will most likely be focusing this fall on cleaning out any dead trees or bushes, and pouring a concrete floor for the large building. I hate to make any plans for the rest of 2020 (since this year is so bizarre), but those are tentative goals.

There’s so much to do between now and moving to the farm, but at least where we are ending up is no longer a question. Of course we will document the whole journey!

I’m off to make 400 to-do lists, and enjoy what we have left of this hot summer Sunday. Thank you so much for supporting our small Iowa businesses, we really appreciate you!

See you soon!

Rachael