After much thinking and studying we finally have a name for our farm: Old Field Farm. So my rabbitry is now registered as Old Field Farm Rabbitry.

Our house faces a state highway but there is a side road which turns off the state road and goes beside our property that's called "Old Field Road."

We have 13 acres here, part pasture, part woods. I think Old Field Farm just suits us.

What are some of the names ya'll have for your homesteads????

-- Suzy in Bama (slgt@yahoo.com), November 11, 2001

Answers

New Glorious Hovel. NGH for short. Pronounced like a horse's neigh. Add the requisite head shaking and occasional foot stomping.

:-)

-- pc (jasper2@iname.com), November 11, 2001.

We own bluffs along the Bourbeuse (pronounced Burr bis)here in Franklin County in Missouri so we call it Bourbeuse Bluff Farms. I was so taken by the bluffs when I saw the place for sale and had to have it back in 1978 as a single woman I felt the bluffs had much significance to my having this wonderful place. I bought the adjoining farm at a later date so that is why it is farms.Good luck in your venture.

-- Terry Lipe (elipe@fidnet.com), November 11, 2001.

Right now I'm trying out the name BELLA ACRES. I raise rabbits, goats, and minature donkeys amongst other things so the B E L L A stands for Big Ears, Lots of Little Asses. Also when you run the two together Bella-acres, it sounds like what my husband and I become when we want to sleep in and know we need to get up and get the work done. Finally 'bella' means beautiful, and to us the farm certainly is. [I think this is much more dignified than what my husband wanted to call it--Debbie's Little A** Ranch ;>} ]

-- Debbie in S IL (dc1253@hcis.net), November 11, 2001.

Would you believe "Beyond Deliverance" located on "Dirt Road" on the back side of Bear Bait Mountain?

-- mitch hearn (moopups@citlink.net), November 11, 2001.

Ours is simply "Holton Homestead" and our homeschool is "Holton Homestead Homeschool"

Not very inventive I'm afraid.

-- anita (aholton@mindspring.com), November 11, 2001.

My uncle named his cottage WHITSEND - a pun on his name 'WHITworth' and the expression 'I'm at my wit'S END'. When my father bought his cottage, he named it 'WHITSEND II'. Now that I have a farm, I call it 'WHITSEND FARMS'. All in the family I guess. Either that or we're not very creative.

Russ

-- Russ (rwhitworth@sprint.ca), November 11, 2001.

Ours is named Bountiful Blueberry Farm. I guess you can guess we sell Blueberries! My soap business is Bountiful Beauty Bars. Basically, I am going to go by just Bountiful because we our prejudice and believe anything will grow at "Bountiful".

-- Debbie (bwolcott@cwis.net), November 11, 2001.

Green Acre , Castle of Dr. FrankenWorm, Institute of Low Budget Agronomy or PayDirt are some I jokingly call this place , depending on if I'm thinking about how much we can do with 1.2 acre, My worm research, plant studies or how cheap the mortgage is. The name I prefer is simply "Home".

-- Jay Blair in N. AL (jayblair678@yahoo.com), November 11, 2001.

We call our 30 acres "Make Do Farm." As we always are (making do)! We patch and piece together stuf, until finally we sometimes break down and get new! But "Make Do" pretty well tells the story here. I have a few pack goats, and went to a goat expo to show them to the public. Well one of the Ext Agents there wanted to add me to their mailing list of goat events. Well my very first newsletter came to "Make Poo Farm" Maybe that is a better name? ddt

-- ddt (troubled@ftc-i.net), November 11, 2001.

We have finally decided on The Five "T" Ranch. We went through so many and nothing seemed to be just the thing--"The Piece of Nothing Farm"& "The Poor House" are two that come to mind on bad days :)!

-- Debbie T in N.C. (rdtyner@mindspring.com), November 11, 2001.

Withering Heights Farm

It's a play on Bronte's Wuthering Heights, we are mountain top in the Arkansas Ozarks and summer can be dry and hot.

-- kim (fleece@eritter.net), November 11, 2001.

We are Bittersweet Farm in south-central Indiana. In Indiana you can register the name of your farm with the County Recorder to prevent anyone else in that county from using it. Probably not real binding, but it is a way to preserve it legally for only the cost of recording a document.

-- Jim West (jimwest@shelbynet.net), November 11, 2001.

Hillside Acres Farm NE KY is only flat if you have a LOT more money than we do. Our house sits on top of a ridge, and our chickens are down the back about 75yds. 100yds below them is an honest-to-goodness cliff of about45' We spent a lot of money, and even more time this year making the backyard safe to mow-I seriously considered goats, but my dear wife wasn't ready to go THAT rural yet.

-- Jim in NE KY (Jedeweese@earthlink.net), November 11, 2001.

I never bothered with a name for my place until I started selling honey. When I started to design labels for the jars I realized that I needed a name. I decided on "Lithia Ridge Farm & Apiary", although sometimes I just call it Lithia Ridge Bee Farm. Lithia is the closest town, and we are on top of a low ridge (though you can't tell from looking at the area). Anyway, I wanted something topical that would go along with the local honey I sell.

-- Elizabeth (ekfla@aol.com), November 11, 2001.

Howlin' Moon Dog Ranch!!!

-- DW (jd@sotc.com), November 11, 2001.

We have Bluff Spring Woods and Twin River View farms here in Cooper County MO. DH found the spring in bluff on the piece he bought and the family farm is at the confluence of the Lamine and the Missouri rivers. Not exactly twins in size but they kinda look the same at the point where they come together.

-- Susan (smtroxel@socket.net), November 11, 2001.

Chickadee Valley, we live in a river valley and we have lots of chickadee and they are my favorite bird. Sherry

-- sherry (chickadee259@yahoo.com), November 11, 2001.

Opportunity Farm. Our motto is "Man's Extremity is God's Opportunity". We always seem to be on the brink of some disaster, so God has lots of opporunities here!

-- Bonnie (stichart@plix.com), November 11, 2001.

Providence Farms. We named it that because of God's Providence moving us from wasteland (Las Vegas, NV) to Farmland; to one of the most fertile areas in the World, the Red River Valley of the North. He has PROVIDED for us in our time of desperate need.

-- Chandler (ProvidenceFarms2001@yahoo.com), November 11, 2001.

As joke, I had a sign made "Clarks Lot" Our 3 acres are considered a 'lot' plus the "....lot in life....." money pit sort of twist, funny to learn from an older local that the original owners of the property were 'Clarkes'. As directed by the local grocer: "1 mile from the main road at the nasty bend, there it be"

-- Kathy (catfish201@hotmail.com), November 11, 2001.

Being the only resident on the road where we are establishing our new homestead, we were dissapointed to learn the road was already named. Our choice would have been 'Goa Way'

-- jz (oz49us@yahoo.com), November 11, 2001.

ther are two creeks running by our home..and sycamores grow along them, so we called our place "Sycamore".

-- Wayne (wallen328@aol.com), November 11, 2001.

Looking Down Farm. My father and older brother, both of whom have passed away, loved the farm as much as I do. Whenever I'm doing some kind of farm work, I feel like they are up in Heaven 'looking down' on me, hence the name.

-- Murray in ME (lkdmfarm@megalink.net), November 11, 2001.

When my husband and I got together I told him that I would pass on the diamond but I would ask him for a really nice one in 10 years. Well when 10 years rolled around I told him I had found the diamond I wanted and he said where did you find it. I told him I found it at the real estate office and he looked a little puzzeled. I told him I found 9 acres I wanted instead of the diamond and he went out and got it for me. aka the c3ranch ( cut, clearity and color ) LOL the 3 c's in a diamond

-- Teresa (c3ranch@hotmail.com), November 11, 2001.

DAVELI Acres... for my son, DAVid and my daughter, ELIzabeth. I do remember someone, upon hearing the name, saying to me, "Really? You don't look Italian." ;o)

-- Gary in Indiana (gk6854@aol.com), November 11, 2001.

Named my farm Rocky Top - just cause I always loved that song - and when I named it, it was a real rocky time for me. Plus there are lots of rocks and I am on the highest point of the road.

-- Dianne (willow @config.com), November 11, 2001.

My passion is gardening and raising herbs. My favorite movie is Somewhere in Time. So we are "Somewhere in 'Thyme' Herb Farm"

-- Belle (gardenbelle@terraworld.net), November 11, 2001.

Ours is Peacelane cause it is so peaceful here.

-- Don Amon (peacelane@certainty.net), November 11, 2001.

our place was originally settled by some robinsons. everyone around here refers to it as "the old robinson place" so we kept the "r" but really means "our" and we have a great view 75 miles or more on a clear day so we call our place "r-view"

-- george in nh (rcoopwalpole@aol.com), November 11, 2001.

We raise rabbits. For a while, we called our 'rabbitry' The Rabbit Shack, due to the functional yet ugly as sin housing for the rabbits- I had used what I could haul it from flood victim houses, old cabinets (about 20 cabinet doors made up a good portion of the roof- over lapped like shingles and all different and mostly pastel colors). When the barn got built, and the rabbit shack got put, piece by piece, put into the woodstove, we went with "Y2K Rabbitry." The Y2K obviously makes name to the almost- problem computer bug, because I originally got some rabbits as a possible alternate food source and makers of fertilizer for the garden in preperation for the big (non) event. Also, my wifes name is Yvetta (she's from California- hence the nearly unpronouncable name). And my name is Kevin. And we started with 2 bucks (we thought one was a doe, but didnt get many litters off that combination). And the 2 could be like 'to' which would indicate a union of the owners (Y and K). Still stuck on an overall farmette name, now we have goats, chickens, horse, etc. I was thinking something denoting the high hill we live on, but decided not to go with that, our neighbors are the Hill's and we dont want people thinking they are in any way associated with us. (Someone would be sure to get embarrassed- us or them, I'm not positive which!). Really liked that 'GOA WAY'- its still got me laughing.

-- Kevin in NC (Vantravlrs@aol.com), November 11, 2001.

The homestead we just recently purchased has the house on a nice little rise overlooking a presently dry lake (like a lot of Florida just now) so we've decided to name the place Dun Hagan. Dun is a Gaelic word meaning hill or rise. When we get the agricultural pursuits underway we'll call the place Dun Hagan Farm.

........Alan.

-- Alan Hagan (athagan@atlantic.net), November 11, 2001.

Suzy, our farm name is Many Achers, a play on words, although sometimes people ( city people ) don't catch the difference in the spelling on the check. And the message on the answering machine is, You have reached Many Achers Farm; the place where the work NEVER ends.

-- Judy in IN (whileaway3@cs.com), November 11, 2001.

Rancho Costa Plenty

-- lurkylu (lurkylu@yahoo.com), November 11, 2001.

Laura Ingalls Wilder lived in a little house on a prarie, but we have a somewhat largish house on a small patch of wooded land, and Big House sounded a little dopey so we call it Little Woods. The family that previously lived here called it Cozy Cote.

-- Mark Sykes (mark@marksykes.net), November 11, 2001.

Just 5 acres and more work than is reasonable for a few hens and some raspberries. Voles proliferate as do ticks carrying lyme disease. We came up with "Wild Abandon", and the name stuck.

-- Nina@wild abandon (Ninasinthegarden@aol.com), November 11, 2001.

Sheepyvalley is our farm name. An adaption of sleepyhollow, but sheepyhollow was taken and we are in a valley anyway.And we have lots of sheep. Come visit us at www.sheepyvalley.com.

-- Kate in New York (kate@sheepyvalley.com), November 11, 2001.

We have 30 acres and a hundred plus year old farmhouse. Our house is a traditional white sided house with black shutters and a big front porch. We have white rail fencing around part of the pasture. When coming up with a name, we let our 3 boys decide. They finally picked White House Farm, kind of a play on words, but still appropriate. We visited the White House in DC last year, and I can guarantee we are not nearly as fancy on the inside!! And definitely smaller.

-- Ivy in NW AR (balch84@cox-internet.com), November 11, 2001.

Cackleberry Acres (All 1.43 of it. :-)

Lantern Waste was a possibility at first but we felt we would have to stick a lampost out in the middle of the field to authenticate the name.

Of course, after the Hobbit name thing, we could call it Frogmorton.

Prisca Sandybanks of Frogmorton

-- LBD (lavenderbluedilly@hotmail.com), November 12, 2001.

Narrow Chance

Pronounced with the southern twang.. comes out to be Narra Chance. I got the name from my father who used to say, "There might be a narra chance, but that'd be about it."

-- Bear (Barelyknow@aol.com), November 12, 2001.

Got me thinking.... We just keep refering to our place as "the farm". We gotta get a name!!

-- Karen (db0421@yahoo.com), November 12, 2001.

When we first moved here, people in the small town (pop. 151) near us would ask where we lived. After we told them, they always said the some thing "Well, Ya'll live WAAAAY out!!" We figured if the people in this small town in the middle of nowhere thought we lived way out then we must live waaay out!! Hence the name, Way Out Farm. The official name is Way Out Farm and Gardens which we'll use once we get up to speed and start selling our organic produce.

-- Bren (wayoutfarm@skybest.com), November 12, 2001.

My husband's name is Jack and mine is Jackie so we decided on Double- J-Acres. Our place is only five acres but it's enough to keep us busy every day.

-- Grannytoo (jacres40@hotmail.com), November 12, 2001.

Breezy Hollow-because when you open the front door and the back door their is always a breeze blowing through the house. That's what the guy told us when we were looking at the house to buy it and it has proven true. I think it was our daughter who came up with the name. She was 11 at the time. She's 25 now! The house was built in 1883 and we've done some work to it. 5 acres of heaven on earth in my opinion. The chickens and our white German Shepard and husband agree.

-- Nancy (nannyb@huntel.net), November 12, 2001.

We had considerable debate about a name for our fourteen acres of New Hampshire when we moved here ten years ago, but finally settled on Stonycroft. Stony for obvious reasons (this IS New Hampshire, remember!), and croft means a small enclosed field, or a small farm, both of which apply. We don't add "Farm" after the name, because with "croft" it would be redundant. But we have dairy goats, chickens, beehives, and meat rabbits, plenty of work, and small though it may be, it is definitely a farm! (I like the English term of "smallholding".)

-- Kathleen Sanderson (stonycft@worldpath.net), November 12, 2001.

This is so neat! thank you all for responding!!!

-- Suzy in Bama (slgt@yahoo.com), November 12, 2001.

For El Rancho Costa Plenty, are you in Idaho? A number of years a ago my husband and I were on our way up to Salmon, (well just south of Salmon, my mom had a little place on the Pahsemerri river) and we passed this beautiful place with a gorgeous entry way, white painted fences and over the drive entrance was that sign "El Rancho Costa Plenty". Loved it. I have a photo of that place! Little Quacker, Carousel Crossing.

-- Little Quacker (carouselxing@juno.com), November 12, 2001.

BearHaven. We love bears and there a few black bears that live near our farm. The name also comes from our nicknames for each other. I am Mamabear (always protective of our family) and my husband is Billybear (just fits). And of course, our farm is our haven!

-- Lyn (lyn@work.com), November 12, 2001.

We recently decided on October Acres...my favorite month, and both my husband and I have october birthdays.

-- Jenny (auntjenny6@aol.com), November 12, 2001.

We're in Western New York. Ours is Toad Hill Farm, 87 acres of woodland and pasture. More toads than I have ever seen anywhere else.

-- paul (treewizard@buffalo.com), November 12, 2001.

125 acres in East Texas, creek runs thru....Crooked Creek Farm! After many months of back breaking work to clear and build, we sometimes refer to it as Crippled Creek! Deborah

-- Deborah (theant00@yahoo.com), November 12, 2001.

This is FUN! We named our 40 acres in the woods of N. Central WA DoLittle Farm. My Nickname, because I've always had lots of "critters", is Trina Dolittle. Also, as a joke, because we DoLOTS! and not DoLittle! My dear husband has the habit of saying the opposite of what he means. You must have seen the road sign that says "Primitive Road - No Warning Signs" ? Well he's putting one up at the beginning of our road, that says "Primitive Warning Sign - No Road". Like lots of people around here, our dirt road is BAD!

-- Trina in WA (Dolittle@starband.net), November 12, 2001.

MEADOWOOD-pretty much sums up our 13 acres!

-- Dar in W WA (tomdarsavy@cs.com), November 12, 2001.

I finally came up with Hodge Podge Homestead after a conversation over breakfast with my friend. We were talking about what I would have and where it would go and I said "You know, its really quite a hodge podge isn't it?!" and the proverbial lightbulb went on.

-- Alison in N.S. (aproteau@istar.ca), November 13, 2001.

wow....lotta posts and lots of great names..... My main homestead is Robinson Branch.named after the creek that runs thru it.... My second place is called "Land Line Story" It is divided by a meridian and it was the location of 3 attacks and the subsiquent removal of 3 Texas cougars from our land and the State of Florida. We had 19 dumped on our county at the same time! geez.... anyhow that was how the land line (meridain) and the story came about.

-- Lynnda (venus@zeelink.net), November 13, 2001.

I named mine "ScotWheat Acres" after my dogs - both Scottish terriers - one black furred four year old fellow named Scot and the other, a wheaten colored haughty lass barely a year old named "Wheatie" - real original huh? It just seems to fit, though....

-- DRS (cabarrus farmer@aol.com), November 13, 2001.

We call ours Paris Acres....just outside Paris, MO. I sometimes just call in the "Empire". My brother calls his Winding Creek, because he has a dandy winding through his whole farm.

-- Rickstir (rpowell@email.ccis.edu), November 13, 2001.

I'm one of the many who still lives in the city and is desperate to get out. We call our apartment 'the hole' (lol). I can't wait to have a farm to name--it will surely be more positive!

-- Emily Jane (emilyjanejenkins@hotmail.com), November 13, 2001.

We call our 62 acres Cricket Hill Manor and the log cabin behind it near the woods simply Cabin at Cricket Hill. The name has nothing to do with actual crickets but with the comment my late husband made about my youngest daughter's husband the first time he met him. He said, "Well, he's no bigger than a cricket." Needless to say the name stuck and Cricket lives at Cricket Hill Manor and I live in the Cabin at Cricket Hill.

-- Betty Gatchell Shaw (perkbj@tusco.net), November 13, 2001.

emily, that is so funny because i have lived in alot of places in the city that i called "the hole"

-- george (bngcrview@aol.com), November 13, 2001.

Our house and three acres are up a hollow at the end of a dirt road in a working class rural area the locals call "Prunetucky" (Prunedale CA). After driving past the motly packs of dogs and the dead car collection (now, thankfully, gone) at the bottom end of our road we thought "El Rancho Dogpatch" would work for a while. But now with our Mediterranean gardens, and the fruit trees mixed in with the flowers bordered by the herbs and the sweet peas growing with the Aztec beans, all nourished by the goats and chickens, we decided upon "Garden Farm" and it works for us.

-- Ellen (gardenfarm@earthlink.net), November 13, 2001.

Glen Haven Homestead in Glen Haven WI, not very creative

-- Dianne (yankeeterrier@hotmail.com), November 14, 2001.

Actually, my son named our farm. There is a hill behind our land that is simply beautiful in Fall and he named it Gloryhill Farm.

-- Ardie/WI (ardie54965@hotmail.com), November 14, 2001.

Sweet Binks Farm.

Our house was built in 1790 by a man named Elijah Sweet. He married a Binks girl & the farm stayed with the Binks family a long time. I have many rabbit rescues and what we bun owners on Etherbun call a "binky" is the rabbit happy dance. You would only know it if you had house rabbits or were real familiar with buns. So anyway, the "Binks" part is two-fold.

-- Pam (pamandmatt@earthlink.net), November 14, 2001.

Our farm is aptly named Ironwood Farm after a type of tree that grows here. The wood is tough as it comes, you can't break the branches off the tree and although the trees never get much bigger than 15 feet tall, they are graceful with arching type branches. We figured up on this 32 acres of rocks and red clay, you gotta be tough as the Ironwood to get anything growing. all these stories of farm names, it sure is neat!

-- Cindy (colawson@mindspring.com), November 14, 2001.

We don't have an "official" name for our place but I have one picked out that I really like. Everyone in our extended family seems to get a kick out of our, as they refer to them, "old time" and "little house on the prairie" ways. I love growing and using herbs so think the name "Old Thyme Farm" fits our place.

-- Terry - NW Ohio (aunt_tm@hotmail.com), November 14, 2001.

our farm is called Whitestone farms because it was a whitestone that was given to a person by the king, in the bible. with this stone you could get anything you wanted simply by showing your stone. [Sorta like a credit card, only you never had to pay anything back.] as we consider our farm a great gift from God, so the name whitestone. Lexi

-- Lexi Green (whitestone11@hotmail.com), November 15, 2001.

The Double Door Inn

-- C.A. Cagney (Puttingood@carolina.rr.com), November 15, 2001.

Wow - popular topic! Since my sister's husband is a psychopharmacologist (as well as a non- practicing shrink) he wanted to call their gentleman's farm the Psycho Farm. For some unfathomable reason, my sister wouldn't allow that. So since they live on Featherbed Road, it became Featherbed Fells. Alliterative, but kinda lame next to hubby's idea, I thought. The neighbor of another sister has a few acres with a lot of horses. Their name? "Almosta Ranch".

-- Audie (paxtours@alaska.net), November 15, 2001.

We are starting a small paint horse farm and we call it Van-Go Paint Farm. :)

-- Eve Lyn (evelynv@valuelinx.net), November 16, 2001.

Officially....Glean Acres, we make use of what others have left behind.

(Our 4 sons and friends say we are the FLAB farm....FartLaughAndBurp) Sorry, I sure hope no one was offended!!

El Costa Plenty, real cute. Goa Way is good too.

-- Craig Giddings (ckgidd@netins.net), November 17, 2001.