Friday, 29 May 2009 20:43
Five years ago we decided to resurrect an old hill farm here in North Central Vermont. Our farm had been a sheep farm in the 1800's to sometime in the early 1900's, but by the time we came to the land, it had all grown up into pretty mature forest. But, we could see the outlines of the farm through the old house and barn foundations and the numerous old stone walls that divided up the property. Our first summer, we began by carefully clearing fourteen acres, preserving the old hedgerows, stonewalls, and roadways and letting these be our guide to shaping the meadows.
Over the winter, we made plans for our Greek Revival Farmhouse. The next spring, we started construction and now are enjoying our third summer here in our mostly finished farmhouse. Next, it was on to putting up our barns. We had purchased two 1800's post and beam barns from different towns in Northern Vermont. They arrived completely deconstructed by tractor trailer trucks. What piles of giant legos! We had some very talented timber framers help us put the frames together
