Follow the Carrot

Journaling: Since 2001, I have kept a blog (later ones offline) of all our home & farm related endeavors. The drawings I made were used for the ‘logos’. Our farm started in 2001 with our 1st fixer upper. Between 2007-2010 we tried to put in a garden - deer jumped over and ate the only thing that came up. We tried to keep chickens but either they froze from straight line winds (being deep south implants we knew nothing about that !), wildlife got to them, or the coop burned down with them in it on one new years day. We felt defeated to be sure. But we picked it back up in 2011, and got serious after 2020 at our Cottage Farm, and continues with our present one. | August 30, 2025 We have have kept chickens, goats, turkeys, pigs and we just purchased a dairy cow last week named Buttermilk! This farm will be practice silvopasture,(which means we keep most of the trees)& a regenerative one to move the animals and keep the soil healthy. | 2001-2006 Our 1st House & Farm (Louisiana) Westinmoreland was a nod to my family’s beginnings in this country from Westmoreland county, Va in the 1600s | 2011-2024 Under the Mulberry Cottage Farm (Kentucky) There was a mulberry tree that became very productive after we kept chickens and it was right by the side of the of kitchen. The farm happened under that mulberry. | 2024 to Present Olde Virginian Farmhouse Future ‘once upon a knoll Farm’. | Keep Following the Carrot

Credits-> Homestead (Lynne-Marie) | Fonts: AMerican Scribe, Kiln Serif, and Century Schoolbook