73 Acres. Preservationists, let me know!

73 Beautiful acres available in a historic, stunning setting in central Virginia.

Patrick Henry's Red Hill, Appomattox, civil rights, Amish, cultural events at Hampden Sydney and more all within 15 miles.

Email if you're interested. $255,000.

This is my public service announcement to help get other fun, green people in the area! A friend is selling off part of his farm, 73 acres, and he is wonderful and would make a great neighbor. The road where the farm is located is also where a lot of Amish families live.
This farm is right down the road from us- we would love to get fun but sensitive-to-the-land people there.

Did I mention a winery just opened up?
Above is a picture of the Amish harvesting hay.

See it all here! Be our neighbor!
Telecommute and be part of a wonderful, small town, entrepreneurial community!
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Chicken Tractors

I had a great meeting with the Firestone Una-Clad, etc. (wall & roof) distributors today, more on that later- it is probably obvious to all of you that I am not in the mood to be staid and professional this week... at least, in my blog!

So I will move on to chicken tractors.

My husband is in Europe, and while there, I am running this household 100% the way *I* want to. No more chocolate sandwiches for the children's breakfasts! (He always pleads his childhood with Nutella-actually our children eat very well- hand picked veggies and free range meat. But he does slip them an awful lot o' sugar and blames it on Europe...)

He is the "good guy" in the family, *while* being the voice of reason.

And the voice of reason is gone.

So heck ya.
I'm going to make a chicken tractor to occupy my time and when he returns he might find a whole flock o' chickens in the backyard!

Here are some good links:

• http://www.demesne.info/Garden-Help/Keep-Chickens/Planning-Coops.htm
  
• http://www.plamondon.com/hoop-coop.html
  
• http://www.treehugger.com/files/2005/11/weird_eco_habit_1.php
  

 

Remarkable Trees

Hope y'all enjoy the Remarkable Trees of Virginia Project book and website my cousin, Nancy Ross Hugo, has created.



Here's my own personal favorite vote: http://www.cnr.vt.edu/4h/remarkabletree/detail.cfm?AutofieldforPrimaryKey=1996

Uhm, for totally unbiased reasons... : )

Book coming out soon!
Learn more at http://www.cnr.vt.edu/4h/remarkabletree/