Here is my homestead.
We have 40 acres, this is not all of it but shows the buildings and front hay field.
The shed on the left is open to the pasture for the horses' use (it also stores about 40 round bales and still leave room for shelter for three horses).
The building right in front of the silos houses the tractor, 8' brush cutter and the skidsteer. The barn is in the process of falling down, it was too far gone when we bought the place. Right now the dog and outside cats live in it and I have some lumber stored in there.
The white roofed building to the right of the barn was a pig shed. We moved the supports farther out and made a large double door on the front - in now houses our boat and other assorted "junk".
Coming forward from that building is the old grainery. It is built off the ground and has a wood floor. We made it into a chicken coop and then moved the chickens and it has been a rabbit home this year. Rabbits are going to be moved soon and we plan on converting it to equipment storage.
The long building in front of that with the white roof will soon house the rabbits (indoor colony), has my summer kitchen - complete with electric coil cooktop and on demand waterheater - I love that room! Since this picture was taken we installed a greenhouse on the SE end and the chicken coop in on the NE end of the building.
This building also has a working frost free hydrant - there is also a heated automatic water trough for the horses behind the boat shed (can't really see it in the picture. And the area behind the barn with the little shed is our shooting range. What looks like a big weed patch is actually a 7' high 10' wide shooting berm. That is a target set up right in front of it.
In the big shop we have built an indoor section that is insulated and heated. Makes a very nice place to work on vehicles or other projects, even when it's really cold.
The small building behind the shop was the pump house. There is an old well and cistern along side it. We plan on eventually getting the well working. We are on "rural water" as the water in this area is not all that good for human consumption.
The very small white shed to the left of the shop is wood lath storage. It makes such good firestarter that we didn't want to waste what we pulled out of the house - should last us 10+ years. We also have a place to store cut wood along side it, but it's empty in this picture.
Can't forget the gardens, the one behind the trees is the main one, and it's even bigger now. The small one by the house has been converted to strawberries and asparagus. The two larger bins are rented to the previous owner for use, he pays a bottle of tequila a year, and we stay friends. He lives about 2 miles to the north (one of our nearer neighbors).
Then there is the house. The aerial picture was taken before the front deck was built. Posts are now white but I have not decided what to do for a railing yet.
There is not a single opening in the house that is now where it was when we bought it. House had serious structural issues and we ended up gutting and rebuilding more than we expected. We are almost done - still have the kitchen to finish. We had to move it to the new room as one of the first projects, but did not want to "finish" it until everything else was done so it would not get trashed.
This is what the house looked like right before we bought it
Cathy
