Farm names

I like Wind and Willows Farm but it doesn't really say "what you do." But let's look at this from a couple of different ways:

The first way is the fun of tacking up a sign which says (as an example) "Wind and Willows Farm." Somehow this makes the whole thing more "real." But we need to think about the future of this name.

I've discovered (I know you're all shocked) that sheep, left to their own devices, reproduce. With wild and merry abandon too. This makes it necessary to either eat them or sell them and selling them is more profitable. I can sell them as "grade" or I can sell them as pedigreed and branded. One makes WAY more money than the other. But you've got to market if you're selling pedigreed stock. And for most of us this means online, through the web.

Your domain name does not have to be your farm name but it helps. WindandWillows.com is, unfortunately, taken by a squatter, so you'll need something else.

Try variants into your browser window to see what works.

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Icelandic Sheep and German Angora Rabbits

We are N Due time. For years my Dh would tell me " In due time, dear" whenever I would request the farm or something equally expensive. When we first built here there was nothing but a cornfield and a limestone hill. We thought of calling it "fargo" because of the unreal wind but DH continueed on with his pet phrase and I finally decided that was what I would call it. He lovingly calls it the money pit now but the name has stuck and we are now a company and farm. It works for everything we do, the stable, goats milk soap, and since we are now having lots of babies(goats, chickens, soon to be rabbits and maybe horses again) it works well.

Do you guys have pet phrases that mean something to your family? I know another family that named their place Pair-A-Dice, big vegas people and their hobby farm is what they always dreamed of.

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Trish

Seriously, I am COMPLETELY dressed!

Just keep moving...just keep moving!

If I can get a good enough crop of them entwinging my fenceposts,I'm going to call my place "MORNING GLORY FARM"

I like Hovey Hollow too! Of course, with such an interesting array of animals, soon you'll be able to call the place Menagerie Hollow! Our land has a name...Stoneymead Farm, but the hill we live on also has a name...Pudding Hill, so I guess the official name is: Stoneymead Farm on Pudding Hill.

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Melissa
Reformed hoyden. Please forgive me if I relapse.

Lets see,
Many good suggestions. I'm gonna have to print out this thread and go over it with the family.
Another thing that is kind of unique to us is our zoo connection. I'm a vet tech at the zoo and my husband is a zookeeper. You'd think we'd get enough of animals at work that we wouldn't have to have them at home too. I guess it's cause everything I get to touch at work is asleep or scared out of it's mind, and DH works with reptiles and amphibians, so not too hands on there either. Of course theres the kids who inherited the love of animals but didn't understand why they couldn't be around critters 24/7 too.

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People who count their chickens before they are hatched, act very wisely, because chickens run about so absurdly that it is impossible to count them accurately. - Oscar Wilde, 1854 - 1900

Whispering Willows

simply Hovey Hollow (no "Farm" needed)

Whistling Willows Farm

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veni, vidi, volgavi

In 1908 Kenneth Grahame wrote The Wind in the Willows. It was repbulished in 1966. It is a wonderful childern's book and may inspire a fun name. Published by The World Publishing Company, Cleveland and New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Nelson, Foster & Scott Ltd., 1966.

Keep having fun,

Alex

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Thou art That

Another vote for Hovey Hollow here. It sounds quaint and pleasant, rolls off the tongue, and easy to remember because of the alliteration (two Hs).

But if your DD absolutely won't do that, anything with Willow is nice, too. What about Wandering Willows, since the branches seem so fond of wandering to the ground, where you have to pick them up?

Then there's always the more old-fashioned descriptors. Like Willow Acres, or Willow Hill, or Willow Bend, or Willow Knoll, or Willow Dell, or Willowdale, or Willow Valley, or Willow Glen, or Willow Cove, or Willow Vale, or Willow Grove, or Willow Spinney....

Ok, I'm about out of pretty synonyms for hollows and tree groupings, etc. In the above list, you could pretty much replace Willow with Hovey in any of them.

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And the wolf shall dwell with the lamb.. And the lion shall eat straw like the ox.. They shall not hurt nor destroy In all my holy mountain For the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord.

My vote is for Windy Willows Farm ....

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I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it."
Thomas Jefferson

hovey1716:

Please, please check daming the water situaton. What your upstream neighbour did may very well be illegal.

Sure would be here in the southwest!!

I'd be madder than h if that happened to me.

Hovey's Little Haven, or just Hovey's Haven. Hovey's Lil, Bita Heaven, Hovey's Homestead, Hovey's Down Home; Whispering Willows, Hovey's Place; H&H Homestead; The Happy Hoveys; hehehehehehe

will o wisp

Rabbit Trail Homestead, perhaps?

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The best way to PREDICT the future is to help CREATE it.

Along the coast of Maine, it's traditional to name your home. My parents named theirs "This is it." I always loved the one old Mr. Thompson came up with down the road: "Dunrovin". I'm thinking about naming my homestead that, but I'll let you have it if you want it...

If I could piggyback onto this thread, I am also trying to figure out what to name our homestead. We got married on Friday the 13th and 13 is a lucky number for us. We're living in Caledonia County, which is the old Gaelic word for Scotland (we're Scottish too) and I love the Mists of Avalon book. Not much to work with but anyone have suggestions?