naming your farm

Where you look is where you will go.

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We must be related; ours is "The Money Pit".

Half these names could name out place... Hardship, belly ache, moneypit... It's all of those and more, but, I agree, too negative..

I've been calling our place Vertical Acres since the house is at the bottom of a holler and most our land is straight up hill from there..

My wife isn't real fond of the name, but it's been growing on her, especially when we go take walks out to the back sides..

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Kein Mitleid für die Mehrheit

I'm used to homeplaces being named, especially rural ones and older ones. I don't know if I'll ever DBA Skogengard, but it's the name on our driveway sign and cabin plaque. If this place had already been developed, I'd probably be calling it whatever it was originally named... there's plenty of homeplaces around here that have names no one can remember the origin of anymore

I had to name my place for business purposes-- Freestyle Farm. I decided on that because I was sick of all the different factions of riders looking down on others, thinking their way was the only way, and that everyone else does it wrong. There's a basic truth in all good riding, regardless of discipline, and I feel folks should be free to do their own thing. (I knew a reining trainer who was disdainful of the reining freestyle, calling it "the rags class." In my perverse brain, that cemented it for me. )

I know a respected breeding and foaling out facility in New York called Damrock Farm. Guess why? And once I was at a horse expo and burst out laughing at the backs of the jackets of a couple of folks wandering through the crowd-- theirs said Baling Twine Farm. Sometimes it's not love that holds us together.

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There is a Rancho Costa Plente here in southern Idaho. Love it!

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I named my farm Solsikke Farms as a nod to my heritage (Norwegian) and the land it'self when my Great Grandparent originally bought it. It was a sunflower farm with a house build up on the hill. My Grandfather affectionately called it Sunflower Hill, Sunflower in Norwegian is Solsikke.

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I grew up on a farm back in the 50s and back then you didn't name your place. You just called it the Smith Place, or the Scott Place, or the Burress Place, or the Gaddie Place. Everyone knew everyone so it was like giving directions to go up to the Gaddie Place and keep left to the bridge.

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There are endless combinations of truth.

I think now when your running your farm as a business naming your place is a good idea. You want some separation between personal and business.

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~ Mike @ Solsikke farms ~

Exactly which is why My Whispering Pines will turn to Whispering Pines Preschool and Daycare.... Some day...

Our place is just called Evans Ranch. We kick around the idea of calling it Evans Valley Ranch for marketing purposes as we are in a valley and three-word names tend to sound good when marketing direct to consumers.
However that kind of sounds like the famous ranch dressing so I dunno

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I am thinking the Lucky S Ranch for mine? But that could change when I move in?

If you name it Hardship you're asking for hardship and that's what you'll get. So be careful what you ask for.

I think if you really want to name it that's a good thing but you should name it something good and positive sounding, not something that sounds bad and unfriendly.

around here we have "margrine estates" , "its a cheap spread".

we also have "Poverty hill farms" and "Pecker Mountain" which can barely be called a hill...

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I've been toying with using "mount" or "mountain" in the name of our place. At 105 ft above sea level, I'm at least 30 ft higher than any of the neighbors and you have to go miles to get any higher.

On Grand Cayman there is a place called something mountain, it is all of 30 ft above sea level.

Hmmm... how about Overlook Farm/Acres? Or Skyview? Or Vantage Hill? Or Highpoint. Cuz, really, 100 ft is not a mountain

Our area is known for moonshine activity, and we've even found evidence of such in our woods, so we might go with 'Bootleg Hill Farm' or some such. The house, which is taking a long time for this old man to build, will be called 'Timely Manor'.

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"What one generation tolerates, the next generation embraces." -John Wesley

I love 'clever' & I love 'puns'.
My DH thinks our land is 'too far'. So, we have a big sign above the gate: "O2 FAR" (oh, too far) He used to sell oxygen too.

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One's attitude to the name makes it negative or positive, not the name itself though i agree that "hardhsip hills" sounds a little down. I named my place tiny forest and added " hermitage" just recently. a tiny forest hermitage is what i've been looking for for many, many years.

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Knew a place names "Oleo Acres.....one of the cheaper spreads"