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The
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Butterfly Hollow Farm ____ The Path Leading Us Here ____ How The Farm Got Its Name ____ Restoring the Old Farmhouse ____ Where The Beefalo Roam ____ Saddle Up The Horses ____ Saving Wilderness and Farm Land ____ Farm Journals ____ Sharing The Farm ____ Guest Book ____ Site Map ____ |
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We are
both outdoors kind of people. We love to backpack, camp and be in
the woods. This passion led us to a hunger to learn more about our
natural resources and the environment in which we live. After a weekend
long women's adventure program with the Tennessee Wildlife Resources
Agency, Sharon came home and took me for a walk in the woods. She
was able to point out several edible plants and trees that she learned
about. We realized we were smack dab in the middle of a Sassafras
tree thicket and never were so happy to make our first batch of sassafras
tea, Creole spice and sassafras salad shoots. We started picking up books on wild edible plants like Edible Wild Plants of North America by Thomas Elias, and Stalking the Wild Asparagus by Euell Gibbons. Every night we would take our walk and return home with bags full of things to eat and even more to investigate in our "lab". It didn't take much more than a year and a half for the reality that the 30 plus acres that surrounded our Sassafras Ridge was being developed at astonishing rates and the seclusion that we were growing to identify with was only temporary. It was also painfully obvious that our attempts at growing a garden in the middle of the forest would continue to fail unless we cleared over half of the trees. It was from this point we sprouted our dream of rural life, growing our own food, becoming self sufficient, having no debt, and protecting land, from concepts and ideas to a plan on paper. We created a folder we labeled as "The Great Escape" and filled it with dreams, pictures, plans and projections.
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info@butterflyhollow.com
Butterfly
Hollow
Gordonsville,
TN 38563