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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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The area we decided to look for property in was around the Cumberland
Mountain foothills, where I grew up and where some of my family still
lives. The prices for farm/wilderness land were still below $1000
or so per acre and it was still within an hours drive from Nashville.
We hiked and hunted, dreamed and imagined, toured farms and laid in barns for six months. We eventually decided that having land was more important at first than having a livable farmhouse. And after reading Walden again by Henry Thoreau and seeing how he returned to such simple and basic living in a one room cabin, we decided that we could camp, live in a tent, or build a temporary shelter until we had a house that was livable. So most of the farms we looked at were in pretty rough shape including Butterfly Hollow. But the day we drove up into this secluded hollow we knew...... It not only had an old unlivable farmhouse that cried for restoration, 80+ acres of hills, pasture and forests, springs, ponds, garden spots, it also had a nice used mobile home on the property. This would give us the place to live while we restored the old farmhouse. Even though Sharon said she was ready, I could tell that she was a bit skeptical about the idea of living in a tent for three or four years anyway...and I was a little too.
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info@butterflyhollow.com
Butterfly
Hollow
Gordonsville,
TN 38563