Adam and I met in 2020 while living in Portland, Oregon. By our second date, we had already chosen what animals we wanted on our homestead. During this time things were uncertain with strict lock downs and limited availability due to COVID. So like any light prepper does, Adam purchased a remote 5 acre property in North Idaho making our farm dream seemed a bit closer.
But over the next year of trying to make the one room cabin livable, we realized that we don’t want to live in such a harsh and long winter climate. The struggle was real. So we started to look for somewhere else to call home.
In the Lords providence we ended up in North Alabama (Adam is an engineer). In 2022 we bought a house in Decatur sight unseen and moved cross country with our then 9 month old son Ollie and our 100 lb German Shepard Thunder. We said from the beginning that our 3-5 year plan would be to buy some land in the country. But in the meanwhile we got a chicken coop ready for egg layers and started doing rounds of meat chickens, learning how to process them ourselves. Adam set up a hobby garden and began to learn the local techniques.
Every so often, Adam (who uses Zillow as much as I use Instagram) would show me properties from the surrounding area. But we were not in a rush to move and none of them were right. We viewed a 17 acre property that just felt like it was covered in ticks. We put an offer on a 4 acre property that ended up being in a flood zone so we pulled out. And then Adam showed me the listing for an 18 acre property in Moulton. It had a commercial chicken house, an out building for goats or sheep, fenced in pastures and a live in ready 4 bed room house. Oh! And an old gas station building that just screamed “FARM STORE”.
One Monday evening in September we decided to drive out there and just check out the area. It was love at first site. The house was newly remodeled, the gas station building was so cute! (I mean totally run down but I saw the potential), the chicken house was the length of two football fields, the goat building had its own fenced in pasture too, the woods didn’t feel tickey, the undergrowth wasn’t overwhelming, there was a storm shelter, a garage, a fenced in backyard – it checked all the boxes. So we put in an offer!
I was raised in Southern California and Adam is from Houston, Texas. We don’t come from farming families. But we feel the Lord is calling us to become stewards of the land. We are thrilled for the chance to learn new skills and the opportunity to pass them along to our children. We know that there is hard work to come, but know that the rewards will be plenty. We are starting from the beginning and look forward to sharing this journey with you!