Our New Old Farm

Reader Contribution by Sweet Summer Farm
Published on April 18, 2016
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Hi! We’re Sweet Summer Farm. After years of searching and looking at farm after farm, we finally found the one. Please join us as we share our farming experiences. We are a family of three kids, a mom, a dad, and Grand too. We closed on our farm Monday, August 3rd, 2015. We have now bought a farm that is 6.9 acres, half pasture, and half woods. It has an old corn crib, an old barn and an Appalachian farmhouse that is about 100 years old. The house was built by Luther Benfield and his father Christopher. All of the wood was milled by Luther and Christopher from trees on the farm. Also, none of the wood on the outside or the inside had ever been painted.

The house was built for Luther’s wife Stella Arendale and their eight children. All eight children slept in the two upstairsbedrooms, one for the girls and one for the boys. Luther and Stella slept downstairs. Also, there was no running water! So they had to use an outhouse. Christopher Benfield and his wife Rachel lived in a log cabin next door. Unfortunately, their log cabin has been torn down.

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