Photos

Our pole barn house will look similar to this one

Our kitchen with counter tops and cook stove.

This is a storm front that moved over our farm Friday halting work on our house.

cattails on our pond

My friend Tom who lives just a few miles from our farm sent me this picture of deer on his place.

Our new widened driveway.

This is our electric pole with our transformer and 220 box.

These calves got loose from our neighbors pasture to romp free like teenagers. Their mothers were on the other side of the fence keeping an eye on them.

This is a ten point buck I harvested on our farm in 2016

A look at our farm from the west

Front view of our home

This is a picture of our new concrete floor in our pole barn. We had to have 3 truck loads of gravel brought in to put in a drive way so the cement truck wouldn’t get stuck.

Our new mower

View from top of Gander Hill.

The first scoop of dirt from the pond site

This is a picture of a old barn along I 80 in Illinois that I have been meaning to take a picture of every time we go to our farm.

This pasture would have been better if the local wildlife would have let it get established more.

Our grass seed has started to grow.

The two story pole barn house I plan to build.

We are building a style of pole barn house that will take advantage of this view of Gander Hill Pond.

After two full years of growing a oak tree has emerged from one of our tree tubes.

The gravel road that leads to our farm

Nick showing Niki the area where city farm preps their vegtibles

This is picture is from a post we did about city farm

My grandson and I

My daughter inlaw Sarah and grandson

Another picture of my gg grandparents log cabin. This is from the post ” Big Rock”

My son Tyler and my daughter inlaw Sarah

This is a picture of my grandson and in the background you can see one of my fruit trees that look a little rough.

A picture of my son and grandson on our recent visit to the farm

My neighbors pole barn house

Our New Pole Barn

Bringing the tractor to the farm

Back of Pole Barn House

This is a picture looking up onto our building site, you can see the start of our pole barn. This is also a good picture one section of pasture that is about 16 acres of Reed Canary grass. I hope my cows and pigs love it.

My wife Niki and I

This is a picture of the building site the way it looked before we started to build.

Building site after it was graded

A picture of my mother in front of my Aunt Bertha’s barn that I played in as a kid. This is from the post “Memories of Old Barns”.

This is the first two post that my wife and I had did the year before, This is the gate that I have a picture of at the top of my website.

This is a photo of the new gate and fence,

Gander Hill Pond

This is a photo of what will be a pasture. It is Reed Canarygrass.

A veiw of our woods

Veiw of Gander Hill

Not a deer, just my wife Niki pulling weeds around a tree tube.

One of our goals for the first year was to plant some fruit trees, we planted some apple, pear, peach, and cherry trees. You see how we had to protect the trees from the money deer there.

Veiw from our condo downtown Chicago

This is a picture of a tree that grew out of the tube after only one year.

More pictures of our trees

A tree growing out the top of one of our tree tubes.

Another picture of our tree tubes

Picture of our rows of tree tubes after pulling the weeds and straightening the stakes, and mowing around them.

Tree tubes along my creek

More of our tree tubes

Friends helping out

The little tree inside the tube that had survived.

Another picture of a tube with debris piled around it.

Brush Creek

Brush Creek

Picture of Gander Hill

A veiw of our woods

 

 

 

 
 

It was hard mowing the rows between the tree tubes because the weeds were so high.