View of largest lake to which we have an easement.
Two acres of farm land Bonnie purchased.
Bonnie: empty wine glass signifying beginning of vineyard.
Preparing ground for grapevine planting, spring 2008.
Hole for vine which later created issues.
Vines are planted and Bonnie is resting.
Tilling with new tiller.
The tilling is done.
The annual rye grass coming up.
An individual Marquette vine.For some reason, this blog has been flagged by Blogger as a spam blog. We think it might be the word Farm in the name of the blog. We hope that Blogger will take care of this soon.
We are Bonnie and Kathy, two sextogenarians, looking to retire at age 62 and live off the land in a small cottage we are having built near Roanoke, Indiana.
The purpose of this blog is to chronicle the development of Blossom Ridge Farm, the name we have given to the two acres Bonnie purchased in Huntington County, Indiana, adjacent to Camp Timber Lake, where we have been seasonal campers for several years. Since our cat, Possum, already has a head start on us with blogging, we have placed this blog under his account and will let him manage this one also. His blog can be found at http://graytiger.blogspot.com/.
After a very long wait for the deed to be processed, we were finally able to lay out and plant our vineyard of 80 vines this spring. Then, after many more months of Bonnie designing the cottage, acting as her own general contractor and hiring her sub-contractors, we finally broke ground in September with the beginning of the installation of the septic system.
We are trying to build as green as possible. Unfortunately, green equates to a higher expense for materials. The metal roof was not affordable on our budget, nor was the cement shingle siding. We then settled on asphalt shingles that had a lifetime warranty which we have had to downgrade to 30-year shingles due to expense. The siding has also been downgraded twice.
That having been said, we still hope to go green as much as possible.
We are Bonnie and Kathy, two sextogenarians, looking to retire at age 62 and live off the land in a small cottage we are having built near Roanoke, Indiana.
The purpose of this blog is to chronicle the development of Blossom Ridge Farm, the name we have given to the two acres Bonnie purchased in Huntington County, Indiana, adjacent to Camp Timber Lake, where we have been seasonal campers for several years. Since our cat, Possum, already has a head start on us with blogging, we have placed this blog under his account and will let him manage this one also. His blog can be found at http://graytiger.blogspot.com/.
After a very long wait for the deed to be processed, we were finally able to lay out and plant our vineyard of 80 vines this spring. Then, after many more months of Bonnie designing the cottage, acting as her own general contractor and hiring her sub-contractors, we finally broke ground in September with the beginning of the installation of the septic system.
We are trying to build as green as possible. Unfortunately, green equates to a higher expense for materials. The metal roof was not affordable on our budget, nor was the cement shingle siding. We then settled on asphalt shingles that had a lifetime warranty which we have had to downgrade to 30-year shingles due to expense. The siding has also been downgraded twice.
That having been said, we still hope to go green as much as possible.
We are uploading, at this time, photos of the land at the time of purchase through the planting of the vineyard.
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