Hello from Virginia in the Allegheny Mountains

Just joined - my wife and I have a small farm on the side of North Mountain in Rockbridge County. We're on the first range on the eastern side of the Allegheny Mountains. We have a small market garden currently producing squash, zucchini, tomatoes, and watermelon, three older apple trees, around a dozen pear trees in various states between grafted and root stock waiting for fall grafting, 15 root stock for apples, and 30 elderberry bushes. We're prepping beds for fall harvest. We're in a ramshackle house two miles up in creek in a holler. The house has five (maybe six) different stages with the first one from around1835. Lot's of work. We share space with a German shepherd and two Tennessee Fainting Goats and hope to add some chickens soon. We went full time on farming the land last year - I'm 74 and new to farming, so there's a lot of learning going on.

Bill

welcome bill!

sounds like you’ve got your hands full!

Greg, thank you. Yea, hands full but loving it.

Welcome to Permies! I didn't know that the Alleghenies made it south to VA; I thought they were only in southwestern NY and western PA. I thought the mountains farther south into WV and VA went by another name. (I should have known better.)

Hello! I’m a little north of you in Augusta County. How’s your farming project going now, a few years later? How’s living in your old house?

We’re young and only have a 1/2 acre with a 1930s house (much newer than yours, but still respectable… and still has lots of issues that need fixed).