Moving Back to West TN (Zone 7a)

Yea, I'm not sure how to start this.

My name is Logan and I currently live in Nashville, TN, but in less than 2yrs, my kiddo will be graduating high school and off to do their thing. Their mom and I split up when the kiddo was 3yo and I never really cared to date afterwards. Now, I'm in my early 40s and done with city life.

I moved out of Decatur County, TN when I was 18 and never imagined a for a minute that I would be moving back there. Yet, here we are. Here I are, rather.

I'm inheriting 7.5 acres of woodlands that's right on the Tennessee River in the south end of the county near where my grandmother was born and raised up.

I've been speaking with a few companies about houses, Dome Kits mostly because you can make them look like Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru's place in A New Hope, and the wind ratings are great (tornado zone).

Also, I've been making regular excursions out yonder to get a good understanding of the character of the land.

I'm super excited about the deer, foxes and turkeys that live out there (aside: I feel that the plural of Turkey should be Turkey, it feels clumsy saying it with an S).

I know it's going to be a lot of work to get everything to where I want it to be, but I'm looking forward to building it up step by step. I enjoy getting filthy and love watching things grow. I've had a small garden of some sorts for years and I'm excited to see if and how what I've learned will scale. Because of the proximity to the river and a small inlet, most of the land is sloped, which means terracing. That'll be a new and unique challenge.

A bit if history on the area
- Back in the long-long ago, the area was hunting and fishing grounds for the Chickasaw. We've found arrowheads and what we think are small earthworks from that era.
- Near by, in April 1862 The Battle of Shiloh (Pittsburg Landing for you yankees) went down.

Anyways, attached is some pictures of the land.

If anyone has any questions about rural West Tennessee or advice for someone diving in, I'm friendly.

I look forward to poking around here and seeing what I can learn.

- Logan

Welcome to Permies; and congratulations on your upcoming move -- good luck with it!

Congratulations, and welcome to permies! Tennessee is truly beautiful, from one end to the other. Quite a few permies in TN, too - and I drive through there, every once in a while. I used to live in KY, *just* north of the TN border, and my mom still does (she can be at the border in less than 5 minutes, lol) - and I have siblings in TN.

Domes are cool, and Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru's place is super cool! I hope you'll post pics of your progress!

Welcome to the forum.

That is a pretty property so I can understand your excitement.

Have you been able to ID the animal track in that picture.

It will be fun and/or frustrating learning to live with the wildlife.

respect them and they will respect you.

Anne Miller wrote:Welcome to the forum.

That is a pretty property so I can understand your excitement.

Have you been able to ID the animal track in that picture.

It will be fun and/or frustrating learning to live with the wildlife.

respect them and they will respect you.

Deer and turkey are the tracks in the mud along with a few other things that I didn't get close enough to tell. Likely foxes, squirrels, raccoons, skunks, coyotes, maybe even some armadillos. A fella that does bush hogging  on some nearby said that the turkeys have no fear of people and will visit and hangout. My great-great-grandmother had a pet turkey named Jim Bob. He thought he was a dog and slept on the porch with the other dogs, chased cars, and once chased my grandmother. That was pretty funny, at least until he caught her and it wasn't.