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More biners!!!
I am in the process of inheriting the family farm... I guess that means I am landed gentry.
My grandfather was born in 1899 and was a farmer for most of his life. he did a few odd things over the years such as run the first bus line in South Georgia but he eventually went back to farming. Our farm, where my mother grew up, was about 500 acres when I was a child growing up. She was the youngest of the children and she would bring us to visit the grandparents and play on the farm when we were little.
When granddaddy died in 1988 the six children split up the farm. Mama said the others could have whichever parts of it they wanted because some of them were farmers and still living near the farm and can make use of the land. What was left over was what we call the home place... The house they all grew up in, Granddaddy's shop, the fields near the house and the ponds. It ends up that home place section of 95 acres is what mama ended up inheriting.
During the '90s as my parents took ownership and worked to manage their 95 acres they made changes as they went along. At one point they sold five acres to the man that had been renting from them and he is a neighbor still. So the farm now is 90 acres.
I have spent the last week down here in Hahira, Georgia working to manage the dams which the beavers are constantly causing problems with and have spent a lot of time in Grandaddy's shop. The ponds are really pretty nice... Beavers, big bass, bream, crappie, alligators and everything else that ponds have are here... Mosquitoes and gnats also included. And moccasins and rattlers and all kinds of critters.
I'll post up a mess of pictures here as I share some of what I've done and hope to get input from Kyle, Jim and Al as they seem to have very diverse and detailed knowledge about some of the things I'm seeing that have me scratching my head.
I will be posting pictures of items from the shop and around the farm that I find either interesting or that I have no clue as to what they are so anyone that recognizes something that's unusual or can add some information about it I'd love to hear from you.
Here are some basic shots of the homeplace... The lay of the land.
My grandfather was born in 1899 and was a farmer for most of his life. he did a few odd things over the years such as run the first bus line in South Georgia but he eventually went back to farming. Our farm, where my mother grew up, was about 500 acres when I was a child growing up. She was the youngest of the children and she would bring us to visit the grandparents and play on the farm when we were little.
When granddaddy died in 1988 the six children split up the farm. Mama said the others could have whichever parts of it they wanted because some of them were farmers and still living near the farm and can make use of the land. What was left over was what we call the home place... The house they all grew up in, Granddaddy's shop, the fields near the house and the ponds. It ends up that home place section of 95 acres is what mama ended up inheriting.
During the '90s as my parents took ownership and worked to manage their 95 acres they made changes as they went along. At one point they sold five acres to the man that had been renting from them and he is a neighbor still. So the farm now is 90 acres.
I have spent the last week down here in Hahira, Georgia working to manage the dams which the beavers are constantly causing problems with and have spent a lot of time in Grandaddy's shop. The ponds are really pretty nice... Beavers, big bass, bream, crappie, alligators and everything else that ponds have are here... Mosquitoes and gnats also included. And moccasins and rattlers and all kinds of critters.
I'll post up a mess of pictures here as I share some of what I've done and hope to get input from Kyle, Jim and Al as they seem to have very diverse and detailed knowledge about some of the things I'm seeing that have me scratching my head.
I will be posting pictures of items from the shop and around the farm that I find either interesting or that I have no clue as to what they are so anyone that recognizes something that's unusual or can add some information about it I'd love to hear from you.
Here are some basic shots of the homeplace... The lay of the land.