How do you pick your Farm Name?!?!

[Canadiannee]

Hi,

I'm not sure this accounts for "Radom Ramblings" but gosh, some of you have some very interesting farm names and it leads me to ask... "How did you pick your farm name?"

For our horses, we always used our last name... but for our goat and rabbitry, I'm looking for something different. Oh I love the classic names like Willowbend, Mighty Oaks, Elm Tree, Pine Woods... etc, etc, etc (you get the picture) but realistically... we have flat pasture land, not a tree on the property in sight, no river, no creek, indeed, nothing distinguishing except maybe that we're renovating a big ole late 1800's 10,000 sq ft barn, that looks like a tired old woman who's lost her grace and charm! (*laughing*) So how have so many of you come up with your farn names!?! Curious George by nature... I need to know!

Sincerely,
Annie

 

[Stacykins]

My parents call this little hobby farm "Cold Comfort Farm" after the book and movie. Perhaps because it is cold here and we are really quirky (not as much as the characters in the book, though), and we are city/suburb folks turning to country life (the book's narrator was a city girl who went to the countryside). I think calling the farm that officially would be a copyright issue, though!

I call my little goat herd my Mini Yooper Goats. A Yooper is someone who lives in the UP of Michigan. My herdname with the AGS and ADGA is short and sweet, it is just Yooper. I can't see myself living anywhere else now, I really like it here, so the herdname works.

 

[Straw Hat Kikos]

Straw Hat Kikos because I love my straw hat and I have Kikos. haha

 

[Canadiannee]

Hi Stacykins

Gosh, I've never heard of the book or the movie... and being an avid reader, lol, I am now anxious to learn just how quirky your family is!! *cheeky grin* Good thing you explained what a "Yooper" was, definitely a new word to my Canadian reportoire, and now I know if ever a time comes that I find myself in the UP of Michigan... and "UP of Michigan" would be where?

Congrats on getting out of the city! Ugh, my husband and I had to do the opposite when the recession hit... we had to let go of the family farm and move into the city, but you can't take "country life" out of a country family... lol, it's in our blood, and in our case, we lease two farm properties, one for the equine babes and one for the livestock... can't say I'm fussy about the commute at 4am every morning, lol, but I'm more than happy to have this alternative, rather then none at all!

 

[Canadiannee]

Oooer Straw Hats... heart be mine! What a great barn name!

I have a fetish for straw hats too!! But I like the big floppy ones, the ones you can stick hordes of silk flowers around the brim and flaunt it! *cheeky grin* And can't forget matching accessories... nice big straw handbags to match!

Your Kiko babes are darling... green with envy I am, I am! Would love to see more pics!

 

[fair weather chicken]

fair weather farm, things only work in fair weather! tractors, rototillers, lawnmowers,me.

 

[Stacykins]

Hi Stacykins

Gosh, I've never heard of the book or the movie... and being an avid reader, lol, I am now anxious to learn just how quirky your family is!! *cheeky grin* Good thing you explained what a "Yooper" was, definitely a new word to my Canadian reportoire, and now I know if ever a time comes that I find myself in the UP of Michigan... and "UP of Michigan" would be where?

Congrats on getting out of the city! Ugh, my husband and I had to do the opposite when the recession hit... we had to let go of the family farm and move into the city, but you can't take "country life" out of a country family... lol, it's in our blood, and in our case, we lease two farm properties, one for the equine babes and one for the livestock... can't say I'm fussy about the commute at 4am every morning, lol, but I'm more than happy to have this alternative, rather then none at all!

Heh, yea, good thing I explained. But I guess I didn't explain everything! Here is a wikipedia page on the Upper Peninsula of Michigan . It is like a completely separate state. In fact, in the past, the UP has tried to separate from the rest of Michigan!

 

[WhiteMountainsRanch]

We came up with ours when we bought land in Arizona that was supposed to be our farm. The land is just down in the foothills of the White Mountains. I looked and looked all around and couldn't find anyone else using the name so White Mountains Ranch just stuck, even though we decided against moving to that property and aren't in Arizona. LoL.

 

[bonbean01]

We are too small here for an actual farm name...but...since we are in Mississippi....I do call it Pissimissy Ponderosa

 

[Egg_Newton]

Almost all of our land is woods so Wooded Acres....