Help name my farm

[MossRoad]

Forever Yong Farm

 

[The Dougster]

Quite often, folks will name their farm/ranch after some geographic feature nearby... Cow Creek, School Creek, etc... If you can get your hands on a USGS topographic map you'll get many ideas... Good luck..

 

[tommu56]

"The Young and the Wild"

or
The not so young and restless

tom

 

[CurlyDave]

or
The not so young and restless

tom

"O, I should have used Preparation H"

 

[QRTRHRS]

Last place had a pretty good view from up on top of the hill towards the rear of the property. Not long after moving there, we had to put a young horse named Angel down. While burying her up on the hill in a quiet spot, it came to me... Angel's View Farm.

 

[jimmyj]

More good ones except maybe for the Prep H!

I got up this morning. A glorious day with beautiful sun, cool but warming, everything is spring green after some recent rains. Flowers coming, leaves coming and the apple and cherry trees are about to bust open with blossoms. The other thing that is so apparent was the INCREDIBLE number of birds singing.

I'll post some pics today.

 

[scgargoyle]

Pumpkin Hill? Pumpkin Hollow? Pumpkin has a subtle tie-in to your Halloween thing, plus I just love pumpkins. We found our property in SC partly because I wanted to see what 'Pumpkintown' looked like (not much, as it were). Now you're giving me ideas- maybe I'll incorporate 'pumpkin' into the name of my place.....

 

[Western]

"Noahs Ark"

 

[Redneck in training]

Young Esker Bird Paradise.

 

[jimmyj]

Here are some pictures.

The snowy one is from down back looking east toward the esker that the house is built on.

The island is our pond, the tree on it is a balsam fir.

The garden is my wife's herb garden, it's a big circle. You can see the veggie garden in the background where we are building a new greenhouse shed and will be soon tearing the old one down.

The sky shot is the reverse angle of the snow shot. It's looking west from on the esker.

The rest are some of our critters and wild ones too.

 

[Greenmountain Farmer]

Young's Pumpkin Menagerie

Tom in Vermont

 

[Flatheadyoungin]

we've been thinking about this too.....my place came from the northwest territory (didn't everything in this area!?) and the first owner was named joesph gibbens........sometime over it's history it was a producing farm and was a decent sized orchard.....

i really want to name it something that pays tribute to some of this......so you may do some historical research......

it seems that most places have two words for their name and usually ends with a universal word and the first word is something the owner likes, see, etc...

i would make a list of second type words, nouns, locations etc:

valley
hollow
farm
mountain
hill/s
point
grove
meadows
etc.

then, there's the first words that describe the place adjectives, etc:
sunny
happy
windy
bird
wildlife
beautiful


then, just try a combination of them.......
eg:
happy meadows
windy meadows
beautiful meadows
sunny meadows

see how it works?

this isn't written in stone and some people go with 3 names........

set down with your wife, kids, other family members and eddie's idea of using kids is great! especially when you have the pumpkin/halloween party, make that a game or both for kids to stop by and win something.......you have no idea what they may come up with.....

 

[studor]

Young Once
(Immature Forever!)

 

[jinman]

Frogfeathers Farm
Croakwood Acres

Since I'm retired from the US Navy, I decided I wanted an anchor somehow included in the name of my retirement home. The idea of an anchor and rocking chair led me to "Rockin' Anchor Ranch." It also has balance. Balance and reapeating sounds are good in names. For example, Frogfeathers Farm sounds better to me than Frogfeathers Acres. It's like illiteration in poetry.

 

[polo1665]

First off let me just say that I kind of agree with Egon on this one. I think you should name the farm yourself, it would seem more special that way I think.

That being said, I'll throw my suggestion into the ring.

Flower theme is what struck me the most from your photos (very beautiful place).

How about "Jim and (insert wifes name here) Budding Dream Acres"

Mark

 

[Brokermike]

Best one I ever saw was a farm/bed and breakfast called


"I Gave Inn"

 

[jrepp]

You really ought to have a feel for the place by now- what it's like, what's significant, what's really stood out over the years. I always like 'Hollow' for a country place- Halloween Hollow, Toad Hollow, etc. I'm having the same problem with our place, but we don't live there yet, so I haven't been inspired. So far, the only things about mine that stand out are that it's on a hill (which already has a name) and there are a lot of blueberries. Blueberry Hill seems too obvious. I'll think about yours for a while.

I have a good feel for my place, that's why I'm calling it: Wasp, Hornet, Yellow Jacket, Deer Fly, Horse Fly, House Fly, Nat, Chigger, Red Bug, Mosquito, Honey Bee, Bumblebee, Fire Ant, Scorpion, Rattle Snake, Water Moccasin, Golpher, Mole, Field Mice, Rat Acres.

 

[polo1665]

I have a good feel for my place, that's why I'm calling it: Wasp, Hornet, Yellow Jacket, Deer Fly, Horse Fly, House Fly, Nat, Chigger, Red Bug, Mosquito, Honey Bee, Bumblebee, Fire Ant, Scorpion, Rattle Snake, Water Moccasin, Golpher, Mole, Field Mice, Rat Acres.

What, no alligators? What a boring place

Mark

 

[czechsonofagun]

Well, it reminded me of a joke. No offense, just a joke

The young Indian boy had spent most of his life in a quandry... He felt different yet... couldn't figure why... he was just so depressed. He went to the Chief for answers... He asked the chief how his brother Red Deer Running had gotten his name...

The chief answered in his typically poetic way..."When Red Deer Running was born, at the moment of his birth, the first thing his mother saw was a beautiful deer running off into the forest... and so Running Deer was named. It is the custom of our tribe to name the offspring according to the spirits in nature visiting upon the birth."

Then, the boy said to the Chief... And how did my sister "Thundering Bird" get her name? The chief described again, how at the moment of her birth Thundering Bird's mother had heard a roar of thunder and looking up, saw a bird flying in the sky...

The boy asked again, how his cousin "White Crouching Bear" had been given such a name... And the chief, looking down once more at the boy, explaining the traditions of their tribe.... White Bear's mother had seen a rare white bear crouched over a stream at the moment her baby's birth. Then he asked the boy...

"Why do you ask, Two Dogs Effing?"

 

[jimmyj]

That's an oldie gone mouldie Prokop!!!

Flatheadyoungin - good technique. We actually do that at work to come up with names for products sometimes

Polo - we will name it ourselves, we just want help and creative input as we've not been successful thus far

jrepp - man, you nailed it. We've hatched a bumper crop of fine hungry skeeters this year.

jinman - I like the illitieration idea

Still haven't got one that "feels just right yet"

In a way, the one that keeps coming to me is simply "THE FARM" - understated, humble, simple. Reminds me of the old clockwork orange movie where the house they went to was called "HOME"