What a ride this past year has been. We the Vendette-Rosenberg (VenRosen) team want to welcome you to our new blog. Hold on to your seats, or just relax back on your sofa, because over the next few years we're going to be growing some wholesome green goodness on our 3.6 acres of paradise smack dab between Quebec and Boston (that's right, in MAINE)!
We moved into the house two days after our one year anniversary, that intentionally falls on buy nothing day :) or American Thanksgiving (translation = we are thankful that money can't buy love). Since moving in this 1840 farm house with 5 bedrooms, a 2 story barn, a dug well, a maple grove and an overgrown orchard we have been...lets just say, busy. Our dreams of living closer to nature and supporting a local community are coming to fruition.
We have been slowly preparing and starting our transition: opening up and designing an open concept kitchen to let the sun in and surround a wood burning stove - moving away from oil usage all together, sanding and oiling our bedroom floor, getting chickens, redoing the bathroom and cleaning up a very cluttered but filled with treasures barn! The cold frames we found in the mess of cardboard boxes are already up and getting ready to house our first planting of winter veggies. On the plans for the near future: taking down the chimney, building a chicken tractor to house our now cooped up chickens, constructing a passive solar greenhouse attached to the South face of our home - to heat and grow our food...mmm, build some bee hives in time to catch a swarm or two this spring, plan our garden and till the grounds, and last but not least have our first child in June!
Here are a few pictures to wet your appetite of what is surely to be a life-long journey of figuring out what so many peoples and cultures have already known before...let us hope that our footsteps tread lightly but that our love for this world will leave a permanent mark. Peace out!
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| The Homestead, shot from an apple tree out front. |
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| Our new feathery friends. 10 weeks old and just about to crow and lay. |
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| Opening up the kitchen/family room. Note the bongos and congas...all work, some play ;) |
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| Our new cook wear this new years eve, with our niece Charlotte. |
