New Farm Progress

Welcome to the NEW Autumnwood Farm - Eau Claire!
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History: I saw the property in June of 2005 and negotiated the purchase.  An elderly couple that were in ill health owned it and desperately needed to sell so they could move in with their daughter so she could care for them.  I bought it and started to clean the place up while they still lived there.  The husband did not want to leave the farm and was having a hard time emotionally.  They stayed on the property until June of 2006.  While they lived there I took down three old buildings and started renovating the large barn and the corn crib.  Once they moved out I demolished the house and am building a "Carriage House" on the spot that the house was on.  The carriage house will serve as a caretaker cottage or just a place that my husband and I can enjoy away from city life!

In the summer of 2006 I had the fields fertilized and planted alfalfa and mixed grasses.  We were experiencing a drought so I was frightened that we would lose the crop, but God watched over us and it turned out fabulous!

In the fall of 2006 I spent days on end painting the siding for the two barns and house.  I also started the fencing and put in a small raspberry garden.  In December I put everything on hold and went to Florida with my husband for a well deserved rest!

In the spring of 2007, fully rested, we commenced work on the carriage house and fencing.  I had the site for the new stable excavated and ready for the new construction.

Through the summer of 2008 we accomplished the landscaping, finishing the carriage house except for the stone pillars, cleaning and organizing the two outbuildings, tilling and seeding three of the small pastures, putting a firepit in the yard and getting some more  things unpacked and put away. The raspberry garden was a grand success. We enjoyed the fruit fresh off the bushes and the jam will taste even better this winter. One run-in shed has been completed and we were shocked how the price of a steel building could go up in just a couple of years!

 

Carolyn

 

 

 

Autumnwood Farms
30714 152nd St
New Auburn, Wisconsin 54757
Cell: 715.579.7095

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