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- From: "stonecirclefarm tds.net" <stonecirclefarm AT tds.net>
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- Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Farm names
- Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 15:08:58 -0500
Since I was asked...I've long been fascinated by Stonehenge and other ancient stone circles. I like stone....stone walls, castles, etc. I also like circles and what they convey in terms of the seasons and life. When I named the farm, I had plans to build a modestly significant stone circle in a meadow toward the back of our farm. With all the other things that need done on a farm, and to our old farmhouse, that project has not happen yet! Someday... For now, we have a circular flower bed surrounded by stones around our well head.
I developed a list of potential names and then checked in with my wife (who works off farm) and parents and siblings to gauge their reactions. One of the best present I have ever received was from my wife several years ago when she paid to have the name etched into a stone (she hired the local gravestone company) to make a sign for our farm out by the road.
-John
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 2:31 PM, Bill Shoemaker <wshoemak AT illinois.edu> wrote:
I agree John. Revelations are worth the wait! So, if you don't mind sharing, what epiphany led you to the name of your farm? And, by the way, its a great name.
Bill
William H Shoemaker, UI-NRES
> Take it slow. A farm name is important and if
> nothing really speaks to you...or you're forcing
> yourself to come up with something... you should
> wait until something pops up out of the blue or
> comes meandering along that makes you say "a-ha!"
> If you're a song-writer and poet, I'd wager that
> something is likely to emerge from those sources
> eventually.
>
> John Hendrickson
> Stone Circle Farm
Sr Research Specialist, Food Crops
St Charles Horticulture Research Center
535 Randall Road St Charles, IL 60174
630-584-7254; FAX-584-4610
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Re: [Market-farming] Farm names
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- Re: [Market-farming] Farm names, Roots Farm & Karen Sutherland, 08/21/2009
- Re: [Market-farming] Farm names, Garth & Kim Travis, 08/21/2009
- Re: [Market-farming] Farm names, Mason, Lorri, 08/21/2009
- Re: [Market-farming] Farm names, Lynn Wigglesworth, 08/21/2009
- Re: [Market-farming] Farm names, juliew026, 08/21/2009
- Re: [Market-farming] Farm names, Debbie Moore, 08/21/2009
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Re: [Market-farming] Farm names,
Wyatt Jones, 08/21/2009
- Re: [Market-farming] Farm names, Garth & Kim Travis, 08/21/2009
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Re: [Market-farming] Farm names,
stonecirclefarm tds.net, 08/21/2009
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Re: [Market-farming] Farm names,
Bill Shoemaker, 08/21/2009
- Re: [Market-farming] Farm names, stonecirclefarm tds.net, 08/21/2009
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Re: [Market-farming] Farm names,
Bill Shoemaker, 08/21/2009
- Re: [Market-farming] Farm names, Beth Spaugh, 08/21/2009
- Re: [Market-farming] Farm names, Marty Kraft, 08/22/2009
- Re: [Market-farming] Farm names, Wyatt Jones, 08/21/2009
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Re: [Market-farming] Farm names,
Wyatt Jones, 08/23/2009
- Re: [Market-farming] Farm names, growbd, 08/23/2009
- Re: [Market-farming] Farm names, juliew026, 08/23/2009
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Re: [Market-farming] Farm names,
Roots Farm & Karen Sutherland, 08/23/2009
- Re: [Market-farming] Farm names, stonecirclefarm tds.net, 08/23/2009
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Re: [Market-farming] Farm names,
Wyatt Jones, 08/23/2009
- Re: [Market-farming] Farm names, Vinton Lawrence, 08/23/2009
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