The Possible Site for Restoration Farms

Kat and I took a road trip this weekend to view several farms. There were six farms that we had picked out and our pray was for God to show us the one we should place an offer on.

An interesting thing happened on Friday. Two of the places including the number one site that we liked became unavailable. Then yesterday the other four turned out to be either too run down or lacked the areas we need for our hoop houses and garden beds.

The point here is we placed the process of looking for a farm in God's hand and we trust that He will guide us to the right farm. It will be the farm that fits us best and that can be used to benefit those of the community nearby.

Out of the blue here is a piece of land that we found that really spoke to us.

It is about twice the land we were looking for but has the woods/pasture mix we wanted. And it is more $10,000 above what we wanted to spend but with some negotiating we can cut that some.







Here is an overhead view of the farm, see property on left with pond.
There are about 20 acres of woods and 10 acres of hay.

The property sits one mile off of a hard top road on a private road shared with two other families.

It doesn't have a barn so we would have to build one as well as a chicken coop.

We would locate the Restoration Cabin down near the pond. The hoop house and garden beds will be located on the north side of the house.


The pond which has an algae problem but that can be taken care of by installing a couple of water moving fountains. It is stocked with bass, perch and cat fish.

While in the Eldon area we found out there is a group wanting to start a farmer's market and are looking for a person to lead the efforts. Kat and I will be contacting them to apply for the position.

I have been praying that we would sell our house and find our farm by my birthday. Today is Feb. 12th my birthday and it appears God has answered that prayer right on time, His time.

The property is located about 9 miles from Versailles, 12 miles from Eldon and about 30 miles from the center of the Lake of the Ozarks. Jefferson City is about 40 miles and Columbia is about 60 miles from the site. Within 50 miles there are well over 150,000 potential customers and in the summer that numbers swells by about 50,000 each and every weekend.

The property is not exactly what we were looking for but after walking the land we felt very comfortable that God had led us to it. If all goes well we should be on the farm sometime in April. We are hoping to work out some arrangement to store our household items in the two car garage until we are able to move in.

Of course this all depends upon us making an acceptable offer. Come back soon to see what God is doing through us on the farm and in the community.