A farm: one building at a time

We are truly "building" a farm here. We purchased the land without any out-buildings, barns or sheds and quickly ran into a storage problem. After the hoop houses in the spring, the storage project this summer was a small shed. Vince purchased it off of craigslist, tore it down, and with two friends, put the full walls, trusses and floor on a trailer with ends hanging out over the road, and drove it down the street to our house. Putting it back up required making it our own, including new door cut-outs, siding, a new metal roof, extended eaves and artistic pieces to hide unsightly mistakes. All construction was done in between other jobs and farm chores. After much help from our fathers and their construction "expertise," it is finally in a close-to-completed state but is already filled to capacity. Visions of a barn, equipment shed, market stand and garage dance in our heads, but the cost of materials slows down construction considerably. So for now, our curing garlic shares a space with the bikes while chicken feed hides among tools, lawnmowers, and other odds and ends that belong in a storage shed.