Category Archives: Missouri

Missouri Ozarks: What’s Great & What’s Not

Posted on June 22, 2017 by | 21 comments
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Our blog made it onto the list of the Top 60 Blogs in Missouri.

It has now been three years since we purchased our farm in the Missouri Ozarks. What a whirlwind of three years it has been!  We are very grateful to be here and are enjoying our new routine, but like anything, it isn’t perfection either.  When we were making our decision regarding moving to the area, we kept looking for someone writing about their experiences in the area.  There were several blogs and such, but very little information about how people really felt about the area after having spent some time here.

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Why would you quit your job and move to MO?

Posted on July 3, 2014 by | 8 comments

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Numerous people have asked “why on earth would you leave your stable office job that pays well”?  Well… some things are hard to explain.  My best explanation is either mid-life crisis or temporary insanity.  Seriously though, it is really quite hard to explain and sometimes I’m not sure that we even really understand, but we somehow felt moved to do so.  Here are some of the things that went through our minds:

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Why MO?

Posted on June 10, 2014 by | Leave a comment

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People often ask us “why Missouri” or even more specifically, “why Ava, MO”?  This is something we’ve given a tremendous amount of thought to, but isn’t always easy to answer on the spot.  Here are some of our motivations:

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What are you doing?

Posted on June 1, 2014 by | Leave a comment

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One question that we get asked a lot is “so, what are you going to do here?”  On the surface, this seems like a simple enough question, but I often find myself struggling to answer it.  To a large extent, this is because “what we want to do” doesn’t fit any of the typical farming models.  We don’t want to just raise cattle, or veggies, or pigs.  We want to do all those and more.  This often leaves people with the conclusion that we really don’t have any idea what we are going to do.  Partly this is true, it is still forming, but we do have some rough ideas.  Here are some of the current thoughts:

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Finally doing it

Posted on April 18, 2014 by | Leave a comment

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After years of talking about it, we have finally decided to pull up stakes in CO and head east to water!  We have finally decided to move Mountain Acres Farm to Missouri!  We will be located near Ava, MO on an old dairy farm.  This farm hasn’t seen a lot of love for quite some time, so much work is needed on buildings and just general clean up.  There is a pretty decent farm house, an old milking parlor in need of some TLC, and several old barns in various states of disrepair.  Our hope is to save many of the buildings.

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