Mimi Bauernhaus - auf 70 Hektar großen Family Farm (Flower & Goats)

My parents purchased the farm in 1976 just as I had graduated from high school. The old farmhouse was the only home on the farm. It was a very old and worn out pre-Civil War farmhouse with too many issues for my parents to assume so they built a 2-story brick home. Eventually I was married and in 1983-1986, my husband and I built our home on the farm and we raised three children.

My eldest daughter, Jill, got married at the farm with the mountain in her backdrop and reception in our barn which was long before the barn craze had begun. After the wedding, we returned the animals to the barn and began the project of helping my daughter and son-in-law renovate the old farmhouse. Years later we began hosting weddings at the farm. We still host many weddings here each year seasonally.

We have always been animal nuts so we have a slew of animals; horses, goats, cows, chickens, dogs, and cats currently. We have always have gardens, flowers, fruit trees, and such. As the years have passed, we morphed into a flower farm specializing in purposeful blooms to not only facilitate our wedding business but with workshops, wreath makings, community events, and such. We are a working farm and just like the old-time farmers of the past, we dabble in this and that here on the farm to make the most of our assets and to share a bit of heaven to many visitors - not only from our weddings but from our lodging guests as well.

This is a family farm where we still live and we are all hands-on in all we do here. My daughter Jill and her family still live on the property but further away. The vintage farmhouse is also rented for lodging options when not being utilized for our weddings. She is often on the tractor moving cows from pasture to pasture or maintaining the flower gardens. My husband, David, is the Jack of all Trades doing anything from maintenance to being our quasi farm "Walmart Greeter." Grandchildren may be riding horses or fishing in the creek. We feel blessed.