What's in [your] name? (farm/ acreage, etc)

[Lanfear]

So Friday we get possession of our acreage where this brand new adventure awaits us. I want to document (at least personally) what this is going to be like adjusting as a urban owner to rural. I'm trying to come up with a name to call our place, but I'm having difficulties.

First off, what's the difference between being a "_______ Farms", " _________ Acres" or "___________ Homestead"? Currently we'll have dogs, cats and chickens. In a couple years I want to add a couple of cattle and some pigs, but nothing large-scale and mostly for ourselves.

I love the idea of something like "Free Spirit Farms" but I see that's a popular name already One of the main reasons for getting outside the city is for growing our own food (especially meat) and being able to provide them the life and respect I want them to have before they are humanely slaughtered.

I also show/breed newfoundland dogs and kennel name is LANFEAR (based off Robert Jordan/Brandon Sanderson's Wheel of Time series).... so would possibly like to incorporate the dogs into that.... The street name is Cedar Lake, however there are no lakes (just a stinky pond haha) so I don't want that to be misleading....


How did you come up with YOUR name?

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

I believe a farm sells produce or product for a profit. A homestead is where someone is trying to be self sufficient. Acres I don't know beyond Green Acres.

I grew up country and live in the country. I have never named our place. Most places with names around here are in the business of selling directly to the public, so your name should reflect what exactly you are offering so people know just by your name, or get your name from it.

 

[MadisonOde]

We’ve used the name generator online before, where you put in words you like and it will create names. Most of them are not good, but every so often there’s a good one that you wouldn’t have thought of.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Took a name from my family farm of Halfway Ranch Dad always said he raised weeds and kids we had 160 acres back then.. So to honor him

 

[EggWalrus]

I believe a farm sells produce or product for a profit. A homestead is where someone is trying to be self sufficient. Acres I don't know beyond Green Acres.

I grew up country and live in the country. I have never named our place. Most places with names around here are in the business of selling directly to the public, so your name should reflect what exactly you are offering so people know just by your name, or get your name from it.

This x 1000!
Other than businesses, I've seldom seen any one put up a sign, naming their home, for the public to see.
Mostly people with more money than they have sense.
If you're dead set on naming it, just call it "Home Sweet Home" for the first 5 years. By then a name will make itself apparent.
I've had 2 different neighbors move here from the city, talk about how they just love living in "Splendid Acres" or "The Happy Farm", only for them to rename both "HELL ON EARTH! " and move within 2 years while cussing everything about their place not being the city (bugs, power outages, predators, gunfire all around, far from town, and a thousand other things they hated).
Just give it time, it will name itself.

 

[DabblinDuckDabbler]

My hunny is British, and while he thinks naming a vehicle is silly (not everyone has a 70s station wagon named Galloping Gertie???) everyone in his family lives in a named property, town or country.

just bought my place a year ago. It’s suburban, so naming it is strictly vanity/whimsy, but I’ve been tossing around ideas based on my birds, which were in the yard before my bedroom was unpacked.

I got two Cayuga ducklings and two Australorpe chicks in that first batch. Was hoping for all girls, but got a male/female pair of ducks and two cockerels. Sold (yes, sold!) one roo, and the other is now the king of his flock. So since they’re the founders, the name ideas have centered around them. (And Founders, indeed—got em on 4th of July, so they were all named for Founders—Georgina, Hamilton, Martha and Abigail—which then became George, Hamilton, Tommy and John, lol).
Anyway, back to the property name—“Australorpia” is fun, but the Roo is the only one. He IS the undisputed king of the hill, so I thought about “Le Coque Negre”, but that doesn’t translate well
So I think I’m settling on “Cayuga Hill”, especially since we’ve just had a first successful clutch of Cayuga babies. but ya. Totally a thing I think about only when I’m procrastinating on thinking about what I should be focusing on…