Tiny House, Big Dreams
We’ve said before that we don’t plan to share ALL the details of our house because, at the end of the day, it is our private home and this page is really all about the farm. That being said, we had to show you what we’ve been up to. After all, it is the Black House Farm… we can’t just not talk about the house.
You can read the whole saga of getting the tiny house designed and permitted in our 2021: Year in Review post, so I won’t rehash the whole story here. Long story short, our plan was to get the tiny house done and get ourselves moved in last fall. That didn’t happen due to a number of delays and unforeseen challenges. When we set our 2022 goals (2022: A Look Ahead), building the tiny house and living on the land remained our #1 goal. After a winter hiatus, we’re back in full swing and making some progress on getting the tiny house built, so we figured it was time for an update. This isn’t a post about the construction itself. This is more so about why the tiny house is so important.
This little 258 sqft house is, at it’s core, a place for us to live temporarily until our main house is built. But, that’s a massive oversimplification of what this house represents to us. The past 2 years have been difficult for everyone in a lot of different ways, to say the least. In the midst of all the chaos and uncertainty, we naturally felt that it was in our best interest to completely upend our lives. We made the wise decision to sell our house and buy this land with no clear idea of where we’d be living in the short-term, in the midst of a pandemic. After a bit of bouncing around and 18 months in a rental, we’re ready for the next chapter. For context, this isn’t necessarily new for us. In the 7 years we have been together, Tia and I have lived in 4 different places together. After all of that moving, we’re done after this. It’s time to stop being ridiculous and stop with all the moving around, so this tiny house represents an opportunity for us to put down permanent roots. We fully expect that this land will be our home for the rest of our lives and, hopefully, a place that future generations of our family can enjoy. (Some of our nieces and nephews are begging to come out and help when we get animals, but we’ll see how eager they are once they see what’s involved.) This tiny house is really the next chapter in our story and the true beginning of Black House Farm.
So, what does that mean? After we get this tiny house built and we’re living on the land, what’s next?
I’m glad you, hypothetically, asked! We had a blast creating the lip balms and salves for you all. They were the first tangible products we’ve been able to create and share with you. We were blown away by your response and we’re so excited to bring you more, but we’re not all lip balms and salves over here… it is a farm, after all. As soon as we’re living on the land, our farm business really kicks off. Once our beekeeping operation gets off the ground, we’ll be able to offer fresh honey, along with the lip balms, salves and more skincare products from the beeswax. After we plant our fields, we’ll have fresh fruits and vegetables and prepared foods to offer at our farm store. When we get our animals, we’ll have fresh eggs and meat. Our goat’s milk will allow us to make soap and cheese. We have so many ideas in the works that we think you’re going to really love, we just need to be on the land. And that’s where the tiny house comes in.
We don’t always do things in a conventional way and it’s ok if you think we’re nuts for planning to live in a single room for a year (or more)… but it’s the catalyst for everything else. Nothing else gets started without the tiny house. We will continue to be unapologetically unconventional and I think you’re going to see that in the way our business operates and in the products we bring to you in the very near future. Stay tuned.
Let us know in the comments what you’re most excited to see from us!
