This week I walked the ranch one more time and made a list: things we got right, things we’d do differently, and what we’re bringing with us to the new 16-acre farm. Here’s the honest version.
This ranch has been home for nearly a decade. One hundred and sixty acres of meadow, mountain, and sky in British Columbia, homesteaded in the early 1920s by the sons of neighbouring farmers who had been working this land since 1906. When we bought it, we knew it was old. We didn’t fully understand yet how much of that history was still here, waiting to be discovered.
This haul looked a little different from our usual. We have an accepted offer on our ranch and are intentionally eating down our freezers and pantries so we’re not moving four large freezers and two full basement pantries across the province. So instead of stocking up for 3 to 6 months the way we normally do, we were shopping more like a regular family – just with a Costco membership and, apparently, a lot of opinions about granola.
Ten years ago, we arrived at Little Mountain Ranch with big plans and wide-open land.
Now we are packing it all up.
When we made the decision to sell the ranch and move to a smaller property of around 8 acres, the question that followed immediately was: what do we actually keep?
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