Welcome to our new homestead in Nova Ohio!

We finally moved to the country. We now live in the little town of Nova Ohio with a population of about 500. There were more people living on our STREET in Cleveland. The house is a 125 year old farmhouse on just about an acre of land. Plenty of room to grow our own food! Check out the pictures and the captions to get the full story.

Here’s the back-story: We always wanted to live in the country. We did the best we could in the city; our entire back yard was dedicated to our vegetable gardens, but it still wasn’t enough. Add to that all the noise and crime and… daydreaming became talking out loud which in turn became a search.

The hunt officially started on the way back from Carol’s mom’s house in Cincinnati for Thanksgiving 2013. I found a house on an acre in Mt. Sterling Ohio, south of Columbus. We loved it immediately, but thought, “we can’t take the first place we look at!” Turns out, there would be another 75 to see before we found “home.” Nothing was off the table; we looked at trailers in Darke county and shacks in Ashtabula, houses along the Ohio river in Brown county and just empty land in any other county in-between. We thought about trailers and manufactured homes and even converting a shipping container. We searched the entire winter, with a goal of moving by the spring. As our neighborhood in Cleveland continued to erode, our search became ever more desperate. We put over eight thousand miles on our car, searching, searching, searching…