Pasture Prime Acres is, among other things, a second beginning.
We found each other again after decades apart, married in 2023, and somewhere along the way started looking for land. What we eventually found in Gaylordsville was sixty wooded acres, two ponds, old stone walls, wildlife in every direction, and a feeling neither of us could quite shake.
It felt like home before there was a house on it.
Since then, we’ve been figuring out what this place wants to become—and what our role should be in helping it get there. So far, the land has proven to have opinions.
Our Story
The Land
Most of Pasture Prime Acres is forest, and we intend to keep it that way.
Roughly fifty of our sixty acres remain in Connecticut’s forestry program. The active building and farming footprint will occupy only a small portion of the property, while the rest continues doing what it has done for generations: growing trees, holding water, sheltering wildlife, and quietly changing with the seasons.
There are ponds, old stone walls, steep ground, sugar maples, trails, wetlands, and evidence of people who worked this land long before we arrived.
We’re the current caretakers. The land was here long before us, and barring any truly spectacular mistakes, it should be here long after us.
What We’re Trying to Do
We do have plans for the property. The property, as it turns out, also has plans.
That means managing the forest rather than clearing it, preserving habitat, supporting pollinators, planting for gaps in the nectar season, and choosing carefully where we build and disturb the ground.
It also means accepting that we have a great deal to learn. Apparently owning sixty acres does not come with an instruction manual.
The farm is still taking shape, and so are the stories behind it. Some of them even went according to plan.