The Farmhouse

A farm is more than crops and fields. It’s also the buildings on the land. Our farmhouse is a simple, authentic home with a kitchen, three bedrooms, and two bathrooms. It has a “sunrise porch” which faces the east. It also has a porch on the north side, which gets cool so is good for napping. The house seems like a conglomeration of additions: When going upstairs and downstairs from the second floor, you have to duck, as if to suggest the second floor was an afterthought when it was built or converted from an attic. The floors are probably built on concrete blocks without a slab because they have some “topography.” That’s to say, some of them are a little off kilter, like an authentic farmhouse’s floor are probably meant to be. In the back (another addition) is what homesteaders called the “summer kitchen.” It’s lower than the rest of the house and is probably where fruit canning took place back in the day.