We Bought A Farm!

I say it, I type it, I now live it and I still can’t believe it! Yes.. we bought a farm! Let’s get into it

If you at all followed or read past posts, we left New Jersey behind yo start fresh. Aside from DJs dream job opportunity we knew we really wanted some space and a different investment option. We had a great house back in Jersey but there was no SPACE. We didn’t have it and we couldn’t make it. When I lived in PA, I loved the big fields and farm animals right up the street, the more “country” feel. We planted a garden back home and had a yard but let’s be real…

So when we moved down here, we didn’t really have an option but to move quick. So into an apartment we went. We looked at houses endlessly during the off season but all our options were either great house and no land or a ton of land and a house that needed a TON of work.

Don’t get me wrong- we’re not afraid of the work generally but we just finished a project house. And it really required a ton of work, patience and time from the both of us. But with a baby coming and DJ traveling majority of the time- that wasn’t possible. So we passed and finally agreed that we would put our efforts into finding land and starting fresh. Thankfully, our house sale in NJ left us enough money to properly invest into a new build/home.

This really wasn’t an easy task but our realtor really helped. We had a ton of listings. We even had an offer on one that wasn’t ideal but worked until one day I found this listing, it was put up THAT day and I personally thought it was perfect. I had to talk Dj into it a little bit. It was out of our price range a little but it was in the most perfect location.. less than 10 minutes to work for the two of us, 10 whole acres, and away from the craziness of town.

Thankfully he was on board and our process began! We officially purchased our future family farm. From the day we signed the papers to close on the land- everything flew! We made our blueprints, signed the dotted line and we broke ground! Now we just finished living in our house for 2 weeks. (More on the house process later)

We imagine so much for this space. We have added guinea hens to our family, and we have a few animals on the list for later. We’re going to hold weekend GoKart events on a homemade track. Pick your own wildflower garden, huge food garden, farm fresh eggs.. you name it! This will be our future – our families future we hope.

Words cannot explain the gratitude we feel for this land, for what we can make out of it and create with it. What our son will be able to do and work for here.

Here’s to the future! To the Ruppert Ranch!