Building Unity Farm - Naming the Landscape

I'm a great admirer of Edwin Way Teale's Pulitzer prize winning work about his travels across the United States during the four seasons and about his last 20 years of life on an old farm in northeast Connecticut. I was recently asked to keynote a conference at the Mohegan Sun and took the road less traveled so that I could visit Teale's property, which is now an Audubon preserve.Trail Wood is very similar to Unity Farm -  We have woodland, meadow, wetland, streams, and pasture.     I've created about a mile of trails thus far and we're busy crafting place names like Forgot-me-not marsh, Bluebird meadow, and Old Cart Path.As I mentioned in my Tuesday post, the mapmaker of the Teale property will help me create a similar map for Unity.Here are the features we'll need to name:Paddocks - we have one for the males and one of the femalesPasture - we have a large grassy pasture which is available for our animals to graze from May to October.   We halter and lead a gender specific group from paddock to pasture in the morning and lead them back at night.Duck Pond - we're building a duck pond this Summer for the Indian Runner ducks we'll raise this Spring.Orchard trail - a 5 acre trail that begins at the barnyard, travels near vernal ponds, and climbs a drumlin before passing the neighboring apple orchard and descending into the most dense, oldest forest we own - 150 year old cedars, 100 foot pines, and maples.   This trail passes by *A hollow containing o...
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