“If It Flies Farm” in Northeast Ohio is a great example. I love a good laugh and so will the visitors to your place. If your family has a unique or aesthetically pleasing surname it might be all you need. “Barred Feather Farm” in North Carolina is affectionately named for the Barred Rock chickens owned by the family grandparents. Google farm names and you’ll find all kinds of interesting histories. It is reminiscent of the old family name, but also references the windy conditions here on the Kansas prairie. This led us to choose “Zephyr Hill Farm” for our homestead. In fact, the hill on which the house stands was often called Zeferjahn Hill or Zefer Hill for short. When we moved into our house we quickly learned that locals referred to it as “The Zeferjahn Place” after a family that occupied the farm for many years. Many houses, farms and tracts of land have an interesting story or folklore attached to them, and this can be helpful in choosing a name. I wrote this blog post to help get your creative juices flowing, and I hope you’ll find my ideas are helpful. Allow plenty of time for your imagination to flow freely.

If they can do it, so can you! But don’t expect inspiration to come in an instant. Life and literature are filled with delightful names: Green Gables…. But after coming up empty with internet searches, I resorted to my own independent research and inspiration.

We bought a lovely little farm on five acres years ago and wanted to find a suitable name for it.

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