TRENCHWOOD FARM

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TRENCHWOOD FARM

Type of Location: Business + Home + Community Project
Location: Feed
Lamp Location: Yes
Identifiers: Grounds (about four acres) are ringed with a razor fence that's three layers deep and also covered in powerful wards and antlers.
Hours of Operation: 7AM - 7PM
Employees/Roommates: Various - currently accepting full or part-time help
Means of Contact: Either 1) arriving in person or 2) dropping a line onto local druid (and interim live-in caretaker) Vyng Vang Zoombah's personal inbox

Trenchwood Farm is all the way out in Feed, but remains easily accessible by lantern. It produces roughly 1000 eggs a week and 600 meat birds a month. Produce is vibrant and varied with protected, clean soil and many, many rings of fortification.

If visitors arrive by lamp, they will appear in front a farmhouse of mid-century Australian design.

Behind the house is a gated courtyard, which contains:

• Newly-constructed stables for resident horses Zelda (a whippet of a thoroughbred racer) and Aoife (an enormous shire)
• Partially-finished iron and glass greenhouse that's behind the stables
• A long row of hoop houses to the side (for seedling work until the greenhouse is completed)
• A Guardian Tree behind the greenhouse
• A path up to the great barn where the chickens and a workshop tenuously share space
• A few other outbuildings on a quarter of an acre or so

This inner compound is where most of the action takes place. Even when it's dark, an enormous flock of chickens are often out and scratching around for moonlit treats. These are normal chickens, in many breeds, but...curiously, some of them are wearing little crochet hats. (A tradition started by Raleigh Becket, one of the farm's previous owners. It still continues under the new stewards.)

Chuck Hansen and Raleigh put months of constant hard labor into getting this project off the ground, and it shows. The entire place is thriving with lush gardens both floral and edible, originally helped along by Raleigh's power shift, and continues to be maintained by generous Sleepers and Trenchies alike. Machinery dots the property, along with palettes of wooden egg boxes and straw. A military ATV is parked behind the back of the house (the wraparound porch of which looks out over the busy hub behind).

FUTURE PLANS (as of July 2022):

• Finish greenhouse construction
• Goats - Dairy & Wool
• Animal Rehabilitation

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