We brought home our first official farm implement this week. I hope this means we’re getting this farm because we don’t have room to store it in our garage among the 14 bicycles. It’s an open bed trailer.

Now, we could’ve used a trailer, like say, ten years ago when my husband began plunking down huge amounts of cash at our local Home Depot. Don’t think I’m sounding sarcastic or anything, because really, I love it that my husband’s hobby totally benefits our family—unlike baseball card collecting or other stuff I just don’t understand. He builds furniture, fixes stuff, and remodels 80’s looking faux wood paneling. He can build anything—even rockets. I’m so in love.

We’re riding in style now. You’d think so too if it was you who had to ride on bags of compost flanked by PVC piping all these years. Now it all goes in the trailer.

We’ve used it three times already in the first week we’ve had it. The real purpose in buying it, though, is to bring a large load with us when we drive up to close on our farm. Renting a trailer wasn’t economical; this way, two trips up and it pays for itself.

In the future, we can haul animals, mulch, wood, dirt, and all kinds of stuff. It’s also a huge playpen for the toddlers when you’re outside. I imagine a trailer is a handy farm tool, and so it made a lot of sense to buy one. Just think what I was missing all these years…

trailer

Greg is building removable sides that fit into welded brackets
to increase the versatility.