From City People to FARM FOLK
Sugar Maple Farmhouse
Written by RACHEL QUENZER.
In the fall of 2018, my husband, Kevin, and I were standing at the kitchen counter in our suburban Chicago home munching on some apple cider donuts from our favorite pumpkin farm when the idea of buying a farm of our own first took root.
We had spent months searching the area for a home with at least a half-acre of land, which isn’t the easiest thing to find in the suburbs. I wanted space to have a larger garden as well as chickens to give us fresh eggs.
Not long after that, while I was on a work trip to a peanut farm in Georgia, of all places, Kevin texted me a listing for a newly renovated farmhouse on 7 acres just outside
