Woodhaven Place

Welcome to Woodhaven Place Homestead and Gardens!  We moved in Christmas week and spent the last 6 months getting this wonderful property ready for the growing season.  For three years, we have been reading about homesteading and looking for a property that would fit our budget and location.  A complete stranger we met walking around an open house told us about what would become Woodhaven Place in September.  The house was not on the market; at the time the owners were remodeling it to sell as for-sale-by-owner.  We discussed an offer with the owners and two days later put our house on the market, 30 days later had an offer, and we closed both houses the same day one week before Christmas!  Talk about a God-thing, we were amazed over and over how the process just kept moving forward in spite of all the odds against this happening. 

This is what our property looked like when we moved in Christmas week

Woodhaven Place is almost 6 acres in the middle of the suburbs.  Driving up to our home you would never know a working homestead was in the back.  We are surrounded by woods on all four sides with (after much work) cleared acres in the middle for a garden.  We back up to farm land on one side and the other three sides have suburban homes hidden by a thick perimeter woods.  With huge evergreen trees and hardwoods protecting our little homestead on all sides, you get the feeling of being out in the middle of the country however are only 5 minutes away from the mall. 

 One acre is very beautiful dense woods.

We have been so blessed to find our dream property right in the middle of our family and friends.  

Because we really are “urban homesteaders” we have a fantastic opportunity to expose farming, bee keeping, food preservation, and many other homestead skills to the surrounding community.  We believe that we have been placed in the perfect position to do what we have always wanted, live a more self reliant life and show others how to do the same.