We spent a lot of time coming up with a name for our farm. It's 90+ wooded acres in middle Tennessee. A river runs along one side of the property. There are steep hills and small cliffs. There's great farmland beside the river - the bottom land. We cleared land at the top of one of the hills to build our house and barn. We cleared more land beside the house to put in a small garden.
One of the first things we noticed when we first looked at the land was the number of dogwood trees. We took our time to lay out the 1/3 mile long driveway. We didn't deliberately plan for the driveway to follow a path of dogwood trees, but that's what happened. Since "trace" is another word for "trail" - and since we live quite close to the Natchez Trace, we felt that "Dogwood Trace" was both descriptive of our farm and included a local historic reference as well.
A Middle Tennessee farm dedicated to living closer to nature and becoming more self-sustaining
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