A rose.....

by any other name would smell as sweet. - Wm. Shakespeare

And, a blog and a farm, by any other name, would still be the same blog and farm.  So, from here on out, Brandy Brook Farm is Stonewall Corner Farm.  I'm going to miss the name Brandy Brook Farm ~ I really liked it and loved the way it just alliteratively rolled off the tongue.  Alas... we have discovered that the brook that runs through the farm is not named Brandy brook after all and it just doesn't seem right to name the farm for it.  It seems dishonest, somehow.  The actual name of the brook is Glen brook and we are not going to use that because there is already a farm in town with the name Glen Brook Farm.  It was an honest mistake ~ Brandy brook actually runs into Glen brook and we didn't realize that the name changed before it got to our property.  I found this 1871 map of our town on line and it very clearly labels Glen Brook:

So, we spent some time seriously brainstorming new names for the farm and, based on some of the words that describe our place that we mixed and matched (quite literally - I wrote them out and we cut up the paper and randomly picked words to put together) we finally settled on Stonewall Corner Farm as the new name.  And, this time, it's official:  there is a business license on file with the town that makes it so.

All this means that, for those of you who follow or are subscribed to this blog, the name of the blog will be changing with the next post, probably in the next week or so.  Just wanted to give y'all a head's up.