We did some brush clearing in the upper pasture where we hope to build our campus. Nothing radical, just refreshing and widening the access paths.
Here’s the turn off from the main road running through the property. This path leads to the build site. Essentially, you go up and then you turn left and walk down. (Up is east and down is north). The working name for this field is St. Peter because it’s the first open land on the property. It’s close to home. The second large pasture farther in will be St. Paul because, of course, he wandered. And the third piece of large open land — the highest on the property — is Ss. Cyril and Methodius because they went up! We don’t know if any of this will stick.
This is the from eastern tree line looking west over the pasture. It’s impossible to capture the scale without something to lend perspective, but it’s a huge field that slopes gently downward to the west. (Great sunsets here). This will be, God willing, the view from the chapel which will be at the highest point of the campus looking down and over the campus buildings to the athletic fields at the far western end.
Again, it’s difficult to get a full visual but along the northern edge of the build site is a wet-weather creek and another pasture beyond. It’s separated from the build site by a line of timber and beyond it is dense wooded acreage. This, set back in the woods, is where the bunkhouses will go. The boys will have a lot of input on how the land adjacent to their bunkhouses will be used. The first thing they’ll have to do is build a pontoon bridge for when the water runs in that creek! (We should probably name this land in honor of St. Patrick to keep the snakes away).
Here’s a view from the western side — imagine a rugby pitch here — looking back up to the where the chapel will be. It’s a lot of land.
This is where we’ve been. Looking back at St. Peter from the western access.
And this will set us up for the next post. When you leave St. Peter, you enter into a significant part of our property set aside for, what we hope will be, a first-rate agriculture program. The pastures and the entire program are named in honor of St. Sophia. A lot more about that coming soon. Stay tuned.
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