1912 Homestead
Gardens, Land, and Boundries
Currently, the homestead houses a total of six gardens of various sizes and two areas used for potted plants and herbs. The first garden is referred to as the main garden and is located nearest to the main house. It is to the north of the ranch house and west of the main house. The plants that grow in this area are on rotation, but often planted vegetables include radishes, a leafy greens, beans, and tomatoes. Next there is the garden that is appropriately termed the berry patch. This patch has numerous raspberry plants that remain year round and open area for other plants. The next three garden plots are on a rotation with each other in both plant content and name. Potatoes, squash, and corn are rotated through these three and are called by their suitable names depending on what was planted. One area is located on the back side of the loafing shed, another is north of the first, and the third is on the west side of the white fence behind the garage. The newest and sixth garden was re-added to the garden assortment this year after lying unused for roughly four years. It is located on the west side of the Quonset building. The first section used for potted plants is on a cement slab directly behind the Cleary garage. The plants in this area are normally herbs. The second area is located on the immediately outside east wall of the dairy between the berry patch. This portion is also used for herbs as well as a handful of young fruit trees and plants.
On the homestead, there is currently 24 acres of undeveloped property that is used for pastureland. This land can be separated into two large section and three smaller ones. The largest section is roughly half the size of the entire property and is called the east pasture. This section is separated from the rest of the property by an irrigation ditch running the entire north-south length. There are two other irrigation ditches which are location along the property’s entire east-west width and on the east pasture’s northern side. The second large section is on the south end of the homestead and is called the back seven, implying that this back portion is about seven acres. The remaining three pastures are positioned on the west side of the homestead. Starting on the north edge is one triangle shaped pasture, termed the front pasture, area located next to the nearby intersecting roads. To the south of it is another, smaller triangle shaped section that has one side adjacent to the drive way. To the south-west of the small triangle is the third irregular shaped pasture. There are numerous windbreak rows on the homestead consisting of pine, juniper, ash, and plum trees, and they can be divided into two windbreak sections, a north windbreak and a west windbreak. The north windbreak runs across one quarter of the northern side and is directly adjacent to the front pasture. The entire west windbreak follows the homestead’s complete west border but the number of tree rows is reduced about hallway down the line. There is also an additional windbreak that separates one of the pastures from the main garden area. The homestead’s west boundary is Y-O Ranch Road and its northern one is Antelope Gap Road. The southern border is the irrigation ditch that runs the property’s entire width and the eastern boundary is a fence separating the homestead from the neighbors land.
