Haven Heritage Farm

By October 2014 we were up and running. We are now offically a Grade A dairy. We still have tons and tons of work to do around our little farm. But we did it, we are dairy farmers! You can keep up with our progress on Facebook Haven Heritage Farm & Dairy. Click pic below to take you there! Finally in July of 2014 we dove in head first we made the huge move! This took us three trips from Utah to Missouri 22 hours each way. We hauled 30 cows 4 horses and everything we owned that we could squeeze in to our stock trailer. We came back out the following November and it was beautiful. The pastures had been mowed. Everything was green. We managed to get a lot of work done on the house in these two trips. All ready for us to move out! When we came out the following July after we bought the farm. The weeds had grown up so high you could barely see the house from the road. We actually drove right past it and had to back up! The kind neighbors came and helped in every way they could. We were thrilled to have such wonderful neighbors. We traded them use of our pastures for the year for brush hogging the place. It really needed it! This is the house after we mowed the front yard. Before we started fixing it up. We actually camped out in the house with no power or water for a couple days. Until we had the power company out. We were thrilled when we turned everything on... It all worked! This included the well, septic, plumbing, and power. There were a few busted pipes that we repaired, and we had to replace the water heater. But for sitting vacant, with the back door wide open, being overrun with wild animals we really lucked out! We set about plans to renovate the dairy and move 1600 miles from Utah to Southern Missouri. It was a big move for us, as we were leaving behind a lot. A successful business, lots of family and friends, pretty much our whole lives we had built. It took us a year and a half to finally get the nerve to make the move.  In the mean time while we were working on moving we made a few trips out here to get the place livable. Hubby and I love to farm. We decided that we enjoyed farming much more then anything else. We had an interest in dairy/Jersey cows, and decided we would really like to start a dairy. We started to look for a dairy farm. We much like most people didn't have a lot we could invest in to a farm so we knew we had to do it on a budget.  Hubby is a General Contractor so we knew we could fix what ever needed fixing. In January of 2013, after searching for years,we found it!  1600 miles away in Myrtle MO. We planned a short trip out and as soon as we set foot on the place we both knew this was the place for us! We were in love. And it smelled like skunks! We promptly purchased it. It included 47 rolling acres with large mature walnut trees. A dairy barn with all the equipment, a large horse barn and a small native stone home.  As it sat abandoned for 7 years the place had been vandalized and all of the copper pipes and wire were stolen out of the barns. Luckily the house had pvc not copper pipes and was winterized by the previous owner, so for the most part the house was intact. Besides being a little dirty and having a dead skunk in the basement. It was totally inhabitable. But everything needed work, and a lot of it! Mario & Heather Fabrizio © Copyright.