For those on the more adventurous side, one might add garage or rummage sales, and estate or farm auctions.
It has a totally different conjure on New Leaf Farm. We HATE to let anything be called unusable.
If something was good at one time, why would it not function yet today?
Here, follow our thought process:
Air - the first clothes dryer
Cherry pitter (is that a word?) from Enterprise Cherry Stoner - made is USA - wish I knew the born on date
Farm equipment with WOODEN parts (it's called a Pittman & you should hear the tractor parts person laugh when you call asking about if they keep them in stock)
Grandma's rolling pin and salvaged butcher block
Crown Masson jar - predates Mason?!
Old fashioned hollyhocks
Original incubator
Inventor of pollination
Perhaps our activities down on the farm should be not called antiquing.
One cannot call it recycling either; things are still used for the original purpose.
Our wish is not allow things to become old, obsolete or antiquated. Granted at times this takes BIG TIME ingenuity; think wire, bubblegum, and duct tape.
So at New Leaf Farm we do not go antiquing - we anti-antiquate the things around us.
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