One Acre at a Time

One Acre At A Time is about a man and womans struggle to carve out a farm in the wilds of Clay County WV in the 1870s.Tom and Callie Brown share their faith and good fortune with those around them as they take twelve hundred and eight acres of virgin timber in the head of Little Sycamore Creek and turn it into a working self-sufficient farm where they raise most of their food along with goats pigs chickens cows horses and one yaller dog all in the space of three years.They build fences houses and barns from the timber growing on their property and as they travel around Clay County people familiar with the area will enjoy recognizing landmarks that are still there to this day.