We purchased the land on which our farm sits in 2017 and moved into our new house nearly a year later in 2018. In the intervening year, I made plans for the farm. (I couldn’t do much gardening, and I needed something to do besides worry about the new house and homeschool the children).
We originally chose High Point Farm for the name because the land that we purchased is near the highest point of elevation in Richland County. If you are reading this from somewhere mountainous, don’t be deceived: the elevation of the Blythewood area is only about 500 feet above sea level. The highest point is 570’ and is near our property.
The South Carolina Secretary of State’s website said High Point Farm was available for use as a LLC, and so I established a website in that name. I had a blog since 2011 and I migrated all the content from that blog to the new website.
When I was finally able to establish the LLC, I discovered that the state decided that High Point Farm was too similar to another farm name already in existence, HighPoint Farms. We began the search for a new name.
Our property has been a farm for over 200 years, and farms accumulate piles of junk. Tire graveyards, piles of bottles, and random pieces of metal litter the woods. Most of the woods are too hilly for row crops, and judging from the diameter of the trees covering the slopes and ravines, the forested area has been covered with trees for a century or more.
To stop erosion, and to dispose of trash before there was a public landfill, previous farmers through their detritus into gullies and ravines. We discovered the inspiration for our new farm name in one of those piles of debris.
This hubcap belongs to a 1937 Plymouth pickup truck, we believe, thanks to some Internet research. We found only the one hubcap in the woods, although I keep meaning to go back to the spot that we found it with a shovel to search for other parts of the truck. Perhaps the other three hubcaps are under the leaves and tree roots.
I would love to hear the story of how the hubcap arrived in the woods. Did it fall off one day, was the truck wrecked there, did the truck finally die of old age and was it pushed into a hole? Was the truck sold to someone in Blythewood who still has it, with one missing hubcap, in a garage? Perhaps surviving members of the family know the story.
Whatever the tale of how the hubcap arrived in the woods, the hubcap is now our farm signature. We searched for fonts and clip art to try to incorporate a hubcap into the logo, but we were unsuccessful. The clipart folks prefer modern hubcaps and wheels.
My daughter suggested that we put the name of the farm across the diameter of the wheel in the same way the “Plymouth” logo is across the hubcap, but we could not figure out how to make this happen, either. (We are not graphic designers!) We did have a little help with polishing the farm logo, but we came up with the basic design ourselves, which is reminiscent of a fat tire with hubcap in the center.
High Point Farm is no more, and One Hubcap Farm, LLC, is an official business, registered with the State of South Carolina.
