Eldon was born and raised in Shawano County to a dairy farming family and retired from dairying in 2017. Linda was raised on the British Island of Bermuda, but later moved to the United States with her parents. Linda’s mother’s childhood home was on a farm in Almonte, Ontario, Canada, and Linda loved visiting her cousin’s farm. Providentially, Eldon met Linda and found out they loved farming and adventures to places with interesting scenery and water. Eldon has volunteered to build churches in Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Peru, Ecuador, and Chile and while working for these causes, he discovered he loved laying cement blocks and building sheds. He has been honing these skills for quite a few years on our farm and with his wife’s rentals abroad.
For 12 years, Linda did Executive Rentals on the Island of Bermuda, while their daughter was growing up. She acquired two run-down homes, and with planning permission and an architect, she brought them to the required standards of Executive Clientele. In both cases the homes were rented to South African Executives. There were many days of swimming in the ocean, taking ferries, busses, and sightseeing, but when their daughter was all grown up, it was time to give that chapter up.
It just happened that our neighbor came and said he was selling his farm on the Embarrass River, and he wanted us to buy it, not a stranger he and his parents never knew. So, we embarked on a new journey to acquire this property, that we named RiverWood Farm, and with the help of the Amish, we gutted the entire upstairs, and renovated it into a vacation destination, all the while continuing to raise cash crops on the farmland. When the need arose, Eldon traveled to Indiana and returned with the covered gazebo, laid the large pavers, and re-erected the metal gazebo behind the house. Then he built the cement grillzebo and when a storm sent the biggest tree through the roof of the original tree house, he constructed the new “Pine Tree House.”
RiverWood Farm is located in South Central Shawano County, in the Township of Pella. Amid numerous recreational opportunities, within a few miles of Shawano Lake, Mountain Bay Trail and golf courses. We are six and a half miles north of Clintonville, the home of the Four-Wheel Drive Corporation and visitor museum.
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