Special event venue and photography location in Moccasin Gap, Florida
What's a nutbird? Come visit us and find out!
Special event venue and photography location in Moccasin Gap, Florida
What's a nutbird? Come visit us and find out!
Special Event Rental
Photography Location
Photography Location
Photography Location
We invite you to come create your own treasured moments captured by a family or professional photographer. We rent time on the farm by the hour. We believe photos tell stories, so be sure to see our photo album here to get to know us better!
Special Event Rental
Photography Location
Photography Location
Baby showers, bridal showers, tea parties, family reunions, or casual business retreats, our on-site cottage, the "Bird House", can accommodate up to 30 people indoors or out. Bring in your own caterer, decorate and enjoy your own private location.
Accommodations
Photography Location
Accommodations
The "Bird House" is a private home with an awesome view and an additional "Bird Nest" apartment upstairs. Two-night minimum stays can be added to a daily event rental, or rent the whole house for the weekend. Sit on the porch, celebrate, then rest awhile.
The Bird House Cottage
More about Nutbird Hill as a photo location, $75/hour
We sometimes have babies! Contact us to ask what might be available.
Great sunsets, huge green pastures and lots of scenery for perfect back drops.
Small and large props can be added to the rental, or feel free to bring your own.
Prom parties, pre-wedding and wedding day photos, themed photo days, and more.
Small private affairs, special events and casual retreats up to 30 people, indoors or out.
Our Story
Livin' the Dream!
We are lifelong residents of Tallahassee and are blessed we are to be able to share Nutbird Hill Farm with you as a photography location, special event venue, or to sell our livestock - piglets, goats, Belted Galloway cattle.
Having purchased the hill in 2011, we spent several years just raking up pine straw, building our barn by hand, playing with our donkeys and cows and raising our nutbirds (have you figured out what a nutbird is yet?). Covered with pine trees, the hill was shady in the summer, and provided plenty of wood for campfires in winter. Have you ever seen the starry night sky in the Moccasin Gap area?
Our kids learned how to care for the animals, work and play hard, and do whatever it is kids do without a television. For my husband and I, we were building our dream.
In 2016 we had more animals than grass so decided to open up the land. When the trees came down it looked like Armageddon on the hill! We burned tree branches and stumps for a solid year. The grass finally came in, but who would have thought there is so much to know about growing grass!
Then came the fences...our first work party managed to enclose a two-acre pasture in one day! We call them hundred-year-fences and hope future generations of nutbirds are still protected by them. More fences meant more animals to come.
In addition to our donkeys, we started working with bees, added alpaca, goats, a few spectacular Watusi cows, a Highlander cow, Belted Galloway (Oreo cookie cows), Kunekune pigs, chickens, an orchard, and two grandparents to our farm. The most fun is what we didn't expect...beautiful butterflies, quail in the front yard, hummingbirds, owl conversations at night, bats, the eerie sound of coyote packs in the plantation across the road, and dung beetles in the stalls. So fun!
Summer of 2018 brought tragedy to Nutbird Hill. Our barn, built by hand for years by our family and friends, burned to the ground taking with it our car (which started the fire) and the 35' RV parked behind it, not to mention several 90' pine trees. But we are so blessed! Not one firefighter or animal got hurt. We'd like to invite the person who flew up the driveway at breakneck speed alerting others of the fire, to come visit us for hugs. This individual chased animals out of their stalls but didn't stay around for our gratitude. We will always and forever be grateful. We love our local fireman - heros, one and all! Since then, we have rebuilt the barn and completed our multi-generational home on the property.
We are now ready to share Nutbird Hill. We sell wildflower honey and eggs, goats, cows, miniature donkeys and Kunekune piglets. We take reservations for photo shoots, have a small cottage to rent for special events, and two-bedrooms for overnight accommodations for guests. Please come visit!
Livin' the Dream...
The Dodd Family: David, Donna, Wyatt, Anna, and Ruby
