Prairie Vale Unique B&B offers a tiny house farm experience by Jim McCarty jmccarty@ruralmissouri.coop D oug and Wendy Needy never planned to open an unusual bed-and-breakfast when they turned one of their eight grain silos into a tiny house. "It was just family expansion," Wendy says. The couple was trying to find room for one of their daughters, who needed a place to call her own when she came home from college. "A friend of ours stores his grain in those," Wendy says. "We just had him not put grain in that one because we knew that year we were going to build something so that one of our daughters could be there. She loved it. I think everyone else loved it too. They thought she was the luckiest girl in the world." "I thought that's the least valuable grain bin that we have," Doug adds. "And there's not very many square feet in it. And it won't take very long to do it. But boy was I wrong. I think it took six months to finish." Two years ago, with just one child still at home, the Central Missouri Electric Cooperative members opened the Silos at Prairie Vale as one of Missouri's most unique B&B experiences. The silos are located on a former APRIL 2020 | RURALMISSOURI.COOP 23http://www.RURALMISSOURI.COOP