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12-22-2011, 06:50 AM
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Sister Alvear
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Re: Any other farmers/homesteaders out there
I would love to see it...you can e mail me at Janalvear@aol.com
Many blessings to you...
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12-22-2011, 07:16 AM
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Re: Any other farmers/homesteaders out there
T2W,
When I am thinking/dreaming nostalgically I want to go back on a farm.
However, for the most part I am thinking of the overall atmosphere and not working on the farm - that is the part I definitely would not go back to.
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12-22-2011, 07:46 AM
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Re: Any other farmers/homesteaders out there
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Originally Posted by Hoovie
T2W,
When I am thinking/dreaming nostalgically I want to go back on a farm.
However, for the most part I am thinking of the overall atmosphere and not working on the farm - that is the part I definitely would not go back to.
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I am not going to deny it is a LOT of work! If it were not for the fact that we plan for my husband to retire- read get down to one job- here we would be overwhelmed. Just getting the milking, bottling and clean up from 2 mini-Jersey cows and a goat before and after work every day is a big deal some days. But I truly love tending the garden and raising baby animals.... and we all spend our days doing something, right?
Thanks for sharing your reasons, I do understand.
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12-22-2011, 07:48 AM
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Location: Maryland
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Re: Any other farmers/homesteaders out there
This thread makes me think about the dream I have had for years of owning a farm. Maybe it is nostalgia, but I have always wanted the white farmhouse with the fron porch swing, a weeping willow in the front yard and cows in the back...maybe someday.
Of course I don't have the slightest idea of how to go about making that dream a reality!
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12-22-2011, 07:55 AM
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Re: Any other farmers/homesteaders out there
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Originally Posted by The Lemon
This thread makes me think about the dream I have had for years of owning a farm. Maybe it is nostalgia, but I have always wanted the white farmhouse with the fron porch swing, a weeping willow in the front yard and cows in the back...maybe someday.
Of course I don't have the slightest idea of how to go about making that dream a reality!
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We first got an unrestricted double lot and raised goats and kept horses and chickens... once we were pretty sure that things were thriving under our care we moved on to a 10 acre tract and began raising mini-Jersey and Dexter cows and expanded the laying flock and added meat chickens. We also did away with the meat goats. A couple of years in we got a chance to buy 22 additional acres and grabbed it.
No willow tree but we got the white frame farm house with the big porch complete with rockers and 4 big live oaks. 
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12-22-2011, 08:22 AM
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Re: Any other farmers/homesteaders out there
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My wife is a farmer. On Facebook. |
Lol
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12-22-2011, 09:14 AM
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Banned
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Join Date: Dec 2011
Location: Colorado
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Re: Any other farmers/homesteaders out there
Lol...Oh, I was laughing (also) at the "Cow people are nicer than religious people," lol.
I'm surrounded by National forest up here; and you wouldn't believe what a little cultivation will do for a patch of wild something! I wrote an article, call it "Woodland Gardening."
http://www.wikihow.com/Be-a-Woodland-Gardener
We get 3-4 bushels of curlytenders (sorry, don't know what they officially are--the curled up sprouts in spring that would become leaves, from a certain tree) every year (no cultivation), for like, salads, or steamed, or just raw...we eat all we can, and pickle the rest. Stuff like that.
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12-22-2011, 09:51 AM
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Re: Any other farmers/homesteaders out there
T2W, my son when he was in the 10th grade started raising chickens for an agricultural project. We raised chickens for about 3 years until my son went to college. The coop is now a storage area lol.
I would love to see your website. I love goat milk soap.
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12-22-2011, 11:06 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2008
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Re: Any other farmers/homesteaders out there
PMs sent to everyone who requested one... Let me know what you think... we are in the middle of a major overhaul of the website. I love it but my CIS degreed son says it is not user friendly... Have to let the expert have his way.
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12-22-2011, 12:12 PM
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Registered Member
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Re: Any other farmers/homesteaders out there
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Originally Posted by bbyrd009
Lol...Oh, I was laughing (also) at the "Cow people are nicer than religious people," lol.
I'm surrounded by National forest up here; and you wouldn't believe what a little cultivation will do for a patch of wild something! I wrote an article, call it "Woodland Gardening."
http://www.wikihow.com/Be-a-Woodland-Gardener
We get 3-4 bushels of curlytenders (sorry, don't know what they officially are--the curled up sprouts in spring that would become leaves, from a certain tree) every year (no cultivation), for like, salads, or steamed, or just raw...we eat all we can, and pickle the rest. Stuff like that. |
Nice article.
Enjoyed it.
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