To all 'Rural/Farm Life' peeps, please check in

[jannyk]

This discussion thread is pinned.

...and SUBSCRIBE.
Wannabees and Dreamers welcome.

[Inchworm]

1. Check- I usually just lurk and absorb knowledge

But I'm in and subscribed

[watrwefitinfor]

11. Ditto in SC.

Glad they are keeping this one. I couldnt' bear it if I couldn't read here about the chickens and goats. My ten year old great granddaughter loves it too, and insists she's gonna be an organic farmer, grow goats, and make cheese.

Wat

[Scuba]

2. Check.

[WheelWalker]

3. I'm in.

Blessings.

[Autumn]

4. Right here

Love this place.

[frebrd]

5. Check....

I'm subscribed (since May, I think).

[handmade34]

6. ...

[Kali]

7. greetings

and subscribing

[uppityperson]

8. Hiya

[Jamastiene]

9. Checking in from the jungle.

I love it out here in my little jungle.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

10. Checking in from the California desert

[Tuesday Afternoon]

12. Here I am

[xmas74]

13. Semi-rural

but the town will eventually be swallowed up into a suburb, with the current rate of growth.

Oh, and dreaming of the day when I can have a small acreage to myself.

[FedUpWithIt All]

14. Took me a second to find it but I'm here...

This is my first post on the new DU.

Hi everyone!

[sunwyn]

15. Checking in from a small Ohio town...Camden

[pitbullgirl1965]

16. From St. Lawrence County New York

Checking in. No snow yet yay!

[beam me up scottie]

17. Checking in from north central Tennessee!

I still believe that trading broadband internet access for peace and quiet is worth every frustrating minute.

[jwirr]

18. Check.

[LWolf]

19. I'm here. nt

[dog_lovin_dem]

20. Long-time lurker

checking in from rural Illinois. My hubby and I live on 42 acres of wooded farmland inherited from my parents almost 30 years ago...hope the land will one day become a Centinnial Farm.

[dbt]

21. Greetings from L.A.

(Lower Arkansas)

Dog? Hell, that ain't no dog. That there is a redneck security system. Tell you what. If I'm not home, see if he'll let you in the house without taking your arm off. I got a hundred dollars for you if you live.

[dixiegrrrrl]

22. Lol! boy howdy, do I hear that!

I have one of those too, and I love the overall respect that people give a barking dog at the door down here.

Howdy from rural Alabama!

[PuraVidaDreamin]

23. New to the group

have a small 2.2 acre place in the woods in Truro. A yurt, chickens, large garden and commercial
size greenhouse. Trying 4 season for the first time. Passive Solar, have chard- kale, lettuce growing
like crazy. Using bales of hay outside of the GH for insulation. Employing lasagna gardening layering of
nitrogen/ carbon this fall to help ammend the soil. Have lots of access to seaweed. Labor of love.

Looking forward to learning/ sharing with this important group!

Namaste

[mattvermont]

28. I love Truro

was just there in october for a week. The 100's of seals on the beach were fabulous.

[mopinko]

24. wannabee here

buying a vacant lot 2 doors down in the big city next week. planning a small orchard and a big, big garden. some chickens, some bees.
but i'm calling it "the farm".

[MuseRider]

25. Checking in from rural NE Kansas.

52 acres of heaven, if you love to work on the land that is definitely my definition of heaven Horses, goats, dogs and cats and lots of other critters who wander through and never go hungry when on my land. Big grass pastures, lots of trees and ponds and a big big sky.

Hi all, I mostly lurk here but do post from time to time. The things I learn while here are valuable and I am so happy we are moved over and not deleted. I think I subscribed way back when we were allowed in for a while, will check and subscribe if not already.

[EFerrari]

26. Here. :-)

[mattvermont]

27. vermont

would love to see a more active discussion here.

[Alameda]

29. more of a wannabee than am.....although..

I grew up on a urban farm. Chickens, ducks, rabbits and many many veggies and fruit trees.

[Little Star]

30. Here. Hi everyone!

[Agony]

31. Check

[jwirr]

32. Already subscribed.

[shireen]

33. living vicariously through others ....

i'd love to live in a rural setting but illness make it impractical.

[Tumbulu]

34. Checking in

from N CA on my organic going Biodynamic farm where I raise sheep, chickens and heirloom grains- nice to be here again!

[rustydog]

35. Born in Missoula, Montana in the 50's. schooled in Ronan, Montana

farm with 20-acres, horse, cows, chickens at the base of the Mission range.
grew up in Orchard country Eastern washington in the 60's and 70's.

[MadrasT]

36. Checking in

I have lived in rural south central / southeast PA my whole life and I am not happy unless I can see farm animals out my window and hear frogs peeping at night. Lots of my friends were farm kids when I was growing up and I spent a lot of time on farms but have never lived on one.

I am a wannabee/dreamer... currently I live next to a farm on about an acre. My dream is 10 -20 acres with chickens and a couple sheep/goats and possible some other animals.

I like the quiet country life and animals and OPEN SPACE around me.

Not so good at growing stuff... but I still have time to learn and am thinking about some vegetable growing experimentation in the future. And maybe fruit trees.

Cities.... blah. Nice to visit. For short periods of time.

[LASlibinSC]

37. Alrighty then!

Just found this group. And it makes me homesick for the country. But I live in a little town in SC, so its all good!

[47of74]

38. Checking in.

My family has been involved with farming for over a century. My dad and two of his brothers are in business together, between them they have two main farms with about 200 cows and a couple thousand acres.

[Rittermeister]

39. Horse farm in NC

Live here with my folks while I go to college. Bucking hay, mucking stalls, having toes stomped.

[farminator3000]

40. Hello!

happy Jan. 16, weather here sucks! (east coast)

[womanofthehills]

41. checking in from Abo, NM

I'm up on a hill with a great view of the Manzano Mts. I've got 12 chickens and a monster rooster, 3 cats , one dog.

[toby jo]

42. Got a Perch last fall - she's a piece of work

Bought her at sale, fellow said, she's kind of too slow for my gelding. I hitched her and pulled some logs, she had me all over the field. Felt like I spent the day wrestling a bull.

She'll be bred to a Freisan, they make the most beautiful stock you've ever seen. Going back next week for a Belgian gelding to match my Belgian mare. I'd like a matched team, but boy, does he have to be pretty, cuz Angel sure is.

[wet.hen88]

43. hi everyone

I am in mid-Georgia...not heavy ag, but mostly pine farming and small cattle enterprise, but definitely rural. Born in Atlanta, I have been out here about 12 years. It is much like when south Atlanta was still rural, before the insane race for the airport to be the busiest in the dam world! SO....hello to everyone!

[fasttense]

44. Check. n/t

[mog75]

45. Hello

Subscribed on the ND prairie.

[Myrth]

46. Checking in

Checking in and subscribed. I live rural. I'm a professional with a penchant for hobby farming / homesteading. I am new to this site and pleased to see a group for rural folks.

[Bayard]

47. Is this still an active group?

Very interested in subscribing. I have a little 10 acre farm, a log cabin, and tons of animals. Gardening maniac. Getting ready to do lasagna method on a huge new flower garden.

[Bobbie47]

48. Canning

Wondering if anyone here are canners. Just getting started I am learning with books and some you tubes vidos. Thanks!

[cilla4progress]

50. Howdy!

Just found y'all.

Back to the lander here. Live on 13 acres.bordering national forest in inland Pacific NW with horses, layer hens, and family pets. Been here since 1990...living my dream!

[Faux pas]

51. Western Washington in the forest,

6.6 miles out of town with the Hoquiam River right across the road...Paradise!

[MuseRider]

52. I saw this come up on the front page

thought I would check in again. I have actually not been here much, perhaps I should check in more often.

I have 50+ acres of brome hay and woods and ponds. I have horses, down to 5 now and they are getting on in years, 2 weathered goats who are also long in the tooth except for the one who has lost all his molars and cats including ferals I feed and dogs.

I try to keep all but the pastures that are mowed for hay as natural as possible. Fighting honeysuckle and buckbrush at the moment and am losing the fight.

Anyway, a check in and a hello! Let's all try to check in more often, it is a nice forum.

[samnsara]

53. i live in the forest in central Washington State..... does that count?

[TEB]

54. Awesome garden this year

A lot of tomatoes every thing we planted is fantastic.

[Bayard]

55. Here in Kentucky

At my little cabin in the woods on 10 acres, with horses, mini-donkies, goats, various poultry, and plenty of cats and dogs. Little cabin has been getting a total makeover, going into the third week with contractor ripping everything up. Chaos!

I never see anything posted here....

[yellowdogintexas]

73. City girl now, but spent the first 20 years of my life in rural Kentucky

just north of Clarksville TN. Beautiful farmland; WInter wheat, corn, soybeans, and 3 kinds of tobacco.
Western Kentucky is the only place in the world where dark fired tobacco is grown.

When I was growing up in the 1950s and 60s, everyone had a large garden and a pantry or cellar full of preserves, jams , jellies, pickles and green beans. Lots of corn in the freezer as well as baby lima beans, black eyed peas and other veg. Some folks still kept a dairy cow and had chicken houses, pigs and beef cattle.
The nearest 'town' had about 225 residents. We stayed out until the street lights came on.

I enjoy living in the city, but I do love a trip back to KY every now and then.

[aschnackenberg]

56. Upstate NY here

Fonda (about an hour west of Albany) farm boy checking in

[peacebuzzard]

57. Knox county, bordering Knoxville, TN

Where I still have one member of my old pack of country critters: a 15 yr old raccoon color female kitty. Just acquired another cat, a severely abused large cat in recovery. And a shelter dog I adopted 3 years ago, a sweet and terribly shy small female that runs away from the cats.

I have two acres, and a very old farmhouse that is getting swallowed up by new developments. I still have a remnant of a wild and weedy tomato garden, one green pepper plant, and I fight the weeds with no success. I am luckier in the constant fight with wasps.

I travel often, but refuse to share walls with neighbors. I want to downsize but will not give up on silence and space.

[walterhpdx]

58. Boring, Oregon!

Greetings!

My husband and I transplanted from Silicon Valley to the tiny town of Boring, Oregon. Technically we're in the now disincorporated town of Damascus, but I like saying Boring instead. We're close to Boring, and we're hoping to be absorbed into the town. Though we are close to Portland, and the bigger cities of Happy Valley (just half a mile away) Boring/Damascus is a very rural suburb. We have 9,000 people on 12,000 acres. We live on a nice 1.5 acre parcel that dead ends in a Christmas tree farm.

Happy to be here!

[japple]

59. Northwest Georgia family checking in.

I've been a member of DU since 2004, lurked since 2001. I've been on various other groups on DU, but never realized there was a rural group.

[Farmer-Rick]

60. Just checking in to say hi

I posted on the General info board the other day and they recommended I subscribe here.

I'm a small farmer from east TN and raise sheep and grow organic vegetables. We don't have the organic label. We have the Certified Naturally Grown (CNG) label.

We have reduced the amount of farming we do now but we still love it.

I'm hoping to learn some things.

It continually amazes me how this small plot of about 30 acres has gone from a pesticide ridden, round up covered, overgrazed by cattle patchy dirt and eroded shale hillside to a lush grass and diverse ecosystem in less than 12 years mostly by us doing nothing. Mother nature will heal herself if we just give her a chance.

[jcgoldie]

61. Reintroduction

So I had checked in here awhile back, but I haven't been able to access my DU account for a couple years and now it says my posts were self-deleted. Not sure why. Anyway I have a small 40 acre farm in southern Illinois specializing in Nubian dairy goats, honeybees, heirloom vegetables, and a small herd of black Angus beef cattle. My wife sells honey, goats milk soap, and tomatoes and peppers at the farmers' markets. I love that here is a place to talk about farm related things with like minded people considering I'm surrounded by a sea of red locally.

[duhneece]

62. South Central New Mexico canyon lands

Outside of La Luz, which is outside of Alamogordo

[Maxheader]

63. YO! South Central Kansaaas!!

[FeatherFox]

64. From the Alabama Boonies

Next to a "hwy", keeper of chickens. Caretaker of local wildlife, except the hogs; we eat them afore they destroy things.

edit:
ps. how do I subscribe? (first timer; still learning the forums)

LOL, ps. I figured it out *grin*

[samnsara]

65. checkin' in....

...5 acres of forest in central wash state. Cougar, Bear and rattlers and the occasional 2 legged critter who got too drunk to drive down from the hills so they pound on my door for a phone. yeehaaaaaaaa

[cwydro]

66. Here.

Down on the farm.

[samnsara]

67. kinda late but checking in!

[DUgosh]

68. Tarpley

Texas

[MizLibby]

69. Western WA

Chickens and ducks and cats and a dog and a spouse. ❤️

[Maxheader]

70. The best life is country life...

5 x 6 bales and my bike....

[jeffreyi]

71. Just subscribed. Anyone messing with making/using char?

Is this the right forum for this?

[Tetrachloride]

72. formerly rural. maybe one day again

[Lilithschyld]

74. Hi! 👋

Living way out in the boonies, loving life!

[littlemissmartypants]

76. Hi! ...

Already subscribed. Don't know why I haven't checked in before now.

❤️

[yellowdogintexas]

77. I need to come to this forum again

I took a break from DU in the Obama years and when I came back I just forgot about checking on subscriptions

I re-subscribed. I decided I might need to re learn some things if food is just out of my reach; Going back to eating lots of beans and cornbread, I fear