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| letpeoplewonder |
Posted - Jun 07 2011 : 06:16:11 AM
hello fellow farmgirls,
my name is leslie. i'm a 24 year old, wife, mother, eco-feminist, and transitioning farmdreamer to farmgirl. while i've always been crafting, cooking, and baking, this is my first year starting our family's grocer garden and raising backyard chickens. i live in north carolina, but even with its rich agricultural history, it has been hard to find a community of like-minded women to connect with. a friend of mine gave me an copy of maryjanesfarm and i was hooked! finally...people who get it! i look forward to continue learning from and connecting with all of you lovely ladies!
-leslie
why can't i be more conventional? people talk, people stare, so i try. but that can't be, because i can't see, my strange little world just go passing me by...so let people wonder... |
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| Penny Wise |
Posted - Jun 12 2011 : 6:35:20 PM
welcome leslie! i wish that there had been a place like this-and a person like mary jane!-when i was a young wife and mother at age 24!!!
Farmgirl # 2139
~*~ counting my pennies and biding my time; my dreams are adding up!~*~ |
| letpeoplewonder |
Posted - Jun 12 2011 : 5:41:53 PM
Traildancer- you're welcome!
osagegypsy- i love my shoes, because i love being barefoot. the first week or two is a real adjustment to having your toes not crunched together, but spread apart. it has really improved the way my feet grip the floor during yoga, my posture/back pain is resolving...or maybe i'm just more aware of it, and did i mention i love being barefoot. it seems like the most natural thing to wear them everywhere!
annika- i've got a few types of lettuce, simple herbs, corn, green beans, watermelon, zucchini, squash, eggplant, a few types of peppers, tomatoes, butternut squash, pumpkins, and whatever else my gardening mentor gives me to experiment with. i honestly have no idea what i'm doing, just going with the flow and learning from my mistakes. i have a monster chicken named attila the hen who was supposed to be a white barred rock but looks more like a white mini turkey. picka lil bit is a sweet buff orpington. then two nameless buff colored ameraucanas who act like dragons. my ladies should start laying next month (fingers crossed) and next spring i hope to add to the flock (and surprise my hubby with some silver and golden laced wyandottes). i will now be known as a crazy cat and chicken lady...i already have a cat tattoo and it looks like a chicken is in the near future! tell me, what kind of apron does a gothic farm girl wear? i'm sure it's awesome!
why can't i be more conventional? people talk, people stare, so i try. but that can't be, because i can't see, my strange little world just go passing me by...so let people wonder... |
| traildancer |
Posted - Jun 12 2011 : 09:11:45 AM
Thank you for the explanation. I admit I did have to read it twice.
The trail is the thing.... Louis L'Amour |
| Annika |
Posted - Jun 12 2011 : 12:11:32 AM
Welcome Leslie, from north Idaho!
I, too, am a fairly unlikely farmgirl. I used to be a goth rock girl =D Now at 50, instead of looking creepy and cool in all of that black lace and make up, I look like I'm waiting for my own funeral =P
I love being a farm girl! I thought I'd never find a group that I actually belonged in. We ladies really are like a big warm, loving and opinionated group of sisters. I am always AMAZED at the talent and wit of the girls here. I have the crafting skills of a gnat, but I do love to garden,cook, and I simply adore chickens! Your own fresh eggs are simply the best!
What are you growing this year? And which breed(s) of chickens do you raise?
Anyway, it's always good to meet a new farmgirl =)
Smiles!
Annika
Farmgirl & sister #13
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. ~Leonardo DaVinci
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| Blessed in Colorado |
Posted - Jun 11 2011 : 8:52:29 PM
Hi Leslie, welcome from Colorado we are so happy you are here. This is a great bunch of over 3000 farmgirls and I know I am so happy I am here as each and everyone of you are fabulous.
Good Night.
Farmgirl Hugs,
Debbie
www.etsy.com/shop/CollectThisTreasures
http://debbielynnf.blogspot.com
http://myworld.ebay.com/debbt |
| CMac |
Posted - Jun 11 2011 : 8:38:08 PM
Leslie- It is all about connection isn't it. At many different levels in all kinds of ways. What a beautiful complicated world we live in.
Connie
"I have three chairs in my house: one for solitude, two for friendship, three for company."
Author: Henry David Thoreau |
| osagegypsy |
Posted - Jun 11 2011 : 8:30:44 PM
Hi Leslie, are those shoes the ones that are supposed to be closest to being barefoot? My daughter has been talking about them. How do you like them?
"Though she never shook the stars from their appointed courses; she loved good men and rode good horses." unk. |
| annielaurel |
Posted - Jun 11 2011 : 04:28:29 AM
Welcome from a Florida farmgirl! You will find a home here with like minded women. You will have lots of fun here and will find lots of friends. You wll learn many new things, too.
~Nancy
One today is worth two tomorrows |
| CMac |
Posted - Jun 10 2011 : 4:42:24 PM
Welcome from a Tennessee farmgirl! This is a great forum with wonderful women. So much fun and learning going on!
Glad you are here!
Connie
"I have three chairs in my house: one for solitude, two for friendship, three for company."
Author: Henry David Thoreau |
| letpeoplewonder |
Posted - Jun 10 2011 : 4:34:14 PM
i think i find that i'm an unlikely farmgirl because i would have never thought that i'd actually BECOME a farmgirl. it seems so obvious on paper, but it couldn't have been a bigger surprise to me. just imagine me, a multiracial mystery girl, wearing yoga pants and five finger shoes, with my tattoo sleeve displayed for everyone to see shopping for feed and seed at the country store. people really don't know what to think about me, but they tolerate my presence. ecofeminism is philosophical school of thought and social movement that finds connections between the domination and oppression felt by women and the abuse and degradation of the natural environment (men control women, human controls nature). so...i believe that society has commercialized, trivialized, and devalued the skills that our foremothers possessed, making women reliant on systems who view their skills, knowledge, and work as backward and unnecessary. "who needs to grow their own food or make their own clothes when you can just buy it from a big box store?" so instead of valuing things strictly as economic resources, ecofeminists view humans, plants, animals (the natural world) beyond monetary price and focus on the relationships between all things. its probably really out there, but this theory is what drives all my farmgirl actions...hope that explains more than confuses!
-Leslie
why can't i be more conventional? people talk, people stare, so i try. but that can't be, because i can't see, my strange little world just go passing me by...so let people wonder... |
| traildancer |
Posted - Jun 10 2011 : 12:03:58 PM
Also, what is an eco-feminist? I haven't heard that term before.
The trail is the thing.... Louis L'Amour |
| traildancer |
Posted - Jun 10 2011 : 11:59:40 AM
Hi, Leslie and welcome to the Forum. I'm wondering why you call yourself an "unlikely farmgirl"? When I read your introductory post, it sounds as though you are one already!
The trail is the thing.... Louis L'Amour |
| laurentany |
Posted - Jun 09 2011 : 8:03:50 PM
Farmgirl Welcomes from Long Island, NY Leslie- this is such a wonderful place full of great farmgirl sisters just always willing to lend a hand. Enjoy!
Smiles,
~Laurie
"Little Hen House on the Island"
Farmgirl Sister#1403
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.. |
| herblady55 |
Posted - Jun 09 2011 : 8:02:19 PM
Hi Leslie. Welcome! My Sister lives in Franklin NC. You're gonna love it here!
Sister-chick# 905(Sept.14th 2009)
Judy
French-Hugs&Squeezles!
I am not contained between my hat and my boots! -Walt Whitman-
"Why couldn't I have been born Rich instead of So Good Looking?" |
| Fiddlehead Farm |
Posted - Jun 08 2011 : 5:11:01 PM
A big Wisconsin hay dare to ya Leslie! We are so glad you joined us. We would never stare...unless you were rockin some cute apron!
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farmgirl sister #922
Happy to be a "Raggedy Ann" in a Barbie World!
I get up every morning determined to both change the world and have one hell of a good time. Sometimes this makes planning my day difficult.
- E. B. White |
| fille de ferme |
Posted - Jun 08 2011 : 4:40:01 PM
Hi Leslie & Welcome from Pa. :)
Blessings |
| LightGreenThumb |
Posted - Jun 07 2011 : 9:05:04 PM
Welcome Leslie from Washington. I know you will like it here. I have found more ladies in my area through MJF and I'm sure you will too. Looking forward to chatting with you!
Elizabeth <><
Farmgirl #3091
Simplicity is Beautiful. |
| Aunt Jenny |
Posted - Jun 07 2011 : 8:00:58 PM
Welcome Leslie!!
Jenny in Utah
Proud Farmgirl sister #24
Inside me there is a skinny woman crying to get out...but I can usually shut her up with cookies
http://www.auntjennysworld.blogspot.com/ visit my little online shop at www.auntjenny.etsy.com |
| kristin sherrill |
Posted - Jun 07 2011 : 6:04:08 PM
Hi Leslie. I feel the same way sometimes. I love your name. I know people wonder about me. And I let them. Why not? I know you will fit right in here with all of us. I am always being asked what I am growing or butchering or milking. But I LOVE IT!
So welcome from Georgia and jump right on in. Make yourself at home.
Kris
Happiness is simple. |
| embchicken |
Posted - Jun 07 2011 : 5:58:04 PM
Hi Leslie~ Welcome! This is a really great place to share and learn. The ladies here are awesome!
~ Elaine
Farmgirl sister #2822
"Find yourself a cup of tea; the teapot is behind you. Now tell me about hundreds of things." ~Saki
http://embchicken.blogspot.com
http://gusandtrudy.blogspot.com |
| Mariebelle |
Posted - Jun 07 2011 : 1:05:03 PM
Hi Leslie,
I am new too, but have been so busy reading and replying i feel like an old timer here! hahaha
It's so much fun to chat with like minded and like hearted women- so much to gleen.
Born in the wrong era...
Marie |
| DeeDee |
Posted - Jun 07 2011 : 12:59:11 PM
Great to have you join us here
“Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for awhile and leave footprints on our hearts. And we are never, ever the same.” |
| SarAvery |
Posted - Jun 07 2011 : 08:46:15 AM
Welcome! There is so much to learn here, you will truly enjoy it :)
Farmgirl #3137 |
| crafter |
Posted - Jun 07 2011 : 06:32:20 AM
Welcone Leslie- this is a great place to be, so happy you are joining us!1
Lori |
| FieldsofThyme |
Posted - Jun 07 2011 : 06:22:14 AM
Welcome Leslie. You will love it here. I am learning new things every day.
Farmgirl #800
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http://scrapreusedandrecycledartprojects.blogspot.com/
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