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| Lynn B |
Posted - Aug 16 2006 : 3:16:18 PM
Hi everyone!
I am so excited to have found this! I live in southern NH with my husband and two toddlers. Last year we bought an old farmhouse, 1829, which is no longer a farmhouse but a very charming home. I am so excited to find a group of women with a similar philosophy to life. Slow down and enjoy the simple things. I want to raise my children in an environment where they learn to appreciate the things that are home-made, things they themselves have grown and/or made. I am also eager to find ways to get to know our neighbors and help create that sense of community that I grew up with, but seems to be lacking these days.
I bought MaryJane's book today and am devouring it! I need to make an apron!! Guess I'm going to have to learn how to sew! |
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| Libbie |
Posted - Sep 08 2006 : 8:15:37 PM
Hi, there, Lynn! I've seen your posts around the forum, but I never got around to giving you a proper farmgirl welcome, so....WELCOME! It's great to have you here!
XOXO, Libbie
"Nothing is worth more than this day." - Goethe |
| Amie C. |
Posted - Sep 05 2006 : 12:08:53 PM
Hi, Lynn. Regarding the composting in the winter, I think that in your part of the country (like mine)compost piles get too cold to keep breaking down during the winter. I have had the open, chicken wire style bin for the past few years and I just stop adding stuff to it over the winter and resume in the spring. The stuff that's in there at the end of the season will be fine over the winter, it just won't make much progress towards being compost. As far as I know, the only way to continue actively composting during the winter is to do it indoors with vermiculture (worms in a tub). I've never tried that, maybe someday!
Anybody else able to keep composting through the freezing months? There may be ways for all I know...
Amie |
| Lynn B |
Posted - Aug 28 2006 : 12:44:23 PM
Nancy, thanks for the great info on composting! If I start that now, is there a way to store it during the winter or should I make more than one container and will it continue to break down into better fertilizer?
Lynn
Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves, for they shall never cease to be amused.
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| CabinCreek-Kentucky |
Posted - Aug 23 2006 : 8:21:15 PM
welcome lynn .. isn't country living just wonderful! adventures your children will remember forever! xo, frannie
True Friends, Frannie
CABIN CREEK FARM
KENTUCKY
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| lonestargal |
Posted - Aug 22 2006 : 7:54:38 PM
Hi Lynn and welcome!! I too am trying to raise my girls to enjoy the simple things. I bet your house is beautiful. I love all the history that comes with real old houses. |
| blueroses |
Posted - Aug 22 2006 : 3:15:56 PM
Hi Lynn,
So nice to meet you. Welcome to the forum.
Debbie
"You cannot find peace...by avoiding life."
Virginia Woolfe |
| Nance in France |
Posted - Aug 21 2006 : 10:07:46 AM
Bonjour, Lynn! You are one lucky woman to be heading into autumn in New England. Singers croon about April in Paris, but almost always autumn in New England! Have fun decorating your wonderful sounding farmhouse. And composting can be as simple or complex as you want it. You can make a small bin with stakes and chicken wire (good for air circulation but not the best for creating the inner heat the pile needs to "cook") or take a plastic garbage can with tight closing lid, and drill some holes on the sides, top and bottom. If you want fast results I suggest the garbage can because the sun helps heat up the contents really fast. Start with a layer of twigs and leaves, then a layer of soil and start heaving all your coffee grounds, veggie scraps, bread, apple cores, grass clippings, etc. Do not use meat or dairy products because they attract animals. Dampen it and snap the lid back on. Then every day or so, turn the can on its side and roll it back and forth a few times to mix the ingredients. Maybe you have children at an age who would enjoy this! You will not believe how quickly you end up with a compact pile and it will be dark and rich and have no bad odor and if you see that earthworms have moved in already you know you are cooking up some prime stuff. As soon as a month if conditions are optimal!! Spread it around established plants or mix it into new spots you are planting. The cool things about this are that it is great for the environment, FREE fertilizer ingredients that would otherwise end up in a landfill, and there is no way you can accidentally overdose your garden with it! Have fun! Nance |
| frannie |
Posted - Aug 21 2006 : 07:46:45 AM
welcome lynn,
glad you found this site. i love it here. your farm sounds wonderful, as do your ideals for raising your family..
love fran |
| Tina Michelle |
Posted - Aug 21 2006 : 06:33:00 AM
Hello Lynn, welcome aboard!
~Seize the Day! Live, Love, Laugh~ |
| sunshine |
Posted - Aug 21 2006 : 05:32:54 AM
Just wondering how hard is it to do composting do you need multiple bins or do you have it in piles on the ground.
have a lovely day and may God bless you and keep you safe
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| daffodil dreamer |
Posted - Aug 17 2006 : 5:32:46 PM
Welcome, Lynn. Your farmhouse sounds gorgeous - I love things with history - I can't really understand the people who want a brand new house as noone has ever 'touched' anything in it.
I love autumn and winter too - would love to see some photos of the leaves, where I am living now there are no decidious trees so no beautiful autumn leaves!! I'm from Australia so we are coming into spring now, so I am admiring my daffodils and waiting for the tulips to show up. Nearly warm enough to start sowing under cover - I'll be real busy soon!
Look forward to chatting with you around the place,
Best wishes and keep dreaming,
Jayne |
| Lynn B |
Posted - Aug 17 2006 : 06:27:16 AM
thank you all so much for the warm welcome! It's wonderful to hear how many of you are connected to NH in some way! My dad was in the military growing up so we moved around from place to place, I landed in Massachusetts in college and stayed here. I never even thought about living in NH while growing up, but my husband is from here and I absolutely love it! And I CANNOT WAIT for Autumn, it is my absolutely favorite season! Especially here, I'll have to post some pictures of the leaves when they turn for those of you who miss them!
As for some of your questions, hobbies...I love to cook (especially bake). I also love to read and am trying my hand at gardening. Before we bought our house I have always grown things in containers, so outside in the ground is new for me, but I am slowly learning.
I would love to start composting, so any advice or info you all have would be wonderful!
We have a little land with the house, just under an acrea. Certainly enough for some gardens and playing room for the kiddos and dog!
thanks again everyone! |
| Mumof3 |
Posted - Aug 17 2006 : 05:18:28 AM
Welcome Lynn! Glad you found us. I have very fond memories of New Hampshire. My grandparents had a little trailer on Silver Lake and we have family up there still. (I grew up in Mass.) Even though I'm in GA now, my seasonal clock is still set on New England time and I'm already itching for cooler nights and turning leaves!!
You are going to love it here!!
Karin |
| nouveau_farmchick |
Posted - Aug 16 2006 : 6:28:18 PM
Welcome to you Lynn,
how wonderful that you have such goals for yourself and family!
Pennie
God bless Farmers |
| Buttercup |
Posted - Aug 16 2006 : 6:23:55 PM
Lynn,
Welcome!! I am so glad you found us!! I love New England and hope to settle there in the next 1-3 years. I also love old homes!! How neat that you were able to get an old farmhouse!! Do you have any yard around it? And yes, a sense of community is hard to find now days...but am sure you can find ways to create it! I love MJs book! I do not have my own copy yet, but I borrowed it from the library and kept extending it!!  I will be getting a copy for myself here soon. Do tell us what you enjoy doing such as hobbies, collections etc!! This is a wonderful place full of friendship most of all! I look forward to getting to know you better!! And as always...
Hugz!
Talitha
"If we could maintain the wonder of childhood and at the same time grasp the wisdom of age, what wonder,what wisdom,what life would be ours" |
| Aunt Jenny |
Posted - Aug 16 2006 : 3:37:28 PM
Hi Lynn...welcome to the group..it will be fun to get to know you here!
Jenny in Utah
Inside me there is a skinny woman crying to get out...but I can usually shut her up with cookies
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| willowtreecreek |
Posted - Aug 16 2006 : 3:34:15 PM
Hello! Although I now live in Arkansas I know Derry very well. I grew up in Quechee VT (just across the river from Lebanon) and my best friend lived in Manchester and I dated a guy from Derry for a while! Also did a mission trip to the Derry Church of Christ when I was in college! Welcom to the board!
Julie
Jewelry, art, baskets, etc.
www.willowtreecreek.com |
| Kelly43 |
Posted - Aug 16 2006 : 3:32:06 PM
Lynn, Welcome!!!! I just love it here. I have only been here about a month and if I can't check in every day I feel lost without all my farmgirl friends. You are abousolutly right about us all believing the same things you do. Everyone here is striving for the same values you are too. That is the thing I find most refreshing about this site. I really do think of these ladies as my best friends and I have never met any of them face to face. Everyone here really cares about everyone else. We stick together through the good and the bad. It's great to have them here through the bad, they've already helped me through a couple of rough spots. Enjoy the book, my parents have ordered me a copy ( and the back issues of the magazine) as my birthday present (next week) and I can't wait to open it!!
Kelly |
| sunshine |
Posted - Aug 16 2006 : 3:22:32 PM
Welcome to the group I hope you will have many happy hours here. Glad you are here if you have questions just ask someone is almost certain to know the answer.
sunshine
p.s.
I don't have MJ book yet but it is in the mail I am getting it in a trade it was put in the mail today. I can't wait to see it. I hope you are enjoying yours. Sometime in September the next magazine of hers comes out. She has a few back issues the first one is already sold out. But if you haven't seen them get them. There is no outside advertising and they have very lovely pictures.
Have fun
have a lovely day and may God bless you and keep you safe
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