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| Annette |
Posted - Jun 26 2005 : 7:58:45 PM
y'all remember the salute from Hee Haw??!!!
I'm new from Florida and wanted to say hello. I'm so excited to be here sharing with you. I just recently picked up Mary Jane's magazine and instantly fell in love with it and the whole concept of this community forum of farmgirls.... I don't really consider myself a true farmgirl because although we have a little homestead with chickens (we about up to 35 now), I have to go into the "city" everyday to earn my living - but I'm definitely a farmgirl at heart. I can't wait to get to know y'all and learn from your experiences, especially on how best to find an affordable little farm up in the mountains of North Georgia, North Carolina or East Tennessee area. |
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| connio |
Posted - Jun 28 2005 : 11:17:12 AM
Howdy Farm Girls and especially Mary from Tyler
I grew up in a rural community in Northern Illinois, and although we lived in a little town called Harvard, I absorbed the entire rural culture and had many friends whose families had farms.
As an adult, I ended up living in Great Britain, Utah, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Indiana and finally Dallas, Texas (23 years--yuk). I thought that the farm girl in me was long gone, but when I bought a tiny farm and moved to Parker County just west of Fort Worth, I found that I had been a farmgirl all along! Have never been happier--feel like I have come back to the place where I truly belong.
Wish that you were closer. I would gladly let you use an acre or so for crops. I am only growing hay at this time.
Connie
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| Nana Naomi |
Posted - Jun 27 2005 : 08:47:29 AM
Howdy, Annette!
You bet we remember! In Texas, you don't need land to be a farm girl. Even in the cities, if you were born here, the transplants assume you were born on a farm or ranch! Sounds like you have as much of a "farm " as I do. I do have a friend who has a larger place and am figuring out how to trade supplies and labor for access.
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| mollymae |
Posted - Jun 27 2005 : 08:29:55 AM
Welcome to the group, Annette! I don't have a farm either, don't even live in the country (YET!), but I *am* a farmgirl at heart, and that's what counts!!!
Cead Mile Failte,
Molly
"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." --Henry David Thoreau
**When life throws scraps your way ~ Make a Quilt!**
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| jpbluesky |
Posted - Jun 27 2005 : 08:21:12 AM
Welcome, Annette, from a fellow resident of Florida! We even have a North Florida Farmgirl Chapter, if you are interested!
I was not born Floridian, but have been here for 30 years. What part of the state are you in?
jpbluesky
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| george |
Posted - Jun 27 2005 : 08:13:16 AM
welcom annette i hope you enjoy if you need any info about chiickens let me know ok .chicken george :o) |
| simplegirl |
Posted - Jun 27 2005 : 08:08:12 AM
Welcome Annette! Trust me...it is all about what's in your heart. I don't have a farm, chickens, or a garden. I have a couple whiskey barrels with herbs in the back and a couple in the front with tomatoes growing. I helped my friend (who happens to own her land whereas I do not) plant a huge garden which her chickens promptly ate much of so I consider myself a farmgirl even though I don't have anything resembling a farm yet!
Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have. ~Doris Mortman |
| Aunt Jenny |
Posted - Jun 26 2005 : 10:07:54 PM
Welcome Annette!!! If you have chickens, trust me..You ARE a farmgirl..and one of us!!
Jenny in Utah
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