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To all 'Rural/Farm Life' peeps, please check in (Original Post) jannyk Dec 2011 OP
Check- I usually just lurk and absorb knowledge Inchworm Dec 2011 #1
Ditto in SC. watrwefitinfor Dec 2011 #11
Check. Scuba Dec 2011 #2
I'm in. WheelWalker Dec 2011 #3
Right here Autumn Dec 2011 #4
Check.... frebrd Dec 2011 #5
... handmade34 Dec 2011 #6
greetings Kali Dec 2011 #7
Hiya uppityperson Dec 2011 #8
Checking in from the jungle. Jamastiene Dec 2011 #9
Checking in from the California desert ProgressiveProfessor Dec 2011 #10
Here I am Tuesday Afternoon Dec 2011 #12
Semi-rural xmas74 Dec 2011 #13
Took me a second to find it but I'm here... FedUpWithIt All Dec 2011 #14
Checking in from a small Ohio town...Camden sunwyn Dec 2011 #15
From St. Lawrence County New York pitbullgirl1965 Dec 2011 #16
Checking in from north central Tennessee! beam me up scottie Dec 2011 #17
Check. jwirr Dec 2011 #18
I'm here. nt LWolf Dec 2011 #19
Long-time lurker dog_lovin_dem Dec 2011 #20
Greetings from L.A. dbt Dec 2011 #21
Lol! boy howdy, do I hear that! dixiegrrrrl Dec 2011 #22
New to the group PuraVidaDreamin Dec 2011 #23
I love Truro mattvermont Dec 2011 #28
wannabee here mopinko Dec 2011 #24
Checking in from rural NE Kansas. MuseRider Dec 2011 #25
Here. :-) EFerrari Dec 2011 #26
vermont mattvermont Dec 2011 #27
more of a wannabee than am.....although.. Alameda Dec 2011 #29
Here. Hi everyone! Little Star Dec 2011 #30
Check Agony Dec 2011 #31
Already subscribed. jwirr Jan 2012 #32
living vicariously through others .... shireen Jan 2012 #33
Checking in Tumbulu Jan 2012 #34
Born in Missoula, Montana in the 50's. schooled in Ronan, Montana rustydog Apr 2012 #35
Checking in MadrasT Apr 2012 #36
Alrighty then! LASlibinSC Apr 2012 #37
Checking in. 47of74 May 2012 #38
Horse farm in NC Rittermeister Jun 2012 #39
Hello! farminator3000 Jan 2013 #40
checking in from Abo, NM womanofthehills Jan 2013 #41
Got a Perch last fall - she's a piece of work toby jo Feb 2013 #42
hi everyone wet.hen88 Apr 2013 #43
Check. n/t fasttense Oct 2013 #44
Hello mog75 Apr 2014 #45
Checking in Myrth Nov 2015 #46
Is this still an active group? Bayard Feb 2016 #47
Canning Bobbie47 Jun 2016 #48
This message was self-deleted by its author jcgoldie Jul 2016 #49
Howdy! cilla4progress Aug 2017 #50
Western Washington in the forest, Faux pas Aug 2017 #51
I saw this come up on the front page MuseRider Aug 2017 #52
i live in the forest in central Washington State..... does that count? samnsara Aug 2017 #53
Awesome garden this year TEB Aug 2017 #54
Here in Kentucky Bayard Aug 2017 #55
City girl now, but spent the first 20 years of my life in rural Kentucky yellowdogintexas Aug 2024 #73
Upstate NY here aschnackenberg Sep 2017 #56
Knox county, bordering Knoxville, TN peacebuzzard Sep 2017 #57
Boring, Oregon! walterhpdx Sep 2017 #58
Northwest Georgia family checking in. japple Oct 2017 #59
Just checking in to say hi Farmer-Rick Nov 2017 #60
Reintroduction jcgoldie Apr 2018 #61
South Central New Mexico canyon lands duhneece May 2018 #62
YO! South Central Kansaaas!! Maxheader Sep 2018 #63
From the Alabama Boonies FeatherFox Feb 2019 #64
checkin' in.... samnsara Apr 2019 #65
Here. cwydro May 2019 #66
kinda late but checking in! samnsara May 2019 #67
Tarpley DUgosh May 2019 #68
Western WA MizLibby Nov 2020 #69
The best life is country life... Maxheader Feb 2021 #70
Just subscribed. Anyone messing with making/using char? jeffreyi Jun 2021 #71
formerly rural. maybe one day again Tetrachloride Sep 2022 #72
Hi! 👋 Lilithschyld Oct 27 #74
Post removed Post removed Nov 26 #75
Hi! ... littlemissmartypants Nov 26 #76
I need to come to this forum again yellowdogintexas Nov 26 #77

watrwefitinfor

(1,404 posts)
11. Ditto in SC.
Sat Dec 10, 2011, 02:51 PM
Dec 2011

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

xmas74

(29,779 posts)
13. Semi-rural
Sun Dec 11, 2011, 12:42 AM
Dec 2011

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.

beam me up scottie

(57,349 posts)
17. Checking in from north central Tennessee!
Sun Dec 11, 2011, 01:23 PM
Dec 2011

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

dog_lovin_dem

(309 posts)
20. Long-time lurker
Mon Dec 12, 2011, 01:26 AM
Dec 2011

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

(9,687 posts)
21. Greetings from L.A.
Mon Dec 12, 2011, 09:20 AM
Dec 2011

(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

(60,011 posts)
22. Lol! boy howdy, do I hear that!
Mon Dec 12, 2011, 11:35 AM
Dec 2011

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

(4,230 posts)
23. New to the group
Mon Dec 12, 2011, 06:25 PM
Dec 2011

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

mopinko

(71,891 posts)
24. wannabee here
Mon Dec 12, 2011, 09:56 PM
Dec 2011

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

(34,386 posts)
25. Checking in from rural NE Kansas.
Tue Dec 13, 2011, 09:29 PM
Dec 2011

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.

Alameda

(1,895 posts)
29. more of a wannabee than am.....although..
Tue Dec 27, 2011, 11:00 PM
Dec 2011

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

shireen

(8,337 posts)
33. living vicariously through others ....
Thu Jan 12, 2012, 06:02 PM
Jan 2012

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


Tumbulu

(6,452 posts)
34. Checking in
Sat Jan 28, 2012, 12:50 AM
Jan 2012

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

rustydog

(9,186 posts)
35. Born in Missoula, Montana in the 50's. schooled in Ronan, Montana
Tue Apr 3, 2012, 09:22 PM
Apr 2012

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

(7,237 posts)
36. Checking in
Wed Apr 4, 2012, 08:42 AM
Apr 2012


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

(269 posts)
37. Alrighty then!
Wed Apr 25, 2012, 04:16 PM
Apr 2012

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

(18,470 posts)
38. Checking in.
Sat May 19, 2012, 06:00 PM
May 2012

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

(170 posts)
39. Horse farm in NC
Tue Jun 5, 2012, 11:09 PM
Jun 2012

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

womanofthehills

(9,304 posts)
41. checking in from Abo, NM
Thu Jan 24, 2013, 09:59 AM
Jan 2013

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

(1,269 posts)
42. Got a Perch last fall - she's a piece of work
Wed Feb 27, 2013, 07:50 PM
Feb 2013

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

(64 posts)
43. hi everyone
Mon Apr 29, 2013, 07:24 PM
Apr 2013

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!

Myrth

(16 posts)
46. Checking in
Sat Nov 28, 2015, 11:28 PM
Nov 2015

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

(24,145 posts)
47. Is this still an active group?
Sat Feb 6, 2016, 07:07 PM
Feb 2016

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

(406 posts)
48. Canning
Wed Jun 8, 2016, 09:57 PM
Jun 2016

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

Response to jannyk (Original post)

cilla4progress

(25,966 posts)
50. Howdy!
Tue Aug 8, 2017, 09:54 AM
Aug 2017

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

(15,391 posts)
51. Western Washington in the forest,
Tue Aug 8, 2017, 10:03 AM
Aug 2017

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

MuseRider

(34,386 posts)
52. I saw this come up on the front page
Tue Aug 8, 2017, 10:15 AM
Aug 2017

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.

Bayard

(24,145 posts)
55. Here in Kentucky
Tue Aug 8, 2017, 11:30 AM
Aug 2017

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

(22,753 posts)
73. City girl now, but spent the first 20 years of my life in rural Kentucky
Mon Aug 5, 2024, 09:12 PM
Aug 2024

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.

peacebuzzard

(5,282 posts)
57. Knox county, bordering Knoxville, TN
Sun Sep 17, 2017, 02:17 PM
Sep 2017

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

(6 posts)
58. Boring, Oregon!
Mon Sep 18, 2017, 03:02 PM
Sep 2017

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

(10,358 posts)
59. Northwest Georgia family checking in.
Mon Oct 16, 2017, 05:16 PM
Oct 2017

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

(11,484 posts)
60. Just checking in to say hi
Thu Nov 30, 2017, 09:37 AM
Nov 2017

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

(12,046 posts)
61. Reintroduction
Wed Apr 25, 2018, 09:29 AM
Apr 2018

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.

FeatherFox

(9 posts)
64. From the Alabama Boonies
Tue Feb 19, 2019, 12:19 PM
Feb 2019

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

(18,290 posts)
65. checkin' in....
Wed Apr 3, 2019, 10:52 AM
Apr 2019

...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

Response to jannyk (Original post)

yellowdogintexas

(22,753 posts)
77. I need to come to this forum again
Tue Nov 26, 2024, 06:06 AM
Nov 26

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

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