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| vegetarian farmer |
Posted - Aug 18 2009 : 05:28:19 AM
Hello everyone, my name is Jane and I live 30 minutes outside of Pittsburgh Pa. I took over the family farm 10 years ago because most of the family had died. I have 75 acres mixed use with crops and pasture, board horses and cows, guinea hens,and an old dog. I would love to add more, but the Husband is a city guy and takes quite a bit of coaxing before he see the benifit of another animal (he still doesn't see what is good about the guinea). I have been a strict vegetarian since I was about four and I had made the connection that my pet cows were then on the table. Imagine how my beef raising parent took that. But I am headstrong. Most of the Farmer neighbors think I am nuts, but I am able to keep the farm operating as a farm doing as little harm as possible. I run the farm myself since the Husband owns a business in the city. So I am soooo glad to be here with other women who I have something in common with. I just dont have that where i live, all the farmers in the area are in the 'old boys club'. Can't wait to chat with everyone. |
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| maggie14 |
Posted - Aug 20 2009 : 11:50:04 AM
Hi Jane, I am also a Vegetarian. Been so for about 2 years now anf loving it! Glad you are here!
Maggie |
| kristin sherrill |
Posted - Aug 19 2009 : 1:55:33 PM
Welcome Jane. Do you need more guineas? I'd be happy to send you18 of them if I could catch the silly things. They are really more aggravating than they are worth. I agree with your hubby on this one. I have one, the only white one, that I call Dumb White Guinea. And he is. We had 16 keats hatch a few months ago and we're down to 10 now. So maybe we'll end up with just the 8 adults soon.
Anyway, have fun here. Kris
Happiness is simple. |
| Calicogirl |
Posted - Aug 19 2009 : 06:25:04 AM
Welcome Jane!!! 
It sounds like you definitely fit right in :) The ladies here are wonderful, and more than willing to help one another out. I look forward to getting to know you better :)
~Sharon
By His Grace, For His Glory
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| Tapestry |
Posted - Aug 19 2009 : 12:10:43 AM
Hi Jane and welcome to the MJF forum! You'll have lots of comraderie (sp?) here. Lots of these gals are country farmgirls and there's also some of us city farmgirls but we all help each other. You're going to fit right in :) Glad to have you with us!
Happy farmgirl sister #353
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| ZenGoddess |
Posted - Aug 18 2009 : 7:09:34 PM
Welcome Jane, it wont take you long to feel at home here.
We are all different here but at the same time quite alike - you'll see, pull up a chair and browse around, I am a newbie too but its nice and homey here !!!
Hugs,
Zens Goddess
My life goal is to Simply - Simplify my life.
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| Desiree |
Posted - Aug 18 2009 : 5:14:04 PM
Welcome, I was raised a vegetarian, strayed while a teenager, but have been one since then. Would love to hear more about your farm.
Desiree
Simple Living With Nature........Farmgirl #157
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| Lainey |
Posted - Aug 18 2009 : 1:36:59 PM
Welcome Jane, your farm sounds wonderful! I used to raise guineas too, I want to get some more. It's nice meeting you here.
Farmgirl Sister #25
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| Lessie Louise |
Posted - Aug 18 2009 : 11:21:35 AM
Nice to meet you. I have a city husband too. They are a little more work, but worth it! Welcome
how sweet it is to love some one, how right itis to care |
| melanie47601 |
Posted - Aug 18 2009 : 11:16:50 AM
Nice to me you Jane. I'm happy to see you here.
Melanie
Be the kind of woman that when your feet hit the floor each morning the devil says "Oh Crap, She's up!"
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| treelady |
Posted - Aug 18 2009 : 11:09:08 AM
Welcome Jane, I'm a rural farm girl from North Dakota and I love meeting all the wonderful ladies on this site.
Julie
With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts. |
| Miss Bee Haven |
Posted - Aug 18 2009 : 07:27:44 AM
I used to walk my dogs behind the old guys house and he had two then. They would just run to the back fence and 'give us down the road' as my granny used to say. Just fuss and yell at the big dogs until(as they thought), we had been chased away from their territory! LOL!
Farmgirl Sister #50
"If you think you've got it nailed down, then what's all that around it?"
'Br.Dave Gardner' |
| vegetarian farmer |
Posted - Aug 18 2009 : 07:10:38 AM
Thanks for all the welcomes. Janice, I got the guinea to help with the bugs. Well I think I have spoiled them because they would rather have feed than scavage for bugs. But they are very easy to care for because they still have thier wild instincts(except mine) and are quite hardy. They can be trained to free range and come home to the coop at night and they are not as nasty to one and other as chickens can be. Plus they are so ugly they are cute and quite funny. I would recomend them. My Dh thinks they just eat and poop alot. |
| ceejay48 |
Posted - Aug 18 2009 : 06:37:26 AM
Welcome Jane . . . I'm a rural farmgirl in southwest Colorado.
You'll really enjoy the Connection . . . and it truly is a Connection!!!
Have fun!!
CJ
from the barefoot farmgirl |
| Miss Bee Haven |
Posted - Aug 18 2009 : 06:16:46 AM
Hi, Jane. Welcome. Tell me about the guinea. I live in a city now(Louisville, KY), but will be moving to our 23 acres in Irvington, KY, next June. An elderly man here in town has a guinea hen in his backyard. It gets out a lot(last Sat., my dh and I sort of 'herded' it from a Speedway parking lot down the alley to his yard.). I'd love to have some when we move. Are they hard to care for?
Farmgirl Sister #50
"If you think you've got it nailed down, then what's all that around it?"
'Br.Dave Gardner' |
| Marybeth |
Posted - Aug 18 2009 : 06:09:40 AM
Welcome Jane. So glad you decided to join in the forum. MB
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| Marcy |
Posted - Aug 18 2009 : 05:43:15 AM
Hi Jane,
You are going to fit right in! Welcome! You are going to love it here!
Farmgirl #170
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give...Eleanor Roosevelt
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