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CountryBorn
True Blue Farmgirl
1545 Posts
Mary Jane
New York
USA
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 Posted - Aug 20 2007 : 2:34:27 PM
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Beth,
Corning is about 1 and 1/2 hours from me. It is a wonderful place. You would enjoy it. My husband and I took a trip to Tenn. last year and we stopped on our way home in Lancaster PA. I loved It!! We visited all the Amish areas and I was so in love with it. We stopped at a lot of stores and Eldreth Pottery. I collect redware and got a beautiful piece from there. You are lucky to live there!
Mary Jane
There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do. Freya Stark |
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CountryBorn
True Blue Farmgirl
1545 Posts
Mary Jane
New York
USA
1545 Posts |
Posted - Aug 20 2007 : 2:42:30 PM
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Ann,
It truly is a small world isn't it? It amazed me to see that some of you actually knew where I was! The privacy is a real blessing. It is great because the people who rent work all day, so we really enjoy the peace and quiet. We are very lucky because they are a very sweet young couple and their young son, they are a joy to have around. They even bring me over scallops when they make some, my favorite!
Mary Jane
There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do. Freya Stark |
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cabinmoose
True Blue Farmgirl
218 Posts
Lorna
Forest Hill
MD
USA
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Posted - Aug 20 2007 : 7:08:41 PM
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MaryJane,
Welcome! Glad to have you here!
Where in New York are you? We head up to Canadaiguia NY every other summer for the John Deere Expo.....
Lorna
Forest Hill, MD
“I laugh, I love, I hope, I try, I hurt, I need, I fear, I cry.
And I know you do the same things too, So we're really
not that different, me and you.” ~Colin Raye |
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MamaHumbird
True Blue Farmgirl
116 Posts
Holly
Cleveland
Missouri
USA
116 Posts |
Posted - Aug 20 2007 : 8:12:08 PM
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MaryJane,
Welcome! You sound like you will fit right in. I want to here more about what you used to do with that wonderful land you have. When you say greenhouses, gardens and privacy, they all make my ears perk up. It kind of sounds like maybe you don't do as much with it now, but I still want to hear about it.
God Bless,
Holly |
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Beemoosie
True Blue Farmgirl
2077 Posts
Bonnie
New York
USA
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Amie C.
True Blue Farmgirl
2099 Posts
Finger Lakes Region
NY
2099 Posts |
Posted - Aug 21 2007 : 06:09:29 AM
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I'm amazed at how many out of state people either have a family connection to this region or visit regularly. Maybe Western New York would be a good place for a "farmgirls east" gathering some summer?
Angie, are you making any progress on the western new york chapter? |
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Rosemary
True Blue Farmgirl
1825 Posts
Virginia
USA
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Posted - Aug 21 2007 : 07:23:08 AM
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| Not a bad idea, Amie C.! When I mentioned a place I like to visit in a Page One post in this thread, I forgot to mention my late father came from the eastern part of the state, "Upstate NY"/Hudson Valley. His stepfather was the Gatekeeper for the Ashokan (pronounced "uh-SHOW'-kann") Reservoir (the old-timers still pronounce this "REZZ'-uh-voy") when it first opened in 1917, and for many years thereafter. I just visited up there a while ago and saw the lovely house where my father lived in Brown Station, adjacent to the reservoir (most of the town of Brown Station was flooded when they filled the dam). I'd previously only seen it in sepia-toned photos pasted into in the first few black construction paper pages of our family photo album with those little decorative white corner things, each one neatly labeled underneath in white ink identifying people I never knew. I'd imagined the house was enormous. It isn't huge, but I recognized many of its features from those old photos. It now serves as the hazardous waste office for the reservoir; it has one of those nasty looking warning signs on the front door. Kinda sad, but at least it's still there! For those of you non-New Yorkers, Ashokan is a major supplier of water for Manhattan. Daddy and his brothers used to swim in it (tee hee). The whole area is so beautiful it takes your breath away. The drive up, through the Adirondacks, Catskills, etc. is gorgeous. The whole state is, really. *SIGH* Mary Jane, you've got me all nostalgic to head north again! |
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CountryBorn
True Blue Farmgirl
1545 Posts
Mary Jane
New York
USA
1545 Posts |
Posted - Aug 21 2007 : 08:24:55 AM
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Holly,
In the 70's and 80's was when we really farmed. We grew acres of corn and tomatoes,beans, broccoli,cabbage,peppers,beets, potatoes you name it. Even Kolrabi and greens. We not only grew them in the fields we also started most of the plants in our greenhouses. We sold the plants also. Then we had this great old time planter you sit on and it would dig the trough you put the plant in and it would squirt a water fertilizer mix. That was fun. Then came the the hours of weeding,the tractor got alot of them but believe me with spreading plants like tomatoes, there is a lot of hand weeding and hoeing.We grew these and then sold them at a large farm market that my Dad and his business partner(he also was a plumbing contractor, my husband did that too.)had in the city.Every day we would pick the fresh veggies and truck them into the stand. My husband got up at 4:30 and picked fresh corn and then went to work all day.It is a good thing we were a lot younger! My Mom and I canned and froze everything we could. I loved that too.We had a lot of happy times.Then we started messing around with house plants and annuals. I loved the flowers. We sold out all of them too. Eventually we went to strictly house plants that we grew,I made a kazillion dish gardens these and the plants were sold to the Florists. I made many good friends on my plant route. When my Dad died in June 1989 I kept it going until Christmas. By myself, it was just too much. My husband worked for GM by that time and so did my daughter. The doors closed on the greenhouses after Christmas in 1989. The heart of it had gone. It was my Dad's and without him it was time to start another chapter. We still have veggie gardens and I have beautiful flower gardens and water garden ponds, I spend many hours out in them. I enjoy all of that so much. So that pretty much tells the story!
Mary Jane
There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do. Freya Stark |
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ColdAntler
True Blue Farmgirl
89 Posts
Jenna
Sandgate
VT
USA
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divineswine
Farmgirl at Heart
3 Posts
connie
free union
va
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Posted - Aug 22 2007 : 05:56:31 AM
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Hay.!!!!
I am new to this,,,,I am a farmgirl in Va....I raise cattle...have 270 head..!!!..I am so happy tp reach out and chat to other farmers...
I also raise hogs and have a few chikens,,,sheep..
but the cattle are the main income...I rent around 3,000 acres...
and own 150....
I am a divorced MOM..with 2 children...6 and 9...and we run it all ourselfs...Dad is too old now to do much...and mom is to...it an old family farm,,,I would love chatting with other farmgirls...there arnt many around here,,,,,,
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divineswine
Farmgirl at Heart
3 Posts
connie
free union
va
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Posted - Aug 22 2007 : 4:06:54 PM
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hay
not quite sure how to do this..???
I am a farmer in VA....i raise cattle...pigs ...sheep...
It is really beautiful here...in the Blue Ridge Mountains,,,,,
I have 2 children...cats...dogs,,,tractors...hens...
I would love to chat with other farmgirls... |
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Tammy Claxton
True Blue Farmgirl
1559 Posts
Tammy
Glen Burnie
Maryland
USA
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Posted - Aug 22 2007 : 5:14:16 PM
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Welcome Mary Jane! It's so nice to meet you!
What doesn't kill you only makes you stronger! |
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**Welcome Wagon: Hi from western New York! |
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Hi from western New York!
