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viggie
Farmgirl in Training
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Lynn
West Allis
WI
USA
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 Posted - Feb 02 2011 : 6:19:46 PM
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I live just outside Milwaukee, and am very new to all of this. In fact, I'm a second year gardening and just finished my first year urban homesteading. This year I'm enrolled in the Master Gardener program and plan to extend the garden into the front yard with a more decorative herb and edible flower garden. I've already dug up every square inch of the back yard for fruits and vegetables 
I'm homesteading alone and have work, school, and master gardening training to juggle along with homesteading and housekeeping...so I'm glad I'm starting in the city. If I had more room, I'd try to use it all and end up burning myself out! But the animal restrictions are annoying. Right now I just have two angoras, which are the only thing my city allows.
Thanks for letting me join you all. I look forward to getting to know some of you better.
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CasieD
Farmgirl in Training
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Casie
Edgar
WI
USA
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Posted - Feb 02 2011 : 6:33:06 PM
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Welcome Lynn!!
Hope you are all shoveled out from the big storm! We didn't get anything up by us luckily.
I'm in my third year of veggie gardening and have a very big expansion planned this year. How are the backyard chicken laws by you? We aren't in the city so we're ok for livestock. I've got 12 laying hens right now. I'm also into rabbits, but for meat mostly. I have a pair of American Blues and American Whites. Just breed them today actually. Do you spin with the angora fiber?
Well, glad to see another Wisconsonite here!!
Casie
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viggie
Farmgirl in Training
24 Posts
Lynn
West Allis
WI
USA
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Posted - Feb 02 2011 : 6:36:20 PM
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Sounds like a great setup! I found a nice antique wheel to learn to spin on, but I got juvenile brothers so they aren't ready to pop out fiber yet. As for chickens, Milwaukee is voting on a new ordinance this spring but I'm two blocks outside their city limits. I've talked to my health department and they are rather unfriendly sorts so I don't see it changing here anytime soon.
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woolgirl
True Blue Farmgirl
901 Posts
Elizabeth
Great Lakes
IL
USA
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Posted - Feb 03 2011 : 05:24:19 AM
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Hi Lynn! I live in northern Illinois, but commute to Milwaukee for school. West Allis is nice. There is a great cake decorating shop called Cook's that I like to frequent. I have been thinking of getting an angora for my daughter this spring.
This is a wonderful group of ladies. Hope you like it here!
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Fiddlehead Farm
True Blue Farmgirl
4562 Posts
Diane
Waupaca
WI
USA
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Posted - Feb 03 2011 : 05:35:06 AM
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Welcome Lynn, from another WI city farmgirl! You just missed a farmgirl gathering that I put together for WI girls. We met at the Elegant Farmer in Mukwanago. Maybe next time you can join us!
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Happy to be a "Raggedy Ann" in a Barbie World!
I get up every morning determined to both change the world and have one hell of a good time. Sometimes this makes planning my day difficult.
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viggie
Farmgirl in Training
24 Posts
Lynn
West Allis
WI
USA
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Posted - Feb 03 2011 : 05:43:59 AM
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Woolgirl - Are you at UWM? I'm taking my evening classes there as an MIS student :) She'd love angoras, they are such sweeties...and just the two of them make tons of fertilizer for me...hehe.
Fiddlehead - Oh that's too bad. I grew up in North Prairie and went to Church in Mukwonago, so I know the area well :)
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woolgirl
True Blue Farmgirl
901 Posts
Elizabeth
Great Lakes
IL
USA
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Posted - Feb 03 2011 : 06:34:50 AM
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I actually go to Alverno. I love it there. It is the best college I have been to (and I have attended LOTS of colleges...lol) Do you keep your angoras in a rabbit hutch? I suppose I would have to check with the base and see if we can even have them. I had them growing up and I loved them.
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viggie
Farmgirl in Training
24 Posts
Lynn
West Allis
WI
USA
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Posted - Feb 03 2011 : 07:11:35 AM
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Oh Alverno is nice, one of my friends went there. My boss is sending me back to school now. It's nice that they reimburse me for tuition, but only after the semester is over and I prove I got a good enough grade. But that means I have to have two semesters cash out of my pocket at any given time...so I still couldn't afford anything but a state uni...lol.
I actually designed my hutches to be small enough to fit through a door so I could pull the bunnies into my unheated sunroom during winter. That way I can easily get to them without having to bundle up and tromp through snowdrifts to visit them every morning and night :)
My Christmas gift (I got a bunch of things to grow the little homestead) to them was nice commercial hutches from Amazon that have a ramp and run below them that I get to put together come spring.
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Edited by - viggie on Feb 03 2011 07:12:07 AM |
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woolgirl
True Blue Farmgirl
901 Posts
Elizabeth
Great Lakes
IL
USA
901 Posts |
Posted - Feb 03 2011 : 07:25:57 AM
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I am luckily using my GI Bill (I was in the military for 6 years), otherwise I never would have been able to afford Alverno!
I saw some nice small hutches at the Fleet farm back home in MN. Is there Fleet Farm in WI? I am still trying to learn the area.
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bboopster
True Blue Farmgirl
1140 Posts
Betty Jo
West Bend
Wisconsin
USA
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Posted - Feb 03 2011 : 07:26:22 AM
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Hello Lynn,
Welcome! Enjoying the snow? I love to see another Wisconsin Farmgirl. When I joined 4 or 5 years ago I was the only one here from Wisconsin. Now we have a group of us Wisconsinites. My middle son is in a brain injury rehab in Greenfield maybe we could get together for lunch one day when I come into visit.
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Nana to 4 with 1 on the way.
3 Blue Star Mother and Proud of it!
Pray for our troops to come home safe and soon.
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viggie
Farmgirl in Training
24 Posts
Lynn
West Allis
WI
USA
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Posted - Feb 03 2011 : 07:57:02 AM
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Woolgirl - There's a Farm & Fleet in Brookfield...I'm there a lot!
I started a group on facebook for homesteaders, so I've gotten to know a lot of homesteading friends...but none near me! I'm excited about the potential here of getting some real life like-minded friends. :) Thank you so much for the offer Betty Jo, and everyone else for being so welcoming. Things are pretty hectic and snowy right now, but hopefully soon.
One thing I don't enjoy about here is the snow though! This was one of those ones where you had to shovel just to get it to a level where you could snowblow.
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Edited by - viggie on Feb 03 2011 07:57:55 AM |
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SherBear
True Blue Farmgirl
77 Posts
Sherri
Mukwonago
Wi
USA
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ddmashayekhi
True Blue Farmgirl
4828 Posts
Dawn
Naperville
Illinois
USA
4828 Posts |
Posted - Feb 03 2011 : 10:20:07 AM
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Glad you joined us Lynn! You'll love it here. Lots of support, laughs, and information are always available here.
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graciegreeneyes
True Blue Farmgirl
3107 Posts
Amy Grace
Rosalia
WA
USA
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Posted - Feb 03 2011 : 7:37:17 PM
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Welcome to the forum Lynn:)
Amy Grace
Farmgirl #224
"use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without"
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prayin granny
True Blue Farmgirl
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Linda
Kansas
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