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01/10/11, 05:24 PM
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What's your favorite thing about homesteading??
Out of all the things involved in homesteading what is your favorite thing to do?? Or what's your favorite thing about homesteading?
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01/10/11, 05:27 PM
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The Prairie Plate
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Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: NE Iowa
Posts: 1,538
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The look on people's faces when I tell them what I do everyday. Getting to work with my best friend doing things I enjoy.
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01/10/11, 05:42 PM
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Keeper of the Cow
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Join Date: Feb 2006
Posts: 1,913
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That I have the freedom to make the job fit the day. If the weather isn't pleasant, I have lots of indoor jobs. On nice days, I do outside things. I can't stand being cooped up inside on a beautiful day.
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01/10/11, 05:48 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: NW Georgia
Posts: 7,205
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You get to play in the dirt a lot.
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01/10/11, 06:28 PM
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An Ozark Engineer
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Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Powhatan, AR
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Being my own boss. My conscience tells me what to do. I love my dairy goats. Milking is my favorite chore.
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01/10/11, 06:34 PM
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: Minnesota
Posts: 17,225
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The food!!!!
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I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.
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01/10/11, 06:47 PM
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More dharma, less drama.
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Join Date: May 2002
Location: Texas Coastal Bend/S. Missouri
Posts: 30,490
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Goats, goat milk, goat yogurt, goat cheese, and going to the goat pen to watch and interact with goats! Watching the grandchildren interact with goats.
Yup, it's goats.
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"No great thing is created suddenly." ~Epictitus
Last edited by Alice In TX/MO; 01/10/11 at 06:51 PM.
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01/10/11, 06:52 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Indiana
Posts: 2,961
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Feeling secure in the fact that I can handle nearly anything that comes up.
Garden producing more than we can eat fresh? Can it, freeze it, dehydrate it, share it. Power outage? Light the Aladdin lantern, then candles. Fire up the woodstove if it's cool.
Food illness being reported from contaminated food? Sit back and enjoy the fruits of that canning/freezing/dehydrating labor.
It's that feeling that we can be okay that I like best.
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01/10/11, 07:03 PM
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Lady beekeeper
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Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: NE Tx, SW Mo
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The challenge and endless variety! There is always something that needs to be done or a project to figure out the details of.
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01/10/11, 07:25 PM
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This is my life
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Join Date: May 2007
Location: SC
Posts: 3,736
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serving a meal that we grew from start to plate. I also really like raising turkeys, they are more fun then even chickens.
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01/10/11, 07:30 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: VA
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Making steps every day to be self sufficient and raising all our own meat and most of our veggies and fruit.
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01/10/11, 07:45 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2010
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Having space and time for my horses. And the glorious home grown food!
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01/10/11, 08:00 PM
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Off-The-Grid Homesteader
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Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Upstate NY
Posts: 2,222
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Freedom, gardening, canning, living in the forest, generating our own power. I love it all!
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01/10/11, 09:40 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Southern Idaho
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Alice In TX/MO
Goats, goat milk, goat yogurt, goat cheese, and going to the goat pen to watch and interact with goats! Watching the grandchildren interact with goats.
Yup, it's goats.
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I was going to say that! I enjoy my little goats more than anything! 
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01/10/11, 09:56 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: SW Michigan
Posts: 16,408
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Feeding my family the best food available
Coming in from the barn early in the morning with the chores all done for a few hours
Meeting and making good friend with the same goals
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01/10/11, 09:59 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Oregon
Posts: 1,638
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I like to walk out to the barn and pens at night to check the animals, and give myself a chance to appreciate the quiet, the stars (no lights!), and my life in general.
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01/10/11, 10:19 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: W Mo
Posts: 9,276
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I like evening chores the best; the peaceful contented presence (and smell) of cows and horses, the chickens going to roost and softly grumbling at each other while everyone gets to their spot, a beautiful sunset, and the dogs bringing their toys for one more throw, please! before we head into the house.
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01/10/11, 10:28 PM
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Registered Users
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Join Date: Nov 2010
Posts: 19
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Knowing that I don't have to enable the security settings on my WiFi, since no one lives close enough to detect it!
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01/10/11, 10:32 PM
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Family Jersey Dairy
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Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: Illinois
Posts: 4,773
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Animals, I like the animals, did I say I like animals, big ones, little ones, fuzzy ones, feathered ones, tall ones, short ones, two lgged ones, four legged ones, ones that mooo, ones that chooo, ones that snort, ones that cluck and some that don`t know the words so they hum. I like animals. > Thanks Marc
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01/10/11, 10:47 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Pacific NorthWest
Posts: 314
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I like the quiet satisfaction from knowing I am responsible for what I see, do and accomplish.
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