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View Poll Results: Where do your interests lie, primarily?
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I am a homesteader, interested in all things related to 'homesteading'
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33.13% |
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I am a gardening/farming enthusiast
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18.07% |
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I am interested in survival, now and in the future
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9.04% |
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Other ( or a little of each ). Explain
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39.76% |
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10/25/11, 01:19 PM
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Banned
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Join Date: Sep 2011
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Why HT interests you, POLL
Just wondering what the 'average' HT poster is like.
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10/25/11, 01:29 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: the flat land of Illinois
Posts: 4,652
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A little of everything plus I like how 'cleanly' this forum is run - no mean bashing, foul language, group bullying, etc. I appreciate that very much.
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10/25/11, 01:31 PM
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Join Date: May 2003
Location: Western WA
Posts: 2,285
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I put a little of each. To me they all go hand in hand.
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10/25/11, 01:44 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Alaska- Kenai Pen- Kasilof
Posts: 9,032
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I want knowledge.
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10/25/11, 01:46 PM
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Join Date: May 2002
Posts: 15,516
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Goldeneye
Just wondering what the 'average' HT poster is like.
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Believe me, I'm far from average! 
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10/25/11, 01:59 PM
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Big Front Porch advocate
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Join Date: May 2002
Posts: 44,404
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Why do you ask?
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10/25/11, 02:04 PM
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Banned
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Join Date: Mar 2011
Posts: 2,853
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I'm a gardening/outdoor enthusiast on the search for other nature lovin' hippies.
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10/25/11, 02:04 PM
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More dharma, less drama.
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Join Date: May 2002
Location: Texas Coastal Bend/S. Missouri
Posts: 30,482
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Homesteader, goat owner, love this board and these folks. 
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"No great thing is created suddenly." ~Epictitus
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10/25/11, 02:08 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: W. Oregon
Posts: 8,694
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Originally Posted by Alice In TX/MO
Homesteader, goat owner, love this board and these folks. |
X2, and gardener...James
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10/25/11, 02:20 PM
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Living the dream.
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Morganton, NC
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I checked homesteading pretty quickly before I relized I didn't really know the difference between farming/gardening and homesteading. So I looked it up. By the definition I guess I am interested in activites similar to the true homesteaders (those that homesteaded under the homestead act), probably revolving mostly around self sufficientcy and living off/on/with the land.
Per dictionary.com
Homesteading:
1.an act or instance of establishing a homestead.
2.a federal program to improve deteriorating urban areas by offering abandoned or foreclosed houses to persons who agree to repair them and live in them for a specified number of years.
Homestead
1.a dwelling with its land and buildings, occupied by the owner as a home and exempted by a homestead lawfrom seizure or sale for debt.
2.any dwelling with its land and buildings where a family makes its home.
3.a tract of land acquired under the Homestead Act.
4.a house in an urban area acquired under a homesteading program.
verb (used with object)
5.to acquire or settle on (land) as a homestead: Pioneers homesteaded the valley.
verb (used without object)
6.to acquire or settle on a homestead: They homesteaded many years ago.
Origin: before 1000; Old English hāmstede(not found in ME). See home, stead
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10/25/11, 02:20 PM
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Poo Fairy
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Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Texas Angel
Posts: 6,489
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I raise babydoll sheep and I love gardening thus why I am on HT. However since being here I have a learned a world of exciting things and have met a lot of awesome people!!
Everyone here is so helpful and considerate. I've been on other sites were it was their way or NO WAY. HT is full of folks willing to Help and teach you along with not bashing your advice. I love it here!!!
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Real is Beautiful -Sherry in Maine
I am 47 
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10/25/11, 02:21 PM
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: Oklahoma
Posts: 2,375
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I answered 1) - I am a homesteader. I consider myself one, but I only have a tiny acreage and sometimes feel like a fraud when there are so many that are so much more knowledgeable, and who do so much more than I do. However, I do as much as I can (most of the time) so I think that I am following the homestead life in spirit if not in strict practice.
Mary
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10/25/11, 02:41 PM
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Banned
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Join Date: Sep 2011
Posts: 110
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Quote:
Originally Posted by AngieM2
Why do you ask?
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I asked you first ; )
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10/25/11, 02:41 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2005
Posts: 16,114
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U think them survivialests gonna tell u who they are?. Gumments on here and would love to know who those kinder people are. Keep a closer watch on them. lol
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10/25/11, 02:45 PM
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The cream separator guy
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Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Southern MO
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A little of everything; I like being a Jack-Of-All-Trades.
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Originally Posted by cathleenc
A little of everything plus I like how 'cleanly' this forum is run - no mean bashing, foul language, group bullying, etc. I appreciate that very much.
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Apparently you don't spend much time in GC or Politics. 
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I'm an environmentalist, left wing, Ron Paul loving Prius driver with a farm. If you have a problem with that, kindly go take a leap.
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10/25/11, 02:48 PM
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Poo Fairy
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Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Texas Angel
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Originally Posted by Heritagefarm
A little of everything; I like being a Jack-Of-All-Trades.
Apparently you don't spend much time in GC or Politics. |
When I feel a little ornery I go to GC, and make someone else mad.... than I feel all better....LOL
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"If you tickle the earth with a hoe she laughs with a harvest."
- Douglas William Jerrold
Real is Beautiful -Sherry in Maine
I am 47
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10/25/11, 02:57 PM
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The cream separator guy
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Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Southern MO
Posts: 3,919
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Originally Posted by Fowler
When I feel a little ornery I go to GC, and make someone else mad.... than I feel all better....LOL
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 Seriously? I never guessed. 
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I'm an environmentalist, left wing, Ron Paul loving Prius driver with a farm. If you have a problem with that, kindly go take a leap.
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10/25/11, 03:14 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: South Georgia
Posts: 555
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I'm just here keeping an eye on the survival nuts and the nature lovin hippy types...
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10/25/11, 03:27 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Oklahoma
Posts: 3,116
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Well I'm not a homesteader yet. Working on it though. Mostly I'm here to glean information and stimulate my mind with ideas. I think it is a great site. There are a few bad apples, but not many.
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10/25/11, 03:32 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Ohio
Posts: 4,056
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Ever since I was a young boy, I knew I wanted to live out somewhere. I've always wished for some land to work. As a kid I subscribed to Mother Earth News, I had all the Last Whole Earth Catalogues, and devoured every book I could by Bradford Angier, Helen and Scott Nearing, Eric Sloane, as well as books on carpentry, raising livestock, etc. I felt like I hit the motherload when I came upon a dozen Merit Badge Books from an old yard sale on raising rabbits, etc. I bought 10 acres and an old cabin built during the depression and had no running water for the first two years I taught school, driving more than 72 round trip miles every day, showering at work, etc. I'd hunt when I got home for rabbit, squirrel, grouse, etc. I guess I'm still an old hippie at heart, and when my mom died 8 years ago, I inherited a little money to buy 15 acres and build a small log cabin on it. That's when I discovered HT, and I enjoy listening to whatever folks here have to say about almost everything. Good community, knowledgeable people willing to lend advice or to share their expertise. Good wholesome humor here with genuinely likeable people. Feels a bit like family, even though I haven't met any of you folks in person. I'm glad that I can refer to this site now and again, just to listen or to share an opinion, or to ask a question, or to just be silly.
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