Blogging and homsteading?

locknload · #21 12/29/11, 01:04 PM

volleypc, I am sooo envious! I've always wanted to hike the Appalachian Trail and it's actually on my bucket list. And congrats on getting to move into your new cabin!

Pelenaka · #22 12/29/11, 01:20 PM

My blog has become to me a very valuable tool. As many wrote its a dairy of how we live in our environment (urban poverty level), our beliefs (frugality,green concepts), keeps me honest to mainly myself, and pushed me to learn and adapt homesteading skills to work for us here.

Blogging has enabled no made learn various computer stuffs (big shout out to Katlupe great teacher).

Then there is the friends factor along with martial bonding. Hubby's blog deals with firearms and how he actually brings the many concepts I imagine into reality. He also has a more traditional some say chauvinist or manly inclinations so he is prone to posts of that nature.

What I share can be summed up in my blog labels - feasibility factor(rain barrels), gardening on the cheap, hearth (urban cooking & heating with wood), homesteading skills, and off grid/antique upgrade (restoration & use of cider press & ice box).
My newest blog label is non-electric tools. Working on a post about using sad irons which I do way too much.

As soon as my coffee kicks in I need to repackage a food prep I scored online for free (ff,homesteading skill, sb) and process/dehydrate a great score on cranberries (barter, non-electric).

~~ pelenaka ~~
http://thirtyfivebyninety.blogspot.com/

**highlands** · #23 12/29/11, 01:22 PM

I have been blogging roughly daily since 2005 at http://SugarMtnFarm.com/blog about are farm, family, projects and what ever hits my whim. I write for my own enjoyment and in the process share some of the things we've learned. I often talk about the how-to's of projects such as building our house, building our on-farm slaughterhouse and butcher shop, managing the livestock, working with our dogs, etc.

Cheers

-Walter
Sugar Mountain Farm
Pastured Pigs, Sheep & Kids
in the mountains of Vermont
Read about our on-farm butcher shop project:
http://SugarMtnFarm.com/butchershop
http://SugarMtnFarm.com/csa

rhaige9 · #24 12/29/11, 01:31 PM

I started my blog in Oct of '09 when we started building the house. It was really just a way for the family out of state to keep track. Since my lifestyle has changed to wanting a more self reliant way of living, the blog has reflected what we're doing to try and get there. It also has whatever random thought and picture crosses my head. I only have 7 followers, and I think I'm one of them. lol. I still write at least once a week, and sometimes alot more.
http://rhaige9.blogspot.com/

Melissa · #25 12/29/11, 01:33 PM

There is a sticky in the Everybody Has a Story sub-forum under Countryside Families that has links to blogs of the members here:

Links to Blogs and Photos of Homesteading Today Members

lisa's garden · #26 12/29/11, 09:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Melissa

There is a sticky in the Everybody Has a Story sub-forum under Countryside Families that has links to blogs of the members here:

Links to Blogs and Photos of Homesteading Today Members

Thanks!

nobrabbit · #27 12/30/11, 11:45 AM

I blog monthly or so about what's been going on around here. Commuting to a full-time job in the city eats into a lot of my time but I am going to try to blog more regularly.

LoneStrChic23 · #28 12/30/11, 03:49 PM

I blog..... It's a mish mash of my life out here in Noodle.

My dairy goats, chickens & kiddos take up a bunch of my blog & my post are usually pic heavy. I follow several blogs as well, and love reading & keeping in touch with fellow bloggers. I don't post as much as I'd like because I don't have home internet, but I try to post something every month.

http://noodlevilleadventures.blogspot.com

lisa's garden · #29 12/30/11, 04:27 PM

I've been enjoying everyone's blogs...lot's of fun to read

barnyardgal · #30 12/30/11, 07:35 PM

I really enjoy reading blogs,they are very interesting....BUT...some don't update very often,that is disappointing to me~~

I would not know where to start on one ~~my life is not that exciting~~LOL~~

Tana Mc · #31 12/30/11, 09:06 PM

"I would not know where to start on one ~~my life is not that exciting~~LOL~~ "

That is what I thought about mine but..... somebody in Russia keeps reading it! LOL!

julieq · #32 12/30/11, 10:43 PM

http://down---to---earth.blogspot.com/

I follow this one blog. Personally, I oversee updates on two websites and definitely wouldn't have the time or energy to blog.

lisa's garden · #33 12/31/11, 12:39 PM

Tana Mc, I don't mind if you post pics of chicken butchering!

Down to Earth Blog is great!

SarahMelisse · #34 01/10/12, 10:56 PM

I try my best to blog at least once a week. My husband also has a beekeeping section on my blog. My blog was started to keep track of our goals and to watch our homestead/farm grow from the beginning.

I don't like reading blog "filler" so if I have nothing new or interesting going on, I won't put "filler" in my blog. I much rather be excited about what I'm blogging than just doing it for the sake of an update.

Frühlingskabine Micro-Farm
www.fmicrofarm.blogspot.com

SarahMelisse · #35 01/10/12, 10:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Tana Mc

"I would not know where to start on one ~~my life is not that exciting~~LOL~~ "

That is what I thought about mine but..... somebody in Russia keeps reading it! LOL!

It's funny you say that because I've noticed my blog as as many Russian viewers as U.S. viewers! Lol! Homesteading must be of growing interest over there.

Tana Mc · #36 01/10/12, 11:20 PM

I had another person from Singapore consistantly checking out my blog. It turned out to be a guy I knew in the 5th grade who is in the Navy and stationed in that part of the world.... He was a friend of a friend of a friend on Facebook and found it. It is a little freaky how small the world is these days.....

equinecpa · #37 01/11/12, 08:58 AM

I've noticed that there are many different ways to "follow a blog". I use google reader to read the blogs I follow, but also usually complete the "google friend connect" on their website too so they know I"m following them and I'll show up as a follower.

How do you read the blogs you are subscribed to?

Tana Mc · #38 01/11/12, 10:45 AM

If you go to the "dashboard" on blogspot and scroll down, it has a section that keeps up with the ones you are following. It will show you who has updated their blog.

I don't get to it every day so sometimes I have quite a bit of reading to catch up on.

lisa's garden · #39 01/11/12, 05:44 PM

Has anyone hitched their blog up to facebook? I was trying to figure out how from a description online, and for the life of me I could not get it.

luv2farm · #40 01/12/12, 01:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Tana Mc

If you go to the "dashboard" on blogspot and scroll down, it has a section that keeps up with the ones you are following. It will show you who has updated their blog.

I don't get to it every day so sometimes I have quite a bit of reading to catch up on.

I read every entry on this thread hoping to see this information.......only I still don't know what I'm looking at!

Tana, I think you can help me......

I have several blogs that I read. I have them saved under my "Favorites". So, when I want to look at one, I have to click Favorites and then find the particular blog I want to read. When I open a blog, I see at the top a place that says Next blog. I have clicked that button, and I end up "somewhere in South America looking at a gal fish farming" .

How do I arrange, or line up , my favorite blogs so that I can click from one to the other? Does that make sense? I am so computer dumb!!