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| Name: | N. Jeanae Jones |
| E-mail address: | danswildbunch@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | We are not really homesteaders yet, but we are working towards that. We do have the diary goats (Registered Nubians) and meat goats (Registered Myotonic Fainting Goats)and are already planning to raise produce to sell this summer. We have started in the last three years to plant our orchard of fruit trees.We are in SE Kansas north of Cherryvale. I have enjoyed your website very much.
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| Name: | millie tejeiro |
| E-mail address: | millie@tejeiro.com |
| Comments: | keep up the good advice |
| Name: | Omer Dooley |
| E-mail address: | dooley4454@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | Good sight makes sense that all can understand from good people. Thanks a lot |
| Name: | Dot |
| E-mail address: | dccb26@centurytel.net |
| Comments: | It is so great to find your website. We are also close to the Ark. border. Loved reading your site. Keep it up.
Dot |
| Name: | dawn |
| E-mail address: | widget2007@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | WOW!!! I thought I had lost your WONDERFUL site forever. I chanced upon it while looking for a gooat milk cheese recipe. New operating system on the computer...Thank goodness I found you again (couldn't remember the name) of your site. Thank you for giving us all useful advice, please keep it up, you are appreciated! |
| Name: | Lucy Riffle |
| E-mail address: | tuesdayschild65@netzero.net |
| Comments: | Thanks for all the info, my husband and I, and our 15yr old son bought a small farm last year and are loving every minute of this life style. I grew up on a farm, so I had a pretty good idea of where to start but my husband is from the city and he is fasinated by the animal and a garden! Thanks again |
| Name: | kathy |
| Comments: | I'm so impressed with your website! I just bought 5 acres of raw wooded land with a creek and hills on it! It has been so much fun clearing a camp area and cooking with my 12" dutch oven over the fire and making camp coffee! I made rock steps up the creek bank and we are clearing a circle drive and the idea for the hummingbird garden is one of the first things I want to plant along with a vegetable garden. Thanks for sharing all the wisdom you have from living the 'old way of life', which I can't wait to move onto the property. I will be visiting your site often. We also have 4 goats to help us clear the brush. I didn't know I would love them so much until we bought our first goat then I had to get more. Thanks again!
Kathy |
| Name: | pattrick e. abels |
| E-mail address: | edwardabels@live.com |
| Comments: | good to see you guys still have your web site.
thought that i would stop in and say hello. still hanging in there @ tunnel dam rd. take care and God Bless. Patt. |
| Name: | wheat |
| E-mail address: | denhamfire352@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | great site needed the info on curing and smoking meats, have three hogs to be butchered in the next few weeks my dad insist on salt curing and he knows best |
| Name: | Rod Tuttila |
| E-mail address: | rtuttila@earthlink.net |
| Name: | ron crick |
| E-mail address: | rdcrick@vcmails.com |
| Comments: | hello
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| Name: | dalton kinnamon |
| E-mail address: | dkk28usa@sbcglobal.net |
| Comments: | thanks for all the info |
| Name: | Tina M. Dablock |
| E-mail address: | tinahicks3@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | i have enjoyed reading about your experiences at homesteading.i have been researching on homesteading, & like u have stated it's a mindset. i can & have realized i can do without a lot of the modern conviences only my 3 children don't look at the things the way i do.somethings u can do without. i love being outdoors working in my flower garden & very small veg. garden. i love to watch the things i have planted grow. it is awsome also watch the birds & squirrels build their homes also.thanks for sharing your expiences. May God bless u & be with u'all
tina |
| Name: | jennifer |
| Comments: | What an inspiration this site is and thanks for the info about thermophllic culture written in an easy-to-understand format!
I will be visiting you often. |
| Name: | Gordon F Stephens |
| E-mail address: | info@niagarafallslive.com |
| Comments: | Thanks for the info. It was a pleasure to read your writing. Good luck in the future and god bless!
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| Name: | Solange |
| E-mail address: | incaone@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | I love your page!!!. It makes me feel I can make cheese, too and the information is great!
Thanks! |
| Name: | pear |
| E-mail address: | mom@jerris.net |
| Comments: | Hello,
Your web pages are fun and bright. I like the country atmosphere. The craft section and holiday pages are my favorite. You are an inspiration to MTs. Thank you. |
| Name: | kelly Hoover |
| E-mail address: | ndnquanah@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | Hi,
Hey I want to thank you for the recipe for whey ricotta! I just finished up my second batch of mozzarella, and went searching for a recipe that would work better than the recipe I've tried and failed at for the whey ricotta. MAN yours worked like a charm. I used balsamic vinegar and oy! It tastes way (whey?) better than the last batch! Thanks much from San Francisco Bay Area...where I'm homesteading my local patch of land, and buying local when and wherever possible. Best, Kelly |
| Name: | Mary |
| Comments: | very nicely designed website and very informative! |
| Name: | Ron Schulte |
| E-mail address: | findersunltd@aol.com |
| Comments: | Great site I love it. Keep up the great work. |
| Name: | Ruby Maiden |
| Comments: | My family has been wanting to move to the country for a while and now, if it is the Lord's will, we are finally doing it! I am 13 years old living in a homeschool christian family, and I am interested in milk goats. I have been doing some research about them. I found your website in looking up goats milk recipes. If we get a goat if we move to Orrville, Alabama from the big city of Alabaster, I might use some of your recipes. Thank you!
In Christ, ~Ruby Maiden |
| Name: | John |
| E-mail address: | veryturbod@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | Hi there,
I'm an chef in the DC area and found your page fun and informational! |
| Name: | roana |
| E-mail address: | gilbertrjm@telkomsa.net |
| Comments: | hi ta for allowing me a visit to your website most informative and something i do to, never get tired of the country, enjoy bye |
| Name: | ruth |
| E-mail address: | coconut.telegraph9@gmail.com |
| Comments: | I got here trying to find what "rennet" is , or if I could substitute since I am in Costa Rica and do not Know what to call it in Spanish. (making cheese)
Any how Thank You So Much for posting this..I also learned here tonight how to make Sausage, and many other things.. Also I would of never thought I am a homesteader, but I guess I am.. Again, Thank You.! Ruth PS Good Luck, and be Well.! |
| Name: | dorathy meek |
| E-mail address: | drthymeek@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | This is very inspirational and I enjoy your sight!! |
| Name: | Bill McWherter |
| E-mail address: | rtferite@aol.com |
| Comments: | enjoyed the information, i hope to make changes myself.
best wishes |
| Name: | Deb McGehee |
| E-mail address: | blkpowder@olemac.net |
| Comments: | Love the website and in Missouri too. I wish the web sight had contact info though. We run a family farm and natural foods market in Pineville Mo. |
| Name: | Cherie Stanley |
| E-mail address: | cstanley@macrunner.com |
| Comments: | hi there. I have enjoyed your website and saved it in my favorites. I look forward to creating some of these cheeses! I have tried ricotta several times and CANNOT get it to come out right. I am hoping your recipe will do the trick! Thanks againa dn happy farming!
Cherie |
| Name: | kevin |
| E-mail address: | argmooner@aol.com |
| Comments: | thanks for yor site i am looking toward homesteading to improve our quality of life . its not as easy living in the city on 40 x 100 , but i am eager thnx again |
| Name: | Tim D |
| Comments: | Very informative site. Congrats on being the TOP link on Google for "cheese making 101"!
-Tim from Philadelphia. |
| Name: | Alan collins |
| E-mail address: | wanabewest47@sbcglobal.net |
| Comments: | I really enjoyed your diary, Ive dreamed of homesteading for years, i hope its not too late @ age 55, problem A has been having children now grown by a stlouis city girl, I think Ive about convinced her to go rural, but Im thinking if it isnt heart felt one wouldnt be happy. I didnt mean to get into all that. My people are all from the texas county area are you near there. Id love to meet you all Alan |
| Name: | al |
| Name: | PRESTON ZEPP |
| E-mail address: | DADDYEARTH01@AOL.COM |
| Comments: | GLAD TO SEE THAT THERE ARE STILL PEOPLE OUT THERE THAT BELEIVE IN THE OLD WAY'S OF DOING THINGS. THOUGHT I WAS THE LAST OF A DYING BREED! |
| Name: | patrick |
| E-mail address: | patrick64112000@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | Great Thank you for the information!!!! |
| Name: | Susan |
| E-mail address: | ladyshade2@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | Nice website!! |
| Name: | Anna Aitkins |
| E-mail address: | paradiso91@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | Just came across your site on the web and just love it.I am a country girl myself in my heart as I live in London,England.
Bye for now Anna |
| Name: | Rebee |
| E-mail address: | duanefc@olemac.net |
| Comments: | Just found your web site as I was looking for info on dwarf tree orchards. I am happy to have found such wonderful information. Would like to ask a question.You mentioned finding a terrific place to buy your trees and plants would you be able to share that name and address?
Thanks |
| Name: | James |
| E-mail address: | jmsjellis@aol.com |
| Comments: | Hello, I would just like to say thank you for having such a wonderfull web-site for people like me who have absolutely no idea how to homestead except for what I`ve read in mother earth and backwoods home. there is a company called ozarkland.com that I am thinking of buying a piece of land from. they only want 2-400.00 a month for the property and i`d love to get it paid ff in 5 years and be able to move there outright. I didn`t know anything about electric of wells or anything like that and you literaly may have saved me thousands of dollars. Jennifer and I got married this past valentines day feb 14th so tha we could start to live our dream of not having to rely on so much of everything here in the city. ya know what turned me on to homesteading was a friend of ours. when the power went out in the city a few years back we was scared and didn`t know what to do. they just fired up the generator and were cozy as a bug in a rug. we want that security too
thank you and God Bless you james |
| Name: | Chris |
| E-mail address: | chrisjenna@gmail.com |
| Comments: | Numarkets! Oh, the memories. I worked for this group in Chattanooga last year, and boy was it an experience. The owner (whose name is all over wrcb.com's website)is a real class act. He started me and about 8 other employee's in a small store and a larger "warehouse" store at the same time. We were told at that time that we would be "paid on expierence". We had a base of 8.00/hr, and the option based on sales to reach 10. All but one part timer reached the goal annually, but we were always paid 8.00/hr reguardless. "They money is coming!" they'd say. We never got it. The supervisors and bosses had to threaten lawsuits to get any of the money they were promised as well.
In my 5 months there, we sold a boat for 400 grand, a VW bus, a Lexus SUV, and a Picasso. Yes, a real Picasso. The boat turned out to be a fraud, and we were sued. The owner of the VW bug was screwed around so much he asked us to mail his third revision of the commission check so "he didnt have to look at any of us again". Everywhere you looked they were losing items, screwing over sellers, or just plain mean to empoyees. The owner just knew one thing.. How to take money from people. He got a lot of suckers too. The buyers got the least of the issues, believe me. |
| Name: | Cathy M |
| E-mail address: | CathyRHM@aol.com |
| Comments: | I am so sorry about your NuMarkets experience. We were even more unlucky than you. We were one of the poor unfortunate soles that bought one of their franchises. After putting our whole life savings, signing over our house as collateral, and borrowing an unreal amount of money based on their lies, we opened up one of their eBay stores. Now we are close to retirement and have lost everything. I noticed today when I checked that they no longer have any items up for auction. I guess their crooked ways finally did them in. It couldn't happen to a "nicer" bunch of people. |
| Name: | Phillip Pace |
| E-mail address: | phillippace28@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | We are hoping to move to Missouri or Arkansas before June of 2007? Anyone got some land with electric (even nearby) for sale?
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| Name: | Biby's Boer Goat Farm |
| E-mail address: | mtbiby@msn.com |
| Comments: | I really enjoyed your website. I printed all the reecipes. I plan ti increase to a few Nubians, and would like to start my own business, making cheese, soaps, etc.. can you give me any tips? When is the best time to milk? I only have milked a new mom while getting her new kids to nurse.
Thanks, Mrs. Tina Biby mtbiby@msn.com |
| Name: | Colleen Edwards |
| E-mail address: | cocosed@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | I signed your book on the dance page too but couldnt find it after that. I cant believe i have found you once again. I had lost all of you for about 10 yrs now. Havent seen Kelley since Rons funeral and havent talked to any of you since before then. I am in complete awe of you! You took me and Sara in when we needed you and you have been in our hearts ever since. I really need to talk to you and cant wait for you to email me back. Soooooooo hurry k lol
Love you, Colleen |
| Name: | Lori Wehl |
| E-mail address: | diamondlorilei@aol.com |
| Comments: | Cool Site. Cheese making 101 looks fun. I want to make Mozzarella.If you have any further tips, please send them along. Thanks and sorry about Ebay NUMARKET EXPERIANCE!!
Lori |
| Name: | N. Norris/C. Richardson |
| E-mail address: | NorrichFarm@aol.com |
| Comments: | Love the name of your web page. Just getting started in the dairy goat business. Had goats in past. Our life dream. Look forward to corresponding with you. Neil Young rocks!
Norrich Farm |
| Name: | Evelyn L. Roy Delaney |
| E-mail address: | butterflylady45103@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | im absolutely fasincated by what you are doing. I happen to your site as i was looking at rock garden and ive spent a lot time looking through all your pictures and reading Itd be so wonderful to have live in such a community and one can only imagine a fraction of all the hard work you have and contine to do but its totally awesome and Thank you so much for sharing. hugs butterfly |
| Name: | Linda |
| E-mail address: | crazyldy002@planters.net |
| Comments: | Thank you so much for all of the wonderful reading. First I have found that had good ole common sense on the internet. I like the way you use things that most households have already in the kitchen.
God Bless you and your's. Have a wonderful day. |
| Name: | Loretta Landerman |
| E-mail address: | llegacy@verizon.net |
| Comments: | I like your article. |
| Name: | Linda |
| E-mail address: | crazyldy002@planters.net |
| Comments: | I have very much learned a lot from your web pages, thank you kindly, we are just starting into the milking buss. and have plans to sell pet quality goats milk in the future. I am trying to find out all I can about milking , do you have any suggestions on what all we will need to get started, our milking machine will be here next week.
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| Name: | Ricky Pottinger |
| E-mail address: | RJSSpecialtyMeats@msn.com |
| Comments: | Enjoyed ya recipes !! Is nice to see ole country recipes and folks that are willin to share them !! I will enjoy usein the recipes ty very much!!! |
| Name: | AKU CHIYERE NWATA |
| E-mail address: | oruego@LA.COM |
| Comments: | NICE WEB PAGE.SURE I WILL BE BACK AGAIN.
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| Name: | John |
| E-mail address: | byrj@alanritchey.com |
| Comments: | great tips for well water |
| Name: | Evelyn |
| Comments: | Good looking Harleys you have there. |
| Name: | GLENN |
| E-mail address: | REDBUSH79@YAHOO.COM |
| Comments: | THIS IS ONE OF THE MOST INTERESTING SITES I HAVE FOUND. NO ONE KNOWS ABOUT THE OLD WAYS ANYMORE. I WAS RAISED BY THE OLD WAYS AND LOVED IT. MORE PEOPLE WOULD BENIFIT TODAY WITH HEALTHIER AND MORE ACTIVE LIVES LIVING THIS WAY. |
| Name: | Siski aki |
| E-mail address: | wsvhomestead1@aol.com |
| Comments: | i love your site. we are homesteading in the sonoran desert and can empathize with your struggles and triumphs. you are all an inspiration to us! we are building a village a square foot at a time it seems. nice to see someone else out here who is doing it. thank you for sharing your experiences.
Siski aki |
| Name: | jackkodos |
| E-mail address: | jackkodos@earthlink.net |
| Comments: | I STILL LIKE TO MOVE OUT OF THE CITY ONE DAY |
| Name: | william donelson |
| E-mail address: | donelsonbill@hotmail.com |
| Name: | Jess |
| E-mail address: | mommy2be09_23_05@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | Hey Ruth Lee and all the others, Just checked in on the site, I try to do that from time to time just to see how your homesteading stuff is going. Me and My fiance Kyle are having a little girl Sept 15 well at least were due sept 15, Once we get the pictures when we have her I'll e-mail you a picture so you can see my beautiful daughter. Congrats on the new little ones |
| Name: | Kathie |
| E-mail address: | kathie@missourihomeschooling.com |
| Comments: | Just out surfing and happened in on your site. I had a wonderful visit with so much to see! |
| Name: | NORMA |
| E-mail address: | MISSINGANGEL3852@JUNO.COM |
| Comments: | IN READING YOUR STORY OF YOUR FIRST STARTING OUT IT REMINDED ME OF US. I FELT LIKE WE WERE TWINS YOU AND I. WE HAVE SO MANY THING IN COMMON LIKE WE RAISE SOME OF THE SAME ANIMALS, I TO RAISE DOGS AS WELL. I LOVED YOUR THOUGHTS AND MUSIC. I TO HAVE BEEN WORKING ON MAKING A WEBSITE.LOL I ADMIT YOUR'S IS A LOT BETTER, MINE MORE OF A STORE. I WOULD REALLY LIKE TO GET TO KNOW YOU.
I LIVE ON 30 ACRES OF WOODS & WATER AND I LOVE YOUR IDEAS AND MANY ARE MY OWN AS WELL. |
| Name: | Pam (The other ;-) Wife!) |
| E-mail address: | Dementedmom_2@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | Ru, Lost your home e-mail, and mine has changed 2 many times to count.This one will last(I hope!) Have more photo's to e-mail ya E-mail me yours |
| Name: | spinnerholic |
| E-mail address: | you already know it! |
| Comments: | Tried to look at all the photos that I could but kept timing out because we have such a slow connect speed.
Tell you what folks, I am REALLY impressed with all you have done and are doing! HUGS!! |
| Name: | solyps081 |
| E-mail address: | solyps081@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | Hello |
| Name: | slesh25036 |
| E-mail address: | slesh25036@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | Hello |
| Name: | Cheryle Stamps |
| E-mail address: | hollwd@aol.com |
| Comments: | Love your site.. We will be moving to Linn Creek,Mo end of june, on 5.3 acres nice farm with barn ect.. Cant wait to get there and finnally have the things I have always wanted, horse , goats , chickens. Moving from Lakewood, Ca.
next door to Long Beach |
| Name: | Kasie olsen |
| Name: | Joseph |
| E-mail address: | sofos2005@gmail.com |
| Comments: | Since I was a teenager my thinking was something that I could not give a name too, or describe it in words. Then later when I was able to describe it, there were no supports to prove that I was right, and still needed a name for the unique style of life that I imagined for myself and family.
Now after so many years and so much of thought as well as bought experiences, I finally came accross the real meaning of Homesteading! and I just love it! Best Regards, Joseph. |
| Name: | Al Hunkapiller |
| E-mail address: | cheahamt@direcway.com |
| Comments: | Enjoyed looking thur your site. I was looking for a site with instructions on sugar curing pork. I believe I have found it, thanks.
Al Hunkapiller |
| Name: | dave hitsman |
| E-mail address: | dh1936@earthlink.net |
| Comments: | Hi,
Enjoyed what I saw of your site but have to get ready for work. I retired from Ha Ha Tonka in 2004, I now work part time evenings locking up. I went through that tornado you wrote about,live 4 miles up Spencer Creek Rd.from DRd. Be back later. Dave, |
| Name: | Rachel |
| E-mail address: | popcorn10@hydromail.com |
| Comments: | ~Just stopping by to see whats new~ |
| Name: | yolanda simmons |
| E-mail address: | msups@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | great articles on your site. Wish you were near north alabama. there is Minor Nursery. I buy there and grapes are 5 plants(2yr old) for 10.00 and trees are 5/10.00 also if you like to barter. Ole Mr Minor likes bartering more than anything. He sales to many of the gardening catalog companies and he can tell you what rootstock is on what plant/tree/shrub. He is located in Joppa Alabama. Showed you were zone 5 and I'm a 6/7 so I figured you were a bit further south somewhere.But if you hanker for saving $ on your farm on trees, may be what you are looking for. |