Howdy from Tennessee, USA

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eva
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Howdy from Tennessee, USA

Post: # 65876Post eva »

Hello all!

I imagine (and hope) that I'll have lots of questions and discussions in the future as I attempt to buy, rehabilitate and make self-sufficientish use of a very small, old farm in East Tennessee.

I'm currently a Nine-to-fiver, but when I go home I spend time poking in the woods, gathering herbs, learning about native plants, growing gardens with my husband, keeping bees with my parents, and dreaming of a future full of farm animals, handmade cheese, homespun yarn, hand-hewn stone and everything in between.

I'm pretty much a luddite girl living a techie existence . . . very strange. Going to work at a computer and going home to the woods. And glad to be in an online community of self-sufficientish-ers with such an international reach--all us Americans aren't xenophobic warmongerers :)

Nice to meet everyone!

eva

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Post: # 65878Post Thomzo »

Hi Eva
Welcome to the forum. Good luck with your project - it sounds great.

Cheers
Zoe

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Post: # 65883Post ohareward »

Image EvaImage

Your plot of land sounds great. Are there any vacancies?

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Post: # 65888Post red »

hi and welcome


sounds a good dream you have there
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Re: Howdy from Tennessee, USA

Post: # 65893Post Annpan »

eva wrote:...glad to be in an online community of self-sufficientish-ers with such an international reach--all us Americans aren't xenophobic warmongerers :)
Glad to hear it Eva. :wink:

Welcome on board, good luck with all your projects. I look forward to hearing more about them
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Post: # 65894Post Martin »

Hi and welcome - I like poking in the woods too! :dave:
http://solarwind.org.uk - a small company in Sussex sourcing, supplying, and fitting alternative energy products.
Amateurs encouraged - very keen prices and friendly helpful service!

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Re: Howdy from Tennessee, USA

Post: # 65907Post ina »

eva wrote:-all us Americans aren't xenophobic warmongerers :)
We've always suspected that... Despite official efforts to make us believe the opposite! :wink:

Welcome to the ishers, Eva. You are planning all those things that I'm eventually hoping to do, too - made a start on some of it. But this blimming job gets in the way... And I'm still looking for the right kind of place, too!
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Post: # 65926Post Wombat »

G'Day Eva,

From another Neo-luddite! :mrgreen: Welcome to the site!

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Post: # 65943Post Millymollymandy »

Hi and welcome Eva!

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