[Homestead] Go ld -- feel free to ignore

william Eggers wce1482 at yahoo.com
Tue Dec 9 22:39:24 EST 2008



--- On Tue, 12/9/08, william Eggers <wce1482 at yahoo.com> wrote:

From: william Eggers <wce1482 at yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [Homestead] Go ld -- feel free to ignore
To: homestead at list.ibiblio.org
Date: Tuesday, December 9, 2008, 9:35 PM






Leslie, I hate to see you go and I hope that nothing I said was the cause.  Sometimes I get wrapped up in what I am doing and forget where I am going.  So, don't go.

--- On Tue, 12/9/08, Leslie <cayadopi at yahoo.com> wrote:

From: Leslie <cayadopi at yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [Homestead] Go ld -- feel free to ignore
To: homestead at lists.ibiblio.org
Date: Tuesday, December 9, 2008, 9:25 PM

I am at a loss also.
 
To me, homesteading, a term I hadn't even heard of until the last week or
so, is providing for yourself off your own land as much as possible, and for
that which you can not provide for yourself do to an inability to produce it, or
physical limitations, producing extra of what you can in order to trade with
someone for the balance of what you can not produce yourself.  Trading may
involve either some form or barter with the neighbors (the way the neighbors did
and still do where I was in Wisconsin), or obtaining some type of currency to
trade with outsiders who won't or can't accept barter (i.e. the
government for taxes on land).
 
I find a lot of the conversations have been unproductive and discouraging,
instead of ENcouraging.  
 
It would be more encouraging to help people become as self-sufficient as is
possible within their own means, instead of discouraging people by saying it is
too hard or too late.  
 
It has been fun reading along and reading some of the thought provoking
statements, but it  has come time to say adios.
 
Thanks for the tips.  But personally I need to read "you can do it",
not a bunch of "you can't do it because you aren't doing it my
way", or you can't do it because it is too hard" type emails.
 
I already know how hard it is to shovel 4 yards of manure by hand from a field,
haul it home and then spread it by hand with a shovel. I already know
difficulties of crop yields, food storage, natural disaster.   If I was a
newcomer here and didn't already know that, or anything else I learned over
the years, I would never even attempt it after reading some of the posts here.
 
Thanks for the tips, but it is time to move on. 
 
Leslie
 


--- On Tue, 12/9/08, william Eggers <wce1482 at yahoo.com> wrote:

From: william Eggers <wce1482 at yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [Homestead] Go ld -- feel free to ignore
To: homestead at lists.ibiblio.org
Date: Tuesday, December 9, 2008, 9:25 PM

I guess I am at a loss.  I thought homesteading involved farming and I bet a
lot of the other members of this group did too.  I guess I need you to tell me
what homesteading does involve.  I am really mistified.

--- On Tue, 12/9/08, Clansgian at wmconnect.com <Clansgian at wmconnect.com>
wrote:

From: Clansgian at wmconnect.com <Clansgian at wmconnect.com>
Subject: Re: [Homestead] Go ld -- feel free to ignore
To: homestead at lists.ibiblio.org
Date: Tuesday, December 9, 2008, 7:41 PM

> >  I think you are kind of arrogant to think that you are the only one
who 
> knows how to homestead.  By the way, most of homesteading is farming. in
case 
> you didn't know.  
> 

And I think you are rather arrogant to tell the people on this list with more 
combined homesteading experience than you have birthdays that they should be 
ignored because you know as much or more than they do.   By the way, 
homesteading and farming as you have described it have little to do with one
another.

James
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