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["Franklin W. Davis" <knarfme AT comcast.net>]

  Hi Robert...you related to the Walton's on tv?...:-) Just kiddin'...:-)
  Any idea how many folks are on this list? Franklin
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Franklin W. Davis wrote:
> Hi folks...what is a homesteader?

LOL, anyone tough enough to eat the worms in that can you just opened...lol


Can one be a homesteader by
> degrees?

Well, of course...we all have computers...not exactly roughing it in 2007.

I am interested in that lifestyle...but really don't
> consider myself a homesteader in the true sense of the word.

Not many of us do..I certainly don't, especially since I have gone back
to work full time.


  I don't
> have a bunch of animals and don't try to live off the land except by
> my veggie gardens... and small and large fruits. I also cut and split
> my own wood from off my wood lot. Franklin

That would be good enough for me....how do you fertilize your gardens?

Bev


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