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  • From: "Lynn Wigglesworth" <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>
  • To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Homesteading sans spouse
  • Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 12:28:00 -0500

I'd have to wait until the kids are grown. I'm not set up to have visitors, let alone someone staying here long-term. We already fight over the bathroom, with 3 of us here. Also, I'm not very sociable, and like my privacy...the thought of a bunch of city types tromping through my garden annoys me. Anti-social curmudgeon, and getting worse all the time.

Lynn Wigglesworth

----- Original Message ----- From: "Gene GeRue" <genegerue AT ruralize.com>
To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Monday, November 17, 2008 11:59 AM
Subject: [Homestead] Homesteading sans spouse



On Nov 17, 2008, at 9:37 AM, Lynn Wigglesworth wrote:

There's a lot to be said for younger men. Where I live has a surplus
of
women, particularly in my age group. My having a farm might be
attractive to
some younger men, but I have no intention of ever marrying or
otherwise
letting anyone get their hands on ownership of it. Maybe I need to
settle
for just a ranch-hand...do some work around here in return for room
and
board.

Lots of women, with and without spouses, have supplemented home labor
forces with extra help. Some get it for room and board. Some do
schools. Carla Emery did something called the School for Country
Living or something like that. Many people get what might be called
slave labor by doing workshops, which means "letting" outsiders learn
by doing. There are many young urbanites who want to learn organic
gardening and animal husbandry and other rural skills. Find a
connection.
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