Spring and Fall are great times for cities: the slush is gone, and the stink hasn't yet arrived--but this week I found myself wondering how the other 20.78% lives, so I rounded up a few rural blogs, after the jump.
Meditation: Rural Roundup
When not raising
pigs and selling hand-dyed yarn,
Jessie Raymond writes
a humor column for Vermont's Addison
Independent.
"We flatlanders are always doing things that we think make us more like Vermonters, like baking bread, raising chickens, and knitting, but as it turns out, Vermonters are a practical people who quit doing all that as soon as it became unnecessary for survival."
James Graham writes about living in small-town New Hampshire and renovating his 1850's house, Chez Melendy.
"Every spring, while Cherry blossoms flank the Potomac and Magnolias offer their subtle charms to the gardens of Brooklyn, the rural communities of northern New England struggle to keep their cars from sinking into the mud of those quaint back roads that look so lovely in the fall. The dreaded mud season is upon us."
Small Town Misfit is a compendium of items from small-town police blotters nationwide.
The Ethicurean writes about "tasty things that are also sustainable, organic, local, and/or ethical — SOLE food, for short."
Also check out posts tagged with rural+diy on del.icio.us.
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my favourite is :
http://foodiefarmgirl.blogspot.com/
from her site:
"Nearly everyone dreams of moving to the country, but few are crazy enough to actually do it. I am one of those few. In 1994, at 26, I sold my little bakery cafe, packed 200 boxes of books & antiques, & waved goodbye to California. Armed with a basic knowledge of gardening, an overenthusiastic sense of adventure, & lots of naivete, I dragged 4 cats, a huge dog, & my equally greenhorn husband to a 280-acre, 140-year-old farm in the middle of nowhere. I became cook, gardener, shepherd, farmhand, vet, surrogate mom, wildlife expert, midwife, & undertaker. My prep school education & design degree were useless. I went from attending restaurant openings & gallery receptions to working the rural fire dept's BBQ booth at the crafts fair & munching fried pies at country auctions. Twelve years later, much has changed: a new farm, a new garden, a new man in my life. I have sheep, chickens, 2 dogs, 7 cats, & an adorable donkey named Dan. My life revolves around food. I've taught cooking classes & contributed to cookbooks. I've written for Kitchen Gardener, Garden Design & others. I'm slowly building a wholesale artisan bread bakery on my farm. And my name is Susan."
and then there is her other cooking blog: http://inmykitchengarden.blogspot.com/
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I just have to say that I ate the eggs that are pictured for dinner. Seriously, all six looked exactly the same, including the fact that two of them were greenish americauna eggs.
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