survey says
Hey CAF readers! Where are you from? I'll start:
Jenna Woginrich
Jackson, NY
Future Lamb and Wool operation, current homesteading web designer.
go!
Jenna Woginrich
Jackson, NY
Future Lamb and Wool operation, current homesteading web designer.
go!
posted by Jenna at 7:07 AM
419 Comments:
West Allis, WI
urban homesteader
Swanton, OH
mini-urban homesteader and graphic designer
Drew Shiel, Kildare, Ireland
Online Marketer/Minor-league gardener
Gatineau, Quebec
Full time self-sufficient homesteader
Kris
Chickamauga, Georgia
outback homesteader
raise milk goats and grass fed beef and BR turkeys and chickens
Jeff
Glen Burnie, MD
Urban Homesteader, Computer Forensic Examiner
Clovis, NM (for now)
Professional at false starts and wandering accountant.
Liz Scheier
Brooklyn, NY
Editor, homesteading voyeur
Erin Bednarczyk
Wanna be/future homesteader
Manton,MI
housewife, gardener,travel buff
Jaime
Davenport, FL
Accountant and someday chicken owner
Rosie
Lanarkshire, Scotland
Newbie Smallholder!
Tami
Jamesville, NY
G'ment office worker (to pay the bills),
Artist (because I must),
Antique Shop clerk (because I want to)
Dundee,NY
(Finger Lakes area)
Not a farmer or homesteader, just enjoy reading about all your adventures.
Pembroke Pines, FL
Urban homesteader and medical transcriptionist
Marion County, IA
chemical-free vegetable farmer
storyteller
Crystal
Homeschooling mom of five in the city. Homesteading with a garden and Angoras on less than 1/10th of an acre.
Tampa, FL
Renfrew,Ontario,Canada
Marshall, IL
Small town dweller and lover all things nature.
Suburban Rhode Island
Current summer farm volunteer, future semi-commercial shepherd, student
don't trust my name to the internet
Melissa Sanders (Missy)
Ringgold, GA
backyard homesteader and current job seeker.
I see there is a fellow reader who just down the road from me in Chickamauga - Kris, who is only a few miles away. HELLO!
Churchton, MD
wanna be farmer
PS - I had to place this comment with an account I don't use anymore because of your comments setting... I'd comment more if I could use my own name/url.
Skiatook, OK
librarian/homesteader when I can
Munford, TN
Wannabe homesteader
College student
nursing assistant
Dawn Dutton
Northfield Wi
Administrative Asst.
Chemical Free Hobby Farm owner...
I raise Llamas, Horses, Chickens, Ducks, Sheep....
www.dawn-pine-ridge.blogspot.com
Jennifer Sobecki
Nashville, IN
Mother of two preschoolers, gardener and forager, part-time watershed forester.
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Kelly, Bloomingdale OH
One acer homesteader, Trying to live a self-sufficient life raising our own laying and meat chickens, milking goats, and most of our produce.
Windsor Mills, MD
Stay-at-home-mom, historian, suburban homesteader and small-scale Heirloom Tomato grower
Liz Medling
Columbia, MO
Perpetual temp-worker and wannabe baker with delusions of gardening
McDonough, NY
Gardening on 2 rocky acres with chickens and bees.
Lori Tigner
Westfarm Goats
Indian Hills, CO
Milk goats, chickens, and anthropology professor
Ottawa, Ontario
Gardener, Writer, Civil Servant
Pamela O'Brien
Wilson, NY
stay at home mom to 2 boys, livestock farmer- chickens and heritage breed pigs
Kirstie
Mississauga, Ontario
Office drone doing labels and regulatory work for a food company
Mansfield, TX
Former SD homesteader (5 acres, pigs, chickens, ducks, turkey, geese, super large gardens, pumpkin plots) and currently a Texan urban homesteader (small garden and a basset) who works at a private university as an assistant acquisitions librarian but dreams of someday moving back to the land.
Northeast Ohio
small hobby farm
sahm to 2 minions
Heather Wood
Virginia Beach, VA
Wife & human resource assistant
Misty Torrey
Genesee, PA
Preschool Teacher living on a grass/grazing based dairy farm
Tobi
Sherman, CT
cellist- skiier- quilter
corporate day-job
Lansdale, PA
Erotic romance novelist and homesteader in training
West Brookfield, MA
Engineer by day
Farm-builder evenings and weekends
Bob
Macomb, IL
Grad student, historian, farm groupie, first-time gardener and general ne'er do well
Dan and Tam
Future Sandgate dwellers.
Allison
central CT
Math teacher and knitter
Not a homesteader, not much of a gardener
Charlotte, NC
Corporate cubicle rat, p/t French instructor.
Lifetime gardener, farmers' market volunteer, former and future chicken owner.
John Collins
Fort Worth, Texas
Sub-Urban Homesteader, land seeker, and future self-sustaining dirt worshiper.
I'm from Cedar Lake, NS, Canada.
An Executive Director of a Residential Children's Camp and Retreat Center. No farm, just a dog and a lot of children. Simply enjoy your blog
Harper Woods, MI (just outside of Detroit)
Urban homesteader and freelance writer/blogger
Sioux City, Iowa
Mama-Blogger-Thrifter
Waverly, NY
I have never posted a comment but faithfully read CAF and LOVE it. I am currently a SAHM and housewife with laying chickens and veggie garden and hopes to soon have dairy goats:-)
Knoxville, MD
gardner, canner, soon-to-own-chickens. Love your inspiration
Elizabeth Harper
Cornwall, England (Land of Sheep and Honey)
Formerly of Atlanta, GA
Writer, Photographer, Expat Travel-Girl
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Courtney F., Fairfax, VA
librarian and Barnheart sufferer
Lesley
Warrensburg, Missouri
Retail shop owner
gardener---mostly fruit.
Allendale, MI...20 miles east of the shores of Lake Michigan
Child of the King of Kings, wife of one man nearly 39 years, mother of 5, memere of 4, lover of good food, gardening, cookbooks... chicken keeper, and an expert in the field of starting new projects and not finishing them.
Yvonne Clark
Wilkes Barre, PA
Clerk Typist 2/Nursing Student
Lover of cats
just left NYC behind for Lewisburg, WV.
future homesteader, but it'll be a bit of a transition over the next year.
Dallas, TX
Attempting to urban-homestead, if only the garden would ever produce anything but jalapenos!
Bev
Tribes Hill, NY
Federal worker / wannabe gardener
Webster, NY
Homemaker, new mom and 'lite' homesteader
Pittsburgh, PA
homeschooling mama
wanna-be homesteader
Jen
Bourbon County, KY
Trying to live a more self-sustainable life one moment at a time.
Telecommuting Data Miner / DBA by trade.
Grant Wagner
Deerfield, IL
Employeed Software geek and wannabe techno-hermit.
Minneapolis, MN
(but originally from central Vt and planning to return soon!)
urban gardener, experimenting with permaculture, dreaming of chickens!
someday shepherd.
Sunnyvale CA
Engineer, mom, knitter, backyard gardener
Castle Creek, NY
Born and raised on a farm--working my entire life to get back.
Semi-retired engineer and full time Land Steward
Sarah Pike, Charlotte NC
Novice Urban Farmer, Graphic Designer
Working on buying land and starting the real deal.
http://spike-growinpeace.blogspot.com/
Alix Baldwin
Fairfax, Virginia
Composer/ Musician
Very amateur gardener :)
Local farmer supporter!
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
mom, suburban gardener/food grower supremo, blogger, writer, maker of neat-o things, photographer, future hen keeper, frugalista, keeper of the earth
New Bedford MA
beginning gardener
wannabe homesteader
Joelle Ullathorne
West Yorkshire, UK
An admin monkey to pay the bills.
Knitter, seamstress, aspiring spinner and weaver, baker, beginner gardener, new chicken owner.
One day I'll have my farm, predominately chickens but with goats and sheep (and an alpaca if I can smuggle it in)
Cindy
Plant City, Florida
Just moved to new rental, several acres that will have garden, ducks, chickens, dogs, cats, and hopefully goats or sheep by next year.
Old hippie, Jesus person, caregiver to my father, former teacher. Lifelong gardener and friend of animals.
Lafayette, LA
Professional at a non- profit
Soon to be chicken- raiser
Vegetable gardener
North Central Washington State
Farmer's daughter on a diary farm while growing up. These days am office worker by day, organic gardener evenings and weekends.
Marshfield, VT
Homesteader, homeschooler and Domestic Goddess! :)
Echo Eve Kirkland, Southeast,Georgia
gereral cashier
S. Gwozdz
International Corporate Designer by day
Historical re-enactor by weekends
Partial owner of Registered Polled Herefords, but really, I'm just the bankroll and my sister works them.
Meridian, Idaho
Hobby farm (4 1/2 acres): sheep, ducks, a horse and more than my fair share of weeds
Sarah Hoeft
Mayer, Minnesota
homesteader with out live stock but will be getting sheep, cows and chickens when I move to more land
Bethel, VT
Fiber Farmer, 4 angora goats, 2 shetland ewes, 1 llama guardian. Spinner, knitter.
Raise pigs and chickens for meat, and as many veggies as I can manage.
Bookkeeper for local John Deere Dealer
Rosemary Gohd
Kendall Park,NJ
Vicarious farmer and PR/Mktng for South Brunswick Public Library in NJ.
Derby, CT
Full Time Operations Manager; Part-time Zumba instructor and bookkepper
But I raise kids and hens and veggies too!
Hello New Englanders!
Hi Jenna! Chella Hartford, Santa FE County, New Mexico, SAHM and learner of all things self suffecient and wild! LOVE your blog, read every day and thanks to your guidence, taking steps to OWN that FARM! XOXOXOXOX thank you, goddess bless!
Hi! I'm Cassandra. I've been reading for a while but this is my first time commenting. I'm amazed at all you've been able to accomplish and I'm so happy for you!
I'm a homeschooling, gardening archaeologist in northeast Oklahoma.
Gulfport, FL
by day I plan TV retail, by night I sew wares for my etsy shop pamwares, and in between urban homesteader
Laurie
Columbus, Ohio
singer/musician, fiber artist, dogmom, genealogist, yoga fanatic, beginning gardener, terminally curious
Toledo Ohio
SAHM, gardener
Burlington, VT
Clinician at a short-term residential psychiatric crisis program.
Also: dog trainer, artist
Wheat Ridge, Colorado. Beginning suburban homesteader. Big garden this year, chickens next year. Radio disc jockey, journalist, Green Reporter.
Mom of 7, Grandma of 1 retired FDNY-EMS EMT now OR Nurse. Presently from Rockland county , NY dreaming of land and chickens wannabe homesteader further upstate NY we love your blog and Maude
Lancaster, PA
Micro-eco farmer, mixed media sculptor, freelance graphic designer
Ellendale, MN
Newbie Homesteader, Chicken-crazy (can't get enough of them!) gardener, homeschooling mom of two boys and *someday* shepherd and dairy maid! :o)
Phoenixville, PA
artist, musician, lover of the handmade, and future small-scale food-grower
Margret
Tallahassee, FL
Den-mother to the masses of unemployed/addicted/homeless miscreants who wander into our Labor Hall. Gardener/Co-op Member/Farmer Mkt customer & mama to 4 golden kitties.
Marcia - Crowheart WY
Rancher, shepard, dairy maid, chicken person, pig farmer, gardener, off-gridder.
Karen
Ocala, FL
Freelance Graphic Designer
I grow a vegetable garden, love to can and cook, and live a a frugal life with 1 husband and 2 crazy Jack Russell Terrors.
Caroline Long
Fort Collins, CO
Stay at home Mama, future homesteader
Lake Park, GA
Grandma, paralegal, love watching you go, Jenna!
Dan Meyer
Boise, Idaho
Apprentice at Morning Owl Farm - a small organic farm in Boise.
Littleton, CO
Gardener, Claim Adjuster
Wildwood Crest, NJ
Still figuring that out
Judy
Syracuse, NY
Government worker - considering retirement
country girl wannabe
faithful CAF reader
Shawn
Suburbs of Detroit, MI
Support tech and apartment gardener
Deerfield, NH
alpaca farmer, weaver/knitter, gardener, accountant
Ejay
Grafton, NY
"micro farmer" (chickens, garden, hopes of rabbits in the next 6 months)
future full-time farmer somewhere in the same region.
LaPorte, IN
urban homesteader, knitter and spinner, high school English teacher
Maryville, TN
Arborist-Homemaker-Hobby Farmer
I'm blessed to work from home where I can tend to all my critters(draft horses, laying hens, dogs, & kitty cats) and my home. Looking forward to moving to our own farm this fall which will allow us to add meat birds, few cows, orchard, larger garden, bees, and swimming/fishing pond to the mix! Yay!
Charity
Austinburg, OH
Fancy Farm Girl, full time mom and a Martha Stewart type, self-sufficient homesteader. Living my dreams!!!
Kansas City, MO
urban organic yardener, nonprofit local/organic-foods activist, crafter, legal assistant (at least until the former pays the bills!)
Blanco, TX (just outside of Austin)
future homesteader, mom to 2 rat terriers, gardener, hippie chick, reader, DIY goddess.
Former Upstate New Yorker currently living in a subdivision in Madisonville Ky.
Unschooling mom of 2 awesome kids and learning to be an urban homesteader. Dreams of moving back to the country soon.
Dayton, OH
Arts Administrator, Mom, gardener
Dominic Ebacher,
Belfair, Wa
Homesteader-Ally on 2.8 acres
2 dogs, a flock of birds and 8 hives.
Savannah, GA
Chagrin Falls, OH
lover of chickens but stuck in suburbia
Peggy Webb, Nashville TN (now but not forever) Wannabe homesteader, urban homesteader, daydreamer
Northeast PA
Veterinary Technician by day,
In my spare time, raiser of southdown babydoll sheep, made it through my first lambing season this year! meat and laying chickens, ducks and geese, 2 cows, 2 horses, a livestock guardian dog and blue heeler to help with chores on 4 acres in the beautiful mountains of Pennsylvania. First time gardener. Inching forward toward that holy grail of self sustainability and my ultimate state of nirvana a biodynamic farm.
New Windsor, MD
Self employed, chickens, gardens, and play Irish trad and folk on the side while dealing with neurotic Shelties :-)
Heather M.
Littleton, CO
Urban homesteader, IT professional
Jackie C.
Happy Camp, California. In the rural north western part of the state.
Retired, I make handmade soap/bath products for the farmer's market. I have some plans for Etsy selling but I'm still working on that area.
The first 5 pea pods came into the kitchen last night.
Findley Lake, NY
presently seeking re-employment and figuring out what I want to be next in life!!
growing things and dreamin' small..
Bar Harbor Maine but grew up in North Hoosick NY 10 miles from CAF
Boarding kennel owner, quasi homesteading with large garden, laying hens, roos destined for freezer, turkeys and I raise Silver Fox Rabbits (West Eden Rabbitry)for meat and sale.
Seattle, Wa
current urban homesteader mom/wife with our first two chickens, future rural farmer.
Round Lake Beach, Illinois with 10 acres with apple trees and a huge garden 3 hours away near Galena, Illinois.....waiting to sell this house and build out there.....can't wait!!!!
www.rookiefarmers.blogspot.com
Knoxville, TN
Born and raised in WV
working for the University to pay the bills while figuring out suburban apartment homesteading
west chester, pa! (though born & raised in south jersey)
string teacher/orchestra director
aspiring photographer
Gambier, OH
Grad student, teaching assistant, budding ethnomusicologist and wannabe homesteader
Kathleen Lafond
Montbeillard in North Western Québec
I'm retired, grand-mother to two "magnifiques" little boys and living on 200 acres of mostly forest land.
I enjoy gardening, walking in my forest, reading, and doing different crafts.
Even thow I don't comment often, I read your blog everyday to see what you are up to. I admire your courage and especially your energy to do all that you do. I would like to have only half the energy you have...
You are a very special person and I wish you the very best with all your projects and your dreams. And I also wish you a "mister right" that comes knocking at your door to help with the farm but mostly to support you and take care of you...
Alexandria, VA
super-mini urban homesteader (do cats count?) and conservationist
Salt Lake City, UT
full-time legal assistant
full-time balcony gardener
full-time dreamer
Madison, WI
Wife, daughter, sister, friend
Natural horsewoman
University grants administrator
Watertown WI
have a small farm- flock of sheep (I'm a spinner) and some Highland cattle and TWO Border collies!
Rois
Beaverton OR
Suburban Homesteader
Blog writer
Not employed outside of home right now.
Full time manager of Hrafinstaad Homestead.
Gulf Coast - Florida
Where at present the oil resides
Experimenter, cook, gardener and hopefully, one day the owner of a small farm with chickens at a minimum of two donkeys.
Waterloo, Ontario
Wanna-be urban homesteader and biology graduate student
Chris Green
Wichita, Kansas
Stay-at-home-Mom.
6 kids ages 7-28.
8 grandkids.
Cashmere, WA
Day job: computer dweeb
Calling: vegetable gardner, canner, quilter, chicken-raiser, married to an apple and pear grower
Amalia Rivera Bellucci
Rochester, New York
Painter/sketch artist and first-time kitchen garden grower. It's small but going well :)
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Kelli
Columbus, OH
Still trying to figure out what I am
Spokane, WA
heirloom enthusiast
Tekamah, NE
domestic goddess and restaurant manager.
Brooklyn, NY
houseplant farmer
Zeist, The Netherlands
working in organic shop and as volunteer at donkey sanctuary
future dreams: vegetable grower and taking care of some animals of my own
Steak and Eggs
Burleson Tx. (South of Ft. Worth)
I am retired and my husband is semi-retired. We raise cows and chickens on 17 acres. I have had farm animals most of my life and still have learn so much from reading your site.
Salem, MA
music teacher, yoga addict, and slowly learning how to bake bread, visit the farmers' market, and learning to do more with less stuff.
Nicole Ethier, Waterloo Ontario!
Currently an urban homesteader, soon to be on 11 acres.
Lehigh Valley
Suburban Peasant, Radical Homesteader
Amy and Laura Boyd
City of Kawaratha Lakes and Toronto Ontario
Sisters, Bloggers, Foodies, Farmers.
Lelainia Lloyd
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Mixed Media Artist writer & designer, 2010 Olympic Athletes' Marshall & Paralympic Torchbearer.
Suburbs of San Francisco CA.
Musician, Mom and wannabe gardener
Mike Brewster
Princeton, Indiana
Kate
Idaho Falls, Idaho
weaver, spinner, mixed media artist, gardener. I have a small flock of Shetland Sheep and a border collie named Flynn.
Stephanie
Indianapolis, IN
Editor with a small garden
Rosann
Walnut Creek, CA (SF bay area)
Organic garden, American Chinchilla Rabbits, Marans chickens on 1/4 acre...
Looking forward to moving to a ranch and raising more!
Turners Falls, MA
vegetable gardener, Fundraising Professional
Turners Falls, MA
vegetable gardener, Fundraising Professional
Kimberly Fisher, Boulder, CO
Massage therapist specializing in Thai Massage, front yard farmer, hopefully future homesteader :)
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Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
Landless farmer & social service lackey
Jes, Boones Mill, Virginia
Local foods movement chef, cabin dweller, homestead dreamer
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Corinne, France.
Quilt instructor.
Tends a biodynamic garden.
Becky Spencer--Oakland CA
Urban Homesteader and HR Director, run a small jam and preserve business
Mel,
Plant and Soil Science Major @ Umass Amherst
Gardener and wannabe/future homesteader
SAHM mom when not in school and Military Wife
Hanford, CA
Farmer's wife, homesteader, dulcimer player and owner of Jessie the Border Collie.
Ft. Collins, CO
Blog writer. Master historian. Police officer without a gun.
Urban homesteader for the next two years or so. Then it's off to the boonies to enjoy chickens, goats, and nightly campfires.
Gettysburg, PA
Information analyst, gardener, dog mom.
Patrick Wohlmut
Portland, Oregon
Actor, Playwright, Teacher, Graduate Student - Library Sciences, Father, Juggler
Not a homesteader, but a friend to homesteaders
Kristina
Culver City, CA
home gardener, still trying to figure out what I "want to do when I grow up"
Santa Cruz Mountains (Ben Lomond), CA
Bead artist/jewelry designer, organic gardener and employee of UC Santa Cruz.
Charleston, WV
Army National Guard Recruiter and urban homesteader on a normal city/in-town sized lot. Front yard and some back yard garden, had chickens but got busted (not allowed in Charleston city limits) and had to give them away. Trail runner and mountain biker, husband and dad.
Alfred, Ontario, Canada (between Ottawa and Montreal)
Independent web designer and noobie farmer/homesteader, focused right now on fiber and veggie production.
Reno, NV
Owner of a BMW/Porsche repair shop
and plant freak
Jenn
London, Ontario, Canada
Doctoral candidate, university lecturer, aspiring urban homesteader, perpetual dreamer
Arroyo Grande, CA
Small scale rancher/farmer.
Heather Kilner
Backyard farmer and urban forager- soon to be paid for the latter with this project!! http://www.notfarfromthetree.org/
Forgot to say I'm in Toronto On Canada!
Gainesville, FL
High School Guidance Counselor
Urban Farmer w/ an edible landscaped yard
Watertown, NY
future homesteader
San Diego, California
Webcartoonist and backyard farmer. Fruits and veggies, no critters.
Flintstone, GA
Dilettante-Dabbler! Rural gardener, cook, reader, singer, quilter, birdwatcher - you name it, I've tried it! Sheep collector - the non-living-breathing variety. Working toward having my own few laying hens next year.
Sarah
Reno, NV
(I move a lot. This is the 21st time and third country)
I'm an electrical engineering student and plan on moving to South America to get started on farming unique crops down there. I have both an indoor orchard and an outdoor garden. I really want to raise goats, fowl, and alpaca.
Eugene, OR
suburban homesteader
Sharpsville, PA
conservation biology student, mother, gardener and aspiring homesteader
Bertrand, MO. Small town homesteader, embroidery designer and now a full time student. I've barely begun to tap the potential of my 1/3 acre. So many projects, so little time.
Trestin Lauricella
Tacoma, WA
Full time engineer, and part time dreamer.
Lillian Munguia
Orange County, California
Executive Assistant to a CPA, vicarious homesteader and proud new mother to basil, tomato and squash plants. :-)
Placerville, CA
corporate slave by day
Home winemaker, gardener and wandering wonderer
Abbie
North Branford, CT
high school teacher (environmental science, botany, biology), relatively new mommy, wife
Las Vegas, NV
Registered Nurse by day, urban homesteader by night.
Patiently dreaming of getting back to the land of green (originally from PA-hello to all my fellow Pennsylvanians out there!)
Vancouver, BC, Canada
Library assistant, baker, photographer and wannabe urban homesteader
Katie Rizzio
Philadelphia, PA
urban mini-garden-er/librarian
Eure North Carolina
Homemaker, Artist, and a brand new homesteader
Joanne Semanie
Enfield, CT/Rowe, MA
Former small farmer/soon to be once again. Now a small auto repair business owner. Just waiting to get out.
NW WA State, USA
homesteading online teacher
Jen
Los Angeles, Ca
singer-songwriter, music supervisor
grower of the tiniest of organic gardens on a small patch of dirt in front of my apt. that I've turned into my yard.
Dreaming of a bigger yard or...dare I say...living somewhere more countrified.
Jamie Woodside
Woodside Gardens
Big Lake, Alaska
Organic gardens, chemical-free living, and free range chickens soon to come!
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