Post by Lesli on Nov 27, 2005 23:34:00 GMT -5
I am interested in your stories. What has inspired you all to get your first cow? Were you raised with a cow, and milk? Do you remember watching your Grannie? (I do)
People think we are just a little off around here to want to garden, milk a cow, raise our own chickens and eggs, make cheese, soap, etc. A coworker told me I was born a hundred years too late. I said, yes probably so, 'cept I'd of died in child birth since I had to have a C-section to deliver my eldest son, a little breech baby all of 9 lbs 11 1/2 oz.
I posted before that I started down this path with gardening, then chickens, then organic gardening and chickens, started writing my first historical novel. When my main characters got their first cow in this new country, while doing some research, I caught the bug. I discovered that being organic was expensive and if I was going to be able to do it (go organic), I would have to raise my own veggies, eggs, milk and meat.
Since then I have been researching organics and feel that anything I raise would probably be superior for me and my family than most organics in any big grocery store. There are not a lot of natural or organics available for my family with out traveling a good 75 miles. I don't have a farmers' market and even if I did, I would not able to buy raw milk.
Besides all that, this is something that just feels right when we fell into it like it was just the natural thing for us to do. How can we ever go back? I guess that knowledge can be a bad thing if you know all the truths and details about such things but can't do anything about it, and have to consume them, you feel imprisoned and hopeless. I can't unlearn everything that I know, it has changed my life and it pains me to watch family and friends be so caught up in material things, but be so indifferent about their health and real food, and clean living.
Like I said, I tend to go off the deep end and obsess about things that are important to me.
People think we are just a little off around here to want to garden, milk a cow, raise our own chickens and eggs, make cheese, soap, etc. A coworker told me I was born a hundred years too late. I said, yes probably so, 'cept I'd of died in child birth since I had to have a C-section to deliver my eldest son, a little breech baby all of 9 lbs 11 1/2 oz.
I posted before that I started down this path with gardening, then chickens, then organic gardening and chickens, started writing my first historical novel. When my main characters got their first cow in this new country, while doing some research, I caught the bug. I discovered that being organic was expensive and if I was going to be able to do it (go organic), I would have to raise my own veggies, eggs, milk and meat.
Since then I have been researching organics and feel that anything I raise would probably be superior for me and my family than most organics in any big grocery store. There are not a lot of natural or organics available for my family with out traveling a good 75 miles. I don't have a farmers' market and even if I did, I would not able to buy raw milk.
Besides all that, this is something that just feels right when we fell into it like it was just the natural thing for us to do. How can we ever go back? I guess that knowledge can be a bad thing if you know all the truths and details about such things but can't do anything about it, and have to consume them, you feel imprisoned and hopeless. I can't unlearn everything that I know, it has changed my life and it pains me to watch family and friends be so caught up in material things, but be so indifferent about their health and real food, and clean living.
Like I said, I tend to go off the deep end and obsess about things that are important to me.