seramarias replied to your post “i guess
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dragonlady7via http://ift.tt/2gDUbcV:seramarias replied to your post “i guess i’m just brainstorming here but I would love to make a sort…”
Lemme see if I can lay hands on a scanner. I have nearly the entirety of Carla Emery’s 1976 attempt to collect all of the homesteading and farming DIY she could lay hands on.
WHAT that sounds amazing! I’ve never heard of this but the older resources are in many ways the better ones.
viktuuridance replied to your post:
id be into this. i know how to make a bunch of staples from scratch, but this still relies on having prepped chickens/ground flour/etc. i know in theory how to get fiber from various plants and animals, and in practice how to turn that fiber into usable garments and cloth (in ways that cost zero dollars, if you have the time)
I’m super into this and yeah, I’m kind of excited about the idea of expanding beyond #1 Buy Flour At Store because, partly, brother-in-law is now going to grow grains. Like, holy crap, that’s an unprecedented opportunity to experiment and research!
I do think that I have a unique opportunity to start from, since I live in two households, basically: one an entire organic farm with livestock and flowing streams and 150 acres of land and some heavy equipment, and the other one a tiny suburban home with not one single tree. I could definitely post stuff from both perspectives.
artifactrix reblogged your post and added:
Holy shit, yes. I would be all over that site. Do you want an assistant? Because I will HELP YOU TO MAKE THIS HAPPEN, I VOLUNTEER.Because yes, there is absolutely a need for an explicitly Not That Shit homesteading resource, and I want it, a lot.
I actually am thinking maybe this would work best as a community, but I have 0 experience organizing a community.
And I feel sort of strongly that I want this to be something that has control over its own ads, so something like Tumblr is straight out. I’m not above using affiliate networks or whatever, all that shit, but I want to profit off my own content, if anybody is. I’d love to be able to at least subsidize hosting costs, if not administrative time; I want to do this in conjunction with other things so that I have revenue streams if/when my dayjob goes away. So having a community makes that tricky, but also makes it more likely that this thing will actually #1 happen, and #2 have enough stuff in it to be useful.
So, conundrums to ponder, I guess.
I’ve found a few pages that are like… not overtly gross survivalists, but even the niceish ones seem to veer unpredictably off into Jesus at unexpected intervals. And like! Jesus is my homeboy! I’m not uncomfortable with Jesus! but man the people who like him right out loud like that tend to be nuts! As I get old and cranky, I have firmly solidified my beliefs that religion is like masturbation: you talk about that shit only with people who are explicitly onboard for that conversation. I’ll tell y’all all kinds of things if I think it would help you to know it! Sex toys that work for me, lube that won’t dry out, methods of centering my spirituality, churches that aren’t creepy– but that’s like, you gotta ask, okay? Or at least, I’ll warn for that shit, even if I’m real fired up about it. Don’t spring Jesus or wanking on people. It’s not polite. That shit is sacred.
(The Bible even tells you to do that, by the way. Pray behind closed doors. Let none know what you do. Keep that shit to yourself. It’s between you and God. That’s literally in the Bible. I’m just obeying the Good Book, here.)
There’s also a lot of mommyblogging mixed in. And don’t get me wrong, I also love mommyblogging. But it’s not. It’s not everyone, kinda? And the relentless-sunshine tone tends to wear, after a while. I get it, I do. I really do. But I’d like a different focus.
That seems to be it, though. If you’re a dude, you’re Into Home Defense Against The [this-is-overtly-a-code-word] Zombies, and if you’re a chick, You Love Jesus And Your Husband And Your Kids Exclamation Point!
Yo.
Lemme see if I can lay hands on a scanner. I have nearly the entirety of Carla Emery’s 1976 attempt to collect all of the homesteading and farming DIY she could lay hands on.
WHAT that sounds amazing! I’ve never heard of this but the older resources are in many ways the better ones.
viktuuridance replied to your post:
id be into this. i know how to make a bunch of staples from scratch, but this still relies on having prepped chickens/ground flour/etc. i know in theory how to get fiber from various plants and animals, and in practice how to turn that fiber into usable garments and cloth (in ways that cost zero dollars, if you have the time)
I’m super into this and yeah, I’m kind of excited about the idea of expanding beyond #1 Buy Flour At Store because, partly, brother-in-law is now going to grow grains. Like, holy crap, that’s an unprecedented opportunity to experiment and research!
I do think that I have a unique opportunity to start from, since I live in two households, basically: one an entire organic farm with livestock and flowing streams and 150 acres of land and some heavy equipment, and the other one a tiny suburban home with not one single tree. I could definitely post stuff from both perspectives.
artifactrix reblogged your post and added:
Holy shit, yes. I would be all over that site. Do you want an assistant? Because I will HELP YOU TO MAKE THIS HAPPEN, I VOLUNTEER.Because yes, there is absolutely a need for an explicitly Not That Shit homesteading resource, and I want it, a lot.
I actually am thinking maybe this would work best as a community, but I have 0 experience organizing a community.
And I feel sort of strongly that I want this to be something that has control over its own ads, so something like Tumblr is straight out. I’m not above using affiliate networks or whatever, all that shit, but I want to profit off my own content, if anybody is. I’d love to be able to at least subsidize hosting costs, if not administrative time; I want to do this in conjunction with other things so that I have revenue streams if/when my dayjob goes away. So having a community makes that tricky, but also makes it more likely that this thing will actually #1 happen, and #2 have enough stuff in it to be useful.
So, conundrums to ponder, I guess.
I’ve found a few pages that are like… not overtly gross survivalists, but even the niceish ones seem to veer unpredictably off into Jesus at unexpected intervals. And like! Jesus is my homeboy! I’m not uncomfortable with Jesus! but man the people who like him right out loud like that tend to be nuts! As I get old and cranky, I have firmly solidified my beliefs that religion is like masturbation: you talk about that shit only with people who are explicitly onboard for that conversation. I’ll tell y’all all kinds of things if I think it would help you to know it! Sex toys that work for me, lube that won’t dry out, methods of centering my spirituality, churches that aren’t creepy– but that’s like, you gotta ask, okay? Or at least, I’ll warn for that shit, even if I’m real fired up about it. Don’t spring Jesus or wanking on people. It’s not polite. That shit is sacred.
(The Bible even tells you to do that, by the way. Pray behind closed doors. Let none know what you do. Keep that shit to yourself. It’s between you and God. That’s literally in the Bible. I’m just obeying the Good Book, here.)
There’s also a lot of mommyblogging mixed in. And don’t get me wrong, I also love mommyblogging. But it’s not. It’s not everyone, kinda? And the relentless-sunshine tone tends to wear, after a while. I get it, I do. I really do. But I’d like a different focus.
That seems to be it, though. If you’re a dude, you’re Into Home Defense Against The [this-is-overtly-a-code-word] Zombies, and if you’re a chick, You Love Jesus And Your Husband And Your Kids Exclamation Point!
Yo.
