Hello. I"ve been lurking off and on for a while and thought I'd introduce myself.

I'm a 37 year old woman, live in east Texas, and, obviously, love to garden. I have a little half acre here that I'm trying to make into a micro-homestead until such time as I can find larger accomodations! I keep quite a few hens, but that's about all the smallstock I have time for.

Hope to contribute on occasion to this forum.

-- Gardener (peph@wt.net), May 02, 2002

Answers

Welcome Gardner, join in any time.

-- Sherry (veggiemamma@msn.com), May 02, 2002.

Welcome Gardener! Jump in, we're a fun and friendly bunch. You don't have to worry about voicing your opinion here! We may jest with you but it is fairly harmless!

-- Susan in MN (nanaboo@paulbunyan.net), May 02, 2002.

Welcome to the site. If you have lurked for any period of time, you will know I HAVE WORMS! :>) If you don't know, then I beat my "evil nemeses " , Jim-mi and Susan to the punch :>) I also utilize BISF on a small tract and am always interested in new gardening techniques. The John Seymour self sufficiency series covers small tract homesteading very well.

-- Jay Blair in N. AL (jayblair678@yahoo.com), May 02, 2002.

Hi there Gardener! I see that I've got to defend myself. I would almost never jest about worms or some such. But I might try to throw in a chuckle or two once in a cheezy blue moon.

Make no excuses for the size of your plot of land. At least you are doing something constructive with it. How many way larger than 1/2 acre 'lawns' do we see that might be pleasing to look at but sure are not helping to fill our tummys? I kid you not, but my area had a dusting of snow today [thursday]

May your garden grow well this season.

-- Jim-mi (hartalteng@voyager.net), May 02, 2002.

Hi Gardener, I'm in Arizona and love gardening and chickens too. Any input here would be great. Anyone up for seed swapping? That's always fun.

-- Jill (lance1_86404@yahoo.com), May 03, 2002.

Hi Gardner,

I'm in east Texas too. I love to garden, have lots of animals, and not enough land...............

-- Jodie in E TX (stanchnmotion@yahoo.com), May 03, 2002.