Comments on: Goodbye, City Life

By: Dave2

Dave2 — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 22:57:47 +0000

You can “grow stuff and kill stuff then eat that stuff” in the city too… you just need a landlord with a VERY forgiving rental contract. I’m hunting a moose in my kitchen as I write this…

By: nina

nina — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 03:44:03 +0000

You should come up to Madison Wisconsin. Seriously. And talk to our market farmers. It will either push you to run away from city crap and never look back, or not.
I’m happy to sell you on cheesemaking. Come visit! And btw, use goat’s milk. Visit Dreamfarm or Fantome and talk to the goatkeepers.
Can’t you just see yourself tending goats? They are SO friendly!

By: Cheryl

Cheryl — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 03:05:37 +0000

Throughout my 20s I really loved cement, especially if it was all tagged up or somehow apocalyptic looking. But lately trees and flowers just seem…healthier to me. It scares me very much.

By: sizzle

sizzle — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 02:31:18 +0000

I can see you as a bee keeper, actually. I like the idea of farm life but then I think about all the chores and wonder if I’d cave under the pressure.

By: jenny

jenny — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 00:28:47 +0000

nat: i had to tell!
fiorello: mmm... homemade biscuits and pie? i'll render more lard than you can handle!
jess: well, you do have experience with rabbits. it's a deal!
shari: do you have goats in wenatchee? and honey?
tori: cool - you're actually making aged cheese? what kind - cheddar? mmm... cheddar!
churlita: if i can start fires under the guise of preservation, that sounds like the life for me.
sir: well, maybe i'll start out with bee husbandry, because bee sex is probably really tender and fuzzy, not like sweaty cow sex.
tracy lynn: i'll send you some goat jerky.

By: Tracy Lynn

Tracy Lynn — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 23:15:36 +0000

I don’t mind the countryside, as long as it doesn’t attack. I cheer you on from afar, dude.

By: You can call me, 'Sir'

You can call me, 'Sir' — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 22:01:41 +0000

Animal husbandry?
Are you sure you know what you’re getting into here? Do you realize how messy a thing ‘husbanding’ animals can be? How damaging to the psyche it would be to watch a bull ‘husband’ the living shit out of a cow? I grew up around farms. I’ve seen things, man.

By: You can call me, 'Sir'

You can call me, 'Sir' — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 22:01:41 +0000

By: churlita

churlita — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 21:58:29 +0000

You should definitely move to Iowa. We have all kinds of that stuff going on here. I can show you how to do a prairie burn if you want to keep some of your land all natural.

By: radioactive tori

radioactive tori — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 20:46:14 +0000

I make cheese! For real! I have a bunch in the basement refrigerator chilling and ageing(that looks to me like I spelled it wrong but aging looks wrong too…English is hard). Are you really taking a cheesemaking class?