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Comment by Mollie Pearce McKibbon on November 30, 2011 at 3:28pm

I was a navy brat and we moved every two years. For the last thirty-eight years I have lived with my husband in the country on eight acres surrounded by dairy farms.  We brought four children up here and all four are now city dwellers.  We have always had a garden (it's a lot smaller now) and two dogs.  I love the country and I love writing.  I was the editor of a local magazine called "Country Roots" for six years and I really enjoyed it.  Now I edit a magazine for seniors and hospice patients.  We started a writers' guild twenty years ago and it is still going.  

Comment by Dianne Campbell on November 2, 2011 at 9:13pm

I love on a 58-acre tree farm in the Callahan Mountains of Oregon.  The view is spectacular.  There is a rainy season and a dry season and that took a while to get used to!  We have Boer goats and hens who give us plenty of eggs...and I write all about it in our farm blog:  http://www.campbellkidsfarm.com  and occasionally on http://www.mysouthernheart.com    To have been a city girl, I have fallen in love with the farm life...

Comment by Katherine Gustafson on October 25, 2011 at 12:19pm

I'm a city girl myself, but have a book coming out in May from Macmillan about food in the U.S., some of which, of course, is about farms in various places in the country. The book is nonfiction; it chronicles my travels to find positive alternatives to our trouble food system. Readers will meet all kinds of farmers, gardeners, local food advocates, etc., in its pages. I certainly hope I haven't made any egregious errors in portraying the rural areas I visited; at least I preface everything by saying I've never grown so much as a tomato! You can see more about the book here: www.changecomestodinner.com.

Comment by Patricia Anne McGoldrick on August 25, 2011 at 8:05am

Welcome, Laura!

SheWrites has something for everyone, it seems. When Shanyn started this group with a rural focus, I was excited too as I had grown up in rural Canada!

Here in Ontario, just survived a record setting fierce lightning storm, funnel clouds too!

Beautiful day in the aftermath! Best. 

Comment by Patricia Anne McGoldrick on April 26, 2011 at 4:47pm

Shanyn, those cattle are beautiful.
As I read your tales of search and rescue, I held my breath until calves were reunited with cows .
Sounds like you are having a very busy spring!
A belated Happy Easter! Happy Poetry Month!
Happy Poetry Month!

Comment by Shanyn Silinski on April 26, 2011 at 4:06pm

I've been blogging about our spring and calving here on one of my blogs, Mystic Mom.

Comment by Deborah Armstrong on March 30, 2011 at 9:41am

Hi Susan! Welcome. Dairy/cash crop farmer from Ontario, Canada here.

Comment by Patricia Anne McGoldrick on March 29, 2011 at 9:11pm

Hi Susan,

Welcome!

Fairly new to this group started by Shanyn--the group keeps growing! 

Comment by Susan Wels on March 29, 2011 at 7:50pm

Hi all, I'm a city girl who's had a sheep ranch in the south of Chile for the past six years. I'm new to this group and this world and find it inspiring.

Comment by Patricia Anne McGoldrick on March 1, 2011 at 9:57pm

So right, Shanyn! Love those quiet days--great chance to do some writing and to catch up on things.

Patricia

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