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I have to say I am pleasantly surprised by the response here.
Ok, let's talk about the name and topic breadth.
"Rural Living"
"Farms, Food Plots, Gardens, and Tractors"
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This ought to be interesting !! wonder if stick is an expert here too ?? LMAO
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I'd visit for sure, starting to get more into gardening and maybe even a few animals soon. Broke ground and made a garden last year for the first time at our new place. Didn't do that great but about all I expected for a first year plot, expecting better this year.
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"Rural Living" covers a lot. I like it
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"Rural Living" sounds good.
Throw in Sticky's for specific sub-topics? Sticky Points right off the bat: Tractors, Fruit Trees, Container/Balcony Gardening.
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Maybe sub-forums or sticky's for different climates, regions, zones, etc. We will be planting very soon for instance. Native species comes to mind as well. The diversity would be interesting.
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I'd enjoy this too but may I make a suggestion? A "Rural Living" or "Rural Life" Forum would both cover these things and actually fit very well with the Campfire, Hunting, Fishing theme.
And it would also give us a place to bitch in an organized fashion about Rural Discrimination from City Dwellers who have no clue. Lol. Personally, I have some very interesting stories to share about this. lol
Oh, so a city dweller with a "Victory Garden" would not be qualified to offer input? I have urban friends and relatives with amazing gardens and fruit trees. I apologize...I did not mean to stereotype. This was wrong of me. I have the upmost respect for City Dwellers who buck the ideals Society tries to enforce on them! As you know though Urban Food Gardens are becoming rare and many Municipalities are even trending towards outlawing these. In many Cities now it is OK to grow "ornamentals" but illegal to grow "Food Crops". This is because of the ignorant neighbor next door looking over your fence who thinks they are ugly to look at and reduce the value of their property. In fact I try to promote Backyard Chicken Farming in the City just for these type of neighbors. These are the type of people I was referring to in my statement, not the Gardeners I'm in. BTW, You have just spoken about my city of residence. Who the hell do they think they are to tell me I can't raise vegetables on my property! They can pound sand. We finally got a commissioner who gets it and everybody and their brother are wanting me to vote against him this time. phugg them.
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I'd enjoy this too but may I make a suggestion? A "Rural Living" or "Rural Life" Forum would both cover these things and actually fit very well with the Campfire, Hunting, Fishing theme.
And it would also give us a place to bitch in an organized fashion about Rural Discrimination from City Dwellers who have no clue. Lol. Personally, I have some very interesting stories to share about this. lol
Oh, so a city dweller with a "Victory Garden" would not be qualified to offer input? I have urban friends and relatives with amazing gardens and fruit trees. I apologize...I did not mean to stereotype. This was wrong of me. I have the upmost respect for City Dwellers who buck the ideals Society tries to enforce on them! As you know though Urban Food Gardens are becoming rare and many Municipalities are even trending towards outlawing these. In many Cities now it is OK to grow "ornamentals" but illegal to grow "Food Crops". This is because of the ignorant neighbor next door looking over your fence who thinks they are ugly to look at and reduce the value of their property. In fact I try to promote Backyard Chicken Farming in the City just for these type of neighbors. These are the type of people I was referring to in my statement, not the Gardeners I'm in. BTW, You have just spoken about my city of residence. Who the hell do they think they are to tell me I can't raise vegetables on my property! They can pound sand. We finally got a commissioner who gets it and everybody and their brother are wanting me to vote against him this time. phugg them. Just the oposite here....Lewiston just passed an ordinance allowing a certain number of Chickens.....not sure of the details since I live about 25mi out of town but I was glad to hear about it..... I just put in a small garden that doesn't amount to much but I'm always looking for advice.....let er rip......
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I myself would prefer something more like "machinery" and not just "tractors". Case in point, where I live self propelled swathers ,balers and harrow beds are very popular machines and none has a tractor associated with them.
I also do like the "Rural Living" topic.
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I have to say I am pleasantly surprised by the response here.
Ok, let's talk about the name and topic breadth.
"Rural Living"
"Farms, Food Plots, Gardens, and Tractors"
???? Rick, Whatever name folks come up with I'll be visiting/posting. If there's posts about combines, balers, and other industrial equipment, I'll just have to wade through them. Not my area of interest. I'll not be interested in which spray is better for my 5000 acres of soybeans either, but maybe some folks are. (I don't have 5000 acres of soybeans.... or anything else either ) Chickens, pigs, family small scale beef production, goats, bees, "truck farms", family gardens, that kind of thing will be what I'm looking for. Topics more along the lines of self sufficiency rather than industrial farming are what I was thinking would work for me. Then again, there's a number of forums I rarely if ever visit, so whatever you and the folks come up with, I'll be sure to visit often. Thanks, Geno
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I would like to see this happen as well.
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Chickens, pigs, family small scale beef production, goats, bees, "truck farms", family gardens, that kind of thing will be what I'm looking for.
Topics more along the lines of self sufficiency rather than industrial farming are what I was thinking would work for me. Agreed, something aimed at the homesteader/hobbyist gardner/farmer. But, I do like seeing folks older/restored tractors! Myself, I'm only doing a small raised-bed plot that's all of 16' x 4', so I'm trying for maximum efficiency from every square foot available.
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I have to say I am pleasantly surprised by the response here.
Ok, let's talk about the name and topic breadth.
"Rural Living"
"Farms, Food Plots, Gardens, and Tractors"
???? Rick, Whatever name folks come up with I'll be visiting/posting. If there's posts about combines, balers, and other industrial equipment, I'll just have to wade through them. Not my area of interest. I'll not be interested in which spray is better for my 5000 acres of soybeans either, but maybe some folks are. (I don't have 5000 acres of soybeans.... or anything else either ) Chickens, pigs, family small scale beef production, goats, bees, "truck farms", family gardens, that kind of thing will be what I'm looking for. Topics more along the lines of self sufficiency rather than industrial farming are what I was thinking would work for me. Then again, there's a number of forums I rarely if ever visit, so whatever you and the folks come up with, I'll be sure to visit often. Thanks, Geno I was thinking the same as Valsdad. Although I'm cool with whatever people want. If the post title is thoughtful than I know whether to read it or not, and that would take care of most of the "sub forum" needs. -tnscouter
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Chickens, pigs, family small scale beef production, goats, bees, "truck farms", family gardens, that kind of thing will be what I'm looking for.
Topics more along the lines of self sufficiency rather than industrial farming are what I was thinking would work for me. Agreed, something aimed at the homesteader/hobbyist gardner/farmer. But, I do like seeing folks older/restored tractors! Myself, I'm only doing a small raised-bed plot that's all of 16' x 4', so I'm trying for maximum efficiency from every square foot available. gonehuntin, check into this technique for small areas: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=square+foot+gardening&t=ffsb&ia=aboutAnother method (I hope you're not a Francophobe, every once in a while they come up with some good stuff, like small bore smokeless cartridges): https://duckduckgo.com/?q=french+intensive+gardening&t=ffsb&ia=aboutGood luck with it all. Geno PS, old restored Ford/IH/JD tractors, like my uncle had on his little 5 acre place are cool. Some of the combines in the wheat growing are I live in could fit about a dozen of those under them it seems tho, and that's way too big for my interest.
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The campfire would make a great spot if we could cut back on the political, grump, and conspiracy threads. fwiw, The only part of country living that can leave me GRUMPY is repeated visits to my local John Deere parts counter in my effort to replace the 1973(two years older than I am)4020 Diesel that my Grandfather bought, my father rebuilt, and I am trying to keep the exterior and particular the battery system from eating me alive... I coulda boughta kubota for the money I've spent...(true) Beware of old tractors. They are mad about the lack of a retirement plan... Regards, Matt.
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Hope it happens and hope there is traffic. Cowboy Action and BPCR are topics I'm very interested in and that one would think would support fairly popular forums, yet the ones here get little play. A Handguns Reloading forum would be nice, yet there is none. Go figure.
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The campfire would make a great spot if we could cut back on the political, grump, and conspiracy threads. fwiw, The only part of country living that can leave me GRUMPY is repeated visits to my local John Deere parts counter in my effort to replace the 1973(two years older than I am)4020 Diesel that my Grandfather bought, my father rebuilt, and I am trying to keep the exterior and particular the battery system from eating me alive... I coulda boughta kubota for the money I've spent...(true) Beware of old tractors. They are mad about the lack of a retirement plan... Regards, Matt. No offense, but there's no such thing as a 1973 4020. I don't know when the actual production ended...maybe they made them into '73, but the models years end in 1972. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Deere_Model_4020
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Yep I got a farm and a tractor.
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Bumping for more to come chime in.
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