On Blogging
I am more and more impressed by the folks blogging out there. It takes time to write and there is a lot of writing out there, a lot of good writing, a lot of funny writing, a lot of writing I like to read. It takes time to read too.
I’m definitely just blindly groping around with this blogging thing. When I first put this blog up the rss feed (I still don’t really understand what that is) wasn’t working. Chris from Blue Fox wrote me a note letting me know it wasn’t working and in it he mentioned something about google reader. Do you know about this? Amazing, you can “subscribe” to blogs and it lets you know when there’s a new post.
This week I just figured out that I needed to look at the comments on the grains and pulses blog that I started along with Anthony Boutard and Nick Andrews. More Amazing, people had put in comments. One of the comments, actually a few comments, were from Nita who is an incredible farmer (or whatever label you want to apply) and has a beautiful spot up above Portland. Ironically, I heard at some point that she had a blog, which was a little hard for me to believe. I had actually found her blog through another blog, Oak Hill Organics site, just the week before. What is going on with all these dirt laden farmers blogging?
Nita’s blog, Throwback at Trapper Creek, is a fantastic look at practical and philosophical issues around the homestead. It’s full of great photos too. So It’s kind of inspired this entry and just the recognition of some more of the blogs that I’ve subscribed to on my reader account. I list them all out on my links page as well, but I’ll call them out here as well.
I’ve been enjoying reading about Nigel’s experiment in growing wheat for his chickens at Eatwell Farm, 75 tons of wheat. He made pancakes too, so it’s not all going to the chickens.
One of my favorite blogs unfortunately doesn’t have an rss feed so I can’t actually subscribe to it, I just have to go check on it every once in a while. Diary of a Young Farmer is a wonderful accounting of the first year of Zoë’s new farm. Zoë and I farmed together at Sauvie Island Organics, whose blog I also read as an honorary CSA member so that I know what I’m getting in my share each week.
Monday, June 23, 2008
