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Comment on Independence Days Challenge is Back!!! by The Independence Days Challenge

The Independence Days Challenge — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 21:20:11 +0000

[...] Girl got her inspiration from another blogger over at The Chatelaine’s Keys and here is what the Independence Challenge is all [...]

Comment on Food Storage and Preservation Class by Looking forward to Independence Days… « Beth's Permaculture Diploma

Looking forward to Independence Days… « Beth's Permaculture Diploma — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:37:00 +0000

[...] just signed up for Sharon Astyk’s online food storage and preservation course. I’ve never done an online course before, so it’ll be interesting to see how it [...]

Comment on Food Storage and Preservation Class by Sharon

Sharon — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:51:01 +0000

Hi Shelley – Glad to – if you email me at jewishfarmer@gmail.com I can send you all the class info. I don’t seem to be able to reply to you from here.

Thanks,

Sharon

Comment on Independence Days Challenge is Back!!! by Rea

Rea — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:55:01 +0000

This sounds like a great idea. Especially this time of the year it seems like nothing is going on, but since I go to bed tired I MUST be doing something. LOL I’m looking forward to seeing what everyone is up to.

Comment on Independence Days Challenge is Back!!! by Amanda

Amanda — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:03:05 +0000

I’ve watched at the sidelines before..I want in this time

Comment on Ending “Farmer’s Wife” Syndrome by worldclock

worldclock — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 00:28:18 +0000

The Chatelaine's Keys » Blog Archive » Ending “Farmer’s Wife” Syndrome – just great!

Comment on Ending “Farmer’s Wife” Syndrome by Sue

Sue — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:32:50 +0000

As a soloist female farmer, I find very few incidences of gender bias when dealing with smaller farm business, the guys at the local produce store seem to enjoy talking farm with me and my stock agent is a sweetie who maybe tries harder to get me a good deal because I am a woman (and need to be taken care of?).

Where I do find bias and condescention is as blatant sizeism by large chain ‘agri businesses’ employees who treat small scale farming as a joke and organic/permaculture farmers as fools. They don’t get my money because of this attitude and I have sourced supplies elsewhere, so a bad business decision on their part.

Comment on Ending “Farmer’s Wife” Syndrome by Anna

Anna — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:12:19 +0000

Around here, it’s simpler than that — men are the ones who do business. When I first bought my farm, it drove me crazy how the men in our rural community would barely talk to me in a business setting. I’d go into the local hardware store that had been run by the same family for a couple of hundred years, and I felt like they really didn’t even want my money.

At the time, I thought it was because I was an outsider (having moved here from all of 50 miles away — the mountains can be insular.) But after acquiring a husband (from much further away) and slowly letting him take over some business transactions, I realized that these country guys just don’t feel comfortable making transactions with women. Sure, they’re fine going into the Dollar Store and paying the female clerks, but the mechanics feel odd talking about the insides of a car with a woman.

To be honest, I eventually just got used to it and wrote out checks for my husband to hand to the guys. But I think the solution, at least in a place like this, is to have more women involved in the businesses themselves. If there were a woman mechanic, I’ll bet she’d be willing to talk to me.

Comment on Independence Days Challenge is Back!!! by Hazel

Hazel — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 09:36:24 +0000

No blog, but this is just what I need.

I’ve reduced my hours at work for various reasons and really need to be more productive at home to compensate for the reduced income. It’s definitely the right decision for my family and me, and this is the perfect motivation to keep going!

Comment on Ending “Farmer’s Wife” Syndrome by TJ

TJ — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 06:23:19 +0000

I will keep my guesses as to the reason plowing was not (may not have been) done by women… it would have to do with physical dimensions, like weight maybe…
But I would like to suggest an older, more prosaic reason, one not limited to farming – the right to own property was not afforded to women.

It would be hard to explain any other factor thing taking precedence over this – a woman alone would not be farming since she would not be able to own the land.

Of course this is from a rather remote historical perspective, but that’s where the roots of it must be.