Top three blogs
Are you looking for some more blogs to
follow? I read over fifty, ranging from personal odysseys to
nonprofit newsletters, but only a few are so rivetting I want to share
them. These top three blogs are my personal picks based on:
posting frequently enough to keep me hooked, mixing personal and
informational in a fun proportion, and either being beautiful or well
written (or both.)
Causabon's Book is probably the blog I
discuss the most at the dinner table. Sharon Astyk is a Jewish
homesteader and peak oil writer who sucks you in with her tales of
family life and simple living but adds plenty of meat about how to
store your food and prepare for the end of civilization. Her
posts are thought provoking and mirror my own world while also veering
off in other directions. (She used to write over on her personal blog, but is mostly writing at
the link above.)
Sugar Mountain Farm is "stories from a small
farm in Vermont's mountains raising pigs, sheep, chickens, ducks, dogs
and kids naturally on pasture." I started reading because we're
contemplating running pigs on pasture some day, but I kept reading
because Walter's photos were astounding --- really the best I've seen
on any blog. It's also fun to read about someone running a
successful small farm.
Not Exactly Rocket Science is a new favorite,
interpreting new scientific discoveries into layman's terms. This
isn't precisely homesteading, but you need to know the science to make
it all work!
What are your top three
blogs and why?
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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Idle Words has infrequent, often quite long & well written posts about life in Poland, China, Argentina, and other interesting subjects. Including "Rocket to Nowhere", probably my favorite rant ever, about the space shuttle.
Planet Debian allows me to cheat and include the blogs of 300 of my favorite people in one bullet point. I'm big on personal blogs of people I know, both to keep up with their lives and as a way to find out about new things from a wide variety of perspectives.
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I wrote a post about my favorite blogs too. Rather than give you the list all over again, I hope you don't mind me pointing people to them: http://www.livingoffgrid.org/homesteading-blogs/
My favorites are: Walden Effect Fast Grow The Weeds Throwback at Trapper Creek
Of course, your blog is at the top of the list. I also enjoy one called www.littlehousesouthernprairie.wordpress.com which is a humorous blog about a woman who used to be a reporter, quit her job and she and her husband simplified their life and now live in a small house (not sure where), www.tinyhouseblog.com which is a blog that follows the tiny house movement with folks living in spaces as small as 100 sq. feet, www.whimfield.com which is about a young couple who sold their condo in Victoria (near Vancouver, Canada) and drove across the country to the opposite coast (from Pacific to Atlantic) to Prince Edward Island, bought an old fixer-upper house, fixed it up, and are now living their dream.
I will have to check out your blogs.