Walden Effect visitors
We were too busy to
celebrate the days, but September 14 marked the fourth anniversary of
our move to the farm and September 26 marked the second anniversary of
the Walden Effect! We've met so many
great people in that time period, both real live neighbors and virtual
neighbors who've dropped by our blog --- 333,147 people have visited
the Walden Effect from at least 200 countries and territories and have
read over half a million pages between them.
Although we probably
don't say it enough, we really value our readers. You change the
Walden Effect from our personal journal into a vibrant community as you
share their experiences and knowledge. Meanwhile, for
all of you old and new readers, I wanted to give you a chance to ask us
any questions that you've been pondering but which might have felt off
topic or like we probably answered them before you started
reading. Leave a comment here or on facebook with your question
and we'll make some posts to answer them in the near future. If
you're especially interested in hearing either Mark's or my take on a
question, be sure to mention that too.
While you're at it, feel
free to make an account and
a user page so that we'll know who you
are. If you happen to have a friend in Svalbard, Greenland,
Western Sahara, Mauritania, Sierra Leone, Ghana,
Benin, Niger, Chad, Central African Republic, Gabon, Equitorial Guinea,
Eritrea, North Korea, or French Guiana, you'd make my day if you drop
them an email and ask them to visit the Walden Effect to round out my
world map. And thanks for reading!
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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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Congratulations on your success and longevity! My questions: Obviously you love your land and home, but knowing what you know now, if you couldn't have the same property, what would you look for instead? Would you spend the same amount of money, get a smaller or larger property, move to another area, etc? Also, in hindsight what are the longer term things you wish you had started early on and what were the things that could have waited? Do you wish now that you had put up garden fences?