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RING DESCRIPTION: A circle of homesteading women and men webloggers from rural to urban areas. Sharing our experiences, ideas and wisdom on living sustainably, green, self-sufficiently, etc. All are welcome providing you are respectful of other's practices and beliefs. No weblogs promoting pornography, violence, abuse allowed. We are RESPECTFUL of our varying beliefs and lifestyles.

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Going To The Country
This site is a documentation of all we learn on our journey to become sustainable, profitable, small farmers. We will also throw in our opinions about this modern life too.

Carpe Diem Acreage
The chronicle of our move to rural living. We are building green and trying to improve our lifestyle by living greener and healthier.

Homesteading Hickory Hills
Describing our family's adventure of creating a new life in the woods. We are unschooling, vegetable-growing, nature-loving, hard-working people who view every day as a new opportunity.

Touch the Earth Farm
We are a family of five: myself, my husband and our three children, ages 9, 8 and 6, living in the Northwestern Mountain Region of Maryland. Our land is home to many creatures, and our goals are to restore native habitat, to farm sustainably, and to preserve biodiversity by growing heirloom plants and protecting rare/ heritage breeds of livestock and poultry.

woodys rocky ridge
making an attempt to change the way we live, work and eat and do it at a lower cost on our wallet, backs and environment.

Green Surviving
This is a blog about our adventure of learning and living the green life in a rural area.

Ironwood Farm Project
We call it a project because there are lots of things going on here. We are a family of four living semi-rurally in our owner-built off-grid straw bale home, attachment parenting, unschooling, farming and homesteading with two other family members on 10 acres. Our goals are self-sufficiency and sustainability as we prepare for the future while living joyfully in the present.

MamaStories
Stories and articles from this and the other side of motherhood. This side: childbirth and rearing, considering (un)schooling, play and language development, etc. The other side: dreams of homesteading, ecological worries, sustaining and saving the planet

Prairie Roots Blog
Practicing permanence on the great plains of South Dakota. Growing roots--literal and metaphorical--into rural lakeside soil. Of particular interest: sustainability, theology, organic gardening, local food, sustainable agriculture, conservation, community-building, and earthkeeping.

My Green Dream
Single mother and her young daughter (temporarily) displaced from rural to more urban life. Raising chickens, organic gardening and working to reclaim our preferred simple, green life in the country.

down to earth
Living Simply in a complex world

From My Homestead
A blog for sharing and appreciating those things bound by the common thread of simple, natural & sustainable rural living.

Mud on the Tracks
In which your typical suburban family with rural aspirations makes it happen. A warts-and-all description of our go at sustainable living, shepherding, and parenting three young children, all while holding down two full time jobs with long commutes.

Daily Mind Wanders
This is a blog of my daily thoughts. I talk in most part about being a single mom and how I have been affected in my life. I give my opinions on things that just pop in my head that day. I speak of general items, including but not limited to, kids, family, friends, circumstances, situations, and anything that may appear in my day-to-day life.

Howling Hill
A mobile home on an acre, circled by pines in New Hampshire. We call it Howling Hill.

Ojos Verde
This site is on community gardens, self sustaining farms, and natural dye gardening

Capturing Today
Thoughts on making the most of today and memories for tomorrow by a wife and homeschooling mom to 3 little girls. Join us as we work to reduce, simplify and live a more low impact lifestyle.

Tales from Creekistan
Amy the Black is a thirty-something who used to work full time, but now stays at home trying to raise her two kids and her husband. In 2005, she moved her family from an urban apartment to a rural house that needs lots of improvement. Check Tales from Creekistan to see how Amy the Black and her family are adjusting to their new way of life.

pile of omelays
herein we document our plans to live the quiet life

Raising the Tribe
A family of five trying to eat local, grow our own and get back to basics while working and raising kids.

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