About...
- About me
- Why a blog?
- An introduction to the ol' farmette
Strive for a life defined more by what you do, and less by what you don't do.
Recent Posts
Local conditions
Knittin' resources
- Y2Knit
My LYS in Funkstown, Maryland -
My (growing) knitting library
Melissa Leapman: Cables Untangled: An Exploration of Cable Knitting
Stephanie Pearl-McPhee: Knitting Rules! : The Yarn Harlot's Bag of Knitting Tricks
Stephanie Pearl-McPhee: Yarn Harlot : The Secret Life of a Knitter
Melanie Falick: Handknit Holidays : Knitting Year-Round for Christmas, Hanukkah, and Winter Solstice
Barbara Albright: Odd Ball Knitting : Creative Ideas for Leftover Yarn
Archives
Photo albums
Eat local
- Why buy local?
LocalHarvest maintains a definitive and reliable public nationwide directory of small farms, farmers markets, and other local food sources. - Maryland Farmers' Markets
A county directory. 
- Organic Consumers Association
Campaigning for Food Safety, Organic Agriculture, Fair Trade & Sustainability. - American Farmland Trust
Saving the land that sustains us. - Ringsurf Organic Web Ring
- How to eat organic within your budget
- Even BusinessWeek makes a case for organic food
Go here for the RSS feed.- How the folks at the Farmette are participating
Go...but, y’all come back now, y’hear?
- A Flying Leap
You can't cross a sea by merely staring into the water. - A View from Sierra County
Small town life and politics, lots of knitting, and travels with and without my five burros - Amy Knits Texas
A transplanted Texan, Amy talks about knitting trials and successes. She ruminates about her job in the English Department at a large university, but mostly wants to talk about being at home with her family and yarn. - Back Home Again
- BloggerRadio
Just like Al Bundy, 'cept I don't sell shoes. - BottleOfBlog
- Coffee Grind
- Cowgirl Jules
...there's got to be a pony in here somewhere - Ellen's Nest
- Floodlight
- Friends Across the Fence
- Gerard's place
- I want to be a dilettante
- Kansas Days......
- Karen's Home on the Blog
- Life begins at thirty
- Life in the Hollow
- Nepenthe's Misadventures
knitting, thrifting, and fitness! - Not So Virtual Homestead
- On a Cell Phone on my Bicycle
- Pocket Farm
A little bitty farm in a pretty chilly place - Rocking on my porch
- Sarah's Homestead Blog
Dedicated to the ramblings of a girl on a small farm in the woods of Oregon - Secret Agent Josephine
Spy into my little life - Sliding through life
- Sugar Mountain Farm
- Talking Points Memo
- Tana Butler - Small Farms
Web designer, photographer, writer, mother of a fabulous teenaged girl...and I'm Logan's Nana. the web geisha - The Little White Bungalow
Mid (to late) 30's female, just married, late bloomer, trying to figure out what all the hoo-hahs about. - Volunteers In Parks
- Why Rush....
From the farmette bookshelf
Barbara Kingsolver: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
Sue Weaver: The Donkey Companion: Selecting, Training, Breeding, Enjoying & Caring for Donkeys
MaryJane Butters: MaryJane's Ideabook, Cookbook, Lifebook : For the Farmgirl in All of Us
Temple Grandin: Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior
Jon Katz: The Dogs of Bedlam Farm: An Adventure with Sixteen Sheep, Three Dogs, Two Donkeys, and Me
Douglas Whynott: A Country Practice : Scenes from the Veterinary Life
Jeremy Jackson: The Cornbread Book: A Love Story with Recipes
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