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Showing posts with label community. Show all posts
Showing posts with label community. Show all posts

Sunday, December 6, 2015

Why There's No Post On Sunday

  I've gone back and forth about posting on Sunday, but in the end decided to not post (wait a minute! I'm posting on a Sunday right now! Good heavens, I make no sense...). Primarily because I want/need a day off to keep me from burning out, but also because I'm already writing content on Sunday via 'The Newsletter'... Bum, bum, bum BUUUUM!! <----- Dramatic music


  The newsletters come on Sunday mornings, and always have content that isn't found on the blog. It's the "exclusive club" of this place, if you will. In the newsletters I generally write about what's going on, on the farm right now (or is in the works), I give a practical tip that you can implement on your own farm (this week's tip was preventing/treating frostbite on dairy animals!), some super-cool thing that I've found online and is farm-related (like today's homestead planner pages!), and then a random note of some sort that can be just about anything. Newsletter subscribers also get sneak peeks at upcoming blog projects (could it be possible that I'm about to release an interactive e-course!? Only subscribers would know or not! *Gasp!*), discounts on products, first dibs on offerings... I should stop here, before y'all get jealous. Wouldn't want that, now, would we? 

  You might have seen the popup offer on your screen come up once, with the offer of receiving a free weekly newsletter. That offer is only supposed to come up once so as not to be an annoyance (and because I'm not clever enough to figure out how to make it appear more times than that), so if you saw the offer, missed it, and now you're thinking you might want to try it after all... Then today's your lucky day!! Here's a chance to sign up!


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Wednesday, November 18, 2015

I'd Like To Celebrate YOU! (Free Presents Involved)



   I've been wanting to do this for years now, and am finally starting it up!! Friends, I'd like to celebrate how awesome you are here on the blog, and to do that I've decided to send a completely free, surprise gift to whoever publishes the most comments each month!!

  If you turn your attention to my sidebar, and look just below my profile image, you'll see a little widget that says "Top Commentators Of The Month", and voila! On that widget you'll see the top five commenters, how many comments each person has posted, AND you get your profile picture/blog URL attached! Woohoo! Free presents, and free publicity! 

 I was trying to save this news for December 1st, but I'm an impatient person *innocent look*. So therefore, I am starting this NOW! At the end of each month, I'll contact whoever has the honor of being the month's UH-MAZING commenter, and I'll send that lucky person some super special, handpicked treasure!

 (And for the record, no, the sheep do not get to join since they lack computers, and the ability to write trustworthy, appropriate comments.)

Sunday, October 14, 2012

For Stacey Jane, and all you others in my area...

If you live in the Sheridan, Willamina, or Grande Ronde area and are wishing you could have gone to the Saturday meeting that was hosted by Nourish Yamhill Valley, then here's a second chance for you! 

I got this email today, and was told to spread the word; we need as many as people possible to see this idea grow into everything it could be. I know a lot of the folks who I met on Saturday will be here, and it should be a down right good time. :)

Just a reminder to anyone interested in gardening, local foods movement, sustainability, homesteading skills, small farms etc.  We are having the first meeting around these ideas at the West Valley Community Campus at 266 SE Washington Street in Willamina at 6:30 pm.  The agenda will start with a tour of the campus complex showing all the amazing possibilities that can be had with this 44,000 sq ft, 11 acre complex.  We will move into a meet and greet segment to get to know one another and what your interests and passions are for these ideas and the West Valley.  After that a little brainstorming around a vision that you all will help develop and some ideas we could start exploring  and then hopefully some organizing of people around their common interests.   Please send us any suggestions for the agenda or any ideas you would like interjected to the group if you can't make it to this meeting.  You can contact me directly at djabc2@embarqmail.com  or call me at 503 876 3904   or 503 581 1508.  You can also contact Jeri St Onge ,  Susan Richman,  or Denise Wilms.    Hope to see you.   -Dave