Stumbled upon an excellent blog today, called ‘Bush Belle’ written by a woman who lives on a sheep property in NSW. The links to other blogs written by people living on the land led to a whole chain of farm life-related blog recommendations in Australia and elsewhere. Such as ‘Raising Country kids’ (USA) and ‘Smiling Country Ranch’ (Eastern Montana, USA) (with a stack of very tasty looking all-American recipes) – which lead on to other blogs such as ‘Frazzled Farm wife’ (south Dakota, USA), ‘Just another day on the Prairie’ (Alberta, Canada). ‘Fresh From the Farm’ (USA) is another excellent blog with lots of interesting recipes, and the writer sums up what a lot of country women think when she says in her profile: ‘I love living on the farm. I am a farmer’s daughter and always knew that I would be a farmer’s wife too! I wanted to raise my children on the farm and that is exactly what we are doing.’
It is fascinating to see this huge interconnected web forming, of women raising families on farms, all around the world. In many respects these women have more in common with one another than they have in common with women living in cities in the same country. They love a country bloke and they love living in the country, and raising their family on a farm. These women have similar problems with droughts, floods, commodity price fluctuations, rising costs, equipment breakdowns and labour issues. I imagine this blog network will grow exponentially, and families will visit one another in different countries, all because they got to know one another via their blogs.