Some of the most enviable lifestyles originated from rural and small town communities. People gathered for quilting bees, Saturday picnics, barn raisings, and helped each other during the harvest.
They also nurtured solitude which helped access their quiet inner voice. They witnessed the first birdsong of daybreak, tended their gardens, and read and journaled by the hearth.
As well, they faced challenges head on, walking -- or running -- straight into all that nature could deliver, while developing a keen sense of the natural world's language still hidden from much of humanity.
This Country Living Hub is for restoring the best of those times, with today's new social and sustainable living understandings. Even those who aren't currently living in the country, but plan to, or who simply adapt country living spirit to urban settings... we're glad you're here.
Country Living Hub articles:
(For farming how-tos, see also Center for Micro Eco-Farming and/or Regenerative Agrarian
Articles:
- Old fashioned May Day: How to make and dance around a May Pole
- Making and delivering old-fashioned May Day baskets
- Bonfires: Rural backyard firepits and campfire cooking -- eco-friendly and fun
- Home food preservation as a group harvest celebration
- Barn dance revival!
- Starting and enjoying a rural or small town book club
- More fun book club ideas
- Gather with family or friends for a strawberry festival
- Personal journaling or creative writing with friends on the farm
- Potlucks!
- Children's gardening
- Make incense from scratch
- Family outdoor "stone soup" cooking adventure
- Teaching a workshop in your rural location
- Revive old-time radio show family times with modern resources
- Backyard camping
- NEW: Backyard movie night
- NEW: Quilting group ideas: Starting a group from scratch, finding new members for current groups, and quilting group activity ideas.
- NEW: Indoor camping ideas
Enjoy this unique collection of greeting cards that celebrate the countryside, gardens and nature. Choose from the designs as created, easily customize with your own text, or in some cases, upload your own farm, garden or family images. Friendship, Good Luck, Encouragement, Birthdays, Mother's Day, Father's Day, May Day, Easter, Springtime, Happy Autumn, Winter Celebrations, Picnic/Potluck/BBQ invitations and more:
