Your part of the world

[Kerry]

Have been reading posts on the forum and I am interested to hear from people in other parts of the world,how about telling me where you live and what it's like as most places are vastly different to my place in Aus. Maybe a pic or two? E.mail me at Loudon2@mail.bigpond.com. Look forward to hearing from you. Kerry.

 

[cowboydoc]

Hi Kerry,
Had the pleasure of being over there in your country some years back when they were trying to get american ranchers to come over there and buy your outback to raise cattle on. I went over there with my Grandfather who your country hired as a consultant back in 1984. Damn desolate is all I can say. I appreciated the beauty being raised on the high desert and mountains but that was pretty barren. Here's a couple pics of his ranch. You can see my place at my website under my preferences

 

[Wingnut]

wll I'm not there right now ... but my natural habitat is norther Alberta. My place is (oops ...was) about 40 miles north of Edmonton which is supposedly the northernmost large city in the world. North of my place was about 2-1/2 thousand miles of forest and tundra and then the arctic ocean. Deer and moose and black bears in the back yard at times and two packs of coyotes (think dingo but less savage) in howling distance. Nearest neighbor was 5 miles south and it was a long distance phone call.
Now I'm in mid-Michigan in the midst of an ocean of people on 8 (sob) acres. I'll try and find some time this week to post a few pictures seeing as I'm of the few that hasn't done so yet ...
Before moving here I had a mental picture of a denuded landscape with wall-to-wall smokestacks ... but mid-Michigan (and most of the country that I've toured here) is still well forested and people do value room and privacy when they can afford it. Actually the farmers here, on average, are much better at wetlands and tree conservation than the clearcutters we have in Canada ... so we're really enjoying the countryside.

too bad that common sense ain't

 

[jdkid]

Hi ya
well i'm in limbo between 2 farms one near oamaru (3/4 down south island eastern side) that we have just sold our new farm is on bank peninsula near akaroa (1/2 way down south island ,sticks out on eastern side)i have to get some pics taken as i have to send so to a good mate in Tx ..we farm sheep (braceing myself for aussies taking the pi$$) the farm use to have a old whaleing site on it (last used 1860's) and had a cheese fatoury early 1900's like most coastal farms there are seals and crayfish on the rocks so i may have to take up diving
catch ya
JD Kid

 

[Anonymous Poster]

i live

outside the internet, Central Anatolia of Turkey where 3 continents cross each other.

inside the internet, in a borderless country called Nomadia.
www.agriturk.com - www.geocities.com/erolby are my personal web sites.

 

[StoneHeartFarm]

Like wingnut, I too am in Michigan. This place has changed a great deal over the last 30 years. It used to be there were a LOT fewer people and houses, and a LOT more trees and open space. I am in the National Forest, which still has many, many miles of trees. Pine, Oak, Maple, Poplar. The ground is mostly sand but there are many pockets of clay. Bedrock is also very deep (someone told me 300 feet). So we have no rock layer under our topsoil like some places have. There are many swamps and marshes, rivers and lakes. I live where it's green.

SHF

 

[FarmerBob]

Hi Kerry...

Let's see now. How do I describe where I live? Contrary to popular belief... we <font color=red>do not</font color=red> like to be considered the "Home of Bill Clinton" /w3tcompact/icons/frown.gif, but don't mind any reference to our being the home of Wal-Mart /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif. Our other "claims to fame" are that we're the only state in the US to have a producing diamond field, and we're the duck hunting capitol of the world. Actually, Arkansas is a pretty nice place to live. It's located in the Southcentral US and is bordered by Missouri, Oklahoma, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Tennessee. The Eastern part of the state is flat delta land and produces a large percentage of the rice grown in the US. The Western side of the state consists of rolling hills and small mountains, especially in the Northwestern and Northcentral part of the state. I live in the Central part of the state around Little Rock, but I live on the Eastern side of the city and therefore my property is pretty flat, but fertile. Like most other Southern states, when it's hot it's <font color=red>REAL HOT</font color=red>... and when it's cold it's <font color=blue>REAL COLD</font color=blue> (to us suthun boys at least) /w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif. We don't get much snow here, but we do get our share of ice storms in the winter. They're a whole lot worse than snow and do lots more damage. We had two storms this past winter that took out most all the power across the state for weeks and made a big mess of our trees.

Guess that's all I can think of now. Maybe I'll get some pics to post soon.

FarmerBob

 

[OregonTom]

Kerry:

We live on five acres at the southern end of the Willamette Valley, just outside of Eugene, Oregon, in the foothills of the Cascade Mountain range. Our part of the country is heavily timbered, very green and rainy as hell from October through May (although the temperatures are very mild all year around). In fact, a number of our friends (including some who work for ENZA (formerly the NZ Apple, Pear and Kiwifruit Marketing Boards) claim that our part of the county reminds them a lot of certain parts of NZ. In any event, this is beautiful country.

Attached is a picture of our house (under construction) which will give you a flavor of our country.

OregonTom

 

[utahmule]

We live on 40 acres in Cedar City, UT, in the southwest corner of the state. Our place is flat, with mostly brush cover, but all around us are alfalfa fields, so the ground must be pretty good. We paid around $2200 USD four years ago.

Its at 5600 ft elevation, so its considered high desert, hot and dry summers, and relatively mild winters. After spending 12 years in Chicago, trust me this is mild. Its a little desolate but we love it.

 

[GlueGuy]

We live on 40 acres in the Santa Cruz Mountains south of San Francisco (about 40 miles or so). Our house sits on a ridge-top at about 2400' elevation. The ridge we live on has deep canyons on either side, and we face the Pacific Ocean to the west of us. About 1/3 of our property (southwest of the house) is grassland, the rest is wooded in Douglass Fir, Live Oak, Madrone, and Bay. There are 3 other properties in our "quarter section", and all 4 properties are surrounded by several thousand acres of open space. The open space is protected in "perpetuity", and is meant to never be developed.

Looking north, we have a view of the north-eastern part of San Francisco Bay. If you pay attention, you can watch aircraft landing & taking off from the Oakland airport (kinda tough to see, as it's more than 50 miles away).

Our summers are very dry. In fact, our last rain for the season was over a month ago, and we don't expect any more until October or so. When winter comes, we will get 40"-60" inches of rain. The rain almost always comes from the south, and runs up the canyon to the south of the house. Our roof almost doesn't get wet, as the rain is usually flying at an upward angle. Winter winds are pretty fierce; 60mph winds are not uncommon. We occasionally see winds over 100mph. In fact, the previous owner had a weather station, and the anonometer blew away with the winds hitting 110 or so.

None-the-less our climate is considered to be "mild mediterainian style". Our temps are "usually" about 10 degrees cooler than in Santa Clara Valley, but can sometimes run the reverse in a summer-time thermal inversion.

The GlueGuy