Hi all! My friends call me Gerry (g as in "get") and this is my first post on Steemit! I've been referred here by husband @bobydimitrov - he's the one in our family that's better with words and keen on long form articles and I'm more of a show and tell person. His intro post describes our situation quite well , so I'm just going to link to it.
We're currently building our house in a small village near the capital of Bulgaria, where we've already started a small vegetable garden, a micro orchard, a food forest, a shelter belt and a lumber micro forest + plant propagation for sale.
We're also doing many local handmade paper orders, ranging from tags and business cards, wedding invitations and even lamps! I will share more of those in the coming weeks. Our brand is b & g handmade - hence the name of this account.
I'm going to use this space as an improvised photo-blog, posting regular photos with few words of text as description, as much as time permits. Being a SHM, caring for those two carrot destroyers and working on our handmade paper projects takes all the time in a day!
Thank you all for visiting!
Welcome to Steemit!
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Welcome to the steemit/Homesteaders family Gerry! :D That is a wonderful introduction post, much better than the first one I did believe me. :D
You will love it here. The people are so friendly, positive and helpful. :D There are so many great bloggers here that are always willing to share their knowledge base and answer the many questions you will have, if your husband doesn't have the answer for you. :D
I think your carrot destroyers are adorable. :D In the picture of you holding the vegetables, are you holding a tomato or a red pepper or something else in your right hand? My eyes are getting old so its hard for me to tell, whatever it is its huge so you guys must be treating the soil well. :D Wishing you great success, there on your land, and here on steemit. :D
God bless you and your fabulous little family. :D Have an awesome day. :D
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Hello Amber and thank you! I had much help from my husband @bobydimitrov with tags and formatting and all...! In this photo is a heirloom tomato variety, unnamed, we call it just "big pink". It tends to make large pink tomatoes with thin skin, but less in number. Sorry for the short answer, duty calls! And thanks once again for all the your kind words!
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Hello Gerry, you're so welcome! :D My husband introduced me to steemit as well. He too busy with work to get things done on here but he tries to read and up vote my posts at least. :D Its nice that your husband was able to help you figure out your formatting, tags and all, that must have make your learning curve less steep. :D Its a beautiful tomato, is it a firmer tomato or squishier? It looks like it would make great salsa. :D No worries about short replies to me. My kids are full grown now, but I still remember how hectic being a mom of younger kids is, plus you are busy with everything else on top of it. :D
God bless you and your beautiful family. :D Have an awesome day! :D
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It's one of the best salad tomatoes we have, along with a similar but red variety. It's not as firm as the passata varieties we grow, but definetely not squishy :)
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Very nice, I don't like it when they're squishy. :D Thanks for coming back to answer. :D Have an awesome day! :D
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Welcome to Steemit! I will be following you! We might have some things in common, I am also a homesteader and SAHM!! I'm curious, are you two from Bulgaria, or if not, why did you choose to live in Bulgaria? I would love to know more about it...
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Hello schoonercreek! We're both Bulgarian! Still it was a tough choice to make, to try and live in a rural setting, when the whole of the population is moving to the cities.
My husband follows many British ex-pats (is that propper spelling?) blogs that came to live in Bulgaria and we talk about that from time to time. It's mainly the low prices (you can get a 2000 sqm lot with a very old house in some remote village for as low as 2-3K Euro) and generally better weather that appeals to them.
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Wow thats amazing, it looks very beautiful there!
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Dear Gerry. I welcome you very warmly to our community. I'm shure you already know from your husband, that we care for each other here. I had the pleasure to exchange a few words with @bobydimitrov myself. You all seem like a wonderful family! Congratulation!
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Thank you for the warm welcome! I'm still not familiar with all the people in this group, but I heard it's a great community!
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Welcome, that sounds like an incredible adventure awaits you. Your kids are super cute :)
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Thank you!
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Welcome!!! I invited you to our discord group in your other post without realizing who your husband is... sorry!
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Haha, no problem, I'll get to know you all in time, hopefully!
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Yay - Hello! So excited to 'meet' you. Your husband cracks me up all the time on discord :) You have a couple of beautiful carrot destroyers.
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Thanks frugallady, they are all my pride and joy!
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Welcome! No doubt that you have thought of this, but I would be interested in hearing about your papermaking activities in the future...
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Oh I will certainly post some of our creations soon enough! Thank you!
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Welcome Sis, You and your family living in awesome natural land. you have published only two pics with very short description, This carrot harvesting field is look like our hills station 'Ooty' the wonderful tourist spot and fresh vegetable cultivation area (search google 'Ooty'). I love your cute children. Followed and upvoted.
#air-clinic & #hug-challenge of @nairadaddy
Link: https://discord.gg/rqded5m
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Thanks!
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welcome to Steemit
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Welcome to steemit @bghandmade. I hope you will find your way qickly. But then again, you have your husband to teach you the basics :-)
I'll be looking forward to your posts.
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Thank you for the warm welcome!
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welcome - it's so good to meet you! what a beautiful space, and what happy little munchkins! i am looking forward to seeing more colourful photos, and to learn from your garden.
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well hello there! welcome to the community! love the pictures of your homestead garden! looking forward to seeing more posts. { :
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Welcome on board Getty. You have a lovely family... Lovely kids! I hope u have fun while steemians,cos steemians is not all about making money but also about making friends too! So keep steeming and don't think of quiting.
#hug-challenge, #air-clinic
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Thank you very much, Amoni!
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Welcome @bghandmade! I am inspired by all the great things you are doing in your garden. it is making me even more excited for my future homestead where I look forward to planting food forests and other fun permaculture projects :) How exciting that you are running a sustainable business and teaching your kids how to enjoy nature and good food :)
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Thank you for your kind words, @sagescrub! We're doing the best we can!
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