I just read the book "Bucolic Plague". It is a book about 2 life partners (both men) who buy an abandoned mansion that has already been restored and become gentlemen farmers. Great book but big freakin deal.
I have a life partner who happens to be a man. I chucked my business life and become a female farmer. I clean chicken coops, muck stalls, plant and maintain a market garden, have a business (appleseedfarm.com) (they have a goat soap business). They do live in New York and have to travel over 3 hours every weekend to their farm. But I have kids and grandkids that keep me busy. I win that round. I cook, can, preserve, hunt and eat the game meat (mostly deer). I sew, quilt, heck I have even taken a spinning class with a real spinning wheel.
Now to top it all off, they are going to have a reality show, Beekman Boys. (The author says it sounds better that fag farmers, I did laugh at that one) I live a reality show. We probably don't have the drama that they do. After all, my life partner (husband) was not a drag queen before we were married. I've known him my whole life so I would have known if he was.
This book was a great read. I couldn't put it down. And congratulations to them for succeeding. They did have some help from Martha Stewart who one of then worked for before he got canned. He is the actual doctor that gave advice on Martha's show.
So if anyone is listening out there, I am available for a reality show audition, a segment on the Martha, Rachel, Oprah, Ellen, etc.., just a boost is what we need. After all, we did make it in an issue of Country Living Magazine. Call me....
See ya on the farm
Charlotte
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