A new t-shirt and giveaway
Our
blog clearly attracts the rabble --- people like me who open Mother
Earth News and
recoil, muttering, "But it's so mainstream!" If an ordinary
homesteading blog had offered t-shirts for sale, I suspect that people
would have bought t-shirts. But I should have known that if the
Walden Effect tried to sell t-shirts, our readers would instead donate
their own designs.
New
t-shirts
Walden Effect Junkie put
together this awesome image of Naughty Butternuts, and even built us a Zazzle store so that we could sell as
many or as few t-shirts as we wanted without setting aside space in our
miniscule trailer to stockpile inventory. We followed her lead
and made our own Walden Effect store so that you can browse all
of our homesteading goodies in one place.
If there are any other
think-outside-the-box types out there, I'd love it if you emailed
me your own Walden
Effect design. We'll throw our favorites up on the Zazzle store
and donate all of the proceeds to Mark's favorite charity ---
Appalachian Community Fund.
New giveaway
Meanwhile, I've decided
we're long overdue for a giveaway, and again Walden Effect Junkie came
to the rescue. She told me that the best way to reach more
readers is to get our friends to tell their friends about us. So,
to enter our giveaway, just tell a friend about our blog and then leave
a comment on this post letting me know how many friends you've
told. You can email your friends, tell them in person, leave a
comment on their blog, or recommend that they become our friend on Facebook. You'll be entered
into our contest once for every friend you tell! The contest ends
at midnight on July 31, and one lucky U.S. winner will receive a Walden
Effect welcome pack --- our petroglyph t-shirt, 100 Egyptian onion
top-bulbs, a 3 pack DIY chicken waterer kit, and our microbusiness
ebook. (Visit our store for details.)
A thousand thanks to
Walden Effect Junkie for her words of wisdom and beautiful
artwork! And thanks to Zimmy who emailed me this great photo of
his petroglyph t-shirt hard at work on his own homestead.
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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Crack me up, Anna
Honestly I don't mean to be a 'rabble-rouser'! I am quite enamored with the petroglyph t-shirt design and would have proudly gone about being a walking billboard for Walden Effect. However I am in the wider demographic of your readers and an XL shirt just won't cut it for me-- thus I had to find a way to spread the word in a size that fits!
LOVE the giveaway. What a prize!
Kelly --- I'm glad you approve! I was a bit concerned the giveaway was too self-promoting and everyone would be annoyed.
Walden Effect Junkie --- Don't get me wrong, I'm thrilled that our readers are rabble-rousers instead of sheep!
And I adore your design too!
I've told/sent a link to 3 friends.
We really enjoy all your great articles; it definitely saves us a little bit of 'learning the hard way' when we can read what your experience has been. We live near Harrisonburg, Va, so it's nice to have some advice from people in our general area, also.
Thanks!
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