Who are the Folks at Creative Homesteading?<title> <meta name="Classification" content="natural food, natural living, homesteading, gardening, healing, hunting, trapping, fishing, nature, back to basics, country living, mountain lore, health, alternative medicine, naturopathy, holistic nutrition"> <meta name="description" content="Creative Homestaeding offers alternatives to the high cost of living and the low wages, seeking a healthier, safer, less chaotic, and more independent back to the basics lifestyle."> <meta name="keywords" content="back to the basics, country living, homesteading, mother earth news, backwoodsman, magazine, mountain lore, roots, hunting, fishing, trapping, gardening, all natural living, holistic health, holistic nutrition, alternative medicine, natural therapy, homeopathy, herbal medicine, herbs, herbal education, Joni"> <body bgcolor="#996633"> <div align="center"> <table bgcolor="#996633" width="750" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bordercolor="#996633" align="center>"> <tr> <td bgcolor="#FFFFFF" valign="top" align="center" height="130" colspan="3"> <p align="center"><img border="0" src="images/phheader3a.jpg" alt="Creative Homesteading - Natural Living" width="750" height="130"><br> </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#FFFFFF" valign="top" align="center">  </td> <td bgcolor="#FFFFFF" valign="top" align="center"> <p><b><font face="Tahoma" size="4" color="#008000"> Who We Are?</font></b></p> <p align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2">Who is behind Creative Homesteading? <b>Joni Morton, family and friends</b></font></p> <p align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><b> </b>I am a 45 year old mother and grandmother. Local artist and writer, I have been writing and creating since the age of 15 when I started selling my art work and writings professionally. </font></p> <p align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2">My artistic talents are a diverse mixture of both visual arts and writings. Commercial pieces include human and animal portraits, original watercolors, oils, and sketches, screen printings and pen and ink drawings. </font></p> <p align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2">In the last 30 years I have written a variety of how-to books, and publications, cookbooks, television pilots. I have also worked as ghost writer for several semi-famous individuals, and created technical manuals, written press releases and worked as a publicist/pr person for several publicly traded companies all as a freelance writer. Mostly self employed, I have been 'self sufficient' most of my adult life. </font></p> <p align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2">Born and raised in North Carolina, by parents of meager means, I quickly learned how to make the most out of what was available. Having lived a very rural lifestyle most of my younger years, I retained my appreciation of my country upbringing through out the duration of my adult life.</font></p> <p align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2">Self educated, I taught myself internet programming in asp, php, perl, html, and developed quite a talent for internet marketing and have utilized those tools and skills to make a living online for the last 12 years.</font></p> <p align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2">After years of apartment living and living what could be considered a normal life, I made some choices that took me back to my roots and purchased 20 acres of land, built a small farm and retreated from the world at large.</font></p> <p align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2">It is here that my family and I now have put down roots and cultivated a way of life that fits who we are. </font></p> <p align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2">Between my family and friends, we hope to bring something our way of life to you, to share what we know and<b> spread the wealth of living better with less! </b></font> </p> <p align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2">We hope you enjoy Creative Homesteading. It is the product of all that we are and all that we know. Hopes are to turn this into a monthly or bi-monthly magazine of sorts. There are so few good resources for homesteading materials, or articles on raising farm animals for consumption on a small scale. I've searched endlessly for information online to build on the knowledge and curiosity I have and to replace that information that used to be handed down thru the generations - most of it now lost or forgotten. </font></p> <p align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2">I believe that as more and more of people of the world fall into the same financial situation as many Americans, of living above their means for far too long, homesteading will become the one remaining constant in a world where money is the thing that separates us all.</font></p> <p align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2">If you have any questions, or would like to drop me a line, you can email me anytime at joni @ creativehomesteading.com. If there are questions you have on homesteading, raising animals, gardening, homeschooling, canning, freezing or anything to do with being self sufficient, I'll do my best to answer them. </font></p> <p align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2">If you are successfully living a self sufficient lifestyle, or have something to contribute to the website we'd be grateful to hear from you. </font></p> <blockquote> <p align="left"> </p> </blockquote> </td> <td bgcolor="#FFFFFF" valign="top" align="center" height="551">  </td> </tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#FFFFFF" valign="top" align="left" height="351" colspan="3"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="198"></td> <td width="386"></td> <td height="3" width="166"></td> </tr> </table> </div> <center> <p> </body></html>