Why a Blog? And Why Plain Clothes Hipsters?

I have been encouraged to start a new blog to document our life as urban farmers, parents and other fun parts of our life.  I was hesitant, as I have failed at blogging multiple times, but this blog is more of a fun blog.  Other times I tried to blog about serious topics and I got distracted or bored, or moved on to a new phase of life.  So here, I will keep it simple, fun and low key.  To start I have lots of backlogged potentials, so I will be able to pull from history sometimes to keep things going. 

So why plain clothes hipsters?

Well I had a chat with EOP (my DH) not too long ago about how we (mostly) fit the basic description of a hipster:

• we live in an urban area
• we recycle (and compost) and try to use environmentally products around the house
• we drink coffee, preferably fair trade
• we are trying to become more involved in our city, through church and community activities
• we are raising chickens and vegetables in our little urban back yard
• we shop at the local farmers market and try to buy local goods when we can
• I like to be creative, through sewing, home improvement projects and other crafty type things

But, we just don't look like hipsters.  We don't wear skinny jeans, Toms, thick rimmed glasses, bow ties and thrift store throwbacks, not because we don't like them (except for the skinny jeans - I did that once in 8th grade), just because we don't. We just wear what we have and like, t-shirts and jeans mostly, and orange pants (another story for another day).  So that's where the plain-clothes reference came from.

Want to know how wikihow says to be a hipster? 

Curious how urban dictionary defines a hipster?


So that's all for today.  Keep it real.

More on these gals later.