About a month ago, I created a Community here on Hive. You see, I am part of a FB group called The Crunchy side of MN & Western Wisconsin.
Wtf is crunchy you ask???
Well, it means a lot of things. The grand base is that people who call themselves crunchy are more or less traditional or self sufficient kind of people.
There are homesteaders, farmers, homeschool families, holistic healers, etc. Most of them are for a natural way of living compared to 40 hours in a cube and running the rat race.
If that didn't sum it up for you very well, try this:
Crunchy is generally a term used to describe a type of parenting style. Although I hardly think that it needs to solely apply to parents. I believe someone without kids can be crunchy as well; they just won’t be practicing some of the crunchy areas that apply to those with children.
Being crunchy usually means that the person is someone who doesn’t just go with mainstream ideas and philosophies simply because everyone else does.
Now that is not to say that someone who is crunchy doesn’t do mainstream things, sometimes mainstream works. However, it means that (usually) crunchy people are notorious for researching their hearts out.
We spend hours reading books, talking with others, and scouring the Internet. Basically we don’t want to do something because everyone else is, we want to research all the options and then make the best decision.
To get to the long and short of it, Crunchy people have adjusted the way they live to be more natural.
Did that sum it up better? I hope so.
What I like most about people who are crunchy, is that there is very rarely shaming and or disrespect towards someone with a different view point, unless of course that view point is trying to be made mandatory.
Some crunchy people just want to homeschool their kids and could care less about GMO foods. Some think v*x's can be safe and there are others who would never touch them. Some want to work the land and be left alone, others want to live in a city and be able to shop at the farmers market down the street.
It's a wide range of people with different ideas, but the principle remains the same...you do you and I do me.
So why am I writing this???
Well, I have had zero luck trying to convince the leader of this FB group to even write me back. But then again, if I were her, I'd probably look at the community page I created and think "There's nothing here, wtf is this? I'm not going to recommend all my group to go to this Hive thing. We already have Parler and Mewe."...and she'd be right.
I didn't make the page so I could pump out tons of content, I just wanted to make an easy home for like minded people here on Hive. This demographic of people are ripe for the picking. With a lot of people already here on Hive who I would maybe call crunchy, I think we would be a nice welcome for the people leaving FB and the like.
So here is what I am asking of YOU!
If you write about homesteading,cooking,food,homeschooling,learning, natural medicine, health tips, veganism, my body my choice style politics, or anything else that fits the crunchy genre, please, please, PLEASE, just include the tag EC which stands for everything crunchy.
And/or! Post directly on the community page or crosspost to the community for the posts to show up there.
I know there are specific communities out there right now, but I figured an umbrella group would be a good way to build up some content and be more diverse to accept more people than trying to pinpoint one demographic.
So fellow Hivers, help me, help you, bring more talented people to this wonderful blockchain so we can all flourish together.
Thanks for your time and attention. Hive on.
Also, a link to the EC community page.
Tagging people who I think could help out :)
If you can think of any others please tag them and if you have any other ideas that would help, lmk!
