Buy props used in MaryJane’s books and magazine!
5% of profits will benefit www.firstbook.org, a non-profit that provides new books to children from low-income families throughout the U.S. and Canada.
Here’s how:
MaryJane will post a photo and a description of a prop and its cost along with a few details as to its condition here: https://shop.maryjanesfarm.org/MaryJanesCurations. It’s a playful way to be the new owner of a little bit of farm herstory.
Charm, kindness and good manners, indeed. In these times of overindulgence, we can never have too much of these! Where DO you find these wonderful treasures to photography? It reminds me of a very old picture of two children in my family in the early 30s. Love it.
Good morning Cindi! This is a little tricycle I picked up years ago in a second-hand store. Clearly it’s homemade. I had it out the other day (keep it stored in my barn) for one of my grandgirls and there it sat where Karina captured it with her camera yesterday.
Training gear for little Red Tractor Girls!!
Yesterday was so very interesting at John Bunker’s Farm. Complete with outhouse, this is a very rustic place where he preserves heirloom apples from his region and lives a very simple and dedicated life. He runs a large orchard for his CSA away from his farm and runs a business called FEDCO which is about availability of rare apples and scions for rebuilding orchards . He showed me how he is grafting rare apple varieties and gave me two apples from a tree with a variety called Minnesota #?????. With a big friendly smile, he loves to share all about his work and answer questions. Warren got photos of me wearing his apple picking bucket and the handcrafted apple ladder. We have photos of the two of us as well. When i get home , Warren can download them to me and i will share with you. Can I just say that spending a short time with this apple expert was such a privilege for my own obsession with all things apple. You know what? When I gave him the apple cozy, he grinned and immediately noticed the little handmade card on top with my Red Tractor Girl stamp, name etc. who is Red Tractor Girl with a number 3109?? Well, that story is for another day when you don’t have to rush back to Portland airport 2 hours away to change out the rental car before 6pm because the front right tire has a nail in it!!! Thank heaven of those spare tires even if they limit your speed to 50 mph on the interstate. But when we realized the tire had an issue, we were 40 miles from my chance to meet John, so we kept filling it up with air till we for to the farm and changed the tire! A Farmgirl’s gotta do what a Farmgirl’s gotta do!!!
Thought I had found an older (not true antique) tricycle, but yours is Number 1. Mine is probably from the 50s and had intended to have a small display of toys on my front porch: doll carriage, pull wagon, trike, box of old building blocks, sled. Had to rethink that when some petty stunts and disappearing yard ornaments happened mid-summer. Don’t understand why there are some people who delight in destroying or stealing from one’s front porch. So, had the trike on my back porch and a visitor asked if I was having unusual dreams!! When questioned, the response was, “Well, you are in your 70s and I can’t imagine why you would have a trike on your back porch. It isn’t even new.” Explained my original idea and got that “look” that usually means, “She’s out in left field again’!!!! Sigh!