Congratulations ladies! Enjoy your delicious chocolate and saving endangered species at the same time!

What a great way to solve a problem for that late night craving and our fragile planet! I am thinking I would love to try the almond spread. That sounds like it might be the closest thing to an Almond Joy, which has always been a favorite of mine. Plus, I am totally in support of organizations working tirelessly to preserve our planet. It both pains me and angers me that the iconic wildlife, of parts of our world, are rapidly vanishing at the hands of poachers and human destruction of natural habitat. We can and must do better! Please throw my hat in the ring for a chance to support the good efforts of Endangered Species!

Well said, Winnie! Dark chocolate calls my name! This looks like a great snack and a great way to help our planet. Like the labels too! Thanks for a chance to taste yummy-ness! Blessings!

I love chocolate for all the health reasons. It prevents so-o-o many things. And it definately is delicious. A snack of one square is more than I need to satisfy my hunger!

I am definitely a chocolate lover and love it simple because of the way it tastes. I would use this chocolate spread on many things, mainly graham crackers. Nothing goes better with graham crackers than chocolate! I love our plant because it is able to support life and living. Without our planet we wouldn’t have food, water, animals, or even us. The best thing about this chocolate spread is the wonderful donations it makes. I love the idea of helping to save our endangered species. That is reason enough to eat chocolate!

I love chocolate because it is good for the heart, good for the brain, and good for the soul. 🙂

let me count the ways I love our dear stressed planet: beauty, abundance, variety, life, her forgiving ways, food–and of course chocolate.

Chocolate is a great pick-me-up for down days . . . and I love that this chocolate helps the earth. I raise rare livestock breeds for conservancy efforts, and I appreciate the sentiments behind this product!

WOW! Perfect treats for anything, even on picnics!

I love chocolate and I love what this chocolate stands for. Chocolate can give you that little smile when you need it the most! Thanks for having a giveaway.

I love chocolate because it never fails to lift spirits! Until we really put our planet at the forefront of our global agenda, it’s little things like this company that are going to continue to save the earth, and ensure we have chocolate for the long haul!

I LOOOOOOOOVE chocolate. You can have all the coffee. Just pump the chocolate in please. Lol!

I love the planet because Mother Nature has so many resources and ways it gives back and shares with us.

What a win win opportunity! Every spoon of chocolate I put in my mouth will give me delight that 10% of their net profits go to species and habitat conservation. Thank you for this chance!! Have a beautiful day =)

I love chocolate because it’s a good de-stresser for me, and I love our planet because it’s pretty darn amazing. The things it does for us!

Our planet is our home. If we want it to last forever we must take important steps to properly take care of it. Like a real home it’s not advisable to take down a load bearing wall, have sparking electrical wires or have your water drain directly into the crawl space of the house; all of these have unsafe consequences. Just as not respecting our plant will result in problems for generations to come.

this sounds yummy and I help rehabilitate wildlife and release them back into the wild so I am all for this

Brian Selznick has written several wonderful children’s books tha translate very well to adults. They are a mix of pencil drawings that tell a story as well as prose. Wonderstruck and The Invention of Hugo Cabret are two of my favorite all time books. I just got his new one The Marvels and I can’t wait to start reading it.

I would have to say my favorite book from 2015 was Divergent. I love action books and this one kept me drawn in the entire time. My plan for 2016 is to read at least the next book in the series. The movies are also just as good.

Hard to say what my one favorite book is, but I definitely love the Elm Creek Quilt series written by Jennifer Chaverini. The last one I read in the series is “The Giving Quilt”, and it is about a group of quilters who meet in Elm Creek every year the week after Thanksgiving to make quilts to donate to the Linus Project. It is a retreat that they call “Quiltsgiving.” Ms. Chaverini is great at telling the stories of the quilters who attend the retreats at Elm Creek.

The Road Home

I am reading two series of books; one is Tales From Grace Chapel Inn and the other is Miracles of Marble Cove from Guideposts. These stories are written by different authors but follow the storyline and each of them have recipes in the back of each book. In Tales From Grace Chapel Inn one of the sisters is a professional chef; in the other series, Miracles of Marble Cove, one of the characters is a baker. These books are very enjoyable.

Oh my, how to pick a favorite book. The Waiting by Cathy LaGrow was heart wrenching, but happy. The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom was thought provoking. Bootstrapper Broke to Badass on a Northern Michigan Farm was encouraging. A Dinner of Herbs by Catherine Cookson was just plain wonderful. Half Broke Horses was inspiring. Loaned the book out and can’t remember the author. The Half-Stitched Amish Quilting Club by Wanda E. Brunstetter was lots of fun. Love to read Mary Higgins Clark, Janette Oke, Al and JoAnn Lacy among many others.

I am a part time librarian, so it is almost impossible to pick just one favorite. But the most recent would be ” War Room”. It was so inspiring.

I constantly have a book with me. I love to read. I read so many books in 2015. Love to read Debbie Macomber. Just finished Danielle Steele’s “A Good Woman “. It was great.

My favorite book that I have read in 2015 was Maid to Match. It was written by DeeAnne Gist and is a historical novel that takes place in Asheville, North Carolina in 1898. It is about a family that is separated by the poverty within their family. Two young children are placed in a foster home where they are mistreated. The oldest son in this family goes to work as a carpenter as part of the servants in a wealthy family’s home. The oldest daughter of this poor family also becomes the “Lady’s maid” in the same family. The son is working hard so that he can hopefully free the two youngest children from their terrible environment. The book shows the miracles that work in
each of the older children as they become part of the wealthy family. The family they serve are also blessed by their benevolence as they make a way possible for these children to re-unite with their older siblings. It is a very joyous and heart warming story.

My favorite book from 2015 is The Girl on the Train.

My favorite read last year was Vienna Prelude by Bodie Thoene. It is the first book in a series about a Jewish violinist in Austria in the late 1930s and how the Nazis are beginning to impact life in that lovely little country. Love, laughter, terror, hope and music are all part of the pages. The best part about this book? There are 5 more in the series….whee!

I’m a retired librarian who foolishly thought there would be more time to read after retirement!
Ha ha, the problem is there are so very many great books. My 2015 favorite was All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr.

HOW CUTE! my favorite is cross stitch but would love to start making fun quilting projects. Thanks for the giveaway! Blessings to all!

I like to crochet or do applique on quilt patterns. I love doing things with my hands, sewing or crocheting or quilting.
Idle hands, devil’s workshop……….

I like to knit & crochet. I’ve also been sewing since i was 12 or so.

I love hand embroidery and cross stitch.

I love to make pretty embroidery on pillowcases and give to my friends. I used to crochet doilies and throws. My sister-in-law asked me to make a pretty throw cover out of the granny square pattern which turned out very well.

currently i do not do much hand stitching. i dream of getting back to it and small quilting is one thing i think of.

I have made some of your patterns and they are so easy to understand. I enjoy making small projects the most.

I have made 3 queen sized quilts, several lap quilts that I gave away, and now I sew with a group of ladies from a local church. We sew tote bags, dresses and shorts for Nicaragua missions, adult bibs, capes and lap robes for the nursing homes, baby blankets and bibs for a local pregnancy agency for unwed mothers, pillows for the hospital and other items.

I love the Patch Abilities kits. I have finished a couple of the kits; Butterfly house, XMas Stocking, Thanksgiving turkey, etc. I love to quilt and do some cross stitch projects. I am currently sewing up some aprons for my sisters and I to wear when we are quilting. Thanks!

I recently experimented with punch needle embroidery and throughly enjoyed it…I would love to expand my horizons to mini quilting next!

My current favorite past time is cross-stitching. Love the relaxation of it and seeing the finished project come to life.

I love to quilt, cross-stitch, crochet and sew aprons! I always have many projects going at one time!

I have done everything in stitching over the years but now do quilting. Love to applique using cotton and wool. Love your designs that they are happy and doable in a short period of time.

My favorite stitching pastimes are embroidery and crewel. I just love slowly “painting” a picture with thread like you can with these wonderful art forms.

Loved embroidering when I was a kid and keep coming back to it again and again over the years. Shortly after I was married (way back in 1968) I embroidered a tiger tiger face in a ring of flowers from a kit I bought at Sears. Was probably a real spurge back then, but it’s still hanging on my wall!

EVERYTHING I can learn. I hand knit scarves, create repurposed jean gifts, working on crochet to make a rug and sewing and I cross stitch whenever I can.
Most go as gifts but I do sell some too!
A customer sent me a box of jeans and sweatshirts from her deceased husband and I pieced them together to make her a lap quilt with a sweatshirt pocket lining so she could put her hands in it.
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I love making little girls fancy church dresses! When my daughters were little I LOVED the expensive stuff so I just learned to sew it. I would go through the remnants and get the five for a dollar patterns and we looked like a million bucks. Those patterns taught me to sew and didn’t require a lot of tailoring the way womens patterns do.

I really enjoy hand sewing, because you can take it with you to appointments and sports events. I LOVE quilting! Thanks for all you do for us!

These mini quilts look adorable. I love to knit and spin. Right now I am knitting doll dresses for my grand-daughters

I just sewed an Annie Oakley outfit for my 9 year old granddaughter and I have sewn quilts for 5 of my six grandchildren. I started out finishing the first one soon after their birth. I have one left to quilt for my almost 5 year old grandson. My daughter designed it and it is animals gathering wood for a camp fire to roast acorns. I better get busy!

I make prayer lap quilts and I always love doing the satin stitch and French knots for flowers

Congrats to Brenda! I’d love to see your new bag in action if you get a chance! You can email me through my Etsy shop! Happy Line Drying!

I am born & bred farm girl, e.g. my farm heritage goes back to Denmark on my dad’s side. I am oldest of 8 kids who worked the family farm in southcentral Idaho. I still live in the same county with my husband (an Indiana farm kid) and we own 97 acres of lava rock interspersed with sand & loam. Mostly I garden, in raised beds due to lava bed beneath. It is so satisfying to eat a meal that is mostly home grown, organically of course. Our load of compost from local dairies is coming soon. I love to plan my vegie garden on paper first, then use it for reference during the season. We also plant food & cover crops for wildlife (deer, pheasants, waterfowl, etc.), cooperating with Idaho Fish and Game and US Fish and Wildlife Service. Yay, farming!!

I am a true FarmGirl…. I live on a beef cattle farm with my husband. We have Angus beef cattle. I love gardening. I also bottle raised a premature calf that only weighed 25 lbs when born, (considering other baby calfs weigh approximately 90lbs when born). It was a lot of hard and work and sometimes heartaches when I thought she wasn’t going to make it… Thank God she did. She now will be four years old in June and had a baby bull of her own. Needless to say she is the queen of the barnyard. Her name is Summer Girl… and she will never be sold or ate! I also grow Atlantic Giant Pumpkins. That can be quite a challenge as there is so many obstacles to overcome that someone would never think of until they try it their self. This year I reached my best personal goal of 1,026.5 lbs… I am looking forward to pumpkin season starting up in April… I give my husband a hand with tagging, shots and banding, and weighing our baby calves when they are born. I also give him a hand with haying. My job is raking and putting the hay in wind rows. I truly love being a Farm Girl…

We live in a country suburban atmosphere. I enjoy getting my raised beds ready for planting my veggie garden. My 8 yr. old granddaughter also enjoys helping Nana with planning and planting. Watching the seeds grow in their different stages. I have been doing this for many years with my granddaughter. It’s a great learning experience for us. I also have fruit trees that bear us fruit. Love the idea that might near all our fruit and veggies are homegrown and pesticide free/organic. My children live close by and I share my harvesting with them. I live in TX. so I can plant almost year round and what I don’t share I can.

I plant a small garden 🙂

I shovel manure everyday I call it my Glamour Work I would rather clean the barn or the chicken coop than my house😀

I raised 3 kids to love the farm life. My dh died when they were teens. Because of the aftermath, I couldn’t give them much except some old buildings , and the love of a farm life. Today as young adults, all three have soil in their veins, and are actively involved in various agricultural endeavors. I cant even explain how happy i am to see my son rubbing the soil between his fingers, anothet son whose smile you cant wipe off his face, all because he gets to run a combine, or my dd who is learning so much about vegtables. I did it and I am proud of myself…..

What makes me a farmgirl: I wear my Muck boots with dresses, I long for nice days so that I can dry our clothes outside in the fresh air, my counters are frequently filled with bubbly fermentation experiments, we’re in the process of purchasing land to urban farm on, and despite having no yard temporarily.. I was determined to have a garden so we have a concrete driveway with a gigantic rolling raised bed! I cannot wait to have my chickies, goats and milk cow next year!

I am country at heart. Been canning for 47 years, make my own soaps, lotions, and working hard at detoxing all I can. Would love to know what the best kettles are that are safe. (?), anyone done the research?

Farm girl at heart. I’m in the big city have always grown something even whrn I didn’t have a yard, a porch would do. No porch a windowsill! Now I’m lucky enough to have a garden plot at a community garden and even get to visit and feed the chickens in another. It’s just peace.

I live on twelve acres in Kentucky, have five beautiful egg laying chickens whom I call the girls, no roosters, there is a sign on the door of their coop that reads “No Boys Allowed”. I tell my husband every chance I get that my next husband is going to let me have a tractor, that’s probably not going to happen considering I turned sixty eight today and have been married to him fifty one of those years. I love the smell of freshly turned fields, new mowed hay and the sound of the deep creek that surrounds my place running over the rocks. Everything country is me!

As far back as I remember, growing up in San Francisco, all I wanted was to live on a ranch. I was a horse crazy little girl. All my dreams eventually came true and although I no longer have my own horses, I still live the farm life. I’ve been gardening for many years and now at age 74, after moving to a small house, am about to build myself some raised beds so I can at least grow my own veggies. I believe you are born with this desire to love and care for the land.

I left suburbia and got some chickens!

I was raised on a dairy farm, the dairy is gone, but our family still owns the land. Growing up, My mom and I had a 7 acre garden (I thought it was 5 acres, until last year when my brothers set me straight!) To this day I have always had a garden, whether it was pots on an apartment balcony or a garden spot in the corner of the lot. Now I have a combination of a raised bed (hoping for an additional one this year), ground planting and container plantings. Just today I started my onion and shallot seeds inside. I can’t wait to get started in the garden each year, half wishing it was still my “7 acre patch”, but knowing that at my age now, I probably better stick to my back yard!

Growing up farm country girl, I sometimes took for granted the joy of it. The hard work ethics have carried me into adulthood. I love going home to my mother’s true farm, helping her with things I didn’t enjoy as much but knew had to be done as a child. I CHERISH THEM NOW. I still sew and make homemade crafts, I love canning and calling Mama for advice when I’m trying something new. I garden on a smaller scale. Love homegrown vegetables. At the moment starting to make homemade soap. I’m looking forward to retirement so I can go back to my roots and teach my grandchildren the BLESSINGS of farming. I AM KICKING MY SHOES OFF ALL DAY LONG GOING BAREFOOT WHEN EVER POSSIBLE!

I grew up on a farm, I learned so much about gardening and my Mom’s deep love for the flowers she planted at the edge of her garden every year! I do the same in memory of her!

I’m a small town country girl. I plant a large vegetable garden every year that I plan during the winter months and when summer comes that’s where I spend most of my free time. I also raise chickens as a hobby.

I was born a farm girl on my parents 120 acre ranch in Missouri . . . and then I grew up to integrate farming into my life with my little 2 acre hobby homestead. I have a breed conservancy project going with my meat rabbits, and I also raise chickens and dairy goats. I love being a farm girl!

A toolkit for women farmers ~ now that’s the kind of book that belongs tucked into a girl’s bag and carried everywhere!

I have had a small farm for forty years now with chickens and a VERY large veggie garden. We raise most of our own vegetables for the year and give the extras to the local soup kitchen and food bank. It’s a lot of work, but it gives me a great deal of joy as well.

I was not raised on a farm, but my grandparents owned one and I lived only 3 miles from them. I loved to go to the farm and check everything out. My grandfather taught me to drive his tractor, ride the combine & hay wagon. He shared with me how the soybeans and wheat grew, what the farm needed to sustain itself. I also love the barn and especially the pigs. Chickens and I did not get along, especially my grandmother’s prize rooster. He attacked me many times before grandma rescued me by ringing his neck when she caught him jumping on my neck! I even raised a couple of ducks. Farming to me also is about the picnics, family dinners, fresh veggies & fruits, and sitting in grandma’s favorite apple tree–when I didn’t get caught! I learned many lessons on my grandparents farm for which I truly am glad. My hubby was raised on a couple farms, too. We have 40 acres and do a garden, apple orchards, rhubarb & asparagus. And then on the back of the place is where my glamper sits and I enjoy going to each each day. Life is good! A farmgirl even if only in small ways and big dreams!

My family tries to live self-sustaining! We raise our own Beef, Chicken, Pork. We grow all our own vegetables. My dad has honeybees and we also have many different apple, pear and peach trees. For many years I raised my own calfs and sold them to earn money. Although I live at home right now, I plan to do all these things when I have a home of my own. Plus more!! Hopefully that will include owning a milk cow!

I grew up on a farm. A chicken farm. My dad was great at what he did raising those chickens. We never had problems with people knowing there was a chicken around because he kept the coops clean and we had many happy, healthy hens for all those years. He is 90 now and lives with us. I glean much from him about taking care of our hens and about gardening. We always had a big garden and with free fertilizer right in the hen house. 😊 I enjoy learning all I can about gardening. I feel like I am getting part of my childhood back as I was the baby of my family and I was born later in my parents life. I enjoy all the memories we are making now as well as the ones from my childhood. I have always considered myself a farmgirl.

When I was a girl I lived on a farm with my parents and 2 brothers in New York State. My grandmother had owned the land and sold it to my mother. Later on after we moved out west to Arizona, my uncle lived on the farm but didn’t pay the taxes so it was lost back to the state. I remember so many good things about our farm. I had chickens and a calf and dogs and kittens, a snow fort in the winter, woods to roam in the summer, bath-time in a metal tub with rainwater from the barrel outside our modest little house. We had a cellar with a trap door in the living room floor and stairs into the cellar where we had shelves of home grown canned foods. Simple everyday life. Nowadays I keep a flower garden, strawberry patch, and grow tomatoes and peppers in our front yard and we have a few raspberry and blackberry bushes that were given to us by a neighbor. Back yard is our dogs patch. I came across your magazine about a year ago, subscribed and read them front to back and over and over. I will renew my subscription this month. Have purchased a few things from your magazine and those who you advertise there. I hope to have chickens, but my son says no to the backyard cow. I am 71 and enjoying every minute of life.

I am a farm girl at heart! My mom was raised on a farm and as a young girl, I loved visiting my grandparents and spending time in their garden eating ground cherries and being out in nature! Although my dad was raised a city boy, he was the one who planted a vegetable garden, raised a goat and chickens and learned all he could about being a farmer when I was a child. Now, my husband and I own a small property by a river. I grow vegetables, including corn, herbs, and fruit. I have 2 concord grapevines. I have learned how to make grape jam, can, pickle, store and preserve the harvest. I would love to be a full-fledged farm with a cow, goats, and chickens (my neighbors chickens visit me on a regular basis)! Each year I am learning more about homesteading. I even made cold frames to extend the growing season! Each year my garden gets bigger and bigger! I would love a copy of Soil Sisters!

I live on a small homestead in Southwest MS, a recently retired determined to raise Boer goats and heritage poultry. I could glean useful information from this book!

we grow our own food and canning too. This is a book I would love to own and keep. I read a lot on farming for information and try to stay up to date on what other people share in farming

My tip would be to let your laundry was a little longer in your wringer washer and those good of paddles will beat that dirt right out. It help to add your borax to your detergent too! It’ll give your soap a boost!

Judging by what I hear from friends and some younger folk I guess I’m old fashioned but I still believe in sorting the laundry into lights and darks, hot water and cold water. The color thing is big for me because I don’t want my light colored clothing looking dingey due to the dyes from the dark colors bleeding out. My tip is to sort the lights from the darks!

I love this darling clothespin bag! Such a practical style too the way it slides along the line. It’s old fashioned design and fabric just makes it Farmgirl chic! My favorite laundry tip is hang lightweight sweaters or heavy tops on good hangers to line dry. I use heavy wooden winter coat hangers or men’s suit hangers. This helps them to retain their shape and dry with fewer wrinkles.

I love to hang my sheets out for that fresh outdoor scent. It makes climbing into bed after a long day relaxing and a reminder of a nice summer day🌞

Beautiful clothes pin bag – much prettier than a plastic grocery bag. And my tip is to wait until it stops snowing before hanging out any laundry!

I have been on the homemade laundry detergent bandwagon for a while. I’ve upped it another notch by using straight white vinegar as fabric softener with or without lavender scent. For two years, I hung clothes out because my dryer wasn’t working and enjoyed it. The only reason I use my dryer now is because it’s the best way to collect the dog hair and restore my stretched out t-shirts.
The clothespin bag is adorable.

My Grammy had one very similar to this and I remember helping her with her wringer washer and hanging the clothes out to dry. My tip from Grammy is to turn your darks and colored clothes inside out before hanging them so the sun does not fade them.

What a beautiful clothespin bag! I love to hang my laundry out, even in winter. Had to shovel a new trail to the clothesline yesterday, we’ve had SOOOOO MUCH snow!

I stopped using fabric softener years ago, after I was cleaning the layers of liquid softener residue off of the dispenser attachment that goes on top of the center of the washer. The residue on my hands made me question . . . “is this what is going on my clothes?” So, I use white vinegar instead, just pour it into the dispenser for bleach and it works just fine.
CJ

I turn my colors inside out before throwing them in the washer. Repeated washes tend to fade fabric, so I prefer fading the inside the no one sees first. I also use borax from time to time.
To clean my machine, I put white vinegar and baking soda in empty machine and run it through a quick wash cycle.