I purchased these a few years ago and absolutely love them No comparison to the light-weight ones you buy in the local stores. I need to get another set real soon.

My son started the subscription for me years ago & I have enjoyed every issue. I
share them with various people, unless I have them taken apart for patterns or
recipes, etc. I want to save. Keep up the good work. Appreciate the down-home
style.

I have joyfully read and saved your wonderful publication for about 6 years now. Thank you for the joy you bring me. Shari Black

My mom started gifting me with a subscription over 5 years ago. I love it and so look forward to finding my issue in the mailbox. Thank you!

I’ve been reading (and sharing with others) your magazine for almost 10 years now, and get excited every time I open my mailbox, and see the newest issue. Thank you, Mary Jane!

I do believe my husband and I first subscribed in 2007, maybe even earlier. What I love is that he is the one who typically renews. We love Mary Jane’s Farm – look forward to it every month. Thanks for keeping it going.

I’ve been reading MaryJane’s magazine for 10 glorious, craft inspiring years!

Been a subscriber since day one of the magazine!

I have been reading Mary Jane’s magazine about four years now. My mom first gifted me a prescription when my husband was out of work. It began a cheerful pick me up when I went to the mailbox and continues to be. Thank you for all you do for us.

I’ve been reading MJ farm for over two years. Love it

I have loved Mary Janes Farm for 3 yrs now . I look forward to every issue!

Been reading a couple years. Love it!

I have been reading MaryJanes Farm magazine for at least 4-5 years. I read every issue cover to cover and have been known to go back & re-read a second time in the same day…. So inspiring! I grew up a country girl but have been living in a city the past 38 years. This magazine takes me back to my roots. I hang laundry out every chance I get – capturing the freshness of nature. Would love to have clothespins that would last & local crafted.

I’ve been reading MaryJanesfarm from the very beginning!

I have been receiving and reading Mary Jane’s Magazine for about 4 years now. My mother makes the purchase as a Christmas gift and I have to say, I think it’s always one of my favorite gifts. I enjoy reading it cover to cover when it comes. I bookmark a few pages in each magazine so I can refer back to the issues. In my neighborhood, I am the only person who hangs clothes on a line to dry…I especially love sheets and towels sun dried. I would love to own these handmade clothespins.

I have been subscribing for around 3 years now. My sister & I take turns paying for the subscription and I pass the magazine on to her after I read it a time or two. We LOVE your magazine. I also love hanging out clothes on the line and appreciate a chance to win free clothespins.

I Think I have been reading the magazine for about 2 years now. It’s the one magazine I always keep coming back to and the only one I subscribe to. I find so many projects I want to do and have been happy with the purchases I have made from businesses featured. Thanks for a wonderful magazine!

I have subscribed to your magazine for several years now…it is totally my favorite magazine!

I was gifted a subscription way back – The Art of the Egg issue I believe. I have not been able to subscribe all that time, just off and on over the years but I have kept all my magazines that I did subscribe to. Fun reading for this country girl who’s lived in town for too many years!

Maybe five fabulous years? My mother-in-law gave me one of your books, which started me on the journey to discovering the magazine. I’ve gifted it to my daughter as well. A fine publication filled with positivity which we can all use now.

I am a new subscriber but have periodically picked up copies when shopping.
I would love to get a set of these clothespins. My neighbor and I were just
lamenting the fact we can’t find good ones anymore.

Thank you for a “real person” perspective on country living.

I had found Mary Jane’s books at the library over two summers ago and just recently this summer found a store near me that stocks her magazines.

I found Mary Jane Magazine many years ago while visiting a small independent bookstore near my daughter’s college. It was love at first sight! I searched book stores continually looking for the latest issues until I could subscribe.

Just found your site and I’m hooked. My favorite past time this summer is to weekly hang my sheets on the line. I’ve recently retired and love the simple pleasure of fresh aired bed linens. My old clothespins bought as a new bride 40 years ago and used since we moved to the country are showing their age. My daughter replaced them with “brand new” clothespins. Definely not the same as the old hardware store purchase I made as a newlywed. Didn’t know quality clothespins are still being made. Thanks for sharing.

Our family just began an “adventure” that has begun with an RV and will hopefully end with a homestead! A friend gave me my first MaryJane’s Farm magazine as an inspiration for our dreams!

Congratulations!

I’m ordering “Scrap Peels and Stems” and “Wild Bread” tonight. I cannot wait to read them. I love baking all sorts of dishes and breads. And of course I have to have the mixes to start me off.

The colours in this are so beautiful. It makes me wish I had a room done in them.

My Mother had a very vivid imagination. So even in the Dead of winter this Sun Worshiper could make the Sunshine come inside. With a green plaid metal picnic basket I still own she would fill it with goodies and a thermos of Hot chocolate spread the picnic blanket on the floor and we would have a winter picnic even though there would be a half a foot of snow outside.

Just enjoying a day in the sunshine or having a picnic when it rains on the dining room table.Life is apicnic no matter where you are.

I have always loved picnics. I have an old basket and a red checkered tablecloth I have used since my boys were little. As soon as school was out for the summer we would take off to the park. I do miss those days but plan to restart them with my grandchildren soon. Making new memories.

My favorite picnic memories include the big patchwork quilt spread softly on the bluegrass hillside with my family…The breeze gently blowing our hair and the sun kissing my boy’s cheeks. Simple sandwiches packed with favorite fruits to complement our picnic vacation on our back country hillside.

My favorite picnic as a young girl was when I was about 8 yrs of age. I decided to take a old blanket outside for a picnic in a field out behind our house. Didn’t have a whole lot to choose from for my meal, so I took a jar of pickle juice, some saltine crackers and a popsicle.
Spread out the old blanket in the y’all grass where close by I could smell honeysuckle blooming on a oak tree. As I lay watching the white billowy clouds float by, I began to itch on my legs and arms so much that I ran to where mama was hanging clothes on the line to show her the rash. She went with me to see where I had laid down to make sure it wasn’t poison oak or ivy. Gladly it wasn’t neither…
But then she smiled and said it was because the old blanket was my daddy’s old Army blanket and it was made out of wool!!!
Needless to say I never took it out again on a hot May afternoon!
Sincerely,
Deborah Allen ❤️

Congratulations! Most definitely a very special book. ❤️ Enjoy 🌞

Congratulations Jeanne, it is a wonderful book, you will love it!

I am very excited about this new book “A HoneyBee Heart Has Five Openings”! I had the unique and whimiscal experience of having a honeybee land outside my car window a few years back! I watched with amazement as the bee did a honey dance for what seemed like a long time, but in retrospect maybe a minute! I was gifted a book shortly that experience called “The Shamanic Way of the Bee”

I am a care taker for my mom in law so my life has become a lil isolated with Maryjanes magazines and blogs I am able to escape for awhile and breath while learning so much for my gardens and chickens too

I really enjoy your posts about activities/lessons with the kids. It’s exactly like reading about activities I have with my grandkids. Not only do I have to keep them on task, I also have to keep myself on task!

My older 3 grandchildren are 2 girls & their younger brother, so you can imagine the eye-rolling & difficulty taking turns! The younger ones are 3 little stair-step brothers who now live with us most of the time, so I’m always saying “Hands!” to remind them to keep their hands to themselves, or not to grab, or just injure any of us in their excitement!

Thanks for the morning smiles 😊

The magazine has been a total inspiration. It made me realize to grow where I am planted…and so I am on our just under 4 acres. Thank you-your magazine has breathed life into me.
That book would be an absolute treasure. How wonderful! Keep up the good works! ☀️

Many years ago, I picked up the second issue of Mary Jane’s magazine. I was inspired! I was hooked. (I have every issue except the first one.) Since then I have tried so many things. Gardening (love garlic!), bake overs, learning to knit and sew (I am still looking for a treadle machine), pickling, and so many more things. And now my kids are following! I think our next project will be repainting a bookcase. Thanks Mary Jane!

MaryJanes takes me back to the “Golden Days” when children were children and adults worked hard but lived life to the fullest!

There is so much each month in your magazine and even when readers send in a letter. A lot of learning and ideas. Also it extends to others in crafting, websites, gardening especially with recipe’s. I love all of it. I look forward to this magazine every month and so does my sister Shirley Moreno.

Everything about Mary Jane and the Farm inspire me. I LOVE the magazine!!! Mary Jane writes the BEST books. I LOVE being a part of the Sisterhood and all that I’ve learned there, the friends I’ve made, the fun I’ve had. Visiting the farm and meeting Mary Jane and some of her family and staff was AWESOME! Meeting her again at the store in Coeur d’Alene with some other farmgirl friends. At that time around the table with breakfast snacks I remember someone asking Mary Jane why she did/does all the things she does. Her response was “because no one ever told me I couldn’t”!

This book was my first book of MaryJane’s collection that I purchased and I bet I read it cover to cover at least five times!! It is full of great stories, things to make, delicious recipes to make and lots of ways to live off the grid and grow your own healthy food. Whoever wins this book is going to love it and I hope they will find ideas that will enrich their life. I know I did!!

I love this book. I do not need this copy as I purchased one several years ago when it first came out. I learned a lot from it and it is still among my most prized possessions. I also love your magazine and I keep them all.

I received a couple of yummy food bars, 3 magazines and a one year subscription of MJF for Christmas one year way back in 2004 (I think) and have so thoroughly enjoyed them since. I’ve made many recipes, crafts, knitted from patterns, been inspired in gardening and preserving and have been educated on many different topics. I have checked this book out from the library but would love to have a copy of my own. Thanks for the giveaway!

I am continually inspired by Mary Jane’s Farm Magazine. I read it from cover to cover and can’t wait for each new issue to come out. Why am I so taken with the magazine? After all, I am a single mom working 2 jobs in suburban Northern Califirnia, not living on a farm at all.However, Mary Jane’s Farm transcends such superficial distinctions and makes me feel like I am 10 years old again with the assurance that anything is possible. I may not technically live on a farm, but I can sit on my front porch swing and dream that my life could be a bit more farm girl-like and with the inspiration from Mary Jane’s farm, I can begin taking steps to find my inner farm girl and let her run through the fields of my imagination, bringing together the free-spirited girl that I was with the free-spirited woman I would like to become.

Like the quote from Amazon, I found Mary Jane’s approach to life the thing that was most pivotal for me. Her descriptions of how to make an apron or make a hat that is functional yet beautiful, is just the tip of the iceberg. In reality the mindset of choosing to do with less, to reuse, to consider not only functionality but beauty, to consider the ways our actions impact others… All of these and more arise from reading this book. It really did change how I live my life. I now recognize that I need to decide when enough (stuff) is enough, and I consciously choose to support businesses that are in line with my own thinking. I find myself more resource full these days, enlightened by a growth mindset which was seeded in Maryjane’s farm.

I am soooo inspired by Mary Jane’s Farm Magazine!!! LOVE everything about it! Had subscription for long time..got my daughter hooked as well. Now she gets subscription for us both! 🙂 would love to win your book!! Thank you for the chance! 😀

I have really been enjoying your magazine,so I share it with a friend and have gotten my daughter a subscription. I am inspired to try your homemade recipes, learn about oils, use your crafts for gifts and decorating….I can hardly wait to get my next issue…thank you!!

I have been inspired by all of the stories from the ladies involved in the magazine.
Marilyn

I find so much comfort in the magazines and books, after a hectic day in the world! Thanks for keeping simplicity a thing of value.

It was this book that first acquainted me with Mary Jane. I was enchanted with the bag a friend had made from a calendar, and she referred me to this title. I’ve read and enjoyed all the books. I am now a subscriber to the magazine as well. I’d love to win the book!

I first found out about MaryJane’s Farm years ago when I read a magazine article in my doctors office. I was excited a couple weeks later to find an issue at our Natural food Coop. I was so fascinated with it that i read it cover to cover in one sitting and then re-read it again later. I’ve been reading and collecting issues every since. I think what has helped me the most is that I knew I was a farmgirl at heart but just had never known how to put it into words before. I just skim other magazines but with MaryJane’s farm I just find every single page interesting and I’ve learned all kinds of new skills from reading it over the years. My husband knows its the one thing I treat myself to i buying every issue. I haven’t been able to read the books yet but I’d so love to!

I first came across the MaryJaneFarms magazine In my little tractor supply company store And have been inspired ever since ! The magazine even inspired me to buy my first sewing machine and join the sisterhood!

Oh my, a sun-faded copy to match my sun-kissed skin! I’d love to indulge myself and enjoy the recipes, stories and what-not! Please place my name in the hat 🙂

I love the recipes!

I LIVE for your magazine to arrive each month! I can only imagine how much time must go into each glorious issue! The pictures, articles, stories … ALL magnifique! I was raised on a farm that has been in our family since the 1700’s – a land grant from the King of England. We have been the last family to farm it. My dad started leasing it out to farm when he was no longer able to do so, as my brothers were interested in other pursuits. We lost him to Parkinson’s 2 years ago. So, our farming history is long and rich. SO much very hard work, so many wonderful memories. Work ethic?? WE’VE got it in spades! All of this to say that your magazine is all the more special because I can relate to so many things in them. They’re a gift…

Your magazine is the only one ever that I read cover-to-cover and have kept every copy I received over the years. I share it with everyone!! Thanks so much for continuing to do such a great job!!

I grew up on a farm in the 50s, but I have lived in the Twin Cities since finishing school. Your magazine is like a trip home (even though home isn’t there anymore) I can feel the warm sun, the crickets singing and the sweet smell of warm earth in the spring. The stars at night that are not visible in the city at night, the early morning sun and smell of the fresh cut hay as work to turn it into bales for winter. I see my mother in the farm girl in every issue standing on the wire wheel in her plaid shirt and sweet smile.

I love the visual’s! There are so many wonderful ideas to look at! I love getting new ideas to share with my family. Thanks for the chance to win this book.

Suzanne~ Congratulations!! This is one book you are going to love and will read and re-read it many times. It is not only useful and informative, it is just plain beautiful and inspiring to look at the photos. Enjoy this new Farmgirl must have!

Why I am a farmgirl? For me there is a deep satisfaction of doing things for yourself. From sitting down to a breakfast of food that you grew, gathered or even raised yourself to going to sleep under a homemade quilt at bed time and the life that I lived in between. It Just feels good to be a farmgirl and to share my farmgirlness (is that a word?) with those that I love.

I’ve always been a farm girl.

This was one of the first books by you that I purchased after reading the Ideas book. I have used it many times for simple sewing projects and as a reference for things like basic embroidery stitches. All of my Farmgirl Swap crocheted dishcloths are made from your basic stitches shown in this book too. Like all of the MJF books, this Stitchery book is also a beautiful book of photography and creative ideas that are timeless.

If I become a winner, I know just who I will gift this book forward too.

I have always been a farm girl, but now at age 60, I’m really going to live my dream after retiring from owning and operating an alterations shop for 39 years. We are leaving Rhode Island and moving to South Carolina where we can have a huge garden, I have a new huge kitchen and of course a new sewing room where I will continue my art of sewing. I was raised by farmers and its in my blood. I love nothing better than creating, especially getting my hands in the soil. God has blessed me with gifted hands to create and help others. I praise Him for the life I have had and will continue to have. And you, Mary Jane are always an inspiration. Thank you.

Although I’ve made everything from clothing, to sleeping bags, to prom dresses, to tents, probably my favorite ones, so far, have been the Halloween costumes I have made for my children. Even though they are adults now, I have saved some for them to show their own children someday.

Thirty to forty years ago, I sewed all of my clothing and made clothes for a friend’s little girls. However, once I started a nursing career and had my own family, I never had the time or energy to keep that going. Today, I still have the little Halloween dress that I made for my first daughter when she was 18 months old and my second daughter wore it until it was too small at age 3 1/2. I get it out every year and hang it in the family room for fun.

My favorite thing I made was a sleeping bag, for when we go traveling. It can double as a picnic blanket. I actually just made it like a quilt and Instead of using a zipper for the sides I used Velcro strips. I used Monaluna Organic fabric and also some organic cotton batting.

My favorite sewing project was the green and white quilt/blanket that I made in my high school sewing class. It took me a long time and lots of hard work, but still to this day I am so very proud of how it turned out. I remeber my fingers were so tender from all the needle work and tying of ribbons. Later on I decided to make me a matching pillow with the left over fabric.

I can’t say it was my favorite but I was proud of this project. My eldest daughter ,when she was ten ,was going to Savannah, Georgia to the birthplace of Juliette Low, Founder of Girl Scouting in this country. She and her fellow scouts were to wear the uniform of that time, 1912. It was like a sailor outfit and blue, it had a long skirt, a top with long sleeves and a shawl collar that ended in a tie . That was the challenging part! Everyone had to make this or find a friend to see it! I was happy that it came out well! Whew !

One of my first sewing projects remains one of my favorites. Being a kid who grew up in a rural ranching coomunity, when one graduated eighth grade from the one-room schoolhouse, one had to go “out” for high school. I boarded with with a friend of the family for the first two years, but when my brother was also old enough for high school, my folks rented an apartment and we kids and my mom spent the week in town and weekends at the ranch.
One weekend, i stayed in town for a school event and decided I was going to make a skirt. I gathered up up all the spare change in my desk drawers and counted up what remained of my allowance and headed downtown to the Idaho Department Store to peruse the pattern books and fabric options. After carefully considering all the possible choicess, I chose a back zipper, fly front straight skirt pattern and a navy blue fabric printed with red, white and yellow stylized daisies. I went home, cut out the pattern (paying no attention to grainline), and started stitching. Things went along pretty well until I got to the zipper; somehow my efforts were not matching the pictures in the directions. I pressed on and managed to get it in, even though both sides didn’t quite line up at the top, and there was a curious little bubble at the bottom I had to stitch and press flat. I decided that a perfect length was 18 inches. This was, after all, the era of the first mini-skirts. Monday morning, I proudly wore my new skirt down the stairs, topped by my best Granny-style white blouse and a red leather headband. My mother looked up from preparing our morning eggs and pancakes. Her eyebrows shot up to get hairline as she asked,”Are you going to wear THAT to school.”
I proudly said, “Yes.”
She tsk-tsked and shook her head, but didn’t say anything else.
I felt extremely stylish, and was so proud when my girlfriends asked where I’d gotten the new skirt, and I said, “I made it!”

My granddaughters love to twirl and love skirts or dresses that float away from their bodies as they do so. I found the perfect pattern and have made 4 skirts that already shown signs of wear because they always have one of them on.
Is there anything better than taking a twirl with skirt that adds to the experience?

I think this book would be wonderful in any home that sews or creates or loves being inspired in the craft/sew world. I am a sewer/quilter/crafter/fiber lady and love to see
what other ideas are out there. I hope to win such a book for my home.
thank you for this offer. Winnie

I think the best thing I ever did sewing was to make my own apron without a pattern. Just by taking measurements of myself. Cutting and piecing the fabric together then ultimately Ewing it into my favorite apron by far. Now that my 13year old daughter saw what can be done she has asked me to teach her how to sew.

My favorite project is the pink and white gingham apron I made in HomeEc in 7th grade around 1969. It was awful! But I was so proud of it. I proudly gave it to my Mom as a gift. I never saw her wear it and later she even threw it away. But it didn’t dampen my enthusiasm. Thank goodness my sewing improved over the years!

My favorite sewing project was the first quilt I made for my first grandson. I still love the back of it – I used a cream toile with woodland animals (at that point we didn’t know if he was a he!). I wish I had bought the whole bolt of that material so I could use some on his little brothers’ quilt that I’m currently working on!

My favorite sewing projects are teeny vintage barbie clothes! If I need a break from the tininess, I sew period-correct american girl clothes.

I used to do a lot of sewing all kinds from baby clothes to my daughters’ silk wedding gown. But I think the things i’ve Enjoyed making and using the most were a Bimini top for our sailboat and a little red canvas purse I made with all kinds of pockets, zippers and catches.

My fave sewing project is the flannel Christmas quilt I made with my mother.

I am in the process of making a wedding quilt for my son and his fiance, such fun