Raising a healthy Jane (or just being a healthy grown-up Jane) comes from good food and proper nutrition. Grab your aprons, I’m on kitchen duty with food to spare and recipes to share! When time allows, here’s where you’ll find one of my how-to-convert-to-an-organic-diet recipes.
Winnie Nielsen says: Not too much longer until those first ripe ears of corn are ready to eat! The first of our local Silver Queen corn is usually ready by Memorial Day.
Winnie Nielsen says: More Spring popping through!
Cindi says: Each day a little bit more ~ Every year I think this will be the year I catch those trees the minute the first bud opens and photograph the process. Carefully I watch. The first signs of swelling. A little node. A clear bud. It’s bigger today, it won’t be long now. Not quite yet, but soon. A couple more days and the first bud will open… Nope. The very next day I look out and bam – there they are! Every single tree in full beautiful bloom and I missed the first bud opening again. They are like children growing right under your nose until suddenly you wonder when they got taller than you. I can’t wait.
Winnie Nielsen says: Look at Tomkin Kitty’s beautiful blue eyes! Is he not the prettiest boy ever??!!
Cindi says: ooooo – pretty puddy tat. Have you ever looked very closely at a cats artwork? Humans, with their many hair colors and skin tones, are not even close in comparison! 🙂 The beautifully purrfect eyeliner around a cat’s eyes that frame their lovely color so beautifully. The gradation of shades on the nose is as if it was done by a master painter. One single hair has many layers of color ~ even the little beauty marks that dot each point that anchors a whisker, such detail. Sigh. I miss my kitty
Want to see something lovely?
Well, you’re in luck. This video clip is just a taste of a full-length feature film that’s being produced by a partnership of Films for Action and Overgrow the System, a grassroots organization dedicated to “raising awareness around our food system and how to live a life that is more in tune with nature.”
Photo by Moonsun1981 via Wikimedia Commons
In case you were scrambling to jot down the fabulous quote at the beginning of the video, attributed to author and filmmaker Valerie Andrews, let me save you the trouble of re-playing it again:
“As a child, one has that magical capacity to move among the many eras of the earth; to see the land as an animal does; to experience the sky from the perspective of a flower or a bee; to feel the earth quiver and breathe beneath us; to know a hundred different smells of mud and listen unselfconsciously to the soughing of the trees.”
Cindi says: This makes me want to go back in time and follow my dream instead of following what was expected. Raising children in this type of environment is a wonderful gift that will nurture and carry them throughout life, wherever it takes them. This is such an important film ~ I look forward to seeing the full length.
Its almost like the ” back to the land movement” of my earlier ( hippy dippy trippy ) days when I was young and idealistic. It is an important concept and if I were young I would do it again. We raised pigs, sheep and goats, ( the pigs were too heartbreaking – just couldn’t stand to eat them when I knew them so well) and that is part of why children need to know the whole cycle of the earth. We did not have the powerful knowledge and resources that young people starting on this journey have today with the internet. We relied on Mother Earth News Magazine, and prayed a lot . Lovely quote, I shall print it out and put it on my fridge.
MaryJane says: Loved the little kid who got pecked in the video. Wondrous real life BEST lessons.
Winnie Nielsen says: This is beautiful and so true. Children today are often never able to experience the outdoors and farms which is why city gardens and school gardens can help inner city kids get a glimpse of how the world works outside of the concrete jungle they see every day.
MaryJane says: Again, the idea of suburban “farming” does the trick with youngsters.
If you haven’t seen the newest Johnson’s ad yet, you’re in for a treat …
Winnie Nielsen says: I saw this a few days ago too and it is so, so sweet!!
Cindi says: Awwwwww. What a beautiful baby! Now I need grandbaby hugs.
Connie-Kilalrney says: I love it! Our Lily June loves her hair shampooed at only 3 weeks old!
Winnie Nielsen says: Yummm, this would be so perfect right now with my cup of hot coffee here at my desk. I love the little brown transfer ware plate too.
Cindi says: Irish soda bread, mmmmmmm. Haven’t made that in years. I wonder if there is a gluten free adaption out there some where. I feel an evening project coming on ~ Now there you go inspiring me again!
Winnie Nielsen says: Cindy, why couldn’t you use MaryJanes Gluten Free Budget Mix as your base with any GF scone recipe? I agree with you that Irish Soda bread is delicious. Now you have me thinking I need to make some!
Cindi says: I use MaryJane’s Gluten Free Budget Mix all the time Winnie 🙂 I especially like the peanut butter cookie recipe that comes in the package. The biscuits are good, too! I’ll have to experiment this weekend with some Irish soda bread. Yum!
MaryJane says: I’ll add it to Ashley’s to do list. I’d love to try some gluten-free soda bread myself. Yesterday, Ashley treated us to gingerbread waffles with a cream cheese syrup, buttermilk waffles with a caramel/maple syrup topping, and cheddar cheese/bacon/scallion waffles. I ate them until I burst they were all so good, but not gluten-free.
Winnie Nielsen says: Oh my, but Ashley’s waffles sound delicious!! I am very intrigued about cream cheese syrup. Wow, I bet that stuff is to die for!!
MaryJane says: The cream cheese syrup was loved by everyone. Adria especially loved it and asked for some the next morning first thing. It’ll be in the next issue of the magazine. Ashley knocked it out of the park on the waffles.
Winnie Nielsen says: What a cutie! Love that white star.
Heather (nndairy) says: I love when you post pictures of your jerseys! This one is adorable 🙂
MaryJane says: Sir Anthony, AKA Tony Moroni. Big and bullish now but a very nice guy all around.
Betty J. says: I just love the heart on his forehead. Even though they are rather large, they look cute and cuddly.
Winnie Nielsen says: Early spring onions? I love the intricate veining of green on the white bulb.
Cindi says: Onion 🙂 garlic 🙂 leeks 🙂 all my favorites and excellent in the kitchen. My very best memory is that my grandmother’s hands always smelled of onion. Isn’t that a funny best memory? It is even better because onion is something that is used in almost everything ~ so I think about grandma almost every time I cook. Yep. That is a best memory.
Winnie Nielsen says: Good afternoon MaryJane! I wanted to say that this month’s online magazine is great. I am loving all of those fresh Spring ideas and the information about all of our Jubilee planning. Just found a copy of Jubilee Trail at Amazon for $5.20 including shipping and looking forward to reading.
And a for sure celebration on May 3 at 2pm in the Coeur d’Alene store??? It;s a DATE!! Allons-y!
MaryJane says: I was hoping you’d catch all that! I’ll bet the gals in the store would love it if you could come earlier to help them get ready, say 12:30 or 1:00. I have Jubilee Trail ready and waiting. I actually think I’ve read it before but if you can’t remember for sure, then it’s time to read it again. Sometimes I’m well into a book before it occurs to me, I’ve already read this–deja vu kind of thing.
Winnie Nielsen says: For sure I can be there at 12:30 to help the girls set up! That would be great fun to help out. I will ask Carol to maybe have one of them send me an email the last week of April about the time to come and how to get into the place early. I will also need the exact address so I can use my handy GPS to get there. Oh, I am so directionally challenged without it! I just ordered my Sisterhood necklace( I actually never got the first one) and the new Jubilee one. So pretty and fun! I am getting so excited about coming out to Idaho, I can hardly wait. A wedding and a Jubilee!! I hope lots of local Farmgirls come to the store on Sunday so I can meet more people in person. That is always just the very best.
You know, another new Sisterhood member used the postcard I include in my note to write back to me. These greetings are always a surprise and they mean so much to me. They are like little diamonds in my mailbox!
MaryJane says: The store opens at noon on Sundays. Exact address is 210 East Sherman Avenue, Coeur d’Alene, ID 83814
Phone:(208) 667-7467. Patsy, Sue, and Courtney.
You will love your farmgirl bling. Congrats on finally getting your décolletage properly farmgirled. Don’t wait to start inviting farmgirls to join us in CDA. I’m sure the CDA resort has rooms (very awesome place by the way) and airplanes have seats and rental cars have loaner keys. Come one come all!!!!
Love it that you send handwritten notes to all the new Sisters. But it’s not just the card you know, it’s the dose of Winnie love I’m sure that touches their hearts.
Winnie Nielsen says: Thanks MaryJane for all the necessary details of the store. I will look into the CDA Resort and post this week on the Chatroom and start inviting people to plan if they can attend. Thanks too for your kind words about the welcome cards too. I sincerely hope they have made a difference this year for our new comers to the Sisterhood!
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.
Coming soon….. Ice tea at the Plum Pit and smiles all around!
Sun tea! And we even have sun! i don’t know what the Plum Pit is Winnie, but it sounds like some place I would like to go for iced tea 🙂 Just let me get these raspberry twigs out of my hair first