Monthly Archives: February 2012

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“Out There” Merit Badge: with recipe for Half-Cup Pemmican

Wondering who I am? I’m Merit Badge Awardee Jane (MBA Jane for short). In my former life

 To earn my intermediate level “Out There” badge, I first picked out items for my survival pack, then I cooked a full meal over just a campfire. Click here for two delicious hobo dinner ideas you can cook up with family and friends. To complete my intermediate badge I either needed to make my own trail mix and/or pemmican using this recipe …

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Hear Ye!

Welcome New Sisters!

Merit Badge Awardees

Today’s Recipe: Old-Fashioned “Cup Cake”

This “cup cake” is really a dense, full-size cake with an almost cookie-like taste. Really, really, yummy! Apparently, the small, individual-size cake that we think of today as a “cupcake” hadn’t been invented in 1916. If you check the amounts in this recipe, you’ll see why they called it a CUP cake—a cup of this, a cup of that, everything a cup cup, old Macdonald had a farm …

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Visit to the Farm Cont’d

Ginger, our diaper-raised, people-friendly chicken, who loves to be pampered, helped entertain and educate a local group of …

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Dining for Women

Imagine if some of the money you spent dining out was donated to women less fortunate than you.

Now imagine the sum total of the Farmgirl Sisterhood’s dining bill donation. Ka-ching!

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