This is one fantastic opportunity, Farmgirls! There are all sorts of perks but the number one perk is being a part of a group of talented, creative, supportive and fun women across the US and Canada. And, if you don’t get chosen for this giveaway, consider the $20 investment for a present to yourself. We would LOVE to have you join us in all the fun over at MJF Farm!

RedTractorGirl
Farm Sister of the Year 2014-2015

I love to see the ways that women are working to make the world a better healthier place. Also a world not so consumer driven but a world where handmade is cherished and encouraged. A simpler life.

Reading, learning from the Sisterhood, makes me feel a part. A real, connected, like I know you part! I just feel encouraged and want to be a part of that encouragement myself. Hugs!

Although I live in the city, Maryjane’s Farm helps me feel so connected to all women everywhere on and off a farm. I can live vicariously through you all. It is true that farmgirl is a state of mind, I learnd I could still be a part of this sisterhood!

Hay there,

Wow! How many ways have I grown and bloomed by just having the connection of all these wonderful farmgirls? So so many!!! I have meet friends that I will probably never get close enough to wrap my arms around their neck but they are still my friends! I have been inspired by them and MaryJane too. I consider my life much richer to have found MJF and enjoy the farmgirls.

Farmgirls ROCK !!

I don’t do a desk job and my commute is just out the door so its really nice to have human contact thru MJF. I am so very thankful for this sisterhood.

Hugs and prayers,
Daizy #1093

Get so excited when your sweet magazine arrives in my mailbox. I stop what I am doing and start reading with ooos and aaaws about each page – in fact- I re-read it all month!! It then goes in my “Mary Jane” box with notes written all over the covers and inside too. I refer to all issues. I have ordered past issues and have really enjoyed them all. Bless the staff for continuing to produce such wonderful literature.

I just discovered the magazine today at the Honest Weight Co-op in Albany, New York. We are getting chickens this spring and I dream of a milking cow. I’d love to be part of a larger group of women farming. Thanks!

It lets me know about other women and how they live and also I get a lot of good ideas from them. I read each issue a couple of times and share it with the oarents of my Family Childcare.

I love the modern look and feel of the magazine but completely identify with my romanticized ideals of days gone by that are showcased monthly. I love reading others tips and ideas and love feeling connected to a few new generations of “farm girls”

Thanks so much for such a great publication!!!

I enjoy reading what the other ladies are doing to make life better for their families.

I enjoy MJF Every issue i learn something new I like the GF recipes and i enjoy reading about the other ladies adventures in farming, crafts, cooking etc.

Mary Janes Farm has fueled my creative spirit when it has reached its lowest, by bringing me back to life through the creativity of others. MJF gives me the opportunity to see what other women are doing or have done in the past to bring us to where we are today, a group of women inspired to make the world a better place in whatever place we are planted.

This book is the dearest story and the illustrations are priceless. It would make a great gift for a child in your life!

My cow would be named Bossy and I too would love a chance to win your new book!

My favorite dairy products are organic yogurt and cheese

I make the refreshments for our amateur radio club. A favorite has been “Jugglers” Just the 2 1/2 cup of hot water is added to 2 six ounce packages of Jello. It is allowed to firm in the refrigerator, then cut into approximately 1″ squares or cookie cutters are used. It is ‘finger food’ for the members to eat. I would definitely consider using chill over powder instead of the Jello product.

My favorite jello dish was my mother’s fresh cranberry salad. She ground up a package of fresh berries, added chopped celery, apple and walnuts. The ingredients were held together by cherry jello, We had this family favorite at every Thanksgiving and Christmas dinner.

My favorite was to use ChillOver is with jelly making. It is superior to pectin and allows me to use less sugar so that the fruit flavor can be more pronounced. It is a must for my orange marmalade too!

I love the black cherry and Coke jello dessert with pecans.

When I was about six or seven years old, we visited an elderly pair of my father’s “spinster” aunts. They prepared a traditional midday dinner in all its Nebraska glory. I had been taught that you had to take a little of everything and eat it just to be polite. I saw this red ring of jello-like substance filled with lots of celery, onions, chicken and I am sure much more. I had never tried this kind of “jello” before, but how bad could it be? We had jello at home all the time growing up. This, however, must have been someones idea of a joke. I hated it, but had to force it down. As an adult, I can fully enjoy the salad made with tomato aspic, but when you are six or seven, you expect jello to be sweet, not savory. I learned to love it and make if for special occasions filled with our wonderful Northwest Dungeness crab. What a joy!

My favorite jello dessert was one I had as a child, that an elderly lady at the church use to bring to every church social… It was a strawberry pretzel desert. It had a bottom layer of crushed pretzel crust, then a cream cheese mixture middle, and then on top was a jello layer with strawberries in it. Yummy doesn’t do that dessert justice!

Thinking back on it, I think the individual who made it, made the dessert more special. You know how eating something someone special makes, just makes it that more delicious. This lady was one of those special ladies! More than anything I wanted her as my grandmother 🙂 She always had time to listen to my dreams and encourage me to make them a reality. There were times she brought me the dessert for my birthday, for my graduation rom high school, and again for my college graduation. She knew how much I loved that dessert… I just hope she knew how much i loved her too!

The funniest jello story I remember is the one that starred my mother. We were at a Chinese buffet, and for dessert she scooped up some jello and topped it with whipped cream. As she started to eat it, she got a peculiar look on her face and whispered to us, “This whipped cream tastes odd.” So, of course we tasted it. It was horseradish sauce…

My grandmother would always make grape jello for thanksgiving and Christmas- but no other time of yeat

Really I can’t remember any personally because I can only think of my now 19 year old at just shy of 2. Because of some special needs she was beyond picky, also had a large vocabulary but was very hard for her to string a sentence. Anyway we had not really eaten a lot of boxed jello, because of food additives colors etc and I had yet to venture inyo my own. Well I did and made juice gelatin eggs, for Easter. Well, she loved them and she tried her very best to hang onto them and eat em. All the while exclaiming in her sweet little voice ” I like them, I like this egg!” I can still see it so vividly her pigtails her dress the sun her basket my older daughter so happy for her… 💕

My Mother always fixed a red jello with pecans and coconut in it and it was great. Not sure what else was in it but it was always molded into a circular shape. It was great. I have a molded pan for jello but never had a recipe to use for the pan. I am interested in the Chill Over Powder and recipes too.
Patty

Love your magazine !!!! Anyway my favorite gelatin dessert was a wonderful layered desert that contained cherry or raspberry jello, sour cream, pineapple, gelatin and whipped cream. I was given the recipe in 1990…I hadn’t made it in 10 years and when my kids asked about it I pulled it out of the old 3×5 box and it was too faded to read … Couldn’t read all ingredients or the measure amounts 😟 Would love to try your new chill over powder in your pineapple , pretzel & cream dream recipe in the Feb/March issue of Mary Jane’s Farm!

My favorite gelatin dessert is Turkish Delight. It seemed like an easy enough task to replicate, so I tried making it myself one time, but it ended up a bit too chewy.

As we were growing up my mom would make a yogurt cheesecake that used gelatin. It was and is a family favorite. The flavor is little but creamy, with a little bit of fresh blueberry sauce over it! That is the taste of summer for us!

Love strawberry and pretzel gelatin salad.

My Mom used to make us a strawberry layer dessert with layers of jello, then a layer of jello and cool whip blended, then more jello and so on! She topped it with a dollop of cool whip and a strawberry. It was always a special dessert!

As a kid I always liked just plain cherry jello. It was always fun eating the little cubes! Also just very recently my mom starting making at Christmas time her grandmas old Christmas standard. It was one of those jello rings with strawberry jello, crushed Oreos and cool whip. Which is not very healthy at all! But… If I won the chill over powder (which I have been dying to try!) We could make it with homemade jello and cool whip!