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Your Perfect Natural Pesticide
June 22, 2018
So here’s a natural recipe for, get this, PESTICIDE! It’s so amazing because it’s not full of those toxic, poisonous chemicals that we inadvertently breathe in and destroy our immune systems. These oils are highly effective to protect your plants and trees from insects because, plain and simple, they don’t like these oils! This formulation […]
Lessons from the Strawberry Patch
June 22, 2018
We recently went to the strawberry patch with several of our kids. It’s so fun. If you’ve never taken your kids or grandkids (or yourself!) to a local u-pick farm, put it on your summer bucket list. It makes for amazing memories and you walk away with fresh, local produce! Here were a few highlights […]
10 Nice Things
June 26, 2018
This has been one of the most powerful “things” I have ever done as a wife, mom and friend. Have you ever had a thought or a really “cool idea” that just seems to pop out of your “think tank”? Sometimes it goes out into the abyss of nothingness, never to return or you actually […]
The Table, the Sacred Place
July 9, 2018
Each home is very different and some are simple and some are extravagant; but one thing remains, they all have a kitchen table. Some tables are simple, some are extravagant. Have you ever thought of the kitchen table to be considered a “Sacred Place?” Most people don’t refer to the kitchen table as a “sacred […]
Time “Spent”
July 19, 2018
” Sometimes, in a summer morning, having taken my accustomed bath, I sat in my sunny doorway from sunrise till noon, rapt in a reverery, amidst the pines and hickories, and sumachs, in undisturbed solitude and stillness, while the birds sing around or flitted noiseless through the house, until by the sun falling in at […]
The Farmhouse Movement Magazine Issues 1-4
August 27, 2018
The Farmhouse Movement Magazine is now in it’s 5th edition and doing very well thanks to all you wonderful susbscribers! We wanted to let you know you can still order issues 1-4 and we wanted to give you a peek inside. Issue 2 March/April has lots of info on gardening with Farmer Mel a local […]
Family Fall Fun
October 18, 2018
Fall is such a beautiful time of year… the cool refreshing air after such intense heat of the summer, the hues of brilliant red, orange, gold and green all meshed into something of a myriad of an enormous paintbrush splashed and splattered against nature’s backdrop. It’s like the heavenliness displayed on earth. There truly is […]