Love, love these ladies, Sandra and Zora! 😆👀. Another spectacularly funny dynamic duo to add to my super fun reading list!
I am on the journey to get me the hell out of Commieland and buy a hulking HUGE piece of farmland. We are doing it! Our dream may actually come to fruition. Regenerative farming here the “Strange” folks come! 🙏❤️💯🇺🇸🪴🤠
Congrats on the farm! I bought my dream acres almost two years ago now, and it's the light of my life. I don't live on it -- two young farmers do, we shopped together for it to live out a mutually symbiotic dream. They are growing amazingly fabulous veggies and fruit, and they are buying 30 out of the 255 acres and paying off the mortgage to me with food rather than money :)
Hi Jenna, just popping in to this older post to let you know that because of this encouragement from you and Sandra and others, I've launched a substack to tell the story of our farm. It's "aboutthefarm" -- free and will stay free. Come have a look if you have a moment -- I just posted Chapter one this morning, Chapter Two coming within the week. THANK YOU for connecting me with Sandra! This would NOT be happening without her guidance and encouragement.
I want to hear about your farm too, Eli. I am obsessed with getting this country back on track with healthy food, and I agree with Jenna, this is a BRILLIANT strategy. I would love to post a story about it on Greenwoman Substack!
Interesting Idea Sandra. I had started writing about it last year and then just put it away. Let’s be in touch! I am quite tech challenged and would not know what being in touch through Substack would mean, so please let me know.
Well that’s brilliant. I have always wanted to have enough property for a garden, chickens and a blueberry hedge with a blackberry covered fence. Thankfully, my hubs balked a decade ago, as now I just want a one story home with a tiny, enclosed yard. Age has a way of deflating our ideal life. However! Buying the property and having young (still idealistic) folks run it—YES!
Exactly! I still grow all my onions and garlic and some of the green stuff, but the farm fills in with everything else. No more growing 150 lbs of potatoes!!!
Hi Donna, just wanted you to know I've launched the "aboutthefarm" substack to tell the story of our farm, with helpful resources whenever possible. Would love to have you share in the comments over there. The Substack is free and will remain free.
Fan-effing-fabulous, Eli! We are looking to do something similar. Ideally, we find land and have portions of it leased or bartered out.
My fabulous realtor is educating me! As I said to my goddess makes-me-a Billy Idol lookalike, fake blonde; this has been in the works for five plus long years!
Awesome! I actually had this dream for over 20 years, but then gave it up because it seemed too difficult (and I didn't have any money to do it with.) Then, the money came (parents died, among other things) and the forgotten dream snuck up on me while I wasn't looking.
Hi Kat Warrior I just wanted you to know that, because of the encouragement from a few choice folks on here, I've launched a substack to tell the story of our farm. It's "aboutthefarm" and is free and will remain free. I'd love to have you join in the discussion over there to tell about your experience!
I am currently at Rory Feek’s Homestead Festival in Columbia, TN. The first day was fantastic. If you're open to it, I can send you pics via DM. The energy, faith, and optimism are so hopeful. God bless.
That sounds excellent! I don’t know how DM works but yes please send and hopefully I can figure out how to see the pics. Have a wonderful time for the rest of the festival!
Absolutely, Sandra! I am going to Tennessee for Rory Feek’s Homestead Festival June 6 & 7 and then on the hunt for property with an amazing realtor. Everything is falling into place!
I am going to figure this out, one way or another! ❤️🙏💯🤠
Hi Mary Rose, in case you have a special interest in this farming idea, I wanted you to know that I've launched a substack to tell the story of our farm. It's "aboutthefarm" and the substack is free and will remain free. Would love to see you over there (Chapter One just dropped this morning, Chapter Two coming within the week.)
I apologize Laura! I just wanted to acknowledge your subscriber spotlight essay!
I have been running like my hair is constantly on fire 🔥. Trust me, it’s fecking fantastic! My journey to exit the hellscape if Commieland begins today! 🤠
Thank you for all that you do and have done to expose the blob evil things pretending to be benevolent!
I am blessed, Laura, and thank you. Your comment means a lot to me. I LOVED reading the spotlight on your work. So many of us are going through the spiritual transformations of our lifetimes right now. It's painful, but worth it in every way.
Thank you so much, Cindy. It's been scary to voice the TRUTH publicly. A friend of mine posted something a month ago on Fakebook (on men in women's sports) and was attacked by many of her "friends." She took the post down. She has a PhD in Biology. Truth is defined as hate to those who are struggling with gender dysphoria and their supporters (enablers). It most certainly is not.
Thank you for your courage to speak the truth aloud! It sounds like your friend's "friends" are no longer tethered to reality and trying to weaponize their so-called compassion, because you know, 'be kind.'
Holy crap Sandra, you're like Jenna's sister from another mother. What a treat!
Thanks for the introduction, Jenna, and thanks to both of you for the laughs on this early Thursday morning! Have Friday Eve for all of us rats still running on that wheel!
Sandra (and you) are def my kinds of women. I subscribed to the free Greenwoman substack - because I'm in between jobs. Love the interview. As a second-generation American from Irish grandparents on my mom's side, I get the humor. Mine is the same. It's in the Irish DNA (except for the snooty Irish with no personalities that seem to be oddly peppered through the population - but they aren't the majority, so eff 'em). I wonder, did you also have a mean(ish) grammaw who said things like, "You can sleep when you're dead," if one wanted to take a nap (lazy)? Just curious.
I've been so busy working on my portfolio for "serious" work that I have not started writing my own substack as I meant to do this year. You ladies all inspire me. I absolutely love history, too, so thank you for that idea, Sandra. Isn't history more insane once you study it, than anyone could imagine? And there are limitless subjects.
That farting baby has a great future with you amazing ladies (and the men in your clan).
Awwww, thank you so much, Mary Rose! We don't care one bit it's a free subscription, we're grateful! And your comment about Faolán made us laugh. (I was on the phone with Zora when I read it.) He is SO doted on, as you can imagine. No baby has never been more loved.
You are so right about the Irish, lol. And most Americans have some of those genes. (The Irish get around!) I'm so grateful to be gifted with the love of humor that generations needed just to survive, and that Zora has a great dose of it in her DNA. If you haven't read her work . . . it's truly hilarious.
I asked Zora about the mean(ish) grammaw comment and Zora said, "I would say that." (HA!)
I wouldn't. I can embrace "lazy" when I want to and feel our culture is far too workaholic and stressed. The maternal side of my family is known for as much craziness and laziness as industriousness and I feel I'm lucky to have (IMO) a sensible combination.
I am glad you are inspired! You're a wonderful writer, Mary Rose (and you must be a gardener with that name as well). I have read many of your comments here and enjoyed them all. I look forward to your substack debut!
Thank YOU for such a lovely response! I'm flattered that you like my comments. Yes, there will be something going on soon, just trying to fit it in with all the other stuff. I kinda agree with grumpy grammaw and your daughter about "you can sleep when you're dead" to some degree, but it probably made me afraid to take naps! I still don't!
I also find that most people have some Irish heritage. I think there are more Irish in Chicago (where I'm from) than Ireland at this point.
Can't wait to read Zora. What a great name, too. Thanks again for the warm wishes and vote of confidence!
I have to say I wept a few tears of joy seeing this posted today. Thank you, Jenna, so very much, for sharing our work at Greenwoman Publishing!!! I feel we are all kindred spirits here. With these subscriber spotlights you are doing so much ADDITIONAL good work (beyond your regular brilliant posts that bring awareness, laughter, and education!) by sharing the work of those of us who continue to struggle to be seen and heard in a system that is determined to silence us.
Brilliant subscriber spotlight. Thank you Jenna. And as both of these are on Kindle Unlimited, I have not cancelled my subscription this month, and instead added these 2 books, as well as spending a lovely time over on their stack.
Wonderful post Sandra, and thank you for the book! Excited to read it, love your writing style :)
"Regenerative farming" caught my eye -- lately I've been mostly reading books about cows lol. Also, I have a postage stamp you and your daughter would love. Picture of a cute little girl holding an adult's hand, says "Retarded Children can be helped." No joke. Standard US postage from many decades ago before "retarded" was a bad word.
I have a couple of books on raising cows! One by Mary Jane Butters (she's such an inspiration) titled Milk Cow Kitchen. She has Jerseys and there's a lot about raising them--in addition to creating wonderful milk products. The other is titled Our Wild Farming Life: Adventures on a Scottish Highland Croft. I'm waiting to get my dream farm actually going before I swing into action with my "Jersey Project." We bought a place in Western NC a few years ago, 2.65 acres. We still haven't moved there from Colorado. We were scheduled to do so in 2024 but first came the news of Faolán--and then came Helene! (The county where our cabin is located was hardest hit in all of NC, though our place came out okay, it's near the top of a hill.) I am NOT complaining about the delay. All have been blessings and I know at this age that things happen when they are meant to.
I just looked up the stamp and it's really sweet and beautiful! It's unfortunate how some devils have been working around the clock to create strife and division where none existed before. https://postalmuseum.si.edu/object/npm_1980.2493.5999
Yes that's the stamp! We have a match book with the same art and words on it too. Belonged to my husband's mother.
Your land and Jersey project sound wonderful . . . but grand children are even more wonderful. And, their young years go so fast! As you say, all will happen in good time.
Thanks for mentioning George Washington Carver a great man and worthy of retrospection whom I read about in Readers Digest fifty years ago .He invented the peanut butter sandwich before the Earl of Sandwich.
Ha ha! I love your joke. I have been OBSESSED with GWC (as we call him around here) for decades now. Over 25 years ago, when I first read his life's story, I could not believe that everyone in this country did not know all about this man's life! Rackham Holt's book is, in my opinion, really the best, and it was a very long (spiritual) quest to get it back into print.
I also have a theory on why his story suddenly became "far less compelling" during the early 1960s. Primarily, big ag + government wanting total control of food and farmland. Carver was a man who brought people of all "colors" and religions together as well. His legacy was a threat.
You are so welcome. Zora and I were invited to a book group here in the city (Colorado Springs) in January. The group was made up of young mothers, one of whom discovered the book! They really connected to it--and we had so much fun meeting them. Please give your daughter-in-law a hug from us!
Wow! Another fantastic human being brought to light in these spotlights. Heartwarming to know about these kindred spirits. We need you all in these times we are living in.
Love, love these ladies, Sandra and Zora! 😆👀. Another spectacularly funny dynamic duo to add to my super fun reading list!
I am on the journey to get me the hell out of Commieland and buy a hulking HUGE piece of farmland. We are doing it! Our dream may actually come to fruition. Regenerative farming here the “Strange” folks come! 🙏❤️💯🇺🇸🪴🤠
Congrats on the farm! I bought my dream acres almost two years ago now, and it's the light of my life. I don't live on it -- two young farmers do, we shopped together for it to live out a mutually symbiotic dream. They are growing amazingly fabulous veggies and fruit, and they are buying 30 out of the 255 acres and paying off the mortgage to me with food rather than money :)
THIS IS BRILLIANT!!! I want to do that!!!
Hi Jenna, just popping in to this older post to let you know that because of this encouragement from you and Sandra and others, I've launched a substack to tell the story of our farm. It's "aboutthefarm" -- free and will stay free. Come have a look if you have a moment -- I just posted Chapter one this morning, Chapter Two coming within the week. THANK YOU for connecting me with Sandra! This would NOT be happening without her guidance and encouragement.
I want to hear about your farm too, Eli. I am obsessed with getting this country back on track with healthy food, and I agree with Jenna, this is a BRILLIANT strategy. I would love to post a story about it on Greenwoman Substack!
Interesting Idea Sandra. I had started writing about it last year and then just put it away. Let’s be in touch! I am quite tech challenged and would not know what being in touch through Substack would mean, so please let me know.
Well that’s brilliant. I have always wanted to have enough property for a garden, chickens and a blueberry hedge with a blackberry covered fence. Thankfully, my hubs balked a decade ago, as now I just want a one story home with a tiny, enclosed yard. Age has a way of deflating our ideal life. However! Buying the property and having young (still idealistic) folks run it—YES!
Exactly! I still grow all my onions and garlic and some of the green stuff, but the farm fills in with everything else. No more growing 150 lbs of potatoes!!!
Hi Donna, just wanted you to know I've launched the "aboutthefarm" substack to tell the story of our farm, with helpful resources whenever possible. Would love to have you share in the comments over there. The Substack is free and will remain free.
Fan-effing-fabulous, Eli! We are looking to do something similar. Ideally, we find land and have portions of it leased or bartered out.
My fabulous realtor is educating me! As I said to my goddess makes-me-a Billy Idol lookalike, fake blonde; this has been in the works for five plus long years!
Great projects take time. This is fantastic. Congratulations!
Awesome! I actually had this dream for over 20 years, but then gave it up because it seemed too difficult (and I didn't have any money to do it with.) Then, the money came (parents died, among other things) and the forgotten dream snuck up on me while I wasn't looking.
I love that, Eli. If you want something that is truly good, which is what you are doing, God provides.
I know in my soul that this will happen and there will be so much reward to share.
I am a pretty decent home gardener, so if I could scale which is the goal, I can share my hard won skills. Make the pie larger!
Hi Kat Warrior I just wanted you to know that, because of the encouragement from a few choice folks on here, I've launched a substack to tell the story of our farm. It's "aboutthefarm" and is free and will remain free. I'd love to have you join in the discussion over there to tell about your experience!
This is incredible news, Eli! Gold standard!
I am currently at Rory Feek’s Homestead Festival in Columbia, TN. The first day was fantastic. If you're open to it, I can send you pics via DM. The energy, faith, and optimism are so hopeful. God bless.
That sounds excellent! I don’t know how DM works but yes please send and hopefully I can figure out how to see the pics. Have a wonderful time for the rest of the festival!
Thank you so much! So many kindred spirits here and I love them all. I want to hear more about your farm. Regenerative ag is the way!
Absolutely, Sandra! I am going to Tennessee for Rory Feek’s Homestead Festival June 6 & 7 and then on the hunt for property with an amazing realtor. Everything is falling into place!
I am going to figure this out, one way or another! ❤️🙏💯🤠
Wow, that is fantastic!! You won't regret it. Congratulations!
Thank you, Mary Rose 🌹🙏❤️
My realtor is taking me to her farm to meet their new colt and then a trail ride through her gazzilion blissfully isolated property. Yeehaw 🤠
Hi Mary Rose, in case you have a special interest in this farming idea, I wanted you to know that I've launched a substack to tell the story of our farm. It's "aboutthefarm" and the substack is free and will remain free. Would love to see you over there (Chapter One just dropped this morning, Chapter Two coming within the week.)
Thank you for the invite, Eli! I'm there! 🥰
Yay!! :)
Sandra - a delightful read. It’s lovely to start my day with a smile. You are blessed. 🥰
Mikki’s quote moved me as well. Truth!
I apologize Laura! I just wanted to acknowledge your subscriber spotlight essay!
I have been running like my hair is constantly on fire 🔥. Trust me, it’s fecking fantastic! My journey to exit the hellscape if Commieland begins today! 🤠
Thank you for all that you do and have done to expose the blob evil things pretending to be benevolent!
KatWarrior - haha! I constantly go back and forth to feeling like my hair is on fire to thinking, what a time to be alive.
Never going to give up the fight. 💪💪💪
Indeed! 💯💥❤️🙏
I know I alive, thriving, and happy when my hair is on fire 🔥
I am blessed, Laura, and thank you. Your comment means a lot to me. I LOVED reading the spotlight on your work. So many of us are going through the spiritual transformations of our lifetimes right now. It's painful, but worth it in every way.
Very funny lady. I appreciate that there are more of you/us than meets the eye. Those of us who know the truths.
I love the last quote. It is a fact.
Thank you so much, SteveO! I appreciate YOU. Wishing you a beautiful day.
Greatly appreciate Sandra's description of womanhood and the importance of protecting its authentic meaning. Something to teach our daughters.
Thank you so much, Cindy. It's been scary to voice the TRUTH publicly. A friend of mine posted something a month ago on Fakebook (on men in women's sports) and was attacked by many of her "friends." She took the post down. She has a PhD in Biology. Truth is defined as hate to those who are struggling with gender dysphoria and their supporters (enablers). It most certainly is not.
Thank you for your courage to speak the truth aloud! It sounds like your friend's "friends" are no longer tethered to reality and trying to weaponize their so-called compassion, because you know, 'be kind.'
Holy crap Sandra, you're like Jenna's sister from another mother. What a treat!
Thanks for the introduction, Jenna, and thanks to both of you for the laughs on this early Thursday morning! Have Friday Eve for all of us rats still running on that wheel!
Thank you so much, Vee. I always love reading your comments on Jenna's posts!
That's very kind of you, Sandra. Thank you for making the world shine brighter by shining the F out of yours!
What a wonderful interview! Thanks to both of you for making me laugh. And thank you so much, Sandra for your book. I can't wait to read it!
You're so welcome, Daria. I look forward to checking out your substack newsletter, sounds right down my alley. :-)
Hill To Die On? FUCK YES! I loath those dickless bastards who put on a dress and makeup and call themselves women. Fuck them. Fuck their demons.
Well, that felt good. Cheers, ladies.
LingOL over here! ;)
Me too :D
Sandra (and you) are def my kinds of women. I subscribed to the free Greenwoman substack - because I'm in between jobs. Love the interview. As a second-generation American from Irish grandparents on my mom's side, I get the humor. Mine is the same. It's in the Irish DNA (except for the snooty Irish with no personalities that seem to be oddly peppered through the population - but they aren't the majority, so eff 'em). I wonder, did you also have a mean(ish) grammaw who said things like, "You can sleep when you're dead," if one wanted to take a nap (lazy)? Just curious.
I've been so busy working on my portfolio for "serious" work that I have not started writing my own substack as I meant to do this year. You ladies all inspire me. I absolutely love history, too, so thank you for that idea, Sandra. Isn't history more insane once you study it, than anyone could imagine? And there are limitless subjects.
That farting baby has a great future with you amazing ladies (and the men in your clan).
Great read, thanks Jenna.
Awwww, thank you so much, Mary Rose! We don't care one bit it's a free subscription, we're grateful! And your comment about Faolán made us laugh. (I was on the phone with Zora when I read it.) He is SO doted on, as you can imagine. No baby has never been more loved.
You are so right about the Irish, lol. And most Americans have some of those genes. (The Irish get around!) I'm so grateful to be gifted with the love of humor that generations needed just to survive, and that Zora has a great dose of it in her DNA. If you haven't read her work . . . it's truly hilarious.
I asked Zora about the mean(ish) grammaw comment and Zora said, "I would say that." (HA!)
I wouldn't. I can embrace "lazy" when I want to and feel our culture is far too workaholic and stressed. The maternal side of my family is known for as much craziness and laziness as industriousness and I feel I'm lucky to have (IMO) a sensible combination.
I am glad you are inspired! You're a wonderful writer, Mary Rose (and you must be a gardener with that name as well). I have read many of your comments here and enjoyed them all. I look forward to your substack debut!
Thank YOU for such a lovely response! I'm flattered that you like my comments. Yes, there will be something going on soon, just trying to fit it in with all the other stuff. I kinda agree with grumpy grammaw and your daughter about "you can sleep when you're dead" to some degree, but it probably made me afraid to take naps! I still don't!
I also find that most people have some Irish heritage. I think there are more Irish in Chicago (where I'm from) than Ireland at this point.
Can't wait to read Zora. What a great name, too. Thanks again for the warm wishes and vote of confidence!
You are so welcome, Mary Rose. Oh, I agree with the "sleep when you're dead" too (in some degree)! I've said it to myself! ;-)
I have to say I wept a few tears of joy seeing this posted today. Thank you, Jenna, so very much, for sharing our work at Greenwoman Publishing!!! I feel we are all kindred spirits here. With these subscriber spotlights you are doing so much ADDITIONAL good work (beyond your regular brilliant posts that bring awareness, laughter, and education!) by sharing the work of those of us who continue to struggle to be seen and heard in a system that is determined to silence us.
Sending ALL the love to you & yours!
Damn, woman, now I'm all teary-eyed! I'm so happy to do it and so grateful for the positive, warm feedback!!! XOXOXO
Brilliant subscriber spotlight. Thank you Jenna. And as both of these are on Kindle Unlimited, I have not cancelled my subscription this month, and instead added these 2 books, as well as spending a lovely time over on their stack.
Thank you soooooooo much, Mr SG!
Wonderful post Sandra, and thank you for the book! Excited to read it, love your writing style :)
"Regenerative farming" caught my eye -- lately I've been mostly reading books about cows lol. Also, I have a postage stamp you and your daughter would love. Picture of a cute little girl holding an adult's hand, says "Retarded Children can be helped." No joke. Standard US postage from many decades ago before "retarded" was a bad word.
I have a couple of books on raising cows! One by Mary Jane Butters (she's such an inspiration) titled Milk Cow Kitchen. She has Jerseys and there's a lot about raising them--in addition to creating wonderful milk products. The other is titled Our Wild Farming Life: Adventures on a Scottish Highland Croft. I'm waiting to get my dream farm actually going before I swing into action with my "Jersey Project." We bought a place in Western NC a few years ago, 2.65 acres. We still haven't moved there from Colorado. We were scheduled to do so in 2024 but first came the news of Faolán--and then came Helene! (The county where our cabin is located was hardest hit in all of NC, though our place came out okay, it's near the top of a hill.) I am NOT complaining about the delay. All have been blessings and I know at this age that things happen when they are meant to.
I just looked up the stamp and it's really sweet and beautiful! It's unfortunate how some devils have been working around the clock to create strife and division where none existed before. https://postalmuseum.si.edu/object/npm_1980.2493.5999
Yes that's the stamp! We have a match book with the same art and words on it too. Belonged to my husband's mother.
Your land and Jersey project sound wonderful . . . but grand children are even more wonderful. And, their young years go so fast! As you say, all will happen in good time.
I would love to see that stamp! :D Thank you for downloading the book, Eli!
Thanks for mentioning George Washington Carver a great man and worthy of retrospection whom I read about in Readers Digest fifty years ago .He invented the peanut butter sandwich before the Earl of Sandwich.
Ha ha! I love your joke. I have been OBSESSED with GWC (as we call him around here) for decades now. Over 25 years ago, when I first read his life's story, I could not believe that everyone in this country did not know all about this man's life! Rackham Holt's book is, in my opinion, really the best, and it was a very long (spiritual) quest to get it back into print.
I also have a theory on why his story suddenly became "far less compelling" during the early 1960s. Primarily, big ag + government wanting total control of food and farmland. Carver was a man who brought people of all "colors" and religions together as well. His legacy was a threat.
Delightful interview and thank you for the free book! You sound like kindred spirits to my darling, chicken-loving daughter-in-law!
You are so welcome. Zora and I were invited to a book group here in the city (Colorado Springs) in January. The group was made up of young mothers, one of whom discovered the book! They really connected to it--and we had so much fun meeting them. Please give your daughter-in-law a hug from us!
I have done a ton of zoom book club meetings and they’re really fun! Maybe all the folks downloading petunias would be interested in that… 😊
Fantastic intro! Thank you so much for sharing. I feel kinship already. And share the same hill as Sandra. 🧡
Thank you so much, Heather. Women have been put (by design) in such a terrible position with that hill.
Book down loaded. Post shared. I think I’m in love.
I appreciate this more than I can say! Wishing you a beautiful day, Nard.
Wow! Another fantastic human being brought to light in these spotlights. Heartwarming to know about these kindred spirits. We need you all in these times we are living in.
Thank you so much, Roberta. We appreciate it more than we can say!