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Hi! My name is Rosetta, I am Dori’s granddaughter. I am ten years old and I live with my mommy and daddy in our house on their farm. Today I asked my Gram if I could take pictures of my favorite things on the farm and tell you about them!
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Debbie Bosworth
is a certified farmgirl at heart. She’s happily married to her beach bum Yankee husband of 20 years. She went from career gal to being a creative homeschooling mom for two of her biggest blessings and hasn’t looked back since. Debbie left her lifelong home in the high desert of Northern Nevada 10 years ago and washed up on the shore of America’s hometown, Plymouth, MA, where she and her family are now firmly planted. They spend part of each summer in a tiny, off–grid beach cottage named “The Sea Horse.”
“I found a piece of my farmgirl heart when I discovered MaryJanesFarm. Suddenly, everything I loved just made more sense! I enjoy unwinding at the beach, writing, gardening, and turning yard-sale furniture into ‘Painted Ladies’ I’m passionate about living a creative life and encouraging others to ‘make each day their masterpiece.’”
Rebekah Teal
is a “MaryJane Farmgirl” who lives in a large metropolitan area. She is a lawyer who has worked in both criminal defense and prosecution. She has been a judge, a business woman and a stay-at-home mom. In addition to her law degree, she has a Masters of Theological Studies.
“Mustering up the courage to do the things you dream about,” she says, “is the essence of being a MaryJane Farmgirl.” Learning to live more organically and closer to nature is Rebekah’s current pursuit. She finds strength and encouragement through MaryJane’s writings, life, and products. And MaryJane’s Farmgirl Connection provides her a wealth of knowledge from true-blue farmgirls.
Cathi Belcher
an old-fashioned farmgirl with a pioneer spirit, lives in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. As a “lifelong learner” in the “Live-Free-or-Die” state, she fiercely values self-reliance, independence, freedom, and fresh mountain air. Married to her childhood sweetheart of 40+ years (a few of them “uphill climbs”), she’s had plenty of time to reinvent herself. From museum curator, restaurant owner, homeschool mom/conference speaker, to post-and-beam house builder and entrepreneur, she’s also a multi-media artist, with an obsession for off-grid living and alternative housing. Cathi owns and operates a 32-room mountain lodge. Her specialty has evolved to include “hermit hospitality” at her rustic cabin in the mountains, where she offers weekend workshops of special interest to women.
“Mountains speak to my soul, and farming is an important part of my heritage. I want to pass on my love of these things to others through my writing. Living in the mountains has its own particular challenges, but I delight in turning them into opportunities from which we can all learn and grow.”
Dori Troutman
Dori Troutman is the daughter of second generation cattle ranchers in New Mexico. She grew up working and playing on the ranch that her grandparents homesteaded in 1928. That ranch, with the old adobe home, is still in the family today. Dori and her husband always yearned for a ranch of their own. That dream came true when they retired to the beautiful green rolling hills of Tennessee. Truly a cattleman’s paradise!
Dori loves all things farmgirl and actually has known no other life but that. She loves to cook, craft, garden, and help with any and all things on their cattle farm.
Mary Murray
describes herself as a goat charmer, chicken whisperer, bee maven, and farmers’ market baker renovating an 1864 farmhouse on an Ohio farm. With a degree in Design, Mary says small-town auctions and country road barn sales "always make my heart skip a beat thinking about what I could create or design out of what I’ve seen.”
Rooted in the countryside, she likes simple things and old ways … gardening, preserving the harvest, cooking, baking, and all things home. While you might find her selling baked goods from the farm’s milkhouse, teaching herself to play the fiddle, or sprucing up a vintage camper named Maizy, you will always find her in an apron!
Mary says, “I’m happiest with the simple country pleasures … an old farmhouse, too many animals, a crackling fire, books to read, and the sound of laughter … these make life just perfect.”
Alexandra Wilson
is a budding rural farmgirl living in Palmer, the agricultural seat of Alaska. Alex is a graduate student at Alaska Pacific University pursuing an M.S. in Outdoor and Environmental Education. She lives and works on the university’s 700 acre environmental education center, Spring Creek Farm. When Alex has time outside of school, she loves to rock climb, repurpose found objects, cross-country ski on the hay fields, travel, practice yoga, and cook with new-fangled ingredients.
Alex grew up near the Twin Cities and went to college in Madison, Wisconsin—both places where perfectly painted barns and rolling green farmland are just a short drive away. After college, she taught at a rural middle school in South Korea where she biked past verdant rice paddies and old women selling home-grown produce from sidewalk stoops. She was introduced to MaryJanesFarm after returning, and found in it what she’d been searching for—a group of incredible women living their lives in ways that benefit their families, their communities, and the greater environment. What an amazing group of farmgirls to be a part of!
Nicole Christensen
Suburban Farmgirl Nicole Christensen calls herself a “vintage enthusiast”. Born and raised in Texas, she has lived most of her life in the picturesque New England suburbs of Connecticut, just a stone’s throw from New York State. An Advanced Master Gardener, she has gardened since childhood, in several states and across numerous planting zones. In addition, she teaches knitting classes, loves to preserve, and raises backyard chickens.
Married over thirty years to her Danish-born sweetheart, Nicole has worked in various fields, been a world-traveler, an entrepreneur and a homemaker, but considers being mom to her now-adult daughter her greatest accomplishment. Loving all things creative, Nicole considers her life’s motto to be “Bloom where you are planted”.
Happy holidays. Thanks for letting Rosetta tell us about her life on the farm. I wish I had her tree house. I lived on a farm when I was a girl and wish I’d never left.
This is the sweetest thing! She is darling. She did a great job. Loved her post and hope she does some more!
Happy New Year!
What a lovely, informative post from Rosetta! Please let her share more articles in 2022! I grew up in St. Paul, MN, so know very little about farm life, so this was educational! Is Rosetta homeschooled, or does she attend public, or private school? (Rosetta is a multi-talented gal!) Have a BLESSED New Year!
Very sweet. Enjoy your blogs!
I Love your granddaughters post and photos, I know what her life is life now. Fun and interesting with work thrown in.
Thank you Dori for sharing her with us.
Happy New Year.
Rosetta, I loved your blog and all of the pictures! I can’t imagine a better place to grow up! I hope that you will write again sometime.
I’m thinking that your grandma is teaching you to sew? She creates wonderful things!
I know you said that bumblefoot was gross…but I had to google it…I’ve never heard of it. You are RIGHT!!!!!
Thank you for sharing, Rosetta!
What a lucky girl. Can’t beat the beauty all around us
What a delightful post! Rosetta makes me wish I had been raised on a farm – and had a “mostly sweet” sister. I think what she has shown us would be my favorite things, too. Blessings for the new year to you an your family, Dori.
Good job, Rosetta!
What a sweetie Rosetta is. I love it when the land is appreciated by those of us of all ages. I can tell she will be instrumental in keeping the farming life alive! Thanks for giving us insight into your life Rosetta!
Rosetta growing up on a farm is wonderful . The freedom , fostering
her wonderful imagination, being outside with nature , animals and
fresh air is such a blessing . What a healthy , creative sweetheart .
Thank you for sharing ! ♥️
Love your granddaughters words and pictures. What a great place to grow up!
I grew up on a dairy farm. Taking care of the calves was one of my jobs whenever my brothers were too busy.
We also had a treehouse that my Dad built. I have great memories of playing there with my younger brother.
I have 5 chickens now but I have not named ANY of them!
They are beautiful Brahma hens with white and black feathers.
Life on a farm is always busy and if you’re lucky you will have great helpers like Rosetta!
Dear Rosetta,
What a beautiful post. Family farms are special because they teach young people like yourself so many things about partnering with nature, where food comes from, about caring for animals and about weather. And what fun you must have exploring, playing in your tree house and raising your chickens and cows. I will show your post to my grandkids. They don’t live on my farm, but they get to visit. We will be growing a pizza garden this year. Happy New Year!
I absolutely enjoyed reading about this little farm girl! Her tree house is amazing!
She is not only the sweetest but also a good little writer!! Always love reading your blog posts my friend. The best to you & yours in the new year!
I loved the post from your adorable grand daughter. I love seeing the younger generation on a farm and enjoying it all.
Have a wonderful new year.
Hello Dori and Rosetta from our family farm in New Hampshire! Thank you for sharing all of your favorite things on the farm, Rosetta. And what a lovely farm! We have a 350 acre working farm. Grass-fed beef, hay, logging and of course, gardens. Our open fields and deep woods are so beautiful covered with snow! I live in the woods and enjoy watching the winter birds visiting the window feeder. Your tree house is magic. What fun! Happy New Year to you and your family. ~ Diane
Lovely blog post. As a middle school English teacher I love this!!! I am always showing my students how many ways there are to share their writing and this was a perfect example. Great job, Rosetta! I hope to hear from you again on this blog.
Great job Rosetta! I loved reading your post and looking at the pictures. Your grandparents have a beautiful farm. My grandparents had a home in northern Wisconsin that I enjoyed going to too. Cherish those memories!
I loved Rosetta’s post. My grandparents had a farm and I loved every “farm”. My memories are still very vivid. Please tell her to journal her every day life now and cherish those treasures in her “old” age. I always enjoy your post!!
Rosetta is so lucky to grow up on a farm. Always wished I could…still do even at 76!. Rosetta wrote a wonderful story and maybe the two of you can do one together sometme.
Hi, my name is Joan, and I really enjoyed reading Rosetta’s story about the farm. She did a great job with her story. My advice to her is that she continue writing, even if it isn’t on the internet.
I spent lots of time on a farm in Pensylvania, owned by my Aunt and Uncle. I was a teenager then, now I’m pushing 80. My Aunt and Uncle had a candle factory on their farm. My Uncle was from Germany, and the business was past on to him by his parents. On the farm were goats, 3 dogs, and 30 cats. The waxy candles attracted mice, so that is why they had cats. Now I am writing a book, a cozy mystery, and I using the memories of the farm and it’s scenery in my book. Names have been changed to protect the family.
Thank you for sharing Rosetta. She is so precious. Love your Blogs especially the teaching and sharing moments. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
Thank you so much! It reminded me of my life at 10 on our farm. We also had a cow named Midge, the sweetest girl ever!
Hoping your New Year is healthy, happy and filled with joy.
BJR
Happy New Year!
I really enjoyed Rosetta’s blog. It’s great she enjoys the farm life so much. I grew up on a farm and enjoyed it as a child. I hope we get to hear more from her in the future.
Blessings for the coming New Year
Sandra
Granddaughters are the best!! Great job Rosetta. The photos are great and growing up on a farm is the best. I miss my young days on our farm. Make memories!!
What a sweet, intelligent young girl, happy to show us her wonderful farm life !
Absolutely love this! Rosetta, you’re a true Gramma’s girl. And that’s quite the compliment. You are SO fortunate to be growing up on the farm with all your family.
Sending you love from western Oregon!
This was a great blog written by your grand daughter! Thank you Rosetta! Loved your life on the farm.
All four of our kids also grew up on the farm!
Rosetta, I enjoyed your post very much. You have an interesting life on the farm.. I lived on a farm when I was a little girl, for a while until we moved out west. I had the most fun on the farm with my favorite hen, and a young calf that was mine as well as my dogs and cats. We, my brothers and cousins and I used to play in the woods around our farm and during the winter, my brothers made me a snow chair, and a tunnel through the snow that we climbed through to a center area a bit like a snow castle. My school was a one room school house and had one teacher who taught 1st through 8th grades and we walked to school and home every school day. Best memories I have of my childhood. Dori, thank you so much for allowing Rosetta to do this blog this time. I hope she will do more in the future. You have a very good life on your farm and I wish more people had that opportunity. May the New Year be gracious to us all.
Thank you so much Rosetta for such a wonderful tour of the farm and everything you love about it!! Now I must go to look up bumble foot…and will no doubt be suitably grossed out!!
Happy New Year!!
I should have listened when Rosetta recommended NOT looking it up!! EEwwwww….
Just wanted to say Rosetta, you done an outstanding job writing your blog. Hope Grams let you do it often. Happy New Year.
Nice job Rosetta! I loved all of your pictures. You sound like you really love the farm life and all of the animals.
Thank you Rosetta for a fun tour of the farm! It was nice of you to take the time to share this with the rest of us. You put a Big Smile on my face and made my day :):):)
Keep being the sweet farm girl that you are. Tammy
Thank you Rosetta! It’s very interesting to hear about life on the farm from your point of view. It sounds like the farm is a wonderful, magical place to grow up. We all appreciate you sharing with us.
Kudos to your Grams, Grampa and your parents for raising such an awesome young lady!!
Hi, this is Rosetta, the writer of this blog.
I love reading all your comments. You made my day!
Thank you, Rosetta!! What a wonderful life you have there on the farm. I enjoyed your telling and photos. Happy New Year!
Diane
Thank you Rosetta for sharing your life on the farm. You did a good job,congratulations. You are a beautiful young lady. Wishing you and your entire family a Happy and Healthy New year. God Bless.
Joan,Marion and Marilyn
I love it! Having a similar childhood growing up in the country with my aunt & uncle’s, near-by farm. It was the BEST!! Animals (including a tame fox that wandered-in), rope swing from above that you could swing from and drop down to the hay mound below, playing Hide-and-Seek in the rows of corn. Thanks for sharing those special things you love…they are very dear.
Rosetta, that is a wonderful story. Your gramps and gram are very nice people. You are so lucky to have them. Sounds like you are having a great time. You have so much to be thankful for. Enjoy every moment you have with them.
That was so sweet! enjoyed reading her favorite things about her life on the farm!
I love your post! A budding writer and photographer
Thanks for the view thru your eyes Rosetta!
What a great post!! Budding writer for sure. Loved the tour!
Hope she gets to do it again!
I love all your pictures and the very well written letter, you do a great job in writing to all of us. It looks like you have a great farm to live on. Take care
Lovely post Rosetta! Love seeing your farm and all of your beautiful animals! Go Farmgirl!
Thank you sweetheart you have brought A lot of memories back I grew up on a farm we had dairy cows I had a Favorites named her Blackie and I would ride her all the time I would catch tadpoles and watch them turn into frogs and then let them go again we had choke cherry bushes and we’d always pick berries and my mother would always make jam out of them I remember helping with fences and with bailing hay I also weird remember the times we would play in the hay in the hayloft I think the best place for a child to grow up is on a farm thank you sweetheart for bringing back good memories God bless you
Hi Rosetta! It was so fun to read your article! I wanted to tell you that I have a hen that looks just like your Cheddar, her name is Hufflepuff and she follows me everywhere and is so sweet. Keep on writing! You are very talented!
I “truly” enjoyed reading about what your granddaughter enjoys on the farm. What an experience for her and hopefully she will carry on these values into the next generation. Even if she does not continue with her love of “farming”, etc. she at least has had the experience and can compare life avenues as she matures. What a joy for you and your husband. And, by the way, I enjoy your blog (especially the sewing projects) and what a lovely picture of you and your husband. Keep trucking and encouraging and being an example to your grandchildren and those around you. Love you. Bette
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Thank you for sharing your granddaughter AND for letting her share with us. At 86 I remember building fence, milking Bossy, then straining the milk, putting it in glass bottles with a cardboard top and delivering it before school, gathering eggs, running a trap line when a good hide would bring more than my dad made working all day. Love you all. God bless you.