And so it officially arrived. September 22 at 10:29 pm EST.
It is Autumn. Oh, Autumn, how happy I am to see you again!
To feel your crisp, cool breeze embrace me.
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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”.
Fall is my favorite time of the year. I also look my best in fall color’s. I really like the way you put all the words together. Poetry is one of my fav’s.
Hugs
Kay
I just love reading the words of your heart! Beautiful rendering of a most welcome arrival.
Rebekah,
If I had to choose one thing that is my favorite about Fall and cooler weather it would be cooking and eating soups! I LOVE soup! As a matter of fact, I still kind of cook soup periodically in the summer but it just doesn’t quite have the same feel to it! 🙂 – Dori, the Ranch Farmgirl –
Yay I love love love Autumn. My favorite time of the year.
Enjoyed your post as I always do! Just the other day I enjoyed a salad with lettuce and cucumber from my own garden! Loved it, some how it tasted better! I have already made the first bean soup of the season, it a Michigan soup that is loved in my area, the farmers grow the northern beans around here, we even have a festival labor day weekend called the Michigan Bean Festival! To me that means fall is here, for the chlidren don’t start school till the day after Labor day. Also seeing the sugar beats trucks hauling the sugar beats,and corn is saved till the last to be harvested there can be light snow in the fields and they will then harvest it.
Also if you see lots of spiders in the house means and thicker webs means a early and cold winter!
Hi Rebekah,
Oh, pure pleasure reading your blog! And you have written it all…all the things that
I have been feeling ever since I awoke this morning and heard the honking of the
Canada geese flying over! I LOVE Autumn, and of course, it’s my favorite time of
the year! I love every single thing you mentioned, and can hardly wait to wear a
sweater! I took up knitting about 4 years ago, and love it and all the fiber animals
that supply my knitting cabinet. I just felt so overflowing with my love of Autumn and
wanted to share it with someone else, and here I read your blog, and find a lovely kindred spirit! Thanks for sharing!
Hugs,
Marilyn
I really like your Fall post. It is my favorite time of year too! Thanks for sharing that with us.
My favorite season! It’s still hot as heck, but I can already feel the difference in the atmosphere. It’s autumn! Yippee!
Love your photos and descriptions of the season. Who doesn’t love fall? I say that as I sneeze, yes, allergies, but I love this time of the year and we finally get to air out the house. My indoor cats are beside themselves, smelling the fresh air as they thunder through the house running from window to window.
I miss the call of the geese flying southward. The Sandhill cranes are my favorite with their beautiful wild trilogy call as they head to their southern winter grounds. Unfortunately we are not on the migrant flyways here in NE Tennessee, as we were back in central Texas so we miss a lot of the winged wildlife during migration.
YAY!!!! that was fun. Oh the black walnuts, so miss them. Thanks for sharing.
God bless.
Thanks for sharing! Yes, they all say that this winter is coming sooner than usual and it will be a tough one. Here in Illinois, typically, the Halloween beetles (ladybugs) come out later in October by the zillions….however….this year they came out at least a month earlier which I have NEVER ever seen before. Do they know…maybe? Enjoy this marvelous weather and season!
I love Autumn too 🙂 such beautiful warm colours and I love the cosy atmosphere of Autumn but I can still go outside and enjoy the warmth of Autumn days with crisp air and cosy up in the early morning and in the evenings and snuggle under the covers at night