with a book! (so what else is new LOL)
MaryJane Butters has written the book that I sooo *wish* I had written: MaryJane’s Ideabook-Cookbook-Lifebook: For the Farmgirl in All of Us. It’s filled with gardening information, sewing and cooking and crafts, even games for kids like jumprope ditties. I was so thrilled as I showed hubby the page on “Growing Your Own Gasoline”. (See, we wouldn’t need to rely on other countries’ oil if all of us did that! When you think about it that way, world peace isn’t that big of a leap anymore!) Man oh man what I wouldn’t give for a week with my family at MaryJane’s farm. Better yet take one of their courses and have *our* own farm. I stayed up ’til 2 this morning to read this book from cover to cover. WOOOOOWWWW. (Oooh, and ignorant me, I didn’t even know she already had a show on the Food Network — I first heard of MaryJane Butters when I was doing all this research into organic food and farmily — whoa typo, but it works, I meant “farming families”!)
…sigh…
That and Monty Don’s The Complete Gardener — the book that drummed the mantra into my head (and hubby’s via my mouth) “Two acres! Just two acres! That’s all I’d need!”…. both on my bedside table right now…
…. it’s enough to make a girl want to weep. And actually *want* to subscribe to cable after YEEEEARS of refusing to let that animal into the house!
Now, I’ve read the magazine and seen a little on the Food Network, but I did not know about this book–and I did NOT need to know about it because I have 2 books I’m in the middle of right now and I’m not getting anything done, LOL. This book sounds awesome. Thanks for posting about it.
I would LOOOVEEE 2 acres too….. *sigh* even a non paved back courtyard would be nice
Hi Stef,
I just wanted to thank you for visiting my blog and leaving such a nice comment. I love links–the more the merrier. Am looking forward to reading more of your posts. Oh, so many blogs and recipes–so little time! 🙂