It’s my favorite time of year, Christmas! Fun with friends and family, holiday baking, decorating…such a joyful time, full of magic. Come share a wonderful, nostalgic holiday season!
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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”.
Kids who grow up and quit believing in Santa probably spend their whole life wondering what is missing from their world and all they have to do is keep believing.
Your glamper is fab.
Hi Marlene, Well said! I believe in Santa!
Decorating the glamper has been fun. We will be putting her cover on soon for the rest of winter, but I will be enjoying her through the holidays! Thanks for reading and commenting! Farmgirl Hugs, Nicole
Oh my goodness! How pretty are your pictures! Thank you so much for sharing this! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
Hi Ramona, thank you so much…so glad you enjoyed the post. Merry Christmas and Happy New year! Farmgirl Hugs, Nicole
Thanks for sharing such good memories! Blessings!
Hi Shirley, Thank you so much. Have a wonderful holiday season. Farmgirl Hugs, Nicole
I read a comment earlier this week that made me chuckle….”When you stop believing in Santa, you get underwear for Christmas.” I love your pictures and all the vintage decorations. And your little Gidget is adorable. I found an old sled at our local florist a few weeks ago and was so excited to be able to use it in my decorations. Merry Christmas!
Hi Rebecca, Wasn’t that cute, the “underwear” comment? Made me smile, too. How exciting to find that sled! They are such wonderful ways to decorate! Enjoy!Merry Christmas! Farmgirl Hugs, Nicole
Merry Christmas! as usual I love seeing your “old” decorations, they are beautiful!
Hi Denise, Thank you…Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! Farmgirl Hugs, Nicole
Thanks for sharing your nostalgic Christmas. Loved it!
Hi Diane, thank you so much! Merry Christmas! Farmgirl Hugs, Nicole
I always enjoy your posts, such a positive message. Love the pictures of you and your family and the dog looks so sweet. Merry Christmas : ))
Hi Donna, Oh thank you so much! I am so glad you liked the post. The doggie is my sweet boy, Odin, who is just a year old. This will be his first Christmas and we can’t wait for Santa Paws to arrive this year! 😉 Farmgirl Hugs, Nicole
Nostalgia is one of my favorite things, this was great fun! Merry Christmas to y’all! God bless
Hi Joan, Merry Christmas, sweet farmgirl! Hope you have a wonderful season. Thank you for being such a loyal reader! Farmgirl Hugs, Nicole
I love this blog and happy your memories were so good as my little girl. Carmine’s looks like a beautiful restaurant! Your camper looks so inviting. Great family picture.
Love you.
Mother
Thanks Mama, and thank you for always making Christmas so special. Love you, Nicole
I am so jealous right now! I love the Macey’s Thanksgiving Day Parade! We watch it on TV every year and I have for as long as I can remember. My oldest enjoyed watching the balloons, but really thought it was cool to see Santa. I would love to take a trip there in the future sometime, especially while my babies are still kids. All your Christmas decorations are perfect. I love the older style of Christmas decorations including the colors. All the new pinks, bright blues, non traditional Christmas colors just don’t work for me. I love sticking with the traditional dark red and greens. I even have a few decorations that use to belong to my grandmother. They add the perfect touch and sentiment to my holiday season. May you and your family have a Merry Christmas and a wonderful New Year!
Hi Krista, Thank you! How special that you have some of your grandmother’s decorations! How wonderful. I agree, I like the “old” colors and “traditional” style of decor for Christmas. If you do make a trip to NYC, you must also see the Rockefeller Center tree and try to go see the Rockettes Christmas show. After the show, Santa greets the children. Merry Christmas! Farmgirl Hugs, Nicole
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