The garden shop/gift shop is all gussied up for summer fun in the home and garden.
Dear Sisters,
Happy, happy summer! Ah, it’s finally here! What does summer mean to you? It’s different for everyone but I think we can all agree on one thing. There’s nothing like a trip to your favorite local garden shop to kick off summer in your home and garden. Follow me to Crystal Lake Garden Shop to see all the flora, fauna and flavorful Farmgirl fare and enter the garden shop GIVEAWAY!!! Continue reading
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.’”
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.
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 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.
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.”
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!
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”.
I sure had fun going through the garden shop.
I love the farm sayings that are on the signs! I am also intrigued by the locally made sodas. All of you look like you are having fun while you are working so hard
Oh wow! What a joy to work in a place like this! I’m a sucker for lovely crafted soaps. I’m also a sucker for wooden or tin signs, especially vintage- looking or that popular chalkboard style. I’ve been wanting some beeswax candles for the longest! Thank you for the tour of your shop and the generous givaway drawing.
So much to choose from – honey, for sure, love the aprons, napkins and towels, too!!!!
I can almost smell that soap! And you are right , it is package so cute. I love the country feel in this shop and how you girls have arranged it .!
What a fun posting and doesn’t that look like a fun place to work and visit…if I only lived closer. I’d pick the soap…very intriguing or maybe the lip balm.
Thanks for this sharing post and I hope all your summer dreams come true. Looking forward to a beach trip, next time.
Bunnies! The finishing touch to a fantastic garden / gift store.
that shop looks so inviting, wish I lived close enough to dream and look around in there! love all the signs, especially the wooden campers. the food looks so good and the honey! oh, it would be hard to nail down just one thing!
What a beautiful garden shop. It looks like such a wonderful and fun place to work. I would have to say my favorites from the shop would be the Milk House Candles and the Chasworth Farm Soap. I love to have candles going when guests come over or for special occasions and you make the goat milk soap sound divine! If I was visiting your shop today, I would also pick out the Farm Sweet Farm towel for my husband. It would be perfect to hang next to the sink where he washes his hands when he’s been outside all day. Cookies and Creme are adorable! Perfect new additions to the shop. Looking forward to seeing the beach next time!
summer brings us new selections of both vegetable and flowers along with wonderful Herbs, berries, etc. Each season wanting to try a new plant of some sort. One that will come back year after year. But most of all trying new recipes with these wonderful things I have grown for the summer. Many recipes are made to be enjoyed during the winter months, gifts for loved ones or just to try something new in the foods. I love new recipes and love gardening along with baking and cooking. I am so bless to live in CT with wonderful seasons. Most of all the people we enjoy with same interest. Happy learning!
Winnie Jackson
I love the crazy cat lady sign but it is misleading. It has more to do with the natural amount of crazy a person has than the amount of cats
I love it all. Love the signs LOVE THE BIKE. I’ve been looking for an old one to turn into a planter.
It definitely takes a farm girl to get things done and done right!
What a lovely shop! I could get lost in there. Beautiful pictures of the shop and items!
Oh how I wish I lived closer to your charming shop! I loved everything…lol! So much to see and savor! Thank- you for sharing! Hugs to Cookies and Creame!
WOW! I like everything! The aprons, soaps, signs and the lovely ladies working there! Last month I received two of the pancake/waffle mixes from house guests. First time to experience that brand, Yummy! Thanks for sharing, hope its a great summer for all of you! Blessings from the hills of Idaho.
Charming & adorable!!! I would love to browse & shop in this delightful store!!!
Now I want waffles! Lol. And the apron…
Everything looks awesome!
What a wonderful shop. If I lived close, I’m sure I would be visiting often. I’ve looked through your post a few times and each time I find something more interesting. So many wonderful things to wish (and shop) for.
Hi! I loved all of it! My favorites are the handmade wooden shelves (they look great! and I would love to learn how to work with wood like that, never too many shelves), the pottery in the shelves, I agree to live life like the gate was left open, that sign is awesome, loved LOVED the dishtowel with the purple flowers (Hydrangeas?) and the aprons (they are to die for). You all make me want to get busy and get things made! It does appear that I should be a beach farmgirl……I also love plants.
You have a beautiful shop! To be honest, I didn’t see anything that I don’t like, I just mentioned the key WoWs!
Thanks for sharing this post on Facebook. It’s full of all things farmgirl. Warms my heart! I know that you are right in your element at the garden shop, and that you add an element of sunshine!
Oh wow! I felt like I was there walking through the garden shop as I scrolled through , I worked at a garden center and it is so much harder than it looks, right?! I loved it though! Your chicken sign is happy fun and the aprons are dreamy! All of it stirred up memories and emotions of joy and contentment! The smiles on your faces and the fact that you all work harmoniously and enjoy it was delightful!
I love the pottery and the bike planter. I use to sell homemade soap my friend use to make in the early 90’s and it didn’t sell to well. I always said I was a head of my time for now I see it every where. Also sadly a lot of the nursery’s are closing around where I live, the one that was close to me closed a few years ago and the next closest one closed also.
I could spend hours just wandering in this garden shop.just looking at everything, enjoying everything. This looks like a place where everyone would feel so welcome. I especially loved the signs and linens. Oh and I can’t forget the bunnies. Such cuties.
I could live in that shop! Picking my favorite is very difficult, everything speaks to me. I especially like the cow sign that says “live life like someone left the gate open”. I also adore the glass drink canister and mason jar glasses with the red gingham lids. There is a saying that says something like “when you love what you do, it isn’t work” or something like that. It sure looks as though you all love what you do, and who could blame you. Thanks for the virtual shopping tour.
That wooden box of your local sodas made me gasp!!! I want one!!! This shop is adorable!! Deb, your sweet farmgirl touch shines through in these gorgeous pics. The cabinet you painted is perfect there. Thanks for sharing again. I missed it the first time. Yay for you and your hardworking crew.
Well not sure how o would choose my favorite. Love the wood camper and other signs. Soap and candles are always a happy addition to the home! Would love to be working along side you, sounds like a wonderful place to work.
Thanks for the virtual walk through of the adorable shop. Wish I could visit in person! The bunnies are my favorite, it’s always bunnies for me. Fortunately I have the most adorable rabbit as my furry friend. There were so many great items, like you, it’s hard to pick. I think the sentiment on the “money can’t buy happiness” sign is the favorite of the items showen. Hugs!
There are so many things to live in this shop but I keep going back to the signs.
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Love seeing the goat milk soaps – lilac? Wonderful 🙂 The sign ” Live life like they left the gate open ” Perfect!!
I sure wish I lived by the shop!! Lots of stuff I need! lol
I’m sure anything you give away so generously will be a delight to whomever wins. Thank you for sharing your story. Hugs!
What an amazing shop. I would never want to leave. The beautiful floral apron caught my eye. It looks like a garden. I also love the milk house candles.
What a beautiful shop.