A Fun Farmgirls Gathering

Gail  invited us all out to her house for a relaxing evening under the stars.. We enjoyed  a warm campfire and delicious meal of   delicious  soup and stuffed pumpkin. The recipes were from this months issue Mary Janes Farm Magazine. We love these get togethers and have many planned and inpromptu gatherings.

Gail had been busy. Her  new gazebo was decorated in great fall fashion and  the firepit warmed our spirits.

Thanks Gail.. You and Faith were gracious hostesses!

Mother hen

Lesson on earning badges

Today Gail and Cheryl showed a few girls how they could apply for and earn their MaryJane merit badges. Surprisingly enough, the girls already have several they can apply for. Once we started going over some of the requirements, many had already accomplished them. Now all they have to do is go onto the MJ forum and apply.

It was a lot of fun to sit and go over the many badges we could earn and spirits were lifted to want to complete more. They were shown how to trace their earned badges and how they could decorate them to place onto a bag, jacket or whatever their choosing. Some already know how to embroider and others will be shown at our next meeting by Robin.

Fall is here

With Fall in the air it was time to pull up our farmgirl garden.

Susan had graciously lent her yard for whatever us farmgirls wanted to plant. So with many seeds and starters later, we were able to fill all the beds with loads of goodies for everyone.

Although a lot of our tomatoes did not get a chance to ripen, we did manage to find ways to use them up.




Once we picked all we could from the garden beds, we set out to can up a few jars of Green Tomato Salsa Verde. So Susan showed a few of us how to go about it.

We each had our hands full of slicing and dicing and adding all kinds of things to the pot. It smelled wonderful.

Once it was cooked down to just the right texture, it was placed into canning jars and water bathed.

After putting up several jars and cleaning up, we saw that we still had several more buckets of green tomatoes, peppers and squash. All we could do was tell all the girls to come and get them. We were done canning for now.

This is just another way us farmgirls are getting ready to settle in for the Winter by putting up some of the hard work we did all Summer.