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June, 2010
Dear MaryJane ...
I love how MaryJanesFarm is filled with rich content from the real lives of all sorts of people and has very little advertising. I love how the magazine is laid out in sections, sort of like a binder, so that you always know where to go to find that something special. I love the recycled paper feel and touch and how pretty the magazine is with its scrapbook paper backgrounds, quotes, and curlicue font styles here and there. Mostly, I love how inspired I have become since finding MaryJanesFarm and how much of myself I have uncovered since reading it. Plain and simple, I think the magazine will have a huge effect on the healing of our country—with all of us farmgirls scattered about but “together in spirit,” passing out goodwill and good ideas and sharing our creative talents. MaryJanesFarm even brings out the patriot in me! It reminds me of the America I grew up in and pine for all at the same time. One issue at a time, MaryJanesFarm brings us all a little closer to home. The blogs are great too! They offer a wonderful way to keep the farmgirl spirit alive between issues! I try not to read my entire magazine in one sitting, but it is hard!!!
Deb
Massachusetts
A MaryJanesFarm magazine from the counter of a West Virginia Tractor Supply store led me on many unexpected journeys. “Indoor Square-inch Gardening“ gave me inspiration on what to do with plastic containers I couldn’t recycle, then led me to remember my grandmother putting seeds into old bread pans, wooden boxes, plastic-coated milk cartons, and any other thing she could repurpose. In my mind’s eye, I saw my mother setting tiny plants in a “cold frame”—a raised bed constructed from scrap timber, filled with rich topsoil, and topped with an old window. In a very few minutes, my mind journeyed through the planting, growing, and harvesting of a farm garden. But my sentimental journey is all in my memories. Mother and Grandmother are both gone, and my garden patch is miniscule compared to what they had in 1950. In fact, a few failed attempts at gardening had convinced me that my tiny acre in the city limits would not grow anything. And for 28 years, we attempted to grow only a few flowers with varying degrees of success, until I carelessly threw out some sunflower seeds that I had stored in a cabinet for years. They sprouted and grew and grew, and produced giant flowers larger than my largest dinner plate! “Now, what did Grandmother do with sunflowers?” I thought. I remembered shelling the seeds off the huge heads she brought from the garden. My journey of memories has brought me full circle—I am now the age of my grandmother, 61, and my daughter is the age of my mother, 31. And today, we are going to harvest a crop of sunflower seeds.
Donna
West Virginia
I just received my first issue of your magazine, and it’s wonderful ... yet wonderful does not describe what I truly feel—it’s amazing! I have taken it to bed and have a hard time putting it down to go to sleep. Even my husband picked it up and was interested in it. He’s the gardener; I’m the quilter. I have not had a magazine that I subscribe to, except for a quilting magazine, in years. Thanks for a great find!
Cathie
Texas
