Below are the Merit Badges that were approved this week. Congratulations Sisters!!!!
Debbie Klann, 770, debbieklann
Expert Stitching & Crafting / UFOs
Nancy Joplin, 8352, Nancy Joplin
Intermediate Garden Gate / The Good, Bad, and Ugly … Bugs
Expert Garden Gate / Putting Away for Winter
Tina VanDaam, 8341, tinatina
Intermediate Farm Kitchen / MaryJane’s Better Butter
Below are the Merit Badges that were approved in the last two weeks. Congratulations Sisters!
Debbie Klann, 770, debbieklann
Beginner Make It Easy / Furniture Makeover
Intermediate Stitching & Crafting / Buttoned Up
Expert Stitching & Crafting / Buttoned Up
Expert Make It Easy / Grease Chicks
Intermediate Farm Kitchen / Forage for Food
Expert Farm Kitchen / Forage for Food
Expert Stitching & Crafting / Cross-Stitch
Expert Farm Kitchen / Food Allergy Awareness
Intermediate Farm Kitchen / Food Allergy Awareness
Beginner Farm Kitchen / Food Allergy Awareness
Expert Outpost / First Aid
Beginner Each Other / Little Squirts
Beginner Garden Gate / The Good, Bad, and Ugly … Bugs
Beginner Outpost / Geography
Intermediate Outpost / Geography
Expert Outpost / Geography
Beginner Cleaning Up / Path to Zero Waste
Beginner Cleaning Up / Staying Green
Intermediate Cleaning Up / Staying Green
Rea Nakanishi, 8284, Lacey
Intermediate Make It Easy / Carp-hen-try
Expert Stitching & Crafting / Buttoned Up
Emily Lam, 2951,alterationsbyemily
Beginner Cleaning Up / My Fair Farmgirl
Beginner Each Other / Community Action
Beginner Cleaning Up / Leave It Better Than You Found It
Beginner Cleaning Up / Path to Zero Waste
Expert Each Other / Entrepreneurial Spirit
Intermediate Each Other / Entrepreneurial Spirit
Beginner Each Other / Entrepreneurial Spirit
Beginner Each Other / Farmgirl Jubilee
Beginner Each Other / Languages/Culture
Beginner Cleaning Up / Home Insulation
Terri Reynolds, 8042, Tchr66
Beginner Cleaning Up / Green Energy
Beginner Cleaning Up / Recycling
Intermediate Cleaning Up / Recycling
Expert Cleaning Up / Recycling
Beginner Cleaning Up / Shopping Green
Nancy Joplin, 8352, Nancy Joplin
Beginner Garden Gate / The Good, Bad, and Ugly … Bugs
Intermediate Each Other / Bibliophile Badging
Below are the Merit Badges that were approved today. Congratulations Sisters!
Rea Nakanishi, Lacey, 8284
Expert Outpost / Disconnect to Reconnect
Terri Reynolds, Tchr, 8042
Intermediate Cleaning Up / Leave It Better Than You Found It
Below is the Merit Badge that was recently approved. Congratulations Candy!
Candy Hogan, 8283, Tigger9777
Expert Each Other / Differing Abilities
Below are the Merit Badges that were recently approved. Congratulations Sisters!
Nancy Joplin, 8352, Nancy Joplin
Intermediate Stitching & Crafting / Pottery/Ceramics
Expert Stitching & Crafting / Pottery/Ceramics
Intermediate Garden Gate / Rootin’ Tootin
Intermediate Each Other / Lost Art of Letter Writing
Rachel Scott, 8515, raynaylor (rayscott)
Beginner Farm Kitchen / Get It Together
Intermediate Farm Kitchen / Get It Together
Expert Farm Kitchen / Get It Together
Linda Bowlby, 7595, Illinois Farmher
Intermediate Each Other / Calligraphy
Intermediate Stitching & Crafting / UFOs
Beginner Outpost / Geography
Beginner Each Other / Calligraphy
Krista Davis, 528, MaryJanesNiece
Intermediate Make It Easy / Macrame
Beginner Stitching & Crafting / Buttoned Up
Terri Reynolds, 8042, Tchr66
Beginner Cleaning Up / Leave It Better Than You Found It
Wanda Aldridge, 3677, Wanda Sue
Beginner Stitching & Crafting / UFOs
Susan Wich, 7816, sueWPA
Beginner Stitching & Crafting / Crochet
Candy Hogan, 8283, Tigger9777
Expert Outpost Disconnect to Reconnect
Shennandoah Connor, 8578, Shennandoah
Beginner Each Other / Lost Art of Letter Writing
Beginner Garden Gate / Gaining Ground
Intermediate Farm Kitchen / Canning
Intermediate Cleaning Up / Living Zero Waste
Below are recently approved Merit Badges. Congratulations Sisters!
Jacque Felsheim, #8294, Mamasheim
Beginner Cleaning Up / Shopping Green
Beginner Farm Kitchen / Get It Together
Beginner Garden Gate / The Good, Bad, and Ugly … Bugs
Intermediate Garden Gate / The Good, Bad, and Ugly … Bugs
Beginner Stitching & Crafting / Sew Wonderful
Beginner Stitching & Crafting / Aprons
Beginner Garden Gate / Backyard Farmer
Beginner Each Other / Farmgirl Gratitude
Beginner Stitching & Crafting / Buttoned Up
Patricia Krug, #8551, patty
Beginner Garden Gate / The Secret Life of Bees
Intermediate Garden Gate / The Secret Life of Bees
Shennandoah Connor, #8578, shennandoah
Expert Garden Gate / Birds
Expert Garden Gate / Bee Good To Your Mother Earth
Intermediate Garden Gate / The Good, Bad, and Ugly … Bugs
Intermediate Garden Gate / Heirlooms Forever!
Intermediate Garden Gate / The Secret Life of Bees
Expert Garden Gate / Water Management
Beginner Garden Gate / Putting Away for Winter
Beginner Farm Kitchen / Recipes
Expert Garden Gate / The Good, Bad, and Ugly … Bugs
Intermediate Make It Easy / Grease Chicks
Beginner Each Other / Differing Abilities
Beginner Farm Kitchen / Know Your Food
Beginner Farm Kitchen / Bread Making
Beginner Farm Kitchen / Canning
Beginner Farm Kitchen / Food Allergy Awareness
Beginner Cleaning Up / Green Energy
Stacey Mitchell, #6969
Intermediate Stitching & Crafting / Aprons
Tina VanDaam, #8431, TinaTina
Intermediate Outpost / First Aid
Expert Garden Gate / The Secret Life of Bees
Here are Merit Badges that were recently approved.
Congratulations Sisters!
Merit Badges Approved 6/3/24 and 6/6/24
Maverin Dei, #8653, MaverinDei
Beginner Each Other / Lost Art of Letter Writing
Jennifer Chapman, #8562, JenniferAnn
Beginner Garden Gate / What’s Your Beef?
Candy Hogan, #8283, Tigger9777
Beginner Outpost / Disconnect to Reconnect
Intermediate Outpost / Disconnect to Reconnect
Linda Bowlby, #7595
Beginner Outpost / First Aid
Intermediate Outpost / First Aid
Here are Merit Badges that were recently approved.
Congratulations Sisters!
Merit Badges Approved 5/28/24 and 5/29/24
Cindy Kinion, #6058, AussieChick
Intermediate Make It Easy / Candlemaking
Expert Farm Kitchen / Food Allergy Awareness
Heather Neeper, #4701, nndairy
Expert Cleaning Up / Shopping Green
Beginner Farm Kitchen / Bustin’ Out
Beginner Outpost / Orienteering
Beginner Outpost / Buzzin’ Around
Intermediate Outpost / Buzzin’ Around
Expert Outpost / Buzzin’ Around
Expert Cleaning Up / Recycling
Tiffany Bowman, #8644, HistoryGirl17
Beginner Make It Easy / Relaxation
Beginner Each Other / Lost Art of Letter Writing
Lily-anne Hein, #6071, GinghamGirl
Beginner Farm Kitchen / Palate Pleasers
Intermediate Farm Kitchen / Palate Pleasers
Jessie Yonkovit, #134, JessieMae
Beginner Cleaning Up / Green Energy
Here are Merit Badges that were recently approved.
Congratulations Sisters!
Merit Badges Approved 4/24/24 and 5/1/24
Jill Yelland-DeMooy, #6748, jillyd
Beginner Garden Gate / Birds
Kellie Wade, #8487, kelliewade
Beginner Make It Easy / Let’s Get Physical
Intermediate Make It Easy / Let’s Get Physical
Beginner Outpost / Buzzin’ Around
Intermediate Outpost / Buzzin’ Around
Merit Badges Approved 5/7/24
Krista Davis, #528, MaryJanesNiece
Intermediate Each Other / Lost Art of Letter Writing
Expert Each Other / Lost Art of Letter Writing
Beginner Stitching & Crafting / Mosaics
Beginner Make It Easy / Macrame
Hannah Frankowski, #6994, GinnyBelle
Beginner Make It Easy / Mindfulness Meditation
Intermediate Make It Easy / Mindfulness Meditation
Expert Make It Easy / Mindfulness Meditation
Beginner Cleaning Up / Leave It Better Than You Found It
Expert Each Other / Lost Art of Letter Writing
Expert Make It Easy / Relaxation
Debbie Klann, #770, debbieklann
Beginner Farm Kitchen / Kitchen Renegade
Intermediate Farm Kitchen / Kitchen Renegade
Expert Farm Kitchen / Kitchen Renegade
Beginner Farm Kitchen / MaryJane’s Better Butter
Intermediate Farm Kitchen / MaryJane’s Better Butter
Expert Farm Kitchen / MaryJane’s Better Butter
A second sampling of snail-mail Book Talk letters I’ve received with my replies and the books they recommend for us to read.
Dear MaryJane, I love your magazines! Just wanted to let you know I have read four of Kathleen Shoop’s books as advertised in your magazine and greatly enjoyed them. Oh wait, now I remember, I think I have actually read eight of them 😊 The library here in Florida doesn’t have all of them. I’m anxiously waiting and hoping they will soon. Blessings to you! A wife and mom, Rachel Byler
Dear Rachel, Thank you for sharing with me that you have read eight of Kathleen Shoop’s books. That’s quite a few! I am delighted to hear this. I, too, love to read because it’s so incredibly calming, and it transports us to other worlds and lives. I hope your Florida library will add to its collection and you will have opportunities to read more of her books. I am so very happy to hear that you love my magazine. With love and admiration, MaryJane
Dear MaryJane, I was so happy to see the section on donating books to various groups! That is awesome. Since I have no computer to submit on-line, I am using the “old-fashioned” method. Thank you for that option. One of my favorite books, and author, is Country Chronicle, by Gladys Tabor. She writes about Stillmeadow in a Connecticut farmhouse, and all the seasons of the year while living there. It is a calming, peaceful book to read, as Gladys captured her home, land, and wildlife living there. She has a way of telling just how things are. You can almost smell the iris and picture the landscape there at Stillmeadow. I get her book every year or so from our local library, to enjoy her “story telling” of her adventures there. Hope you might get time to look it up, and perhaps be able to read her book. I really think you would like it, and her writing. There are even recipes in the book, and she also wrote cookbooks! Thank you again, Sandy Riley
Dear Sandy, you have certainly caught my attention with your description of Stillmeadow by Gladys Tabor. I love wildlife living and my irises are getting ready to bloom on my property along Iris Lane! I’m looking out the window at my prairie as I write this and think I need to curl up with a cup of tea and a copy of Country Chronicle. An apple pie baking in the oven would also sound great. Thank you for sharing and when I have some spare time I’ll try to read it. With love and admiration, MaryJane
Dear MaryJane, I have read the February-March issue of MaryJanes Farm and particularly enjoyed the article on books. I love books and love to read and have many of the selections listed in the Farmgirl Book Club. I must tell you that my library does not always purchase many of the books you list but I have managed to read several. These are books I have read during the winter here in northern Arizona (February 2024): Where the Jessamine Grows by Donna Everhart. This was well-written and researched and covered a tense period in our nation’s history. There was excellent character development, as well as a captivating story line that held my attention. It doesn’t matter where a war is fought, or for what reason, it leaves long-lasting scars and doesn’t necessarily address or solve the issues over which it was fought. Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garamus. This was set in my era of high school of the 1950s and I could totally relate to the story line. I really enjoy mysteries and Survive the Night by Riley Sager fit the bill. Another of his titles, The House Across the Lake was even better. Super Cats by Ashley Morgan is all about cats and not just about their antics but also about their ability to be protectors – a good book. A Brilliant Life by Rachelle Unreich. She writes a hard to believe memoir regarding her mother’s survival of the Holocaust and death camps. Keep up the good work – I always find something new that I can use in each issue. Maybe one of these days I will make it to your farm. Sincerely, Therese Gribbins P.S. I am not on Facebook – but I do text and have an email account.
Dear Therese, I am delighted that you are sharing with me your love of books! I am also delighted to learn that you have read many of the selections listed in the Farmgirl Book Club! Thank you for sharing that you always find something new in each issue of the magazine. I love to provide new information, so this warms my heart.The daffodils are blooming on the farm. You should see them; they are abundant and lovely. Soon, the irises will be in bloom, and I can’t wait. With love and admiration, MaryJane
Buy props used in MaryJane’s books and magazine!
5% of profits will benefit www.firstbook.org, a non-profit that provides new books to children from low-income families throughout the U.S. and Canada.
Here’s how:
MaryJane will post a photo and a description of a prop and its cost along with a few details as to its condition here: https://shop.maryjanesfarm.org/MaryJanesCurations. It’s a playful way to be the new owner of a little bit of farm herstory.
