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MaryJane Butters’ sense of purpose is as big as the Idaho landscape where her organic farm is nestled She wants nothing less than to reconnect us all with the food we eat and the heritage of farming that belongs to all of us, and nothing more than to empower and encourage rural women everywhere ... she is cultivating not just a farm but a philosophy of living. — Body & Soul

Carpenter, waitress, janitor, upholsterer, secretary, milkmaid, wilderness ranger, environmental activist, entrepreneur–the founder of MaryJanesFarm has worn many hats in her day, but none more proudly than that of modern-day farmgirl. Speaking to the farmgirl in all of us, MaryJane Butters offers a captivating introduction to the organic lifestyle, resurrects forgotten domestic arts, and shares lessons gleaned from her diverse background and two decades of life as an Idaho farmer.

Whether you simply need encouragement to embrace a more authentic, wholesome lifestyle or you’re looking for guidance on building a greenhouse, chopping firewood, hosting a town event, caring for a flock of chickens, making your own butter, growing a winter salad, or choosing a water filter, MaryJane’s Ideabook, Cookbook, Lifebook is both an inspiration and a practical road map for farmgirls of all stripes.


Dreams are MaryJane Butters’ business, and she has always pursued them without pausing to consult conventional wisdom.
— House & Garden

MaryJane Butters, a natural teacher, has a gift for simplification, and makes it seem that everything she does is easy and attainable.
— The New Yorker
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The Chicago Tribune has called MaryJane Butters “the leader of the farmgirl pack”—and magazines from Country Living to CondeNast Traveler recognize her as the Martha Stewart of a growing movement that combines old fashioned values with modern living. She publishes her own magazine, produces her own line of organic foods, runs a gourmet B&B and a farm school—and is simply amazing. Here is her wisdom, her creative ideas, and her inspiration for all.

Atomic Farmgirl is a wise, irreverent, deeply personal story of growing up right in the wrong place. The granddaughter of German Lutheran homesteaders, Teri Hein was raised in the 1950s and 1960s in rural eastern Washington. This starkly elegant landscape serves as the poignant backdrop to her story, for one hundred miles to the south of this idyllic, all-American setting lay the toxins — both mental and physical — of the Hanford Nuclear Reservation. From horseback riding to haying, Flag Day parades to Cold War duck-and-cover drills, Atomic Farmgirl chronicles a peculiar coming of age for a young girl and her community of hardworking, patriotic folk, whose way of life — and livelihood — are gradually threatened by the poisons of progress. Combining a profoundly tender story of youth with politics and an unmistakable sense of place, Teri Hein has written a memoir that is part Terry Tempest Williams, part Erin Brockovich, part Garrison Keillor. In the end, she offers a rich and ribald journey into the universal mysteries of childhood, love, community, and home, a journey that confirms humankind's infinite capacity for hope..
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Are you a tenacious, hardworking, can-do, will-do, stick-to-it kind of gal? If so, you’re a farmgirl at heart. Sprinkled with seeds of wisdom from MaryJane Butters–America’s organic lifestyle maven–this lined journal offers fresh inspiration for enjoying life’s simple pleasures, celebrating a job well-done, and reconnecting with others.

160 pages (lined), 6 x 8 inches, with a concealed wire-o binding.
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Created by MaryJane’s Farm, these beautiful note cards celebrate the simple pleasures of rural living.

16 note cards, 4 each of 4 designs, with 17 envelopes, 4 3/8 x 5 7/8 inches, in a lidded, two-piece box

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In the Midwestern United States, blankets of wheat, alfalfa and corn stretch as far as the eye can see. Farmers till the rich soil and harvest its abundance to feed a nation. This is a region where family values and respect for God and country are instilled in citizens from childhood. It was here, growing up in America's heartland, that Bettie Youngs learned the many values of family life: love, respect, honor, loyalty and self discipline, among others. Told here in loving detail are nostalgic stories recollected from Youngs' life--a rich tapestry that allows us to share in the warmth and balance of a principle--centered life.

Youngs' life in a large family was not without difficulties, yet through these value-laden stories she shows us how challenging times, when leavened with love and support, can provide strength of character, courage and leadership.


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In THE FARMGIRL POEMS, winner of the 2004 Pearl Poetry Prize, Elizabeth Oakes looks back to the mid-twentieth century and her childhood on a farm in rural Kentucky, to “that land now only in my memory.” That land becomes a vital, living force in these poems, inseparable from everything that lives and grows there and from the people who work and draw sustenance from it: her father who “took the world, slit it open, and gave it to us,” her mother whose “hands were folded leaves that opened and bore and gave.” Taking us back to the source of all that feeds and sustains us, Oakes shows us the passing of an American way of life with a straight-forward simplicity that’s as genuine and powerful as it is moving..
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