#farmwife — Public Fediverse posts

I wasn't around Cousin Kendra most of her growing up years, but it's wonderful to reconnect now that she's a farm-wife with a career, a family and many animals. #farmwife #nurse #farm #farmanimals #horses #cousins #family #relatives #mom #mother #medicalprofessional

Before we moved from Texas, I was an IT freelancer but I have completely retired from IT and am a full time #farmwife responsible for 105 acres of high desert land. I'm still very new to farming, #homesteading, and #animalHusbandry, but I've been #gardening and #growingThings for a very long time and I feel like #landStewardship is something I was meant to do. Part of the beauty of the journey I'm on is unlocking the #ancestralKnowledge that capitalism & colonialism has stolen from us.

#December 17, 1901
#OTD Rachel #Peden, #Indiana #Writer & #Naturalist, is born.

She wrote:
#Rural Free: A #Farmwife's #Almanac of #Country Living (1961)
Speak to the #Earth (1974)
The #Land, the People (1966), Indiana #University #Author #Award #Winner

When I was researching Rachel, I #Found her #FindAGrave #Memorial, which ends with these #Words:

Find A Grave has determined that Rachel does not meet their #Criteria for being #Famous,
but they are #Wrong.

#Remember Her

#December 17, 1901
#OTD Rachel Peden, #Indiana #Writer, is born.

Her #Father was a #Fruit #Farmer, & she called him "the #Orchardist" in her #Writing.

A self-described #Hoosier #Farmwife, Rachel's #Byline was "Mrs. RFD" (for "Rural Free Delivery"). Her columns in The #Indianapolis Star & The #Muncie Evening News charmed readers with stories about #Nature & #Farm #Life.

She wrote:

"[I #Love] the #Therapy of working in [the #Garden] & my #Neighbors from the #Natural #World that I meet there."