Beauty Farming Life

It's the holiday season and time for giving, so we're going to have a giveaway! A couple of weeks back, I blogged HERE about starting our composting adventure for the farm.  I found this book the other day at lunch and since it's geared toward beginners, I bought two so that we could give one away. This is the GREEN GUIDES edition of COMPOST by Rachel Strauss.   It covers 'how to use', 'how to make', 'everyday tips', 'why we should compost', 'what you can and can't put on your heap', 'different types of bins', and more. It's 256 pages long and full of information. So who wants to join us on a composting adventure? As always, and for those new to the blog, the rules are as follows : You need to be a "friend of the farm" (follower) and then leave a comment here on this thread letting me know that you want to be entered, because after all, it might be a book you already have. T...

I'm thinking it's time for a blog giveaway! Everyone has been so kind to us that it's time to pay it forward. I've got some ideas, but today while I'm on the big green zen machine mowing the weed forest , weed jungle ,  yard around the farm, I'm going to let it rattle around in my head for a few hours and morph into something. Check back periodically over the next week or so and see what I come up with. OK, off to Seda Bolsa, see you back here later today/tonight with an update on the progress I hopefully made in the yard after two weeks of nonstop rain.

We interrupt our regular "Friday Funny" feature to announce a winner.  We drew from all the names of everyone who asked to be entered and the winner of the gardening book for the September giveaway is... 2 Tramps! Click  HERE  to visit their great blog.  Hooray! In the meantime, will one of the tramps (LOL) please email me directly and let me know where to ship your book and I'll get that out to you soon.  Congratulations! If you didn't win, don't give up (*cough, John, cough*), we're going to do this every month so check back.  In a few days , the next book that will be up for grabs (a cookbook) will be posted. Thank you to everyone who entered!

Martha White's Southern Sampler - book giveaway For this month, we're giving away a great cookbook! It's the Martha White (makers of flour and other baking products) Southern Sampler.  It features ninety years of baking tradition with recipes ranging from biscuits to yeast rolls to chicken pot pie to cornbread to cakes to cobblers and everything in between. 222 pages and over 300 favorite Southern recipes. As usual, the rules are the same, be a friend of the farm (follower) and leave a comment here on this thread that you want to be entered.  The contest will run until the end of the month and then I'll randomly pick a name.  Open to everyone, even those in other countries. Thanks and good luck! COMMENTS NOW CLOSED, DRAWING HELD SOON!

Then winner of our October giveaway is none other than "Annie's Granny" of the amazing gardening blog  Annies Kitchen Garden .  If you haven't visited her blog, you should, tons of gardening wisdom from her amazing gardens (over 1000 lbs harvested this year!). Not to mention, she's just a sweet person. Just email me Granny and we'll exchange particulars and I'll get your book out in the mail later this week. Congratulations!  Now let's see some baking posts later this year! Everyone else who entered, don't give up, we're having a book giveaway every single month and this weekend, I'll be posting the next book that's up for grabs.