Hello Folks!

Hope you are enjoying the start of the week!  Here are the goings on as of yesterday, March 7th:

If you missed it, we were joined on the Farm Show yesterday by the lovely Christine Lindemer, editor of True Cow Tales, and a story contributor to True Cow Tales, Roger Stoner.

They both discussed the making of True Cow Tales, which are basically first person accounts in dealing with cattle. The stories (and poetry), are funny, poignant, and pensive.  Stories of various “Dairy Princesses” and real life cow-boys and cow-girls abound, so if you love cows and cattle, this is the book for you!  You can order it online at Amazon.com, or from the main site: www.truecowtales.com.  You can also find so much more information on the book and Ms. Lindemer at www.truecowtales.com, so hop on over.

Here is their radio interview, by the way:

By the way Ms. Lindemer is CURRENTLY looking for NEW stories from people who have lived and worked with cattle, for the SECOND installment (i.e. sequel) to True Cow Tales, so if you are a writer, or someone who wants their cow stories in the book, you can email Christine directly with your story!  Please email:  crlindemer@gmail.com  or snail mail:

True Cow Tales

PO box 961

Groton, MA 01450

We thank Ms. Lindemer and Mr. Stoner for taking the time to talk to us about cows and literature! You can still catch the show by clicking on the little radio on the right-hand side of this post!

THEN, on THIS COMING SUNDAY’s SHOW (March14): Imagine moving to anentirely different part of the country that you drove through once, and fell inlove with? Imagine moving to the untamed West, and raising a coyote whilebuilding a farm? That’s just what Shreve Stockton did, and she wrote a book, and has a popular blog of the same name: “The Daily Coyote.” We’ll talk to her next week about her experiences in the wilds of Wyoming, so don’t miss out!

The Renegade Farmer Interviews shreve Stockton
March 14th, 6pm EST

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Meanwhile! Don’t forget that we have A PHOTO CONTEST still going on over at our FACEBOOK FANPAGE!  I’ve copied and pasted the details of the contest below, so hurry and get your photos!

You know we have a Facebook page, right? Sure you do! It’s over HERE, JUST CLICK, then come on back. While you’re at it, and you sort of like what you see, just click to become a fan (of course, it’s probably easier to do all that if you already have a Facebook account. But anyway)…. We’ll wait.

Ok, back yet? Right!  So if you clicked to become a fan–firstly, MANY thanks–but more importantly, you are now ELIGIBLE to be part of OUR NEW PHOTO CONTEST that starts TODAY, March 1st!

So here’s how this goes: You might’ve noticed that the PHOTO section on our Fan page is pretty threadbare. So we want to encourage YOU, and any other fans, to start posting photos. What better way to do that then to create a contest where you can win a wonderful gift package prize!

The theme of the contest– send us your best 3 photos that best describe the word “FARM.”

*It can be anything that can describe farm: you working on your farm, your farm kids, your cute farm pets, old pics of grandpa on the combine, your rooftop garden, making a great quilt–heck, you get the idea, right?

So here’s what you need to know:
1. The contest runs from March 1st – May 1st. That’ll give you plenty of time to take pictures, or get your pictures together.
2. From May 1 to June 1 we let the Facebook fans choose ONE winner.
3. You can submit up to 3 ORIGINAL PHOTOS. No copies, nothing taken from the internet, etc. These must be YOUR photos or photos in your family.
4. Please keep it clean, folks! No nudity, or explicit/offensive material will be accepted.
5. You MUST be a Facebook Fan to participate!
6. You can either upload the images directly on the facebook photo section of our fanpage or–if that seems to crazy or difficult–you can email it directly to US and we’ll post it, no worries. Just email up to 3 images to therenegadefarmer@gmail.com.

Remember! You have up until May 1st to get us your images!!

Now–for the prizes!

Your winner gets:

*$25 gift certificate to Target
*$10 to an organic seed company (still working on which)–
*Some packets of my own herbal seed collection–flowers, heirloom tomatoes, peppers, radishes and herbs
*The most recent issue of GRIT magazine.
*One homemade peach or pear jam and one jar of organic beeswax/verbena/almond oil skin softener from Aunt Elizabeth’s Peddlery.

…and some other stuff I might throw in there.  Does this sound like a deal?  Just let me know! feel free to email me, or send over your pics!

Until next time, Friends, have a great week!

xo

Zan