Maid-N-Meadows Update

         

Cara Bonita

                     Fall is in the air and the farm is buzzing with activity! Cheese making has been an exciting adventure and while absolutely exhausted from the grind, enthusiasm has yet to wane. There are too many cheeses to attempt to make and too many cheeses we have yet to even try. Our learning curve is just beginning and we hope it never ends. The cheese making world is ripe with curiosities!
       Jake is milking his goat and sheep as we prepare to experiment with making soap. We are looking for ways to finance these critters while we wait for the flock to be large enough to be worth milking commercially. Our goal is to try and make some felted soap with our milk and wool. Anyone ever try some of this?

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       The goats are looking to start their kidding season in a few weeks and we look forward to cuddling those cute critters! Barn clean out is in full swing and repairs on feeders and fencing are underway.
                           

       We lost a bee hive this summer to wax moths and we think we are about to lose another. We started the summer with 3 and it looks like we will end the summer with 3 as well.
       It is hard to manage everything and we admit to falling short all over the farm this summer. It is only possible to fit in so much.....time is in short supply. But Lord willing, the fall season will allow us to salvage a few things. The most desperate thing we need right now is HAY!

Calling Isolated Conservative Quakers

         Nine years ago, upon reading the precepts of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), we knew we had found our own peculiar home. In reading these precepts, our inner knowing answered back. Christ is our foundation, and the light that lights every man. His words, along with his spirit, light our path. Our testimonies of simplicity, peace, integrity, community, equality, and stewardship, remind us of the lessons of our Lord and remind us to act on those lessons in practical ways.

"Worshipping in Spirit and in Truth"

         Though we seek to blend with others, we have a distinctly unique calling or message. And while we encourage all to follow the Light they have been given, we too seek encouragement for the Light we have been given.
          We are always seeking fellowship! Infact, that is how this blog came to be. Because we know not where others are, we seek to let others learn where we are!

          Fellowship has so many blessings! Let us see if we may walk together!    

Hebrews 10:24-25

And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:

Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.

                                            
                                                Proverbs 27:17
    Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.

     We feel sure there are others like us. We wish there was some way that isolated Friends could network with one another easily. Just knowing other families are out there and visiting when opportunity allows would take some of the isolation away.
      As of now, we love to encourage our friends in Christ as we travel along the path the Lord has lit for each one and continue to wait upon the Lord. 
       If you are interested in Quaker meetings in your area then check out these maps! Regardless, may the Lord bless you on your journey!