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We’re getting rested up from our seminar held this last weekend. We had fourteen people attend plus our oldest son, Bill and friend Eric who videotaped the whole thing. (We hope to make a DVD.) Then there were our two wonderful cooks, Linda and Jeri, who fed us all scrumptious home-cooked homestead meals every day.

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We had a busy weekend canning, processing chickens, learning about homestead tools and tax benefits, food storage, and a whole lot more. There were smiles galore. What a wonderful bunch of people! And we had folks from all over the country: Linda and Allan from Florida, Sheryl from Virginia, Deb from Ohio, Jose and Teresa from Texas, Jessi from Alaska, John and Mia from California and, of course, our Minnesota attendees — Melinda, Larry, Beverly, Phillip, and Katie. All are already talking about coming to next year’s seminar! We think we’ll be having two seminars so more folks can come too.

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Now, it’s back to canning as the garden is doing terrific. We were worried that we wouldn’t get any sweet corn or squash as our season was so late coming this spring. But with our scorching heat lately, I’m pretty sure we will harvest both. Whew! — Jackie

13 COMMENTS

  1. Jackie,
    You said in your seminar you talked about tax benefits. What tax benefits were they? Like selling your pigs and using the feed as a write off?
    Thanks Amber

  2. Hi Jackie and Will ~
    Thanks for the great Blog, pictures and write up about the Homesteaders weekend at your place !!
    We are from Ontario and hope to come to your retreat next year … In the meantime, if you do produce a video, we would like to buy one.
    We Love BWH magazine, and all of your great articles-everyone’s articles / info – just subscribed last year and what a Blessing it is !!!
    Thanks again, we bought your 8 pack of ASK JACKIE books last month as well, have learned so much from these too !
    re: next years HS Wknd, quick question, is there a motel etc near bye as we do not have a tent or camper …
    Much Thanks,
    Gods Blessings on You – Will etc !
    Sincerely, Peter & Tara <

  3. Joline,

    We’d be very happy to have you join us! We plan on having two seminars next year, one in June (?) and one in late August. Stay tuned for more information after we make plans.

  4. I am looking forward to retirement next May. I will be budgetting money so I can make your seminar. Really looking forward to it.

  5. I would just love being able to attend one of your seminars, but’s it’s not in the cards. Being able to buy a DVD would be wonderful! I wish I could be there to see your beautiful smile, and to make friends with all the good people there. It would be the experience of a life-time.

  6. DVD! Sounds like just what we need. So much to learn, so little time to learn it all. It must have been a good seminar, just look at the folk in the pictures…Congratulations

  7. Glad to see that your seminar went well, as evidenced by the smiles all around. If people are smiling while plucking a chicken it’s either something in the water or they are REALLLY having a good time!

  8. I an fairly good at cleaning chickens, I can have one ready to put in a jar in 12 to 15 minutes if I cold pack it, BUT I can pay some Amish friends $1.00 a piece to do it and they have the mess and I pay them extra because I hate to do it.

  9. Dear Jackie,
    In your vast experience in homesteading :), what type of meat animal would you recommend for a family of 6? We have fairly high meat needs (3 teenage boys)and lots of room for animals. With the rising price of feed, I’m not sure what would be my most efficient meat to food ratio. I know you have chickens, goats and cows.
    Any thoughts? Thanks!

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