{"id":4494,"date":"2014-12-23T12:27:13","date_gmt":"2014-12-23T17:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=4494"},"modified":"2014-12-23T12:27:13","modified_gmt":"2014-12-23T17:27:13","slug":"were-taking-applications-for-a-summer-apprentice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2014\/12\/23\/were-taking-applications-for-a-summer-apprentice\/","title":{"rendered":"We’re taking applications for a summer apprentice"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since our seed business has grown by leaps and bounds \u2026 as has our homestead, we’ve decided we could use some help this spring, summer, and fall and am offering an apprenticeship to a person (or couple).<\/p>\n

You would be working hard, planting, tilling, helping fence, take care of animals, haying, and general homestead chores. In exchange, you’ll get a whole summer’s worth of homesteading seminar. Free. We’ll teach you all we know or you want to learn. We’ll also provide a private bedroom in our home, meals and some time off each week to enjoy the Minnesota Northwoods.<\/p>\n

Do remember that we are off grid, don’t watch a lot of TV, or play video games, etc. We would like to find a person who does enjoy working and will do so happily. We are not slave drivers, but do have plenty to do most days. If you are interested, contact us at jackieclay2007[at]yahoo.com and we’ll talk.<\/p>\n

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\nWe’re really happy that now we have a freezer plumb full of wonderful, naturally-raised pork, chicken and beef. Right after the holidays, I’ll be canning up a storm, for sure. What a blessing that is! Besides the “regular” beef, I have a whole box full of meaty soup bones. Some are from our quarter, some from other folks’ meat that didn’t want their soup bones. So I get to make quarts and quarts of wonderful beef broth. Wow! And I also brought home about 30 pounds of ground pork fat from my son Bill’s freezer so he had room for his 1\/2 a beef. So I’ll also be rendering lots more lard. I never buy shortening. A bit of sunflower and olive oil, but no shortening for us made from GMO soybeans and corn. It feels so good. — Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Since our seed business has grown by leaps and bounds \u2026 as has our homestead, we’ve decided we could use some help this spring, summer, and fall and am offering an apprenticeship to a person (or couple). You would be working hard, planting, tilling, helping fence, take care of animals, haying, and general homestead chores. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4494"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}