The Wildflower Farm Book Club

The Flower Grotto, the meeting place of our women’s book club.

Wildflower Farm, is a small self sufficiency homestead farm and B&B in New England. It hosts a women’s book club. A small sorority of book loving women who make up the club.

Wildflower Farm Book Club, began June 5th here at Wildflower. This is our memory keeping site, where the club seanchi, gathers our memories and stashes them away so that we might revisit them and smile.

Wildflower Farm Women’s Book Club, is a group of women from many different walks of life all bringing their own experiences to our reads and book discussions. We welcome all women, of all colors, sexual preferences, etc… Every woman in this group is fierce and strong. Everyone’s opinion is right. Everyone is entitled to their feelings and opinions. Books are subjective works of art. There is no right and wrong. Polite disagreement is totally fine.

Wildflower Farm Women’s Book Club, is all about women supporting women, and building each other up. Not about women breaking each other down. That behavior is strictly prohibited. There is enough of that in this world and it destroys the experience of being a woman. This club is here to engage in another way of being. One far too many women in this world have forgotten due to what all of us go through as women.

Here, we let the world out there go. Here, we build up the other members of this book loving sorority, even when we disagree.

This book club is one in which all of us can fully and truly be who we are. Here, we never have to worry about how to dumb ourselves down to appease men, or what the neighbors will think, or anything else equally dumb, demeaning, and imprisoning. It is ok not to smile, no you won’t be prettier if you do. And even if you would be who even cares, if it is not true to your mood and to your personal self? No one here will command you to smile as if they have the right to control the expression on your face to make themselves feel better with no concern for what your internal struggles might be.

We are the women who love libraries, books, and adventures and experiences that can only be found between 2 covers or on a tablet.

This group is for those committed to meeting regularly to discuss our shared monthly reading experience. Our reading adventures can be rather eclectic. We tend to do some mysteries, women’s fiction, focus on woman authors writing fictional accounts of women’s experiences, historical fiction, fantasy, classics, the occasional biography or non fiction, or science fiction, and more.

We are the adventurers, who traverse this vast universe. We seek the first star to the right, in a space boat that looks like the claw foot bath tub that once crossed the English channel. Our worthy vessel running on fairy dust, the poems of Tennyson, and the good will of the Egyptian goddess Seshat, is made from the shell of a book. We pioneer our way through each new quest, crossing the unnumbered seas of the imagination. Weathering the storms as we venture together, anywhere a book can take us.

“May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out.”- Galadriel, Is the quote at the foundation of this book club.

Our rules:

No Karens allowed. (As in easily offended often racist and or homophobic, whiners complaining about profanity, weed use, and a little alcohol. Women who seek and put in unbelievable amounts of effort searching for reasons to be offended.) This is a book club. You will be happier as part of a religious group or a creepy temperance society.

Don’t be an asshole. Don’t try to be offensive. Think about how you want your ideas discussed and discuss the ideas of others the thoughts and feelings of others accordingly. Racism and homophobia both, fall under being a Karen, and being an asshole, interesting how that works…. Make an effort to be courteous, kind, and understanding. No one accomplishes this rule to perfection all the time. The rule is do your human best always.

Try to read the book, failure is fine. We all fail sometimes and someone who hasn’t read the book can offer perspective from an outsider’s perspective which can be an interesting thing sometimes. Do your best though.

MUST BE FULLY VACCINATED AND PROVIDE PROOF to attend our meetings. This is NOT optional nor is it negotiable.

Conspiracy theories are dumb.

Science rocks.

Loving dogs is mandatory, loving cats is optional.

A list of all our pages:

https://www.meetup.com/wildflower-farm-book/ (where we often collect new members)

https://bookclubz.com/wildflower-farm-book-club/meetings (for official business)

https://facebook.com/groups/1256510171474705 (for unofficial in between chatting comparing notes recommending other reads, etc…)

https://www.wildflower-farm.com/2022/our-book-club (where the club seanchi keeps our memories and adventures in the form of a book club blog.)

https://facebook.com/Wildflowerfarmbookclub (our more official facebook page is connected to the group.)

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About wildflowerfarm

Wildflower Farm, is a small New England homestead, B&B and AirBnB, in the Baystate. We came out here 7 years ago, when we returned from the better part of 10 years as peripatetic aristotelian nomads, for my husband's post docs. Upon our return, we had a plan. We had a lovely home. Everything was so clear. Then, I got sick. Things I used to eat all the time during our travels elsewhere in the world and even here before I left almost 10 years earlier made me ill. It took a couple trips to the ER and a trip to specialist... It became clear, something had changed in the way food is processed in this country since last I lived here. Some off label things was inevitably going to be my demise.

My husband and I looked around to see the clear path we were on, had exploded in front of us. We decided we had to create a new path for ourselves. We put children on hold. We found a small piece of land with a house we loved in a rural suburb in a right to farm area. I began researching how to do it ourselves. Grow it ourselves, make it ourselves, survive on our own as much as possible. We bought the property, and began plotting a new course. One that didn't involve off label chemicals. Closer to nature, with a lot more DIY, gardens, and animals for the products they provide. We created a life we loved though it hasn't always been easy and has of course come with compromise with each other, and even with ourselves.

Our family thought we had lost our minds. What were we doing leaving the city? We had no idea how hard this would be. They thought we would be back in 6 months. That was over 7 years ago, now. We have been making it work. They were not wrong, it isn't easy. But has anything worth doing ever been easy? And for us, avoiding as much store bought food as possible was simply necessary so I could live given how sick I was getting.

Then Covid hit.... We were lucky to have this place. It has allowed us a lot less need for public use territories which has kept us a lot safer and spared us much of the risk others face daily. This place, has given us a privilege through this of great meaning to us. To be of use in a difficult time. We have been able to help friends family and even strangers in need when things couldn't be found on store shelves. Or money was tight due to not working, rent being due and a child at home, or some other draining situation. We are so very grateful to have been able to not be helpless like so much of society through this miserable time. Our families, got used to it some time ago, us being out here. They made peace with it the day there was no bread and they had to ask me for some. Or when fresh vegies were rotten due to supply chain issues but they could find plenty in my garden.

Wildflower Farm, was a place I dreamed of. One of those sweet pastoral dreams a city dweller grows up knowing will never come true, that became unavoidable when I became ill. I never expected to get to do this. I never thought I had what it takes to make this work. I have learned pacing myself is important, compromise is critical, hard work never ends, burn out is real so breaks are just a necessary evil.

We are not fully self sufficient, but we work hard in that direction as we create a new path through life for ourselves, always reaching to do even more ourselves and to get closer to the ideal we envision. We are however far more self sufficient than many in this world. 7 years in, we continue to learn and grow in this homesteading lifestyle. We welcome comments and advice and ideas and questions.

We welcome visitors from all over to our home with strict covid policies in place. We spend our time learning to live all over again in a more environmental and sustainable way though even there we are far from perfect always learning and growing doing better as we know better.

This little homestead farm is a magical place named for the New England wildflowers that grow all around. A place where a physicist, watches the night sky on clear nights with the aide of mirror and glass, and a woman, works endlessly in the gardens, the kitchen, and a variety of projects to create and to keep a very unique life style running and functioning. Wildflower Farm, has become so much more than simply a piece of land we can grow a few vegetables on. The longer I spend here, the more alive the land seems, the more I learn about it's function and the more meaning it has. My place in the universe and the next steps on our new path become ever more clear.

We welcome you on this journey with us.

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The Wildflower Farm Book Club

The Wildflower Farm Book Club

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