Mamavation Monday -The Home Garden

Can you believe that we are half way through February? Spring will be here before we know it! Now is the time to start planning our home gardens. The sistas with green thumbs have a handle on what needs to be done. However, there are many of us who need plenty of direction when it comes to starting our gardens. This week we will talk gardening with the wonderful Angela England.

Special Guest: Angela England

Angela England is a true renaissance woman. She pursued a double major in Music Education and Theatre Arts from the University of Southeastern Oklahoma. Angela then went on to obtain certifications in massage therapy, childbirth education, labor support doula work, and herbalism. Her love of learning and homesteading shines through on her site Untrained Housewife.

Angela and her husband are raising their five children, while homesteading on less than a half acre of land. They raise dairy and meat goats, chickens for eggs and free-range poultry, as well as agarden for fresh fruits and vegetables; all in their backyard! It is no wonder that she is our go to garden expert.

Angela is also the editor-in-chief of Blissfully Domestic, a premiere online magazine for women. She has written several eBooks and recently published Backyard Farming on an Acre (More or Less). Believe it or not, she even has some smaller websites. Angela is certainly one busy mama that we can all learn a thing or two from.

BLOGGING CARNIVAL: This week’s blogging carnival is sponsored by Dole – Two blogging carnival participants will receive a Dole Gardening Kit. To be eligible include the following disclaimer and link back to the Mamavation website: “This post is sponsored Dole and Mamavation – a community dedicated to obesity prevention & weight loss for women and I’m writing this to be entered into a giveaway” at the bottom of your post. Link up your posts here!

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Dole Garden Kits. (2 winners)

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