Welcome back to another week of The HomeAcre Hop!
First topic of business is that we need to welcome a new co-host to the HomeAcre Hop. Ann from Summers Acres has joined our team. Please be sure to check out her digs at Summers Acres, and leave a comment to show her a true homestead howdy.
So, besides me, our HomeAcre Hop hosts are:
Jenny from Black Fox Homestead
Lisa Lynn from The Self Sufficient HomeAcre
Ann from Summers Acres
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Now let’s check out our new giveaway and find out who won the last one!
Another giveaway sponsored by Mary’s Basics!
Doc’s Herbal Tea Giveaway!
The Doc’s Herbal Tea giveaway is sponsored by Mary from Back to the Basics and Mary’s Kitchen! One lucky winner will receive their choice of Chai, Allergy, Chamomile, Flashes, Soother, Recharge,
or Winter Spice herbal tea along with a package of do-it-yourself teabags
or an infuser. Be sure to enter for your chance to win by midnight on
May 14th!
“Unlike traditional tea bags, our loose leaf herbal tea is fresh, fragrant, tasty and longer
lasting. You’ll find an exotic selection of herbal and medicinal teas, all hand packaged with care.
All teas come with brewing instructions and are 100% organic and non-GMO.”
Visit Mary’s Basics and check out the wonderful selection of lip balms, organic tea, brewing supplies, and Herbal Kits! These would make great gifts for Mother’s Day!
Mary’s Basics is a small family owned and operated business located in sunny South Florida.
Their motto is Simple. Pure. Natural.
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Green Circle Grove Handmade Soap Winner!
Check out the wonderful selection of soap available through Green Circle Grove’s Etsy shop!
Congratulations to Kristi from Let This Mind Be In You! Make sure you stop by her site and check out what she’s got going. These soaps were supplied by Meredith and Kristen of Green Circle Grove! Read a review on one of Kristen and Meredith’s soaps over at Black Fox Homestead… Hearth and Home scented soap! Be sure to visit Kristen and Meredith’s Etsy shop and support Green Circle Grove! Products are made in the USA! 
Featured Posts!
Jenny’s Pick: From a Montana Front Porch – An Unlikely Friendship 
Carol’s Pick: Cultivating a Creative Life – Best Ever Spicy Dill Refrigerator Pickles 
Lisa’s Pick: Let This Mind Be In You – Getting Ready to Homestead: Assessing Your Soil 
If you would like to be featured in the future, be sure to link back to the hop. There were several posts I would have loved to feature this time that did not link back, so I couldn’t choose them. 
We love to read encouraging posts about homesteading. Please stop by to congratulate the featured bloggers this week. If you were featured, grab the button to display proudly on your blog!
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You are invited to share your original posts on: Homesteading, livestock care, gardening, environmentally friendly farming, self sufficiency, preparedness, off grid living, healthy recipes, home remedies and herbal concoctions, green living, homeschooling, food preservation, environmentally friendly crafts and home decor, photo posts of natural living and homesteading subjects! Now that’s a lot of information to share! If it fits any of these topics, we want to hear about it 
There are just a few little rules to follow:
- Family friendly posts only. ‘Nuff said
- Link as many appropriate posts as you’d like each week. Older posts are great too.
- Please visit as many of the other posts as you can and let them know you found them here!
- If you wish to be featured, you must link back to the hop (on either host’s blog) with the button or a text link, and please follow us on Facebook, Twitter, Google + and/or Pinterest!
- Please follow us by email! You’ll receive notice when the hop is open for business.
- Only share content that you have created.
- Please remember that the whole idea of a blog hop is to visit the other bloggers and make connections and friendships…so share the linky love!
- By linking to this hop you are giving us permission to link back to your post if you are featured. We will also include one photo from your post in the interest of sending visitors your way
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A few weeks ago I told you about the book Plowing with Pigs by Oscar H. (Hank) and Karen K. Will. I hope that you all listened and bought your own copy, ’cause it’s worth every penny. In fact, you will save back every cent you spend on it, and some, just by doing the things they talk about in the book.
