Writer With A Farm

For the love of growing, eating, creating and doing

● Featured Article

  • The Introduction

    Good Day all! My name is Ayana and I’m glad you’ve stumbled upon my blog today. As this is my first post, I want to tell you a little about myself I hope that it inspires you to go after the life you want.

                    I fell in love with writing accidently. I had been given a pad of construction paper and began drawing pictures.  As time went on, I started writing words within my pictures which turn into writing poems to go along with them. Soon my pad was filled more with poems than pictures.

      In high school, thought watching the show Charmed I thought my calling was to be a baker and went to a trade school for baking. While learning to bake, I was also in a poetry club and I started writing a screen play and several books. Life got in the way and I never got around to finishing them.

                    I went to college for English with a minor in creative writing, after realizing I really passionate about writing. I started working on finishing on of the books I started in college. During this time I lost 70 lbs and discovered a passion for nutrition and thought about writing a cook book. I also got introduced to Open Mic and started writing more poetry.

    Post college I applied for a writing job and actually got it but went with a different opportunity that ended up being a sales job. To this day I kick myself for not taking that writing job. I, again, started working on finishing the books I started and started going to open mics on a regular basis. I Eventually got the courage to start performing.  I started to dream of performing at big open mic competitions.

    I started my first professional job and getting caught up in getting out of debt and building a career, writing, again, took a back seat. During this time, I also discovered my love of growing things and had a new dream of eventually being a writer with a farm.  I started working more hours and bought 6 acres in which to build a farm. I met my husband, got married, became a mom and focused a lot on building my gardens and growing my own food but I wasn’t writing. I didn’t have time; it wasn’t a priority. Recently I stopped and evaluated my life.  I am making progress at getting out of debt, I am building my gardens and getting chickens, I have a wonderful husband, a beautiful and sweet baby girl and I was taking steps with building my homestead. The only thing missing was writing. My goal in life was to be a writer with a farm and the only thing missing was me taking the steps to be a writer.  So here I am.

    This blog is me achieving my dreams. This blog will encompass all of my favorite things: coffee, gardening, baking, nutrition, homesteading, poetry and short stories. I hope you join me on this journey of building the life I’ve always dreamed of and I hope following me inspires you to do the same.

  • Fun With Homemade Popcicles

    My favorite thing to make this time of year is popcicles. I prefer to make popcicles at home because they are delicious and have a lot less sugar and chemicals in it than store bought popcicles plus, no dyes. It’s essentially guilt and worry free popcicles. I usually make them out of 1 of 3 bases.

    A water kefir base. A water kefir base is great because water kefir is a probiotic and very lightly sweetened. You can take some water kefir, add or blend your favorite fruit of choice, pour it into the Popsicle mold and there you go, a probiotic popcicle.

    The second base is coconut water. I use these on super hot days. I make sure the coconut water is no sugar added and again simply blend with your fruit of choice, pour into your mold and you have a delicious and hydrating popcicle.

    I’ve also tried and enjoyed an herbal tea base . I steep some peach tea. Once it cooled I blended it with fresh peaches and poured it into popcicle molds. It was delicious and gave it an extra pop of peach flavor.

    Those are my main bases but I’ve also made fudge pops which are a milk base (I’ll link the video I watched below) and one that was a coconut milk base.

    I prefer more water based popcicles because they are hydrating and not as sticky.

    If you want to be extra, which I enjoy being from time to time. You can mix your water kefir with coconut water blend it with some water melon and you have a super hydrating probiotic popcicle which could be great if you have young children in sports.

    My go to fruits for popcicles are berries and citrus fruits. For instance I may do water kefir and fresh squeezed lemon for a lemon popcicle or blueberry and coconut water. Also all these popcicles can be sweetened to you or your children’s preference.

    As a parent it’s great when you can give your kids treats that are not filled with junk ingredients and that is actively nutritious and good for them on hot summer days.

    I hope this has inspired you to try making your own popcicles.

    Link to how to make fudge pops

    https://youtu.be/Rie4Dt6Syrw?is=zDbsSEY0qdtGcc3h

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