The vlog for antler stock was such a rambling mess...of course it ended with blatant begging. She has the creativity to put something together much more polished. I guess that is too much effort..much easier to ramble & beg
OMG, Antlerstock looks so BORING, who in their right mind would go to this garbage, yes it was fun ONCE but now the horse pulling the logs and sitting under the big oak tree BSing about chickens and kale seems like sadism. What kind of life is this, its all hustle, logo sales and fake pig shares. The paw is OK because you blog readers helped a gal pay her mortgage, I need to vomit
Even Jenna couldn't fake any enthusiasm for the offerings at Antlerstock. For those who were left uninspired by the event listing she spells it out crystal clear at the end: it ain't about you, it's about her. Keeping her solvent, paying her mortgage ("I really wanna stay here") and supporting "one crazy person's dream". What do you get? She'll let you hug Gibson and look at his paw. This is where the lucky ones get to marvel "Hey, I helped with that". Whatever this chick is smoking will get you serious jail time. If someone's life is so fucking empty they would get a boost from petting the dog of a TSC bargain bin author you are taking advantage of their extreme downtroddeness by charging them $150 for the pleasure. She implores to the camera "Man, I hope to meet'cha in person". Right. The only people she wants to meet at Antlerstock are Ben Franklin and Ulysses S. Grant. Preferably many times each.
It's sad. The first few years of her Antlerstock looked great. But she hasn't grown at all and has nothing new to offer. It's just a rehash and probably even less than that this year.
Well said anon 12:57. I have a little teeny secret to share.. *all* of this that is being taught can be watched on cable every week! AND by REAL professionals/people who do this daily.. not some academics who get paid to demo things. I watched an episode of Mountain men last week (full disclosure we all know reality isn't 100% reality in TV), but I learned more about engines and trapping then Jenna will ever know, or espouse to know, or anyone she brings in will know.. The information is out there... and not hard to get. Even Jenna appears bored by it now.
For the folks who attend her workshops, I'm guessing learning something is only secondary. I'm pretty sure they really attend to see their favorite storybook character.
She doesn't teach anything that someone can't find in their hometown or on the internet. Years ago, I was considering a 10 hour drive to attend a workshop, just for the experience of meeting her and seeing her place. I emailed her for pricing but never heard back.That was my first clue that something about her was a little off.
Unless she can attract new people to her blog, I'm guessing workshop attendance will dwindle.
Years ago I was a 'religious' reader of her blog and I was inspired to grow snap peas. At that time I would have probably attended anything just because I liked her writing so much, it was actually motivating.
It's sad to see how far she's fallen and how delusional she is. I see a desperate and sad woman trying to fill a void any way she can. The flitting around from interest to interest is not normal. Work is an important part of our self esteem. Begging and scamming people must wear on you. She's not in a good mental place. And yes, I'm a therapist
That vlog was *bad*. She is either seriously depressed, or maybe has been drinking? Even she could not muster excitement for it. She was very clear, this is *her* chance to pay her bills, more than *your* chance to learn anything. She is going through the motions, which is pitiful at her young age.
Good point Anon 9:20, there was such a lack of excitement and an abundance of sadness and desperation. I think maybe she was drinking because of the lack of any organized thoughts. Also, when hugging your dog is one of the highlights of buying a pass, maybe it's time to re-think what you have to offer people.
Her blog has changed so much over the years, it hardly seems she is the same person. I was interested in the whole homesteading, made from scratch kind of life. I am not interested in the heathen, fantasy, make believe, live like fiction, hawk on the fist, badassed, kilt wearing lifestyle.
There is also the hypocrisy. Since she is no longer gardening, she must be buying her produce from the supermarket. (or farmer's market when in season). This is the same person who wrote scathing comments about people who buy meat in supermarkets.
If she is so desperate to stay in her house, why doesn't she do what anyone normal person would do? Get a job with a steady income. It doesn't even have to be full time. It doesn't have to be forever. But enough with the begging! No one but her is responsible for her bills.
I only occasionally read the blog now, more to see how this will all play out.
To hold a steady job, one must be willing to bathe regularly, keep commitments, meet deadlines and at least attempt to fit into whatever culture the workplace has. She is incapable of doing any of these things at this point in her life.
Amen, Anon 1:27! There is just no way she could hold down a regular job. I bet she was either fired or *this* close to being fired, since she has shown over and over she can not adhere to a deadline! Mabye that's why she seems in such a panic lately, because she knows she really has no options other than begging. Crazy!
The spiel that accompanies her logo promos has the stench of desperation wafting off it. Talk about giving away your power. A grown woman has reduced herself to begging for crumbs on the internet when she could make the choice to seek gainful employment. Maybe spend less time hawking on a weekday and more time on paying jobs.
"Looking for a logo or design work for a hell of a good price and help keep a girl on her farm?! Boy, am I ever looking forward to hearing from you! Logos are still on sale until the mortgage payment is up to date. If you ever were on the fence about getting a logo, please jump to my side!"
I remember reading in Barnhart how hard she worked to get her credit to a reasonable enough place to be approved for buying a home. Not sure how many years it's been since then, but for as many times as she's mentioned being late with her mortgage, I can't imagine how terrible her credit score has since become. Why work so hard just to let something go...a question that applies to more than just her credit score. ~AM
Yes, another crisis. This time, the septic system. No coincidence that her Facebook posts are suddenly Public (again) instead of Friends Only. Let the whole world wide web see what money is needed!
I don't know why I can't quit looking at her blog/updates, it's like some sort of sick addiction.
If she really wanted to share her love of the land, animals, homestead culture, etc. she would host free gatherings for like minds. Everyone bring a dish to share, bring your instruments, learn from each other. But no, of course not.... money money money MONEY.
Saying that getting to hug her dog is one of the highlights of a paid workshop is the proof in the pudding. If I ever try and charge someone money for the joy of petting my dog, I hope I receive a swift kick and a steep fine for my selfish stupidity.
I need to find one of those internet child safety apps that block certain websites, so I can close the book on her once and for all. I just don't know why I can't quit looking.
PS, there's been nothing posted on the Clan blog since July.
Letting my imagination go wild - - maybe she doesn't have many people signed up for Antlerstock. Maybe she had a # in mind of how many people she needs in order to pay the mortgage/get firewood/etc. and there aren't enough people signed up to make ends meet....Thus...CRISIS!!!! I'm not sure how expensive it is to have a septic system pumped so maybe I'm off on this one...I'd pay good $$ just to know what is actually going on there!
We just had ours pumped for a little over 200. But I don't think this is new. She said something about it 3 months ago, and talked about showering and pooping in the woods. Her solutions to her problems are crazy.
I think that desperate note was just another ploy, like the 'beloved fiddle' and the old wool hat. She knows a lot of people will not be able to attend Antlerstock, and she hopes that if she sounds desperate enough, they'll just send money instead.
She has money for an accountant, lawyer, contacts, purebred imported puppy, second truck, etc. That means she has enough money for her mortgage and emergency expenses. She just doesn't want to have to spend her money on such mundane things. That is for her fans to take care of.
Exactly. If you're spending money on a second truck, driving around looking for birds to hold captive, have become a regular at a bar, imported a new pure bred puppy, shopping around for another horse etc you're NOT pressed for cash.
Maybe her donation account is low...she has money..she just wants more.
I will double that echo. She is absolutely in better shape than several of us, me included, I have NO DOUBT. Working poor, I think it's called. She's just a giant fake scamming people for more cashola.
You don't go from (second) horse shopping to barely hanging on to your property in a matter of a couple weeks.
She got a new piglet and has two new ewes on the way. And for what? They won't make her a dime the way she runs things. I would love to see a breakdown of expenses and returns on the pork shares.
the previous owner of our house didn't take care of the septic, so before we bought it, we asked him to fix it. $7000 fix and most places quoted $10,000. Septic tanks are pricey if you neglect them....
Just had my septic pumped...$200. That is the low price of precention and for a one peraon household, a person could go 5-10 years between pumps. However, if you neglect your septic then maintenance is no longer an option, and likely your drainage field has to be re dug and new laterals have to be ran because if they get solids in them they are ruined...easily $3500 plus to do the whole works.
I think we now know why she was squatting and showering in the woods. She'd probably had an inkling the pot was full and did not want to um, be bothered.
Jenna could teach a Master Class workshop on manipulation, read her new post "Septic Woes" to see her ply her craft.
The sky is falling all around her but this spunky farmgirl is gonna focus on everything that's right, gosh darn it! Nice touch adding that part at the end about people hoping she quits, that should be worth quite a bit.
If she can shell out for two new sheep, she can afford to have her septic pumped.
Must be the plugged septic isn't bringing in the cash fast enough. With all the real suffering and need in the world who the fuck cares about a spoiled brat in Upstate New York who can't figure out how to take care of herself? Anyone who donates to her should be publically flogged through the streets.
Jenna Woginrich 3 mins · I just cracked a tooth in half. Camel's back, broken.
Ha ha!! Return of the tooth problems! And the plumbing issues: the mysterious "well bill," the frozen pipes every winter, now a septic tank that - horror of horrors - needs to be snaked like every other septic tank owner that shits eventually encounters.
May be that she just doesn't hang on to many readers for very long, so it's easy to run through the same cycle of excuses over and over again without seeming too obvious?
Her tooth is now "cracked"...the septic didn't get enough donations so she had to resort back to and old one, but good one...teeth problems. You have to be kidding me?!?!! How does anyone believe her?????
You guys all rock. I am serious, you are very funny, and I needed a smile. I used to think I was the only one who got it- before this blog, now I see we are a round table of truth knowers and sayers. I love it.
I know what you mean. There are a lot of funny people here, but honestly, Jenna writes most of the material. Today she had the audacity to post a picture of some older lady from Harry Potter and say that's who she imagines when she gets "angry" emails. I think she should start imagining Gandalf instead, and imagine him telling her she really needs to grow up.
That's what gets me. Trivial, everyday shit is a cause for a meltdown or at the very least an FB pity party. She must have given herself a hematoma by now, beating her chest about what a badass farmer she is. Please, farming is like a constant clusterfuck of problems and a sniveling little whiner like her wouldn't last five minutes. It's been nothing but drama all day from her but what really happened? She cracked her tooth and the septic's plugged. Oh, well. No one died, no one's even maimed. She knew the tooth was shot and septic trouble's just a fact of life. Go poop outdoors.
If that was your parent I hope they will be ok! That's a real worry.
Lies....all lies...... So she cracked a tooth? A molar. Someone asked if that was the root canal tooth and she said "yup". Except before she talked about how she couldn't just get it pulled because it was kind of in the front of her mouth and as a public speaker that wouldn't be good. Keep your story straight Jenna! Sorry....that kind of thing drives me nuts.
Poodle News Flash, Extra, Extra read all about Shit! Timeline, Jackson NY, somewhere between Katz' book farm and the ham samwich place Mrs O'Leahy called the sheriff to report a gawd awful stench more pungent than the usual pig odors emanating from Miz Jenna's animal hostel, quote "it smells like hell, even if your an effin heathen!" The sheriff turned green as Miz Jenna walked to the property line with brown slime up to her waist exclaiming she just took a shower so, quote "chill out and buy a ticket to Antlerstock for 80% off until 5pm" The sheriff issued an air pollution summons but was told by Miz Jenna that this is a "right to farm county, so would you like a pig share or an autographed copy of Birchthorn" Mrs O'leahy informed the news that "shit happens all the time in that house, dogs, goats, stuffed heads and kale salad, this is a disgrace". Other neighbors report strange happening, the mailman dropping off envelopes of money from all over the world, different pick up trucks coming and going and turkeys always walking around the yard. "its like Halloween everyday in this joint". Mis Jenna had nothing else to say except to expect more and bigger problems on her dream farm, as she raised a new Heathery banner through the backflowing muck of rotting biology
Haha, we should all go and tell her were praying for her and hugs! Send bible quotes about how worshiping dark old ones has brought all this wrath upon her. Yeah...
That's actually really funny. I am respectful of people's religion but I'm not buying ANY of her newest flavor of the week religious hogwash. She'll be something else a year from now, depending on what's popular on cable.
Tyr's Good Hand - Jenna's meet-up group for the study of asatru and heathenry (for peoplebdrawn to nordic/Celtic paganism.. Except she uses the name 'Corbie McKenzie' . Read her profile under "About" on the drop-down menu. She says we study hard, work hard (the gatherings are monthly at CAF) and drink hard. Hmmm
"I only keep them a hunting season or 2 and release them back to the wild."
She's only ever had one hawk which she kept one season. She makes it sound like she's had numerous birds. It's like she's addicted to stretching the truth.
For the life of me I can not understand one thing. She is apparently good friends with a freaking lumberjack dude, who wrote a book about homestead logging, etc. talks about Antlerstock and how you'll watch a horse pull a log from the woods and yet she buys firewood.? wTF? She can't like figger out anything to trade or barter or just pay Brett to spend a day with his chainsaw and her dopey horse and get plenty enough wood out of her overgrown wood lot? Her new heathen friends won't help? WTF... Some homesteader she is. She makes me laugh. She should be hauling out a sledge of downed wood a day from that lot. He'll, if she was good enough at chopping, she could sell the excess. Far better workout than running. Oh wait, that would all make sense. And it's work. Oh, I understand.
Someone offered her wood off their property when she put out the howl a couple weeks ago. She didn't want it unless it was dry. God forbid she get wood ahead for next year. Some homesteader.
That makes a whole lotta sense, except for one thing. JW is terrified of hard work and sweat.
As for free firewood, no homesteader in their right mind would turn down an offer like that. Next thing ya know she'll want it delivered and stacked as well as free.
I think small farms can still be profitable, but the key for the author of that article is to have a unique product that's your cash cow, in addition to producing the veggies. Something like honey, goat cheese, alotion made from goats milk, etc. something well made, well thought out and of good quality. I'm finding the general population willing to pay a lot for special items like that. It takes a little extra work but is worth it, and hey that's what the winter is for! Thinking of new ideas! :)
You can, eventually make a living (maybe, probably not) but you need someone to subsidize you when you start out and grow. There is a TON of over head and weather and animal issues are always a toll.
I think that the point is, it's super tough to get a little farm going on it's own. Yet you can, you just have to be prepared to subsidize it for a good long while when you try and figure out what works for you and what can be your cash cow, so to speak. Just one person, no savings and no real agriculture offerings except a few broilers to raise and pigs, that will never work for her. Not with a mortgage, two car loans, buying hay and wood, etc., etc.,. She doesn't have a realistic plan or goal. Hence all the begging and such. Even her workshops and such, after all said and done, even at 150 or 200 a head, that's only two grand for ten people. She doesn't seem to get that many any more. After expenses and such, she can't be making that much, so that just puts a band aid on the situation for a while. Her business model as a farmer is totally whack. Maybe she coukd eek out a homesteader sort of thing, but I just don't see how she has any credibility to teach anyone anything. You could learn more in your armchair on YouTube for free.
100 birds for her clueless friends and such. I'm sure she's getting whacky high prices per bird. Probably close to 10 to 15 a bird because Jenna touched them and they are so healthy and pastured and blah blah. But let's face facts even so, not too many people gonna pay over 15 for a scrawny bird. She harvested them pretty young and small from all pictures. Probably less than 4 or 5 pounds of meat. But let's give her the benefit of the doubt and call each in twenty bucks!
100 x 20 would be two grand!
But she expects at least 30 percent loss and predation. Oh... Down to 1300.
And there is chick cost. At 100 and more fancy freedom rangers, that was at least 75 to 100 for chick cost. 1200
And there is food for 12 weeks. 70 birds, we figure close to double the weight of the bird in inputs over their life. So 140 pounds of feed for those 70 birds... Going rates, maybe another 100. So we are down around 1100 profit.
Around her, professional but hearing for chickens is at least two bucks a bird. Another 140 bucks... 960 dollars profit.
Deduct the birds she keeps for herself.. What ten maybe? I think that is reasonable, would keep a single gal for a couple weeks if she used one bird for a couple meals. Minus 200.... 760 profit.
So after three month of daily care and labor, cheap inputs and super high return on her birds, she would be lucky to get about 800 max in profit. More likely even less.
We quit raising broilers for this very reason. We were basically doing it for free because we could only get about ten a bird because we are not famous hipster farmer chicks in kilts and all that crap. It's hard. So I don't see it as anything more than a little extra change for her pocket, a hobby. Yeah maybe a mortgage payment, if it all lines up good. Certainly not enough to really contribute much. The pig shares are the same way. She's not making that much when you add in all the costs. Trust me, we raise sheep, hogs and chickens. It's hard to turn much of a profit. We love it, so yeah we also have day jobs.
In this day and age it sounds very sexist, but my uncle always said that the secret to keeping a small farm running at a profit was having a wife with a good job in town. Of course the point is not lost today....someone has to have the steady income for it to work, whether that's all done by one person or by two depends on the situation. But I think one person, willing to work hard at two jobs -- one in town, plus the farm chores at home -- could absolutely make it work.
Wow $2 a bird??? There are only two places to get poultry processed around here, and they both are an hour away or more from me. Here's our (outrageous) prices:
Cornish Cross = $3 per bird on ice $3.75 per bird bagged/boxed with hearts and livers $4 per bird cryovacced hearts livers boxed and weighed
All other breeds = $4.00 per bird on ice $4.75 per bird bagged/boxed with hearts and livers $5.00 per bird cryovacced hearts livers boxed and weighed Turkeys $15 for birds that dress 20 lbs. $.75 per lb above 20
That's not counting all that gas to drive down there and back on one day, then turn right around and drive down there and back the next to pick up the processed birds.
I'm too much of a softy to do it myself, but I might need to learn. There's a mobile processing unit that people can rent to use (after training) and I guess it pans out to about $3 a bird.
Anon 10:53 I agree. My grandfather farmed and my grandmother had a job sewing at a clothing company in town. They budgeted well and lived a modest but happy life.
Anon 10:46 & 11:47 thanks for the info, because I am completely in the dark as far as how much it costs to run a farm & turn a profit. It is really interesting to see how quickly those initial profits dwindle when you take in to account the cost of actually raising / processing the birds
I run a 7-acre produce farm by myself, and at a profit. It can be done, but you must be constantly vigilant as to what products are profitable, and where you're just losing money. My customers would love it if I grew more sweet corn, but there is no money in that. I grow a ton of greens over the winter and cut only to order, there is a ton of money to be had there. I find labor hours are my bottom line. It also is forever changing year to year. The key here is that you can't just slack off, raise a few veg or pigs, and hope for the best. You MUST have a viable marketing plan and a solid customer base. You also won't sleep much in the summer.
That's awesome! I'm sure that you spend a lot of that time hunting and hawking and blogging and at the bar and on Facebook and like setting up dance parties with your livestock and visiting friends and playing with your dogs and making videos of you and you animals and riding your horse and buying kilts and all. :-).
There's no way that Jenna will ever make a good living off that 6.5 acres the half assed fantasy life way she's going. She can't even keep her goat pen clean and frankly it looks like less than 10 x 15 in size. It wold take my daughter an afternoon to shovel out and it would never look like that again after.
Yes, you can make a living but you have to keep at it and work hard and smart and like you said, good plans, solid base. She's no farmer. Heck, she's not even a half assed homesteader. She just a wanna be with too much livestock in her backyard.
I bet she ruined the engine in that Dodge Dakota over something stupid, like driving the truck with not enough oil or coolant. Or she kept driving when an idiot light came on, and she refused to stop to check it out. Boom. Engine gone. She is so dumb, but to embarrassed to admit.
Hey Little Antlers - It's me, JFW. The sh!t is literally hitting the fan here at CAF, and I really, really, really want to stay here. So here's the deal - send me as much money as you can so I can keep writing inspirational posts about how you can quit your job and become self sufficient on your own.
JW put this comment under her septic post. Oh brother.
"I don't think it's that people want me to quit farming/writing - they want me to either not talk about the hardships (animal problems, money problems, anxiety, mistakes, etc) or change my lifestyle so I don't have them. If I never wrote about the bad things people would have a different opinion of me, for sure. But I don't hide the dead sheep or chickens. I admit to being broke and happy. I'm okay with people being patrons of my writing. I am okay being disliked for those things.
My goal is to learn from those mistakes, find prosperity, heal anxiety, get healthier and become a better farmer while still living the life I love here on the farm. This blog is one hell of a bumpy road and I think a lot of folks just want there to be less bumps. That comes across as thinking I am either stubborn, crazy, selfish, or stupid. I might be all those things but man do I love this life I am chipping away at, and feel like I grew more as a person in the past 3 years since leaving Orvis on a dark horse (literally) than I did in the ten before that."
She will absolutely never get it. Real farming is real work, work that is so much and at times so hard you can't move afterward. That you hurt so much that you can't imagine anything but bed. It's taking care of the animals; making sure that they are healthy and clean and happy- even when you are all of the above. It's a lot of work, and it is not frivolity, which is what your life is Jenna. I got news for you, dead sheep should be RARE. It can/does happen, but it should be notable when it does. Your sheep die with regularity.. even poor Maude who you so loved and then watch her suffer for days laying there, just so you can share the "realness" of your "farming". Jenna, my dear, real farmers don't watch their animals dying over days. If you never wrote about the bad things you would have no income stream, and you know that very well. That is why it is all bad, you literally feed yourself with your woes. I got news for you Jenna, you de-evolved into a high school brat who's parents are away and the party rocks on.
I don't care what she writes about. I don't care if she's crazy, stubborn, stupid or stinky. I don't care about her personal growth, which I don't believe in, because she is begging and committing fraud to fund her life. Excuse me while I brew some tea and put my church hat on.
I find the bit about Jenna learning from her mistakes most laughable. Every year, there's not enough firewood and such to get her through the winter. Every year, there's a bloodbath because she can't be bothered to house her animals properly.
I think she DOES know better, she just doesn't care. I think she lets animals die because it's good drama for The Jenna Show. Sad.
Garbage. All of it. The only learning from mistakes going on is that she's learned if she keeps making the same "mistakes" and keeps sharing the tales of woe related to them, she'll keep a roof over her head. Not from an honest living, but from pity. That is a lie if you can be happy living like that. Lie, lie, lie. If you are so stressed and have so much anxiety, I highly doubt you are happy. ~AM
So she wants to learn from her mistakes...but, she doesn't. She keeps making the same mistakes ALL. THE. TIME.
She's been farming and farm blogging for 10 years and she still can't seem to move off of square one.
The only thing she is learning is new and better ways to fleece her audience. And, when they get wise to the cluster fuck and fade away, what then?
You're not a farmer who can produce and sell. You're not a homesteader who can sustain herself. You don't have a reliable income stream. And you can eat your pretty words or love for oyur life.
I also found the "learn from those mistakes" comment particularly delusive. That post is apparently for all her new-found fans, who don't know the history that she does NOT learn from her mistakes. Wash the fleece, rinse, repeat.
I'm sure she's learned from a few mistakes. Like don't test electric fencing with your bare hand and don't undercook the chicken. In the financial world she has only learned from her successes. Crisis = money...
I am canning this morning and it occurred to me, I am more of a homesteader that Jenna, even though I have no animals and a small garden. I don't kill anything except plants around here!
She's a sick person. I feel like every word she types is so calculated. Finds herself in certain positions...carefully writes out the story and then waits for action by others. God forbid she take some (respectable) action herself. ~AM
No word about her tooth. She really is the queen of B.S. I was so happy to find this blog because I actually felt bad being constantly annoyed by JW. It's nice to know I'm not alone. :)
A friend of mine saw Jenna at her local farm stand yesterday and guess what she was buying...PORK!!!! That's right, the queen of the pork CSA was buying frozen pork. And she saw a total of 4 bales of hay on her truck. Not much hay for all her animals to live on. I wonder how long she can make that hay last. Some homesteader! What's next, buying those roadside bundles of wood for $5?
...Now let's see if she writes about some dinner she makes with "her" pork bahahaha. I bet people wouldn't give a crap if she picked up pork or eggs or wood or what-have-you from a store every once in a while if she didn't have such a nasty, holier-than-thou attitude toward people, even toward people who have no choice but to purchase from regular stores.
Oh my gads... That pork roast post is so funny knowing that she had to buy the roast... Where the heck is her CAF pork??? And her Facebook flu kids are already singing the praises of her pork etc., curious she doesn't mention it was hers... Ha ha. What a fraud.
So let me get this straight... a 33 year old pseudo farm girl has to cook her pork roast in a disposable foil pan because she doesn't own a bake pan? Hmmm
And let's not even talk about that roast. Seriously like everything else she does it looks like a thrown together mess.
I'm sticking with my Apple Jack and brown sugar glazed pork roast with baked apples on the side. Looks way more appetizing.
Foil pan and bottled bbq sauce? Nothing wrong with that unless you are pitching yourself as a homesteading expert. I would think someone on a blog like her's would make their own sauce.
She thinks she has "patrons"? The Great Masters had patrons, she has pitying donors responding to her pathetic warblings detailing the latest crisis. Her writing isn't good the first time around nevermind when it's reheated and served up again and again. We've already been treated to the tale of her outrunning the storm to make it home in time for an outdoor shower, the panic washing off her as the thunderclouds burst overhead. Doggie dance party? Check and double check. Jogging, wolves at the door, meals with good friends, it's all been written about to death. There's no need to keep paying her to recycle her limited material on a loop.
Yes, that and the fact that his unedited writing is an incoherent mess. I also find his eagerness to publicly ridicule anyone who makes the mistake of saying something he doesn't like disgusting. Advice offered in the spirit of generosity and goodwill is not something to be threatened by and he shows his lack of character every time he pummels someone for trying to be helpful.
If I had a shot every time she said "wolves at the door" I'd have alcohol poisoning. We should play Bingo and put her most used words in the squares at least then we'd get some entertainment out of this train wreck.
I find it ironic that she has a wolf as a logo for her farm and her heathen group and talks about being a wolf all the time and not a poodle and all, but that all the time she is afraid of wolves at the door. Wouldn't a wolf like other wolves? Haha, or is it just a slip that she's really a poodle in wolves clothing????
On twitter she wants mixed drinks that use pedialite. A supplement for babies with gastrointestinal issues if you haven't heard of it. Maybe that store bought pork wasn't so good afterall...
She is referring to, through a snarky joke, the use of pedialyte as a cure for hangovers. Since her level of alcohol intake is really high, and her thinking disordered in a kinda alcoholic way (I swear she drunk posts sometimes) it is unsurprising that she knows all about this and makes oblique references http://nypost.com/2015/05/17/how-a-drink-for-babies-became-the-adult-hangover-cure-of-choice/
If you want to see something bizarre, watch her latest vlog about products she can't live without.
Dry shampoo: Look, poodles, she doesn't have the time to wash like the rest of you people on your way to work. Take 10 minutes to hose off? No way. That's a luxury for you office workers. She does have time to hang at the brewery and when she gets the call she uses dry shampoo so she doesn't look like a homeless person. Pretty cheeky slagging on homeless people when foreclosure notices make a regular appearance in your mailbox.
Facial wipes: No time to shower but plenty of time to apply and remove make-up and make this weird ass product review vlog. If the doorbell rings she uses a wipe to clean up....is she June Cleaver? This isn't the '50s. That's a poodle move. Just answer the door.
Wolfthorn deodorant: Because she's apparently covered in shit and placenta? How? Is she rolling in it everyday? Sheep make pellets...in the pasture....the horse makes biscuits....in the pasture....the pigs are in the woods.....wtf? She may need deo strong enough for a kommodo dragon but it's not because she lives on a (pretend) farm.
Tooth pain reliever in stick form: she needs a root canal...still. Hint, hint, hint!
Those are all products someone with no plumbing would use. If she had a working shower or sink, soap and a toothbrush would work in place of all those items. And be a lot cheaper too.
Jenna probably does not need a root canal anymore. Using pain meds for six months did not stop the tooth decay process, that goes on unabated. There comes a time when the tooth is no longer repairable because decay has eaten away so much of the tooth's structure. Once that tipping point is passed, the tooth must be extracted. The only option then is a dental implant (very costly) or dentures. Her mouth is likely a disaster area. Meet 'gums' Jenna. That will work real good at the bar.
Two days ago she said her tooth cracked in two. Not clear if it was the root canal candidate or what. She really needs to start taking care of her teeth because it's eventually going to be an enormous expense repairing the damage or she's going to be toothless.
I worked with a woman who didn't have a washer/dryer in her home so she would Febreeze the hell out of her clothes instead of washing them. She is the only person in the world who I think would appreciate JW's "fake hygiene" vlog.
Using Band-Aids requires skill........? You begin to understand why she's in as much trouble as she is, with these kinds of statements coming out of her mouth. She's too busy farming to get her root canal done but has plenty of time to run 5 + miles a day, go horeseback riding and anything else that catches her fancy. She doesn't have time to shower but she watches copious amounts of TV and tweets/FBs all hours of the day and night. Screwy.
It's called being a POSER. She isn't a real farmer but is sure trying to act like one! My grandparents were farmers and certainly had time to shower daily without resorting to wipes and dry shampoo. I also find it very telling that she isn't making her own dry shampoo and soap. To each their own, but geez this is bizarre.
Jenna, where to begin.. You are too busy to shower? Really? You spend hours riding your horse, searching for Hawk to imprison, taping yourself for youtube and God knows what else, but you can't take a shower? Seriously? No, you are just well, I will leave that lay. I will say that no matter how tired I get, and I have health issues, legitimate ones, AND work a full time job AND have a good sized flock of sheep AND have real working dogs.. and I shower every single day. Dear, the stank does not go away just because you cover it with some sort of chemical.. OH GROSS is all I can say. Oh, and insulting homeless people? Real nice. You are actually acting more and more immature as time goes on. It boggles the mind.
You had me at insulting homeless people. :( I don't shower every day but I hardly work up a sweat working in an office. I do live in a city and see homeless people every day. It just breaks my heart. Some of them make me cry for the rest of the day. It is never their choice to be in that situation. Sorry, that's my high horse. One of my pet peeves. Homelessness should never be mocked.
Gross? If BO sniffin Woginrich has stinky pits from not showering, how does she keep "flower fresh" down there? This might be an issue if she gets lucky at the bar, and finds a drunk guy at last call willing to walk on the wild side.
She needs to be ready to fly out the door to meet so and so at the brewery at 7---- so take a shower and meet them at 7:15. There. You're welcome Jenna.
You don't understand. She must fly out the door to meet at the brewery at 7--- or so and so won't wait for her, so and so won't think she is cool. She is so desperate for real human contact, after years on the blog and cyber friends with no actual personal contact, she does not want to risk anything on loosing her new bar friends. Cheers!
Let's all make a vow to not watch anymore of those vlogs. "It's so hard to get away for a couple of hours " for something frivolous like a root canal, but you have to keep dry shampoo around in case you have an emergency, like getting to the brewery in half an hour.
If you want to read about the most interesting homeless person in the country, try 3mules.com. He has a Facebook page too. He walks around California with his 3 mules. He doesn't beg, but people bring him hay and carrots and some meals, and they let him camp at their house, pasture, barn. He never talks about shampoo or deodorant. He says his first priority every day is the well being of his mules, he's had one of them 31 years (she's 36), so he must be doing something right.
Out of that whole list the only thing of real use is the tooth ache thingy. The rest are ridiculous. Can't shower? Then take a washcloth to your armpits! I've done that and it works. If your hair doesn't look clean then tie it back and put on a scarf. Jenna has done that. Most of these are ridiculously superficial. Not what we would have seen from her 5 years ago or even less.
Does she think everyone is obtuse? It's not necessary to back away from the camera to illustrate what long pants and a shirt look like on a person. She's always nudging for compliments and it seems to work most of the time. Looks pretty much the same to me.
Wouldn't you expect a small farmer to promote goats milk soap (here she has a captive audience and she doesn't promote her own products!) or at least urge followers to support their local farmers making natural products,? Instead she does promote Burts Bees which after being bought out by Chlorox several years ago is now part of a coprporate alliance with companies like Monsanto that use neonic pesticides tied to the mass dying off of bees. AlterNet.org just posted an article several days ago. Some organic growers organization is calling for consumers to tell Burts Bees that it should be urging the EPA to ban these bee-killing pesticides. So Jenna gives them a free commercial. Does anyone think Jenna just saying twice those companies aren't sponsors doesn't mean she wouldn't like them to be?
Hey Little Antlers! It’s JFW here with my newest vlog. Today I want to show you one of my favorite things – a vintage pocket watch on a chain.
Now watch closely as I swing it back and forth. You are getting sleepy…very sleepy. Now when I mention the words ‘root canal’ or ‘broken tooth’, you will send me money. Lots of money!
When I snap my fingers you will wake up and remember nothing.
(Snap!)
That’s it for today. Stay tuned for the next crisis, I mean adventure at CAF!
Good question. It would be interesting to know. And she keep throwing the words out, so it must elicit some kind of response. Either that or she's saying, 'come on now fans, do I have to spell it out? Send more money...I spent the first batch of root canal money on a puppy and now I need more'. At least that's how I'm reading it.
'Root canal' must be a magic phrase like 'Open Sesame'. Utter the words and money appears in your Paypal account. Maybe that's why she said her life is truly magical.
Speaking of herding poodles, should we start a betting pool on the ultimate price of Friday's puppies (the one she starts at and the sale price)? Cause she can't afford a root canal so Thor knows she can't Afford to get Friday spayed or Gibson fixed and soon there will be adorable oopsy puppies to sell. I start at 1200 and settle at a 500 dollar re homing fee for worm-riddled, no shots, unsocialized 4 month old scrappy puppies.
Oh my gosh! A parvo riddled dying love puppy will bring in so much money!!!! Can you only imagine? And it's care and rehabilitation will keep her from finishing any fire sale logos she offered during the emotional crisis and drama. Oh my goodness... If she played that card right it could actually get the truck paid off and ahead in the mortgage a good bit! Parvo can cost thousands and thousands....
I'm thinking of starting a new Kickstarter project. It's a Mad Libs version of CAF. Instead of inserting verbs, nouns, adjectives, etc., you would insert a crisis, animal, dollar amount, business name...You get the picture.
And the beauty of this project is that you get to create it! Just shoot me an mail when you're done, as I'll be out trapping a hawk.
Ok, before you go, could I just say how awesomely inspiring and beautiful you are today? I would be willing to give up my own hair so you can afford to dry shampoo yours. I'm in tears just thinking about it.
So, as someone already pointed out, her vlog showcases a bunch of products someone with no plumbing might need. Dry shampoo, disposable wipes, add that to the throwaway roasting pans and bottled BBQ sauce......you have to wonder if she either has no hot water or maybe no water at all in the house. She also goes to the laundromat. I can't imagine her lender would be too thrilled with the way she's letting the house go to pot.
I think you may be right. All that does sound like she doesn't have water at all in the house. Just add it to the list of others things she's destroyed due to lack of maintenance.
Well, I would guess she has water. Because she has to water the stock. And if she didn't have water, then how would she clean up after the back up in the shower? Just thinking it through.
No doubt she had water but I'd bet she knew there was no room to drain it! If you know the septic is full there's no way you're going to put anything down the drain. Should have put a separate grey water system in a long time ago.
She has a constantly running spring fed water system out front that she uses to water the animals. It is not connected to her house plumbing, so she could be without house plumbing, but still have water for the animals. I bet she uses it to fill her outdoor shower bags and to cook with f she has no indoor plumbing left. But, I doubt her mom would stay there without plumbing.
Her pipes burst multiple times this winter. Never did say anything about repairing them. Maybe she simply has no hot water? The solar shower is a bit suspicious. She's really not that eco-friendly at all despite trying to project that image so I can't see her opting for a solar shower when she could just use her own.
Her mother stayed at a hotel when she stayed previously.
She might like the money and fame, but she would actually have to WORK, they don't want scenes of her playing computer games and drinking. And they would want to hire Meredith too, because they love the drama. She thinks she dislikes criticism? She ain't seen nothin yet.
I am really starting to think that these positive commenters are not what they appear to me.. I think they are funnin' with her.. at her expense.. just my gut instinct on this.
So now showering means having an office job? Showering is for poodles, but makeup and hair dye is badass. LOL, what?
Jenna my dear, If you have time for hanging out at the bar with friends, you certainly have time to shower. Or *gasp* maybe even proper care of your animals!
Well, she's obviously on the hunt for a mate... The new found body, makeup and hair color and glasses and the match.com account and the hanging at the bar and the heathen group, it's pretty obvious. But eh gads, if she is, why all the not showering public references? I get the whole look at me I'm comfy naked in the wild, rarrrrrr... Pagan things but geez. A vlog about how to stay clean with chemical, disposable crap? Some homesteader she is.
It reminded me of a scene from WILD where Reese is trying out lipstick and when the sales clerk sees her she says no lip color will help a girl who doesn't attend to her personal hygiene.
Hair color or new glasses on a dirty smelly body reminded me of putting lip stick on a pig. Never works in improving the look. It's just lip stick on a pig.
Hey - pigs are lovely in their natural state and they dont pretend to be something theyre not! As for humans, I think most would agree being clean feels blissful. - good for mind, body and soul, and useful if you're circulating in spheres outside your own 4 walls. To have that possibility available and reject good hygiene yet embrace these other things for show seems bizarre. And to bring it to others attention seems counterintuitive.
OMG now Jon Katz has boarded the workshop train. Talking to animals? Really Jon? What did Rocky have to say when you killed him by letting Simon pummel his poor old blind body? What about the sheep you shot 4 times while it lay there? Workshop on shepherding? You sir, are an atrocity to animals world over.
Katz doing a workshop on talking to animals? I can do that already. But I'd like to hear more about Rocky. And shooting a sheep 4 times. Seems to me you could take 1 shot to take an animal out of It's misery unless you just can't aim. Then the poor creature suffered even more.
Rocky was euthanized several years ago. He was over 30 years old and in poor health. Jon and Maria did not want him to have to endure another brutal winter. I know there is a lot of anti-Katz sentiment, but in this case, I think they did the right thing.
And yes, I agree it was a stupid thing to let Simon and Rocky in the same paddock, especially since Rocky was blind. Simon attacked him, but that is not what led to his death.
Actually, if you read all his posts, you will know that in fact, the stress of being attacked by Simon WAS Rocky's undoing. It was absolute BULLSHIT that he put that poor blind pony in with Simon. Go back and read it all. Sadly, I remember it very clearly.
My two cents here - I think JFW has running water. If she didn't, don't you think she would post about not having it in hopes of raising more money? Sort of like, help me at least get the basics like clean, running water?
"All Out Waste has all my love! They pumped the septic and repaired the blockage in the main drain. I have fully-functional plumbing again! THANK GOODNESS!" (Sept 10)
Yeah... it's only becoming common knowledge now, finally. Wizbanger she is.
ReplyDeleteI'm confused - what do you mean?
ReplyDeleteThe vlog for antler stock was such a rambling mess...of course it ended with blatant begging. She has the creativity to put something together much more polished. I guess that is too much effort..much easier to ramble & beg
ReplyDeleteOMG, Antlerstock looks so BORING, who in their right mind would go to this garbage, yes it was fun ONCE but now the horse pulling the logs and sitting under the big oak tree BSing about chickens and kale seems like sadism. What kind of life is this, its all hustle, logo sales and fake pig shares. The paw is OK because you blog readers helped a gal pay her mortgage, I need to vomit
ReplyDeleteEven Jenna couldn't fake any enthusiasm for the offerings at Antlerstock. For those who were left uninspired by the event listing she spells it out crystal clear at the end: it ain't about you, it's about her. Keeping her solvent, paying her mortgage ("I really wanna stay here") and supporting "one crazy person's dream". What do you get? She'll let you hug Gibson and look at his paw. This is where the lucky ones get to marvel "Hey, I helped with that". Whatever this chick is smoking will get you serious jail time. If someone's life is so fucking empty they would get a boost from petting the dog of a TSC bargain bin author you are taking advantage of their extreme downtroddeness by charging them $150 for the pleasure. She implores to the camera "Man, I hope to meet'cha in person". Right. The only people she wants to meet at Antlerstock are Ben Franklin and Ulysses S. Grant. Preferably many times each.
ReplyDeleteDamn tootin, green is the old black, paypal up suckas Momma needs a new pair o'tires and a stein of Moondog draft cold
DeleteIt's sad. The first few years of her Antlerstock looked great. But she hasn't grown at all and has nothing new to offer. It's just a rehash and probably even less than that this year.
DeleteWell said anon 12:57. I have a little teeny secret to share.. *all* of this that is being taught can be watched on cable every week! AND by REAL professionals/people who do this daily.. not some academics who get paid to demo things. I watched an episode of Mountain men last week (full disclosure we all know reality isn't 100% reality in TV), but I learned more about engines and trapping then Jenna will ever know, or espouse to know, or anyone she brings in will know.. The information is out there... and not hard to get. Even Jenna appears bored by it now.
ReplyDeleteFor the folks who attend her workshops, I'm guessing learning something is only secondary. I'm pretty sure they really attend to see their favorite storybook character.
ReplyDeleteShe doesn't teach anything that someone can't find in their hometown or on the internet. Years ago, I was considering a 10 hour drive to attend a workshop, just for the experience of meeting her and seeing her place. I emailed her for pricing but never heard back.That was my first clue that something about her was a little off.
Unless she can attract new people to her blog, I'm guessing workshop attendance will dwindle.
Years ago I was a 'religious' reader of her blog and I was inspired to grow snap peas. At that time I would have probably attended anything just because I liked her writing so much, it was actually motivating.
ReplyDeleteIt's sad to see how far she's fallen and how delusional she is. I see a desperate and sad woman trying to fill a void any way she can. The flitting around from interest to interest is not normal. Work is an important part of our self esteem. Begging and scamming people must wear on you. She's not in a good mental place. And yes, I'm a therapist
That vlog was *bad*. She is either seriously depressed, or maybe has been drinking? Even she could not muster excitement for it. She was very clear, this is *her* chance to pay her bills, more than *your* chance to learn anything. She is going through the motions, which is pitiful at her young age.
ReplyDeleteGood point Anon 9:20, there was such a lack of excitement and an abundance of sadness and desperation. I think maybe she was drinking because of the lack of any organized thoughts. Also, when hugging your dog is one of the highlights of buying a pass, maybe it's time to re-think what you have to offer people.
DeleteHer blog has changed so much over the years, it hardly seems she is the same person. I was interested in the whole homesteading, made from scratch kind of life. I am not interested in the heathen, fantasy, make believe, live like fiction, hawk on the fist, badassed, kilt wearing lifestyle.
ReplyDeleteThere is also the hypocrisy. Since she is no longer gardening, she must be buying her produce from the supermarket. (or farmer's market when in season). This is the same person who wrote scathing comments about people who buy meat in supermarkets.
If she is so desperate to stay in her house, why doesn't she do what anyone normal person would do? Get a job with a steady income. It doesn't even have to be full time. It doesn't have to be forever. But enough with the begging! No one but her is responsible for her bills.
I only occasionally read the blog now, more to see how this will all play out.
To hold a steady job, one must be willing to bathe regularly, keep commitments, meet deadlines and at least attempt to fit into whatever culture the workplace has. She is incapable of doing any of these things at this point in her life.
DeleteAmen, Anon 1:27! There is just no way she could hold down a regular job. I bet she was either fired or *this* close to being fired, since she has shown over and over she can not adhere to a deadline! Mabye that's why she seems in such a panic lately, because she knows she really has no options other than begging. Crazy!
DeleteThe spiel that accompanies her logo promos has the stench of desperation wafting off it. Talk about giving away your power. A grown woman has reduced herself to begging for crumbs on the internet when she could make the choice to seek gainful employment. Maybe spend less time hawking on a weekday and more time on paying jobs.
ReplyDelete"Looking for a logo or design work for a hell of a good price and help keep a girl on her farm?! Boy, am I ever looking forward to hearing from you! Logos are still on sale until the mortgage payment is up to date. If you ever were on the fence about getting a logo, please jump to my side!"
I remember reading in Barnhart how hard she worked to get her credit to a reasonable enough place to be approved for buying a home. Not sure how many years it's been since then, but for as many times as she's mentioned being late with her mortgage, I can't imagine how terrible her credit score has since become. Why work so hard just to let something go...a question that applies to more than just her credit score. ~AM
DeleteOh, look, her next crisis just in time.
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Just discovered that my septic backed up and filled my shower..... this could not happen at a worst time. Could. Not.
Yes, another crisis. This time, the septic system. No coincidence that her Facebook posts are suddenly Public (again) instead of Friends Only. Let the whole world wide web see what money is needed!
ReplyDeleteI don't know why I can't quit looking at her blog/updates, it's like some sort of sick addiction.
If she really wanted to share her love of the land, animals, homestead culture, etc. she would host free gatherings for like minds. Everyone bring a dish to share, bring your instruments, learn from each other. But no, of course not.... money money money MONEY.
Saying that getting to hug her dog is one of the highlights of a paid workshop is the proof in the pudding. If I ever try and charge someone money for the joy of petting my dog, I hope I receive a swift kick and a steep fine for my selfish stupidity.
I need to find one of those internet child safety apps that block certain websites, so I can close the book on her once and for all. I just don't know why I can't quit looking.
PS, there's been nothing posted on the Clan blog since July.
Letting my imagination go wild - - maybe she doesn't have many people signed up for Antlerstock. Maybe she had a # in mind of how many people she needs in order to pay the mortgage/get firewood/etc. and there aren't enough people signed up to make ends meet....Thus...CRISIS!!!! I'm not sure how expensive it is to have a septic system pumped so maybe I'm off on this one...I'd pay good $$ just to know what is actually going on there!
ReplyDeleteWe just had ours pumped for a little over 200. But I don't think this is new. She said something about it 3 months ago, and talked about showering and pooping in the woods. Her solutions to her problems are crazy.
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DeleteSame here, had it done a couple years ago and it was somewhere around $250.
DeleteWell anyone already signed up has already paid so that money is gone. Because everything is prepaid and therefore pre-spent.
DeleteI think that desperate note was just another ploy, like the 'beloved fiddle' and the old wool hat. She knows a lot of people will not be able to attend Antlerstock, and she hopes that if she sounds desperate enough, they'll just send money instead.
ReplyDeleteShe has money for an accountant, lawyer, contacts, purebred imported puppy, second truck, etc. That means she has enough money for her mortgage and emergency expenses. She just doesn't want to have to spend her money on such mundane things. That is for her fans to take care of.
Exactly. If you're spending money on a second truck, driving around looking for birds to hold captive, have become a regular at a bar, imported a new pure bred puppy, shopping around for another horse etc you're NOT pressed for cash.
DeleteMaybe her donation account is low...she has money..she just wants more.
I will double that echo. She is absolutely in better shape than several of us, me included, I have NO DOUBT. Working poor, I think it's called. She's just a giant fake scamming people for more cashola.
DeleteI'm with you.
DeleteYou don't go from (second) horse shopping to barely hanging on to your property in a matter of a couple weeks.
She got a new piglet and has two new ewes on the way. And for what? They won't make her a dime the way she runs things. I would love to see a breakdown of expenses and returns on the pork shares.
The only thing full of shit at CAF is Jenna.
Deletethe previous owner of our house didn't take care of the septic, so before we bought it, we asked him to fix it. $7000 fix and most places quoted $10,000. Septic tanks are pricey if you neglect them....
ReplyDeleteMeh, she will not pay a dime of her own money to fix it, because, she has NONE of her own money.
DeleteJust had my septic pumped...$200. That is the low price of precention and for a one peraon household, a person could go 5-10 years between pumps. However, if you neglect your septic then maintenance is no longer an option, and likely your drainage field has to be re dug and new laterals have to be ran because if they get solids in them they are ruined...easily $3500 plus to do the whole works.
ReplyDeleteDig a trench, septic systems are for poodles.
ReplyDeleteSeriously, though, how come the queen of homesteading isn't using a composting toilet?
I think we now know why she was squatting and showering in the woods. She'd probably had an inkling the pot was full and did not want to um, be bothered.
ReplyDeleteJenna could teach a Master Class workshop on manipulation, read her new post "Septic Woes" to see her ply her craft.
ReplyDeleteThe sky is falling all around her but this spunky farmgirl is gonna focus on everything that's right, gosh darn it! Nice touch adding that part at the end about people hoping she quits, that should be worth quite a bit.
If she can shell out for two new sheep, she can afford to have her septic pumped.
Sometimes her fans are so stupid and oblivious you wonder if their comments are actually meant as sarcasm:
ReplyDelete"Sounds like you have a great thing going and are really living an honorable life - go you! smile emoticon"
I like the one that asks "was it yours or someone else's? "
DeleteWhat's with the #INFJ? It has a pejorative feel to it, and as an INFJ myself I'm wondering why.
ReplyDeleteNot at all.
DeleteI'm a INFJ.
Intuitive is what I was highlighting.
Ah, I get it now! I thought you were saying Jenna was INFJ and therefore naturally nuts. Glad to know I was wrong about that!
DeleteAnon 5:30 PM
That would make her naturally awesome ;)! There are quite a few INFJs that comment here. Many others are quite similar.
DeleteMust be the plugged septic isn't bringing in the cash fast enough. With all the real suffering and need in the world who the fuck cares about a spoiled brat in Upstate New York who can't figure out how to take care of herself? Anyone who donates to her should be publically flogged through the streets.
ReplyDeleteJenna Woginrich
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I just cracked a tooth in half. Camel's back, broken.
Ha ha!! Return of the tooth problems! And the plumbing issues: the mysterious "well bill," the frozen pipes every winter, now a septic tank that - horror of horrors - needs to be snaked like every other septic tank owner that shits eventually encounters.
DeleteIs our darling running out of ideas?
May be that she just doesn't hang on to many readers for very long, so it's easy to run through the same cycle of excuses over and over again without seeming too obvious?
DeleteI'm INFJ also ;-)
ReplyDeleteHer tooth is now "cracked"...the septic didn't get enough donations so she had to resort back to and old one, but good one...teeth problems. You have to be kidding me?!?!! How does anyone believe her?????
ReplyDeleteThe girl who cried wolf!!!
ReplyDeleteShe always said she was a wolf.....Rraaawrr!
DeleteStandby for her next update: OMG! I think Friday's gone into heat and Gibson's looking randy! #letsgetiton #puppies4sale
ReplyDeleteYou guys all rock. I am serious, you are very funny, and I needed a smile. I used to think I was the only one who got it- before this blog, now I see we are a round table of truth knowers and sayers. I love it.
ReplyDeleteI know what you mean. There are a lot of funny people here, but honestly, Jenna writes most of the material. Today she had the audacity to post a picture of some older lady from Harry Potter and say that's who she imagines when she gets "angry" emails. I think she should start imagining Gandalf instead, and imagine him telling her she really needs to grow up.
DeleteWOW, now a cracked tooth!
ReplyDeleteMaybe the money from the septic woes didn't come in fast enough that she had to create another crisis.
Wait till she has to deal with an elderly parent who falls while putting their jammies on and ends up in the hospital...for a week!!!
ReplyDeleteOnly to find out they have a small bleed in their tummy and possible intestinal cancer.
This chick has NO EFFING idea what a crisis is!!!!!!!
Oh, and try doing all that while going to work, meetings, run a farm and have a kid in school.
Seriously, if she had that going on she'd throw herself off a building.
What she's dealing with is of her own making because she never takes care of anything.
She makes me sick. She has NOOOOO idea what real trouble is.
Rant over.
That's what gets me. Trivial, everyday shit is a cause for a meltdown or at the very least an FB pity party. She must have given herself a hematoma by now, beating her chest about what a badass farmer she is. Please, farming is like a constant clusterfuck of problems and a sniveling little whiner like her wouldn't last five minutes. It's been nothing but drama all day from her but what really happened? She cracked her tooth and the septic's plugged. Oh, well. No one died, no one's even maimed. She knew the tooth was shot and septic trouble's just a fact of life. Go poop outdoors.
DeleteIf that was your parent I hope they will be ok! That's a real worry.
Yes, it's my dad. He's 86.
DeleteIf she ever had to deal with the shit he's gone through this year she'd curl up in a ball immobilized.
I got a crown this year...big deal. Call the dentist fork over the dough and get it done. Or, get it pulled. It's not like SHE'S Anna Kendrick.
Lies....all lies......
ReplyDeleteSo she cracked a tooth? A molar. Someone asked if that was the root canal tooth and she said "yup". Except before she talked about how she couldn't just get it pulled because it was kind of in the front of her mouth and as a public speaker that wouldn't be good.
Keep your story straight Jenna!
Sorry....that kind of thing drives me nuts.
Continuity... one of my pet peeves.
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DeletePoodle News Flash, Extra, Extra read all about Shit!
ReplyDeleteTimeline, Jackson NY, somewhere between Katz' book farm and the ham samwich place
Mrs O'Leahy called the sheriff to report a gawd awful stench more pungent than the usual pig odors emanating from Miz Jenna's animal hostel, quote "it smells like hell, even if your an effin heathen!"
The sheriff turned green as Miz Jenna walked to the property line with brown slime up to her waist exclaiming she just took a shower so, quote "chill out and buy a ticket to Antlerstock for 80% off until 5pm"
The sheriff issued an air pollution summons but was told by Miz Jenna that this is a "right to farm county, so would you like a pig share or an autographed copy of Birchthorn" Mrs O'leahy informed the news that "shit happens all the time in that house, dogs, goats, stuffed heads and kale salad, this is a disgrace". Other neighbors report strange happening, the mailman dropping off envelopes of money from all over the world, different pick up trucks coming and going and turkeys always walking around the yard. "its like Halloween everyday in this joint". Mis Jenna had nothing else to say except to expect more and bigger problems on her dream farm, as she raised a new Heathery banner through the backflowing muck of rotting biology
I wish I could give you your own TV show.
DeleteROLF!!!
ReplyDeleteOMG she's hitting too many panic buttons at once! The donors will have their heads spinning!
ReplyDeleteHaha, we should all go and tell her were praying for her and hugs! Send bible quotes about how worshiping dark old ones has brought all this wrath upon her. Yeah...
DeleteThat's actually really funny. I am respectful of people's religion but I'm not buying ANY of her newest flavor of the week religious hogwash. She'll be something else a year from now, depending on what's popular on cable.
DeletePoor hawk. She's got it posing with Heathen friends around a campfire. http://imgur.com/a/sD23R
ReplyDeleteRun David run!!!!! Nooooooooooo!!!! You're too cute to get caught up in her lies and fantasy life! Runnnnnn!!!!!!!!
DeleteDid she make her heathen campers poop in the woods too? Some hostess
DeleteWhat's TGH?
DeleteTyr's Good Hand - Jenna's meet-up group for the study of asatru and heathenry (for peoplebdrawn to nordic/Celtic paganism.. Except she uses the name 'Corbie McKenzie' . Read her profile
Deleteunder "About" on the drop-down menu. She says we study hard, work hard (the gatherings are monthly at CAF) and drink hard. Hmmm
She's being asked about falconry on reddit.
Delete"I only keep them a hunting season or 2 and release them back to the wild."
She's only ever had one hawk which she kept one season. She makes it sound like she's had numerous birds. It's like she's addicted to stretching the truth.
Whenever I see TGH my brain says Thor's Good Hammer! My inner Viking. :)
DeleteFor the life of me I can not understand one thing. She is apparently good friends with a freaking lumberjack dude, who wrote a book about homestead logging, etc. talks about Antlerstock and how you'll watch a horse pull a log from the woods and yet she buys firewood.? wTF? She can't like figger out anything to trade or barter or just pay Brett to spend a day with his chainsaw and her dopey horse and get plenty enough wood out of her overgrown wood lot? Her new heathen friends won't help? WTF... Some homesteader she is. She makes me laugh. She should be hauling out a sledge of downed wood a day from that lot. He'll, if she was good enough at chopping, she could sell the excess. Far better workout than running. Oh wait, that would all make sense. And it's work. Oh, I understand.
ReplyDeleteSomeone offered her wood off their property when she put out the howl a couple weeks ago. She didn't want it unless it was dry. God forbid she get wood ahead for next year. Some homesteader.
DeleteThat makes a whole lotta sense, except for one thing. JW is terrified of hard work and sweat.
DeleteAs for free firewood, no homesteader in their right mind would turn down an offer like that. Next thing ya know she'll want it delivered and stacked as well as free.
This mindset is just piss poor planning
Planning is for poodles, not for scrappy wolfkin.
DeleteAntlerStock for $150? Hugging a boarder collie? WTF? How about coping a feel up a kilt?
ReplyDeleteMy uncle Lyndon said kilts are the best way to cop a feel since pantyhose ruined finger-fucking.
Broken tooth=another puppy ordered from Idaho? Haha
ReplyDeletehttp://www.campinglifequest.com/green/what-nobody-told-me-about-small-farming-
ReplyDeleteVery interesting article. I showed it to my husband, who had a dream of a farm. He threw out the farm loan pamphlet he just got at the local ag fair.
DeleteI think small farms can still be profitable, but the key for the author of that article is to have a unique product that's your cash cow, in addition to producing the veggies. Something like honey, goat cheese, alotion made from goats milk, etc. something well made, well thought out and of good quality. I'm finding the general population willing to pay a lot for special items like that. It takes a little extra work but is worth it, and hey that's what the winter is for! Thinking of new ideas! :)
DeleteYou can, eventually make a living (maybe, probably not) but you need someone to subsidize you when you start out and grow. There is a TON of over head and weather and animal issues are always a toll.
DeleteI think that the point is, it's super tough to get a little farm going on it's own. Yet you can, you just have to be prepared to subsidize it for a good long while when you try and figure out what works for you and what can be your cash cow, so to speak. Just one person, no savings and no real agriculture offerings except a few broilers to raise and pigs, that will never work for her. Not with a mortgage, two car loans, buying hay and wood, etc., etc.,. She doesn't have a realistic plan or goal. Hence all the begging and such. Even her workshops and such, after all said and done, even at 150 or 200 a head, that's only two grand for ten people. She doesn't seem to get that many any more. After expenses and such, she can't be making that much, so that just puts a band aid on the situation for a while. Her business model as a farmer is totally whack. Maybe she coukd eek out a homesteader sort of thing, but I just don't see how she has any credibility to teach anyone anything. You could learn more in your armchair on YouTube for free.
DeleteDo the math, kids.
DeleteLet's take her broiler operation.
100 birds for her clueless friends and such. I'm sure she's getting whacky high prices per bird. Probably close to 10 to 15 a bird because Jenna touched them and they are so healthy and pastured and blah blah. But let's face facts even so, not too many people gonna pay over 15 for a scrawny bird. She harvested them pretty young and small from all pictures. Probably less than 4 or 5 pounds of meat. But let's give her the benefit of the doubt and call each in twenty bucks!
100 x 20 would be two grand!
But she expects at least 30 percent loss and predation. Oh... Down to 1300.
And there is chick cost. At 100 and more fancy freedom rangers, that was at least 75 to 100 for chick cost. 1200
And there is food for 12 weeks. 70 birds, we figure close to double the weight of the bird in inputs over their life. So 140 pounds of feed for those 70 birds... Going rates, maybe another 100. So we are down around 1100 profit.
Around her, professional but hearing for chickens is at least two bucks a bird. Another 140 bucks... 960 dollars profit.
Deduct the birds she keeps for herself.. What ten maybe? I think that is reasonable, would keep a single gal for a couple weeks if she used one bird for a couple meals. Minus 200.... 760 profit.
So after three month of daily care and labor, cheap inputs and super high return on her birds, she would be lucky to get about 800 max in profit. More likely even less.
We quit raising broilers for this very reason. We were basically doing it for free because we could only get about ten a bird because we are not famous hipster farmer chicks in kilts and all that crap. It's hard. So I don't see it as anything more than a little extra change for her pocket, a hobby. Yeah maybe a mortgage payment, if it all lines up good. Certainly not enough to really contribute much. The pig shares are the same way. She's not making that much when you add in all the costs. Trust me, we raise sheep, hogs and chickens. It's hard to turn much of a profit. We love it, so yeah we also have day jobs.
That is professional butchering, not but hearing. Stupid autocorrect! Sorry.... Butchering is two bucks a bird.
DeleteIn this day and age it sounds very sexist, but my uncle always said that the secret to keeping a small farm running at a profit was having a wife with a good job in town. Of course the point is not lost today....someone has to have the steady income for it to work, whether that's all done by one person or by two depends on the situation. But I think one person, willing to work hard at two jobs -- one in town, plus the farm chores at home -- could absolutely make it work.
DeleteWow $2 a bird??? There are only two places to get poultry processed around here, and they both are an hour away or more from me. Here's our (outrageous) prices:
DeleteCornish Cross = $3 per bird on ice
$3.75 per bird bagged/boxed with hearts and livers
$4 per bird cryovacced hearts livers boxed and weighed
All other breeds = $4.00 per bird on ice
$4.75 per bird bagged/boxed with hearts and livers
$5.00 per bird cryovacced hearts livers boxed and weighed
Turkeys $15 for birds that dress 20 lbs. $.75 per lb above 20
That's not counting all that gas to drive down there and back on one day, then turn right around and drive down there and back the next to pick up the processed birds.
I'm too much of a softy to do it myself, but I might need to learn. There's a mobile processing unit that people can rent to use (after training) and I guess it pans out to about $3 a bird.
Anon 10:53 I agree. My grandfather farmed and my grandmother had a job sewing at a clothing company in town. They budgeted well and lived a modest but happy life.
DeleteAnon 10:46 & 11:47 thanks for the info, because I am completely in the dark as far as how much it costs to run a farm & turn a profit. It is really interesting to see how quickly those initial profits dwindle when you take in to account the cost of actually raising / processing the birds
I run a 7-acre produce farm by myself, and at a profit. It can be done, but you must be constantly vigilant as to what products are profitable, and where you're just losing money. My customers would love it if I grew more sweet corn, but there is no money in that. I grow a ton of greens over the winter and cut only to order, there is a ton of money to be had there. I find labor hours are my bottom line. It also is forever changing year to year. The key here is that you can't just slack off, raise a few veg or pigs, and hope for the best. You MUST have a viable marketing plan and a solid customer base. You also won't sleep much in the summer.
DeleteThat's awesome! I'm sure that you spend a lot of that time hunting and hawking and blogging and at the bar and on Facebook and like setting up dance parties with your livestock and visiting friends and playing with your dogs and making videos of you and you animals and riding your horse and buying kilts and all. :-).
DeleteThere's no way that Jenna will ever make a good living off that 6.5 acres the half assed fantasy life way she's going. She can't even keep her goat pen clean and frankly it looks like less than 10 x 15 in size. It wold take my daughter an afternoon to shovel out and it would never look like that again after.
Yes, you can make a living but you have to keep at it and work hard and smart and like you said, good plans, solid base. She's no farmer. Heck, she's not even a half assed homesteader. She just a wanna be with too much livestock in her backyard.
I think the dodge truck got repossessed.
ReplyDeleteDon't you?
It was in the background in one of her vlogs just lately.
DeleteWasn't that the new old one? Not the red one.
DeleteI bet she ruined the engine in that Dodge Dakota over something stupid, like driving the truck with not enough oil or coolant. Or she kept driving when an idiot light came on, and she refused to stop to check it out. Boom. Engine gone. She is so dumb, but to embarrassed to admit.
DeleteI do, too. I haven't seen it around, and wasn't that one of those beg-fests a couple months ago with the Dakota? The repo man was at the door?
DeleteHey Little Antlers - It's me, JFW. The sh!t is literally hitting the fan here at CAF, and I really, really, really want to stay here. So here's the deal - send me as much money as you can so I can keep writing inspirational posts about how you can quit your job and become self sufficient on your own.
ReplyDeleteBAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
DeleteBest post ever, you nailed it.
DeleteJW put this comment under her septic post. Oh brother.
ReplyDelete"I don't think it's that people want me to quit farming/writing - they want me to either not talk about the hardships (animal problems, money problems, anxiety, mistakes, etc) or change my lifestyle so I don't have them. If I never wrote about the bad things people would have a different opinion of me, for sure. But I don't hide the dead sheep or chickens. I admit to being broke and happy. I'm okay with people being patrons of my writing. I am okay being disliked for those things.
My goal is to learn from those mistakes, find prosperity, heal anxiety, get healthier and become a better farmer while still living the life I love here on the farm. This blog is one hell of a bumpy road and I think a lot of folks just want there to be less bumps. That comes across as thinking I am either stubborn, crazy, selfish, or stupid. I might be all those things but man do I love this life I am chipping away at, and feel like I grew more as a person in the past 3 years since leaving Orvis on a dark horse (literally) than I did in the ten before that."
No Jenna, we just want you to pull your head out of your ass. Or your shower, whichever is smellier.
DeleteShe will absolutely never get it. Real farming is real work, work that is so much and at times so hard you can't move afterward. That you hurt so much that you can't imagine anything but bed. It's taking care of the animals; making sure that they are healthy and clean and happy- even when you are all of the above. It's a lot of work, and it is not frivolity, which is what your life is Jenna. I got news for you, dead sheep should be RARE. It can/does happen, but it should be notable when it does. Your sheep die with regularity.. even poor Maude who you so loved and then watch her suffer for days laying there, just so you can share the "realness" of your "farming". Jenna, my dear, real farmers don't watch their animals dying over days. If you never wrote about the bad things you would have no income stream, and you know that very well. That is why it is all bad, you literally feed yourself with your woes. I got news for you Jenna, you de-evolved into a high school brat who's parents are away and the party rocks on.
DeleteI don't care what she writes about. I don't care if she's crazy, stubborn, stupid or stinky. I don't care about her personal growth, which I don't believe in, because she is begging and committing fraud to fund her life. Excuse me while I brew some tea and put my church hat on.
DeleteI find the bit about Jenna learning from her mistakes most laughable. Every year, there's not enough firewood and such to get her through the winter. Every year, there's a bloodbath because she can't be bothered to house her animals properly.
DeleteI think she DOES know better, she just doesn't care.
I think she lets animals die because it's good drama for The Jenna Show. Sad.
C.
Garbage. All of it. The only learning from mistakes going on is that she's learned if she keeps making the same "mistakes" and keeps sharing the tales of woe related to them, she'll keep a roof over her head. Not from an honest living, but from pity. That is a lie if you can be happy living like that. Lie, lie, lie. If you are so stressed and have so much anxiety, I highly doubt you are happy. ~AM
DeleteSo she wants to learn from her mistakes...but, she doesn't. She keeps making the same mistakes ALL. THE. TIME.
ReplyDeleteShe's been farming and farm blogging for 10 years and she still can't seem to move off of square one.
The only thing she is learning is new and better ways to fleece her audience. And, when they get wise to the cluster fuck and fade away, what then?
You're not a farmer who can produce and sell. You're not a homesteader who can sustain herself. You don't have a reliable income stream. And you can eat your pretty words or love for oyur life.
I also found the "learn from those mistakes" comment particularly delusive. That post is apparently for all her new-found fans, who don't know the history that she does NOT learn from her mistakes. Wash the fleece, rinse, repeat.
ReplyDeleteI'm sure she's learned from a few mistakes. Like don't test electric fencing with your bare hand and don't undercook the chicken. In the financial world she has only learned from her successes. Crisis = money...
ReplyDeleteShe's back to showering in the rain. And she mailed a mortgage payment. Where did the money come from?
ReplyDeleteWhere do you think the money came from? After her sob story, I'm sure donations came rolling in.
DeleteI am canning this morning and it occurred to me, I am more of a homesteader that Jenna, even though I have no animals and a small garden. I don't kill anything except plants around here!
ReplyDeleteShe got her septic fixed and mentioned the sewer suckers by name--- hey, it worked with Gibson's vet bills.
ReplyDeleteShe's a sick person. I feel like every word she types is so calculated. Finds herself in certain positions...carefully writes out the story and then waits for action by others. God forbid she take some (respectable) action herself. ~AM
DeleteNo word about her tooth. She really is the queen of B.S.
ReplyDeleteI was so happy to find this blog because I actually felt bad being constantly annoyed by JW. It's nice to know I'm not alone. :)
A friend of mine saw Jenna at her local farm stand yesterday and guess what she was buying...PORK!!!! That's right, the queen of the pork CSA was buying frozen pork. And she saw a total of 4 bales of hay on her truck. Not much hay for all her animals to live on. I wonder how long she can make that hay last. Some homesteader! What's next, buying those roadside bundles of wood for $5?
ReplyDeleteUm...she did that last winter, bought her wood in $5 bundles from Stewart's.
Delete...Now let's see if she writes about some dinner she makes with "her" pork bahahaha. I bet people wouldn't give a crap if she picked up pork or eggs or wood or what-have-you from a store every once in a while if she didn't have such a nasty, holier-than-thou attitude toward people, even toward people who have no choice but to purchase from regular stores.
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Tomorrow I will share with all of you the secret to the perfect roast pork and apple dinner.
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So she's going to use store-bought pork and surely imply this dinner is a product of her scrappy farm...
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DeleteOh my gads... That pork roast post is so funny knowing that she had to buy the roast... Where the heck is her CAF pork??? And her Facebook flu kids are already singing the praises of her pork etc., curious she doesn't mention it was hers... Ha ha. What a fraud.
DeleteSo let me get this straight... a 33 year old pseudo farm girl has to cook her pork roast in a disposable foil pan because she doesn't own a bake pan? Hmmm
DeleteAnd let's not even talk about that roast. Seriously like everything else she does it looks like a thrown together mess.
I'm sticking with my Apple Jack and brown sugar glazed pork roast with baked apples on the side. Looks way more appetizing.
Foil pan and bottled bbq sauce? Nothing wrong with that unless you are pitching yourself as a homesteading expert. I would think someone on a blog like her's would make their own sauce.
DeleteWhy do we have to keep hearing about her nakedness in her backyard? Goodness... What must the neighbors think?
ReplyDeleteYes.. and she *does* have neighbors. She needs to be cited.
DeleteWhat's next? Riding Merlin naked?
DeleteShe thinks she has "patrons"? The Great Masters had patrons, she has pitying donors responding to her pathetic warblings detailing the latest crisis. Her writing isn't good the first time around nevermind when it's reheated and served up again and again. We've already been treated to the tale of her outrunning the storm to make it home in time for an outdoor shower, the panic washing off her as the thunderclouds burst overhead. Doggie dance party? Check and double check. Jogging, wolves at the door, meals with good friends, it's all been written about to death. There's no need to keep paying her to recycle her limited material on a loop.
ReplyDeleteOne of the reasons I stopped reading Katz's blog---he would write about the same things over & over--it was maddening to me.
DeleteYes, that and the fact that his unedited writing is an incoherent mess. I also find his eagerness to publicly ridicule anyone who makes the mistake of saying something he doesn't like disgusting. Advice offered in the spirit of generosity and goodwill is not something to be threatened by and he shows his lack of character every time he pummels someone for trying to be helpful.
DeleteThey don't have patrons. They have enablers.
DeleteIf I had a shot every time she said "wolves at the door" I'd have alcohol poisoning.
ReplyDeleteWe should play Bingo and put her most used words in the squares at least then we'd get some entertainment out of this train wreck.
Our most used words: train wreck !!!
DeleteI find it ironic that she has a wolf as a logo for her farm and her heathen group and talks about being a wolf all the time and not a poodle and all, but that all the time she is afraid of wolves at the door. Wouldn't a wolf like other wolves? Haha, or is it just a slip that she's really a poodle in wolves clothing????
DeleteHilarious observation!!!
DeleteOn twitter she wants mixed drinks that use pedialite. A supplement for babies with gastrointestinal issues if you haven't heard of it. Maybe that store bought pork wasn't so good afterall...
ReplyDeleteShe is referring to, through a snarky joke, the use of pedialyte as a cure for hangovers. Since her level of alcohol intake is really high, and her thinking disordered in a kinda alcoholic way (I swear she drunk posts sometimes) it is unsurprising that she knows all about this and makes oblique references
Deletehttp://nypost.com/2015/05/17/how-a-drink-for-babies-became-the-adult-hangover-cure-of-choice/
I had no idea... I guess I'm just not hip enough. :)
DeleteBe thankful for that Alice. Sometimes HIP is just a nice way of saying effed up
DeleteNo, you are just not alcoholic enough, this is a good thing.
DeleteIf you want to see something bizarre, watch her latest vlog about products she can't live without.
ReplyDeleteDry shampoo: Look, poodles, she doesn't have the time to wash like the rest of you people on your way to work. Take 10 minutes to hose off? No way. That's a luxury for you office workers. She does have time to hang at the brewery and when she gets the call she uses dry shampoo so she doesn't look like a homeless person. Pretty cheeky slagging on homeless people when foreclosure notices make a regular appearance in your mailbox.
Facial wipes: No time to shower but plenty of time to apply and remove make-up and make this weird ass product review vlog. If the doorbell rings she uses a wipe to clean up....is she June Cleaver? This isn't the '50s. That's a poodle move. Just answer the door.
Wolfthorn deodorant: Because she's apparently covered in shit and placenta? How? Is she rolling in it everyday? Sheep make pellets...in the pasture....the horse makes biscuits....in the pasture....the pigs are in the woods.....wtf? She may need deo strong enough for a kommodo dragon but it's not because she lives on a (pretend) farm.
Tooth pain reliever in stick form: she needs a root canal...still. Hint, hint, hint!
Who the heck cares about her products she loves and uses?
DeleteShe made a vlog about it? Whaaaa?
She forgot aluminum pans and hip waders for all the crap she spews out.
Those are all products someone with no plumbing would use. If she had a working shower or sink, soap and a toothbrush would work in place of all those items. And be a lot cheaper too.
DeleteJenna probably does not need a root canal anymore. Using pain meds for six months did not stop the tooth decay process, that goes on unabated. There comes a time when the tooth is no longer repairable because decay has eaten away so much of the tooth's structure. Once that tipping point is passed, the tooth must be extracted. The only option then is a dental implant (very costly) or dentures. Her mouth is likely a disaster area. Meet 'gums' Jenna. That will work real good at the bar.
DeleteTwo days ago she said her tooth cracked in two. Not clear if it was the root canal candidate or what. She really needs to start taking care of her teeth because it's eventually going to be an enormous expense repairing the damage or she's going to be toothless.
DeleteI worked with a woman who didn't have a washer/dryer in her home so she would Febreeze the hell out of her clothes instead of washing them. She is the only person in the world who I think would appreciate JW's "fake hygiene" vlog.
ReplyDeleteShe's seriously delusional.
ReplyDeleteUsing Band-Aids requires skill........? You begin to understand why she's in as much trouble as she is, with these kinds of statements coming out of her mouth. She's too busy farming to get her root canal done but has plenty of time to run 5 + miles a day, go horeseback riding and anything else that catches her fancy. She doesn't have time to shower but she watches copious amounts of TV and tweets/FBs all hours of the day and night. Screwy.
It's called being a POSER. She isn't a real farmer but is sure trying to act like one! My grandparents were farmers and certainly had time to shower daily without resorting to wipes and dry shampoo. I also find it very telling that she isn't making her own dry shampoo and soap. To each their own, but geez this is bizarre.
ReplyDeleteJenna, where to begin.. You are too busy to shower? Really? You spend hours riding your horse, searching for Hawk to imprison, taping yourself for youtube and God knows what else, but you can't take a shower? Seriously? No, you are just well, I will leave that lay. I will say that no matter how tired I get, and I have health issues, legitimate ones, AND work a full time job AND have a good sized flock of sheep AND have real working dogs.. and I shower every single day. Dear, the stank does not go away just because you cover it with some sort of chemical.. OH GROSS is all I can say. Oh, and insulting homeless people? Real nice. You are actually acting more and more immature as time goes on. It boggles the mind.
ReplyDeleteYou had me at insulting homeless people. :( I don't shower every day but I hardly work up a sweat working in an office. I do live in a city and see homeless people every day. It just breaks my heart. Some of them make me cry for the rest of the day. It is never their choice to be in that situation.
DeleteSorry, that's my high horse. One of my pet peeves. Homelessness should never be mocked.
Gross? If BO sniffin Woginrich has stinky pits from not showering, how does she keep "flower fresh" down there? This might be an issue if she gets lucky at the bar, and finds a drunk guy at last call willing to walk on the wild side.
DeleteI shouldn't have laughed so hard at that.
DeleteHer thought process is so convoluted.
DeleteShe needs to be ready to fly out the door to meet so and so at the brewery at 7---- so take a shower and meet them at 7:15. There. You're welcome Jenna.
You don't understand. She must fly out the door to meet at the brewery at 7--- or so and so won't wait for her, so and so won't think she is cool. She is so desperate for real human contact, after years on the blog and cyber friends with no actual personal contact, she does not want to risk anything on loosing her new bar friends. Cheers!
DeleteLet's all make a vow to not watch anymore of those vlogs. "It's so hard to get away for a couple of hours " for something frivolous like a root canal, but you have to keep dry shampoo around in case you have an emergency, like getting to the brewery in half an hour.
ReplyDeleteIf you want to read about the most interesting homeless person in the country, try 3mules.com. He has a Facebook page too. He walks around California with his 3 mules. He doesn't beg, but people bring him hay and carrots and some meals, and they let him camp at their house, pasture, barn. He never talks about shampoo or deodorant. He says his first priority every day is the well being of his mules, he's had one of them 31 years (she's 36), so he must be doing something right.
I have met him! He's passed by our area a couple of times. Very cool to say hello and meet his mules. They look very healthy and happy.
DeleteThat's cool.
DeleteOut of that whole list the only thing of real use is the tooth ache thingy. The rest are ridiculous. Can't shower? Then take a washcloth to your armpits! I've done that and it works. If your hair doesn't look clean then tie it back and put on a scarf. Jenna has done that. Most of these are ridiculously superficial. Not what we would have seen from her 5 years ago or even less.
ReplyDeleteI'm a farmer, I come in contact with feces and placenta and I only use Lady SpeedStick. I feel so frickin' lame now.
ReplyDeleteShe was just trying to show her "new body" so her enablers could tell her how great she looks.
ReplyDeleteDoes she think everyone is obtuse? It's not necessary to back away from the camera to illustrate what long pants and a shirt look like on a person. She's always nudging for compliments and it seems to work most of the time. Looks pretty much the same to me.
DeleteWouldn't you expect a small farmer to promote goats milk soap (here she has a captive audience and she doesn't promote her own products!) or at least urge followers to support their local farmers
ReplyDeletemaking natural products,? Instead she does promote Burts Bees which after being bought out by Chlorox several years ago is now part of a coprporate alliance with companies like Monsanto that use neonic pesticides tied to the mass dying off of bees. AlterNet.org just posted an article several days ago. Some organic growers organization is calling for consumers to tell Burts Bees that it should be urging the EPA to ban these bee-killing pesticides. So Jenna gives them a free commercial.
Does anyone think Jenna just saying twice those companies aren't sponsors doesn't mean she wouldn't like them to be?
Hey Little Antlers! It’s JFW here with my newest vlog. Today I want to show you one of my favorite things – a vintage pocket watch on a chain.
ReplyDeleteNow watch closely as I swing it back and forth. You are getting sleepy…very sleepy. Now when I mention the words ‘root canal’ or ‘broken tooth’, you will send me money. Lots of money!
When I snap my fingers you will wake up and remember nothing.
(Snap!)
That’s it for today. Stay tuned for the next crisis, I mean adventure at CAF!
good one
DeleteArent all of those who donated to her root canal fund (its been months right?) wondering what that money was used for??
ReplyDeleteGood question. It would be interesting to know. And she keep throwing the words out, so it must elicit some kind of response. Either that or she's saying, 'come on now fans, do I have to spell it out? Send more money...I spent the first batch of root canal money on a puppy and now I need more'. At least that's how I'm reading it.
Delete'Root canal' must be a magic phrase like 'Open Sesame'. Utter the words and money appears in your Paypal account. Maybe that's why she said her life is truly magical.
DeleteYes, I wonder what the guy with the missing tooth must be thinking after he sent money for her root canal?
DeleteA puppy and a root canal are the same thing to JFW.
DeleteSo send more money, it all goes in the same pocket of Jenna bad ass f-ing Woginrich.
Woginrich: Her "woe" + gin (or any booze) = rich Jenna, the Woginrich way, herding poodles at CAF.
Speaking of herding poodles, should we start a betting pool on the ultimate price of Friday's puppies (the one she starts at and the sale price)? Cause she can't afford a root canal so Thor knows she can't Afford to get Friday spayed or Gibson fixed and soon there will be adorable oopsy puppies to sell. I start at 1200 and settle at a 500 dollar re homing fee for worm-riddled, no shots, unsocialized 4 month old scrappy puppies.
ReplyDeleteYes, but when she loses a couple to parvo or raccoons or whatever, which she will, that will also bring in revenue, ya know.
DeleteOh my gosh! A parvo riddled dying love puppy will bring in so much money!!!! Can you only imagine? And it's care and rehabilitation will keep her from finishing any fire sale logos she offered during the emotional crisis and drama. Oh my goodness... If she played that card right it could actually get the truck paid off and ahead in the mortgage a good bit! Parvo can cost thousands and thousands....
DeleteStop giving her ideas, people!!
DeleteI wonder if she is building in 30 percent mortality on the puppies like she did the chickens
ReplyDeleteI'm thinking of starting a new Kickstarter project. It's a Mad Libs version of CAF. Instead of inserting verbs, nouns, adjectives, etc., you would insert a crisis, animal, dollar amount, business name...You get the picture.
ReplyDeleteAnd the beauty of this project is that you get to create it! Just shoot me an mail when you're done, as I'll be out trapping a hawk.
Ok, before you go, could I just say how awesomely inspiring and beautiful you are today? I would be willing to give up my own hair so you can afford to dry shampoo yours. I'm in tears just thinking about it.
DeleteOkay, snort cackle that was funny...
ReplyDeleteSo, as someone already pointed out, her vlog showcases a bunch of products someone with no plumbing might need. Dry shampoo, disposable wipes, add that to the throwaway roasting pans and bottled BBQ sauce......you have to wonder if she either has no hot water or maybe no water at all in the house. She also goes to the laundromat. I can't imagine her lender would be too thrilled with the way she's letting the house go to pot.
ReplyDeleteI think you may be right. All that does sound like she doesn't have water at all in the house. Just add it to the list of others things she's destroyed due to lack of maintenance.
DeleteWell, I would guess she has water. Because she has to water the stock. And if she didn't have water, then how would she clean up after the back up in the shower? Just thinking it through.
DeleteShe has been going to the laundromat sine she moved there.
DeleteMaybe the water got turned off for lack of payment. It would be really scrappy to buy a puppy and not pay the water bill.
ReplyDeleteShe has a well. No water payments.
ReplyDeleteNo doubt she had water but I'd bet she knew there was no room to drain it! If you know the septic is full there's no way you're going to put anything down the drain. Should have put a separate grey water system in a long time ago.
DeleteWell, she said they came out and pumped it and all. And unclogged some of drainage. Just saying.
DeleteShe has a constantly running spring fed water system out front that she uses to water the animals. It is not connected to her house plumbing, so she could be without house plumbing, but still have water for the animals. I bet she uses it to fill her outdoor shower bags and to cook with f she has no indoor plumbing left. But, I doubt her mom would stay there without plumbing.
DeleteHer pipes burst multiple times this winter. Never did say anything about repairing them. Maybe she simply has no hot water? The solar shower is a bit suspicious. She's really not that eco-friendly at all despite trying to project that image so I can't see her opting for a solar shower when she could just use her own.
DeleteHer mother stayed at a hotel when she stayed previously.
Oh my gawd... Did you see this comment?
ReplyDeleteJacquie said...
You know, you come across really well on video. I could definitely see a tv show about homesteading with you in it.
September 12, 2015 at 7:01 PM
OMG... Her? In a homesteading tv show? Oh, how dreadful that would be, how insulting to all of the homesteading community!!!!!
She might like the money and fame, but she would actually have to WORK, they don't want scenes of her playing computer games and drinking. And they would want to hire Meredith too, because they love the drama. She thinks she dislikes criticism? She ain't seen nothin yet.
DeleteI am really starting to think that these positive commenters are not what they appear to me.. I think they are funnin' with her.. at her expense.. just my gut instinct on this.
ReplyDeleteThat should have read "appear to BE"
ReplyDeleteSo now showering means having an office job? Showering is for poodles, but makeup and hair dye is badass. LOL, what?
ReplyDeleteJenna my dear, If you have time for hanging out at the bar with friends, you certainly have time to shower. Or *gasp* maybe even proper care of your animals!
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Well, she's obviously on the hunt for a mate... The new found body, makeup and hair color and glasses and the match.com account and the hanging at the bar and the heathen group, it's pretty obvious. But eh gads, if she is, why all the not showering public references? I get the whole look at me I'm comfy naked in the wild, rarrrrrr... Pagan things but geez. A vlog about how to stay clean with chemical, disposable crap? Some homesteader she is.
ReplyDeleteIt reminded me of a scene from WILD where Reese is trying out lipstick and when the sales clerk sees her she says no lip color will help a girl who doesn't attend to her personal hygiene.
ReplyDeleteHair color or new glasses on a dirty smelly body reminded me of putting lip stick on a pig. Never works in improving the look. It's just lip stick on a pig.
Hey - pigs are lovely in their natural state and they dont pretend to be something theyre not! As for humans, I think most would agree being clean feels blissful. - good for mind, body and soul, and useful if you're circulating in spheres outside your own 4 walls. To have that possibility available and reject good hygiene yet embrace
Deletethese other things for show seems bizarre. And to bring it to others attention seems counterintuitive.
OMG now Jon Katz has boarded the workshop train. Talking to animals? Really Jon? What did Rocky have to say when you killed him by letting Simon pummel his poor old blind body? What about the sheep you shot 4 times while it lay there? Workshop on shepherding? You sir, are an atrocity to animals world over.
ReplyDeleteWhat?! It took 4 shots for him to euthanize a sheep?
DeleteWhat happened to Rocky?
Katz doing a workshop on talking to animals? I can do that already. But I'd like to hear more about Rocky. And shooting a sheep 4 times. Seems to me you could take 1 shot to take an animal out of It's misery unless you just can't aim. Then the poor creature suffered even more.
DeleteRocky was euthanized several years ago. He was over 30 years old and in poor health. Jon and Maria did not want him to have to endure another brutal winter. I know there is a lot of anti-Katz sentiment, but in this case, I think they did the right thing.
DeleteAnd yes, I agree it was a stupid thing to let Simon and Rocky in the same paddock, especially since Rocky was blind. Simon attacked him, but that is not what led to his death.
Actually, if you read all his posts, you will know that in fact, the stress of being attacked by Simon WAS Rocky's undoing. It was absolute BULLSHIT that he put that poor blind pony in with Simon. Go back and read it all. Sadly, I remember it very clearly.
DeleteRocky died- stressed to death being attacked by Simon.
ReplyDeleteMy two cents here - I think JFW has running water. If she didn't, don't you think she would post about not having it in hopes of raising more money? Sort of like, help me at least get the basics like clean, running water?
ReplyDeleteOpinions?
"All Out Waste has all my love! They pumped the septic and repaired the blockage in the main drain. I have fully-functional plumbing again! THANK GOODNESS!" (Sept 10)
ReplyDeleteSerious narcissist:
ReplyDelete"Tell me. What do you want to know about me?"
OMG... MEMEMEMEMEMEMEEEEE