Are heathens a widely persecuted group in the US today?
Jennas acts as if she's part of a terrorist sleeper cell.
Why would people care if she's a heathen? Registered sex offender...probably. heathen? Not so much. Being heathen is about as interesting as being Jewish.
"Basically I have recently been reaching out to local community organizers in the business, charity, and conservancy areas around my town. Today while talking to an Evangelical Christian food pantry (our towns only food pantry) about our groups December Food Drive I realized how flippantly I introduced myself as the "Organizer of Tyr’s Good Hand, the local Heathen Kindred” as if I was a Lutheran gal from the town over... To her credit the slightly built middle-aged woman in soccer mom attire didn’t so much as blink an eye at that. She just wanted to know what that meant and who we were. Explaining something as complicated (and to some, weird) as Heathenry isn’t easy and I didn’t try. I basically said we were mostly Asatru leaning Pagans and community service was important to us. How could we help? That was all she needed to hear. She didn’t ask anything else but went with me through the food pantry isles to show me the kinds of canned goods and toiletries they needed. We shook hands, she asked my name again, and I had the schedule and the community needs to report back to my tribe.
I walked out of there feeling 5 inches taller. "
To her credit?!
She can't be serious can she?
She doesn't have enough wood to heat her home for winter, too busy carving wooden God poles.
"God Poles! We have Odin (Thanks to Tim and Jo) and I am working on the masculine god pole carving very much this month. "
Stop carving and start cutting.
Can't finish a paid project...too busy purchasing and building websites for heathen group, honing in her ax throwing skills, getting drunk on mead, and pretending as if she is going to volunteer somewhere.
Jenna olsteen here we come!
I like the idea of her inviting more and more people to her property. Any extra eyes on the condition of the animals is good.
Well, actually the problem with Heathenry is that it tends to be hooked on to by white supremacists. I think less so nowadays, but many of the symbols used by Heathens are co-opted by these groups, including mjolnir. And persecution of Pagans in general tends to be heavier in some regions than in others, i.e.: the southeast, less so in the northern states. And more so in rural areas compared to metros. It is on the decline, generally speaking. However, as a Pagan myself, I am thoroughly pissed at Jenna for claiming a Pagan belief system as what seems to be her newest ploy for donations and being a special fucking snowflake. Beyond pissed, actually.
ReplyDeleteI posted on reddit under bandita. They deserve to be warned.
DeleteBtw love your hair becca (the green). Adventurous and fun!
DeleteThank you, on both counts. I need a new pic though since my hair is now blue. Lol
DeleteUgh...the thing is we are all special fucking snowflakes!
DeleteLove her deflection of your warning. "Oh, this one thing happened, but it was before I was heathen." ugh.
DeleteWait, I thought she'd been heathen for 17 years, no? Well, they've been warned, at the very least I hope they don't give her money.
DeleteShe pretends at polytheism, daring to use the sacred names of gods and goddesses as buzz words to gain views for her blog. A "fluffy bunny" if I ever saw one. I cringe every time she mentions religion.
DeleteShe's no more a true pagan than she is a true farmer.
Meredith, could you post a link to the reddit post/convo? Wow that site is unbelievably convoluted... I couldn't find anything.
DeleteHere's a link to her user profile shieldmare:
Deletehttps://www.reddit.com/user/Shieldmare/comments/
This is a link to the conversation in question:
https://www.reddit.com/r/asatru/comments/3v7bgq/big_updates_about_tyrs_good_hand_also_website/
It's just more of the"look at me, look at me, look at me" thing. Honey, nobody cares. It's 2015, not 1615. I'm sure she's actually disappointed when she doesn't get any reaction to her new "crush."
ReplyDeleteReally, I should have said that 60% is "look at me," 30% is finding a new group to give her money, gifts and free labor, 10% is to piss off her mother.
DeleteHow about the disparaging "soccer mom attire" comment? Thank goodness she's not judging people.
ReplyDeleteI love how her "basic" explanation is that they are "Asatru leaning Pagans." Because everyone understands Asatru so much it needs no further details, obv.
ReplyDeleteMeredith, would you please also post this website on Reddit? I think this site has A LOT of valid information beyond the wool CSA and is more current. Of course up to you...I don't know if that would cause a shitstorm from them...
ReplyDeleteAlso, a comment about Birchthorn and taking 15K from people and not delivering is something they should all know about. It will make them think twice before THEY are paying her mortgage!
Thanks!
I think it would be great just to cut and paste that excellent summary by the Amazon reviewer and post that to Reddit. It covers everything!
ReplyDeleteBecca, I'm with you. How dare she co-opt an Old Religion to get new victims - I am super-cranky about it as well. However, I am a little worried that in this blog we will cross the line and start trashing her stated religion out of frustration (not that you Becca are doing that, I am saying in general). Because it isn't her special snowflake status, the religion she practices, or her belief systems that are the problem. It is that she steals money from the well-intentioned, and doesn't take care of her animals that is the problem. Not heathenism or whatever her flavor of the month is.
ReplyDeleteA legitimate concern that I share. We will have to see how things unfold, unfortunately.
Deleteit would appear that word is getting out. its having enough of a effect that her current blog post is all about getting positive references
ReplyDeleteOnce again following a comment here. there is now a planned website in the works not just the blog
ReplyDeleteHmmmm....is she taking my suggestion to build a website for her design business? Hahaha!
DeleteI can't imagine there being more than a handful of people willing to give a good reference.
ReplyDeleteI think it doesn't reflect well on her that she's bribing people with free workshops/free season pass - - it just shows that she is aware that she isn't going to get many people to leave glowing reviews unless there's something in it for them.
This will be a good gauge to see how many Jenna fans are left!
She should have waited until a hardcover copy of Birchthorn was in the funders' hands. Asking for references now could really backfire on her at this point.
ReplyDeleteShe doesn't want my reference. Overcharged for an uninspired watermark that I could have done in Paint. Still grumpy about that. Grrr.
ReplyDeleteGive it to her anyway-- I sometimes think she "forgets" about all of her misdeeds!
DeleteJenna on reddit:
ReplyDelete"I don't know what these two sites say, but mostly they accuse me of ripping people off for this yarn thing and mistakes I made as a beginner farmer where animals died."
.....and the webinar thing, the kickstarter thing, the Clan blog thing, the pig share thing. Any "thing" where she took money and did not deliver the goods/services. She was a "beginning" farmer when Maude was left to rot? The ram lamb that was down for weeks? That was just her Beginner Farmer phase? Curious that she would be teaching Livestock 101 to strangers for money if she was only a beginner--- which is it? How 'bout this past spring when she proclaimed "chicks are cheap" and acknowledged 50% death loss was not only expected but totally ok with her?
I've been a practicing Pagan for 30 years - and I'm fed up to the eyeteeth with idiots like Jenna. She's nothing but bad PR.
ReplyDeleteI posted this on reddit
ReplyDeleteGood luck and buyer beware to any who give money to Jenna/Colbie. Yeah, people who have been ripped off by Jenna/Colbie are pissed. If she never ripped anyone off there wouldn't be over 40 people tracking her every move. WE ARE OUR DEEDS, SON!
Is there another website about Heathenry that she is "contributing" to? If so, could you post the link? Constant vigilance is my watchword!! :)
ReplyDeleteJenna on reddit:
ReplyDelete"Also, this has nothing at all to do with Heathenry. Or, reality"
Au contraire. It has everything to do with both. If reputation figures large in Heathenry than her fellow Heathens should be aware of what hers is. Her deeds are her reality-- real people get ripped off. Real animals go without adequate shelter.
I don't have time to convince those people. They've been warned.
DeleteInteresting. I can see that she is capable of web design, and I know there are telecommute jobs which could at least pay her mortgage. She is also capable of designing and having hoodies and T-shirts made. Her fans would eat those up. Then there are calendars, mugs, hats, and she could still do some of her workshops, yes, she is right that she could support herself on that property. I don't know if she'd have time for binge watching TV shows or a hawk, but she wouldn't have to beg.
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure she still has that many fans who would eat those things up. Five years ago, even three years ago, but now? Maybe not.
DeleteSo far not one person who has given her $$ has left a reference in the comments.
ReplyDeleteWhere are the logo & workshop people who are happy with her services? Zzzzzz
It seems to me she is "reaching out to her community" to try to salvage her reputation as a "serious mooch".
ReplyDeleteThis is all about damage control folks. My guess is she could care less about anyone but herself. This 'outreach' project is nothing more than a smoke screen.
Was looking for what has been referenced on reddit - never been on the site before so maybe you need to be "on" it...anyway, search of name turned up this...no clue if link will work:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.reddit.com/r/tabled/comments/274xx9/table_iama_woman_living_like_fantasy_fiction_i/
Birchthorn donors - you have been forgotten. She is too busy making godpoles.
ReplyDeleteInteresting that she has to pat herself on the back and say she felt 5" taller. Not one person here said anything like that when they donated to Heifer Intl.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.reddit.com/r/asatru/comments/3v7bgq/big_updates_about_tyrs_good_hand_also_website/
ReplyDeleteHere is what they're talking about. When you get to the bottom of the page you'll need to click where it references Bandita. They have downvoted her post so it won't show up "because Mare has built a reputation" there.
would you accept baseless accusations about someone you frequently spoke with just because of some anonymous comments on a blog? maybe thats how you do business but it is sure not how i do. i have seen no facts against jenna. just anonymous comments about unverifiable things.
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DeleteThey are anonymous on the blog. The emails I get aren't anonymous. I respect peoples privacy.
DeleteI,understand their concerns not wanting to have their names on this blog.
Unknown, if you wanna find out for yourself it's certainly your prerogative! I'll try to refrain from saying "I told ya so" when she lets the bees die or burns the God poles for firewood.
DeleteShe responds to the other poster thinking it's me and gives a suggestion on how to make my blog more credible.
DeleteThat's the funniest thing that happened to me today.
the emails you get are anonymous if no one but you knows who they are from. do you even logic?
DeleteAnonymous to you. I don't have to prove anything to you. PayPal isn't anonymous. Jenna knows who these people are. She's accepted their money and ignored their emails.
DeleteSo let me understand this...
ReplyDeleteYou guys, all 40+ of you, are bitching and moaning about Jenna begging for money or scamming people or you don't like what she wears and tell her to get a JOB.
HOWEVER......
You are going out of your way to make sure she can't get a job or work or raise money on her own by forming your vicious attack on her online where ever you can.
So what are you trying to accomplish? Just run her into the ground completely? You can't have it both ways.
But on the upside - an angry mob has a way of looking more like a group of disgruntled losers and helping her gain a loyal following. So way to go!
No one cares if she has a loyal following.
DeleteAs long as people understand they are paying for products they won't get and learn her animal husbandry is not ethical or sustainable..well mission accomplished.
There are honest people to support, people truly in need to donate to, and experts to learn from.
Jenna steals from children and uses donations to get drunk.
She should work first and get paid after...like most people.
This pay in full up front is her scammer mo.
Anon 2:46 wrote: "You are going out of your way to make sure she can't get a job or work or raise money on her own by forming your vicious attack on her online where ever you can."
DeleteHow, exactly, is anyone preventing her from working?
If her reputation prevents her from getting consulting work, good. She can get a job and get that first paycheck after putting in the work.
DeleteHow is recounting her business practices or blog content considered a vicious attack?
DeleteHI JENNA!!!!
DeleteNew followers of Jenna's become new followers of Meredith in about two years.
Deleteher animal husbandry is not ethical or sustainable..well mission accomplished. - Your opinion. I believe she's been visited by the animal people and was ok on her husbandry. Also, just so you know, by law, an animal is a possession. That is why the police do nothing when someone leaves an animal in a locked car. Until it dies that is.
ReplyDeleteJenna steals from children and uses donations to get drunk. - Where is your proof of this?
Oh and one of your previous statements that you called jenna a member of a terrorist group. You may want to watch your statements. That's gonna come back to bite you. And I hope hard.
Meredith wrote Jenna "acts as if" she's part of a terrorist sleeper cell, not that she is.
DeleteShe was visited by the "animal people", as you put it, years ago while still in VT. Too bad she wasn't visited by them this past winter when the pigs were outside with inadequate shelter. That one even had the neighbors talking.
She took donations from a 12 year old for the Clan blog and failed to write in it as promised leading the child to believe she'd been "forgotten about". The child's grandmother related that event here.
Thanks for taking the time to write what I was about to.
DeleteVicious attack...give me a break.
ReplyDeleteThe truth hurts I guess.
The last statement is just friendly advice if you are even open to friendly.
ReplyDeleteAnd yes vicious. You may as well just keep kicking her while she is down.
Isn't there someone else you can bother?
Anon 3:06---
DeleteJenna's own words:
"If the race is about happiness, if that is our actual metric for a good life, I am lapping nearly everyone I know."
Yet you claim she's down-- are you calling Jenna dishonest?
Only in America is voicing an uncomplimentary opinion of someone and, more importantly, their actions considered "kicking" someone.
Shit. I will shut up in an instant if I am ever proven wrong by Jenna. I may possibly even be inclined to offer an apology. However, given the likelihood of that happening is very nearly non-existent, I will continue to speak out as it suits me.
ReplyDeleteGo ahead, Jenna. Come through with Birchthorn, as an actual hard copy, by Yule. Or perhaps stack your wood, properly, on your own. Maybe fix up the fences like they should be. Deliver on any promised service or product in a timely manner and to a satisfactory level of quality, and I will humbly bow out.
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ReplyDeleteCan I assume that you haven't donated to one of her bi-monthly fund drives to save the farm only to find out that her mortgage remains 3 months behind and she's spending afternoons buying t-shirts, riding merlin, sipping store bought coffee and bingeing on Netflix.
I take it you don't know what it feels like to feel suckered out of $
How about a kid paying her allowance to someone for a service that someone promised and that someone doesn't follow through with said promise? That certain someone doesn’t answer emails, blocks comments on her blog from a 12 year old? That happened within the last year. A donation to a tooth that didn't get fixed for months later, while instead a puppy was purchased, was also misused.
I take it you don't think it's unethical to ask for a donation to keep a farm afloat and then throw in the faces of your donator’s things recently purchases -After you claimed to be broke or in the red in your checkbook. Numerous cases of this in the past 365 days.
It's also viewed as acceptable by you apparently that written on one of the threads of this blog a local donated $, just this past summer, for JW to fix her outbuildings. He offered his services to help repair said buildings and get them up to par for this winter. She accepted the donation via PayPal and told him she had the repairs under control-either she'd do them or a friend would be helping her with it this past summer. She stated to this man she felt bad for the shape the buildings were in and yes she would use that much needed money to do so. That $ was never used for repairs of any buildings on that farm. That was verified in November of this year.
By her own admittance no matter what kind of story she comes up with for donations- tooth, truck repairs etc. she almost always uses money donated for her late mortgages. Yet, every single time she mentions her mortgage she is always 90 days behind.
(2/3) Buying 50% more chickens because she knows she will probably lose that many to predators or her dogs is poor animal husbandry. She's not a beginner at this point. She just doesn't know how to build tractors for chickens, or protect her flock. Period. This happened this past spring/ summer.
DeleteWhether you believe it or not her continuous practices of receiving money and not delivering are her modus operandi. It's her real-life reality living personality. She isn't going out in the world to generate real income or make a living. Did you miss her very recent post about not being able to work off her farm? No legit money-making going on there ever. How can any reader that has read her blog or FB for the last year trust that once they've paid for a simple t-shirt, she will deliver. She was paid 15,675 to produce 20,000 more words for an e-book and bound book beginning 8/2014. She spent ALL summer having fun and building her heathen clan-by her own admission she has spent one year building her kindred. While her book, promised in June, remains where? If an e-book and hardcover aren't received by her backers by 12/25 she has defaulted on yet another promise. Period
I’m not a heathen but from reading about them they value reputation. They cannot afford to have their name or work sullied or soiled by someone within misbehaving. JW has created a website that address deeds. This blog, although it does go off track at times, is an archive of past deeds. There are many people out there who have given up and moved on. There are many people who have not. JW counts on people to move on-hence why she refuses to answer email or continue to make her $10.00 a month payments. Why should those on Reddit be left in the dark? They should be given the information and then decide for themselves. All of the information should be given. They’re smart people let them look at the recent issues people have had with JW. She has to be held accountable for her misdeeds this past summer, last winter, this fall-all of them.
Call me mean, but I think the people who come on the blog to defend Jenna are some new kind of dumb. How in the world can you read over 50+ people's comments on how she personally screwed them and still stand up for her? Get your head out of the hole you're in and stand up for what's right. She's cheating people and manipulating people and you standing up for her despite the over 50 negative reviews is ridiculous. Saying Jenna can't get a job because we bash her is a joke. Jenna can't get a job because she's lied her way to an awful reputation. Apologize, Jenna! I'm not perfect and would forgive you if you were honest about your character and choices to lie, deceive, steal and manipulate.
ReplyDelete(3/3) Wake up! Go away if you are trying to make it easier for a common criminal to continue to rip people off. Stop defending someone that has willingly and knowingly, just in the past year, taken $ from people only to lose their email, run behind producing a product, delay delay delay, and then lie openly on sub-reddit that all the hate is from a wool CSA. The wool csa is just one of many many many things JW has really done to rip people off. She likes minimalizing her thievery and making her accuser look like a fool. She's ok with stealing from people this past summer, fall, and on and on. Why she blogged about her tactics right here- 5/5/2013
ReplyDelete"Some people assume, very wrongly, that this farm is a woman's playground paid for by donations from adoring readers. I know people assume this because they send me angry emails about it. I assure you that isn't the case. I appreciate any and all contribution to the farm, but for example, this week I posted about contributions and they totaled 73 dollars. That was the total haul for the bi-monthly fund drive which I post six times a year (last time was March). That is enough to buy half a month's worth of chicken feed or a week and a half worth of hay bales. It is a HUGE help and I am incredibly grateful for it, but $73 every eight weeks does not a playgirl make. A part time job is appreciated and needed. It'll help add income to how I actually make a living, which is through ad sales, ad clicks, workshops, freelance design, speaking, and writing books".
And how long did that part-time job last. About the same as anything else has-until the newness wore off and donations stopped. You can't make pleas for donations if your fans know you have a job. Can you?
It's going to stop, it will stop. Backers of Kickstarter keep making your complaints.
Please repost this all on the newer thread.
DeleteMeredith I reposted but the 3rd part beginning with wake-up that ends with why people post anonymously didn't show up. I don't have anymore time right now to rewrite. Can you find that piece and paste it up on the newer thread under part 2? Part 2 ends with "this fall-all of them"
ReplyDeleteThink this is it for me, the checking in on CAF blog. Finally reached my point of being unable to tolerate. The smarmy love comments showing up today are intolerable. Time for me to move on with my life. I'll check in here and write occasionally, probably, and maybe click on her dopey, icky tweets for grins.
ReplyDeleteThe continuing adulation is more than I can handle right now.
If I counted correctly, there are only TWO paying customers who posted reviews.
DeleteThe other comments don't count. Just because she inspired someone doesn't make her an honest businesswoman.
It would seem her customer satisfaction rating is hugely skewed towards dissatisfaction if you consider all the complaints voiced here and at the Cold Antler Sham blog. For every person inspired there's another disillusioned with a bad taste in their mouth after they see Jenna/CAF for what is it.
DeleteI think many of us here can say, honestly, that we were inspired by JW at some point in the past. I know I was. But, that past inspiration has nothing to do with what has been going on recently, and it certainly doesn't mean I would give her a rousing review.
DeleteI liked her first book, thought it was cute, but I'm enough of a reader and writer to have realized that the subsequent books were short on useful information and long on self-absorbing, egomaniac drivel. I suppose that could be a review.
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ReplyDelete[–]ddeck 4 points 4 months ago
Been to Coldantler and met Jenna, the blog is not the reality. In fact, I would suggest everyone go to these places and see what the truth is.
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[–]hoserman 3 points 4 months ago
Can you elaborate?
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Went there for an extremely overpriced rabbit workshop (my wife bought it, not me). House and outbuildings were a disaster, lot of haphazard stuff that showed things were not getting done. I could believe this if it was a 30 acre farm in full production, but it was about 1 acre of actual land in use. Random stuff was just everywhere. The rabbit workshop was terrible. No real plan or useful information. We then had to drive to another person's place to see an animal harvested. (A retired couple owned the place and had larger gardens, more chickens and more horses than Jenna). Even my wife stopped following the blog after going there. She now knew what was really going on. Jenna also mentioned that she had done a lot of swimming that summer and looked forward to spending the majority of the next day at the river. With the amount of work that needed to be done, there should have been no swimming that summer.
In the end, she uses the blog so other people can support her dream of not working in an office. She had a blog post about her truck being repossessed and I'm pretty sure her house was near foreclosure.
11/24/2015
Jenna (who doesn't read this blog):
ReplyDelete"So I assume any and all anonymous posting is yours and/or fabricated."
Hahahhaha! It would take all day to fabricate that many posts.
Hi Patty (or other friend of JW) - I know she is your friend, but if she has a bad reputation, she has brought it on herself. The best thing she can do to rectify it now is put her nose to the grindstone and finish Birchthorn for the backers who provided her with $15,000. If you are her friend, urge her to stop binge watching TV, building god poles and visiting the brewery and deliver what she promised. These good people have been waiting since August when the book was expected to have been delivered.
ReplyDeleteNow be a good friend and buy her some hay and wood.
For those of you who can't stomach her vlogs, just go to the 6:47 mark on her latest, Ep.78, to see what a 33 year old toddler looks like. It ain't pretty.
ReplyDeleteAlso, she's just paid off her credit cards.....again. And claims to have a couple car payments......? I thought she paid the Dakota off. Trying to track the lies, while amusing, is nearly impossible.
Try reading the blog from start to finish. It's like being caught in the twilight zone. You're like that just happened last year or in 2009, 2010, 2011 at this time. Better yet you get the I'm a Buddhist then I'm a pagan contradiction. Yet better you get a blog post stating
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"So I feel like I should share some good news after all this rough stuff. Starting with a little freedom. Today I made the final payment on the Subaru! As of today I own both of my vehicles. No longer is my chariot co-owned by Chase Bank. It is mine, and another step towards owning my own place. (Banks love a girl without car payments.) The other vehicle is a ford truck that is maroon or berry in color with a lined bed.
Credit cards paid off to bring up her credit score 30 pts-1/24/2010; last one paid off 2/4/2010
All throughout 2009 and 2010 very stressed to have a job while worrying about finding a farm".
And one posted just this year claiming no credit card debt because she doesn't use them.
Oh, there's no way you could read her blog from the beginning and not come to the conclusion that she's a compulsive liar about a few weeks in.
DeleteLet me get this straight...she crowd funded for a new truck, the truck of HER dreams, but is still making payments on the other truck that is not drivable???
DeleteWhy not sell the old truck???
Scrap it???
Let it be repoed???
What's the point in keeping it? She's always said her credit is trashed, couldn't get any worse.
Just to point out the incredibly obvious to the Jenna supporters...your money, whether donated or payment for products/services you'll never see, is going to pay off a dead truck. You be a smart bunch! Can I join ya?
Wow, no wonder she so adamantly rejects getting a job. In her vlog she says she "hates working for other people. Hates hates hates hates hates hates hates..." She must have spent a full minute repeating "hates"
DeleteWhat an idiot.
Well, for sure she better hope if she applies for a job that they don't google her name.
DeleteVERY good point.
DeleteOr better yet friends and backers offer to pay back all the victims. Money was just honestly collected on this site and spent to send a girl to school. Right the wrongs for your leader. Paypal those she owes $ to. If you accept this offer, in writing of course, someone will give you the amounts to Paypal. Sound fair?
ReplyDeleteThat blog is painful to watch. What does she know about living in NYC or a Chicago penthouse.
ReplyDeleteAnd, why is wanting to grow a garden or raise chickens weird?
There are many famous chefs who garden and raise chickens. I don't think their fans consider them weird.
I don't consider myself weird and I do and have done a hell of a lot more than JW in my life.
Exactly. She's not weird. Homesteading, growing your own food, farming has become HOT the last couple of years. She is so UNAWARE it boggles the mind.
DeleteRiddle of the day:
ReplyDeleteHow is someone who is three months behind on her mortgage, needs hay and wood, and has to pinch sugar packets from the grocery store going to be able to help stock a food pantry?
Answer: With other people's money of course!
(Meant gas station, not grocery store. Grocery stores are where poodles buy their meat).
DeleteYa, just like this summer she was seen by a local at a farm stand buying frozen pork and then posted on FB- recipe for pork roast coming soon. Then she came here and read someone spotted her so she inadvertently left out any mention it was food she grew on her farm. No praising herself, no patting herself on the back. One of very few blog posts or FB where she wasn't seeking adulation. When a fan asked- CAF Pork? crickets. Yet when her neighbor or friend started down the path of CAF pork and that he bet that roast was really tasty etc etc. she did not deny his comment, or correct it with the fact that she had purchased it just that day at a local farm stand....
DeleteShe told someone on her blog that one of the reasons she hasn't harvested her own firewood is she just hasn't had the time......watching TV is a higher priority than cutting firewood? Building websites for Heathen group more important than being warm? How about the 8 miles a day she was running? Calories would have been burned cutting wood AND it would have actually been productive----- firewood!
ReplyDeleteNow she claims to only have one acre of woods yet other places she claims to have two acres of pasture.....does math work different in Washington Co?
Speaking of firewood.... on her latest video... if you stop the frames at 2:15 and look just to the front of the truck. That firewood is STILL sitting in her yard.
DeleteEh, I can't really blame the people over on Reddit for being suspicious of Meredith. If you were online buddies with someone and a new user claimed they were crooked, you would likely be highly skeptical.
ReplyDeleteWhat I do wonder is, do these people read her CAF blog? Because the pattern of begging and hypicrisy is very clear over there. I honestly don't understand how folks don't see it.
Clearly, this is her new group to grift and she's laid the groundwork for it. Maybe with the face to face interaction of her local group, she will be held accountable for anything she promises them.
I do rather laugh at those who talk about her 'reputation' based solely on her online presence. Of course, her online history is apparently not good enough as proof of her misdeeds but her words on the screen that swear she's just a victim of bullying are. Am I missing something here? Do folks not understand how the internet works?
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What we did was plant the seed. Even if they think we're a$$holes now, they'll probably pick up on her b.s. Quicker than if they never heard about her sketchy ways.
DeleteWell, I thought the concept of reputation was a bit peculiar as well.....how do you build a "good" reputation simply by making some pretty superficial religious chat with total strangers for a few months? That's not knowing someone or seeing their actions. Jenna is golden because she came along and kissed butt and made all the right in-jokes at all the right times. Sooner or later they'll see that she's co-opting their religion for her latest wardrobe change.
DeleteOh, I'm sure there's some suspicion being cast her way. Although, if they haven't noticed what a douche bag she is by now they are either very forgiving, very dull witted, or enjoy watching her make an ass of herself for their own amusement. They take such pride in not taking any shit from wannabe Heathens and yet they've got the biggest faker of all stinking up their sub!
DeleteSo far only ONE person gave a positive review of their logo Jenna made and ONE person gave a positive review of Fiddle Camp!
ReplyDeleteI wasn't sure how many people would come out of the woodwork to say Jenna did a good job, but I sure expected more than TWO!
How many years has she been doing this and only two satisfied customers? WOW.
Anyone who gives Jenna money at this point is just as delusional as she is. They can't say we didn't warn them!
http://www.practicedock.com/index.cfm/PageID/7290/?p=333
ReplyDeleteWhat one must do and I see it all the time is put something to this effect in their testimonial or public review of a business. And by business if an author is asking for a public review her business is writing. If a blog writer is looking for a public review on their website and their business relies on their blog and it's information then the reviewer must say this-
ReplyDeleteI loved the book, the blog and everything about it. This that and the next thing yadda yadda. I am writing this review in hopes of the author choosing my name for 3 free signed books. It would be clearer in other situations and then you write- I am being paid for this endorsement. Still, her set-up is shady and not very ethical at all. I wouldn't accept anything said by someone who is commenting or reviewing for a chance to win 3 free signed books.
FTC Guidelines About Posting Reviews and Testimonials
DeleteThe FTC has created the following guidelines for reviews, blog posts and any form of online publishing such as articles:
All endorsements or testimonials must be truthful and not misleading in any way
If there’s a connection between the endorser and the company that would affect how people evaluate the endorsement, the relationship must be disclosed
Even paid endorsements are considered to be deceptive if they make false or misleading claims
If the FTC or other consumer interest groups finds that your practice has been posting fake reviews online, or that you are paying someone to write reviews about your business without indicating that they are being compensated for the activity, you could face a hefty fine and end up losing credibility.
"What I would like is to collect any recommendations from folks who have attended workshops, camps, received logos, basically spent time here on the farm or worked with me. You are also welcome to ad book and blog reviews, particularly if this website has helped you in any way realize your own dreams. If you do so I might use them on the site with your credit and permission. Basically, readers and clients are references to folks who do not know me.
DeleteThis is indeed going to take some of your time and I don't want to appear ungrateful! So I will pick a random blog comment to win a Season Pass to Cold Antler Farm events or three signed books of mine (your choice!) if you can't attend events here at the farm".
Quite fitting that she would choose to say "received logos" instead of "purchased logos" as we know that in her case, the two are not the same.
DeleteI just watched some of the latest vlog about ten reason you might be a homesteader. And I had this realization. Jenna talks a good talk, she can paint your a picture, through her words and such that sounds really good. But the thing is, she doesn't do any of it. She's been on her place for five years and it's like the same aside from a mews her friends built... Hardly anything has been done. Her fences suck, her herds are depleted, her animals are in the same crappy enclosures, she hasn't learned to make anything except a chicken on kale or some sickly sweet BBQ pork. She talks about all this homesteading freedom and yet she makes a living off logos, a little writing, begging money from readers and high priced workshops of little value.
ReplyDeleteShe talks the talk but in no way walks the walk except for a few chickens and pigs in her yard. She really does hardly anything homesteady anymore. She sure doesn't write about it. Nothing, just all this tv watching fan girl crap and oh now her heathen clan. Ugh.
She is such a charlatan.
Updated tally for positive reviews of PAID services:
ReplyDeleteGoats & soap workshop-1
Pig share-1
Logo-2
Antlerstock-1
Fiddle Camp-1
Two people mentioned two services in their review so there are a total of FOUR people who were happy with what they paid for.
FOUR. How shameful is that.
All the other "I loved Jenna's books/videos/blog entries" are not included because they did not pay $ for a service.
Even if we do include ALL glowing reviews it's about fifty people out of THREE THOUSAND + fans
DeleteIt's very telling that most of her fans are MIA instead of rallying to support her.
Hey I noticed on Twitter that she has 1,419 followers...wasn't this number around 3,000? Or is that Facebook (I can't see a total on FB).
ReplyDeleteCould it be that over half of her followers bailed???
It's YouTube that has the 3k+ followers
DeleteJesus she only posted the thing a couple of days ago. I swear you guys are the only ones stalking her. You waste no time posting about it here. It's like your full time job or something.
ReplyDeleteAnd she isn't violating any ftc guidelines. You all are just looking for another reason to bash her.
You people are pathetic
As opposed to yourself, who is doing the same thing here, while also white knighting for a habitual thief. Go you!
DeleteWelcome to the internet. We're all 'pathetic' here.
So when someone rips you off you just roll over and take it? You don't feel the need to get the word out there?
DeleteIf everyone were like you, YELP.COM wouldn't exist.
Anon 9:51 - Please. You are wasting your time here. You will not change anyone's mind. Now be a good friend and go buy her some hay and firewood. And make a few mortgage payments for her as well.
DeleteAt least I don't pretend to be her friend on her site and come back here and blast her. Yelp.Com.
DeleteOh, for christ's sake. Is that you Good Shepherd? Carry on with your little one sided romance your're having with Jenna. Are you really so upset that people don't like the lazy she-devil you're worshiping? Who cares what anyone else thinks? We may well be pathetic cranks, it doesn't matter - if you think Jenna's wonderful that's all that matters. Don't be so insecure about it.
DeleteIt was crashdown who suggested yelp, pretty sure that's her editor for Birchthorn. Doesn't make a lot of sense that she would be giving her crap suggestions.
Anon 1:41 - It might surprise you to find out that most of us here were friends or fans at one time.
DeleteAs usual you have assumed wrong. Not the person you think. And I don't think crashdown is any friend of hers.
DeleteCrashdown is a very good friend. She tells it like it is.
DeleteIt would have to cure a year anyway. So harvesting now would be for next year use.
DeleteI'm going to make my guess. Patty?
DeleteCrashdown is one of the few people to say anything thoughtful or useful to her.
DeleteDo you think these off-kilter fans girls mindlessly praising Jenna are her friends?
I legit posted about YELP.COM here and only here. No double dipping going on.
Deleteand to elaborate on my 4:06 post, Jenna would NEVER set up a yelp.com account because they allow the good, bad, & ugly reviews - they can't be edited/ deleted.
DeleteI would never think of that as an option for her. I was just making a general point in my earlier post 11:14am
Jenna's thoughts about Yelp. Is she afraid of fabricated reviews or genuine expressions of disappointment from people who attended? If I were her, I'd be a little worried there'd be a review from whoever gave her the moola to fix up her animal shelters only to discover she didn't do it!
Delete"I understand why Yelp is useful, but since anyone can post anything there - it won't be helpful. It would be great if people had to actually be at your farm and use their real name for a review, I would do that service in a second, but Yelp is a place where anyone can say they were here and say any make believe thing about my HOME. I don't want my address and stranger's thoughts about my home."
It doesn't need to be a full time job, there are so many of us it takes very little effort to track her. A celebrated scam artist, it is very entertaining to watch the evolution of her new grift. Most of us were huge Jenna fans, and some of us were scammed. Others of us are concerned about the way she let her sheep suffer for days, or solicited donations for dental work and bought a new puppy instead.
ReplyDeleteA puppy that hasn't been fixed and is in danger of becoming impregnated too early.
Others of us donated to Kickstarter and were promised a product that hasn't been delivered. It is hard to look away when the person you thought you were supporting to write a novel is out hawking instead of writing, the book is now a .pdf. and it isn't really a novel anymore, just a novella.
Ever ask yourself why Jenna's *customer base* - people who actually bought things, donated, took a workshop, showed up here. What does it mean when your customer base absconds to the other side? Consider before judging: How much heat will there have to be before you consider the possibility of fire? How many complaints? How many people? Just be open to it, and know you can come here when you get burned.
Well done, focused, easily comprehended response to disgruntled supporters. Great wrap-up sentence!
DeleteMore proof Jenna is lying when she says she doesn't read the blog. A few days ago someone here mentioned she should have a business website. BAM! Now she's making a new website! HAHA!!!!!
ReplyDeleteAnd to offer reviews. Although we all know she will delete the negative ones.
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DeleteMeredith - please delete anon 1:49. It was posted under the wrong thread.
DeleteDoes anyone else remember JW saying that half of her six acres was wooded? Now she says it's one acre.
ReplyDeleteWe have a one acre lot and half is wooded. We have so many trees on that half acre, I can't count them. Surely she could spare a few for firewood as we did.
Does it make a difference if the trees are on a hillside? Can't she find someone with a chainsaw and barter for services?
I really don't believe she 'doesn't have time' to harvest wood. Where there's a will there's a way. She claims to be scrappy. If she wanted to harvest her wood, she would. But I guess it's not as much fun as watching TV or playing with her bird.
Maybe it's not suitable wood for burning. If it's pine or some other soft wood it's not worth harvesting.
DeleteShe didn't say it was pine. She even said she was going to tap it someday (right). That would mean maple.
DeleteEnvironmentally speaking...there's an art to wood lot management. Based on my BS Geography Major (GIS and Environmental Studies)....you want to keep vegetation on a hillside for the roots to secure the soil. This is also why you want to maintain riparian buffer zones along streams and rivers. Soil will readily wash away with fluvial (water) erosion and/or alluvial (wind) erosion. This leads to issues at the point of erosion and the associated water systems.
DeleteI'm sure there's an extension office (or a friend who just wrote a book on wood lot management and is a professor at a local college) willing to take a look and mark trees to thin or harvest.
You want to thin forests to allow sunlight to reach the growing trees.
A hillside will be well drained so I'm not sure about the marshy hill she's referencing.
DeleteWhy lie about it, the county probably has aerial photographs with topo overlays in their mapping department.
Antlerstock probably drags out a few small logs...heating her home for a few days.
The NYS Dept. of Environmental Conservation would help her for free. "Located throughout the state, DEC foresters are available upon request, depending on availability to help landowners get started managing their land by creating a basic stewardship plan and providing technical assistance at no cost."
Deletehttp://www.dec.ny.gov/lands/5230.html
I now understand why she 'hates' to work for others. I'm sure it's because they expect her to produce.
ReplyDeleteWhat she doesn't understand is that no one really works for themselves. Self employed people must answer to their clients. They are the ones who provide the 'paycheck'.
Yes, good business people and anyone with a brain understands that, but she does her darndest to call the shots. When she discounted her logos with the stipulation that she would limit her revisions--not keep working on it until the client was happy---then it's not really a logo discounted--it's a partially done logo--a different product altogether. She has no concept of customer service. With her products of questionable value or quality, she should bend over backwards in that department; but that's too much trouble for her--and that's the real measure of her character -hence no refunds, almost no communication. Those annoying, pesky customers--who needs 'em?!
DeleteHer latest bundled package of logo with a workshop "thrown in"on the side (makes it sound so special, NOT) and money given to charity she made the cryptic stipulation that her logo was offered via her idea of "teamwork": that means like only one revision/back and forth with the client.
Her statements that she is relying on logo design because book deals are hard to come by these days just shows how clueless she is. She HAS a book deal: it's called BIRCHTHORN!!! She should have had that outlined before she ever offered it. She got greedy and took money to write in readers as characters and she can't handle that. If she had put real effort into that project, she could have a product that she could show to publishers to show what she could do in the fiction department and have glowing reviews from her readers. Too late now--she moved on long ago.
You have such good points.
DeleteShe has botched up Birchthorn so badly that her days of being published are over. Publishers can see for themselves she took the money and missed multiple deadlines with no end date in sight. No publisher will risk the same treatment.
It boggles my mind that she was writing that Merlin and me book when she was supposed to be working on Birchthorn. It's like once she gets paid for something, all motivation to follow through disappears.
DeleteThe part that boggles my mind is that she actually posted that she was writing a book about Merlin! Does she get a sick thrill out of blatantly pissing people off? So much of what she comes under fire for could be avoided if she used a little discretion.
DeleteYeah--discretion is the better part of valor, Oh but that would have meaning for knights, not vikings Then she used the beginning of Merlin and Me as content for the clan Cold Antler blog whose patrons are waiting with blank screens for eons......wonder how many of them were investors in Birchthorn and seeing another book used as crumbs for Clan CA. That would make me furious, not happy Everything she does is tainted in some way by her pitiful lack of work ethic and every other kind of ethic.
DeleteMap quest aerial shows very little of it being used. Lots of trees and overgrowth that could be thinned.
ReplyDeleteIt appears that Tyr's good hand has been in other people's pockets. At the very least has been known to pinch Equal from the gas station.
ReplyDeleteVery clever! Hahaha
DeleteSuch a good friend of Stewart's. Calls their coffee "crap" on a public forum and then admits to stealing from them. Guess she doesn't know how to be a customer either.
DeleteI love how she calls the Wool CSA a "Yarn thing". Trying to trivialize her own product--yeah, Jenna a yarn thing that people paid $100 (and More) for. People know it's wool, and for some real homesteaders that's a product with huge potential to be further processed with creative energy into something beautiful to sell, wear or hang. And you blew out your customers' candles of vision. JW is like yeah, call me a monster for letting animals die and not following through on a yarn thing. Well, I would say monster for the former and fraudster for the latter.
What kills me is wondering - did she not even google or do the most basic of research to learn Scottish Blackface sheep wool is not good for knitting yarn neither before she bought them or when she set out to do the wool CSA?? Her business ignorance is breathtaking. She just wanted the cool Highland breed to go with her Viking Gal persona?? I guess her customers could have also researched that variety but I think they just trusted she knew what she was doing and wanted to help her. I know sadly, she turned off some to CSAs altogether. Could she have still had the wool processed for whatever its use was (carpets or harris tweeds or whatever) and still come through with something for her supporters??. (Besides the obvious good faith refund)
Anon 11:55, you make a good point about her turning people off of CSAs.
DeleteThat's one of the ways she impacts small farming negatively. CSAs are all about trust and community-- and she stomped on both with no remorse. While she's moved on to her next funding scheme, she has left quite a few people with a bad CSA experience. Same could be said of the pig share folks that were being shorted of their rightful portions last spring.
I wonder whatever become of the wheat CSA she was drumming up business for?
Did she really advertise the book as "Merlin and Me"?
ReplyDeleteAs far as Vikings go - the had well-understood social codes. And the consequences for crossing these rules were often violent.
Another question. Is her group mixing up a bunch of separate religions, or is it one belief system just translated into different languages?
She belongs to Asatru, an attempt to recreate old Norse beliefs through study of the Eddas and other Norse mythology. I did look into it a few years ago, I never understood the need to dress up on costumes or learn to use an axe. But I do like some of the symbols, like the tree of life, it makes me think of the Bodhi tree that Buddha sat under.
DeleteI don't believe she had given the book a title. She said she was writing a book about how Merlin saved her.
DeleteIf I were a Birchthorn backer, I would be really po'd if I found out she was writing another book before finishing Birchthorn.
There was an arrogant post on Facebook where she wrote that most people can't name 5 Norse gods.
DeleteWho cares? And if I did want to know their names, I would do a Google search.
What I don't get, is that every time she becomes fixated on something, she disses people who are not.
"As far as Vikings go - the had well-understood social codes. And the consequences for crossing these rules were often violent."
DeleteSo I wonder what would be the Norse penalty for pinching sweetener packets and failing to deliver goods?
The concept of the book is about her and Merlin--- she seemed to be saying it's intended audience was women in need of self-esteem bolstering....because Merlin somehow led to personal growth for her.....uh huh.
DeleteI don't think she writes because she loves it or has anything to say exactly-- more like because, if one absolutely must work, being an author is less distasteful than being an office drone.
It's like Birchthorn--- kickstart 15K to, maybe someday, fart out a little novella of questionable quality. Not exactly a labor of love or something she's driven to create.
I thought someone referred to it as that--maybe not Jenna. Thought maybe it was a working title. That's why I didin't put quotes around it - wasn't sure and it's not a finished work anyway.
DeleteJust looked up and found some interesting info I'm just starting to read here:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.asatru.org/aboutasatru.php
Has any one else noticed that she always rubs her nose in her vlogs? It's a "tell" that she could be lying. It is a common body language sign that the person is lying. I noticed that she does that and puts her hair back from her face in EVERY vlog, so I had to look it up. No kidding.
ReplyDeleteAlso, looking up and to the left is another sign.
DeleteYes, I have. I think I thought it was somewhere near her mouth she always reached for, (her) left side - but now that you mention it, nose sounds right. I'll keep in mind if I ever can bear to watch another one. My dislike has peaked so strongly lately that I haven't been deal, at all, with the last five or so. Just a glimpse is enough to set off a growl and instant.....something or other not good.
ReplyDeleteWhat is the exact opposite of attraction and good feelings. Feeling of being repelled, I guess.
Believe me, you're not the only one. Her mannerisms are really off and I, too, wonder about the possibility of a "tell". I thought they were particular to the individual? That little scratching maneuver she does with her thumb is weird. Mostly she comes across as fake and unnatural.
ReplyDeleteThe last vlog was worth the irritation just to watch her stomp her feet about how much she hates working for other people. Maybe that was just to make it clear to the fans there's not to be anymore "get a job" talk. Gonna be a sad day for her when she lands back in the workforce.
She may never end up back in the workforce. I have a brother who hated working for others, but that is because he was a slacker and his employers expected him to work.
DeleteAs I stated earlier, she doesn't seem to understand she works for her clients. And if she doesn't change her ways soon, there may be no more clients.
She's gotta do something to support herself. Doesn't seem to be pairing off with anyone-- it's hard to be a single gal that's also lazy as hell.
DeleteJon Katz recently announced his bankruptcy so maybe that's an avenue she could explore.
If you go back a few pages on her reddit comments birchthorn is in the hands of the editor.
ReplyDeleteInteresting. On her Facebook page, she said she spent three days indoors getting things done. Maybe she got angry emails from Kickstarter backers so finally decided to get serious about Birchthorn.
DeleteI hope they have a costco sized bottle of Aleve on hand.
DeleteLooks like the Heathens are getting their marching orders. If you do a good job beating the brush to scare up game whilst Mistress is hawking, she'll let you stack her firewood for her.
ReplyDeleteThis chick is unreal.
"This is a weekend meetup without Blot or studies, just a casual gathering featuring a morning of hawking (Hunting with a red tailed hawk) followed by stacking firewood for the farmhouse. There will be a small ritual held before the hunt and and offering to the local wights of ale before we hike out, but besides that it will mostly be a hike and farm chore meeting. If you are free and want to help hunt and work here at the farm, you are welcome to join in!
If you are coming wear boots that are waterproof and warm! Wear pants or chaps that can handle briars and thorns. Hawking means getting into brush with staffs and sticks and scaring out game for Anna the red tailed hawk. We will be getting down, dirty, and sweaty! After the hunt we'll go to town for lunch at the Roundhouse cafe and then stack some firewood for the farmstead we use for blot and meetings."
http://www.meetup.com/Tyrs-Good-Hand-Asatru-Study-Group/events/227237664/
She just will not stack that firewood by herself, will she. And she calls herself scrappy?
DeleteShe has found a new source of free labor.
I'm speechless....
DeleteI can't believe she has the balls to even ask the members of her religious group to do such a menial task.
Oh, so her 'cult' gets to scare out game (watch out for brambles!) for her hawk, whilst she strolls along with AK on her arm. And then to ask them to also stack her firewood for her? Something that could have taken her 20 minutes to do alone? I also am speechless...
DeleteOh, and going to town for lunch. She's not buying??? After putting her new-found crew to work on her place? Gawd, unbelievable.
DeleteWhat do you want to bet that when one of her group asks for help around their place, she is NOWHERE to be found. "Oh, I just can't leave the farm...."
DeleteThis is unreal. What on earth? There will be no prey animals within two miles with all those people, She has found a way to do absolutely nothing in the name of Religion. She is a pig. Just plain a pig. She can't work, she won't work, she will watch others work. She will also allow them to buy her lunch. I hope that those of you who support Jenna who come here, are seeing this..
DeleteI think it's funny that the hawk is now just 'Anna' and not 'Anna Kendrick'. I guess these people may not be into celebrity worship.
DeleteOh I noticed it was soon after someone here made the comment along the lines of, that sane fans would name their pet "Anna", but insane fans would name it "Anna Kendrick".
DeleteObviously it must have hit JW with a cold dose of reality to how creepy her adulation was---also it didn't work to garner her attention from the object of her worship--neither did that weird blog post trying to draw parallels between the real AK and herself--because soon after she started referring to the hawk as just "Anna". But it would be weird to explain that name to her fellow heathenites. I wonder how she explained "Corbie"--she didn't want to be recognized as JW?" Begs the question--why not? What's wrong with JW? Since she's so open about her religion, she didn't try to hide it. Maybe heathen take on special names.
Hey now...this isn't the place to pull the "pig" with negative connotations card.
DeleteShe's a bad person.
What the what? If anyone has donations for the food pantry they can take them to the food pantry THEMSELVES.
ReplyDeleteIt's a little sleazy of Jenna to let her fans provide her with the donations so she can present it as the work of the Tyrs Good Hand Heathen group.....
Besides, you know she'll be stocking her larder and closet with the TP and anything else she needs.
FB:
"Hey Guys! A group here in town is running a drive to collect goods for the local food pantry. They need toiletries, paper goods (Tp and paper towels) and "meals in a can" so think hearty soups and pastas. If you have anything to donate please let me know and I'll come pick it up. You can also drop it off here."
Yep, a cool new way to fill her own larder- good one Jenna.
DeleteShe really is a criminal genius, like most sociopaths one wonders what she could do if she put all these machinations towards good, but within 1 year business plan 2.0 has been realized, another facet of cult leadership willing to contribute labor, canned goods and TP, and CAF a registered tax exempt house of worship, life is grand at the top folks!
DeleteAgree, Anon 7:54. The next JW scam: tax-free church.
Deletehttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/start-your-own-church_55d24635e4b07addcb43bd60
Luckily there are only 13 people in her heathen group. I'm sure it's just a matter of time before they realize they're being used. And if not...well...whatcanyado...
ReplyDeleteThey can stack firewood all day, it still isn't paying the mortgage...
Did she actually call herself a dog trainer in her homesteader vlog??? That's good humor! She also mentions concerns about clean water. She never mentions what she does to make sure she has clean water in case of grid outages. Not too concerned I guess.
ReplyDeleteSure did and you can bet she'll be quick to call herself a dog breeder once Friday starts poppin' out puppies.
DeleteHas anyone read the pavlovian drool that the Stepford farmers are writing in praise of The Woz? She offers a free POS old book or some such visit to the gulag and people are panting in praise and awe of this farce. Jenna, you are absolutely the only person in all of humanity to have followed your dreams all the way to a root canal and a new truck, how much flattery must I write to win the prize?
ReplyDeleteIt satisfies her narcissistic needs. She really needs this.
DeleteEgads, I guess your complaints about the firewood will force some poor sucka heathens to do the work, as per Heathen News: This is a weekend meetup without Blot or studies, just a casual gathering featuring a morning of hawking (Hunting with a red tailed hawk) followed by stacking firewood for the farmhouse. Location is only shown to members of the secret cult of JW, I wonder if it could be at......CAF? Girls got balls, i will give her that, c'mon wussies stack my wood now bitches, don;t make me drink another mead, grrr
ReplyDeleteI've never known of anyone (whose doings I've stayed in touch with for so many years) to get away with the kinds of crappy bad behavior, continuing irresponsibility re debts, unfulfilled obligations, the non-homesteading of her homestead - while having had down-payment money donated (right?), all kinds of other money pouring in for dogs, vets, dentists, trucks, for work promised and undelivered - yet entire time she's been there, I believe, being months behind on the mortgage..and always whimpering about needing hay, wood, fences failing....
ReplyDeleteI have followed her blog forever and all the above is written, clearly - repeatedly, I may add (except for her shitty business behavior, which you don't find out about on her blog). Has there been another invisible blog written in a parallel universe for her fans (and i don't mean the hardly ever produced special, special content clan blog)?
What in the name of Freyr or Frigga are her adorers adoring??? I am speechless and nonplussed (sorry, J, not jealous) over the love she gets from her groupies who are so "inspired" by her.
Are they not reading the same pathetic stuff we are? What is up with them. There are many real farmers and homesteaders among them. I have clicked on them. They do things to make their land and animals and buildings better. They have families. They work hard from what I can gather. Many of them, who are oozing love at her, should be able to see her with clearer eyes.
I have not been burned personally by Jenna, money-wise; I have neither donated and watched my contribution to the Jenna Inc. non-profit charity be misused nor have I failed to receive product or services from her since I have ordered nothing.
All I've done is follow her antics and pathetic inability to take care of her buildings, animals, and the whole endless nine yards of her guilt-tripping her readers to order, donate, pitch in, help out a "gal" who is in danger of losing her blah blah blah - while talking obnoxiously about the regular folk who slave away in offices, not FREE to be you and me like she, is, brave scrappy girl.
It's hard to miss how unworthy of the admiration, you go girls, and general glowing approval she still gets from so many.
What is up with them? I read their comments with, literally, my mouth agape.
Oh, I'm with you Anon 11:51. The fan interaction is seriously one of the stranger things about the Jenna Show. I mean, it just does not compute. I've been reading the latest round of flattery and baseless praise and I'm left dumbfounded by it. As you say, we're all reading the same blog and privy to the same hackneyed tweets so how do they not see? What's unfortunate is that Jenna is always encouraging people to follow her path but she forgets to point out that you need 3K or so FB friends to sponge off every month.
DeleteYes yes and yes.
DeleteThough Ayrshire Farm is exponentially worse on all accounts...so...wtf, wtf, and wtf?
Anon 11:51, Wow, exactly what I've been thinking! Ditto, ditto, ditto.....Thanks for writing my comment for me:)
DeleteThere are companies who will identify people and pay them to write good reviews/comments on someone's web/blog. I am thinking we are seeing this happen.
ReplyDeleteLook at the timeline. She posted that "help from my friends" and started catching flak and people telling her to go to work. Then, Meredith contacted the heathens and From Scratch and started the Cold Antler Sham thread. So then she had to do the inspirational piece and beg for reviews. It's a pushback against her critics, and an attempt to show From Scratch and the heathens that we are just haters and liars. She hasn't started that Web site yet, and I would be shocked if she ever did. It's another scam.
ReplyDeleteHow much you want to bet CAF is now registered as a church, poof no taxes, its a house of worship, plant another god pole and clean out the manure while I throw back another chalice of mead heathen poodles of Odin, HAIL
ReplyDeleteHmmmm maybe things are getting really bad for her and the food drive is really to fill HER pantry! That would explain the weird request for cake mix and frosting!ha
ReplyDeleteThe Jenna shitshow just keeps getting weirder & weirder
So far the only person going to the firewood stacking extravaganza is Jenna!
ReplyDeleteWouldn't that be hilarious if no one went!
Hahaha
I'm still holding out hope that this heathen group is smart and won't put up with Jenna's b.s.
This book review of Made From Scratch made me smile..esp the pet about the bread
ReplyDeletehttp://2boys1homestead.com/2014/09/27/book-review-made-from-scratch-by-jenna-woginrich/
I volunteer for our local food pantry and we NEVER ask for or get cake mixes or frosting. We get supermarket cakes and desserts that either are just out of date or got smashed against the container so it doesn't look pretty anymore. I'm pretty sure nobody at the pantry suggested boxed cake mixes.
ReplyDeleteA local pantry near me does request cake mixes and frosting along with many other items. Maybe so families can celebrate birthdays. I suppose seniors might like to bake if its something theu enjoy - it can feed the soul so its not entirely unbelievable. Still I'd like to see how much she herself is donating!
DeleteShe's EFFing ridiculous. Why not ask her heathen antlers for sugar and coffee creamer which they will donate to the homeless, but hey, I can pick it up and "donate it" for us! I wish this could be a new low but I am sure lower is underway already. and I am with another reader, goodbye to her blog and life is too short to deal with this crook!
ReplyDeleteSince Corbie RSVPed for t.g.h. Hawking & Firewood (stacking) does that mean she's gonna stack it on 12/12?? Not likely! There is probably some unwritten "if only 3 or fewer can come" an event is cancelled!
ReplyDeleteAnd oh, why o why the dopey name? So girlishly precious. Sounds kinda sweet and harmless, ha!
I guess my creeped out irritation is that reaction that often occurs when you particularly cannot bear or stand someone: everything about them becomes unpleasant and grist for the annoyance mill. I got like that with a prominent politician some years ago where I couldn't even listen to the sound of his voice, for an instant, let alone a single word the voice was saying. Just could. not. bear. anything. about.
Interesting how none of her failures seem to embarrass her or knock her off her game; she just keeps boldly reaching her icky, sticky tentacles out in new directions, searching for prey.
That is one of the aspects of JW's ego that I find most bizarre. She seems to have so little
awareness or conscience, just keeps plugging away, so publicly, at increasing her admirer base. And her admirers keep admiring - so some kinda weird power, seems to me.
"she just keeps boldly reaching her icky, sticky tentacles out in new directions, searching for prey."
DeleteHilarious-- that's also how I see her.
I not only find Jenna shocking (wouldn't she just love hearing that? oh dear! surely not my intention) but I continue to be just amazed by the degree to which I find her way of being in the world utterly repellent, with this reaction now having spread to the(tentacled)human herself.
DeleteWhen I used the phrase you quoted I actually had a visual flash of an alien, reptilian creature, groping about with slimy appendages looking for a new victim to nourish it. With the analogy to JW, not just desperately craving physical sustenance, but admiration and desire to be adored, admired, aided, and emulated. RUN, people!
Safe to say I won't be signing up for a workshop any time soon - even if they become free in some sci-fi future - just to see the place in all its un-glory. And I would scamper in the other direction if I saw her ambling in her kiltie down the streets of Cambridge.
I might actually be moving w/in a couple of hrs of her and once thought how fun it would be to visit some of the local spots - and maybe even see her, ms cool country gal. Hate that term, now. But uh uh. Spare me that glimpse.
So sorry I forgot to thank you, 11:38, for the shout out re the image. It was really nice to see and know my lucid dream moment re J is shared and seemed apt to you.
DeleteHahaha - she is adopting our slang. In the latest vlog, she is calling her fans "antlers". Hi Jenna! Sadly, take my word for it - and don't watch it, the vlog is awful.
ReplyDelete"Ambling in her kiltie" funny
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