THINGS OUR GRANDMOTHERS KNEW 🌿 Old-Fashioned Community for Modern Women
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Things Our Grandmothers Knew
Old-Fashioned Community for Modern Women
Well... apparently I am NOT the only woman in St. Cloud who has been craving something like this. 😂
After seeing how many women responded to my original post, and reading all the things you want to learn, share, make and teach each other, I thought... okay, we actually need to do this.
So, welcome to Things Our Grandmothers Knew.
Once a month, I want us to get together and learn some of the practical, healthy and useful things women have shared with each other for generations, while also bringing in what we know today about taking better care of ourselves, our homes and our families.
But even more than that, I want this to be about connection.
I want you to walk in and actually get to know the women around you. I want friendships to grow from this. I want us to share what we know, ask questions without feeling silly, help each other, laugh together and create the kind of genuine community that I think a lot of us are missing.
This isn't going to be a meeting where you sit in a chair for two hours while someone talks at you. I want us learning together and with our hands.
One month we might plant herbs and learn how to actually use them. Another month we might make elderberry syrup, learn to can and preserve food, swap seeds and plants, make sourdough, mix our own household cleaners, learn about essential oils and how to use them safely, make natural skin and body products, explore herbal teas, cook together or learn something completely unexpected from another woman in our community.
We can talk about sleep, stress, movement, food, our homes and simple choices that can help us take better care of ourselves and our families. We can share recipes, family traditions, home remedies, favorite products and those little things you've discovered that make everyday life a little easier or better.
And this may be my favorite part of the whole idea: I don't want this to be about one person knowing everything and teaching everyone else.
There are women right here in our community who know how to do incredible things, and most of us probably don't even know it yet.
Maybe you grow an amazing garden. Maybe you've been canning for 20 years. Maybe you finally figured out how to keep a sourdough starter alive. 😂 Maybe you know herbs, sew, preserve food, make your own cleaners, grow vegetables, ferment foods, cook from scratch, understand essential oils, make beautiful things with your hands or have a skill passed down from your mom or grandmother.
Whatever you know, there may be another woman sitting beside you who would love for you to teach her.
Some months, one of us may share what she knows. Other months, we may invite a local woman who has something special to teach us. We might meet at a park one month, a garden, kitchen, library or golf course another. Sometimes we may make something to bring home, and other times what we bring home might simply be a new skill, a great recipe, a new idea or the phone number of a woman we genuinely connected with.
And please don't think you need to already live some perfectly "natural" lifestyle to belong here.
You don't need a garden. You don't need to bake your own bread. You don't need to know anything about herbs or essential oils. You don't even need to have something to teach.
You can simply come because you're curious, because you'd like to learn something new, or because you'd really like to meet some good women in our community.
That's enough.
Things Our Grandmothers Knew is about building genuine connections with other women in our community, learning from each other, sharing what we know and supporting one another, the way women have done for generations.
Maybe somewhere along the way, we stopped doing enough of that.
I'd really like to bring some of it back.
So if you're in St. Cloud or the surrounding area, I'd love for you to join us.
And before our first gathering, introduce yourself in the event discussion and answer one question:
What's ONE thing you know, make, grow, use or do that you'd be willing to share with the rest of us?
And if you're coming because you want to learn, tell us one thing you wish another woman would teach you.
I have a feeling we're going to learn a lot from each other.
But more than anything, I hope we get to know each other.
Old-Fashioned Community for Modern Women
Well... apparently I am NOT the only woman in St. Cloud who has been craving something like this. 😂
After seeing how many women responded to my original post, and reading all the things you want to learn, share, make and teach each other, I thought... okay, we actually need to do this.
So, welcome to Things Our Grandmothers Knew.
Once a month, I want us to get together and learn some of the practical, healthy and useful things women have shared with each other for generations, while also bringing in what we know today about taking better care of ourselves, our homes and our families.
But even more than that, I want this to be about connection.
I want you to walk in and actually get to know the women around you. I want friendships to grow from this. I want us to share what we know, ask questions without feeling silly, help each other, laugh together and create the kind of genuine community that I think a lot of us are missing.
This isn't going to be a meeting where you sit in a chair for two hours while someone talks at you. I want us learning together and with our hands.
One month we might plant herbs and learn how to actually use them. Another month we might make elderberry syrup, learn to can and preserve food, swap seeds and plants, make sourdough, mix our own household cleaners, learn about essential oils and how to use them safely, make natural skin and body products, explore herbal teas, cook together or learn something completely unexpected from another woman in our community.
We can talk about sleep, stress, movement, food, our homes and simple choices that can help us take better care of ourselves and our families. We can share recipes, family traditions, home remedies, favorite products and those little things you've discovered that make everyday life a little easier or better.
And this may be my favorite part of the whole idea: I don't want this to be about one person knowing everything and teaching everyone else.
There are women right here in our community who know how to do incredible things, and most of us probably don't even know it yet.
Maybe you grow an amazing garden. Maybe you've been canning for 20 years. Maybe you finally figured out how to keep a sourdough starter alive. 😂 Maybe you know herbs, sew, preserve food, make your own cleaners, grow vegetables, ferment foods, cook from scratch, understand essential oils, make beautiful things with your hands or have a skill passed down from your mom or grandmother.
Whatever you know, there may be another woman sitting beside you who would love for you to teach her.
Some months, one of us may share what she knows. Other months, we may invite a local woman who has something special to teach us. We might meet at a park one month, a garden, kitchen, library or golf course another. Sometimes we may make something to bring home, and other times what we bring home might simply be a new skill, a great recipe, a new idea or the phone number of a woman we genuinely connected with.
And please don't think you need to already live some perfectly "natural" lifestyle to belong here.
You don't need a garden. You don't need to bake your own bread. You don't need to know anything about herbs or essential oils. You don't even need to have something to teach.
You can simply come because you're curious, because you'd like to learn something new, or because you'd really like to meet some good women in our community.
That's enough.
Things Our Grandmothers Knew is about building genuine connections with other women in our community, learning from each other, sharing what we know and supporting one another, the way women have done for generations.
Maybe somewhere along the way, we stopped doing enough of that.
I'd really like to bring some of it back.
So if you're in St. Cloud or the surrounding area, I'd love for you to join us.
And before our first gathering, introduce yourself in the event discussion and answer one question:
What's ONE thing you know, make, grow, use or do that you'd be willing to share with the rest of us?
And if you're coming because you want to learn, tell us one thing you wish another woman would teach you.
I have a feeling we're going to learn a lot from each other.
But more than anything, I hope we get to know each other.
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St. Cloud Lakefront, Saint Cloud, Florida, United States
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