Tallowed Bee Thy Name

My absolute FAVORITE thing to see is the wild horses 🙌💗🙌

Okie, where all the deer at🤣🙏🦌

Soaking it up
while we still can
🙌🫶🙌

🤔🤔🤔

This was thee mostest amazing thing I've seen in the woods 🙌

We sat together for quite some time, and he let me sit right under his tree🙌

Hubs is hunting deer with his bow(handmade by my stepfather), and I am hunting chickens with the pew pew 👌
I wore my Grandpa's shirt since he loved hunting, and ended up stuffing his pockets full of pine pitch for my next tallow infusion 🤣
Worked soooo well, this is my official go to the woods shirt 🙌

Took all my stock to the market yesterday 🤣
But don't worry I didn't sell out😒
So I still got what you need👌

Tomorrow is Market Day🙌
Come see me at The Gull Lake Honey Company there will be tons of great vendors and food👌

And I'll be offering an end of season sale 💗

1.4 MILLION PEOPLE. 😭❤️

If you told me a 15 MONTHS ago that this many people would be here, learning, laughing, canning, baking, preserving, growing food, making things from scratch, and just generally making a beautiful mess alongside me...

I would have NEVER believed you.

And if I told you how much YOU have changed my life, you probably wouldn't believe me either.

So I wanted to celebrate the only way I know how...

WITH A GIANT GIVEAWAY!

FORJARS and I are giving one of you EVERYTHING you need to start your canning journey, PLUS extras!

I cannot WAIT to send this whole thing home with one of you. 🥹

PLUSSSSS!

EVERY SINGLE DAY for the next week, I will randomly choose one person from the entries to win a $50 HOMEMADE MESS GIFT CARD, too!

You could win the BIG giveaway AND you could win THM Merch along the way!

HERE'S HOW TO ENTER:

-MUST be following The Homemade Mess and !
-Like this post

-Share this post

-Comment and tell me about YOUR journey.

Are you brand new and haven't canned a single thing yet?

Have you been preserving food for 5 years?

10 years?

60+ YEARS?!

I have all of you here, and I genuinely want to hear your stories.

Tell me what you've learned, what you preserve, what you're growing, what you're making from scratch, or where you're just getting started.

**without crying**

If I could hug every single one of you personally, I would.

Thank you for being here.

Thank you for trusting me with your kitchens, your questions, your successes, and even your canning fails. 😂

Thank you for letting me make this big, beautiful, messy life with you.

Let's celebrate!

GIVEAWAY ENDS 10/9/2026

no purchase necessary, giveaway eligibility in lower 48 states only

Back in the day when Paco could still drive🤣💙🙌