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  • Hope in the Valley of Betrayal Trauma
    Betrayal Trauma

    Hope in the Valley of Betrayal Trauma

    ByMandy DiVita July 22, 2025May 30, 2026

    Sometimes God places a fire within our hearts to come alongside a cause or ministry and other times you end up on rosters of clubs you never asked to join or walk with a girlfriend through the unimaginable.  For the past 2.5 years, I’ve been involved in several ministries that support women who have experienced sexual…

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  • Annual Plant Adoption-2026
    Homestead Life

    Annual Plant Adoption-2026

    ByMandy DiVita February 11, 2023May 10, 2026

    My 7th year of providing spoiled rotten, healthy, organic plant starts to friends new & old; from our farmstead to your garden! This is the best gig EVER {and saves YOU a ton of work… kind of like getting a mechanic to fix your car because who likes doing that?…and buying all the equipment?}! 2026…

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  • {Homegrown & Homemade}
    Homestead Life

    {Homegrown & Homemade}

    ByMandy DiVita January 18, 2023May 10, 2026

    In the past few years, my journey has taken me to many unexpected places. A few of you possibly thought I was even a bit crazy! Along the way friends have asked “Can I buy this from you”, “Can you grow this for me”, etc… so here we are…a list of homemade and/or homegrown goodness…

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  • Kitchen Renovation: Not for the faint of heart
    The Road Behind

    Kitchen Renovation: Not for the faint of heart

    ByMandy DiVita October 19, 2018May 10, 2026

    So, this is the picture on the listing for our new house that drew us in… the 1970’s kitchen we had always dreamt of…. kidding… definetly kidding… sledge hammer was all that came to mind… or lighting a match which in hindsight might have been the better option… I’m sure you’ll agree in just a…

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  • My New “Homestead Sweet Homestead” Part 1
    The Road Behind

    My New “Homestead Sweet Homestead” Part 1

    ByMandy DiVita January 30, 2018May 30, 2026

    Part ONE of m.a.n.y…   Ok….I’ve got my hot tea and TWO brownies {this isn’t a “one brownie post”, folks}… let’s FINALLY dig in, shall we? First, if you are feeling confused even trying to figure out that we moved, go back and read this post.  I never got around to a change of address…

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  • Waiting…Wandering…Wondering
    The Road Behind

    Waiting…Wandering…Wondering

    ByMandy DiVita January 4, 2017May 30, 2026

    It’s so hard to believe that we said goodbye to 2016 a few nights ago.  If your year was anything like mine, it had its shares of joys & sorrows, ups & downs, tragedy and triumph, answered prayers and unanswered prayers, laughter & tears, decisions and indecision, delight and defeat.  Two of the hardest things…

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  • There is always HOPE
    The Road Behind

    There is always HOPE

    ByMandy DiVita June 28, 2016May 30, 2026

    Hope.   What is HOPE? Websters dictionary defines it as “to want something to happen or be true and think that it could happen or be true” Let’s look at some quotes: Learn from yesterday, live for today, HOPE for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning. –Albert Einstein. We must accept finite…

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  • High Five for the High Tunnel Build!
    The Road Behind

    High Five for the High Tunnel Build!

    ByMandy DiVita October 26, 2020May 10, 2026

    I should probably just stay off of FaceBook & Instagram pages that have to do with farming and stop watching any YouTube channels that have to do with farming. You see, the problem is that all of a sudden you need something that you had no idea you needed! I have that EXACT same problem…

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  • My First Season’s Harvest
    The Road Behind

    My First Season’s Harvest

    ByMandy DiVita October 22, 2020May 30, 2026

    If I wasn’t standing here 5 minutes ago scrubbing dirt from beneath my fingernails, I’d say that there is no way this is me… it wasn’t supposed to be me and in fact I never had any desire to have a garden. There was a time, back in the ‘burbs’, when my dear husband had…

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  • A Greenhouse for a Black Thumbed Gal
    The Road Behind

    A Greenhouse for a Black Thumbed Gal

    ByMandy DiVita January 24, 2020May 30, 2026

    For whatever reason, at the time we replaced all the windows in our old house, we decided to keep the big ones. At that time we had no intention of moving, no intention of making anything of them, no real dream in mind, just big ol’ wooden windows that we knew were expensive. So we…

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