![]() ![]() Jackie has written dozens of freelance articles for such magazines as The Western Horseman, Mother Earth News, Rural Heritage, and Country Woman. They also sell open-pollinated and heirloom seeds on their website,. She and Will also conduct seminars at their homestead where folks come to learn homesteading skills. She is a frequent speaker at homesteading, sustainable living, and other fairs and events across the country. They live in a log cabin, have a half-acre fenced orchard and berry patch, and several large gardens She cans and dehydrates much of the family's food, reducing their store-bought groceries to nearly nil. ![]() She and her husband, Will, have a 120-acre homestead in way-northern Minnesota, in the middle of hundreds of acres of woods, where they raise their own cattle, goats, chickens, turkeys, and, of course, several horses. Jackie has hunted deer, elk, and moose, packing in the meat to can up. While living in Montana's remote mountains at 7,600 feet, (1,000 feet above the Continental Divide) where they were snowed in for 5 months out of the year, her family took several trips with their horses to the Upper Green River area in Wyoming to explore the Bridger-Teton Wilderness, which became the setting for her Jess Hazzard series of traditional western novels. She has lived much of her life off-grid, has raised and trained Morgan horses for decades, and in her younger years, rode bareback bronc in a few rodeos. Jackie Clay is a lifetime homesteader and horseman. ![]()
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