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Welcome to my blog! Peaceful Acres is where I live. Our name comes from Haggai 2:9, “And in this place I will grant peace”, declares the Lord God Almighty. It’s not always peaceful, but it’s our goal. We live as close to nature as possible, enjoying fresh and local foods that are nutrient dense. We grow what we can by using successive and sustainable farming practices. As an herbalist, we use plants for their medicinal, culinary and botanical properties. I knit, dye silk and custom design wearable art. I started a small non-profit business called, Butterflies and Bumble Bees. All the proceeds go towards micro-businesses for women in India. Through Gospel For Asia, I purchase sewing machines for Dalit women who in turn produce goods that they sell in their markets and provide food for their families. It’s my way of touching the world with the “Good News”. “You can give a man a fish and feed him for a day or you can teach a man to fish and feed him for a lifetime.” While I wait for my healing from an incurable infectious disease, I will press into the ONE who can sustain me and give me what I need for today. And I will continue to do what I can; garden, knit, create, farm….and touch the life of a woman in the third world.
DISCLAIMER: Then information on this site is purely the opinions and experiences of the owner. I am not a doctor nor do I offer medical advice. The information I offer is from those who have researched or had experiences of their own in any of the areas discussed. If you need medical advice then seek it. I am not responsible for any adverse out comes from any of my own experiments or recipes! 
Hey Diane!
From a fellow Herbmentor member!
I really like your website! And Blog! Keep up the good work & may God bless you in helping the women in India!
I think it is very interesting that i found you on Herbmentor, because I have been in contact with a dear widow in South India for over a year now. She has I think 5 children, and many widows, and orphans that she has taken in to her small tenant (sp?) house and the women and girls make lace table cloths, cross bookmarks, doillies etc., lace articles as she calls them, that they make to sell for thier own income. They have sent me some lace articles and they are truly a work of art! i feel terrible though because the mail between here & there is terrible! many letters I send she never recieves & many things she has sent me have never arrived or were opened & things taken out! So, I have not sent her any money.
Okay sorry to drag you thru this but I was wondering since you help women over there already, what is a good way to go about sending them money and helping them out?
Also Would you be interested in getting some of her lace articlies and maybe try to sell them for her? I could send you some articlies or send her your address & she would be glad to send you some. I have sent her many addresses but so far no one seems to want to help her sell them. I am not in a poisition to help her & since you already help women in India & have a web site, thought that would be an answer to our prayers!
Look forward to your prayerful reply.
God bless you & yours.
-Hannah Pitts
P.S. sorry so sloppy. Hope you can read this!
So sweet to have you visit me Hannah! It’s so hard on the widows in India. They don’t have much worth there. Let’s pray and see what God does! You’ve put a new spark in me. My creative juices are at a low and I needed to be reminded why I do what I do! Thanks. It’s all for HIM!