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Nina's avatar

Honestly Ballerina Farm got me here and dissecting her branding and entire family has me fascinated and no one does it better than you !!! Those last two were some of my faves - don’t ever change!

Sara Petersen's avatar

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Eliza Curtis's avatar

HARD agree. The bone broth hot choc piece was one of my faves from this year!!!

Alissa Mendes de Leon's avatar

I don't know why Merry Christmas Ballerina Farm!!! fell flat - I can only guess something nefarious afoot with the algorithm... or could it be that my pre-Christmas feed was full of online shopping garbage it completely elbowed out Substack? I totally missed it before the hols, but it was just the thing I needed this morning. I can only speak for myself, but I will NEVER tire of BF content. Just sayin'... the possibilities are so maddeningly endless.

Sara Petersen's avatar

lol i feel similarly OBVIOUSLY. yeah, it might’ve been substack’s algorithm - a good friend said it never landed in her inbox at all?

Elizabeth Heydary's avatar

I don’t remember seeing it that week but my kids both had the flu and I was trying to wrap up work with them both home so I might have missed it in my inbox. I enjoy every time you write about Ballerina Farm!

Sara Petersen's avatar

thank you elizabeth!

Oldbiddy's avatar

I was really swamped during December. I know I read that post but my overall reading was way down. If substack switched up the algo or throttled the emails I don't know if I would have noticed.

Emily Van Duyne's avatar

Thanks, Sara! It was so wonderful talking with you— let’s do it again one of these days! Happy New Year!

Molly's avatar

More Brooke Raybould please! Your writing on her had me on the floor laughing. She is the Erika Kirk side of the trad wife scale (as opposed to Hannah Neeleman cosplaying soft life and the yore of yesteryear) which FASCINATES me! Love all of your stuff Sara, all the way from Ireland. P.S gutted I didn’t get to see Father o hogs in the flesh while they were here 😂😂

Sara Petersen's avatar

lol i’m gutted FOR YOU (and thank you so much for your kind words!!)

Amelia Jantzi's avatar

Honestly, I love your Ballerina Farm content - I need you to break it down so I don’t have to follow her! Haha. And personally I loved the Merrry Christmas Ballerina Farm!!! article so much, so I’m all for more content about her! I actually loved the Evie Milkmaid dress article too.

Sara Petersen's avatar

aw thank you amelia!

Tara S's avatar

I love your dissection of the differences between different types of conservative/trad-wife women out there. I think they’re very informative and I return to them often when trying to explain MAHA/tradwives/conservative evangelical feminity to others.

Emily's avatar

Well *I* liked the bone broth newsletter--it gave me something to talk about with my sister in law. Also, I really want a BTS tell-all from the Ballerina Farm marketing team.

Also, I think the milk maid dress letter was the one where you mentioned writing a book about milk maid aesthetics and conservative politics? I'd still love to read it!

Sara Petersen's avatar

(THERE’S SO MUCH)