Amanda's Bequest 
- A Heritage Farm Stay Bed & Breakfast
Stay and Play - Experience a Historical Romantic Getaway.
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Additionally, John and Valerie are very happy to take your reservation by phone or email.  (231) 740-4065  relax@amandasbequest.com
 
Breakfasts are a delight of harvest abundance
and use our own free-range chicken's eggs
 
 

Bygone Basics.  Preserving History because we CAN.

 
This is a great on-site activity at Amanda's Bequest.    Here is a neat video/time lapse of one of our guest experiences (making soap and baking bread) taken and edited by good friend, Paul Chase. Note that a hearty farm meal was had off-camera as well as other activities.  Click here.
Travel back to simpler times.
 
Experience for yourself the heritage skills of your choosing. Enjoy hearty food and beverages while hands-on experiencing soap making, bread making, home canning, making jams and jellies, pies. Learn how these skills were made using old tools and seeing how today's tools can cut your effort to a serious minimum. This is all undertaken in a 140 year old home that harkens... back to old-style farmhouse living. An absolutely fabulous experience while gaining skills you will use to reduce food costs, ensure the safety of your foods, and re-live a piece of heritage that is fast becoming lost. Complete with a "pantry" for purchase of baked goods, jams/jellies, heritage soaps and candles.

The home of Bygone Basics is the high ceilinged parsonage built in 1873 for the Ferry Memorial Church and then painstakingly moved (Rather than be destroyed). This is a great activity for friends, bridal parties, generations of families, spouses, co-workers and so on. Open for in-depth private sessions by appointment. Each group is privately held no extra people are involved. It is held in an atmosphere of laughter, great stories, and hearty food. Times are flexible. Monthly regular prescheduled, abbreviated sessions are scheduled.  Needs to be prescheduled at least 24 hours before hand.
 
Bygone Basics's Bakery and Gifts. Food and gifts that are Good for the Body, and the Earth.
 
Baked Goods, jams, soaps, hand-dipped tapers and other items available at the Bygone Basics Pantry.  All items are hand made, often to order.  Order your baked goods (pies, cookies, scones, breads....) made just to your request with a simple call or email.
 
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Remember....a gift certificate would be a fabulous idea to ensure quality time with a friend or someone else who is special. Click on logo below to view all that Bygone Basics has to offer.
 
 
 

 
Amanda's Bequest Bed & Breakfast - Also the simple country home of Bygone Basics© (all materials copyrighted)
5200 Anderson Road • Montague, MI 49437 • (231) 740-4065