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A Tiny Homestead

A Tiny Homestead

著者： Mary E Lewis
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 We became homesteaders three years ago when we moved to our new home on a little over three acres. But, we were learning and practicing homesteading skills long before that. This podcast is about all kinds of homesteaders, and farmers, and bakers - what they do and why they do it. I’ll be interviewing people from all walks of life, different ages and stages, about their passion for doing old fashioned things in a newfangled way. https://buymeacoffee.com/lewismaryesCopyright 2023 All rights reserved. マネジメント・リーダーシップ リーダーシップ 社会科学 経済学
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  • My Attempt At Homesteading

    My Attempt At Homesteading
    2025/07/08
    Today I'm talking with Jennifer at My Attempt At Homesteading. Muck Boots Calendars.Com If you'd like to support me in growing this podcast, like, share, subscribe or leave a comment. Or just buy me a coffee https://buymeacoffee.com/lewismaryes 00:00 You're listening to A Tiny Homestead, podcast comprised entirely of conversations with homesteaders, cottage food producers, and crafters and topics adjacent. I'm your host, Mary Lewis. Today I'm talking with Jennifer at My Attempt at Homesteading in Missouri. Good evening, Jennifer. How are you? I'm good. How are you? I'm good. What's the weather like in Missouri today? Very warm. Yeah, here too. It's 81. I think you guys are hotter than we are though. 00:29 Yeah, we've we've been in the 90s for the past week or so. Oh I'm in Minnesota We had four or five days of that a week or so ago and it was disgusting. I hated every second of it Okay, so I hate saying this because people get kind of Miffed that we talked before the interview before before I started recording You were saying you're a little bit nervous because you're new at this and I was trying to say but the connection was bad 00:58 that you are exactly the kind of person I want to talk with because the beginners are the ones that give the people who haven't even started yet hope. So tell me about yourself and your attempt at homesteading. 01:12 Um, well, so I am a mother of two. my youngest just graduated last year. So, um, he still lives at home, but he's in, he's in college, so he's kind of doing his own thing. Um, my oldest, she just moved out earlier this year. Um, so it was one of those things that. 01:39 You know, my kids are kind of grown up and doing their own thing. And I kind of didn't know what to do with myself. So used to taking care of them and just, you know, even though they were older, but them just being around and just, you know, doing stuff with them. And, you know, I kind of took a step back and realized that, you know, I was, you know, for so many years I'd been, you know, the band mom or the softball mom. 02:08 the karate mom or the track mom or, you know, all those things. when I kind of slowed down for a minute, I realized that I didn't know who I was anymore because, you know, they weren't doing those things anymore. And I realized I had, you know, no hobbies or anything like that because my life had revolved around my kids for so many years. So basically I needed something to do something to occupy my time. 02:38 So I don't know actually what specifically made me start looking at, you know, different things, but I think it was just one of those like on a whim, I was like, oh, this looks like fun. So I just started like looking at things and reading up on things and I started very simple, like. 03:06 looking up different homemade spice mixes. And I just kind of started with that. And basically over the winter was kind of when I started trying to dabble with different things and trying to see what kind of mixes and things I could make from scratch. because at that point I'd never canned anything. 03:35 Um, pressure canner scared me. I, you know, I thought I was going to blow up the house. So, um, it took me a couple months before I would even attempt to do that. Um, but yeah, I just started small and, uh, mixes and that type of thing. Like, uh, I had no idea. Like I was amazed, like, you know, brown sugar, you know, who even knew that that was sugar and molasses. Like I had no clue. I just thought brown sugar that it just. 04:05 came like this. didn't know that. I didn't know you, you know, mix things together to make brown sugar. So, you know, it's definitely been a learning process and it's definitely, you know, I've discovered so many things and still, you every day learning something new. But baby steps, you know, every day just, I mean, I'm constantly Googling things and trying to figure out, know. 04:34 How do I do this or how do I turn this into something or how do I maximize? You know, if I have this ingredient, how do I, or this, um, you know, thing, how do I use up the whole thing without any kind of waste? And, um, it's definitely been a fun process. Um, uh, I've definitely been using my family as guinea pigs. Um, they've been there for. 05:04 some of my successes and definitely a lot of my not so much successes. But it's been fun. Yeah. You're not alone. I didn't know that brown sugar was just white sugar and molasses mixed together either until I found out about it on Google. And I'm not going to lie, I'm still afraid of our pressure canner and our pressure canner is still practically brand new. We bought it three years ago. 05:33 My husband is not afraid of it. So when we're going to pressure can, he's the one that handles it. Because I just, every time I walk by that thing, I'm like, it's going to blow up. It's going to blow up. So you're not alone. And we've been canning for...
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  • The Homestead Farm at Fruit Hill Orchard

    The Homestead Farm at Fruit Hill Orchard
    2025/07/07
    Today I'm talking with Emily at The Homestead Farm at Fruit Hill Orchard. Muck Boots Calendars.Com If you'd like to support me in growing this podcast, like, share, subscribe or leave a comment. Or just buy me a coffee https://buymeacoffee.com/lewismaryes 00:00 You're listening to A Tiny Homestead, the podcast comprised entirely of conversations with homesteaders, cottage food producers, and crafters, and topics adjacent. I'm your host, Mary Lewis. Today I'm talking with Emily at the Homestead Farm at Fruit Hill Orchard in Virginia. Good morning, Emily. How are you? Good morning. I'm doing great. Thanks for having me on today. Thank you for making the time. I know that you guys are all very, very busy people. How is the weather there today? 00:28 It is sunny. It's beautiful. The past week or so we've had a thunderstorm every day. So, um, I don't know what's coming up later, but right now it's just beautiful. Yeah, I'm in Minnesota and it is very sunny. There's a light breeze, but it's also like 80 degrees with heavy humidity. So I'm to be spending the day working on my podcast inside. Cause that seems like a good idea. Nice. Yep. 00:57 have laptop, we'll get work done. That's good. So tell me about yourself and what you do. So I am an owner of the Homestead Farm at Fruit Hill Orchard. We opened in 2016. I am a farmer, a baker. I do all the stuff behind the scenes. I manage our social media. I plan our events. kind of the 01:28 everything at the farm, which is a lot, but yeah, it's great. we 01:40 The farm has been in our family since right after the Civil War. My great-great-grandfather James Swate opened an apple and peach packing plant there. And then my grandfather carried on the tradition and has been farming there since the 60s, I believe. So the property has been in our family for a really long time. 02:08 Kind of why we got our name the Homestead Farm, because it's on our family's homestead. And then the Fruit Hill Orchard part comes from my grandfather's orchard business, which is Fruit Hill Orchard. nice. So do you have old photos from from generations past? Yes, we do. We so my grandfather, his grandmother grew up there. 02:36 And we have pictures of her out back with the old windmill, which funny story, she accidentally rolled her car into the windmill and knocked it over in the 80s, I think. And we have since put a new windmill up in her honor. But yeah, we have old photos of the family. The building next door that was the Apple and Peach packing plant, that used to be a barn, but now it is a 03:06 warehouse type building, but we have pictures of that before they enclosed the barn area and change that around. Yeah, old pictures of the house. Our farm market was actually the carriage barn where my grandmother stored her car and my great grandmother, um, stored her car. So yeah, lots of interesting history there for sure. And pictures. I love it. Um, 03:35 the reason I asked is our house is over a hundred years old and We've only been living here for almost five years and I keep trying to find someone who knows anything about the property because it's been here a long time and Nobody lives around here that knows anything about it from a hundred years ago So I'm out of luck on the history Yeah, you'll have to do some diggings. Yeah, there's a Historical Society in the town up from us 04:05 So they might have something I got to get up there this summer and ask and be like, so what do you know about this address in LaSore, Minnesota? Cause I need history. need it. I need it right now. So I'm sure there's a ton of it too. So hopefully you can find it. I hope so. Cause I'm so curious. I've been told that there was a real barn here and it got torn down or a storm took it out years ago. 04:32 And now we have this big ugly maroon and cream colored pole barn. And every time I look at the pole barn, I'm like, I wish the old barn was still here because that would have given this place so much more character. Yeah. Oh, but it's long gone. you know, what are you going to do? Okay. So what do you guys do at the farm? You have an art, you have an orchard. 04:57 We have an orchard that has been there for many, many years. That is part of Fruit Hill Orchards original orchard. That's apples and peaches. And then we also grow our garden produce there. We do tomatoes, beans, peppers, squash, cornmelons, blackberries, and that is all chemical free. We don't use any chemicals on our gardens or our berries at all. 05:27 We also source local and organic produce whenever we don't have something or ours isn't ready yet. Because chemical free and organic is super important to me. And then same with the bakery. We source local fruits, local eggs, as many organic ingredients as possible. And those are all, all of our baked goods are all homemade. 05:56 From scratch in our bakery, we also raise cattle. I ...
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  • Peaceful Pastures

    Peaceful Pastures
    2025/07/03
    Today I'm talking with Amanda at Peaceful Pastures. A Tiny Homestead Podcast is sponsored by Homegrowncollective.org. Muck Boots Calendars.Com If you'd like to support me in growing this podcast, like, share, subscribe or leave a comment. Or just buy me a coffee https://buymeacoffee.com/lewismaryes 00:00 You're listening to A Tiny Homestead, the podcast comprised entirely of conversations with homesteaders, cottage food producers, and crafters, and topics adjacent. I'm your host, Mary Lewis. A Tiny Homestead podcast is sponsored by Homegrown Collective, a free-to-use farm-to-table platform emphasizing local connections with ability to sell online, buy, sell, trade in local garden groups, and help us grow a new food system. You can find them at homegrowncollective.org. 00:26 Today I'm talking with Amanda at Peaceful Pastures in Michigan. Good afternoon, Amanda. How are you? Hi there. How are you? I'm good. You said the weather's really nice in Michigan? Yes, it's beautiful today. We finally broke that heat spell that we had last week and the humidity has gone down and it's just perfectly sunny. So it's great today. 00:50 So you're having a top weather day in Michigan, just like we are in Minnesota. It's really nice here today too. That sounds great. I'm glad it's just as nice for you. Yeah, the spring has been actually pretty moderate. I have been, I dare say impressed with Mother Nature this year. So tell me about yourself and what you do at Peaceful Pastures. Well, my name is Amanda. I'm a mother to two. I have an eight-year-old son and a six-year-old daughter. 01:19 My husband is here with me too. His name is Andrew. We like to jokingly call him Goat Daddy. We kind of jumped into Peaceful Pastures, kind of like an overnight deal. We weren't really looking to sell our house and happened upon this property, just a little over seven acres, and we kind of jumped on it and looked, put it on offer, and right away it became ours. And overnight I went and crazily 01:47 purchased Nigerian Dwarf goats and one of them was pregnant and so it began with our livestock. So we now have 13 and we have a mini Dexter cow. Her name is Betty and we have chickens. Awesome. it is absolutely do a little bit of everything here. Yes. Fantastic. So if your name is Amanda and your husband's name is Andrew, 02:17 Do you ever get Mandy and Andy as nicknames? Oh, yes, we do. All the time. I have this thing in my head that I do all the time and I rarely ever tell people about it because I think it'll freak them out. But I always end up having nicknames for people that I like. And one of my friends on Facebook, and she was also in a writing group online with me, her name is Janna. 02:46 For the longest time when I would see her name, would think Jana Banana. Oh, and I never, I never told her that. And I was like, I got to stop doing this, but my brain just does all these weird associations with names. So, so if you were friends with me, you would be Mandy and your husband would be Andy in my head. That's okay. My husband always gets called Andy Pandy. So it works. Yep. Absolutely. Um, okay. So do you guys have a garden as well? 03:16 We do. actually have a quite large garden this year. Last year we had a great time with it and a perfect harvest. So I went ahead and jumped it up a little bit more this year. So we planted about five times as much as we did last year. So we're growing and hopefully by the end of this week, early next week, we will start having some produce. We have a little standout front too. And I like to fiddle around with that when I can. And we do lots of different things. 03:46 tomatoes, cucumbers, squash, pumpkins, pretty much everything you can think of. We grow here right in our garden. So it's a lot of fun. Keeps me busy. Yeah. I call it the usual suspects. When people ask me what we grow in ours, I said the usual suspects, tomatoes, cucumbers, lettuces, et cetera, et cetera. So all the good things. Yeah, exactly. All the things that people want to eat in June, July, and August. Right. And I don't know. 04:16 I don't know how things are going in Michigan, but here in Minnesota, we've had the nicest weather for getting an early start on crops this year. And we also built a heated greenhouse two Mays ago. So we had seedlings ready to go in the ground first week in May. We usually don't plant until May 15th because of the danger of frost. 04:45 And so we looked at the extended forecast and it looked like it was going to be good. And my husband planted tomatoes like three weeks earlier than we usually do. And I said, if they die, they're done. There's no coming back from that. He said, they're not going to die. He said, I have faith. was like, okay, I hope your faith works out. Well, I'm glad it did work out. I actually got a late start this year. 05:12 because of the weather, just because we actually took our first vacation in ...
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