• A Tiny Homestead

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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/lewismaryes
    Copyright 2023 All rights reserved.
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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/lewismaryes
Copyright 2023 All rights reserved.
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  • St. Croix Valley Hobby Farm

    St. Croix Valley Hobby Farm
    2024/11/29
    Today I'm talking with Andy and Becca at St. Croix Valley Hobby Farm. You can follow on Facebook as well. 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 This is Mary Lewis at A Tiny Homestead, the podcast comprised entirely of conversations with homesteaders, cottage food producers, and crafters. If you're enjoying this podcast, please like, subscribe, share it with a friend, or leave a comment. Thank you. Today I'm talking with Andy and Becca at St. Croix Valley Hobby Farm, and it's a revisit episode. I'm so excited. How are you guys? Good. Great. Great, Mary. Thanks for having us again. We're excited too. 00:27 For sure. And I didn't meet Becca last time, so it's really nice to hear your voice, Becca. Nice to meet you. Yeah, same. So what's new? What's been going on since I talked to you? Well, we've done over 20 shows across the metro this year from Islamic temples. We've been to Elko Speedway, residential birthday parties in Columbia Heights, Brooklyn parks all the way up to North Branch, retirement facilities around the metro. It's been just kind of a... 00:54 Amazing journey to be honest since the last time we talked. I was kind of fresh and new to it and new to the scene, but the animals have taught us a lot and the people that we've seen has just been incredible throughout the season. So right now we're kind of setting up for our Christmas display and getting that ready so that we can have people come to the farm for walk-ins for our Christmas setup. So really good on our side, but let's let Becca add some to that if she has anything to say. 01:22 Yeah, and it's been great. Our girls have helped out a lot. They're working in mission, helping with the animals. They do a lot of the traveling events also. So it's been fun to get them involved as well. 01:38 Awesome. So you guys have been over to Minnesota? Yeah, quite a few times. We did Elko Speedway in Minnesota. We've done a few churches, residential birthdays, Easter, Halloween. Fun. Just so I can catch the listeners up. You guys are in Osceola, Wisconsin, is that right? Yeah, just north of Somerset. So it's almost smack dab in the middle between Osceola and Somerset right off Wisconsin 35. So. 02:07 If you're heading north out of Somerset, you can't miss us. It's right off the road, big red barn, green roof, little small barnyard animals running around next to the road. Yeah. So, for you guys to go and bring the animals to Minnesota is not too far. I mean, I'm assuming it's not just a hop, skip, and a jump, but it's not like an eight-hour drive. Nope, not at all. And that was what was nice. Even Elko wasn't too bad. Nah, 35 mostly the whole way, 36 to 35. 02:36 Head down to Elko, hour and 35, hour and 40 minutes, I think it was. And that's typically what we like to do for the animals is keep it under a two hour drive for them. The onsite events are ranging from two to four hours. So give them an eight to 10 hour day. And most of them are just over a year old. So we like to try to keep it as short as we can for them, especially in the normal months. Yes, because stress and animals is a bad combination. Right. Yep. 03:05 Okay, so what animals do you have? Because I don't remember. I think you have many cows. We have four female alpacas. We got two, one micro high park heifer, one mini herford steer, and then seven Nigerian dwarf goats. We have a couple more on the way. Should be here to have some Christmas baby goats any day now. We have two pot belly pigs. We're working on a couple black faced sheep and some mini donkeys next, I think. So chickens, ducks. 03:34 couple how and lop rabbits that free range at your feet when you come in to check in they're kind on the check inside of the pen so when you enter the barn they're hopping around they have their own little tunnel that goes underneath the barn and outside into their pen outside so it's kind of unique to see that but a hamster teddy bear hamster that rounds it out about for now anyway okay my sister has a pet rabbit and and I can't remember its name right 04:04 She basically lets it run around the house like a cat and it uses a litter box. And I'm like, how in the heck did you train a rabbit to use a litter box? But he, I think it's a he, he's very sweet. He's a very sweet bunny. They're amazing. Yeah, ours are litter box trained, super friendly, super sweet. They're feet chasers, so it makes me nervous when people come in sometimes if they're not watching their feet, because they like to hop right up to people. They're definitely not afraid at all. They like attention. Super sweet, yeah. 04:32 I didn't believe that at first either. I've been around animals my whole life, but I didn't know you could do that with a rabbit. And since our team has done it, it's been one of the most loved family members that we have. They come right up to you in the mornings. They put ...
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  • Robin Easton - Author of Naked In Eden

    Robin Easton - Author of Naked In Eden
    2024/11/27
    Today I'm talking with Robin Easton, author of Naked In Eden. You can follow on Facebook as well. 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 This is Mary Lewis at A Tiny Homestead, the podcast comprised entirely of conversations with homesteaders, cottage food producers, and crafters. If you're enjoying this podcast, please like, subscribe, share it with a friend, or leave a comment. Thank you. Today I'm talking with Robin Easton, author of Naked in Eden. How are you, Robin? I'm great and excited to be here with you, Mary. I'm excited to have you. You are such an interesting person to me. 00:30 So tell me about yourself. What do you do? Oh, wow. That I've been listening to your podcasts and how you ask people that. And just, I was asking, they're great podcasts. I'm loving them. But anyway, I asked myself, well, what do I do? And I kept coming back to this line in my first book when I'm 25 in the jungle. And I'm, what do I do? And then the answer came, I feel. 00:59 You know, what do you do for a living, Robin? I feel. And it sounds an odd answer, but from that is born my music, my writing, my communication with other species, you know, my love of the earth, you know, everything that I am and do. And right now I'm writing, I'm kind of finishing up two books. 01:29 that I hope to get out this year. One is about all the incredible interactions I've had with other species and how it's changed my life, what I've learned, and how my own intelligence and awareness has just expanded more than I ever could have imagined through experiencing the intelligence of other species. 01:57 and their emotions, their ability for compassion and love and tenderness and just so much. And then the other book is kind of a look, I suppose, looking at the world, a woman who lives so much of her life, wild in the wild and places when I went in decades ago were very wild, were virgin forests and remote. You had to winch and could take, I mean, it was an ordeal sometimes just to get in there. 02:27 And then coming back out into my culture again and seeing the world again through wild eyes, because I very much went wild. And then another project I wanted to just touch on, but is I'm buying a piece of land. I've owned land before, but they were always bigger pieces, probably nothing 02:56 a small like six acres anywhere up to like in Australia, almost up to 200 acres. And they were wild and I didn't really have to do anything. I could just kind of move in and enjoy being there. But the place I'm buying now is one acre. It's in a rural area like they're small acreages with the people are all kind of 03:23 micro homesteaders. They have gardens and chickens and some nice docks and whatever. And it's a wonderful community. Like kind of back in the pioneer times where even though we're all on the grid, you know, it still has that feel where your neighbors say if you need anything, let us know. We'll come help. And I decided to do this, you know, this project. And so I'm 03:52 buying this acre, my partner and I, and we're going to turn it into a pollinator conservancy. And someone might say, one acre? Yes. You know, and so it's the first time where I bought a piece of land where one half is lawn and the other half is kind of was made into this extended kind of drive that's gravel and hard and it has a couple fruit trees, a little mini 04:21 great vineyard and a couple of trees. And it's like, what can I give back here? What life was driven from this acre? And that just touches me to tears, Mary. You know, what birds, what butterflies, what bees, what bats, what insects that are starved for homes and don't have them? What families? 04:51 were driven from this property. And how can I give back? And someone could think, one acre, what are you giving? Oh, we all need to give back. Even if we just have a balcony that has plants on it, flowers, you know, in a city. Even if we just have a quarter acre and we decide to plant organic. 05:19 lavender, organic things so the bees don't get harmed. Every little bit helps. And so right now, I mean, I'm coming from someone who used a hand crank washing machine, logged water from creeks and went without electricity, computers, phones, TV, radios for several, like decades. So now I have power. 05:49 It's an interesting, I mean, it's like it's making me grow in a different way. In terms of thinking, what can I give back now? You know, I'm, I'll be 71 in December and it could seem a huge project, but I want to do it, you know, I think it's great that you're going to do it. I think it's fantastic. And I get your, I get your, um, I don't know, bafflement at. 06:18 at really going from no technology to using technology because we here have obviously the internet at my house and we have TV and we have our computers and we have all the things but my favorite thing is just being outside and...
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  • The Farm at Prophetstown

    The Farm at Prophetstown
    2024/11/25
    Today I'm talking with Sunshine at The Farm at Prophetstown. You can follow on Facebook as well. 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 This is Mary Lewis at A Tiny Homestead, the podcast comprised entirely of conversations with homesteaders, cottage food producers, and crafters. If you're enjoying this podcast, please like, subscribe, share it with a friend, or leave a comment. Thank you. Today I'm talking with Sunshine at the farm at Prophetstown. Good afternoon, Sunshine. How are you? Hello. Hi. I'm doing wonderful here in Indiana. Good. It's really funny because I call my kids. 00:29 Well, I used to call my kids or grownups now, but when I would wake them up, I would say, good morning sunshine. So the minute I saw your name, I was like, oh. Yes, I get a lot of people who go, that's cute, but what's your real name? I'm like, well, it is, but it is unique. People do remember me. Oh, I would imagine so. Is it because your parents were of the hippie generation or what's the story? Yes. 00:58 Yes, that's it. Okay. I think it's beautiful. I think that being called sunshine all the time would be a lovely way to live my life. Okay, so tell me about what you do at the farm and then tell me about the farm. Sure. The farm at Prophetstown is a 1920s living history museum located inside of Prophetstown State Park. 01:27 I at the farm am in charge of our marketing, our website, our social media, our school tours, any kind of regular tour, anything public facing. I kind of consider myself an experience enhancer in a way. What a wonderful job, yes. 01:52 Yes, it's super fun. My previous job I did the same things, but I worked at a university. I worked at Purdue. So this was a totally different environment for me. I did not grow up on a farm. So everything I do here is kind of first for me in a way, even though my day-to-day job and what I'm doing as far as event planning and 02:20 tours and interacting with people. I'm very familiar with the course, but the farm itself and everything's a little different. Example, today it was our first snow here. So it's the very first time I'm seeing snow on the farm, but now we have a little bit of a mini, I don't know, it's not a blizzard, but it looks like a blizzard outside the window. I bet it's absolutely beautiful. 02:50 It really is. When I first pulled into the drive this morning, the sun just came up and to see that snow on the barn, just beautiful and the horses out. Our farm is six on a hundred acres. We operate on about 25 acres and the rest we use for our feed alfalfa. 03:16 We have several animals that we take care of year round. So our farm is open year round every day, seven days a week from 10 in the morning to 5 PM. We have three horses, three goats, three cows, six pigs, three sheep. We have a bunch of chickens, about 65 chickens, two turkeys, 11 ducks. 03:45 two farm cats. I'm thinking if I missed anyone out of all them animals. Is there a dog? No, we do not have a dog. Okay. We do have a mini horse and a donkey. Okay, well that's a pass little animals right there. Yes, and so we care for those animals every day. We have a staff of about six part-time farm hands. 04:11 And so our day begins, I come in in the morning, I open the farm, and then from there, the farm hands will start doing their, letting the animals out, feeding them, doing all the morning chores about 9 a.m. And then we will repeat it again about 4 p.m. in the afternoon and we button up the farm by 5 o'clock and we all leave. Okay, so. 04:39 It might seem weird that I'm talking to Sunshine about this place in Indiana, but I really love places like yours because I, when I was in school, we went on a field trip to a farm in Maine called Norland's Farm, N-O-R-L-A-N-D-S. And I don't know if that's what it's still called now cause I'm older now. It was quite a while ago, but it was a living history place and kids would go there for field trips. 05:08 and everybody on the farm was in character from like the late 1800s. And it was really fun, partly because one of the girls in my class, I think it was middle school, junior high, she had nail polish on. And nail polish wasn't a thing they did in the late 1800s. And the woman who was taking us through the experience of what we were doing. 05:35 She saw her hands and she said, did you damage your fingernails? And the girl looked at her and said, no. And she said, oh, well, they're all red. I thought they might be sore. And she stayed right in character. And at the time, all of us girls were just like, oh, yeah, okay, yeah, that makes sense. There wouldn't have been red nail polish in the late 1800s, especially not on a kid that age. But as an adult, 06:03 that could have gone one of two ways. We all could have taken it in stride and then like that makes sense, or that kid could have gotten picked on for the next five years in ...
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