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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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  • Busy D's Acres|Busy D's Caprines

    Busy D's Acres|Busy D's Caprines
    2026/07/15
    Today I'm talking with Courtney at Busy D's Acres|Busy D's Caprines. This episode is sponsored by Greenbush Twins & Company. https://www.homesteadliving.com/subscribe/ref/41/ https://homesteadliving.com/the-old-fashioned-on-purpose-planner/ref/41/ www.patreon.com/atinyhomestead 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. I'm your host, Mary Lewis. This episode is sponsored by Greenbush Twins & Company, where creativity and community grow hand in hand. Just like a thriving garden or a well-loved homestead, the best things are built with care, purpose, and heart. Through thoughtful design, storytelling, and handcrafted goods, they're helping people celebrate a simpler or meaningful way of living. Learn more at Greenbush Twins & Company. 00:28 Today I'm talking with Courtney at Busy D's Acres in Belle Plaine, Minnesota. Good morning Courtney, how are you? Good, how are you? I'm good. I'm a little sick of the weather. I really, really wish we get back to the, you know, 79 for the high and a light breeze and the sun shining. This, this gray and hot and sweaty is pretty bad. Yes, it is very hard for us to get in the fields to cut hay and to get in our garden. 00:57 And on the other hand, it's been really great that it's been warm and enough rain. Because if it was just out or if it was just rain, we would be all screwed. Those of us who grow things. So on one hand, I want to complain on the other hand, I want to be thankful. So I guess we're somewhere in the middle. I don't know. Yeah. I'm so excited to talk to you because you make goat ice cream, goat milk ice cream. Yes. And you're only on 01:27 property creamery in Scott County, Minnesota, right? Yes. So I need to know about you and how this happened and what you do. So I'll give a little backstory. The farm has been in my family since 1885. ah Our son is the seventh generation here. ah Back in the 70s, my grandpa got rid of the dairy cattle and they switched over to Hereford beef cattle. So we had those my entire life growing up. 01:55 And then 10 years ago, we decided to get two Nigerian dwarf goats because my husband and I cannot drink cow's milk. So we're like, let's see how this goes. Um, I chose the Nigerian dwarfs cause they're really high in butterfat. Cause I was like, well, maybe it'll be fun to try making cheese. Um, and then here we are 10 years later, we're, uh, on farm licensed creamery. Uh, we have four different kinds of cheese that we make. And then the ice cream. 02:22 And my parents are technically busy these acres and we're busy these Caprines, but we're all on the same farm. 02:30 Oh, okay. So it's a family operation. Yeah. So my husband and I are the creamery, which is the Caprines. And then the acres is the entire farm. 02:41 Is there a Facebook page for Caprines? Nope, it's all the same page because I run them both. it's Busy D's Acres and then Busy D's Caprines is in the parentheses. Instagram is way more friendly that it lets me put both of them. 02:56 Okay, cool. Facebook won't let me put them both because they're too close in names. huh. Go Fig. Love Facebook. I do love Facebook. That sounded really snotty. Facebook has been really weird lately. So I don't know what's going on with it. The algorithm is sick. I think it's got a cold. 03:19 So anyhow, uh I have questions about the creamery because I know in Minnesota we have the cottage food license stuff, registration stuff, and I'm guessing the creamery is not cottage food because that would be really weird. Nope, it is not. I actually have my cottage food too. We've been doing farmers markets for over 10 years, so I have the cottage side too, but 03:46 The creamer is actually licensed and inspected. So it's the Minnesota department of egg that comes out and inspects. actually have five different inspectors. have one on our farm side, which is what the goats are considered. And then the milk areas, the milking house and, um, the milking area. And then I have a plant inspector that inspects my, it's pretty much a commercial kitchen, but it's called a plant. 04:11 And then I have an overall inspector that oversees all of them. And then I also have the retail inspection. And then I have a lab officer that I have to do my own antibiotic testing before I process each batch of cheese. So I need an honest answer from you. Do you feel like there's too much overreach on the regulation or do you think that it's okay? I am okay now in the beginning with all of the paperwork and having to get everything 04:41 submitted, it was a lot. My final inspection, was way more, I thought it was gonna be way more than it was. It was actually a breeze, like the final ...
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  • Backlund Acres

    Backlund Acres
    2026/07/13
    Today I'm talking with Sheila at Backlund Acres. This episode is sponsored by Greenbush Twins & Company. https://www.homesteadliving.com/subscribe/ref/41/ https://homesteadliving.com/the-old-fashioned-on-purpose-planner/ref/41/ www.patreon.com/atinyhomestead 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 listening to A Tiny Homestead, the podcast comprised entirely of conversations with homesteaders, cottage food producers, and crafters. I'm your host, Mary Lewis. This episode is sponsored by Greenbush Twins & Company, where creativity and community grow hand in hand. Just like a thriving garden or a well-loved homestead, the best things are built with care, purpose, and heart. Through thoughtful design, storytelling, and handcrafted goods, they're helping people celebrate a simpler or meaningful way of living. Learn more at Greenbush Twins & Company. 00:28 Today I'm talking with Sheila at Backlund Acres in Belle Plaine, Minnesota. Good afternoon, Sheila. How are you? Good. How are you doing? I'm good. We're having a hot one again today. Right. I'm a little tired of it, are you? Yeah. Yeah, the plants love it, though. So I can't complain because everything in the field is just doing amazing. Well, I guess I guess the good news is that at least we've been getting rain along with the heat. 00:58 Exactly. If we were just getting the heat, we would be in trouble. It's definitely, yeah, it's definitely a bigger problem. And when we had the early heat, I think was it in May or June? It was so dry and it was just heat. And so we had trouble with like our spring crops bolting early. Yeah, our asparagus went to seed super fast this year. I was very sad about this. Yeah. 01:27 We planted asparagus five years, five springs ago now. And this was the year we were going to be able to have a bunch to sell at the farmers market, right? No, it all bolted so fast that we couldn't keep up. So I have a question about your asparagus. So you planted it five years ago and you can just start harvesting now or you're just saying it multiplied enough where you had enough to sell? We got 01:53 We got enough to have a mess as my mom would call it two springs ago. And then last year we had enough to have some to eat and some to sell on our farm stand. This was the year where we thought there was going to be enough to actually sell it at the farmer's market. So we thought that it would have been long enough that it would have multiplied and sell it. But no, because it was so hot, it just went poof because it's a breath. 02:23 as a grass. Oh, I didn't know that. We are on year two of our asparagus and it was ready really early. Now, I know you're not supposed to harvest it the first year, but we bought like and we have a whole field of it, I'll just say. And they, the company we got it from said we could harvest it for a week the first year. And then the second year it's three weeks. So anyways, yeah, I was ready in April though, which was really weird. 02:53 We're getting a little bit ahead of ourselves, but we're on asparagus. I'm going to ask this, and then I'm going to ask you to tell me about yourself. Was your asparagus super sweet this year? Because ours was. It was delicious. Yeah. But then we had a freeze and I had no idea that it all will freeze and die. Oh, yeah. You know, if you're only allowed to harvest it that first week, everything that was above ground froze. And so if I would have known that, I would have taken like I probably would have had an entire 03:23 There was a lot that I could have brought in and pickled or done something with, but I just, I guess I didn't know. Live and learn, right? Right. Yep. Yep. That's all this farming and home setting and ranching is, is living and learning every freaking season. For sure. It's fun and it's frustrating. So anyway, please tell me a little bit about yourself and about Backland Acres. Okay. So we... 03:50 So I grew up, me and my husband actually grew up in Eden Prairie and had never planted anything. um So we got married out of high school, lived in Chock-A-Pee, had never planted anything in my life. And my son came home with like a styrofoam cup with a little plant from, you know, that you do in kindergarten. They plant the seed in the styrofoam cup and bring it home. So he brought that home and we planted it next to our house. 04:20 in Chakapea, just dug a hole, had no idea what I was doing, just dug a hole and planted it and it turned into this big plant and gave us summer squash. was crooked neck summer squash. Nice. And I just became really infatuated or yeah, just really, really excited. So I went to the store and I bought a bunch of seeds and I had no idea what I was doing, like literally nothing. don't even, I didn't. 04:46 don't even know if I had a smartphone then. I ...
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  • Fairview Farms: Second Harvest

    Fairview Farms: Second Harvest
    2026/07/10
    Today I'm talking with Kathryn at Fairview Farms: Second Harvest. This episode is sponsored by Greenbush Twins & Company. https://www.homesteadliving.com/subscribe/ref/41/ https://homesteadliving.com/the-old-fashioned-on-purpose-planner/ref/41/ www.patreon.com/atinyhomestead 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 listening to A Tiny Homestead, the podcast comprised entirely of conversations with homesteaders, cottage food producers, and crafters. I'm your host, Mary Lewis. This episode is sponsored by Greenbush Twins & Company, where creativity and community grow hand in hand. Just like a thriving garden or a well-loved homestead, the best things are built with care, purpose, and heart. Through thoughtful design, storytelling, and handcrafted goods, they're helping people celebrate a simpler or meaningful way of living. Learn more at Greenbush Twins & Company. 00:28 Today I'm talking with Kathryn at Fairview Farms, second harvest in Michigan, which is only two states away from me. Good afternoon, Kathryn, how are you? I am doing well, how are you? I'm good. Is it hot in Michigan? Because it's a little better here in Minnesota now. Very hot, very humid. I'm hoping that it goes away soon. um I looked at the long-term forecast for where I am in southwestern Minnesota. 00:55 And it looks like it's gonna be in the 80s for the next at least seven days. Yes, that's gonna be us too. Which is better than 95 with a tropical dew point. I'm okay with it. But yeah, I don't know what it was like for you on Monday morning this week. But I got up at five, stepped out on my porch with my coffee and there's a window into the porch. It's a closed in porch. And it was like stepping into a steam bath. And that was 5 a.m. 01:24 I was like, oh, today is going to suck lemons. And it did. It was really useful. And then it got better over the course of the week. And as I'm talking, I can tell that my voice is not what it usually is. So listener, I'm sorry if I sound like I'm dying. I'm not dying. have wicked allergies today. So Kathryn, I would love it if you would tell me a little bit about yourself and your place, because I looked at your 01:53 pinned post on Facebook and there is some real history there. Yes. um So I live in Rochester Hills, Michigan, and we purchased a historic home in Rochester Hills District. It is 179 years old and we purchased it from a family that has lived here since 1975. And during his time living here, he obtained and researched 02:22 a lot of history on the home in the area and was able to pass that to us when we purchased the home. So we have a lot of personal letters and personal stories that we can share and a lot of hidden treasures inside of the home. The home is wonderful. It's a four square and we have a lot of original architecture in the home. it really neat. 02:52 Our piece of property in Rochester is almost two acres currently, but it was a farm of almost 780 acres uh back in the late 1800s. And this farm itself did raise cattle for uh beef and dairy, and then also it had chickens and did produce. 03:16 And I decided living here, really what brought me in was the history of the home, the old home. I really wanted to love the old bones and be the next loving family here. And then I decided, I think I need, I think I need to love the land too. You know, I have two acres here in the middle of the city and that's something very rare around here. And I wanted to, 03:43 put something back into it. love to grow my own food. I love to can. I'm a do it yourself-er, so I like to um demo things and refurbish things. I myself have a degree in education and I have homeschooled my kids and just kind of really enjoy doing the homesteading portion of life and um going in all natural. 04:13 option and doing things a little bit differently than how society, some of society is going forward with how busy life is today. So I'm trying to pull, pull back a little bit and relax a little more in life. So I thought this would be a great project. am so impressed, so excited for you because history is so freaking cool. I hated it when I was in school because history in school is about dates and places. There's no stories. Right. 04:43 I love the stories in history. that's, and that you're trying to help your community is just so amazing. Right, right. I definitely want to give back. I know that there's a lot of people in our area locally that are from here or have lived here for a good portion of their life. And, you know, running this new page that I have, I've realized like how many people truly are still here and still value. 05:10 the idea of what I plan to do and I feel like a lot of local support is huge. um And I have also decided to try to join the Historical Society so that I can figure out how to be supportive ...
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