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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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  • Home Sweet Home Baker

    Home Sweet Home Baker
    2025/11/05
    Today I'm talking with Michelle at Home Sweet Home Bakery. You can follow on Facebook as well. A Tiny Homestead Podcast is sponsored by Cottage Foodie Con. The code HOME 15 will get you 15% off any ticket and is valid for the month of November www.patreon.com/atinyhomestead 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. I'm your host, Mary Lewis. Today I'm talking with Michelle Chesser at Home Sweet Home Baker in Missouri. Good morning, Michelle. How are you? Good morning, Mary. How are you? I'm doing great. I'm okay. I'm getting better. I've been sick for three weeks and I've mentioned it on the podcast and I actually feel maybe 80%. 00:26 from the zero I was at two, three Tuesdays ago. So I think I'm getting better. How is the weather in Missouri today? We finally got fall and I love it. I love the changing of the season. So it's chilly. have our, we started a fire for the first time this weekend. So bring it on. I am right there with you because I am north of you in Minnesota and I was listening to the weather for the week on our local news channel this morning and the cutie patootie boy. 00:56 who does the weather, said that we might get our first mixed precipitation like sleet, snow flurries and rain on Saturday this weekend. And I was like, yes, finally. Wow, that's early. That's too early for me. Well, my birthday is tomorrow and my daughter's is the 14th and we are 20 years and 10 days apart. And every year there's an unspoken bet as to whether we'll get snow before my birthday. 01:25 or in between my birthday and her birthday or after her birthday. So I think we are going to get snow in between. She's in Florida, so she won't be getting any snow. Well, happy birthday. Thank you. uh Okay, so tell me a little bit about yourself and about what you do. Well, I've started my bakery about 17 years ago for young children. 01:50 and I wanted to find a way that they could grow up working, have a good work ethic. And so we started taking, we grew a garden and started taking vegetables to the farmer's market. And eventually we just started eating all our vegetables and I've always loved baking. So one year we took cupcakes to the farmer's market and we just grew from there and we added things and 02:19 When we added cinnamon rolls, it got crazy. And eventually we built a home on our property and added a commercial kitchen in our home. So we have a home kitchen and then we have a commercial kitchen right next to it. And that was to bake for a coffee shop, a local coffee shop in town. So I baked for them for eight years and just finished doing that in March. 02:48 So now I teach other home bakers just how to grow and how to survive and balance everything. 02:59 Wow. Okay. So you started out as a cottage food producer and now you teach. that the beginning to where you are now? Yes. And I still bake. I still bake and sell not as much, but I still I'm in the trenches and I'm, you know, the holidays are coming up and I'm going to be full force baking. Awesome. I love stories like yours where you go from, we're going to try a thing and then it becomes a real thing, like a much bigger thing. uh 03:28 Are you by any chance going to be coming to Minnesota for the cottage foodie con thing in April of 2026? absolutely am. And my husband is originally from Minnesota. He spent some of his childhood there. So when I told him it was in Minnesota, he's like, we're going, we're going. So I will be there. Yes. 03:51 Awesome. I will not be there. However, cottage fruity con is the new sponsor from my podcast. Awesome Yes, I will actually have a little thing at the beginning of this episode when it comes out on Wednesday morning talking about what cottage foodie con is but Matt the guy that that started it is a fantastic person I don't know if you've met him. I don't if you talk to him, but if you get the chance to when you're there 04:16 go say hi and tell him Mary sent you because he's super sweet. He's a really nice guy. Yes. I talked with him online and that was the first time I met him and I was blown away. He's really nice and really helpful and he knew his stuff. So I'm really excited about going and I'm looking forward to it. Good. I was hoping that you were going to say yes because I really wanted to break this news in 04:42 conversation, not just with a little blurb at the beginning of the podcast. uh I'm so excited for him and I'm really excited that you're going because I think you're going to find out things that you didn't know and you've doing this for a while. But there's always stuff to learn that you didn't even think of. oh So anyone who's listening, if you're ...
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  • Wholesome Meadow Farms

    Wholesome Meadow Farms
    2025/11/03
    Today I'm talking with Mimi at Wholesome Meadow Farms. www.patreon.com/atinyhomestead 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. I'm your host, Mary Lewis. Today I'm talking with Mimi at Wholesome Meadow Farms in Florida. Good morning, Mimi. How are you? Good morning. How are you? I'm good. How's the weather in Florida? It's nice. It's fall weather and it's not hot. It's really nice and cool. 00:27 So we're really excited about the new weather right now. I'm in Minnesota and it is as gray as it can possibly be and it is cold and they're saying rain today. Well, it is still sunshine in Florida. It's really nice at the farm with the nice cool weather coming in. It makes it much easier to work on the farm for sure. Oh, it always does. We love cool days in Minnesota in the summer because in the summer, 00:57 It can get as hot as it gets in Florida and it can be just as muggy as it gets in Florida. So I understand what you're saying. um So when you say it's cool, like how cool is it there? 70, 65 to 70 right now. Okay. Well, we have had frost every morning for the last three mornings. So my definition of cool is a little bit colder than yours. Yes. Yes. 01:23 But I'm not mad about it. Fall is my favorite season. So I am tickled that we in mid fall. It's been beautiful. All right. So tell me a little bit about yourself and wholesome whatever the heck it is. I forget the name because I've been sick. I'm sorry. Tell me about your place. No problem. started the place. I grew up in a farm back home and I really wanted to go back into the farm. We started uh a little homestead. 01:52 but the region in Vernon and it's about 11 acres and we have a few animals. have goats, we have a lot of chickens and we do have some pigs and we're growing, you know, steadily growing our flock and we're excited about it because it's pretty flat uh area. It has different, um we kind of parsing in our four areas region so we can move our flock. 02:22 around ah and then we also putting on a putting on one of the lot a house there so we're excited about that to be permanently at the farm and operating so it's uh that's overall uh the farm we also building a pond so that we can have our ducks and other you know animals being able to enjoy a pond as well. 02:50 Very nice. So what made you want to get into this? Because I grew up on a farm, I wanted to always go back to that root and being able to raise my own animals and being able to grow vegetables or food source in a natural way like it used to be, know, non-GMO, pasture-raised animals so that 03:19 we have that wholesomeness and then being able to have more of um a source of food that we love raising and being able to. uh 03:36 offer that same type of uh experience to other people too and enjoy a natural made food source. oh so I'm glad that you mentioned that because not everyone who has a homestead or a farm sells their products that they produce from the farm. But is that was that the plan when you started this? Yes and no. We also have uh some of our people, the people I know in community 04:06 They also expressed the want to have naturally, you know, a reliable food. So we started selling our uh products to some friends and family and then expanding now to the other market. So that's how it falls from, you know, being able to share the things that we oh 04:35 we raise and then trying to expand it to a bigger market right now. Okay. So that leads me to my next question. Do people come to your place to buy your produce and your other products or do you sell it like a farmer's market or are you looking to get into grocery stores? Some people do come at the farm to pick up the items. I also bring them to some farm swap. 05:03 and we're trying to also get them to farmers market. Okay, awesome. Awesome. So how long have you been doing it? About a year now. We've been doing the farm. We're in our second year going in. Okay, do you love it? Yes. Yes. 05:29 It's like, you know, it brings me back to my childhood where, you know, we do chores, we attend the land and we attend to the animals. So it's basically bringing back to our childhood. Yeah. And you're not the first person to tell me that. And the thing that comes up a lot on this podcast is memories and childhood and play. And I am not saying that homesteading is just playing. 05:59 because it's not, it's a lot of work. It's a lot of work, it's a lot of work. But the reward is to be able to say, I pour my, you know, all my energy into this and I'm able to have a food that I know where it came from. uh That's the reward. And then being able to just have ...
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  • AQuack AndaCluck Farm

    AQuack AndaCluck Farm
    2025/10/31
    Today I'm talking with Rebecca at AQuack AndaCluck Farm. www.patreon.com/atinyhomestead 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. I'm your host, Mary Lewis. Today I'm talking with Rebecca at a Quack and a Cluck farm in Illinois. Good morning, Rebecca. How are you? Good morning. Doing good. Good. Well, how's the weather there? Because it's been raining since last night here in Minnesota. Well, we didn't get rain until this morning and now it's drizzling and cold. 00:28 Yeah, and I hate to sound like a farmer, but we need the rain, so I guess it's okay. Yeah, we definitely do. Definitely. It's really dry. It's been dry. It's needed. um Okay, so the first question I have for you is how you came up with a quack and a cluck for the name. You know, honestly, 00:51 I sat and I thought about it for a very long time. And one thing that I did was, you know, kind of come up with some names and I Google search just to make sure, you know, nobody else had any of them. didn't want to, you know, take somebody else's name. And it just kind of hit me. I'm like, well, we got chickens and we got ducks. They make noises. There we go. And so I just, it just kind of came together. It worked out great. 01:20 I love it. And the only thing that's hard for me as the podcast host is that I have to make sure I pronounce cluck very carefully. Yeah. Yeah. There was another lady who had a name like yours and it was something it had clucking in it. And I I practiced for a whole day in my head and out loud saying clucking. So I didn't screw it up. uh Yeah. You know, and it 01:50 It only takes just a little bit of a tweak in there for it to sound like something completely different. Yeah. And that's the one word that I never ever say on the podcast because I don't want people to be alienated. So, right. So every time I find somebody with a name that ends in UCK, I'm like, OK, Mary Evelyn, be careful of how you say this word. Right. Yes. Very enunciate. Yes. So is that chicks that I hear in the background? It is. Yes. 02:20 um This is our first year of doing fall hatches. um I'm not so sure that I like doing it. uh Of course, it's partly because my chickens are like, no, we're out. So it's been kind of random on what's hatching and what we're able to hatch. Okay. 02:45 Well, it's a lovely sound. think that chick peeps are beautiful to hear. do not, I'm gonna step off to the side for a second. The peeps that they sell at Easter, I hate them. I don't like them. Every year I try one and I go, God, those are gross. But baby chicken peeps, the sound are just beautiful. So. Yes, I agree. And on that side note of yours, I do not like those peeps. 03:15 I want to like them and my son always ends up getting some because he loves them and he's like try again so I eat one and I'm like it's just straight sugar it's gross. They're cute they are cute I'll give them that it's just that texture is just I can't get past that. either I don't like them and my husband just laughs at me he's like you love marshmallows. 03:42 And I'm spoiled. I have had homemade marshmallows before. Homemade marshmallows are fantastic. And Peeps got nothing on them. No, no. And once you have the homemade marshmallows, you can't even look at it or even taste, you know, the store-bought marshmallows the same. They just don't taste the same to me. No, they absolutely do not. There is a place up in Duluth, I think it is. I interviewed the lady that owns it and she makes homemade marshmallows and she sent 04:12 I actually ordered some from her. had to try them. And she sent me a package and I opened them the day I got them and they were gone. There were like 12 in the bag. And I ate probably eight of them. I saved four. Two for my husband, two for my son. Because I'm a good mom and I am a good wife. I wish it was the same here. I make something like that and it doesn't even really have time to set up before the kids are reaching in and taking them out and eating them. 04:41 It's like same day they're gone. yeah, absolutely. OK, so let's let's bring it back in the line about homesteading. Tell me about yourself and what you do at a quack and a clog farm. Well, we we are trying to be a little bit more self-sufficient. um So we have lots of chickens, plenty of chickens. A lot of them, though, are also 05:11 ones that we're trying to preserve, trying to bring back, like the Pavlovaskan chicken breed. I have heard it pronounced, you know, a little bit different. So I may not be saying it right to everybody, but I've heard it both ways. The Sebastopol geese. We also have like Mandarin ducks and ...
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