Today I'm talking with Jillian at Farm Country Candles. You can also follow on Facebook. 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. Today I'm talking with Jillian at Farm Country Candles in Belle Plaine, Minnesota, which is just up the road from me. Good afternoon, Jillian. How are you? I'm well. How are you, Mary? I'm good. And it's a beautiful day in Minnesota. It just kind of clouded in here a little bit in Lasur, but it's still beautiful. It's not hot. 00:27 and everything is so freaking green right now, it's ridiculous. Yeah, everything is blooming. It's a good time to visit Minnesota. Yeah, I always say May, first part of June, or September, first part of October, because any time in between those two times, it's just hot and sticky, and I'm like, not going to enjoy it if you come any time other than that. Yes, absolutely. But there's always something to do, so. 00:55 Whatever works with anybody's schedule still come visit Minnesota. Yeah, it's gorgeous. It's absolutely gorgeous any time of the year It's just that you have to you have to understand that Minnesota is I would use the word volatile when it comes to weather You never know what you're gonna get and you can't Plan on it being the way you want it to be so be flexible and enjoy whatever mother nature gives you 01:24 Absolutely. Couldn't have said it better. Yeah. And I mean, I grew up in New England. It's the same thing. I made a lateral move over 30 years ago and I was like, Minnesota is not that different from where I grew up. There's just no mountains to my west, you know, half an hour, 45 minutes, and there's no ocean to my east, half an hour, 45 minutes. It's more like day trips to get there now. Yes. That is a big change. 01:51 Yeah, but the weather itself is kind of the same. And honestly, my dad and my mom, give me weather updates when I talk to them. Oh, they're still in England? In New England, in Maine. New England. In Maine. Oh, sure. And my dad will say, how's the weather been? And I tell him, and he's like, okay, well, I know what we have coming in three days, because basically whatever we get three days later, they get. So he said, you're better than our local weather reporter. I'm like, yeah, weird how that works. 02:21 So that's awesome. What? That's awesome. So anyhow, I would love it if you would tell me about yourself and what you do, Jillian. Absolutely. Well, I'm Jillian and I'm the owner of Farm Country Candles. I started this business, gosh, was it a year and a half ago now? Oh, that soon. That it wasn't that long ago. It was not. It kind of happened on accident. 02:51 To be honest, ah my parents owned a candle company. ah It was on a smaller scale, but they started that around 2008. So they've had all the equipment and uh now they were like, well, Jillian, do you want to have our equipment? We're kind of downsizing. And I was like, sure. Yeah, this sounds like fun. It'd be a hobby of mine. love the candles and this way I could have it for myself and maybe gift a few. 03:21 to family and friends. But then eventually people wanted to buy some and I was like, okay, maybe I should turn this into a business. So I did, I rebranded the company and I called it Farm Country Candles, because it's the area that we live in, right? Farm Country. uh So it had just a good ring to the name. And now it's just kind of grown into what it is today, which still have the soy candles. 03:50 but we also have fire starters and small space diffusers or car diffusers. uh And those additional products always came by kind of, again, on accident and they all have funny stories behind them. So I would love to share those as we continue our conversation today. Well, go ahead. Tell me the funny story about the car diffusers first. Okay, absolutely. So the car diffusers, uh I don't know if people know what they are because I didn't. 04:19 Okay, so they're just little vessels that have the fragrance and a diffuser base and you can hang them in your car. So if you look on social media, they're known as car diffusers, but I love them for any of my small spaces like bathrooms, um offices, mud rooms. You could put them in your benches because shoes kind of get stinky after a while. I know some people 04:47 by family and friends, have them in their fish houses, their campers, their side by sides. Pretty much anywhere you can't have a burning candle, you can put this diffuser. So it's portable and you just take off the plastic stopper, ...
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