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 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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