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A Tiny Homestead

A Tiny Homestead

De: 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. Ciencias Sociales Economía Gestión y Liderazgo Liderazgo
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  • Cottage On Cross

    Cottage On Cross
    May 23 2025
    Today I'm talking with Karen at Cottage On Cross. A Tiny Homestead Podcast is sponsored by Homegrowncollective.org. 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. A Tiny Homestead podcast is sponsored by Homegrown Collective, a free to use farm to table platform, emphasizing local connections with ability to sell online, buy, sell, trade in local garden groups, and help us grow a new food system. You can find them at homegrowncollective.org. Today I'm talking with Karen at Cottage On Cross 00:28 Good morning, Karen. How are you? Good morning. Thank you for having me. You're in Pennsylvania, right? I am, yes. Okay. I'm in Minnesota. It's beautiful here for the first time in four days. We've had clouds and rain since, I think, mid-afternoon on Monday. So it's been really nice to get up this morning and see the sun shining. So how are things in Pennsylvania? Well, we probably got your weather. Oh, We're in the midst of that rain, but it's spring and it's needed, so I'm not complaining. 00:58 Yeah, the weather people here were saying on Monday, they were giving us the heads up that this drenching was coming and they were all like, we need the rain. And I'm like, we don't need 17 inches guys. Oh gosh, no. Yeah. I think we've all, I think we've all ended up with five inches total. Well, that's better. Yes. You don't want your garden to flood. No, that happened last year. I don't want it to happen this year. So, all right. So you tell me why it's called Cottage on Cross. 01:28 That's a fun story. It's purposeful, but it's also out of desperation. This is not my first online business. And I learned accidentally with my last one that your name matters in Google searches. If people don't even know what they're looking for, but type in a keyword, you'll come up. know, cottage core, was super trendy when I started it. 01:56 And that's a lot of what I make. So I wanted that name somewhere. And the first maybe 28 names I chose weren't available either on Etsy or on Instagram. And I needed the availability on both of those. So I ended up with Cottage on Cross because we live on Crossroad. okay. Okay. So for people who don't know what Cottage Core is, can you explain that? 02:24 Um, well right now, grandma core is trending, which is pretty much the same, just another term for it. It's just kind of a, uh, a back to basics, um, aesthetic where, uh, if your grandma had it, you're gonna like it, but, but that's the grandma core. Cottage core is, uh, well, kind of the same thing. It's like little house on the prairie, um, vibe going on. Um, it's, it's a more, uh, old fashioned vibe maybe. 02:54 Uh huh. Okay. Um, what I find interesting about Cottage Core is that I grew up with Cottage Core because we spent time with my grandmas, obviously, and, my mom was very influenced by her mother, who was my grandma. And so we always had old fashioned things in our house. And to this day, I really, really hate sleek, shiny glass metal furniture. want, I want wood furniture. want cast iron. 03:23 hooks for my coats. want the old fashioned stuff. I am the same. I am the same. And I think we probably grew up similarly then. Yeah, just in touch with family and the generations back through and all their things that they brought with them and they didn't have the new shiny, partly because they couldn't afford it. And partly because it was cherished memories for them from the generations. And yeah, so you just grow up loving that stuff and 03:52 No, I shunned. I shunned all that too. So this is not a going back for me. This is a celebrating that they've caught up with us. exactly. And I feel like I'm going to sound really dumb. I feel like shiny glass and metal is very cold. And I feel like quilts and cast iron and wood are very warm. I agree. So I really like the cozy warm feeling in my house. I don't want it to be, you know, austere and cold. Yes, I agree. 04:21 So before we get into what you do with quilts, because I've seen the pictures and what you do is really beautiful. Thank you. Do you live on a farm? I grew up on a dairy farm. I had almost all the animals growing up and it was a fantastic way to live. We have land off my family's farm now. We are right across from the farm. I see it every day. It's beautiful. 04:46 I do not have a farm. I have a working knowledge of what a farm is and how much work it is. So I've chosen very carefully what I want. We have chickens. They are easy to care for. I can walk away from them for a day and bank up on their food and they're going to be okay versus a milk cow. can't ...
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  • A Farmish Kind Of Life

    A Farmish Kind Of Life
    May 22 2025
    Today I'm talking with Amy at A Farmish Kind Of Life. You can follow on Facebook as well. A Tiny Homestead Podcast is sponsored by Homegrowncollective.org. 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 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. A Tiny Homestead podcast is sponsored by Homegrown Collective, a free to use farm to table platform emphasizing local connections with ability to sell online, buy sell trade in local garden groups and help us grow a new food system. You can find them at homegrowncollective.org. 00:25 Today I'm talking with Amy at A Farmish Kind Of Life in St. Cloud, Minnesota. Good afternoon, Amy. How are you? I'm good. How are you? I'm good. Amy is who I want to be when I grow up. don't even know who I want to be when I grow up. That's funny. Amy is an author. She's a podcaster. She's a blogger. She falls under the homesteading umbrella. 00:55 but it's more of a farm, right? I mean, what is a homesteader? know, isn't that what we're always trying to figure out? What is the definition of a homesteader, I suppose? I still We do have a farm. Yep. We do have a farm. I'm here. I have five acres in central Minnesota with, you know, a ton of different animals. We've been through, you know, all the different animals and we got all the gardens and we've got space. So yeah, it is farming, although... 01:23 there are people around here that have such huge farms that they think we're just kind of playing farm. So, you know, our little five acres is just kind of a little thing. But it's not. It's a big thing. It's a big thing. So tell me what brought you to this whole farmish kind of life, Amy. What brought me to the farmish kind of life? You know, when my husband and I were first married, we lived right in town and he had always lived in town. When I grew up, I grew up at 01:53 I grew up out in the country, but we didn't have a farm. We were more like in the woods and we had a creek and you know, all of that didn't grow up with, you know, the farm animals or anything. And we got married, we lived right in town and knew that was going to be a temporary thing. But we just we really wanted to be out in the country and have space, you know, to just kind of breathe. And I don't know if ever intentionally in the beginning, it was going to be we're going to have all these animals, we're going to can all this food and all this stuff. just 02:22 You just kind of morphed into that, suppose. think part of it was when we were first married, you we were, you know, you're trying to make ends meet and stretch the dollars and then you have the babies, you know, and things get crazy. And I think frugal living and just trying to figure out, you know, can we make this from scratch? What can we substitute? How can we do without this? How can we do something different? That and various other things just led us to whatever you want to call this. 02:52 this life, this farmish thing or this homesteading thing. Right there with you. That's how we got found ourselves in this, this, uh, this quagmire of trying new things all the time. Oh yes. Yeah. There's always something new to try. Yep. I, uh, front of mine brought me sourdough starter Monday night. Thank you Tracy. And, uh, it's fine. The starter she, she brought me, I, 03:22 got up this morning and I have water on top of it. And I was like, that doesn't look good. So I had to go Google it and find out if it was still alive. And apparently it's doing really well. So I threw some more flour in there. It's good. And then I realized, yeah. And then I realized I didn't know anything about sourdough starter. And I've been doing home studying stuff for a long time. So I went back to Google and, and, when looked in Wikipedia and I Oh, 03:49 this is not as hard as I think it is. I'm going to start my own starter too and see if I can make it go from scratch. So that now has water on top of it. And I'm like, okay, this, don't know what to do with it. So. I feel like, you know, like home setting is such a big thing. there's, there's, there's so much to learn. think for us this year, it was, I mean, we've been at the farm for 14 years now and just this past winter. you know, like not that many months ago, we finally tapped our maple tree. 04:19 And we've been here 14 years and we're like, wait a second, we have maple trees. Why are we not tapping these and trying to do this whole maple syrup thing? And it went way better than I thought it would. it's just, you know, I think there's just only so much you can have on your plate and process at once. And then you're like, wait a second, we could do this thing. We could do this thing. So ...
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  • 5 Acre Wood Homestead

    5 Acre Wood Homestead
    May 21 2025
    Today I'm talking with Marissa at 5 Acre Wood Homestead. A Tiny Homestead Podcast is sponsored by Homegrowncollective.org. 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 Did you know that muck boots all started with a universal problem? Muck? And did you know that it's their 25th anniversary this year? Neither did I. But I do know that when you buy boots that don't last, it's really frustrating to have to replace them every couple of months. So check out muck boots. The link is in the show notes. The very first thing that got hung in my beautiful kitchen when we moved in here four and a half years ago was a calendars.com Lang calendar. 00:26 because I need something familiar in my new house. My mom loves them. We love them. Go check them out. The link is in the show notes. 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. A Tiny Homestead podcast is sponsored by Homegrown Collective, a free to use farm to table platform, emphasizing local connections with ability to sell online, buy, sell, trade in local garden groups, and help us grow a new food system. 00:56 You can find them at homegrowncollective.org. 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 Marissa at Five Acre Wood Homestead in Washington State. Good evening, Marissa. How are you? I'm great. Thank you so much for having me. I am so excited to talk with you because you have everything going on at your homestead. So tell me about yourself and what you do. Well, um... 01:27 I, so we weren't always, you know, Homesteader, Homestead life. I really just stumbled into it as a lot of us do, right? But I did, I am from a very small, tiny town in Idaho. And there was a lot of, you know, Homestead like things that went on there. And so I did have that very early young childhood. 01:52 experience of that. Like I have memories of the things my parents had to do to get us through winters and whatnot, you know. And my mother and my grandmother, you know, they sewed and crocheted and canned and did all the things. And so I kind of always had that influence in my life. But growing up, we were, I was, you know, displaced to the city here in Tacoma. 02:21 And that's where I spent 40 years was the middle of the city and had my kids there. And at a certain point in my life, I was, I just decided that. You know, we, it's nice to talk about how we want to get back to the country and the small town life and be self-sufficient and do all the things. But at some point you just got to do it. And that's really how this. 02:50 how the homestead came about. And we've been here six years now. Okay. And still no animals. Still a work in progress, right? Because our homestead was was vacant for five years before we got it. And so nature kind of just did what nature does and took over. And so it's been the last three years has been 03:18 a lot of rebuilding and a lot of taking down and a lot of getting the property back to where we need it to be so that we can incorporate the things that we want to have. It's been a lot of work. Well, I'm going to jump in for one second. You don't have to have animals to be a homesteader. It's totally cool if you don't. I know. I know. And so many people have told me that because I feel 03:46 you know, kind of some days like we're not a real homestead because we don't have animals yet. And you're right. That's not that's not true at all. 03:58 Yeah, my friend, she's become a friend. didn't know her a year ago, but now I do because of the podcast. My friend Amy Fagan at Grounded in Maine is her podcast. She asked me to be a guest and she basically introduced me as a homesteader who was bucking the system because we only have three acres and we don't have cows. And it was kind of tongue in cheek. And for anybody listening. 04:23 If you are doing something that's an old fashioned skill as a part of your everyday life, you are practicing homesteading. Yeah, that's true. That's absolutely true. And I do it on so many levels. And I think the animals and the husbandry is probably the only thing that I don't do. And honestly, that's probably a good thing because we tried raising rabbits here and number one, they were dumb and didn't procreate the way they were supposed to. 04:52 And number two, having to call or butcher those babies, not babies, I call them babies because they were my babies, but having to butcher those rabbits and put them in the freezer about killed me. I don't, don't want to do it again. really don't. It's that's a part that, um, you know, it's not everybody can handle that part. Now...
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