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 Today I'm talking with Matt and Deb at Plotting To Plate - The people on plot 11 & 5. 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 Matt and I think you said Debbie. I might have screwed that up. At Plotting To Plate. Hi guys, how are you? We're good. Thank Very good. Thank you. Did I get the name right? Yes, it's Deb. Okay, good. I blanked for a second. I was like, what is her name? 01:24 Okay. You guys are in Staffordshire or Staffordshire, England, right? Yeah, we're in Stafford, which is in Staffordshire. It's a market town, about 71,000 people. So it's quite a big town these days. It's so medium to large. And it's in the Midlands. Okay, cool. And how is the weather in England today? It's lovely. 01:52 It's really nice. So if you're wanting to go outside and get some time and sit and have a cup of tea and read books, it's great. If you're growing vegetables, not so good because this has been the driest spring that we've had since the records began. So obviously we have two hats on these. Oh, no. 02:19 Unseasonably warm and dry for the UK at the moment. I really wish that Mother Nature would get her act together. Well, just give us more warning about what she's going to be because we've got seedlings and things we need to look after. So, you know, you need to be able to plan for that, don't you? Yes. And we went through this last year here in my town because we had six weeks of rain straight in May and June. Yeah. 02:49 And it was bad. Our garden was terrible. And I've talked about it a lot, so I'm not going to talk about it anymore right now. tell me about what you guys do, because I know in England you can either have plants growing where you live or you can have allotments. And I'm not quite sure I understand what allotments mean. So tell me about it. Yeah. So an allotment is a large piece of land. 03:17 that's often owned by either a council or an association. And then it's subdivided into plots. And the sole purpose of the plot is to grow fruit and veg. And you rent that land from either the association or the council. So we rent two plots on our site. There's plot five and plot 11. And there's about 150 plots on the site. So it is a massive site. 03:47 But it's urban, so it's completely surrounded by housing. There's nothing rural about it outside of the gates until you get in the gates and then there's all the small plots that are put over to fruit, veg, flowers or whatever you want to grow there. Allotments, it's quite an old tradition in the UK. 04:15 the 1970s became popular and then it died off again. Then it came back to life in the 1990s and has sort of grown ever since. We found that we actually took ours on in just after lockdown in 2021 because during lockdown, know, we love food, we love eating well and we love eating organically. So lockdown gave us the time to think and consider about having. 04:43 a more sustainable and simpler life and part of that was to get these two allotment plots. We haven't looked back since actually, just absolutely love it. So as far as allotments for the third, as quite large. So normally in the UK they're about 300 yards, but as a bigger, so with the two together, I think we have about a quarter of a plot, something like that, isn't it? 05:13 A quarter of an acre. Not a quarter of a plot. That wouldn't feed us. It's about a quarter of an acre, which it's not too big. It's just about as much as we can manage because Matt still works. I'm retired but he works. But ...
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