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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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  • A Farm Wife

    A Farm Wife
    2025/06/06
    Today I'm talking with Diane at A Farm Wife. You can also follow on Facebook. 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. 00:25 Today I'm talking with Diane at A Farm Wife. Good afternoon, Diane. How are you? I'm fantastic. How are you? I'm good. Are you in Michigan? You bet. Are you guys getting the wildfire smoke like we are in Minnesota? Yeah, it's kind of hazy. It's not really bad, but yeah, it looks a little bit weird. Yeah, it's raining here. So the air is already wet. And if I look across the cornfield that borders our property, it looks like it's foggy, but it's not fog, it's smoke. 00:55 Well, we actually have sun trying to peek through and it's very windy but it's getting it's like an 80 something right now, which is great for drying out our hay. I bet it is. We don't have any hay and I'm so glad it's raining right now because we've had like a week or so of beautiful dry weather and that's great because this time last year it was raining every day here, but 01:23 But it hasn't been and we've got a really good garden started this year. Like last year was a miserable fail for gardening season. So we've got everything crossed that it just keeps doing this week of really nice weather and then a day or two of a good rain and then another week of nice weather. Everything crossed. Us farmers are never satisfied with the weather. Oh, I know. And I feel so bad about complaining about it, but 01:49 If you could have seen my husband's disappointment last year, May into mid-June, because all it did was rain. We know what that's like. He was so good. Like it's just a farm to market garden, or farm to table, whatever you want to call it. But it's his, it's his joy. It's how he unwinds in these stresses. Yeah. It doesn't matter how big or how small you are, the weather affects what's happening. 02:16 Yeah, it was just rough and he was so good. He never blew up about it. He just had faith that this year was going to be better. And I said to him the other day, said, that faith is paying off. It's much better this year. He just laughed. Yeah, that's kind of our mantra as farmers. It'll be better next year or next harvest or next planting. Yeah, exactly. And I mean, that's all you have to hang on to. There's nothing you can do about what's going on in the atmosphere. So. 02:45 You just pray or send up smoke signals or just open up your hands and say that I will be done and hopefully everything turns out Okay, so yeah, all right So I have been looking forward to talking with you for a week since I well not week We only talked a day or two ago, but since I found out about you I have been very excited to talk with you because you are not a 25 year old lady Just getting started in this you have lived a very full very 03:14 I think lovely, wonderful life so far. Yes, very blessed, but I am not in my 20s. That is for sure. Yeah, so tell me about yourself and what you do. Well, just to back up a little bit, I was raised on the east side of Michigan. My dad was a tool and die maker and had a normal, what I thought was a normal life. Dad, home at 430, weekends home, went summer vacations and I 03:44 graduated in June, turned 18 in July, got married in September and moved across the state onto a farm and into a unknown territory. My husband would leave at five in the morning, come home at 10. It was crazy. It was so different that I couldn't even begin to tell you how different it is. And you learn how to do a lot of things that you didn't know you could do because there was nobody else around to do them but you. So I was, 04:13 Very fortunate to land on a beautiful farm here in West Michigan, a dairy farm. We had four boys. And to tell you the truth, the farm was my enemy for quite a while because it took my husband away and it took away what I thought was supposed to be family time and how family was supposed to look. And, um, he would be home on Sundays, um, after church for a little bit in the afternoon, because on Sundays we just did, uh, feeding. 04:41 and milking and everything else waited because it was Sunday, so that was the only time we had together. So it was very, very difficult trying to acclimate to a life that I never saw coming. But once the kids got a little bit older, you know, and they were on ...
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  • Rawly-Mae Farm

    Rawly-Mae Farm
    2025/06/05
    Today I'm talking with Daniel and Joni at Rawly-Mae Farm. You can also follow on Facebook. 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. 00:25 Today I'm talking with Daniel and Joni at Rawly-Mae Farm in Tennessee. Good morning, guys. How are you? Good morning. Good morning, we're good. How are you? I'm good. And as we just said before I hit record, you guys have been up all night getting ready for things going on in your life. And I have some pretty good allergies kicking my ass this morning. So we're going to try to make this as good as we can. So you were saying that it's really muggy in Tennessee this morning? 00:54 It is. It's very humid and muggy and we're, it's dry enough for us to our hay. So we're getting our hay done right now. So. Says it feels like it's 87 degrees. Ugh, gross. Well, it's raining here. Just so listeners have a weather update from Minnesota to raining. Nice soaker. I'm really happy about this. This is good. So tell me about yourselves and what you do. So, um, we. 01:22 of course, own Rawly-Mae Farm. We started that in 2021. We are a first generation. We've both been around agriculture, our whole lives. But when we got started, Daniel was a police officer with the city of Cookeville and I was a special education teacher in White County. So we have 01:52 We both put in over 10-year careers in those before we were both able to step away to just doing the farm. We have two children, Eliza who is nine and Ralston who is seven. They are big into rodeo. We travel a lot with them and try to support them the best we can with all of their endeavors. 02:19 I think we have too many pets to actually name as far as the livestock and the dogs and stuff. But that's just kind of like a short snippet of our life. Okay, awesome. And I don't want to, I'm going to do the opposite of burying the lead on this one. You said that you are getting ready to sell your farm. So does that mean that you're getting out of this? 02:48 No, it means we have outgrown where we're at currently. So we are landlocked where we are at. The airport in our area owns the land for the majority around us. So there's nowhere for us to expand. And with the amount of animals that we currently house, 03:17 needing hay and just the production of it all, we're needing to expand. So we've been looking in White County for a farm that offers more acreage. Okay, good. Cause I was, I was afraid this was going to be a sad episode because I just talked to somebody last night and she did end up selling her farm, um, year or two ago and she's moved on to a new thing and she's very happy doing it, but she misses her farm a lot. 03:46 Yeah, so I was like, oh no, not a second one selling no Right No intentions to stop Good. Okay. So what do you guys do at Raleigh May? So we sell various livestock we focus mostly on menter cattle and highland cattle as well as various exotics like llamas alpacas, especially chickens 04:14 Polish, Silkeys, know, stuff like that. Mature donkeys are a big thing that we sell. And we do little bit of everything. I we travel all over the United States. I think we go to several livestock sales across the country. we recently, the first of last year, started doing our own deliveries, which has expanded to, you know, we're delivering to, I think we're up to 23 different states that we have delivered to or sold. 04:43 livestock to over the past three and a half four years Wow, okay, and did I see that you guys take in animals that that need a home as well We do we've got Various rescue animals a lot of times when we buy animals to resell They just stay here. We all fall in love with them and they don't go anywhere. So that's 05:10 One of the perks of the job is we get to see all kinds of animals and sometimes we like them too much for them to go anywhere else. They become part of your family? They do. They do. They're a large family. Yeah, it sounds like it. It sounds like you are overrun with family. Yes. We have new members of our family coming sometime in next two weeks. We have three barn kittens coming to live with us. Awesome. We just actually might. 05:38 My cousin just gave us, she was going to give us a couple of her barn kittens and it turned into six barn kittens. ...
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  • Dawn's Dirt

    Dawn's Dirt
    2025/06/04
    Today I'm talking with Dawn at Dawn's Dirt. You can also follow on Facebook. 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 Dawn at Dawn's Dirt in Alberta, Canada. 00:29 Good, I don't know what time it is. Good afternoon, Dawn, how are you? I'm really good. Thank you so much for having me. And yes, it's just after 4.30 in the afternoon here in Alberta. Yeah, and it's just after 5.30 here. And again, I tend to do most of my recording in the morning. So I'm programmed to start to say good morning. And I'm like, no, it's not morning. Stop it. It's funny how things go like that. You you get into a routine and a rut and... 00:59 But here I am throwing you for a loop already. So let's do this. I'm all good with that. And the only thing that I request is that we don't talk religion or politics only because I haven't and it can become really divisive and hurtful. And I would just rather talk about positive things like growing plants and feeding people. I love it. Those are my two favorite subjects to talk about, but I don't like the division and the the either. let's yeah, sounds great with me. Yep. And I just 01:29 I've come really close, Dawn. I did. asked one of your compatriots in Canada, how Canada saw America right now. And she was like, if I say something not okay, just edit it. And I was like, okay. And she was very, very diplomatic and kind. And we kind of talked around things for five minutes. And then I was like, okay, that's as close as I want to come to talk in politics on my podcast. And she just laughed. So worked out great. Okay. So. 01:59 Tell me a little bit about yourself and what you do. Yeah, so I'm Dawn from Dawn's dirt. If you're looking me up and I am a farm girl. was raised in the greenhouse industry here in Canada. So my parents had a 26,000 square foot greenhouse and they grew long English cucumbers and 02:19 In 2007, me and my ex-husband built our greenhouse my parents sold and we took over kind of my family business and we were growing long English cucumbers as well and we started, it was pretty tough. Farming is of all types and sizes, no matter what it is, is really hard. And so we ended up branching into tomatoes and peppers and then we eventually ended up growing 20 acres of garden and field crops and I direct marketed them. 02:46 everything that I grew to my consumers at farmers markets and online and things like that. So I was a vegetable farmer for many many years plus I had some chickens and some sheep. So that's who I was. Unfortunately a year and a half ago I had to sell and so now I'm getting into the whole online thing and if you give a man a fish he eats for a day but if you teach a man to fish he eats for a lifetime. So I'm teaching people how to 03:13 grow food in the spaces that they have. think everyone should be growing something in their backyard and I'm teaching people how to do it. So that's my new venture. Fabulous. And I agree on the teaching Amanda Fish premise. And I am trying, we are trying to feed our community too. So we are aligned on both of those points. Perfect. I love it. I think that we've lost a connection between our food, you know, back in the day, back 50 years ago, 03:42 Grandma had a garden, know, great grandma had a garden. Everyone had a garden and a few chickens in their backyard. And I just feel like we need to take society and shift backwards to some of that again, because it's so important for kids to know where their food comes from. so, yeah, I just think that's where we need to head to is to know that your carrots come from the ground and that, you know, eggs come from chickens. Yeah, they sure do. Weird, huh? 04:10 They don't come from a grocery store. mean, grocery stores are a building that houses items that we can eat. But at the end of the day, the farmer and the field and the sun and the animals and the earth, that is where our food actually comes from. Yeah, yeah. Yes, absolutely. It does. I am living proof of it. ate 04:37 butter crunch lettuce out of our garden on my taco last night. Oh, yum. Yum. And did you grow your tomatoes too? Well, we do. We do grow tomatoes. We do can tomato sauce. We don't can tomato paste. Long story. Haven't tried it yet, ...
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