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The Kelley Family Homestead

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 Today I'm talking with Megan at The Kelley Family Homestead. 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 Megan at the Kelley Family Homestead in Connecticut. 00:30 Good morning, Megan. How are you? Good. How are you? Oh, I'm great. Is it beautiful in Connecticut today? No, it's raining today. I'm sorry. It is gorgeous here in Minnesota. Oh, nice. Last weekend was beautiful. It's the first Memorial Day weekend we've had in years where all three days were just stellar. And I thought for sure it would rain this weekend. It's really nice out today too. I have no idea why Mother Nature is being nice, but I'm very good with it. 00:58 The running joke right now in New England is it's the weekend because it's raining. It's only nice during the weekdays. The weekend, we've been getting rain for like a month straight. You are having the spring that we had last year. And my parents live in Maine. I just spoke with them this morning and my mom was like, so how's the weather there? I said, it's sunny and 57 degrees. She's like, I'm happy for you. I said, you sound really not happy for me. 01:27 that is pouring here in Maine this morning again. was like, oh great. Yeah, everything's wet this morning. So yeah, I'm sorry to hear that and I'm sure you don't actually need any more water from what they've been telling me. It's been bad. it's all right. It's filling up the rain barrels. So we're good. Good. Okay. All right. So tell me about yourself and what you do at the Kelly family homestead. 01:59 Well, I'm a mom of three. I am very interested in native plants and growing my own food. So we moved into our house about nine years ago in the fall and the next spring I was basically ripping up the grass to grow gardens as soon as possible. We put in over 15 fruit trees, berry bushes, grapevines. 02:26 garden plots for annual vegetables and things. And it's just been kind of growing ever since. And a couple years ago, I just decided to go for it and planted a ton of seeds. And everything sprouted even though they were like super old. So that was kind of the beginning of the farm stand. I was just growing my surplus vegetables and putting them out there. The vegetable plants and 02:54 That did really well. So the following year I started adding native plants and cuttings of my grapevines and some of the berry bushes that I grow. And that did really well. So this year is the third year of the farm stand and it is even bigger. We've got a lot more bushes and trees. I mean, it's just a little roadside stand at the end of my driveway for right now, but the plan is to eventually get a piece of property and make it like a full on nursery and 03:24 do the whole thing. But it's a lot of work, but it's a lot of fun. I really enjoy gardening. I really enjoy propagating. It's always fun to see what works and what doesn't. And my kids like to help out, and it's just been awesome. Fabulous. You are in an urban setting, according to your website. Is that right? We're on a third of an acre. 03:53 Yeah. Where are you in Connecticut? I'm in Enfield, right on the Massachusetts line. Okay. So question for you is if you are in an urban environment, did you have to get any permit, any permits from the city to have the farm stand or did they, were they not even bothered by it? 04:16 Um, I checked with the city before I started and as long as my farm stand is under 200 square feet and is mobile, I'm good to go. Um, I did have to get a nursery license from the state. Um, um, you know, pesticide or a pest thing, know, license to say that I, I'm making sure that my plants are not, you know, carrying any pests that I'm selling and that I'm, you know, any starts that I get from anybody else, I'm making sure that they're. 04:45 equally certified and have their pest light prevention inspection done. And everybody I buy from sends me their copy of their certificate. I've been working with the... the re-go ahead. Yeah, go ahead. Go ahead. Go ahead. You've been working with me. 05:10 The North Central Conservation District, I bought some seedling trees from them this year. And then I also bought from the New Hampshire State Nursery, some...

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