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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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  • Sourdough for Beginners

    Sourdough for Beginners
    2025/06/30
    Today I'm talking with Sarah at Sourdough for Beginners. 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 Sarah Frank at Sourdough for Beginners. Good morning, Sarah. How are you? I'm good. How are you? I'm good. Are you in Canada? I am. I'm just north of Toronto in what we call cottage country. Okay. What's the weather like in Canada this morning? It's a beautiful day. A little bit overcast. We live right next to the lake. You know, it's nice and warm. It should be warm enough for the kids to go swimming later. 00:53 Nice. It is overcast and not raining. It rained really hard here yesterday. Like we had inches of water in front of our garage yesterday. It's been crazy weather this year for sure. So every time we get a decent day, we're pretty excited about it. Yeah, us too. It's, it's been, uh, it's been a much better spring than last year. And that's all I'll say. Cause I've already talked about how terrible last year was. Where are you located? I'm in Minnesota. All right. So, um, 01:23 I'm going to do a little bit of an intro here because I actually have info to share. You are an administrator for the Sourdough for Beginners Facebook group, which is really a great group. I have been stalking it because I've been learning about sourdough. And you are also an author of a book called Sourdough for Beginners, the ultimate companion for sourdough bakers. And so I really wanted to have you come chat with me because 01:52 As we were saying when we talked before, I have been avoiding sourdough like the plague because I thought it was intimidating. I thought that I would kill it. and sourdough became such a trend during COVID that I was like, eh, I don't know if I really want to do an episode about sourdough because it's very, very, very talked about online. And then a friend gave me some sourdough starter. 02:20 And now I'm learning and I made my first loaf a couple of weekends ago and it was, it was good. It turned out like a bagel texture. So it was under proofed, I've been told, but it was a loaf of bread and it was yummy with cream cheese. So I feel like I had a success. So tell me about yourself and what you do. So, um, I have a lot of kids. I'm a mom of five, two, three of my own and two stepdaughters. 02:50 We're very busy. Our kids range in age from seven to 18. We were actually just at our oldest daughter's high school graduation last night. And grads? And we've always been pretty health focused. So we always are like learning about the food science that's out there and then it's sort of across our whole family. So we are always trying to eat well and you know, we go to the gym, our kids are all athletes. 03:17 daughter's going to be playing varsity sports in university. we, about a year and a half ago, started looking at the food that we were getting from the grocery store and learned that one of the most, you know, one of the biggest culprits to poor health related to food is the bread that you buy in the grocery store. 03:43 So just like everybody else, we set out on the journey to learn about sourdough. And my sourdough starter, you know, took a really long time to get started. And I was in the big sourdough groups on Facebook. And sometimes it's hard to get an answer when those groups are so big. But ultimately I ended up figuring out not only how to make sourdough, but how to make it, you know, within a busy life and with the very most basic 04:12 cheapest ingredients and with very few tools. So the issue that we were having at the time is we were having some, you know, financial challenges. And at one point I actually went to the grocery store and had to say, I can afford either bread or the cheapest all purpose flour that they have one or the other. we just kind of took the leap. you know, fast forward about 04:36 three or four months, I'm making sourdough just like everybody else on the planet. I'm posting it on my Facebook. My friends start reaching out and asking me about it. I start sharing my sourdough starter, much like what happened to you. And then I found myself getting sore thumbs, texting with my friends all the time, kind of walking them through what to do. So I started this group on Facebook, Sourdough for Beginners, ...
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    44 分
  • Cooper's Knoll Farm

    Cooper's Knoll Farm
    2025/06/27
    Today I'm talking with Jena at Cooper's Knoll 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. 00:27 Today I'm talking with Jena at Cooper's Knoll Farms. Good morning Jena, how are you? Good morning, I'm great, how are you? 00:37 I'm good. You're in Ohio, right? I am right in central Ohio, right outside of Columbus. How do you pronounce the name of your town? Pataskala. It's a popular question. Yeah, I was looking at your Facebook page and your About page and I was like, I have no idea how to say that one. Pataskala, Ohio. We're about 20 minutes outside of Columbus. Pretty convenient location and... 01:05 Easy to get to wherever you need to go, but still in the country, which is really nice. Yes, yes. 20 minutes to actual stores helps when you really need something. Is it raining in Ohio? Because it's raining in Minnesota this morning. It is not. We got some storms yesterday, but we're hoping it does rain today because we are in a massive heat wave. We're a heat index of 100. So everything right now is how do we keep the animals cool? 01:34 We're trying to work through this heat wave and hoping for a little rain actually. Yeah. How long has it been super hot for you? This whole week. So, but since maybe Friday last week. we've got a week straight of hundred degree index, heat index. So, and then before that it rained so much, we couldn't get it to stop. And now it's just dry and hot. So you can't get a good mix. It's all, it's one way or the other. That's it. 02:04 You can't win. Yeah, I know. I feel really bad for complaining about the fact that it was so hot this past weekend in Minnesota because we only had really hot for two days. a whole week of it, I would have been ripping my hair out by now. So. Well, yesterday was supposed to be the end of the heat index and then they have extended it now through, through Saturday. So just doing what we can to stay cool. am so sorry. It's no fun. 02:34 Okay, so tell me a little bit about yourself and about your farm because I can't wait to hear this story. Well, I'm Gina and my husband is Richard. We have two boys. They are ages 10 and 11. And then two years ago, we also inherited a daughter, a bonus daughter. She was 20 and 03:01 parents had both passed away in the same weekend. She spent the night with us and never left. we've got we've got a bonus daughter that's going to be 22 as well that that lives with us. And my mother-in-law lives here too. And so we have a little multi generational home and I work full time and my husband works full time too. So he's a data assessment coordinator at at Reynoldsburg schools here in Ohio. 03:31 And I work full time as a regional sales manager for an education software company. So I manage our entire Northeast territory and all of Canada. I teach jazzercise on the side when I'm not recovering from ACL surgery as I am now. Yeah, I was going to ask you about that because it said something about that you didn't realize you would be bottle feeding lamb. Oh, yeah. When you were down. 03:58 ACL surgery two weeks ago, delivered a goat on Sunday sitting with my brace on the floor of our barn and then had creamy twin sheep and lost one and have had a house sheep for the last two weeks as well. So farming from my couch friend, farming from my couch. the animals don't wait unless you're dead. Unless you're dead, you're working. Yeah. 04:25 Exactly. So it has been adventurous here. tell me about how the farm got started because I get the impression that wasn't the original plan. 04:39 No, it was not. So when COVID happened, we were living in a suburb where my husband was invincible and it just was not good. And our kids were stuck in this postage stamp size yard and we just wanted more space for them to run. And so we had decided then that we were going to get some land where the boys could go outside and run. 05:08 play. And so we started looking for like two to four acres. And long story short, long story short, we were looking for two to four acres and the day before we went to look at properties, this 10 acre property popped up. And so we went and looked at all the properties and the 10 acre one actually ended up being just as much or less ...
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    35 分
  • Shady Lane Farm

    Shady Lane Farm
    2025/06/26
    Today I'm talking with Martin at Shady Lane Farm. 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 Martin at Shady Lane something. 00:29 and the computer just like blanked out your name, Shady Lane something in Illinois. Martin, tell me the name of your place again. It is Shady Lane Farm. Thank you. Once I hit record, it like cuts off half the people's names of their places. And if I haven't memorized it, I don't know what it is. So thank you. 00:51 So what's the weather like in Illinois today, Mark? It is cooler. It is only going to be 86 after about four days of 90s. And we have occasional thunderstorms, but it's cloudy, not a bad day. We were out doing chores this morning. So not a horrible day to do chores. Yeah. Was the weekend rough on you guys? Cause it was really hot here in Minnesota. Yeah, it was. We... 01:19 Mostly because I made everybody get up early to do chores before it got too hot. So it was, it was pretty rough, but we got through it. Yeah. The secret to homesteading and farming is get everything done before 10 AM that you have to do outside. Yes. We had a triathlon that came through our neighborhood here on Sunday and it was a heat index over 100. Yeah, it was gross. 01:50 I think it's supposed to be 82 here today at like three, four o'clock and 82 is better than a heat indices of 105. Yes. So thankful times have come down. So tell me about what you do at your place. So what we do and we bought this five acre property in 2023, my wife, Lisa and I, I have been an urban homesteader. 02:18 for many years and finally it got to a point where I had rented all the garden plots I could from the local park district and they had started to take plots back from us, which I understood to because more people wanted to vegetable garden after COVID, which I totally support. I had failed in an attempt to get chickens allowed in the city. 02:48 So I went to Lisa and I said, you know, we just redid this beautiful colonial house here in Rockford. And we love it. Let's sell it and buy a rundown five acre property and do it all again and add animals and fencing and new garden and building all these scoops. And she said, okay. That's a good woman. And she had, um, 03:18 There were farms in her past, but she herself had no homesteading experience. I had just taught her the vegetable garden and she was completely interested in doing it. And she took a year off from her second master's degree and was the general contractor for all the work on the house and has really adapted to it. 03:47 And now is full on farm girl. Her cousins and relatives can't believe it. Has she raised a bottle lamb this spring all on her own and just has totally adapted to it. She's embraced it. Yes. Awesome. I love her. That's great. So why did you want to do this? Did you, was it, was it just because you couldn't have chickens or did 04:17 were you brought up around farming or what? Well, my mom's family out in Western Kansas had a tradition of farming and she spent part of her childhood on a small farm, very small by Kansas standards. They milked a few cattle, very, very rural. They made their own electricity with an AC Delco 04:46 windmill generator. Once they had milk, they would shut down the power to the house from the windmill and they'd power radio off the batteries because they had to use all the power to chill the milk. So she grew up very, very rural, processing their own food, canning. 05:10 They had a root cellar. So she grew up with all of that homesteading. In fact, that side of the family arrived in Western Kansas in 1887 and took up a homestead claim. So literally they were homesteaders. Wow. Yeah. She brought that ethos to even our very suburban upbringing. She would can things. She would 05:39 very much make things from scratch. I grew up making my own egg noodles that she taught me to make. We didn't have a big garden because many of our government houses, you just didn't have the space for it. But all of that ethos was very much there. And I spent time in Kansas in summers and when my dad was in Vietnam. So 06:07 it really impacted me. And then when I was earning my PhD in American history, my dissertation was on the settlement of the ...
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    33 分

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