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 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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