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A Tiny Homestead

A Tiny Homestead

De: 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. Ciencias Sociales Economía Gestión y Liderazgo Liderazgo
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  • Hairy Farmpit Girls

    Hairy Farmpit Girls
    Sep 26 2025
    Today I'm talking with Swan at Hairy Farmpit Girls. You can follow on Facebook as well. www.patreon.com/atinyhomestead 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. I'm your host, Mary Lewis. Talking with Swan at Harry Farm Pit Girls. And if you laugh, that's okay. So did I. And I know she's in the South somewhere. Where are you, Swan? I am in Bowman, Georgia, which is just kind of, um, East, uh, Athens, Georgia. Okay. Cool. So it's the northeast corner of Georgia. All right. 00:29 That makes a lot of sense. That helps. How's the weather there this morning? I think that we're going to get into the mid 80s. So, you know, it's a little warm. It hasn't actually been too bad. I think it's probably about 70 something right now. So it's the delightful time of day. Give it about another hour and we'll be scorched again. Well, how cool do you guys get in January? Well, we have a little pond on our property and in January and 00:58 February in the summer upon freezes all the way over. Um, I'm not willing to walk out to the middle of it, but I can stand on the sides. Um, so it gets to, I think about we've only been here for about four and a half years, but it gets to the twenties and the teens a little bit. Um, just a few times, but for the most part, we, during the day, we typically stay at the coldest above snowing temperature. Okay. Awesome. I just, I've never been further south than, uh, 01:29 I think Maryland. So I have no idea what it's like in the south in the wintertime. I don't think anybody's ever considered Maryland south. it's not, but that's as far south as I've ever gotten, you know, in the United States. So the weather here in Minnesota this morning is cool and overcast to the point that we are actually fog locked on my property. can't see an eighth of a mile away. Oh, wow. Wow. That's incredible. 01:58 Yep, my son calls it uncanny valley when this happens because it makes you feel like you're the only person on earth. 02:07 My son, whenever we have a foggy morning, which we don't really have right now in this time of year, but he calls it, he's five. So he says it's froggy outside and we have always uh decided to never correct him from saying, from calling fog frog. So he says it's froggy or he can't see through the frog outside. So. Oh yeah. We call it froggy. We also call, we also call humidity humdidity. 02:35 We call it a humidititty. It's the South. Yup. And there's one other I was thinking of when you brought that up. And of course it's gone because I have over 50 brain and I think of things that are funny and then by the time I get to say them out of my mouth, they're out of my brain and I can't find them again. I'll do that exact same thing and I have under 50 things. So. Yeah. It's just, I think it's just the way that we live now. 03:02 Yeah, there's just too much information and your brain can't possibly sort it as fast as say AI can. Ugh. So anyway, uh we've tried to do a podcast twice before and had terrible technical difficulties. So Swan is back for the third time, hopefully the charm, so that we can actually talk with Swan about what she and her wife do in Georgia. So tell me a little bit about yourself and what you do Swan. 03:29 All right, well, we have a little 12 acre farm out here. um We are called the Harry Farfit Girls. And we started off just as we started off at a different farm down in South Georgia. Whenever we started building that farm, we had come from the city and we started building that farm. I just started writing about it on social media, particularly on Facebook. um 03:53 So just watch, letting people like kind of watch our journey. Cause I know that not everybody could do what we were doing. And so just wanted to share it and I didn't want to bog all of my other friends down with like 4,000 photos of chickens. So I figured out if the internet wanted to see 4,000 photos of chickens, they could come and see them all the time with a social media page. So at first I just started writing about it and then we got pretty popular cause I have a little bit of a sense of humor. 04:22 So we added a product. started raising goats and making goat milk soap and lotion and do with farmers markets and little shops around South Georgia. um And then we got more and more popular and we were able to buy a second farm up in North Georgia and move all of our stuff to online. So now we make soaps. m We make soap, goat milk soap still. But also um I've got a lot of people that just have gotten 04:49 have fallen in love with our animals over the past decade. We've been sharing for a little over 10 years. Oh, it's actually going be 11 years in January. We've ...
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  • Vinestops

    Vinestops
    Sep 22 2025
    Today I'm talking with Jim at Vinestops. You can follow on Facebook as well. www.patreon.com/atinyhomestead 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. I'm your host, Mary Lewis. 00:11 Today I'm talking with Jim at Vine Stops in New York. How are you, Jim? I'm good, how are you? I'm good. How was the weather in New York? It's beautiful today. We're in that part of the season where one day it's beautiful and the next day it's starting to turn super cold. So it's going into flu season, I guess. Yay, that's exciting. 00:37 I am actually, my bedroom is where I record at my desk in my room. And uh my bedroom, it feels like a refrigerator this morning because when I went to bed last night, I had to have the AC on and uh my husband didn't turn it off when he came downstairs this morning and shut the door. So I am almost shivering talking to you in my room. Yeah, we do that all the time. We love it. We like the cold, so we're okay with that. 01:05 For sleeping, it's great, but for sitting at a desk with my hands needed to move the mouse and stuff, it's not awesome. Okay, so tell me a little bit about yourself and what you have going here. So obviously, my name is Jim. We bought this farm during COVID and it kind of changed our lives significantly. was 01:31 in the corporate world and also in the film industry and some law enforcement experience. so that was kind of everything I did, you know, seven days a week was somewhere in that realm. And then COVID hit, obviously all of our lives had changed, but we had the opportunity to buy this small 1800s gentleman's horse farm, about 10 acres. uh And it was where I grew up. And so I wanted to come back closer to my mom anyway, because she was getting sick. 02:02 Yeah. So he said, you know what, let's do it and rehab it. Because my wife grew up on a farm in Oklahoma, so she always had horses and she always wanted to get them again. So we decided to do it. And very quickly, we went from that fast paced or I did anyway, that fast paced life to kind of country life. You know, we bought chickens and then I started like, you know, I put a little stand on the side of the road and we started selling our extra eggs and then 02:29 You the whole chicken math thing happened. You start with six, you go to 10, 20, then you're fluctuating back and forth. And next thing you know, have 150 plus chickens in our yard. And, uh, and then, you know, towards the last year of COVID, uh, which was the, this is the year that we purchased it. Um, we put it, when we bought it, we put in about, I don't know, 50 fruit trees. And we, just wanted to start kind of a hobby farm. You know, I didn't do the whole homesteading thing yet. 02:58 and I just wanted to kind of grow extra. So we had some fresh food because I was frustrated with what we were getting in the supermarkets. know, if like when the egg crisis happened, you couldn't find eggs anywhere. And when you can find them, they were like $10, $15, you know, a dozen. was just ridiculous. And so I eventually, I just started changing. I started eating so much more from my garden and from my trees. 03:23 spending less and not going to the supermarket and all my health numbers, my doctor's office, they all started getting better. And I like really realized like, holy cow, know, that all that fast food and that crap put into my body, it really does make a difference. And so kind of the homesteading was born, you know, of having the passion of, you know, growing my own stuff and then, you know, running a farm stand on the the on the front of the driveway. So, you know, after 03:53 after that was kind of successful the first year. The next year I doubled everything, the size of everything, added more fruit trees, bought more chickens. And then my farm stand that I made kind of fell apart. And it was funny. So I was like, all right, I got to buy a farm stand because like, I need something that's gonna last. And 04:18 I went to go look for one and I couldn't find anybody that sells farmsteads like Home Depot, Lowe's, Tractor Supply, even on Amazon. know, when I was like, you know, where can I buy a farm stand or, you know, farm stands and nothing came up. And I was like, huh. So I took some time and uh I refined the farmstead I had and I was doing a lot of research what people were doing, like farmstead groups and uh social media groups and whatnot. And I just. 04:47 developed my own and started testing it out to see what the pros and cons of it were. And I ended up getting into designer and I said, hey, can you build me this on paper that would be structurally sound and good quality? And so we did that and ...
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  • Homesteading In The City with Elizabeth Ries

    Homesteading In The City with Elizabeth Ries
    Sep 19 2025
    Today I'm talking with Elizabeth Ries at Home To Homestead. You can follow on Facebook as well. www.patreon.com/atinyhomestead 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. I'm your host, Mary Lewis. Today I'm talking with Elizabeth Ries at um three different places, I guess. Well, four actually. You've got Twin Cities Live, you've got My Talk 107.1, you've got... 00:22 HomeToHomeStead.com and you've got bestofthenest.com and Elizabeth is in Minneapolis. So good morning, Elizabeth. How are you? Good morning, Mary. It's nice to be back with you today. Thanks for asking me. You're so welcome. I loved our chat back in March of 2024. That's how long it's been. It's been a while. Yup. And I was really nervous because I'd only been broadcasting for like six months at that point. And I still had no idea what I was doing. And I listened back to it I was like, God, I'm so glad I'm more comfortable now. 00:50 It is, a lot of it is just getting the reps in. I think that that is a huge thing with broadcasting or interviewing or asking questions. It's just the more you do, it's just like anything. It's a skill and the more you do it, the better you get at it. And I hope you look back on those early days fondly and think about how far you've come because I thought you did a great job that time. So I can imagine it's only going to be better today. 01:15 Thank you, and I do look back. I went back and listened to the very first episode of, I can't think, a Tiny Homestead podcast. And it wasn't awful. Like when I listened to it back the first time, I was like, ugh. And I listened to it back about six months ago, and I was like, you know, it really wasn't that bad. People learned things, it was a fun chat, I'm okay. So, I don't want to get too far into... 01:42 what you do because you did a huge intro on the episode that we did before. And if people want to know all about Elizabeth's professional life, you can go listen to the original episode. The OG. Yeah, exactly. The OG Elizabeth Ries But you are the co-host for Twin Cities Live. You and Marjorie Punnett do a show together on what station is it? Well, we had a radio show together on MyTalk107.1. uh 02:11 for a couple of years. And then um we both ended that because we moved on to different things. Oh, you're not doing that anymore. Right. And then the podcast is called Best to the Nest. So Marjorie and I teamed up for the podcast and we kind of joke that it's like the show within the show. It's the conversations that we were having during the commercial breaks about life and home and family and relationships and all those things that then we brought into the podcast. But I do still get to fill in over at MyTalk. 02:40 pretty regularly and it's always fun to show up. They just got new studios, so now I really like going over there. uh It's all bright and shiny in there. It's nice. Okay, so I want to, I got questions about your homesteading stuff in your city home, because you don't have a homestead. You live on a city lot, right? Yes. Yes, I do. I am on a city lot. on about about a third of an acre in the city of Minneapolis. 03:07 Prior to living in this house, we've been in this house for six years. Prior to that, we were on 0.13 of an acre in the city of Minneapolis and really did a lot of the same things that we do here. Yeah. So did you do a garden this year? I did a garden. I have the garden going. And um I have four raised beds in the backyard. Two of them are like four feet wide by, um I think they're 10 or 12 feet long. 03:37 however long my husband made them. And those are wooden raised beds. This year I added an arched, a cattle panel arch trellis between the two of them, which has been really, really fun. And I'd wanted to do it for a long time. And then finally, you know, spent the $75 and has sent my dad to tractor supply with his pickup so that he could make himself useful during retirement and bring me the cattle panels. then- That's what dads are for. That's what dads are for. That's why dads get pickup trucks. That's exactly it. And then um 04:05 I have two of the, like they're those Veggo garden raised beds. They're that metal and I've really liked those too. Those are really easy to put together. And then I do a lot of trellising. So I have trellises kind of growing up everywhere so that I can maximize my space. So it's definitely not huge. It's not overwhelming, but it's amazing how much food you can get out of a small garden. 04:35 Sure. And growing up instead of out is so efficient on a small piece of property. Yes. And it's just easier and it's pretty. That's the other thing I like about it. It's just, you know, I don't ...
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