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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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  • Peaceful Pastures

    Peaceful Pastures
    Jul 3 2025
    Today I'm talking with Amanda at Peaceful Pastures. 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. 00:26 Today I'm talking with Amanda at Peaceful Pastures in Michigan. Good afternoon, Amanda. How are you? Hi there. How are you? I'm good. You said the weather's really nice in Michigan? Yes, it's beautiful today. We finally broke that heat spell that we had last week and the humidity has gone down and it's just perfectly sunny. So it's great today. 00:50 So you're having a top weather day in Michigan, just like we are in Minnesota. It's really nice here today too. That sounds great. I'm glad it's just as nice for you. Yeah, the spring has been actually pretty moderate. I have been, I dare say impressed with Mother Nature this year. So tell me about yourself and what you do at Peaceful Pastures. Well, my name is Amanda. I'm a mother to two. I have an eight-year-old son and a six-year-old daughter. 01:19 My husband is here with me too. His name is Andrew. We like to jokingly call him Goat Daddy. We kind of jumped into Peaceful Pastures, kind of like an overnight deal. We weren't really looking to sell our house and happened upon this property, just a little over seven acres, and we kind of jumped on it and looked, put it on offer, and right away it became ours. And overnight I went and crazily 01:47 purchased Nigerian Dwarf goats and one of them was pregnant and so it began with our livestock. So we now have 13 and we have a mini Dexter cow. Her name is Betty and we have chickens. Awesome. it is absolutely do a little bit of everything here. Yes. Fantastic. So if your name is Amanda and your husband's name is Andrew, 02:17 Do you ever get Mandy and Andy as nicknames? Oh, yes, we do. All the time. I have this thing in my head that I do all the time and I rarely ever tell people about it because I think it'll freak them out. But I always end up having nicknames for people that I like. And one of my friends on Facebook, and she was also in a writing group online with me, her name is Janna. 02:46 For the longest time when I would see her name, would think Jana Banana. Oh, and I never, I never told her that. And I was like, I got to stop doing this, but my brain just does all these weird associations with names. So, so if you were friends with me, you would be Mandy and your husband would be Andy in my head. That's okay. My husband always gets called Andy Pandy. So it works. Yep. Absolutely. Um, okay. So do you guys have a garden as well? 03:16 We do. actually have a quite large garden this year. Last year we had a great time with it and a perfect harvest. So I went ahead and jumped it up a little bit more this year. So we planted about five times as much as we did last year. So we're growing and hopefully by the end of this week, early next week, we will start having some produce. We have a little standout front too. And I like to fiddle around with that when I can. And we do lots of different things. 03:46 tomatoes, cucumbers, squash, pumpkins, pretty much everything you can think of. We grow here right in our garden. So it's a lot of fun. Keeps me busy. Yeah. I call it the usual suspects. When people ask me what we grow in ours, I said the usual suspects, tomatoes, cucumbers, lettuces, et cetera, et cetera. So all the good things. Yeah, exactly. All the things that people want to eat in June, July, and August. Right. And I don't know. 04:16 I don't know how things are going in Michigan, but here in Minnesota, we've had the nicest weather for getting an early start on crops this year. And we also built a heated greenhouse two Mays ago. So we had seedlings ready to go in the ground first week in May. We usually don't plant until May 15th because of the danger of frost. 04:45 And so we looked at the extended forecast and it looked like it was going to be good. And my husband planted tomatoes like three weeks earlier than we usually do. And I said, if they die, they're done. There's no coming back from that. He said, they're not going to die. He said, I have faith. was like, okay, I hope your faith works out. Well, I'm glad it did work out. I actually got a late start this year. 05:12 because of the weather, just because we actually took our first vacation in ...
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