60 Acre Wood

Today I'm talking with Stephanie at 60 Acre Wood.

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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 Stephanie at 60 Acre Wood in Arkansas, United States.  Good morning, Stephanie. How are you? Good morning. I'm good. How are you? I'm good. I don't think there's an Arkansas anywhere else, but I figured I'd throw the U.S. on there anyway. Sounds like a plan.  How was the weather in Arkansas this morning? Well, it was real beautiful and now we're raining, which we need for the gardens. I'm pretty happy.  Good. Good, good, good.  I've got everything crossed that the weather is not as insane.

00:55 this season as it was last season, because we had rain for six weeks straight in spring and our garden was terrible.  So, and I've talked about ad nauseam on the podcast because it just drove us insane last year.  bet. Yeah, we've had a turbulent spring,  more tornadoes than any other season.  I think in history or something, it's been a rough spring and now it's kind of calming down. So it's pretty nice.

01:22 Fabulous. I wish you all the luck with all the things you're trying to grow because man  It will break your heart when you put all that work into it and it just doesn't go Yep, and if you get hail and we do get hail so  We get little  we get little pea-sized hail. I'm really hoping that I never see golf ball size I really don't need to that.  No, I we don't like to see it at all, but it does happen here. So  Good

01:52 Okay, well, tell me about yourself and what you do at 60 Acre  Woods. Wood. Wood. Wood or woods? wood.  Acre Wood. Okay. Well, my late husband and I had a dream to be self-sufficient. We have six children and five grandchildren, and we wanted to not be off-grid 100%, but more self-sufficient. Just raising our own food,  staying away from the grocery store.

02:19 And when he passed away, I said, you know, I'm going to make this dream happen.  And I moved to Arkansas, bought a farm site on scene, never even been to Arkansas, which is crazy.  And started building this farm that was in  the end of 2019. I  closed on the farm in the beginning of 2020 and been doing it pretty much ever since.  We do a lot here.

02:47 We have a lot of animals for food and we have a lot of pets and we homeschool and it's, it's, it's a busy life and it's really rewarding and we love it. We love being that. We love that self-sufficiency. We're at about 65 to 70 % of our food comes from our farm now. And for us, that's Number one.

03:14 Congratulations on being a strong, capable woman. Proud of you. Thank you.  Number two, that much food grown on your own pr