A Farmish Kind Of Life

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00:00 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 Amy at A Farmish Kind Of Life in St. Cloud, Minnesota. Good afternoon, Amy. How are you? I'm good. How are you? I'm good.  Amy is who I want to be when I grow up. don't even know who I want to be when I grow up. That's funny.  Amy is an author. She's a podcaster. She's a blogger. She  falls under the homesteading umbrella.

00:55 but it's more of a farm, right? I mean, what is a homesteader? know, isn't that what we're always trying to figure out? What is the definition of a homesteader, I suppose? I still We do have a farm. Yep. We do have a farm. I'm here. I have five acres in central Minnesota with, you know, a ton of different animals. We've been through, you know, all the different animals and we got all the gardens and we've got space. So yeah, it is farming, although...

01:23 there are people around here that have such huge farms that they think we're just kind of playing farm. So, you know, our little five acres is just kind of a little thing.  But it's not. It's a big thing. It's a big thing.  So tell me what brought you to this whole farmish kind of life, Amy.  What brought me to the farmish kind of life?  You know, when my husband and I were first married, we lived right in town  and  he had always lived in town. When I grew up, I grew up at

01:53 I grew up out in the country, but we didn't have a farm. We were more like in the woods and we had a creek and you know, all of that didn't grow up with, you know, the farm animals or anything. And we got married, we lived right in town and knew that was going to be a temporary thing.  But  we just we really wanted to be out in the country and have space, you know, to just kind of breathe. And I don't know if ever intentionally in the beginning, it was going to be we're going to have all these animals, we're going to can all this food and all this stuff. just

02:22 You just kind of  morphed into that,  suppose. think part of it was when we were first married, you we were,  you know, you're trying to make ends meet and stretch the dollars and then you have the babies, you know, and things get crazy. And  I think frugal living and just trying to figure out, you know, can we make this from scratch? What can we substitute? How can we do without this? How can we do something different? That and various other things just led us to whatever you want to call this.

02:52 this life, this farmish thing or this homesteading thing.  Right there with you. That's how we got found ourselves in this, this, uh, this quagmire of trying new things all the time. Oh yes. Yeah. There's always something new to try. Yep. I, uh, front of mine brought me sourdough starter Monday night.  Thank  you Tracy.  And, uh,  it's fine. The starter she, she brought me, I,

03:22 got up this morning and I have water on top of it. And I was like, that doesn't look good.  So I had to go Google it and find out if it was still alive. And apparently it's doing really well. So I threw some more flour in there. It's good.  And then I realized,  yeah. And then I realized I didn't know anything about sourdough starter. And I've been doing home studying stuff for a long time. So I went back to Google and,  and, when looked in Wikipedia  and I Oh,

03:49 this is not as hard as I think it is. I'm going to start my own starter too and see if I can make it go from scratch. So that now has water on top of it. And I'm like, okay, this, don't