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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. I'm your host, Mary Lewis. Today I'm talking with Annie, Annie's Homestead in Idaho. Good afternoon, Annie, how are you?  Hi, Mary, I'm doing so well. How are you? I'm all right.  What's the weather like in Idaho this today? It's actually very beautiful today. We're  sitting at about 90 degrees,  so it's warm.

00:29 Our skies are clear, thank goodness,  and it's just a beautiful, bright, sunny day. So I have no complaints over here yet.  Well, give it time. My dad used to say, you don't like the weather, wait five minutes, it'll change. He sounds right. Yeah, and I'm in Minnesota and it is about 70 degrees out. It is bright and sunny and big, puffy marshmallow clouds.  It's really lovely.  Those are my favorite. I love those. We don't get those too often.

00:59 No.  love them. We  are really hazy. Our skies have been just like the sun, you know, has just having a hard time come through all the haze that we've had lately. So it's nice when we have clear skies and it's even better when we have puffy clouds.  I love those. Yeah, I remember laying on my back as a kid finding shapes in the clouds. I haven't done it in years. That might be something I have to do this fall. I don't know yet.  It's a good exercise.

01:29 Yeah, absolutely. Okay, so tell me a little bit about yourself and about what you do. So  I  am  a homesteader. I'm actually off grid  in the mountains in Idaho where  my husband and I, we are in the Sawtooth mountain range  and we  love, love, love being out in the middle of nowhere. So we got really lucky when we were searching for land. We found

01:57 a 40 acre property. It's  all undeveloped when we bought it  and two sides of the property border at the Boise National Forest. So  we  are just secluded and we love it. We have elk and turkey and mule deer, little baby quails running through the property all the time. And it's just, it's heaven on earth. It's amazing. So we actually bought our property in 2021.

02:27 and started developing it very soon after. My husband is just a mastermind. Like this property would be nothing without him. He helped design all of the infrastructure. So we've got our solar panels. We've got really large solar panels. I'm not sure exactly what the size of them are. I just know that they're really big.

02:53 We've got a lot of those. We have about six of those. And so that's where we get all of our solar power to run our electricity. And we are on a well. Our well is probably dug about 150 to 200 feet down. Most of our neighbors, they were having to drill down about 400 feet. So we feel really fortunate to have the very strong well that we have. We've got a really strong stream.

03:22 down under all of the rocks, which is just a blessing. So... Let me jump in really quick for anyone who doesn't know,  the deeper you have to dig a well, the more expensive it gets. Yeah. Thank you for pointin