Cooper's Knoll Farm

Today I'm talking with Jena at Cooper's Knoll Farm.

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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.

00:27 Today I'm talking with Jena at Cooper's Knoll Farms. Good morning Jena, how are you? Good morning, I'm great, how are you?

00:37 I'm good. You're in Ohio, right?  I am right in central Ohio, right outside of Columbus. How do you pronounce the name of your town? Pataskala.  It's a popular question.  Yeah, I was looking at your Facebook page and your About page and I was like, I have no idea how to say that one.  Pataskala, Ohio. We're about 20 minutes outside of Columbus. Pretty convenient location and...

01:05 Easy to get to wherever you need to go, but still in the country, which is really nice. Yes, yes. 20 minutes to actual stores helps when you really need something.  Is it raining in Ohio? Because it's raining in Minnesota this morning. It is not. We got some storms yesterday, but we're hoping it does rain today because we are in a massive heat wave.  We're a heat index of 100. So everything right now is  how do we keep the animals cool?

01:34 We're trying to work through this heat wave and hoping for a little rain actually. Yeah. How long has it been super hot for you?  This whole week. So, but since  maybe Friday last week. we've got a week straight of hundred degree index,  heat index. So,  and then before that it rained so much, we couldn't get it to stop. And now it's just dry and hot. So  you  can't get a good mix. It's all,  it's one way or the other. That's it.

02:04 You can't win. Yeah, I know.  I feel really bad for complaining about the fact that it was so hot this past weekend in Minnesota because we only had really hot for two days.  a whole week of it, I would have been ripping my hair out by now. So. Well, yesterday was supposed to be the end of the heat index and then they have extended it now through,  through Saturday. So  just doing what we can to stay cool.  am so sorry.  It's no fun.

02:34 Okay, so tell me a little bit about yourself and about your farm because I can't wait to hear this story. Well, I'm Gina and my husband is Richard. We have two boys. They are ages 10 and 11. And then two years ago, we also inherited a daughter, a bonus daughter. She was 20 and

03:01 parents had both passed away in the same weekend. She spent the night with us and never left. we've got we've got a bonus daughter that's going to be 22 as well that that lives with us. And my mother-in-law lives here too. And so we have a little multi generational home and