CT Farms Mobile Processing

Today I'm talking with Ty at CT Farms Mobile Processing. You can follow on Facebook as well.

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00:56 You can find them at homegrowncollective.org. If you're enjoying this podcast, please like, subscribe, share it with a friend or leave a comment. Thank you. Today I'm talking with Ty at CT Farms Mobile Processing in Le Sueur, Minnesota. Good morning, Ty. How are you? Good. Hang on one second. My computer is doing something weird. Okay. Nevermind. We're good. Okay. So, um, Ty is not far from me. Where are you in LaSore, Ty?

01:26 Uh, right outside we live over by the Cambria plant. Oh, okay. Yep. And we live over by Michael Foods on Highway 8.  you're maybe  five miles away from me, I think. Yeah, not terribly far. Yeah. So it's a hyper local episode today, guys. I'm very excited about this.  What does CT stand for?  Uh, stands for Chad and Ty. So  I'm Ty, the son of the operation and then Chad is my dad.

01:57 Okay, awesome. That makes sense.  I would normally I would ask how the weather is where you are, but we have been having the most  glorious streak of beautiful weather here in Lesor. Oh, God, yes.  Today is just beautiful.  My husband and my son have been outside all morning watering plants and getting our plant sale set up and  all kinds of things. And I've been taking

02:22 I've been taking care of stuff in the house and doing dishes and the stuff that the girls do so So tell me about yourself and what you guys do, please um So kind of just all started, you know I was Wasn't having fun really doing concrete breaking my back for a whole lot of money, you know processing pretty easy money We've been doing it

02:49 I've been doing it for a very long time now. My dad used to do it when he was younger. So it was kinda like in our family. You know, we knew what we had to do. We knew that it would provide everything for us. You know, it cost us less money if we just butchered the animals ourselves. Saved u