Feeding Feasible Feasts

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00:00 You're listening to A Tiny Homestead, podcast comprised entirely of conversations with homesteaders, cottage food producers, and crafters and topics adjacent. I'm your host, Mary Lewis. Today I'm talking with Angel at Feeding Feasible Feasts. And you're in Washington state, right, Angel? Yes, I am.  Okay. Awesome. How's the weather in Washington state? It is, well, where I am in Washington. It's beautiful today. Yeah.

00:26 Good. was a very, it's very warm here in Minnesota. It's very muggy. Midwest. Yeah. It's going to be warm out there. Are you in the Midwest? Did you say Minnesota? Yes.

00:43 Yes, it's really muggy. It's gross.  And that's par for the course for July 2nd. I don't know why I'm even saying it out loud. Everyone knows it's muggy in Minnesota in July.  So tell me about  yourself and Feeding Feasible Feasts, because I am so curious to know what you guys do. Well,  I'll give you a short version. I'm a little on the older side, so I've done quite a bit in my

01:11 I guess in my world, in my life.  Uh, let's see here, uh, born in Chicago,  1961. So,  uh, here before women could vote and black folks to vote and all of that,  uh, moved here to the state of Washington, uh, Seattle, Washington. And let's see, that would have been 20 or no, 1989. We moved  here.  Uh, my husband and I, and  we have seven children that are all adults.

01:40 Opened my first business here. Well, my second business.  First business here was a  promotional products company and had some pretty nice contracts with  large companies.  Developed a  transportation model where we  folks could get online and order their promotional products and have them delivered directly. So we did that with Labor Ready and  True Value and some of the large companies out here.

02:08 I sold that company, moved on to real estate. My mother got very ill. So I had her here. So I went into real estate so I could control my schedule.  fairly well with that until the downturn in the economy at a time. So I sold my book of business and moved  into another arena here in Washington state at the time was a pretty hot topic, which was recreational cannabis. My husband  in his years growing up.

02:37 enjoyed recreational cannabis. I myself never and still haven't tried it,  but  really felt  that the medical part of that unit to be examined and supported. I became an advocate,  joined our liquor control board  as a board member to help with  oversight for that particular industry.  We still, we actually have at this point two retail cannabis licenses.

03:05 that we have in another county, not where we live.  And  I sit on  the board here for the Washington Food Coalition, which is a coalition  designed by congressional districts. And I am the representative here for that.  As well as I had a chair with our city here  for economic development on their advisory board,  as well as  I was a political delegate this year during the

03:35 the political race.  And now we are  feeding feasible feasts. It came about be