Groovy Grazers - Big Changes

Today I'm talking with Morgan at Groovy Grazers.

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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.

00:25 Today I'm talking with Morgan at Groovy Grazers in Montana. Good morning, Morgan. How are you? Good morning. It's a wonderful morning. How are you today? I'm really good. It's a wonderful morning in Minnesota too. It's a little nippy for May. I think it's only like 45 degrees out. Wow. You guys are colder than us. We're like in the 60s. It's hot already in the morning.  Yeah. A week or so ago we had some really high temps for May and then it dropped back off.

00:54 And I think the high for today is supposed to be 69, I think. Oh, wow. Yeah,  that's pretty nice. I mean, it's easier to do things when you're able to be outside, you know, so colder almost is a little better, but not for planting season, you know, so it kind of depends on what you're doing here with the heat. It just  it weighs on the animals because we'll we'll get snow and then all of a sudden it'll be, you know, like super hot.

01:24 So  we're bouncing back and forth like a bouncing ball. Yeah, it's been that way here too. And honestly, I'm not, I can't complain about where we're at here because  last summer was terrible with rain for all of May and into June. So we haven't had that this year, thank God, because our gardens are actually planted other than basil. We can't put basil in yet because it hasn't been warm enough overnight to not kill them. Yeah. So this year I actually decided to not do a garden.

01:52 Even though I took my master gardening course, so I did go  to it's called Carbon County as the county I did it in  and I was gonna take the test and it's an open book test which so if anyone's interested in Master Gardening most of them I guess level one is open book.  But I just found out a lot about my soil being too alkaline-y which we kind of knew but it's so hard to amend it that it's not even worth.

02:18 trying to plant in it right away. So I learned so much in master gardening that I was like, whoa, pump the brakes.  I don't want to spend a bunch of money, you know, because it's trial and error for a lot of us.  And the more things we try, the more it costs. So the more failure, you know, so I've learned that sometimes it's better to do a lot of research, almost what seems overkill, such as going to a master gardening class to make sure that I'm able to do. Yeah, so I'm able to do.

02:46 you know, the multiple things that I want to do and not spend the money on it. Yep, absolutely. Okay, so now that we've gotten the weather report out of the way and the gardening report out of the way.  Morg