Haggard Mountain Homestead

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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 Casey at Haggard Mountain Homestead. Good morning, Casey. How are you? Good morning. I'm great. How are you doing? I'm good. Where are you located?  We are in Western Pennsylvania, a little bit outside of Pittsburgh, PA. Is it raining?  Not today, but apparently it's supposed to,  I think tomorrow.

00:30 Have you been going through what my parents have been going through in Maine where it's rained all every day for the last 10 years, it seems like? Basically, yeah. Every single weekend it's been raining. So a lot of our projects have gotten pushed back, for sure. But now we're having a heat wave, so opposite. Great. That helps a whole lot, doesn't it? Yeah, it's literally the exact opposite, though. We went from cold and rainy to now, I think it's supposed to be like 95, 96 today. Yeah.

00:59 talked to my dad the other day. Whoops, I talked to my dad the other day and he said, honey, he said, I swear, it feels like I have been trying to get my summer garden in since two summers ago for this year. I'm like, yeah, we went through this last year too. So, all right, so tell me about yourself and what you do at the Homestead. So how much of a backstory do you want here? Cause I can talk, trust me.

01:26 Tell me what led you to having the homestead. All right. So my husband and I got married in 2016 and started looking for a house.  And we knew that we wanted a little bit of property.  And at that point, I just wanted a garden, some chickens,  all of that.  And  we ended up purchasing our property. have a little bit under two acres in 2018.

01:55 Got our chickens, got our garden in,  and it's like we can't stop. It's honestly been addicting.  We started with a garden and the chickens  and we put in fruit trees.  He's gotten into honeybees. Now we're doing flowers.  We've done meat chickens  and  now I'm doing the social media stuff too.  You are cementing my belief that once you get into this,  the questions that come up are  why not?

02:25 And what's the worst that could happen? And I'm very, very careful about the second question. I try not to say that outside where the universe can hear me. Oh yeah. If you put it out there, it might actually happen. Well, if I'm going to say it outside, I say what's the best that could happen instead of the worst? That's fair. I like that too. And that way the universe is like, what do I do with that?

02:51 hopefully give you the best that can happen because that's what we want to put out there, manifest it. Exactly. And that's what I'm kind of getting at is that  if you try, the worst thing that happens is it doesn't go quite the way you wanted it to. But if you don't try,  nothing happens. Yeah, that's very true.  We actually, we have a five-year-old son now  and teaching him to emotionally

03:18 regulate himself