Harvest Of Joy Homestead

Today I'm talking with Joy at Harvest Of Joy Homestead.

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00:00 Did you know that muck boots all started with a universal problem? Muck? And did you know that it's their 25th anniversary this year?  Neither did I. But I do know that when you buy boots that don't last, it's really frustrating to have to replace them every couple of months.  So check out muck boots. The link is in the show notes. The very first thing that got hung in my beautiful kitchen when we moved in here four and a half years ago was a calendars.com  Lang calendar.

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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 Joy at Harvest of Joy Homestead. Good morning, Joy. How are you? Good morning. I'm good. How are you? I'm good. You said you're in Mississippi when we were talking before I hit record. So  what's the weather like there today? It's very cold today. Really?  Yes.

01:23 Like how cold? Because like I said, I'm in Minnesota. I know what cold is. See,  we don't really know what cold is. Like y'all, it's like 60 here. So it's cold to us.  Oh, you would not be enjoying this morning.  I don't think it's freezing yet. I think we're still below freezing here. Oh, wow. Yeah, we don't know what cold is here.  Yeah, I absolutely know what cold is here.

01:48 People assume that I don't know what really hot is, but I can tell you from first-hand experience, two summers ago, we had a day that hit 101 degrees and the humidity was at the tropical level. So I do understand heat too. Yeah. we can be anywhere from minus 30 real temperature in January to 101 and tropical humidity in July. So. Wow. That's insane.

02:18 It kind of is. That's why we all have lots of clothes here.  We have, I don't do this. My mom lives in Maine. I grew up in Maine and it's cold there too in the winter.  She actually has summer clothes and winter clothes and she packs away the summer clothes  in  November and she pulls out the winter clothes and then she packs away the winter clothes in April and she pulls out the summer clothes. I don't even bother. I just have all my clothes available and that way if I need 17 layers, I have them. Yeah.

02:49 So,  I always start the podcast with the weather, well, almost always because it's just a good way to break the ice and it's nice to know what's going on in the world on the day I talk to people.  tell me about yoursel