Heather's Homestead

Today I'm talking with Heather at Heather's 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 Heather Richards at Homestead from scratch. Good afternoon, sorry, good afternoon, Heather. How are you? Good, how are you?  I'm good. I have to keep reminding myself of what time it is  because I almost said good morning again, and it's not morning, it's afternoon.  So how's the weather in Montana?

01:23 It's beautiful today. We're supposed to be expecting a lot of rain though this week. So we're trying to get things kind of ready for that and  things buckled up a little bit because it's going to be a rainy week. So  got a batten down the hatches. Yeah. Yeah. It is a beautiful sunny day here in Minnesota, but it's going to be really hot in about an hour and a half.  Nice. Well, I've actually been like waiting for it to get really nice and hot here. So I'm kind of jealous.

01:51 Yeah, it's too hot for Minnesota right now. This is not beginning of May weather. This is end of July, 1st of August weather.  And actually  on,  oh, I can't remember what day it was. A couple days ago, my husband planted the tomato seedlings and  they got burned because it was so hot and sunny. I don't know if they're going to recover. They're still looking a little yellow today. So we're keeping our fingers crossed that they're going to.

02:21 They're going to bounce back, I hope.  All right. So tell me about yourself and what you do at Homestead from scratch. Well, it's Heather's Homestead, technically. But I do say that's my little bit of a, I don't know what you would call it, my tagline, I guess.  But yes, Heather's Homestead.  We just started building this about  four years ago, but we've only been here about three. We're kind of building, I guess, what you could call a family compound. We have five children.

02:51 And most of them are raised. have one at home that he's 18. But the goal is to someday hopefully have everybody want to build here and live here on the property. So we kind of gave each one of our kids a few acres apiece so that they can have. And just so we can kind of just live closer, I guess, as a family. And that's pretty much the goal. we have, like I said, I five children.

03:19 ranging from almost 29 down to 18. Three of them are  married. Yeah, and one of them's about to get married, maybe this summer. That's the plan for him, maybe. So we might have a busy summer. But  yeah, we  are raw milk producers, I guess. We sell  raw milk  and  eggs and have a little bit of, I guess you could call a little mini homestead. We have all the animals.

03:47 Actually, my husband's going to pick up some pigs today. So we'll be adding those to the farm this week. yeah, other than that, that's kind of been a little bit about me, but it's been a fun adventure for us. We started this place from scratch with not