Hot Mess Ranch

Today I'm talking with Steven at Hot Mess Ranch. You can follow on Facebook as well.

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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.  Good morning, Steven. How are you?  I'm good. How are you?  I'm good. I'm really excited to chat with you because  I understand that you have a ranch, but I also understand that you  are all over social media. And I want to talk about that too. So  first off, why is it called Hot Mess Ranch?

01:26 Well, when my wife and I started the ranch, uh, 2021, we thought for months on what to name the place. And one day when we were watching TV, one of my daughters walked through the living room, did something funny or whatever. My wife looked at her and said, Oh my word, you're such a hot mess. And then it was like a spark went off and instantly

01:53 My wife and I looked at each other like, let's just name it Hot Mess Range.  Uh huh. And it was kind of a joke for a little bit. And then it just kind of stuck  and we named it the social media that and that it kind of, that that's how it got started. So it's named after my daughters being silly.  Well, I love that. And honestly, every time I see a hot mess before someone's name on any social media,

02:22 channel I'm like hmm what kind of hot mess is that one? Right. So it's a good way to get attention too.  Yes. Okay so what what brought you to doing Hot Mess Wrench?

02:34 My wife grew up on a Longhorn cattle ranch  for most of her life.  And we had kind of kicked around the idea of getting land for years and we had always looked at it and  coming out of COVID, we just,  we found some property and then kind of got serious about it. And I have a daughter with autism  and she was kind of having a rough time in the city and

03:04 Um, you know, kids can be kind of cruel and,  and, um, we were like, let's just give this a go. Um, really my d