Hundred Acres Meadows

Today I'm talking with Claire at Hundred Acres Meadows.

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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. Today I'm talking with Claire at 100...

00:27 100 acres something and I can't read the screen. What is it again, Claire? Hundred Acres Meadows.  Thank you. I swear this technology doesn't work sometimes and my eyes get older every day. So it doesn't help me at all.  So what's the weather like in Louisiana? Because that's where you are.  Very hot and very humid. It's in the  90s and the air is saturated.  Is that unusual for me?

00:56 Oh no, May is usually our  kind of summer dress rehearsal. It's usually hot and buggy and icky and then it just gets hotter from there. Okay, well, I'm in Minnesota and we never know what we're going to get in May. We had a 90 degree day a couple weeks ago. And today it's like 67, I think, and it's sunny.  I,  Minnesota is weird. I don't really appreciate the swings all the time.

01:27 So at least you have sort of the gauge on May for Louisiana.  Yes.  Okay. So tell me about what you do because I think you have classes. I know you have horses.  What is it you do? So  we do a couple of things. A, we homeschool. So  we spend time homeschooling our two kiddos. And then a lot of times we'll have homeschool families over to the farm.

01:57 teach them how to milk goats and introduce them to the ponies and the chickens.  And  they take home milk and sometimes cheese if we have some that we've been making.  And then we run our farm. And then my main gig is I'm actually a vet. So that's a part-time job for me. Very nice. But that comes in handy with your animals. Yes. I mostly do small animal for work, but I'll take care of minor problems that come up here on the farm.

02:26 the major than I let somebody else handle it. Okay, awesome. And I'm guessing you're probably connected with other veterinarians if you are a vet.  Oh, yes.  So that helps.  Okay, I have a couple questions about you being a veterinarian because why not? I don't get to talk to  veterinarians  other than when I take my dog to her vet who she  loves.  Thank God.

02:54 My dog is crazy, she loves going to the vet. How did you decide you wanted to become a vet? Did you know from when you were little or was it something that you got into when you were in high school? So I always loved animals and I  thought from the time that I was, you when people start asking you what you want to be, that was  often my answer. But I actually got to college and I got a C in chemistry and I said,

03:20 they're never gonna let me in because getting into vet school is harder than get