Little Cabin Big Woods

Today I'm talking with Keesha at the Little Cabin Big Woods.

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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.

00:25 Today I'm talking with Keesha at Little Cabin Big Woods in Tennessee. Is that right, Keesha? That's right.  Where in Tennessee? We're in Middle Tennessee, about an hour from Kentucky, so  northern middle. Okay, and how's the weather there today?

00:44 Today it is gorgeous out. We are on day two of what should be three days without any rain, which is the first time that's happened in a really long time.  Oh, so you're getting the same weather my parents have been getting in Maine for the last three weeks. All they do is tell me it's raining. Yes, constantly. Yeah, we had that last year here in Minnesota. This spring has been fabulous. I am so thankful, like dropped down on my knees. Thank God, thankful.

01:14 And today it's kind of gray, but it's not raining. So I'm, I'm thankful for that too.  Okay. So you got you or you guys, is it just you or are there other people? Oh, there's my husband too. Okay. So you guys are off grid. Are you completely off grid? We are, but we have  solar.  So we do still have  some luxuries. mean, we've got a window.

01:41 AC unit for the days that it's just really, really still and stagnant.  We've got a TV for an occasional movie.  Got a couple of ceiling fans. So. Okay. So this leads me to tons of questions because the closest I have been to off grid in my entire life,  I think I was about 15.  My parents lived in Steve falls main and I live there with them with my siblings.

02:10 And we had the tail end of a hurricane come through  and we were without power for an entire week. And the first, the first day and a half, we couldn't even get to fresh water because there was a huge pine tree across the road  between us and the fire barn where they had water. And so luckily my mom,  what grew up in Illinois where, where tornadoes happened and every time there was bad weather in Illinois.

02:38 her mom would draw water. She'd fill the bathtub, she'd fill pictures of water  for drinking,  and my mom grew up with that. So  luckily,  we had drinking water and we had water to flush the toilet with.  But we had no power, we had nothing going, no heat, no nothing.  It was September, so it was in the sweet spot of not too hot and not too cold, thank goodness. But

03:02 Yeah, my parents cooked outside on the grill or they actually had a fire pit so they would cook on the fire pit because they couldn't use their stove.  So that's the closest I've ever been to off the grid. And so tell me what it's like.

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