Moon Ridge Acres - Becca Hammon

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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 Becca at Moon Ridge Acres in Alberta, Canada? Yes,  that's right. Yes, okay.  Good afternoon, Becca. How are you?  I'm great. How are you? I'm good. It's a gray, drizzly kind of day here in Minnesota. What's it doing in Alberta? It is actually sun, shiny, and beautiful. After a mega thunderstorm last night,  it's actually quite lovely. The birds are chirping. Everyone is.

00:53 Seemingly good the calm after the storm, I Yeah, the weather has been absolutely insane everywhere  this past weekend was Memorial Day weekend here in the States and In Minnesota where I am Friday and Saturday and Sunday were absolutely breathtakingly gorgeous days Right that doesn't usually happen. Usually one day of Memorial Day weekend is a washout and it didn't happen

01:21 That's impressive. Our, our May Long was like last weekend and it was  absolutely frozen. It was so cold. It was like,  it was terrible. We couldn't do anything.  Oh, God, mother, mother nature.  didn't get snow though, which is,  you know,  it is normal for us to get snow on May Long. We say we don't plant our gardens until after May Long  and we didn't get snow, but it was like in the, in the single digit.

01:50 So it felt very cold, but today it is, oh, it's got to be close to 20 degrees already. Which is what in Fahrenheit? Because I'm really bad at it. I'm really bad at it too. I would say that's like 45, 50, I think. Warmish. It's warmish there. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Wait.

02:16 Yeah,  I could be wrong on the conversion. I'm sure someone will correct me. I can always look it up and put it in the show notes and be like, here's the chart that says what's it actually is.  When I went to the US, my car had this really handy feature that it just converted it automatically for me, which was so handy. And it's funny how quickly I was able to go from Celsius into

02:46 um, the Imperial system and then,  and then back and it just felt totally normal with that, you know, system in my car. But like, if you asked me to convert it like right now,  there's no way.  Yeah. And one of my best friends is from Canada and you would, I've known her for over 20 years. You would think that I would have made a point of learning this, but I still haven't. It's terrible.

03:09 And my parents are old enough that they still use the Imperial system for like 90 % of things. Like the metric system was kind of imposed upon them  like after they we