My Attempt At Homesteading

Today I'm talking with Jennifer at My Attempt At Homesteading.

 

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00:00 You're listening to A Tiny Homestead, podcast comprised entirely of conversations with homesteaders, cottage food producers, and crafters and topics adjacent. I'm your host, Mary Lewis. Today I'm talking with Jennifer at My Attempt at Homesteading in Missouri. Good evening, Jennifer. How are you? I'm good. How are you? I'm good. What's the weather like in Missouri today? Very warm. Yeah, here too. It's 81. I think you guys are hotter than we are though.

00:29 Yeah, we've we've been in the  90s for the past week or so. Oh  I'm in Minnesota We had  four or five days of that a week or so ago and it was disgusting. I hated every second of it  Okay, so  I hate saying this because people get kind of  Miffed that we talked before the interview before before I started recording  You were saying you're a little bit nervous because you're new at this and I was trying to say but the connection was bad

00:58 that you are exactly the kind of person I want to talk with because  the beginners are the ones that give the people who haven't even started yet  hope. So  tell me about yourself and your attempt at homesteading.

01:12 Um, well, so I am a mother of two. my youngest just graduated last year. So, um, he still lives at home, but he's in, he's in college, so he's kind of doing his own thing. Um, my oldest, she just moved out earlier this year. Um, so it was one of those things that.

01:39 You know, my kids are kind of grown up and doing their own thing. And I kind of didn't know what to do with myself.  So used to taking care of them and just,  you know, even though they were older, but them just being around and just, you know, doing stuff with them. And, you know, I kind of took a step back and realized that, you know, I was, you know, for so many years I'd been, you know, the band mom or the softball mom.

02:08 the karate mom or the track mom or, you know, all those things.  when I kind of slowed down for a minute, I realized that I didn't know who I was anymore because,  you know, they weren't doing those things anymore.  And  I realized I had, you know, no hobbies or anything like that because  my life had revolved around my kids for so many years.  So basically I needed something to do something to occupy my time.

02:38 So I don't know actually what specifically made me start looking at, you know, different things, but I think it was just one of those like on a whim, I was like, oh, this looks like fun. So I just started like looking at things and reading up on things and I started very simple, like.

03:06 looking up different homemade spice mixes.  And I just kind of started with that.  And  basically over the winter was kind of when I started  trying to dabble with different things and trying to see what kind of mixes and things I could make from scratch.  because  at that point I'd never canned anything.

03:35 Um, pressure canner scared me. I, you know, I thought I was going to blow up the house. So, um, it took me a couple months before I would even attempt to do that.  Um,  but yeah, I just started small and,  uh, mixes an