My Homesteading Chronicles 2.0

Today I'm talking with Melissa at My Homesteading Chronicles 2.0. 

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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 Melissa.

00:27 at My Homesteading Chronicles 2.0, and  we're going to find out why it's 2.0,  in  Ontario, Canada. Good evening, Melissa. How are you? I'm good. How are you? I'm good. I'm very excited to chat with you. Number one, why is it 2.0? It is 2.0 because  about two years ago, I started My Homesteading Chronicles  and I had about 2,400 followers and the hackers got me.

00:54 Oh no. they hacked my Facebook, they hacked my Facebook page. So I had to start at nobody. So it was June last year that I got hacked.  And  yeah, I've been trying to grow my page back. So it's 2.0. I do not know why people have to suck so much. Yeah. Yeah, I have no idea. They didn't get anything out of me. just,  yeah, they got my followers, I guess.

01:24 I'm sorry. It's so much work to rebuild it too. Oh yeah, it is. It is. But it's doing better than I expected it be. So I'm over 3,000 followers since June last year. So it's about my one year anniversary of 2.0 this week. Well, congratulations. Thank you. This social media thing is so weird. Yes, it is. It is. I've been on social media, but this starting a page is...

01:53 It was new to me. had friends that kept telling me you need to start a page and I kept saying, no, I'm not going to. And well, I did.  Well, I'm thankful that you did because people need to know about this homesteading thing because it's important. So  tell me about yourself and what you do at  my homesteading Chronicles. So I am just a mom.  I have a 13 year old daughter this week and my son will be 18  next month.  I'm married. I have a wonderful supportive husband.

02:23 We live in a  very small town, about 500 people,  just kind of five minutes from the shores of Lake Huron. I work full-time  in corporate finance.  I live in the village, so I don't have a lot of space, but I like to grow everything I can and make as much as I can from scratch. That's about it.  About 10 years ago, I hurt my back and had to change careers.

02:51 and I was off work for about eight months. And that takes a toll on your income of your family.  So I started  to learn how to make things  myself.  So I've kind of over the last 10 years, I've been growing mostly a lot of tomatoes and I learned how to can and I learned how to crochet and I'm very self-taught.

03:19 Very nice. We talk about tomatoes on the podcast a lot. I  am the tomato lady.  Tomatoes and chickens.  bet if I went through and had some computer program count the number of