Our Little Farm WI

Today I'm talking with Sharon and Ben at Our Little Farm WI.

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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 Sharon and Ben at Our Little Farm, Wisconsin. Good morning, you guys. How are you? Good morning. Good morning. Thank you for having us this morning. Yeah, thanks. Oh, you're welcome. Thank you for being here. I appreciate it.  What's the weather like in Wisconsin this morning?  Sunny and warm. Although it's not too bad. It's only going to be like 82, I think, today. Yesterday was pretty hot and humid and... But great for the crops.  Awesome. Good.

00:54 our very handsome weather guy on WCCO here in Minnesota.  His name is Joseph Dames. My son just laughs every time he sees him because he's a very pretty, this guy's a very pretty boy.  Says that it is  a top 10 weather day in Minnesota today.  Wow.  That's something to on the calendar. Let's see if it's actually true though. I think it's going to be okay. 84 degrees, breezy, sunny.  I'm going to this.

01:23 Right. Okay. So is your your farm actually little? Is your farm actually little? It is we're at five acres compared to around us. have three large cash croppers and they have, you know, I don't know. 1500 acres to 2000 acres each.

01:44 Well, you've got us  by two acres with your five. We only have three acres.  There's a reason  we're called a tiny homestead because we consider ourselves to be minuscule compared to a lot of people. Exactly. That's how we're little just because everybody else is so big in this area.  Okay. And where's the biggest city near you?  We're actually located not just too bad.  Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, and there's Manitowoc.

02:15 Oh, Green Bay. Everybody knows where Green Bay, Wisconsin is. Right.  40 minutes  southeast of Green Bay. Okay. So you're closer to,  I'm blanking.  Illinois is below you. What's to your right? lake? Right. So Milwaukee, we're an hour and a half  north of Milwaukee.

02:40 Okay.  All right. Cool.  Awesome. So what do you guys do at your farm?  We are we are into a lot of things. We're trying to figure out how to scale down. We like to do everything. So this is always our dilemma of what to do and what not to do. So  yeah, so primarily our crops on on the bulk of our land, we have a little bit of rented land as well. That's  again, small four acres.  And we use that for growing our

03:10 Einkorn wheat, which is an ancient wheat,  which was really kind of the start or the spark, you know, for us three years ago to create our little farm and get going with what we wanted to do.

03:25 And then we also do fruits