Peaceful Pastures

Today I'm talking with Amanda at Peaceful Pastures.

A Tiny Homestead Podcast is sponsored by Homegrowncollective.org.

 

Muck Boots 

Calendars.Com

If you'd like to support me in growing this podcast, like, share, subscribe or leave a comment. Or just buy me a coffee 

https://buymeacoffee.com/lewismaryes

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.

00:26 Today I'm talking with Amanda at Peaceful Pastures in Michigan. Good afternoon, Amanda. How are you? Hi there. How are you?  I'm good.  You said the weather's really nice in Michigan? Yes, it's beautiful today. We finally broke that heat spell that we had last week and the humidity has gone down and it's just perfectly sunny. So it's great today.

00:50 So you're having a top weather day in Michigan, just like we are in Minnesota. It's really nice here today too.  That sounds great. I'm glad it's just as nice for you. Yeah, the spring has been actually pretty moderate. I have been,  I dare say impressed with Mother Nature this year.  So tell me about yourself and what you do at Peaceful Pastures. Well, my name is Amanda. I'm a mother to two. I have an eight-year-old son and a six-year-old daughter.

01:19 My husband is here with me too. His name is Andrew. We like to jokingly call him Goat Daddy.  We kind of jumped into Peaceful Pastures, kind of like an overnight deal.  We weren't really looking to sell our house and happened upon this property, just a little over seven acres, and we kind of jumped on it and looked, put it on offer, and right away it became ours.  And overnight I went and crazily

01:47 purchased Nigerian Dwarf goats  and one of them was pregnant and so it began with our livestock. So we now have 13  and we have a mini Dexter cow. Her name is Betty and we have chickens.  Awesome. it is absolutely do a little bit of everything here. Yes.  Fantastic. So if your name is Amanda and your husband's name is Andrew,

02:17 Do you ever get Mandy and Andy as nicknames?  Oh, yes, we do.  All the time.  I have this thing in my head that I do all the time and I rarely ever tell people about it because I think it'll freak them out. But I always end up having nicknames for people that I like. And  one of my friends on Facebook, and she was also in a writing group online with me,  her name is Janna.

02:46 For the longest time when I would see her name, would think Jana Banana. Oh, and I never, I never told her that. And I was like, I got to stop doing this, but my brain just does all these weird associations with names. So,  so if you were friends with me, you would be Mandy and your husband would be Andy in my head. That's okay.  My husband always gets called Andy Pandy. So  it works.  Yep. Absolutely.  Um, okay. So do you guys have a garden as well?

03:16 We do.  actually have a quite large garden this year.  Last year we had a great time with it an