Rosewyn Urban Regenerative Farm

Today I'm talking with Chelsie at Rosewyn Urban Regenerative Farm.

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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.  I'm your host, Mary Lewis. A Tiny Homestead is sponsored by the Homegrown Collective, the best option for organizing a responsible and regional food system for America.  You can find them at homegrowncollective.org. Today I'm talking with Chelsie at Rosewyn Urban Regenerative Farm. Almost forgot the name of your place is Chelsie, sorry.  Good morning, are you?

00:29 I am doing phenomenal and yourself? I'm good. It is a gorgeous day in Minnesota again, two days in a row. Yes, we're finally  hitting steady seventies over here. So it is optimal outside time.  Yes. Springtime is wonderful.  Um, my favorite is fall, but spring is my second favorite season. So,  and, uh, I know you're in Montana because  I talked to Morgan yesterday.

00:56 and she recommended that I talk with you and Morgan is in Montana as well. tell me all about what you're doing because urban regenerative farm is not something I hear very often.  No, no. I mean, the optimal idea was to get a big plot of land, but then I just figured I need to do something where I am to show other people it's possible to do it wherever you are. So  I focus a lot on small footprints.

01:24 Growing options that way if someone's in an apartment or in a trailer, they realize that they have an option as well. Um, I really, really am an advocate for food and medicinal security as a community. And if we can all grow something in our yards and trade, then our community will be a lot more sustainable, uh, as a whole. And no one, it will, it will equalize kind of the deficit or the difference between income levels.

01:56 So essentially  sovereignty for everyone  and burning down the gates on the way.  Good, good. I  don't advocate burning anything, but I understand the phrasing, burning down the gates to keeping people out from doing what they want to do. Yeah, gatekeeping, know, just those  gates.  So I collect knowledge so people have access to it.

02:23 and can check out books or whatever they need to check out. Yeah, absolutely. The reason that I kind of jumped on that phrasing is because this is the five year anniversary of George Floyd's death in Minneapolis and I live an hour southwest of Minneapolis. And at the time that that happened, my husband worked not a mile and a half from all the destruction from the fires that were set. So

02:50 I'm a little twitchy about anything on fire right now.  I understand and I apologize about any triggers that happened. No, that's okay. I just remember him coming home from work when he was actually allowed to go back to work because the place that he worked at was on lockdown for three days.  So it was a hospital  and  he was, he looked pretty shell shocked when he walked in the door and  we are both very white people. And I said, why do you look so sick? And he said, honey, he said, if you co