Rosewyn Urban Regenerative Farm - Catching Up With Chelsie

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. Have you thought about being a cottage food producer?  Or if you're a cottage food producer, have you thought about expanding it into a small business?  Cottage Foodie Con is probably for you.  You can find more information at cottagefoodiecon.com and if you use the code HOME15, you'll get 15% off your registration costs.

00:29 And that price is valid through the end of November.  So again, check out cottagefoodiecon.com.  A tiny homestead is sponsored by uh cottagefoodiecon.com. Today I'm talking with Chelsie at Rosewyn Urban Regenerative Farm in  Montana, right? Yes, Billings, Montana. Yeah. I've talked to a couple of people in Alberta in the last few days and I keep thinking Alberta. I'm like, no, she's not in Canada. She's in the States.  Okay. How are you ma'am?

01:00 I am doing wonderful this morning and yourself? I'm good. How's the weather where you are? It's it's a little chilly, but not  as bad as it could be. Okay.  It is definitely chilly here. We got sleet for the first time this season this morning  and it has all melted away already and the sun is peeking out. So it's, uh,  it's looking like it's going to be a pretty day, but it sure didn't look that way at three o'clock this morning when I got up, when I got up for no apparent reason.  It was.

01:28 pouring rain here at 3 a.m.  Oh no, we haven't had a lot of moisture. I've  been pretty lucky on that. I do have my wool out, but it's like mainly for mornings and evenings and then you just don't want to get caught  out before the temps go back down.  yeah, it's been a beautiful extended fall here. It sounds like it has been there too, so that's good.

01:55 Okay, so Chelsea was a guest on the show back in May and she was telling me all about her regenerative urban farm or urban regenerative farm. said it in the wrong order. So give me a quick update on who you are and what you do, Oh, well, I am someone that just took their health into their own hand and it led me here and now I like to grow lots of things and

02:24 have chickens and I just added rabbits. eh And the attempts  of creating a decentralized intentional community that's focused around edible landscaping and self-sufficiency  and personal growth. Okay, I have a question about decentralized.  Is that the same thing as hyper local community?

02:54 I have absolutely no idea. just said decentralized because we won't live together. Okay.  Cause with everything that's been going on in the States right now, I've talked to a couple of people on different aspects of the whole snap fiasco  and  what  we don't, we don't use snap, but I definitely was on wick when I had my first baby.  And, I think maybe way back.

03:22 My first husband and I might have had to use food stamps and it wasn't a card then it was actual like paper vouchers.  But, but SNAP is really, really important, but more important than SNAP, think is  number one,  not finding yourself in a position where if SNAP goes away,  you're, there's a bad word, you're in trouble.  And that learning to cook helps with that  planning ahead.

03:51 and trying to get things stored away in your pantry or your cabinet for an emergency is really important.  And  your local growers is really important because  farmers  in my experience really want to help. I can tell you right now, someone had pulled into my driveway  and said, do you have eggs? I'm on the SNAP program. I don't have any food. Can I just have some eggs? I would have given them eggs. Yeah. I mean, it's hard because for me, you know,

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