Twin Creek Gardens, CSA

Today I'm talking with Beth at Twin Creek Gardens, CSA.

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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 Beth at Twin Creek Gardens, CSA.

00:29 And Beth and I talked back in April of 2024. So it's been a year and a couple of months since we've had the joy of hearing about Beth's life at the CSA. So good afternoon, Beth. How are you? Good afternoon. I'm doing well. Thank you. Good. How's the weather in Wisconsin? It's hot here in Minnesota. Well, you know, it's funny. I've been waiting for hot and now that it's here, I'm going, oh, God, it's too hot.

00:56 So it's beautiful. It's an absolutely beautiful day. So it's been fun running in and out of the house to to switch  gears with the water every once in a while. Yeah. Given everybody a nice deep drink. Yeah. My husband filled up three different bowls for the dog last night because she really wanted to play frisbee and it was hot out.  And he said  he said that she drank one and a half bowls of water  after after she played frisbee. And I was like, don't play frisbee with her when it's so hot like this. You're going to kill her. You know.

01:25 Yeah, it is hard on them. Yeah, and when it's this warm and it hasn't been this warm yet, so she hasn't acclimated and she's a chubby dog.  She's probably five pounds overweight. So  I can't imagine it's fun being her and running across the yard chasing after the frisbee and realizing how hot she is when she's Right.  So anyway, it's been over a year since we talked on the podcast. So catch me up a little bit. Well,

01:55 Um, last year I was doing a lot of dreaming and my tagline was if we build it, they will come. And I put that hashtag on just about everything as I was posting about what we were trying to do. And it seems like it's true. Um, we have a new website and that has been a game changer for us. I was trying to do that.

02:23 solo and try to build something that would meet our needs and the needs of our members. And it just wasn't working.  And so I found CSAware. I don't know if you're familiar with  that. found it through localharvest.org, which is a nonprofit. And we are a nonprofit, so it was a perfect fit. And I've got a  wonderful person who knows the ins and outs of the website. She's my go-to gal. I can call her or send her a text.

02:52 at any time of day to help me figure things out. I think it's really made the  difference for me in being able to meet the needs of the people of the community and yet still not have to spend so much time with the nuts and bolts of it.  So we currently have 10 families t