December 3, 2025 • 19 mins
In this episode, we talk with Jennifer Whitney, who is the owner, farmer, and co-founder of Natural Nook Farm in West Salem, Ohio. For nearly 20 years, Jennifer and her husband, Adam, have built a vibrant, faith-rooted homestead dedicated to natural living, self-sufficiency, and community.
Jennifer shares how Natural Nook Farm has grown from a simple family property into a thriving small farm that produces handcrafted goat-milk soaps, naturally dyed and hand-spun angora rabbit and Jacob sheep wool products, and an incredible array of homegrown foods and medicinal herbs. From freeze-dried vegetables and garlic powder to elderberry teas, jellies, and herbal remedies, Jennifer and her husband are deeply committed to using what they grow and teaching others to do the same.
Their mission extends far beyond their own land. Jennifer regularly speaks to Career Center students about homesteading skills, inspiring the next generation to grow, create, and build with intention. She and Adam also founded B.U.C.K. Adventures, a 501(c)(3) offering life-changing, all-expense-paid adaptive whitetail hunting experiences for individuals facing life-altering circumstances. Applications for the 2026 season are now open.
Jennifer opens up about the lessons homesteading has taught her: the power of community, the importance of trying new things, even if they fail, and the value of starting small. She reminds us that you don’t need a thousand acres to begin living more sustainably; you just need the willingness to take the first step.
For Natural Nook Farm, the next steps are big ones. As they head into 2026, the Whitneys are expanding into horsedrawn carriage and wagon services, powered by their growing team of Percheron horses, an exciting new chapter shaped by the belief that change, while hard, can open doors you never expected.
Learn more at naturalnookfarm.com.
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Jennifer shares how Natural Nook Farm has grown from a simple family property into a thriving small farm that produces handcrafted goat-milk soaps, naturally dyed and hand-spun angora rabbit and Jacob sheep wool products, and an incredible array of homegrown foods and medicinal herbs. From freeze-dried vegetables and garlic powder to elderberry teas, jellies, and herbal remedies, Jennifer and her husband are deeply committed to using what they grow and teaching others to do the same.
Their mission extends far beyond their own land. Jennifer regularly speaks to Career Center students about homesteading skills, inspiring the next generation to grow, create, and build with intention. She and Adam also founded B.U.C.K. Adventures, a 501(c)(3) offering life-changing, all-expense-paid adaptive whitetail hunting experiences for individuals facing life-altering circumstances. Applications for the 2026 season are now open.
Jennifer opens up about the lessons homesteading has taught her: the power of community, the importance of trying new things, even if they fail, and the value of starting small. She reminds us that you don’t need a thousand acres to begin living more sustainably; you just need the willingness to take the first step.
For Natural Nook Farm, the next steps are big ones. As they head into 2026, the Whitneys are expanding into horsedrawn carriage and wagon services, powered by their growing team of Percheron horses, an exciting new chapter shaped by the belief that change, while hard, can open doors you never expected.
Learn more at naturalnookfarm.com.
Website: AmericanFamilyFarmerShow.com
Social Media: @GoodDayNetworks
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The American Family Farmer podcast, sponsored in part by Caldron,
The Safe, proven Way to lose weight. Check it all
out at toploss dot com. I'm Doug Stephan. This is
the American Family Farmer. Let me introduce you to Jennifer Whitney,
who is the owner of the Natural Nook Farm in
West Salem, Ohio, a place that holds a nice spot
(00:20):
in my heart, not too far from where I went
to school. There are a lot of farms then, and
Jennifer and I would just keep it seeing about what's
going on there now. And she says, there's still a
lot of farms. What sort of farming is the most
popular in that part of Ohio.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Jennifer, Around us there's a lot of crops being grown, corn, soybeans.
There's still a few cow farms, chickens, that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
So what do you do that's different on your farm?
Speaker 2 (00:53):
We do dairy goats. We sell goat milk soap. We
make it from scratch here. We use natural colorance, natural
all natural things and exfoliance. We grow vegetables, We have
a greenhouse. We start our own plants here. Garlic is
(01:15):
one of our biggest things. We like to grow and
we like to freeze drying that, keeping it for throughout
the year. We have organic elderberry bushes we harvest each year.
We freeze dry those for loose leaf teas, making jelly,
other medicinal uses, and just some gardening. We grow a
(01:38):
lot of medicinal plants, marshmallow plants, small in comfrey, Acenesia, calendula,
those kind of things. We raise broiler birds, and this
year we're doing our own turkeys. We have three turkeys
that we're giving a go with. And we did our
raise our first cow this year. And we all so
(02:00):
have chickens for eggs. And we have jacob sheep and
Angora rabbits and I like to harvest their wool and
I spin it into yarn, process it myself, spin it
into yarn and make things to sell, like gloves, hats
and scarves, things like that.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
So how long have you? Are you a farm kid
or is this something that has come no late?
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Do you? And we moved to our property like you said,
about twenty years ago. I grew up working on a farm.
I lived in the city, but there was a farm
near us. Want one of the farms that were kind
of in the middle of the city, and I grew
up knee high going up there with my brothers, and
(02:52):
I just loved it. I was hooked from you know,
really young, and so I would spend my days up there,
and then I was able to get my first horse
up there. And I think it's just one of those
things that are in you.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
It is you get into your blood and will. There
are a lot of people who have raised, you know,
families on farms, and some of the kids want to
stay on the farm and some don't. But there are
a lot of people who are coming to the farm
who experience it in one way or another's perhaps they're
growing or maybe as a side venture, and then they
(03:31):
get into it to the point where they want to
spend the rest of their life on the farm, and
that's a good thing. There are a lot of interesting
things that you said here, and I want to go
over those with you a little bit because I want
to understand some of the things. Maybe there's some ideas.
One of the reasons that we have folks like you
on the program is to give people who are in
similar situations to you the encouragement to try different things
(03:55):
so perhaps to make their far more successful Jennifer Whitney
is here Natural Nook Farm in West Salem, Ohio, and
this week's American Family Farmer, Elizabeth Miller, comes to us
from the folks at Caltron. This is the time of
year when I advise people to be defensive. The best
defense is a good offense. So I say to those
(04:17):
of you who are eating well Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year's
the best way to not gain weight is to get
on Caldron now and not wait until you've already put
the weight on.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Well. You know, I know a lot of people would
just expect to gain weight over the holidays and then
they want to start January on losing it. But like
you said, if you're taking Caldron, not only are you
going to be losing weight during the holidays, but you're
going to be having more energy to get things done.
And who doesn't need that during the holiday season.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
One of the best ways of getting the best out
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(05:09):
the American Family Farmer, one of the things that Jennifer
said is that they make and sell goat milk soap.
So I guess I would wonder how did you come
up your formula for making the soap or did you
find some recipe for it.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
I started with a basic recipe and talked to some
people that had made it, and I really liked using it.
And I was like, if I'm going to go out
and milk goats twice a day, I'm going to be
able to have something to use, and you know, make
sure we're using all of it. We make cheese for ourselves.
We don't sell that, and I've made butter and just
(05:54):
the simple farmer's cheese, like I said in yogurt. So
you know, you know, as you know, when you're putting
the effort in, you want to be able to get
product out of what you're you're doing and spending your
time doing. So I gave gifts away one You're for
the soap, and people were like, oh, can I buy
some of that? And I was like, oh, I never
(06:15):
thought of selling it. So so it's just kind of
as far as like the recipe, I kind of have
tweaked it into my own, you know, using natural things,
making it from scratch with lye and milk. One thing
with goat milk soap. You have to freeze the milk
(06:36):
because when you put the lyye on it, it'll curdle
if you don't freeze it. So I've had to learn
a lot about it. But I have a solid recipe
now that I use and and I enjoy making it
from scratch.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
So so is your husband involved in the farm with you?
Speaker 4 (06:56):
He is.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
He He does a lot of the bowl work. He's
an excellent carpenter, and he's we we actually own a
bar and business too, so we've been able to you know,
have the right buildings for what we need. And he
does help. He gets you know, he gets out there.
(07:18):
He'll he'll help I do the bulk of it, just
you know, the everyday stuff. But he's interested in he's
in the hunting and things like that. We started the
five oh one C three called Buck Adventures, and we
love doing that together. And then we are going what
is that entail?
Speaker 1 (07:39):
What do you have a I have a five O
one C three? But what do you do?
Speaker 2 (07:45):
We started that. We had our first hunt in October
and it's it's for individuals with life altering circumstances. We
take them out white tail hunting down South and and
all expenses. We paid weekend for them. These are kids
with either special needs and we get them out in
(08:09):
the woods if they're in a wheelchair or if they
can't use their hands or their arms. We have adaptive
equipment like byte systems that they can shoot the bow
with and then we have all their meat processed. So
it's a way to get them out doing something that
maybe they normally wouldn't be able to get out to do.
(08:29):
All enjoying God's beautiful nature and all he provides, and
just showing how you know you can go out and
harvest your own meat if you need to. And we
had we had a few hundred. We had seven hunters
this year, and a couple of them have lost their
dads and their moms wanted the the boys to be
(08:50):
able to continue hunting. One of the boys was in
his thirties, I believe in he was in a car
accident and he hadn't been able to get out in
the woods. He was in a wheelchair like a powerchair,
and it was really neat to get to see his
dad get to hunt with his son again and him
to get to go out and do that. So we
(09:10):
are taking applications for our twenty twenty six hunt, and
so you know, we can only take a certain amount,
but we wanted to do that something we both enjoy.
My husband is the hunter. I enjoy relating to the
parents that are taking care of these individuals.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
And how do people hear about this? How do people know?
What's your website? And I should.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Problem they can go to. We have a Facebook page
called buck b U c K Adventures and we also
have a website www dot buckadventures dot org and there
is a application on there.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Okay Buckadventures dot o RG. It sounds like an interesting
how did this come about?
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Though?
Speaker 1 (09:57):
What happened there? It made this is good for us?
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Yeah, my daughter has threebra palsy and she went on
a hunt years ago with a similar organization and we
were just like, you know what, this is really cool
to include everybody and get people out maybe that are
in a tough situation or just need a little bit
of hope, or just want to be in an environment
(10:26):
where they're accepted and are going to be accommodated.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Good for you. That's so wonderfully. How many children do
you have and do they work on the farm other
than the.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
We have three? Yeah, we have three kids. Savannah is
twenty two and our middle son is nineteen, and then
we have a five year old.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Yeah, so and they're all they're all unique. Not all
of them love doing farm stuff, but everybody pitches in.
And I have a niece that really enjoys coming out
to the farm. She loves the horses. She's helps when
we're out of town. And so everybody pitches in, and it,
(11:11):
you know, takes takes a crew to keep everything going
for sure.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Kind of underscores the meaning of a family farm as
much as anything else. It sounds like, yes, you know,
you piqued my interest when you're talking about the plants
that you grow. If I can go back to that
with you echinasia and some of the other things that
you're growing that have medicinal properties. How did you decide
not think about it? Excuse me? I use standard products,
(11:39):
standard process products, and they all come from it's all natural,
it all come from food, and I never really thought
much about the echinationia.
Speaker 4 (11:49):
Is that is that a leafy?
Speaker 1 (11:51):
What is what is that it's.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
It's actually, if you ever heard a cone flower, excuse me,
a cone flower. It has a lot of good benefits.
You can use the leaves and the puddles off the
flowers for tea like Comfrey mullen. There's so many things
that are good for like your immune system, yes, and
(12:16):
your respiratory. My husband, like you know, he tends to
get a lot of congestion, things like that.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Yeah, you don't have to explain it to me. I'm spring, summerfall,
all the allergies, the things that we are exposed to
on the farm. And excuse message you here in my voice.
Often it means to crack because there's so much crapola
in your system. Yeah, exactly, Yeah, right, hold on a second.
Jennifer Whitney is here with us from Natural Milk Farm.
(12:45):
We'll return to our conversation with Jennifer Whitney in a
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(13:31):
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Speaker 1 (15:46):
Back to Jennifer Whitney, who's the owner and the farmer
at Natural Nook Farman, West Salem will have some very
good ideas here. I'm very impressed you have learned a lot.
You said you were at this I think he's said
you moved in about twenty years ago. What were you
doing before that?
Speaker 2 (16:05):
It's hard to remember, just living in the city, you know,
hoping someday we would be able to get a little
plot of land somewhere and get out and do the
things that we really wanted to be doing. And we
just we've all we've both always we've been married twenty
(16:28):
seven years, I think, and we just both enjoy being outside.
My husband was not an animal person. He didn't grow
up doing any kind of farming or anything. And I
think he's caught the draft horse bug, right. Yeah. So
(16:48):
we've been building up. We have three pertrons now and
he really enjoys driving them and we're looking to branch
out in that world world a little bit more in
the new year, so that'll be exciting. Yeah. So as
far as before, I I don't know, I've always I've
always had you know, animals and growing things, and he's
(17:14):
just kind of come along in and he enjoys it too.
We had really enjoyed our garden this year. We had
a really good garden for the you know, some years
it's not good.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
Some years it's you know, related to be sure, how
big is your farm.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
We only have a little over three acres, so we
we have farms around us we can use, like as
far as with the horses, we're allowed to go over
and ride and do things over there. But we would
like to expand in the next year or two a bit,
so we'll see.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
This is kind of proof positive that you can do
a lot with a little I've talked for more people
in the past year or two who have three four
five acres and they've created all kinds of things that
don't require you know, I have about one hundred and
forty five acres of land and I use another four hundred.
(18:10):
But you don't have to, you know, you can, you can,
I could easily do what I'm doing on other people's land,
and that's there oftentimes because farming has kind of gone
in the direction of not many people understanding how to
do it anymore. So there's a lot of land around
in certain areas and you can take advantage of that. Well,
(18:30):
I'm glad you have made your acquaintance, Jennifer, and good
luck with your goat, milk, soap and then all the
other things. To do more with less, that's the idea
or I think you could do it. Sounds like an
ad for target, right, Yeah, is that what they say?
Get more with less? Yeah? Right, exactly. Well, have a
good new year and continueing on. You're welcome continue to learn.
(18:54):
That's you are learning and other people are learning. So
that's a very good thing I think as far as
that's thanks, Jennifer. This is Doug Stefan. You're listening to
the American Family Farmer.
Speaker 4 (19:06):
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Speaker 1 (19:12):
The American Family Farmer podcast sponsored in part by Caldron,
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The American Family Farmer podcast, sponsored in part by Caldron,
The Safe, proven Way to lose weight. Check it all
out at toploss dot com. I'm Doug Stephan. This is
the American Family Farmer. Let me introduce you to Jennifer Whitney,
who is the owner of the Natural Nook Farm in
West Salem, Ohio, a place that holds a nice spot
(00:20):
in my heart, not too far from where I went
to school. There are a lot of farms then, and
Jennifer and I would just keep it seeing about what's
going on there now. And she says, there's still a
lot of farms. What sort of farming is the most
popular in that part of Ohio.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Jennifer, Around us there's a lot of crops being grown, corn, soybeans.
There's still a few cow farms, chickens, that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
So what do you do that's different on your farm?
Speaker 2 (00:53):
We do dairy goats. We sell goat milk soap. We
make it from scratch here. We use natural colorance, natural
all natural things and exfoliance. We grow vegetables, We have
a greenhouse. We start our own plants here. Garlic is
(01:15):
one of our biggest things. We like to grow and
we like to freeze drying that, keeping it for throughout
the year. We have organic elderberry bushes we harvest each year.
We freeze dry those for loose leaf teas, making jelly,
other medicinal uses, and just some gardening. We grow a
(01:38):
lot of medicinal plants, marshmallow plants, small in comfrey, Acenesia, calendula,
those kind of things. We raise broiler birds, and this
year we're doing our own turkeys. We have three turkeys
that we're giving a go with. And we did our
raise our first cow this year. And we all so
(02:00):
have chickens for eggs. And we have jacob sheep and
Angora rabbits and I like to harvest their wool and
I spin it into yarn, process it myself, spin it
into yarn and make things to sell, like gloves, hats
and scarves, things like that.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
So how long have you? Are you a farm kid
or is this something that has come no late?
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Do you? And we moved to our property like you said,
about twenty years ago. I grew up working on a farm.
I lived in the city, but there was a farm
near us. Want one of the farms that were kind
of in the middle of the city, and I grew
up knee high going up there with my brothers, and
(02:52):
I just loved it. I was hooked from you know,
really young, and so I would spend my days up there,
and then I was able to get my first horse
up there. And I think it's just one of those
things that are in you.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
It is you get into your blood and will. There
are a lot of people who have raised, you know,
families on farms, and some of the kids want to
stay on the farm and some don't. But there are
a lot of people who are coming to the farm
who experience it in one way or another's perhaps they're
growing or maybe as a side venture, and then they
(03:31):
get into it to the point where they want to
spend the rest of their life on the farm, and
that's a good thing. There are a lot of interesting
things that you said here, and I want to go
over those with you a little bit because I want
to understand some of the things. Maybe there's some ideas.
One of the reasons that we have folks like you
on the program is to give people who are in
similar situations to you the encouragement to try different things
(03:55):
so perhaps to make their far more successful Jennifer Whitney
is here Natural Nook Farm in West Salem, Ohio, and
this week's American Family Farmer, Elizabeth Miller, comes to us
from the folks at Caltron. This is the time of
year when I advise people to be defensive. The best
defense is a good offense. So I say to those
(04:17):
of you who are eating well Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year's
the best way to not gain weight is to get
on Caldron now and not wait until you've already put
the weight on.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Well. You know, I know a lot of people would
just expect to gain weight over the holidays and then
they want to start January on losing it. But like
you said, if you're taking Caldron, not only are you
going to be losing weight during the holidays, but you're
going to be having more energy to get things done.
And who doesn't need that during the holiday season.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
One of the best ways of getting the best out
of Caltron is as you check out to use the
doug code DOUG on all orders. You'll be able to
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care of used doug at toplaws dot Com. Back on
(05:09):
the American Family Farmer, one of the things that Jennifer
said is that they make and sell goat milk soap.
So I guess I would wonder how did you come
up your formula for making the soap or did you
find some recipe for it.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
I started with a basic recipe and talked to some
people that had made it, and I really liked using it.
And I was like, if I'm going to go out
and milk goats twice a day, I'm going to be
able to have something to use, and you know, make
sure we're using all of it. We make cheese for ourselves.
We don't sell that, and I've made butter and just
(05:54):
the simple farmer's cheese, like I said in yogurt. So
you know, you know, as you know, when you're putting
the effort in, you want to be able to get
product out of what you're you're doing and spending your
time doing. So I gave gifts away one You're for
the soap, and people were like, oh, can I buy
some of that? And I was like, oh, I never
(06:15):
thought of selling it. So so it's just kind of
as far as like the recipe, I kind of have
tweaked it into my own, you know, using natural things,
making it from scratch with lye and milk. One thing
with goat milk soap. You have to freeze the milk
(06:36):
because when you put the lyye on it, it'll curdle
if you don't freeze it. So I've had to learn
a lot about it. But I have a solid recipe
now that I use and and I enjoy making it
from scratch.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
So so is your husband involved in the farm with you?
Speaker 4 (06:56):
He is.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
He He does a lot of the bowl work. He's
an excellent carpenter, and he's we we actually own a
bar and business too, so we've been able to you know,
have the right buildings for what we need. And he
does help. He gets you know, he gets out there.
(07:18):
He'll he'll help I do the bulk of it, just
you know, the everyday stuff. But he's interested in he's
in the hunting and things like that. We started the
five oh one C three called Buck Adventures, and we
love doing that together. And then we are going what
is that entail?
Speaker 1 (07:39):
What do you have a I have a five O
one C three? But what do you do?
Speaker 2 (07:45):
We started that. We had our first hunt in October
and it's it's for individuals with life altering circumstances. We
take them out white tail hunting down South and and
all expenses. We paid weekend for them. These are kids
with either special needs and we get them out in
(08:09):
the woods if they're in a wheelchair or if they
can't use their hands or their arms. We have adaptive
equipment like byte systems that they can shoot the bow
with and then we have all their meat processed. So
it's a way to get them out doing something that
maybe they normally wouldn't be able to get out to do.
(08:29):
All enjoying God's beautiful nature and all he provides, and
just showing how you know you can go out and
harvest your own meat if you need to. And we
had we had a few hundred. We had seven hunters
this year, and a couple of them have lost their
dads and their moms wanted the the boys to be
(08:50):
able to continue hunting. One of the boys was in
his thirties, I believe in he was in a car
accident and he hadn't been able to get out in
the woods. He was in a wheelchair like a powerchair,
and it was really neat to get to see his
dad get to hunt with his son again and him
to get to go out and do that. So we
(09:10):
are taking applications for our twenty twenty six hunt, and
so you know, we can only take a certain amount,
but we wanted to do that something we both enjoy.
My husband is the hunter. I enjoy relating to the
parents that are taking care of these individuals.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
And how do people hear about this? How do people know?
What's your website? And I should.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Problem they can go to. We have a Facebook page
called buck b U c K Adventures and we also
have a website www dot buckadventures dot org and there
is a application on there.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Okay Buckadventures dot o RG. It sounds like an interesting
how did this come about?
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Though?
Speaker 1 (09:57):
What happened there? It made this is good for us?
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Yeah, my daughter has threebra palsy and she went on
a hunt years ago with a similar organization and we
were just like, you know what, this is really cool
to include everybody and get people out maybe that are
in a tough situation or just need a little bit
of hope, or just want to be in an environment
(10:26):
where they're accepted and are going to be accommodated.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Good for you. That's so wonderfully. How many children do
you have and do they work on the farm other
than the.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
We have three? Yeah, we have three kids. Savannah is
twenty two and our middle son is nineteen, and then
we have a five year old.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Yeah, so and they're all they're all unique. Not all
of them love doing farm stuff, but everybody pitches in.
And I have a niece that really enjoys coming out
to the farm. She loves the horses. She's helps when
we're out of town. And so everybody pitches in, and it,
(11:11):
you know, takes takes a crew to keep everything going
for sure.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Kind of underscores the meaning of a family farm as
much as anything else. It sounds like, yes, you know,
you piqued my interest when you're talking about the plants
that you grow. If I can go back to that
with you echinasia and some of the other things that
you're growing that have medicinal properties. How did you decide
not think about it? Excuse me? I use standard products,
(11:39):
standard process products, and they all come from it's all natural,
it all come from food, and I never really thought
much about the echinationia.
Speaker 4 (11:49):
Is that is that a leafy?
Speaker 1 (11:51):
What is what is that it's.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
It's actually, if you ever heard a cone flower, excuse me,
a cone flower. It has a lot of good benefits.
You can use the leaves and the puddles off the
flowers for tea like Comfrey mullen. There's so many things
that are good for like your immune system, yes, and
(12:16):
your respiratory. My husband, like you know, he tends to
get a lot of congestion, things like that.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Yeah, you don't have to explain it to me. I'm spring, summerfall,
all the allergies, the things that we are exposed to
on the farm. And excuse message you here in my voice.
Often it means to crack because there's so much crapola
in your system. Yeah, exactly, Yeah, right, hold on a second.
Jennifer Whitney is here with us from Natural Milk Farm.
(12:45):
We'll return to our conversation with Jennifer Whitney in a
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Speaker 1 (15:46):
Back to Jennifer Whitney, who's the owner and the farmer
at Natural Nook Farman, West Salem will have some very
good ideas here. I'm very impressed you have learned a lot.
You said you were at this I think he's said
you moved in about twenty years ago. What were you
doing before that?
Speaker 2 (16:05):
It's hard to remember, just living in the city, you know,
hoping someday we would be able to get a little
plot of land somewhere and get out and do the
things that we really wanted to be doing. And we
just we've all we've both always we've been married twenty
(16:28):
seven years, I think, and we just both enjoy being outside.
My husband was not an animal person. He didn't grow
up doing any kind of farming or anything. And I
think he's caught the draft horse bug, right. Yeah. So
(16:48):
we've been building up. We have three pertrons now and
he really enjoys driving them and we're looking to branch
out in that world world a little bit more in
the new year, so that'll be exciting. Yeah. So as
far as before, I I don't know, I've always I've
always had you know, animals and growing things, and he's
(17:14):
just kind of come along in and he enjoys it too.
We had really enjoyed our garden this year. We had
a really good garden for the you know, some years
it's not good.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
Some years it's you know, related to be sure, how
big is your farm.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
We only have a little over three acres, so we
we have farms around us we can use, like as
far as with the horses, we're allowed to go over
and ride and do things over there. But we would
like to expand in the next year or two a bit,
so we'll see.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
This is kind of proof positive that you can do
a lot with a little I've talked for more people
in the past year or two who have three four
five acres and they've created all kinds of things that
don't require you know, I have about one hundred and
forty five acres of land and I use another four hundred.
(18:10):
But you don't have to, you know, you can, you can,
I could easily do what I'm doing on other people's land,
and that's there oftentimes because farming has kind of gone
in the direction of not many people understanding how to
do it anymore. So there's a lot of land around
in certain areas and you can take advantage of that. Well,
(18:30):
I'm glad you have made your acquaintance, Jennifer, and good
luck with your goat, milk, soap and then all the
other things. To do more with less, that's the idea
or I think you could do it. Sounds like an
ad for target, right, Yeah, is that what they say?
Get more with less? Yeah? Right, exactly. Well, have a
good new year and continueing on. You're welcome continue to learn.
(18:54):
That's you are learning and other people are learning. So
that's a very good thing I think as far as
that's thanks, Jennifer. This is Doug Stefan. You're listening to
the American Family Farmer.
Speaker 4 (19:06):
This program was produced at Bobksound and Recording. Please visit
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