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A Tiny Homestead

A Tiny Homestead

De: Mary E Lewis
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We became homesteaders three years ago when we moved to our new home on a little over three acres. But, we were learning and practicing homesteading skills long before that. This podcast is about all kinds of homesteaders, and farmers, and bakers - what they do and why they do it. I’ll be interviewing people from all walks of life, different ages and stages, about their passion for doing old fashioned things in a newfangled way. https://buymeacoffee.com/lewismaryesCopyright 2023 All rights reserved. Ciencias Sociales Economía Gestión y Liderazgo Liderazgo
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  • Southern Charm Up North: Tales of a Maine Magnolia

    Southern Charm Up North: Tales of a Maine Magnolia
    Sep 17 2025
    Today I'm talking with Gentry at Southern Charm Up North: Tales of a Maine Magnolia. 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. I'm your host, Mary Lewis. Today I'm talking with Gentry at Southern Charm Up North, Tales of a Maine Magnolia in Maine. How are you, Gentry? I'm great, Mary. Thanks for having me. You're welcome. I saw the name of your page on Facebook and I was like, oh, she sounds like a fun one to chat with. I hope so. 00:30 So how's the weather in Maine this morning or this afternoon? Well, actually, I'm in Mississippi today. How are you? Okay. I am. But I think the weather's probably better in Maine. Okay. Well, how was it in Mississippi? It's hot. We had a rainstorm this morning, which we desperately needed, and I know we did. So can't complain about that. But now it's muggy. It's that typical Mississippi humidity. 00:59 We're experiencing the same thing in Minnesota this morning. I'm sorry, this afternoon. I keep thinking it's 10 o'clock in the morning. It's 1 o'clock in the afternoon. It is supposed to hit 95, I think, today here. And the dew point is above 60. So needless to say, the dog and I are hanging out with the freestanding air conditioners in the house today. Do not blame me about that. 01:23 Yep. And if she barks, it's because somebody pulled up to our farm stand because we have eggs out there that people want to buy. So. Oh, I love fresh eggs. I wish I was there. Yeah. Yeah. Our chickens have done really well this summer and we have not been able to keep eggs in the farm stand for any more than 24 hours. Once they go out there. It's been really funny. Wow. So tell me a little bit about yourself and about what you do. Well, I am living between 01:53 two states, two worlds really. We live in Mississippi. I was actually born and raised in North Carolina and I've lived different places, but primarily the South. I've lived in Mississippi for, I guess, 27 years now. And about two and a half, three years ago, I was getting remarried, lots of life changes. And I told my fiance, I said, I'm going to live in Maine. 02:21 He just kind of looked at me and said, oh, okay. And so we went up and he asked me, he said, have you ever been? And I said, no. And he said, don't you think we should go check it out first? And so we went up there. I had a broken ankle at the time. So was on a knee scooter, couldn't do anything, but just sit and look while he got to go explore and do all the fun stuff. And we went back about six months later, maybe, and made the offer on the house. 02:50 and bought the house. So my heart is always there even when I'm here in Mississippi. um And I started my blog in the Maine Magnolia just as a way of kind of interweaving those two worlds and sharing with my friends there and my friends here um and just people that I've met all over, you know, what it's like to transition between 03:19 dramatically different states um but still find the similarities and the things that you can call home in both. Well yeah and people are people and food is food and home is a home and you know I don't know that it matters exactly where you live as long as you actually live where you live. Exactly. So. Just did a blog post this morning about the importance of being present and 03:46 That's being present wherever you are and whatever the circumstances are at that given moment, but finding your why, your reason, your joy in whatever situation you're in. Yeah. Otherwise, why are you here? know? Right. Exactly. Hang on one second. 04:09 I had a tickle in my throat and I didn't want to cough in your ear. uh So having moved from Maine to Minnesota when I was 22 and I'm 50, almost 56 now, and you moving from Mississippi to Maine, how was that for you? Because growing up in Maine, I have a very special place in my heart for that state. But I also know that Mainers are very, very direct people and they communicate. 04:38 very clearly and a lot. So how was it for you? They do. It's different. know, they, I think we're first not quite sure how to take me and because I'm, I'm just me. I show up and I'm how y'all, what are you doing? And, um, but I think the biggest concern because Mainers are very protective of their world, you know, in their peace. And, um, 05:08 They're very independent, ah very self-sufficient. I think their biggest fear with tourism is that people are coming in to change what they love about their home. I think when they realized that there was nothing I wanted to change, it was those very things that drew me there, then they quickly accepted me. mean, they love to laugh at some of 05:35 my sayings or the way I talk sometimes,...
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  • Appalachian Highlands Farmers Magazine

    Appalachian Highlands Farmers Magazine
    Sep 15 2025
    Today I'm talking with Aaron at Appalachian Highlands Farmers Magazine. You can follow on Facebook as well. 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. I'm your host, Mary Lewis. Today I'm talking with Aaron at Appalachian Highlands Farmers Magazine, and you are where? I'm in Bristol, Virginia. Okay. Welcome, Aaron. Thank you for being here. Thank you. I appreciate being here. So how's the weather there? It is... 00:29 study in a little bit chilly. You're lucky. It is very muggy in Minnesota. That's where I am. This is about as this is the first couple of days we haven't had rain since I've been here. uh Oh, okay. So are you new to there or what's up with that? I've been here about two years. Um, I'm a transplant from Southern California, um, and still moved out here just to retire. And then I figured out I can't retire. 00:59 So I started getting busy again. Yeah, my husband and I are both in our mid fifties and anytime retirement comes up in conversation, we just do that very sardonic laugh and go, we're never retiring because it's not going to do us any good to retire. Yeah. And it's also not good for your brain to sit off that much, you know? Absolutely. Yeah. My dad retired over 10 years ago. He is now 80. 01:28 I think and He acts like he's 50. He lives like he's 50. You would never know. He was 83 years old. So I'm very proud of All right, so tell me a little bit about yourself and about your magazine Okay, well I was gonna mention that I'm planning out here from Southern California in the mountains of Southern California About 5,000 so I come from a kind of a rural 01:58 not rural really, it's urban forest I guess you could call it, it's a little town called Crestline, California. um I spent most of my career in the printing business and when I say print I mean magazines, newspapers, that type of thing. um My education is actually graphic communication, kind dawned into the print business and ended up consulting with authors. 02:25 These are the things that I like the San Francisco Chronicle, San Diego New New York Review, and people like that. About, you know, how they used to go out and do their layout design. So, later on in the managing, I my little hometown newspaper at the time. It was called the Alpenhorn Nude. It addressed my town. And I worked there. 02:54 for a while and I just wanted to it. was definitely going to buy it from after that fence fell through and I moved away to Montana for five years and I came back and it turns out somebody had bought it from the old owner and he was not doing well with it and so I was joking, strictly a joke. I wrote up the contracts for me purchasing it and was supposed to just be something funny. 03:24 And I said, no, I'll buy it for $295. 03:29 And that was how much they that's how much money they were in the black for the year. Uh huh. So he's he he's didn't even look at it. He just said, you know what, where's this? Where do I Wow. Right. And I ended up publishing that newspaper and upgrading the branding on it. It had already been changed to to a new name, which was the Alpine Mountain here in this case. 03:58 It was just a typical little newspaper, a real small town newspaper. Nothing's honestly known, no stories or anything like that. No politics. So then I retired, moved out here, got calls from a son of mine back in California who owns stable farmer's markets, some private farmer's markets. And he said, you know what, I want you to do my marketing for me. 04:26 So what I want to do is create a farmer's market newspaper. Okay. And I said, sir, I'll do that. I put one together, you know, a mock up of one and pricing, I'll be distribute distributing that. And when he thought it was going to cost him 20 grams, was looking for alternatives. So I said, well, why don't you do an online news? You know, the money. And so that was the 04:56 impetus for creating something called the California, well, it's called the farmer market times. And it's at ca farmers market.com. And it's just mainly just really a marketing tool to promote each farm. But it's best media, news and stuff. And so I thought, you know, I live out here in the middle of the last year where everyone's farming, farming culture. 05:26 I was eating on a call. I buy my meat from a place around the corner. It just occurred to me. that's kind of what I do. it turns out, there should be some kind of a really neat thing. I haven't made any money on it. But the whole idea is that once it's mastered, I can duplicate that anywhere in the country if I want to. 05:56 All I got to have is somebody that wants to do the reporting or get any storage. Um, and I can create like a ...
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  • Groovy Grazers - Autumn update

    Groovy Grazers - Autumn update
    Sep 10 2025
    Today I'm talking with Morgan at Groovy Grazers for an Autumn update. You can follow on Facebook as well. 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. I'm your host, Mary Lewis. Today I'm talking with Morgan at Groovy Grazers in Montana. Good morning, friend. How are you? Good morning, good morning. It's starting to feel like fall here, which is always exciting after a hot summer. So I'm super excited to be here today. Oh, honey, tell me it's starting to feel like fall. 00:28 Our heat is not working and it was 63 degrees in the house Saturday and Sunday. Oh my goodness. Afternoon. And our furnace is broken. We found out because we turned it on and it didn't work. So it was rather nippy this past weekend and I actually made granola to heat up the kitchen and blow some warm air to the living room. 00:55 and made apple crisp with our own apples. Ooh, apple crisp is my favorite. We're gluten free, so there's a lot of fall treats that I miss. And I'm going to try and recreate. I'm going to get a little more adventurous. Last time we talked, we talked about sourdough and making various things with that. So I'm kind of excited for this fall because I think I can be included in the pumpkin spice treats that we all love. 01:22 Yeah, I am not a pumpkin spice fan. I like pumpkin pie and I like pumpkin bread, but the whole pumpkin spice thing, I'm not into it. I don't know why. I'm not really, I'm not a huge fan of pumpkin spice per se, except for like a few drinks, but like, I'm not even an eggnog person. I don't know. I'm just not a normal person, I guess, when it comes to like the drinks. I like a Thai latte over pumpkin spice. I mean, any day. 01:51 Yeah, I actually freaking love eggnog. So we're kind of opposite on this, but that's fine. But the important part of my statement regarding the apple crisp is that it was made with our apples from our trees. Honey gold, our honey gold tree actually produced at least 150 apples this year. Wow. I remember you were excited to see the numbers that it was going to bring and you were slightly worried it was not going to bring a bunch of apples. So that's a 02:20 That's a lot of apples, a hundred apples over, you Yeah, over 150. Wow, that's a good producing tree. And I think that's really important with what we're going to talk about today. Did you buy the home with that tree? No, they were actually given to us as a housewarming present from an orchard guy that we know. That's even better because that's first year producing over a hundred. That's big amount. I took a 02:47 Master Gardening since we last spoke. I just did the course to kind of like freshen up and learn about Montana because I am not a Montana native. Yeah. And it's really hard when you go, especially here to plant trees. So we've planted two trees now. We planted a Liberty Apple tree and we planted some type of pear and neither took, but we have really bad alkaline soil and I've learned more history about our soil. 03:15 And so to even put a tree, think we'd have to do some major soil reworking and pulling out material and putting it back in. Yeah. I've kind of given up slightly on the tree idea for a minute, just until we have a better location. Yeah. And it's, it's hard because you never know what's going to grow where until you try it. And, and just as a caveat, took five years from putting in those apple saplings to get the apples. 03:45 Five years, wow. Okay, so I mean, that's still not bad though for a five-year-old tree when you look at production. mean, the amount of apples that I'm sure you're gonna get to put away, you'll get to make many apple crisps, I'm sure all the way through the winter. So did you can any of it? No, we're actually selling some of them to the community at the farmers market. You've been doing the farmers market. How's that going? 04:14 Um, it's been really good. We live in a fairly small town. think our town has like 6,000 people, maybe 10,000. And so it's hit or miss and it depends on what other festivals or the state fair or the Renaissance festival are going on. If there's other things going on, the farmer's market is slower. But the beginning of the summer is always really good because there's nothing really going on in June and the first part of July. 04:44 Yeah, that's kind of the same here. I mean, our seasons are a little different, obviously, but like the beginning of farmer market season, everyone's so excited to get out of the house. And I live not rural Montana, like kind of rural, but not really for now. We are looking at moving and going more rural. And that's something that we've had to consider is like, what does our profits look...
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