Hairy Farmpit Girls

Today I'm talking with Swan at Hairy Farmpit Girls. You can follow on Facebook as well. www.patreon.com/atinyhomestead 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. Talking with Swan at Harry Farm Pit Girls. And if you laugh, that's okay. So did I. And I know she's in the South somewhere. Where are you, Swan? I am in Bowman, Georgia, which is just kind of, um, East, uh, Athens, Georgia. Okay. Cool. So it's the northeast corner of Georgia. All right. 00:29 That makes a lot of sense. That helps. How's the weather there this morning? I think that we're going to get into the mid 80s. So, you know, it's a little warm. It hasn't actually been too bad. I think it's probably about 70 something right now. So it's the delightful time of day. Give it about another hour and we'll be scorched again. Well, how cool do you guys get in January? Well, we have a little pond on our property and in January and 00:58 February in the summer upon freezes all the way over. Um, I'm not willing to walk out to the middle of it, but I can stand on the sides. Um, so it gets to, I think about we've only been here for about four and a half years, but it gets to the twenties and the teens a little bit. Um, just a few times, but for the most part, we, during the day, we typically stay at the coldest above snowing temperature. Okay. Awesome. I just, I've never been further south than, uh, 01:29 I think Maryland. So I have no idea what it's like in the south in the wintertime. I don't think anybody's ever considered Maryland south. it's not, but that's as far south as I've ever gotten, you know, in the United States. So the weather here in Minnesota this morning is cool and overcast to the point that we are actually fog locked on my property. can't see an eighth of a mile away. Oh, wow. Wow. That's incredible. 01:58 Yep, my son calls it uncanny valley when this happens because it makes you feel like you're the only person on earth. 02:07 My son, whenever we have a foggy morning, which we don't really have right now in this time of year, but he calls it, he's five. So he says it's froggy outside and we have always uh decided to never correct him from saying, from calling fog frog. So he says it's froggy or he can't see through the frog outside. So. Oh yeah. We call it froggy. We also call, we also call humidity humdidity. 02:35 We call it a humidititty. It's the South. Yup. And there's one other I was thinking of when you brought that up. And of course it's gone because I have over 50 brain and I think of things that are funny and then by the time I get to say them out of my mouth, they're out of my brain and I can't find them again. I'll do that exact same thing and I have under 50 things. So. Yeah. It's just, I think it's just the way that we live now. 03:02 Yeah, there's just too much information and your brain can't possibly sort it as fast as say AI can. Ugh. So anyway, uh we've tried to do a podcast twice before and had terrible technical difficulties. So Swan is back for the third time, hopefully the charm, so that we can actually talk with Swan about what she and her wife do in Georgia. So tell me a little bit about yourself and what you do Swan. 03:29 All right, well, we have a little 12 acre farm out here. um We are called the Harry Farfit Girls. And we started off just as we started off at a different farm down in South Georgia. Whenever we started building that farm, we had come from the city and we started building that farm. I just started writing about it on social media, particularly on Facebook. um 03:53 So just watch, letting people like kind of watch our journey. Cause I know that not everybody could do what we were doing. And so just wanted to share it and I didn't want to bog all of my other friends down with like 4,000 photos of chickens. So I figured out if the internet wanted to see 4,000 photos of chickens, they could come and see them all the time with a social media page. So at first I just started writing about it and then we got pretty popular cause I have a little bit of a sense of humor. 04:22 So we added a product. started raising goats and making goat milk soap and lotion and do with farmers markets and little shops around South Georgia. um And then we got more and more popular and we were able to buy a second farm up in North Georgia and move all of our stuff to online. So now we make soaps. m We make soap, goat milk soap still. But also um I've got a lot of people that just have gotten 04:49 have fallen in love with our animals over the past decade. We've been sharing for a little over 10 years. Oh, it's actually going be 11 years in January. We've ...