Homesteading In The City with Elizabeth Ries

Today I'm talking with Elizabeth Ries at Home To Homestead. 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. Today I'm talking with Elizabeth Ries at um three different places, I guess. Well, four actually. You've got Twin Cities Live, you've got My Talk 107.1, you've got... 00:22 HomeToHomeStead.com and you've got bestofthenest.com and Elizabeth is in Minneapolis. So good morning, Elizabeth. How are you? Good morning, Mary. It's nice to be back with you today. Thanks for asking me. You're so welcome. I loved our chat back in March of 2024. That's how long it's been. It's been a while. Yup. And I was really nervous because I'd only been broadcasting for like six months at that point. And I still had no idea what I was doing. And I listened back to it I was like, God, I'm so glad I'm more comfortable now. 00:50 It is, a lot of it is just getting the reps in. I think that that is a huge thing with broadcasting or interviewing or asking questions. It's just the more you do, it's just like anything. It's a skill and the more you do it, the better you get at it. And I hope you look back on those early days fondly and think about how far you've come because I thought you did a great job that time. So I can imagine it's only going to be better today. 01:15 Thank you, and I do look back. I went back and listened to the very first episode of, I can't think, a Tiny Homestead podcast. And it wasn't awful. Like when I listened to it back the first time, I was like, ugh. And I listened to it back about six months ago, and I was like, you know, it really wasn't that bad. People learned things, it was a fun chat, I'm okay. So, I don't want to get too far into... 01:42 what you do because you did a huge intro on the episode that we did before. And if people want to know all about Elizabeth's professional life, you can go listen to the original episode. The OG. Yeah, exactly. The OG Elizabeth Ries But you are the co-host for Twin Cities Live. You and Marjorie Punnett do a show together on what station is it? Well, we had a radio show together on MyTalk107.1. uh 02:11 for a couple of years. And then um we both ended that because we moved on to different things. Oh, you're not doing that anymore. Right. And then the podcast is called Best to the Nest. So Marjorie and I teamed up for the podcast and we kind of joke that it's like the show within the show. It's the conversations that we were having during the commercial breaks about life and home and family and relationships and all those things that then we brought into the podcast. But I do still get to fill in over at MyTalk. 02:40 pretty regularly and it's always fun to show up. They just got new studios, so now I really like going over there. uh It's all bright and shiny in there. It's nice. Okay, so I want to, I got questions about your homesteading stuff in your city home, because you don't have a homestead. You live on a city lot, right? Yes. Yes, I do. I am on a city lot. on about about a third of an acre in the city of Minneapolis. 03:07 Prior to living in this house, we've been in this house for six years. Prior to that, we were on 0.13 of an acre in the city of Minneapolis and really did a lot of the same things that we do here. Yeah. So did you do a garden this year? I did a garden. I have the garden going. And um I have four raised beds in the backyard. Two of them are like four feet wide by, um I think they're 10 or 12 feet long. 03:37 however long my husband made them. And those are wooden raised beds. This year I added an arched, a cattle panel arch trellis between the two of them, which has been really, really fun. And I'd wanted to do it for a long time. And then finally, you know, spent the $75 and has sent my dad to tractor supply with his pickup so that he could make himself useful during retirement and bring me the cattle panels. then- That's what dads are for. That's what dads are for. That's why dads get pickup trucks. That's exactly it. And then um 04:05 I have two of the, like they're those Veggo garden raised beds. They're that metal and I've really liked those too. Those are really easy to put together. And then I do a lot of trellising. So I have trellises kind of growing up everywhere so that I can maximize my space. So it's definitely not huge. It's not overwhelming, but it's amazing how much food you can get out of a small garden. 04:35 Sure. And growing up instead of out is so efficient on a small piece of property. Yes. And it's just easier and it's pretty. That's the other thing I like about it. It's just, you know, I don't ...