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Today I'm talking with Jessica at Little Willow Homestead. You can also follow on Facebook. A Tiny Homestead Podcast is sponsored by Greenbush Twins & Company. https://www.homesteadliving.com/subscribe/ref/41/ https://homesteadliving.com/the-old-fashioned-on-purpose-planner/ref/41/ www.patreon.com/atinyhomestead 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 listening to A Tiny Homestead, the podcast comprised entirely of conversations with homesteaders, cottage food producers, and crafters. I'm your host, Mary Lewis. At Green Bush Twins and Company, we believe in the power of creativity, imagination, and art to bring people together. Our mission is to inspire connection across all ages, encouraging understanding, individuality, and a true sense of belonging. We're building more than a brand. We're growing a mindful community rooted in kindness, intention, and shared purpose. 00:29 At our core, it's about real people sharing real stories, ideas, and products that make everyday life more meaningful. If you believe in living with purpose and supporting brands that care, you'll feel right at home with Greenbush Twins. A tiny Homestead podcast is sponsored by Greenbush Twins and Company. Today I'm talking with Jessica at Little Willow Homestead in Idaho. Good afternoon, Jessica. How are you? Good. How are you? A little dumb today. I'm not going to lie. It's all right. 00:59 Maybe both of our brain cells together will accomplish something. Maybe. I think it's allergies. It's very sunny here in Minnesota and there's a light breeze and I think all the things that are really starting to bloom are just ruining my brain. But my husband sent me photos of the apple trees that are blooming today. So I'm very excited. Our apple trees never do very well in 01:29 end of April, 1st of May, because we get these big wind storms or we get thunderstorms and the blossoms get blown off. uh And I'm just, the weather's supposed to be good for the next five days. So I'm praying that the weather is good for the next five days. So we get apples on the trees on the far side of the property that we've never gotten apples from in the five years we've been here. Hey, we can pray. That's awesome. Yes. So I think the allergies are kicking my butt. 01:59 And I got a really quick thing I want to share with you and listener. um I went out on my porch and looked out the window and one of our chickens was over by our useless garage. We don't use it for anything. It's ready to fall down. And we have this one chicken who escapes the run every day. And I decided that her name is Hopper because she hops the fence. 02:24 I have a few of those and uh one of them, she is ultra determined. She's a coffee agger and she loves to jump the fence and lay in this one particular spot. But I know it's going to be there every day, so I go and collect it every day. Yeah, I don't think the chickens are actually laying outside of the coop, but this one just has to go explore after she lays her egg in the nesting box. 02:55 She's a little crazy. She's a little free spirit. She is and she looks so fat. I know if I went out there and picked her up, she probably only weighs about three and a half pounds. She's so feathered out that she just looks round. I love it. So I want to talk about the coffee agar thing, but first, would you tell me a little bit about yourself and about your homestead? Oh my goodness, where do I start? 03:24 So I really want to share with you the why why we moved out here to begin with. Yes. um So we we kind of homesteaded a little bit before in our hometown, which is a little tiny town in Idaho. And I don't know, I just that was back in 2009. And I got chickens. I had a ton of chickens. I was doing meat birds, taught my kids how to process meat birds and all the things. And my daughter 03:54 My youngest of, we call her the youngest of the first batch. was the youngest of our five. She was really struggling in school. And so we made the decision because she was the only one at home that we would um sell our house, move to a different town and get her into the best school in the area that worked well with children on an IEP. And so we sold our house, moved into a subdivision, stayed there for four years. 04:21 During that time we did foster care and then we adopted our daughter. Well that daughter the daughter that we moved there for graduated from high school and a month later we put our house on the market and and we had our daughter that we adopted from a foster kiddo she had asked us to take her and and and raise her and so we wanted to give her a life away from the city teacher where her food came from and just 04:50 for me to be able to homeschool her and, you know, just teach her all the things, you know, things maybe that I didn't learn and just,...
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