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 Today I'm talking with Mimi at Wholesome Meadow Farms. 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 Mimi at Wholesome Meadow Farms in Florida. Good morning, Mimi. How are you? Good morning. How are you? I'm good. How's the weather in Florida? It's nice. It's fall weather and it's not hot. It's really nice and cool. 00:27 So we're really excited about the new weather right now. I'm in Minnesota and it is as gray as it can possibly be and it is cold and they're saying rain today. Well, it is still sunshine in Florida. It's really nice at the farm with the nice cool weather coming in. It makes it much easier to work on the farm for sure. Oh, it always does. We love cool days in Minnesota in the summer because in the summer, 00:57 It can get as hot as it gets in Florida and it can be just as muggy as it gets in Florida. So I understand what you're saying. um So when you say it's cool, like how cool is it there? 70, 65 to 70 right now. Okay. Well, we have had frost every morning for the last three mornings. So my definition of cool is a little bit colder than yours. Yes. Yes. 01:23 But I'm not mad about it. Fall is my favorite season. So I am tickled that we in mid fall. It's been beautiful. All right. So tell me a little bit about yourself and wholesome whatever the heck it is. I forget the name because I've been sick. I'm sorry. Tell me about your place. No problem. started the place. I grew up in a farm back home and I really wanted to go back into the farm. We started uh a little homestead. 01:52 but the region in Vernon and it's about 11 acres and we have a few animals. have goats, we have a lot of chickens and we do have some pigs and we're growing, you know, steadily growing our flock and we're excited about it because it's pretty flat uh area. It has different, um we kind of parsing in our four areas region so we can move our flock. 02:22 around ah and then we also putting on a putting on one of the lot a house there so we're excited about that to be permanently at the farm and operating so it's uh that's overall uh the farm we also building a pond so that we can have our ducks and other you know animals being able to enjoy a pond as well. 02:50 Very nice. So what made you want to get into this? Because I grew up on a farm, I wanted to always go back to that root and being able to raise my own animals and being able to grow vegetables or food source in a natural way like it used to be, know, non-GMO, pasture-raised animals so that 03:19 we have that wholesomeness and then being able to have more of um a source of food that we love raising and being able to. uh 03:36 offer that same type of uh experience to other people too and enjoy a natural made food source. oh so I'm glad that you mentioned that because not everyone who has a homestead or a farm sells their products that they produce from the farm. But is that was that the plan when you started this? Yes and no. We also have uh some of our people, the people I know in community 04:06 They also expressed the want to have naturally, you know, a reliable food. So we started selling our uh products to some friends and family and then expanding now to the other market. So that's how it falls from, you know, being able to share the things that we oh 04:35 we raise and then trying to expand it to a bigger market right now. Okay. So that leads me to my next question. Do people come to your place to buy your produce and your other products or do you sell it like a farmer's market or are you looking to get into grocery stores? Some people do come at the farm to pick up the items. I also bring them to some farm swap. 05:03 and we're trying to also get them to farmers market. Okay, awesome. Awesome. So how long have you been doing it? About a year now. We've been doing the farm. We're in our second year going in. Okay, do you love it? Yes. Yes. 05:29 It's like, you know, it brings me back to my childhood where, you know, we do chores, we attend the land and we attend to the animals. So it's basically bringing back to our childhood. Yeah. And you're not the first person to tell me that. And the thing that comes up a lot on this podcast is memories and childhood and play. And I am not saying that homesteading is just playing. 05:59 because it's not, it's a lot of work. It's a lot of work, it's a lot of work. But the reward is to be able to say, I pour my, you know, all my energy into this and I'm able to have a food that I know where it came from. uh That's the reward. And then being able to just have ...
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