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Today I'm talking with Darcy at Preserving My Sanity. You can follow on Facebook as well. A Tiny Homestead Podcast is sponsored by Homegrowncollective.org. 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, and topics adjacent. I'm your host, Mary Lewis. A Tiny Homestead podcast is sponsored by Homegrown Collective, a free-to-use farm-to-table platform emphasizing local connections with ability to sell online, buy, sell, trade in local garden groups, and help us grow a new food system. You can find them at homegrowncollective.org. If you're enjoying this podcast, please like, subscribe. 00:29 share it with a friend or leave a comment. Thank you. Today I'm talking with Darcy at Preserving My Sanity, which I think is the best name for a business I've ever seen. Good afternoon, Darcy. How are you? Hi, Mary. Thanks so much for having me today. It's nice to talk to you. Yeah, I'm so happy you're here because I need to know how you decided to call it Preserving My Sanity. Sure. Actually, I started my business and my blog in 2018. 00:58 primarily as a food preservation blog. So I was posting a lot about a variety of food preservation and kind of just did the brainstorming plan of trying to figure out what names were already being used and what was out there and what I thought would work well for what I was writing about. And settled on preserving my sanity as kind of a fun play on words since I was preserving food, but I was also doing it as a way to 01:27 do something I enjoy and spend some time away from the computer. So kind of a double meaning, I guess, play on words. love it. It's so cute. Thank you. So normally I would ask about the weather where you are, but you're in Minnesota and I know what the weather's like in Minnesota because so am I. Yeah, it's beautiful. It's sunny and it's been a little bit warmer than normal, I think. We're in Southwest Minnesota, kind of in the corner. 01:57 But it's been just really nice spring so far. Yeah, it really has been. did you see the weather report for Friday? It's supposed to be like 81 degrees here in Lesor. Yes, here too. It's going to be amazing. I'm kind of not looking forward to that. That's a little hot for March. it's a... and then I saw Saturday it's going to be back down to like 40. So it's really hard to get used to what you're supposed to... 02:26 do and where. Yeah, this weekend is going to be ugly. It's supposed to rain. I'm like, okay, so we're going from 81 to 40 and rainy and gross. And then what is the next day going to look like? Right. So anyway, I would love it if you would tell me about yourself and preserving my sanity. Sure. 02:50 So I mentioned how I started with the food preservation. Since then, I've continued writing about food preservation and cooking with Whole Foods at home, learning new things are some of the themes that kind of follow through my content. And then two years ago, I actually started making goat milk soap and I added it into my business as well. 03:15 Now, in addition to the food, I also make soap and sell that online too. Okay. Is the goat milk soap the cold process soap? It is. Yeah. I make cold process soap and I actually source all of my milk from local farmers here in my county. Okay. I have a question about this because we make soap, we don't use any milk of any kind in it. We make the cold process soap. 03:45 Does does it change it when you use the milk like the way it heats up the way it does what it's supposed to do In the making process but what okay when When you put Okay, when you do cold process So you do the the the lie in the water and then you add in the oils and whatever else you're gonna put in and you Use a mixer to make it all come together 04:13 when it's all come together and you pour it into the mold. it make it hotter? Does it make it cooler? Is it the same situation? It's a similar process. It is different though. And I actually have never made soap with water. only, I learned from someone who only makes milk soap. And so that's all I've ever done. But I do know, 04:39 Like I'm familiar with how it works to make it with water and how you, when you mix the lye into the water, it gets really hot and then you mix it with the other ingredients. So the lye still would make the milk really hot. So you actually start it with frozen milk cubes. Okay. So, um, instead of mixing it with just milk, because if, you did actually just put it with milk, it would curdle the milk and burn and that's not what you want. So, um, so you start it with frozen milk cubes and, 05:08 then when you mix it with the oils, it kind of keeps the heat under control. I guess is how I ...