Today I'm talking with Diana at Farmhouse 302. 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 Diana at Farmhouse 302 in Delaware. Good morning, Diana. How are you? Good morning. I'm very well. How about yourself? 00:42 I'm good. It is a beautiful sunny day again in Minnesota. And I say again, because it doesn't happen days in a row all the time. What's it like in Delaware today? It's sunny today, but it's cold. When I woke up this morning, it was 28 degrees. But it's sunny and I'm glad to see the sun. 01:03 Yeah, me too. I really love it. And I'm going to say this again, I've said it a couple of times lately. When I sit at my desk to record the podcast, there's a window to my right and the sunlight just streams in that window. So I get to sit here and just look at this beautiful stream of light through the window while I'm talking to people. It's really nice. Oh, that's wonderful. So for half an hour, I get to look at sunlight. It's kind of a beautiful thing, especially when 01:31 Especially when we are known to have three or four days in a row of clouds and then it's like, ah, the sun came back. Thank you. Okay. So this, this episode is going to be what I'm labeling a topics adjacent episode because you're not a homesteader, but you curate and sell things that homesteaders used to use. So I really want to hear about what you do, Awesome. Where would you like me to start? 02:01 Where would you like me to start as far as like how I got where I am or? Yes. Yes. That yes. Well, I'm not. I'm just going to jump right in. I I just turned 60 and I grew up on a farm on a hundred acre farm in Delaware. And my grandfather was a mechanic for the Pennsylvania Railroad. 02:29 and he was their fix-it man. Any part that broke, he could manufacture it, he fixed anything. And I grew up on the farm with my grandparents. And my mother was born in 1931, so she grew up during the Depression. So I got firsthand knowledge on how to use something until there was no youth left. 02:57 Um, I grew up learning how to fix tractors, fix lawnmowers. Um, we had, basically, I mean, where I lived, even though Delaware is small at that time, it was podunk. Like I lived out in the boonies, so to speak. And, um, I guess you could say we were kind of homesteaders because we had a full garden. Um, 03:26 We had cherry trees, had apple trees, pear trees, we had blueberries, blackberries, and we had geese and ducks and all kinds of animals. So that's kind of how I grew up. I learned how to fix things for their purpose and just kind of grew up knowing. 03:54 how to use old fashioned hand tools and all that. So that was sort of like, I don't know, I guess the roots of my beginning. I was always, I was like, for lack of a better word, I was a feral child that grew up in the woods on a farm. And I was always a crafter. I was always making something. And a lot of it was, 04:23 You know, I drag home, you know, sticks and brambles and grapevines. And I was making wreaths and like when I was like 12 years old, I was always bringing something. So it's sort of like been on. Organic path for me. So I, I grew up at crafting and painting and making and all of that. And then I met a boy and he was. 04:53 We were in high school and fast forward, we've been together 40 years. And of course we got married. have two fantastic boys. One lives here in Delaware and the other one broke my heart and moved to Tennessee. 05:18 And, um, there, they took a lot of our time, you know, so of course I had to move into the corporate world. got a job, you know, the whole kitten to bootle. My husband's a contractor. was in banking forever. And then I was just like, one day I was like, I can't, I can't do this anymore. I just, I simply cannot do this anymore. And he goes, so quick. So I quit and just started, you know, 05:47 painting furniture and selling it out of my house, paint furniture, post it online, sell it out of my house. And then it got word of mouth and it just kind of grew from there. I had done a couple of like shows, like cramp shows. And then I ...
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