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Today I'm talking with Jessica and Renee at Kesinger Homestead. 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 Jessica and Renee at Kesinger Homestead. And I don't know who should get first billing on this because Jessica and Renee are sisters and I don't know who's oldest. I'm oldest, Jessica. I'll take that. I think I said it right. Yes, you did. And I would normally say, how's the weather? But I'm pretty sure I know how the weather is. So I'm looking out my window and it's and spitting snowflakes right now. And you're in where in Minnesota? 00:58 Anoka County. We're north of those cities. It's not snowing here yet. It will be. I'm sure it will. You guys are probably going get more snow than we will in Lasur. Yeah, I'm really hoping this is it. I'm hoping this is the last hurrah of winter because I'm tired of it. I'm ready for it to be over. It's April 1st, damn it. We are all ready for it to be over. 01:26 This last snowfall was pretty. I'm not some pretty pictures and such, but I'm not even giving it that. It was not welcome. Jess wants to just live somewhere tropical. Oh, well, she is in the wrong state for that, but I hope you at least get to go on vacation somewhere tropical. I do. do. Okay, good. All right. So normally I would say tell me about yourselves and Kessinger. 01:55 Kesinger or Kesinger? Kessinger. Kesinger, Homestead. But I looked at your Facebook page this morning and you guys have a cow that is imminently due with a calf or two. Yes. Oh gosh. me about that. Oh gosh, what if it's two? So she, yeah, so her window to deliver started about a week ago. So we had a live bull on the property. So we're not sure exactly when she got bred. 02:22 But she is showing signs. She's swollen back there. She's just a little bit irritable. And this morning she may have lost her mucus plug. I know everyone wants to hear about that. It's pretty gross. No, it's not. I am hopeful that this snowstorm gives us a baby. So that's my goal today. Yeah. How late did you stay up last night watching? I was watching her on the camera all night. 02:50 As much as I want your cow to be more comfortable, I also would like to have at least 30 minutes to talk to you guys before you have to like run off to help her. Because this is real life listeners. This is what happens on homesteads. Animals go into labor when they're ready. And it doesn't matter what you're doing, you got to drop everything and go see if they need help. Yes, exactly. Exactly. So, I've Googled how to take care of cow and labor. we're... 03:17 We're semi-prepared. It's our first year with cows. Oh, okay. How many cows do you have? So we have two moms and they both came with babies. So we have four and then both of the moms are pregnant again. So we'll have six this summer. I'm so jealous you're going to have calves. I'm jealous. They're so cute. I know. I know. And I think they'll let me snuggle them as my, I've tried to make them my best friend the past year. So. They should. 03:45 My goal. It's my goal. So yeah, we're all about all the babies, baby chicks, baby cows, maybe a baby pony next year. As we're looking at little Coco out there in her pasture right now. Uh huh. Yeah. Um, is she, is she bred? No, we've been Googling that. So that might be we between the two of us, we have six kids. So the more ponies, the better, think. 04:14 Well, you won't have to rent one for the birthday party if you already own one. that would be great. Exactly. Yeah, she gets passed around for birthday parties for sure. Oh, funny. All right. So tell me how this all happened because you guys are sisters, you live four and a half miles away from each other and you're both doing homesteading. So what's the history here? 04:36 So I, this is Jessica. I started about 10 years ago when I met my husband. So he lived in a town home and when we were dating, he had home studying books on his shelf, which was funny. Cause again, town home living. Um, so we were just kind of meant to be, he was more than happy to move out to the country with me. Um, but he's an engineer. So he is the best at optimizing things. So 05:01 That's how ...