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Today I'm talking with Joanna at Majestic Acres 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 Joanna at Majestic Acres Homestead in Texas. Good morning, Joanna. How are you? Good morning. How are you doing? I'm good. What's the weather like in Texas? Today it's cloudy and overcast. Yesterday we reached 90 degrees. So summer is not far off. We were already sweating and we were feeling it yesterday. Wow. OK. 00:55 Here in Minnesota, there's still frost on the dead grass outside and it's really bright and sunny. And my husband informed me this morning before he left for work that we're supposed to hit 81 degrees on Friday. Wow, that sounds crazy for you guys, I guess. Yeah. I said, are the seedlings in the greenhouse going to fry? And he said no. He said he would open the door and... 01:23 We have two doors, so there's a cross breeze through there. So he's going to open the doors before he leaves for work on Friday. And that way they don't die because that would be terrible. weather report done. And tell me about yourself and Majestic Acres Homestead. OK, so we are a family run homestead out in Paradise, Texas. It actually is called Paradise. I get the joke a lot. 01:49 of, know, are you actually from Paradise? Like, I'm like, yes, that is a town that we live in. It's a five acre homestead. And we do all things. We do chicken, sourdough. I make my own vanilla extract. We're gonna be doing meat chickens, honey bees. We have goats, sheep, turkeys. So kind of just a whole variety of things going on here. 02:16 We are new to homesteading. We probably started about two years ago. We are kind of your typical suburban people that got tired of living in, you know, a cookie cutter neighborhood and wanted to venture out and try new things and, you know, really give, you know, self-sustainability a chance. And it has been wonderful. Nice. 02:44 I get the joke about Paradise, Texas because there is a town in Minnesota called Embarrass. I have never been there. way up north. I don't know how I would feel about living in a town named Embarrass. That would be interesting. Paradise is probably better than that. Yes, absolutely. It's about, I would say, an hour outside of DFW Metroplex Dallas-Fort Worth. 03:12 So we're close enough to the city, but far, far away enough that you still get that country feel. And, you know, there's not so much hustle and bustle and traffic around here. Yeah. So did you always want to do this or is this something you guys just came to after living in the cookie cutter suburbanite lifestyle? We started talking about it probably after my husband's last deployment. So probably about five, six years ago. 03:40 And we kind of started thinking about what do we want from our family? What are our goals? And country life and just developing new skills and venturing out from what we were used to was definitely a goal for us. I am not from the country. I am a northern girl. I am born and raised in Delaware, right outside of Philadelphia. So this is a whole new aspect to me. 04:07 But we definitely wanted this for us, for our children. We wanted them to be exposed to this and develop skills and essential knowledge. We all know that the world right now is kind of uncertain. We don't really know what our future kind of entails. today's society, the kids are just so plugged into their phones and social media. And we just wanted something different for our kids. 04:33 That's kind of where we, that's kind of where the idea came from. And we just started, you know, researching and spend hours of, you YouTube videos. I think the first one that we watched that we really enjoyed was, it was Off Grid with Doug and Stacey. And I really enjoyed them and just watching what they were doing, kind of implementing old school, old school knowledge with, you know, new school technology with them. And that was really inspiring. 05:01 So, you know, just kind of gathering information and, you know, finding the right property and moving out here and kind of the rest of history, I guess. Okay. Well, it's good to know that you're a ...