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Today I'm talking with Annie at Seeds To Savor. 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 Annie at Seeds to Save Her Farm and she's in Colorado. Good morning, Annie. How are you? Good morning, Mary. It's so nice to be here. Thank you for having me. Thank you for coming. I love it when the people I invite have time to talk with me. It's really great. What's the weather like in Colorado this morning? Oh, it's a gorgeous day today. Yeah. We're like, we're at, I think we're going to get up to like 65. So just, it's perfect. 00:59 Nice. It's always sunny here. Well, that's awesome. It's only going to get up to like 30 here today. Where are you, Mary? Minnesota. Minnesota. Okay. That's right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And it's, it's really sunny, but it's windy and it's cold. The news, the good news is that the weather guy says that's going to warm up on Wednesday and we're just going to keep warming up until we get to like, you know, 01:24 reasonable April, end of April temperatures for Minnesota, which is 50s, 60s for the highs. Yeah. Yeah. In here, it's like we can get snow. We had a blizzard on Mother's Day three years in a row. And so we're like, I'm sure you're the same there, right? So you're covering your blossoms, right? So the apple trees are in full bloom, the plums are in full bloom, the peaches are in full bloom, and then along comes a blizzard. 01:53 We honestly, I've lived here for over 30 years and I have not seen snow, real snow in May, but I've seen heavy frost in May and that's what does in our blossoms. we keep our fingers and toes crossed in May that it does not frost. So, okay, so tell me about yourself and what you do and I know you do a whole bunch of stuff so start wherever you would like. I always tell people I've worn a lot of hats. 02:22 Um, yeah, I do a whole bunch of stuff. So I am a cookbook author, I guess we'll start with that. I have two cookbooks out. The first one is called, um, where Fino's happy heart. Um, and it is a collection. if in Colorado are, um, the iconic ingredient, um, the state food is green chili. And if you know Colorado, um, it is a, it's a. 02:53 very regional thing. We and it's in Colorado and New Mexico. So Hatch of course is like most people are familiar with. But there's always this like very friendly rivalry between Colorado and New Mexico who has the better green chili. I'm not going to say who I think. My green chili is the best. So there you go. My husband is indigenous to Colorado. And so he always talks about growing up with green chili, but you know simmering on the back stove all the time, always. 03:23 So that was kind of a passion project and I had a grant. I went down to do work with a senior center and I collected stories and recipes and we created that cookbook. So that's where that came from and it's a lot of fun. About a year after I published my first cookbook, I was diagnosed with celiac disease. that was actually in the spring of 2023. 03:53 And I had lost my best friend who I like, she was my friend since I was like, you know, a kid. She was, and she, and then six days later, my sister died from a fall, complications from a fall. And then three weeks later, I was diagnosed with celiac disease when I was in first place in a national cooking competition. So it was like, was, was flattening. 04:23 Literally flattening. And when I was able to finally look up again, I realized that I was really, I guess I found gratitude. And I realized that I was really fortunate that I was able to handle food. I know how to cook food. I grew up in Ogallala, Nebraska. 04:50 Heartland of America and the agriculture, agricultural. So food has always been just a part of my life, right? So like my mother was an amazing cook. actually known as an amazing cook. We did all the entertaining and all those things. So when I realized that I was a, know, that I felt fortunate about what I can do, 05:19 I felt like I could help other people. I kept seeing people say like, it's hard to navigate a truly gluten-free lifestyle. Like with celiac disease, you can't have any gluten at all...