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Today I'm talking with Sofia at Still Farms VA. A Tiny Homestead Podcast is sponsored by Homegrowncollective.org. Muck Boots Calendars.Com 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 Did you know that muck boots all started with a universal problem? Muck? And did you know that it's their 25th anniversary this year? Neither did I. But I do know that when you buy boots that don't last, it's really frustrating to have to replace them every couple of months. So check out muck boots. The link is in the show notes. The very first thing that got hung in my beautiful kitchen when we moved in here four and a half years ago was a calendars.com Lang calendar. 00:26 because I need something familiar in my new house. My mom loves them. We love them. Go check them out. The link is in the show notes. 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. 00:56 You can find them at homegrowncollective.org. If you're enjoying this podcast, please like, subscribe, share it with a friend, or leave a comment. Thank you. Today I'm talking with Sofia at Still Farms VA, which I assume stands for Virginia. Is that right, Sofia? That's right. All right. Where are you in Virginia? I am in Wakefield, Virginia. It's this itty bitty town right between Richmond and Norfolk, Virginia Beach area. 01:23 Okay, awesome. I can find you on a map now. That's good. How's the weather there? Beautiful, sunny, 80s, lovely. I'm so happy. Oh my god, it is gray and it's actually muggy here. I think it's 69 degrees in Minnesota right now. Yeah, no, we are finally with the sun out and my seasonal depression has lifted and it is lovely. 01:48 It is spring and you, I assume, grow things. So you have to be beside yourself. I do. I try to grow things more than I actually grow things. But yeah, we are very happy to have the sun out again. All right. Well, tell me about yourself and what you guys do at Still Farms Virginia. Sure. So I am very new to homesteading, farming, agriculture, any of this sort of life. I grew up in Boston. 02:17 I was actually a makeup artist for most of my life. I wore red bottom shoes and that's all that mattered to me. And then COVID happened and I was bored and I tried to think of a hobby and I went to Home Depot and I bought some tomato plants and killed them. And I bought one bean plant and realized that I couldn't feed my family off of one bean plant and became addicted. So we started doing a small garden when I was living in Norfolk at the time. 02:44 We started doing a small garden and year after year, I really started to just love the connection to the earth, connection to my food, learning how broken our food system is, trying to make small changes in my life that I can feel really good about inspiring the people around me. Then about, just about a year and a half ago, my husband and I decided to take the plunge. sold our business and we bought 11 acres here and have slowly been trying to 03:14 grow food and become the people, do the things that the people we want to be do. So we've got some chickens, we just got some dairy goats, we've got some livestock dogs and we're building high tunnels and greenhouses and really trying to do the thing. That sounds very familiar except we have three acres not 11. And my husband and son just, I hesitate to say the word 03:41 finished our high tunnel because the door needs to be hung. Okay. other than the door being hung correctly because the hinges that we had were too flimsy and they bent. as soon as he gets the correct hinges, it will be finished this weekend. Well, you're a little more ahead than me. I've still got to the whole top on. we're waiting for a not windy day to be able to tackle that project. We get horrible wind here. 04:07 I understand they had to wait two weeks to get the plastic on because every time they were ready to go out and do it, the wind was picking up. Yeah. And like I said, I hesitated to say the word finished because God only knows if it's actually finished. He might have another idea for it. That's what I'm learning. Things are never finished. They're just, you hit one stepping stone and then you get to the next one. Yes. And you're not alone, Sophia. Does that make you feel better? It does. It makes me feel so much better. Good. 04:37 Good. It's so funny because I mean, I've been talking to people for over a year and a half in the homesteading realm and the song or the tune is the same, but the words are...