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Today I'm talking with Michelle at Wild Ones Homestead. You can follow on Facebook as well. 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 Michelle at Wild Ones Homestead and Michelle is in Wisconsin. Good afternoon, Michelle. How are you? I'm good. How are you? I'm good. Has the sun come out there yet? A little bit. We had thunderstorms earlier, but the sun peaked out and I was able to clean up some of my garden beds with the kiddos, which was nice. They don't have school today, so. Uh-huh. 01:25 Yeah, the sun just came out maybe 45 minutes ago here in Minnesota where I live. And I didn't think my husband had any time off because of Easter. And he texted when I was doing an interview at 10 o'clock this morning and it said, I'll I'll be home. I'll be leaving at noon. And I was like, Oh no, did you get fired? And, and I said, Oh, question mark. And went on to do other stuff. And he texted me back and he was like, it's good Friday. 01:54 the company closes at noon. was like, Oh, okay. So of course I was busy with stuff, not thinking and didn't tell him I had an interview at one. And he got home and he was like, so do you want to do lunch or you just want to wait till dinner? And I said, I have an interview at one. He was like, Oh yeah, no, we're not doing food right now. said, no, I mean you can make food, but I can't, I can't eat right now. So, so big surprises around here today after 10 30 in the morning. That was very weird. Um, 02:23 Okay. So tell me about yourself and what you do at Wild Wands Homestead. Oh gosh. It might be more of a question of what don't we do. But so we have, it's about 63 acres here and we raise beef cows. I actually just started milking one of them. They're Angus Holstein Cross. So they do have a little bit of that dairy genetics in them. And I really wanted to attempt to milk a cow. I'm actually not. 02:52 a cow person. My background is in horses. But it's like, we have cows here. We have bred them to have babies. Why would I not milk the cow? Like this? Well, yes. So my husband thought I was crazy. He grew up with cows and he worked on dairy farms a lot when he was younger. But he was like, you're nuts. That cow's never going to let you milk her. And ha ha. 03:16 I actually got almost a full gallon today and her calf has 24 seven access to her and I'm doing it loose in the pasture, which is really fun. But so on top of the cows, we also raise chickens, which I always joke that I have a chicken retirement farm because we have about 50 chickens, but probably 20 of them are really old hens that are pushing 10 and don't even really lay anymore, but I get attached. they just kind of out. 03:44 We do multiple gardens. We do a really big garden where we plant like corn and hot peppers and potatoes and melons and squashes and anything that we want on term. We actually did two years ago, we had so much corn. We had a bunch of friends come over and help us process it all. And we had enough corn for us and three other families to last two years. So we do a lot of corn. 04:13 And then I've got my smaller like potage style garden behind the house where I've got, you know, like my tomatoes and my garlic is my favorite thing to grow. And, you know, asparagus and strawberries and zucchini and my herbs, the things I like closer. We planted an orchard a couple years ago, but those trees are not big enough to start producing yet. We collect maple syrup and I turn a lot of that into sugar. So I almost exclusively use maple ...