Ep 47 - Moving to Our New Homestead

04/13/23 • 50 min

Tending Seeds: Adventures in Gardening, Homesteading, and Herbalism

Hi, friends! We're back with our second episode with my partner, Mike, as a guest. We're continuing this series discussing the process of restarting our homestead out here in Colorado. Today's episode focuses on our actual move from Tennessee to Colorado and some of the big decisions we had to make and the logistics that we had to organize. I hope this episode is helpful to anyone who finds themselves in the position of needing to move their homestead in the future. And I hope everyone else finds it entertaining to hear about our adventures!

Some topics we touch on :

Deciding when to actually make the move.
Deciding where/what to live in once we got to Colorado -- we bought raw land so we were starting completely from scratch!
Working to get our TN homestead on the market to sell.
Moving in stages -- we needed to have infrastructure ready to go for the animals before we brought them out.
Our first work trip -- what we accomplished; help from friends.
The actual move -- worrying about our animals; finishing fencing in the dark.
The rush to beat winter -- getting ourselves situated; not letting solar equipment freeze.

The cover photo for this episode is the first selfie we took on our new property, the morning after we arrived and started stumbling around our land for the first time. If we look sleep-deprived and a bit wild-eyed, it's because we were!

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As always, we appreciate your support of this podcast and our work! Please check out the spring seasonal items in the Fox and Elder shop! Lymph Love, our favorite herbal vinegar, is back in stock. We also have violet leaf salve and calendula salve available in two different sizes now – both are great if you’re dealing with dry skin from winter still. And of course we still have our normal stock of delicious herbal teas and tinctures. Thanks so much for supporting our farm with your purchases! It means the world to us, especially as we work to get our farm re-established in a new location this year, which comes with a lot of expenses.

If you're enjoying the podcast, please share it with a friend or three to help us reach more listeners!

Until next time, keep your hands dirty and your heart open <3

Some topics we touch on :

Deciding when to actually make the move.
Deciding where/what to live in once we got to Colorado -- we bought raw land so we were starting completely from scratch!
Working to get our TN homestead on the market to sell.
Moving in stages -- we needed to have infrastructure ready to go for the animals before we brought them out.
Our first work trip -- what we accomplished; help from friends.
The actual move -- worrying about our animals; finishing fencing in the dark.
The rush to beat winter -- getting ourselves situated; not letting solar equipment freeze.

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If you're enjoying the podcast, please share it with a friend or three to help us reach more listeners!

Until next time, keep your hands dirty and your heart open <3

Previous Episode

Ep 46 - Growing Mushrooms with Nashville Farmacy

I’m so excited to welcome Dylan and Mickenzie of Nashville Farmacy to the podcast today! This is the final interview that I recorded back in Tennessee, and some of the only guests that I was fortunate enough to get to meet and hang out with in person!

In today’s conversation, we talk about what it’s been like establishing their new homestead, their passion for sharing and teaching others about mushrooms, some of their favorite mushrooms, running a gourmet mushroom farm, and how to grow your own mushrooms. I hope you’ll hop on over to their website to check out their offerings, including some of their grow kits if you want to try your hand at growing some shrooms! Also make sure to give them a follow on their Instagram. Enjoy!!

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It’s the end of March, but we still have over 3 feet of snow on the ground at our place in Colorado! I’m itching to get the garden going but it looks like I’m still going to be waiting a while. Our kune kune Clementine gave birth to five super healthy and adorable piglets last weekend so that’s keeping us busy in the meantime. If you want to see some really cute pictures, check out the Fox and Elder Instagram and Facebook.

We’ve also released some of our spring seasonal items in the Fox and Elder shop! Lymph Love, our favorite herbal vinegar, is back in stock. We also have violet leaf salve and calendula salve available in two different sizes now – both are great if you’re dealing with dry skin from winter still. And of course we still have our normal stock of delicious herbal teas and tinctures. Thanks so much for supporting our farm with your purchases! It means the world to us, especially as we work to get our farm re-established in a new location this year, which comes with a lot of expenses.

Our next episode will be another joint episode with my partner Mike as we continue to talk about our move from Tennessee to Colorado and transitioning to off-grid life here.

Hope you’re doing well out there! Love extra hard on the people you care about, and plant some good seeds – both literally and figuratively.

Until next time, keep your hands dirty and your heart open <3

Next Episode

Ep 48 - The Sustainable Homestead with Angela Ferraro-Fanning

Today I’m excited to welcome Angela Ferraro-Fanning to the podcast. She is a self-taught first-generation farmer who runs Axe & Root Homestead, a six-acre farm in central New Jersey. She grows and preserves her own homegrown produce for her family and runs a farm bustling with Clydesdales, geese and ducks for eggs, an apiary with ten beehives, sheep, and a small orchard. She shares her love for self-sufficient living with others through social media as @axeandroothomestead, her books and online homesteading classes, published articles, and public speaking. She is also the cohost of the HOMESTEADucation Podcast and the author of the Little Homesteader children’s book series.

Angela joins us today to talk about her book, The Sustainable Homestead: Create a Thriving Permaculture Ecosystem with Your Garden, Animals, and Land.

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We're celebrating spring with a 10% off sale over at the Fox and Elder online farm shop! Check out our Good As Gold herbal body oil and our Nettle and Seaweed Seasoning Salt, which I love to put on everything from omelettes to popcorn. Use the code SPRING10 at checkout.

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