Ep 47 - Moving to Our New Homestead
Tending Seeds: Adventures in Gardening, Homesteading, and Herbalism
Release Date: 04/13/2023
Ep 65 - Market Vending Tips with Sara and Mike
Tending Seeds: Adventures in Gardening, Homesteading, and Herbalism
Today Mike and I are talking about some of the big things we've learned over the last few years of vending at various farmers markets, festivals, craft fairs, and other events. We hope you'll find a lot of useful info here that you can use to level up your own market experience!! Some of the areas we dive into include: -things to think about when choosing markets (and when to leave a market behind) -tips and tricks for making your booth stand out to customers -reducing friction for your customers (aka making it easy for them to buy from you) -improving customer interactions We'd love to do...
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Ep 64 - Mushroom Foraging with Whitney Johnson
Tending Seeds: Adventures in Gardening, Homesteading, and Herbalism
Hey friends! My guest today is Whitney Johnson, also known as the Appalachian Forager. She's here to talk about her beautiful new book, Go Forth and Forage, which is all about mushroom foraging. We dive into some of the common misconceptions about mushrooms, how to go about identifying mushrooms properly, the debate about whether we should cut or pluck when harvesting, and lots of other hot shroomy topics. Whitney also shares some knowledge about how learning tree identification can really help you when out mushroom hunting and we talk a little bit about other foraging adventures and the joys...
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Ep 63 - Seed Farming with Dan Brisebois
Tending Seeds: Adventures in Gardening, Homesteading, and Herbalism
Hey friends! Hope you’re doing well! Spring is poking its head up here but we’re still getting snow off and on as well, so we’re not able to start planting outdoors yet. We have lots of great stuff happening inside though! We’ve got loads of grow lights and heat mats set up and we have tons of seedlings already taking off! We’re really trying to narrow our focus this year to growing larger quantities of a fewer number of crops. Specifically we’re focused on the things that we need big amounts of in order to produce the things we make for our farm store – mainly our seasonings and...
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Ep 62 - Traveling Farm Work with James Miller
Tending Seeds: Adventures in Gardening, Homesteading, and Herbalism
Today I have a really great guest for you! His name is James Miller and I actually met him as a tattoo client. We did a large piece that took several sessions and so as I was tattooing him we had some really amazing conversations that then led to me wanting to bring him on the podcast. James was here in Colorado to work on a local farm as a WWOOFer. Now what is WWOOFing? WWOOFing stands for World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms. This is an organization that networks small farms with individuals who are interested in working on farms. This usually isn’t paid work, but instead a pre-set...
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Ep 61 - Italian Folk Healing with Lisa Fazio
Tending Seeds: Adventures in Gardening, Homesteading, and Herbalism
Hi, friends! We’ve been working hard this month getting back into the swing of things. We spent four days vending at various markets this month and March and April are slated to be busy as well. We also had the official grand opening of our farm store in Hotchkiss and it’s been so amazing to connect with people in person when they come in to browse our teas and other herbal products! We’re getting ready to jump on our next project, which is getting the greenhouse built next month! We’re also getting some seeds going indoors in the meantime, and then they’ll move out to the...
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Ep 60 - Tiny Farm Planning with Jill Ragan
Tending Seeds: Adventures in Gardening, Homesteading, and Herbalism
Hey friends! Hope you’re doing well as we wrap up January here. We have been SUPER busy with some big projects behind the scenes. One of them is that we now have our farm store open in Hotchkiss! For the last two years, Mike and I have, in addition to homesteading, had a small tattoo studio in Hotchkiss. Our lease was coming to an end and we had really outgrown the space so we started looking for something bigger. One of the things we were hoping to find was a new studio space that would be big enough to actually house both of our business! We lucked out and found a great commercial space...
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Ep 59 - Preserving with a Purpose with Sarah Thrush
Tending Seeds: Adventures in Gardening, Homesteading, and Herbalism
Hi friends! Welcome to our first episode of 2025! We're getting back to releasing two new episodes a month, and we have some awesome interviews already recorded and ready to share with you -- like this one! Today’s guest is Sarah Thrush, who I’ve been following for a few years over on TikTok. You might know her there as and she shares tons of great information with her followers about food preservation. I was also able to snag a copy of her book, , and I have to tell you it’s quickly become one of my favorite books about canning! It covers all of the basics if you’re new to canning...
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Ep 58 - Homestead Chats with Natalie and Sara
Tending Seeds: Adventures in Gardening, Homesteading, and Herbalism
Hi friends! I'm back with an awesome repeat guest today -- Natalie, the Alaska Redhead! Natalie is a fellow off-grid homesteader who lives in Alaska and was on the podcast a little over a year ago. We became friends and have stayed in touch, so decided to have an on-going series that we're calling Homestead Chats with Natalie and Sara. Today we catch up on what's been going on at each of our homesteads, how we made it through winter, our different crafty endeavors, and lots more! Hope you enjoy! ~*~*~*~*~*~ Find Natalie on Instagram: Natalie's Podcast Natalie's crochet ...
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Ep 57 - Botanical Cocktails with Tenae Stewart
Tending Seeds: Adventures in Gardening, Homesteading, and Herbalism
Hi friends! It's been a minute since our last episode but we have lots of fun progress updates to share! Things are moving along nicely with our shop build and we've been having a great season at different farmers' markets and festivals. Today I’m super excited to have Tenae Stewart on the podcast to talk about her book, Botanical Cocktails. Residing in California, Tenae is a cottage witch and astrologer who has previously published two other books, The Modern Witch’s Guide to Natural Magick and The Modern Witch’s Guide to Magickal Self-Care. In her latest book, she shares delicious...
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Ep 56 - Next-Level Tools for Your Homestead
Tending Seeds: Adventures in Gardening, Homesteading, and Herbalism
We're back with our second episode in our Homestead Tools series! Make sure to check out Episode 53 - Essential Tools for Your Homestead if you haven't already listened to that one. Today we're moving past the basic tools that we previously covered and talking about some investments that can really help to level up your projects. Mike answers my questions about everything from cutting metal and welding to a variety of options for sawing your own lumber, and so much more! We hope this episode will be super useful for you. is the Miller welding app that Mike mentions. Our third installment in...
info_outlineHi, 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.
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Until next time, keep your hands dirty and your heart open <3