321 - Small Scale Homesteading with Stephanie Thurow and Michelle Bruhn
The Beginner's Garden with Jill McSheehy
Jill McSheehy
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🗓️ 1 August 2023
⏱️ 42 minutes
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This week I'm talking to Stephanie Thurow and Michelle Bruhn who co-authored the book, Small Scale Homesteading. We're talking all about how to grow a garden and preserve things on a small scale when you don't have a lot of space to do so. I hope you enjoy this discussion!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there and welcome back to the podcast. You know, when you enter the gardening world, |
| 0:05.0 | especially the gardening world online, a word that you hear thrown about quite a bit is the word |
| 0:10.7 | homesteading. And even though in modern times, homesteading has taken on a different meaning |
| 0:16.6 | than it did at its origin, we still in our minds, I think, think about homesteading is something that |
| 0:22.6 | we can do if we have a whole lot of land. But modern homesteading doesn't have those parameters. |
| 0:29.8 | And in fact, it's actually more accessible to people than ever before. It just takes a little |
| 0:35.4 | bit of a mindset shift and also working with what you have. |
| 0:40.2 | That's why I'm thrilled to introduce you today to Stephanie and Michelle, authors of the book |
| 0:46.4 | Small Scale Homesteading. They both garden on a very small amount of space, but they are |
| 0:52.9 | perfect examples of how you can embrace the |
| 0:55.5 | homesteading lifestyle even if you don't have a huge space to be able to do it on. |
| 1:00.1 | We're going to be talking about how to make these things work in the space that you have, |
| 1:04.7 | including some unique tips for utilizing your local farmers and local farmers markets. |
| 1:10.7 | And then we also get into some new suggestions |
| 1:14.0 | that I've never heard before. |
| 1:15.2 | I'm really excited to share this with you |
| 1:17.3 | when it comes to the fall garden. |
| 1:20.3 | Speaking of which, I wanted to make sure that you know, |
| 1:23.3 | and if you are on my email list, |
| 1:24.8 | you already got an email about this, |
| 1:26.6 | but we are actually having a fall gardening workshop tonight if you're listening my email list, you already got an email about this, but we are actually having a |
| 1:27.9 | fall gardening workshop tonight, if you're listening to this in real time on August 1st, 2023. |
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