So one of my favorite parts about this homesteading lifestyle and something we talk about a lot here on the show is the parallels between our modern homesteading lives and the homestead lives of those 100, 200, 300 years or more in the past.

And of course, us today, we have more technology and more creature comforts,

but there is still such a wonderful familiarity with what we do now in

2024 and what our ancestors did and I think it brings me a lot of peace to know

that things change but they don't always change as much as we think.

And so one link that is so fun that I have discovered when looking at what people like us,

people who were tied to the earth in its rhythms and its seasons, and one thing that people like us looked to in the past was the old farmers almanac.

And the cool thing about this publication, it has been around since 1792 and it is still being published today.

You've probably seen it around, you may have seen it online or seen it in stores, but I am so excited to have the 14th editor-in-chief in the history of the Old Farmers

Almanac joining me today. And we're going to talk about why this publication is so unique, so special.

And also we're going to pull out some of the tips that they share for

gardening with your weather, how to garden by the moon, which I'm really excited to dive into because I don't know a lot about that.

But it's going to be a really awesome tie to the past.

So welcome Carol Conair.

I'm so excited to have you joining us.

I know you're not only the editor-in-chief, but you also are a gardener and you're very familiar with the agrarian lifestyle on your own time. So I'm excited to chat with you.

Thanks for having me, Jill. It's great to talk to you.

Yeah, so I was reading in the latest edition of the almanac. I think it was the, like the

editor's note, and I loved this piece.

I'm just going to quote it here.

It says, as centuries pass, we note

the steadfastness of readers' interests.

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