Today I'm talking with Victoria at Dreamweavers Homestead. 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 This is Mary Lewis at A Tiny Homestead, the podcast comprised entirely of conversations with homesteaders, cottage food producers, and crafters. 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 Victoria at Dreamweavers Homestead. Good morning, Victoria. How are you? Good morning. I'm good. How are you? I'm great. Where are you located again? 00:29 Missouri Ozarks, but you are the first to know that we are now actually in the Arkansas Ozarks. Oh, okay. All right, cool. Yeah, a little inside scoop there. All righty. Well, you're not in the line of the hurricane that's hitting Florida today, so that's good. Yeah, we just get the residual rains, that's all. And so we've got a lot of people down there in Florida, so we're thinking of them. 00:59 Yeah, me too. My daughter is in St. Petersburg and she called yesterday and she was like, we should be okay. I'm like, okay, good. Please stay okay. I know. I'm always anxious when they start to get those this Louisiana and Texas. We get those heavy rains. Yeah. Yup. I'm not happy about the hurricane situation, but it will blow through. It will be okay. I think she'll survive it. It'll be okay. That's what I'm telling myself today. Yes, it will. So. 01:27 So anyway, tell me about yourself and what you guys do at Dreamweavers Homestead. Oh gosh. A shorter list is what we don't do, probably. Most people, if they know me, they're knowing me from rabbits. They're knowing me from permaculture and learning in those types of ways. We do strive to have a permaculture homestead. Obviously, we've recently moved. 01:54 So we're starting from the ground up, which is actually a beautiful thing because people are going to get to see it from the very ground of everything from the gardens to the animals to the theme to the food forest, they will be seeing it. So all of these things that we've been teaching about and talking about, I'll be implementing them in real time. So that's going to be really nice for people to see. But we do heavily. 02:23 focus on poultry, rabbits, we have dairy goats, we did pigs, not a favorite, but they'll probably be back with a different breed. When we do permaculture, it's not just an element, I'm actually certified in design, we're very passionate about that. My husband is currently going through the course himself to be certified for that, so we really are trying to focus on closing the loops on our property to really be sustainable. So when we go into this, 02:52 project there's a lot of things that everybody will have to pay their rent as people like to say for their animals and their things in their system. So there's a lot of things that we do but they fall under those umbrellas. Okay, how excited are you to start from scratch? Beyond. Beyond. They actually just put in our driveway and I... 03:19 already I'm just seeing okay this goes here this goes here we've been working on our design so I've been getting that all mapped out and everything so we can get that ready. I'm pumped very pumped and it is a decent size it's 25 acres. Cool awesome. Yeah so it is a decent size and one of the huge goals which a lot of people don't know I haven't even released this on my social media or anything yet but a goal that we've had for years has been 03:48 to have the largest food forest, the continuous food forest in the US that is quote unquote recorded. I'm not going to report it, but it's personal goal. The largest recorded public or private is 7.2 acres. So my goal is 7.3 of continuous. And I'm very excited with that. Multiple caveats with that. Not only will we be teaching about it and actually implementing it in. 04:16 but we will be able to transform our property all the way around and just really be a good steward of that land. But also in our area, some areas are a little bit more low income and things. Having that much food for us, especially all those perennials and things, we should be able to feed the community, also provide cuttings and plant starts and all these things so other people can do it as well. 04:46 So we really hope to contribute to feeding the Ozarks. Wow. That is fantastic. That's all very, very exciting and very helping the world news. And Victoria, I got to tell you, I get told stuff first on this podcast a lot. I had a lady announce her ninth pregnancy on the episode that we recorded that no one else really knew about yet. 05:16 another lady told me that she hadn't told anybody else yet that she was getting out of one aspect of her homesteading because she just doesn't have the energy and the push to keep doing this one particular segment. And so I'm at the point now when people are like, so I haven't said this anywhere else ...
