A Tiny Homestead Update

Today it's just me with a very short update at A Tiny Homestead. A Tiny Homestead Podcast is sponsored by Homegrowncollective.org.   Muck Boots  Calendars.Com 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 You're listening to A Tiny Homestead, the podcast comprised entirely of conversations with homesteaders, cottage food producers, and crafters, and topics adjacent. I'm your host, Mary Lewis.  A Tiny Homestead podcast is sponsored by Homegrown Collective, a free-to-use farm-to-table platform emphasizing local connections with ability to sell online, buy, sell, trade in local garden groups, and help us grow a new food system.  You can find them at homegrowncollective.org. Hey friends, it's Mary. It's just me today. 00:29 Um, I thought I would give a little update on what's going on in our place.  And to begin with, I want to say thank you to everybody for listening and people who talk with me every day.  It's been an amazing, almost two years of getting to people.  And secondly, it was a really rough weekend in Minnesota.  We had two lawmakers attacked in their homes,  um, early morning, Saturday morning. 00:57 One of them died. One of them is recovering. And the one who died, her name was Melissa Hortman. She was 57 years old. She was the speaker of the Minnesota House. And the other one was Senator Hoffman, and he and his wife survived. Melissa Hortman's husband was also killed. And the person that shot them was actually taking cover in the county that I live in, in Minnesota, Sibley County. 01:26 So it was very much a nerve-racking, anxiety-inducing weekend around here.  On the flip side of that, it is a beautiful day in Minnesota. Our gardens are thriving and flourishing. We have wild plums that are growing. We have apples. We have black raspberries.  We have the usual suspects in the garden, cabbages,  tomatoes, cucumbers, squashes, peas,  and 01:55 It's been an amazing start to the summer season. 02:05 As I say on the podcast a lot,  if you support your local growers, you are supporting your community and we really need to do that.  And we really need to do it every day in every way, shape and form that we can,  which means that we should all probably take a big deep collective sigh or breath of relief  and step back and think about how we approach conflict, how we approach problems  and try to find the positive ways. 02:35 to uh... 02:38 To not have bad things happen  this weekend really shook me and  I'm not going to get into Democrat, Republican, any of that.  And when President Trump was shot,  I felt bad about that too. Luckily he didn't die.  So yeah, violence is not the answer. So I really don't love doing solo podcasts recording and I'm going to keep this really short. 03:06 There should be a new podcast out tomorrow afternoon, new episode,  and there should be one  on Friday in the afternoon.  There probably won't be one on Thursday.  So thanks for listening guys and keep coming back to learn things. Bye.