The Giving Garden Farm Stand

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You can find them at homegrowncollective.org. 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 Tamber at the Giving Garden Farm stand. Good morning, Tamber. How are you? Good morning. I'm doing well. How are you? I'm good. How's the weather in Colorado? You're going to be surprised. It's actually quite sunny today.  So we're very excited for this nice weather.

01:23
Yeah, is Colorado rainy? I don't know anything about Colorado. Yesterday we woke up to a complete fog storm and it was misty and nasty out. So  you just never know what it's going to be. It's super bipolar.  Okay. All right. Well,  Minnesota's been a little bipolar lately too, as we were saying before I hit record.  It's not raining right now, but we had a thunderstorm roll through around 7, 7.30.

01:51
and it's supposed to clear out and get hot and then we're supposed to have really nasty storms later today. So I'm like, okay.  Bracing yourself.  I'm just keeping everything crossed that it doesn't do anything bad because  our high tunnel is full of seedlings, our greenhouse is full of plants,  and my husband actually planted cabbage and lettuces and stuff this weekend in the garden.

02:17
Keep everything you got crossed so we don't get hail because that will ruin what's in the garden. We got a little hail storm this last week as well. We got about, I would say, eight minutes of pea-sized hail.  it's unfortunate, you know, to watch it come through. It always makes your heart sink a little bit, especially growing up on the farm. But hopefully  our first cutting of hay will bounce back and we'll see what the good Lord does for us.

02:44
Yeah, exactly. You just never know. And I said to my husband after he planted the stuff  on,  I think it was Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning, I said, did you happen to notice that we have rough weather coming in on Monday? And he was like, no.  Yeah, we do. And he said, well, they're all little tiny plants. Maybe they'll be able to be in between the hail. I'm like, okay, we'll go with that.

03:11
Well, hope for the best. All right. So tell me about yourself and what you do at the Giving Garden Farm Stand. Yeah. So my name is Tambor, as we already went over.  My family and I  run the Giving Garden Farm Stand, and we just recently opened.  So in our little 7 by 7, 10 shed that we bought off of Facebook and revamped,  you can find our Fresh Farm Eggs.

03:39
You can find always a bread product, whether it be a flat bread, a sourdough loaf, a regular loaf of bread, bread crumbs, something like that. And then always something to satisfy the sweet tooth. So this morning I made fresh raspberry crumble bars and they are to die for. I hate to do my own harm, but they're really good. I do too, it's fine. Yeah. This weekend we did a lot of cookies and that went very well too. So.

04:09
Just testing it out, seeing what people are liking, and that's been a lot of fun, meeting people, hearing what they like as well. And then alongside with all that, I always have my canning items. So I do some food preservation and have my pickled vegetables and pickles out there along with some fresh jams. We have actually quite a big variety of those.

04:35
It seems to all be going well. There's a lot of interest and  it's been a lot of fun.  Okay. I want to know how you came to do this, but first I want to know about the, we call them cottage food laws here in Minnesota. Is that what they're called in Colorado? Yes, that is correct.  So what's,  what are your parameters for that? So the biggest one that causes a lot of heartache for me is we love our chickens.

05:05
But I have to buy brand new egg cartons to be able to put them out on the stand and sell them. And they cost me about a dollar a piece. So it's a little frustrating because we only charge $5 a dozen. And so then I had to my prices because it cost me a lot of money to put them in a fresh egg carton as one of the cottage food laws. Yeah.

05:30
I'm like, don't understand why, but you know, I'm going to follow it because we want it to be open. Yeah. And I'm trying to figure out why  egg cartons are so expensive because  all they are is paper. I  would love to know that as well. I have no idea. I've done a lot of research trying to find a better price and unfortunately that's just what it is. And so.

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I don't know. We're going to stick with it for now.  And I hate to be a smart ass, but I really hope that egg cartons are made in America. I really do. I would totally agree with you on that one.  Yeah. I think we're under the same requirement that we have to have clean egg cartons, like brand new egg cartons if we're going to sell them out of the farm standard at the farmer's market.

06:23
And then another one  that I learned,  I do fresh cinnamon rolls and I can make a really good cream cheese frosting, but we cannot have  dairy products as such out on the farm stand, unfortunately.  But I can  go to our local food store and I can purchase it and I can resell it because it's made in a commercial kitchen, but I cannot make my own frosting and sell it.  So.

06:52
That's been kind of a hurdle because if you're purchasing, a lot of people want the homemade aspect of food. So it's also been educating a lot of people on that as well as I'm doing the best I can, but I also have to abide by these cottage food acts.  Yeah, here it's anything that's not shelf stable. We're not allowed to sell under the cottage food. Yeah, we could do fruit pies. We cannot do dairy, like  cream pies at all.

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trying to think what else  comes to mind quickly. are the main.  no buttercream. No butter, no homemade butter.  My husband's family makes a really good cheese.  Unfortunately, although we enjoy it, we cannot  sell it. It's a little unfortunate as well. Because a lot of people want that. A lot of people want the  freshness, but I can only offer

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what I can offer by the state. Yup. We're under the same kind of rules here. But having said all that, you having said all that and me chiming in, I'm really thankful for the cottage food laws because otherwise we be able to sell anything. I would totally agree. And to be honest, sometimes they're okay. know, rules are rules for a reason because you would not want to eat out of everybody's kitchen. So I also am thankful for laws as well.

08:20
Me too, and right now I wouldn't want to eat out of my kitchen. It needs a really good deep cleaning.  I love the honesty.  Well, it's been real busy here with the gardening season starting and  my kitchen table and the card table we put up in front of my kitchen table were covered with plants until yesterday.  Yes. So I have to get that straightened out today and  the card table put away and the table washed off and swept  over there.

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And then I might feel safe cooking in my kitchen again. And then we'll bring back the cooking. Yeah. I mean, I'll cook for us. We're fine. I wouldn't want anybody to walk into my kitchen right now and have cookies sitting out on the island across from the table that is covered in potting soil from the plants.

09:12
It's only a sight for your eyes.  Yes, exactly. Let's just pretend it's gorgeous and pristine and shiny like it was the first time I saw it four and a five years ago.  Okay, so how  did you get to where you are? It's an interesting question.  It's a loaded question. Okay. I have been very active in the 4-H and FFA community since I could remember  my parents.

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ran our local 4-H club for many many years. And so of course I got to join at a young age and grow up in that. So we always raised our own pork. I got to show all of the swine and I even did lambs one year. I did goats one year. And I also did some of the home ec projects which included shotgun. I did

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food preservation and quilting to name a couple.  But I fell in love with food preservation.  There's many different levels if you don't know anything about 4-H. So as you do it year by year, it's a different challenge. So  I competed every year and you age out when you turn 18.  So  as I aged out when I turned 18, I won Wilde County, which is our local county fair.

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And then when you win your county fair, you get to compete at state. So I got to take my food preservation up there. got to compete up to state. I won the state of Colorado.  And then I  got asked to go to nationals.  You don't compete with your project up there. You just get to say hello to a lot of people. So that was fun.  But I didn't know that that was a skill that not a lot of people know.  So it sparked a lot of interest.

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Although I was only 16, 18 at the time, a lot of people wanted to learn from me, my skills that I had for food preservation. So I started to teach people what I had learned from the people that I loved the most on how to do that. And as I got older and had my own family, we have our own garden. And last year, we just had a garden that kept giving.

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Like it would not stop giving us stuff. could not, I couldn't can it fast enough. We couldn't consume it fast enough.  And so I have this huge basket  and I would send it with my mom that owns a local consignment store in town. And I'd fill it every single day.  And  I  would put  anything fresh in there or if we had leftover baked goods, I'd throw a couple in there too to give to our friends and we would just give it away. And people just loved it.

12:05
But  I thought, hmm, I could do a little farm stand and I could do maybe something that I love. I could grow a bigger garden.  I could open a farm stand and my mom wouldn't have to haul my fresh vegetables to her store every day.  So  here came the giving garden.  We named it the giving garden because the garden that just kept giving last year.  So that was really fun.

12:34
We have a two and a half year old little baby and he just is the coop manager. He runs the chickens. He makes sure everything's good. He collects the eggs and counts them every day. So that's his little project that  as we sell the eggs, it goes into his savings. So that's kind of the story on where it all begun.

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That is so sweet and congratulations on being a 4-H superstar. Well, thank you. It's  something that I'm very proud of and it truly made me who I am today.  Yeah, I hear wonderful, phenomenal, fantastic, I could go on  things about 4-H and what it does for kids and I didn't have the opportunity to be in it when I was a kid because it just wasn't offered where I lived.

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Yeah, and  it's just incredible. A lot of people see it as you have to show livestock because  that's what a lot of us kids out here do.  And it's a great opportunity to show livestock.  But there's a lot of things that you can do in the home ecside too. Here in Colorado, they even offer a program called the horseless horse.  So you can still learn about horses, you can still fill out a record book.

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You can still submit it to the state and compete even if you don't have a horse. You could do robotics. There's so many  opportunities in 4-H.  It's phenomenal. I cannot  applaud it more.  You know, I have been trying to find somebody from 4-H to talk to me on the podcast and since you did it, I'm just going to ask you the questions I would have asked them. Yeah. Does it cost money to be part of 4-H?  There is a small  like county fee that they do charge.

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I think it's under $100. I don't think it's too expensive. It's been a little while since I've done the registration side of things, unfortunately. But yes, it's a very small fee to be able to compete. I also think that they charge that fee to hold people accountable because a lot of it is ran off of volunteers. So to get a bunch of volunteers together, it also takes a little bit of accountability for the people that are signing up.

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Yeah, and with all the things that the kids get to do,  that must cost money too. And the building,  and the ribbons, and  there's truly a lot that goes on behind the scenes that not a lot of people see. And that's the point, right? It's supposed to be fun for the kids, and it's supposed to be learning, and  that's what I love about the program. Okay, and  is 4-H a nonprofit organization?

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Hmm. If you don't know, it's fine. I can always go dig. I am not 100 % sure what it would be classified as. I know that there is some profit made, but I know that it is nonprofit to an extent. I just don't know what it's technically classified. Well, I'm typing into Google right now because I brought it up, so I should probably find out.

15:49
I'm like, I'm sorry. No, that's okay. I was just wondering how 4-H is funded. a lot of love, a lot of love and a lot of volunteers that put a lot of time and years and effort into growing such a strong community. Okay. Yep.

16:10
What I'm seeing really quick is I see about National 4-H Council, 4-H is the youth development program of our nation's Cooperative Extension System and USDA.  So that doesn't tell me if it's nonprofit, but it does tell me that it's through the USDA.  that helps.  Yes. I'm like, I don't know, but I could ask my mom and Shirley get back to you.  She's a really good resource for that.  Okay, cool.  So  I

16:38
I think I talked to somebody from Colorado a week or so ago and I think I asked them about their growing season, but I don't remember what I asked or what I got for an answer. So I asked you again, when can you guys get plants in the ground safely after the last frost date? I live by the farmer's almanac or Mother's Day. I never plant before Mother's Day just because one year we got really excited, planted

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And right  before Mother's Day, there was a huge frost. And so that's the rule of thumb that I go by.  And I truly just watch our bigger farmers in the community  see when they're starting to plant corn. I really try and watch and watch their example and try and follow to that extent as well. Okay.  Yeah. When my husband put stuff in this weekend.

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or he said Friday night, he told me he was going to start putting stuff in the garden this weekend. And I said, it's not May 15th.  And he said, I know. Yes. Got a little excited. And I said, what are you putting in? And he said the cold hardy stuff. And I said, OK, fine.  I said, please, please, please don't put the tomatoes in the basil end because you know sure as hell  if you do, it's going to frost. Every time.  He was like, he said, you always say I'm in the gardener. And I said, you are the gardener.

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I said, but you're also impulsive and excited and you want to get the garden going because last year sucked.  So  please trust me, don't put tomatoes and basil in. He said, I will not. That was a good one.  Yeah. The other reason that I, he's so  bent on getting things into the garden right now is because our both of our greenhouses, we have a hard sided greenhouse and we have a high tunnel.  They are to the point of bursting with plants and need to go out.

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I love that for you. It's so exciting. It just makes your heart happy when you see it.  Oh my god.  If you had seen the craziness we went through last year, you would know why he's so excited.  Our garden was terrible last year because we had six weeks of rain and so  it took forever for the garden to dry out.  And  in that, we had put up a hard-sided greenhouse that can be heated.

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So he had that going on to distract him from his misery of not being able to get stuff in the garden.  And that hard-sided greenhouse, what a freaking godsend.  Yes,  yes. My son brought in a handful of strawberries from the strawberry plants that wintered over in the greenhouse this year. Oh my gosh. Uh-huh.  Yep. And they weren't quite ripe enough yet, so they were kind of neutral, but they were strawberries in April.  Hey.

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I'll take it any day of the week. That's awesome.  Yep. I took pictures and posted them on Facebook to memorialize the moment.  Absolutely.  I would too.  Uh-huh.  And the  greenhouse is heated with IBC totes filled with water and the IBC totes are painted black so they absorb the sun.  I like it.  And it did pretty well. We had a week in January where it was

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super cold and it barely maintained but it maintained just enough so that the stuff that was cold hardy survived and We were so excited tamber. I I'm  You would have thought we were five years old being handed our first lollipop.  Yes I know the feeling though like it's so satisfying when you finally did it, you

20:27
Yeah, and we didn't know if those IBC totes full of water would work. was just something we'd seen and we were like, well, it's the least expensive option right now. Let's try that first.  love it. I love those little, I don't know, like little nooks, know, that work that might be the cheaper option, but it worked. And I'm here for the cheaper option  anytime.

20:52
Well, I was excited about the strawberries, but what I was more excited about is the fact that our rosemary plant that we put in there last fall overwintered.  my husband says it's huge.  I would totally love it. Rosemary is so in right now, whether you're decorating with it or cooking with it or drying it, it's huge, especially here in Colorado.  Rosemary, I love it.

21:19
Yeah, and it will not overwinter outside here in Minnesota. No. Nope.  So that was that was the thing I was more excited about because every every spring we either plant rosemary seeds, which you can actually do. We did it a couple of years ago. You can plant rosemary from seed and it will become  a beautiful plant by fall.  Nice. Or we buy seedlings because I love how it smells. I don't necessarily love to cook with it. I have some on hand for like, you know, putting in a  roast or something. Yes.

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but I just love how the plant itself smells when you run your hands through it. Yes, I agree. it's like, sometimes I'll wrap my sourdough bread in it and then I'll put like a little sprig on it to kind of give it, I don't know, more like a natural look. Then when you buy the bread, you can smell it and you can see the rosemary and you can use it again. I love rosemary for so many reasons.

22:16
I also love thyme and thyme is a cold hardy plant so it will grow underneath the snow. I did not know that. If you don't have six feet of snow, I mean if you have like a couple feet of snow, there's probably some little green sprigs trying to hang on underneath the snow. But we have a whole bunch of thyme in the heated greenhouse right now. And would you believe four days ago my husband said if I cut thyme and bring it in, will you dry it? And I was like absolutely.

22:44
And he never cut it because he got sidetracked by everything else this weekend.  That's how it goes.  I love dill.  I absolutely love dill. If I could have one thing in my garden forever, it would be dill.  I love dill.  The dill weed, not the actual flowers of the seeds, but the leaves of the dill plant. And they're not really leaves, they're like little spikes.  But anyway, I love drying that.

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and putting it in sour cream with some onion powder and some garlic powder. Perfect. a little bit of buttermilk or buttermilk powder, dried buttermilk.  And  some salt. And a little bit black pepper. And that is the most fabulous dip I've ever made in my life. Oh yeah. Fresh dill and anything with cream cheese, count me in.  Yep.

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Yes.  Hey, I picked the right person to talk to you this morning because we're talking plants and I really needed to talk plants because it is so gray outside.  So you have chickens. Do you have other animals?  As of right now, we do have a couple of other animals.  We of course have two dogs. We have two cats. My husband has a horse named Bellagio. He is a team roper  and we just love him  and so does our little son.

24:08
We just got some guenies.  We have 20 of those little birds out in the broiler right now.  They are little and so they're different than baby chicks because they require a higher protein and they're very fast.  So  we got those because actually the ticks are really bad this year.

24:36
We've already been pulling them off of our dogs, unfortunately. And guineas,  they obviously keep away snakes, but they also love to eat ticks. So I ordered a bunch of them and I'm like, please take care of our tick problem. So we have that going  for us.  It's actual, we just got rid of our goats, but my parents have two alpacas that are pretty cool too. Okay. Yep.

25:06
Awesome. Well,  I'm gonna do the thing I shouldn't do. What kind of dogs do you have?  Oh We have a miniature dachshund. Her name is Ro. She's a dapple She  is full of energy sass and whatever else you want to call her.  She rules the roost Then we have a little miniature schnauzer. His name is Dexter He's the quieter one, but he  They both just roam and love the farm

25:36
Nice.  I was hoping you weren't going to say like a Pyrenees or an Australian Shepherd because  we have an Australian Shepherd and some of our friends who live nearby have two Pyrenees.  And I shouldn't say this. I talk about our dog all the time on the podcast and I always feel we're doing it again. But  Maggie is our Australian Shepherd and  she was not feeling great last week. She was kind of...

26:03
loafing around, she wasn't eating her food, and I was like,  this is not good. And come to find out, my husband has been giving her extra food  at night after I go to bed because she's being a brat.  And  I had noticed she was getting chunky again. And I've had this conversation a bunch of times and I finally looked at him and I said,  do you want this dog to live a long happy life? Yes.

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And he said,  said, yeah, I love her. I said, then stop overfeeding her.  Yes, I know. I know. But treats are good. Treats are great. Let's give her some green beans. Yes, or carrots. are huge carrots. Ice cubes are a really good one too.  She is a fiend for ice in the wintertime.  The icicles fall off the side of the house and she,  she steps on them to break them and then she eats them.

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She's smart. She's very smart. She's scary.  anyway, I basically put my foot down and said, you've got to stop eating her because if she dies, I will be a disaster. Oh, yeah.  And he was like, OK.  And so he started putting her food bowl up where she can't see it as soon as she finishes her dinner.

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Uh-huh. And has not been giving her food. And amazingly, she's already starting to slim back down and her energy level is back up and she's been eating her breakfast right away in the morning. And she's rocking and rolling. I love it.  So yeah, it's hard when you have pets because you want to give your pets everything including freaking chocolate cake and don't do that with a dog. It will kill them. Right.  But you want to show them that you love them in the way that you would show your child that you love them.

27:52
Oh, 100%. And I love that you use the dogs, but we have the chickens and we have we have 32 Lang hens right now and then we have probably 40 that are about 12 weeks. And so my little son takes mealworms, the dried mealworms, scatters them out so that he can walk to the car because now that they

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know that he has treats, they come up to him every single time like, come on, come on, we need more treats. So he, he's the king of treat giving.  I love that. That's adorable.  The worst part about having chickens is that chickens do not know how to self regulate when they eat.  A hundred percent.  We go through feed like it's water.  Uh huh. Yeah.

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Yeah, if we fill our chicken feeder, they will eat and eat and eat all day. Yes. It's ridiculous. And we let them free range in the spring and the fall before the garden goes in and once the garden is put to bed so that we're not going through so much chicken feed because otherwise we would be broke. Yes, we actually just bought a huge tote that is 2000 pounds of

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like a mixed feed with their layer and crumble and all that stuff because we were going to the feed store every week and like we've got to figure out how we can cut the cost a little bit.  So, God bless my husband, he went and got totes for us and it's cut down cost quite a bit luckily.  Good because  eggs from your own chickens should not cost $20 an egg. I totally agree with that. They'd be golden, which they are. They're very good.

29:47
Yeah, especially right now.  Yes,  yes. You are not wrong. Supposedly egg prices are coming down, but I haven't seen it yet. Yeah, I have not seen it yet. I know that there was supposed to be a huge import  coming in on them, but  I don't want to eat eggs from another country that have been on a plane for...

30:13
three days and you don't know what the temperature was. So we'll just stick to our own.  yeah. Yeah. Absolutely. We had gotten rid of our chickens last fall because they were old and not giving us any more eggs.  And we were going to get eggs in May, like this coming three days from now May. And a couple of months ago, I said to my husband, said,  we have got to get chickens again. I said, cannot.

30:40
I cannot believe how much they're selling eggs for at the store.  No.  And they're terrible. I want our own chickens again. And he was like, but we weren't going to do it till May.  I said, I said, I will charge it on my credit card if you will go pick them up.  Yes, please. Right now.  I'm starting to a hold of our chicken dealer, as I call her, chicken broker.

31:04
And she had some and I was like, we need 12 and she's like, I will get you hooked up. And I said, why does this sound like a drug deal? And she said, well, right now it might be. I'm like, uh-huh. It is. Depends how you look at it.  Yep. So we were very happy to get 20, I think they were 18 or 20 week old chickens when we picked them up.  So we got the first eggs from those chickens ever laid. I love it. I absolutely love it. It's so satisfying.

31:30
It's so fun  when you get that first little egg.  Yes. You're like, thank you. Thank you so much.  Oh, it was a lot bigger and louder. Thank you this time than it's ever been.  Yes. So they're  very loved chickens right now.  I could only imagine. That's how ours are every day. We just, love them so much  and they're great.  We actually have some Brahmas and that's our preferred ones.

32:00
They're pretty big. I don't know if you know about Brahmas, but they're really  docile  and we had a couple and then that's what we actually grew or flock with  as I ordered  a bunch of them.  they are just the most docile, kind, loving. They follow you. They talk to you. I'm like, I never thought I would be a crazy chicken lady, but here I am and I'm fine with it. I'm totally fine with it.

32:29
Yeah, somebody else referred to themselves as a crazy something late either day regarding livestock.  I made a big stink on the podcast talking to her saying, I really want to get rid of that crazy word in front of this because it's not crazy. It's smart.  Yeah. Well, I would totally agree with you, but  a lot of people don't.  Yes, exactly. people think that we are totally crazy and I'm fine with it. I'm totally fine with it.

32:57
Yeah, I'm trying to change it to smart chicken lady, but I don't think it's going to work.  We'll do our best. Yes, exactly. I figure if I say it enough, people will do it just to make me happy. I doubt it. I  doubt it, but I'm going to try.  And I also have been trying to work into every single episode of the podcast for the last month and a half at least.  If you live in America today, get to know your local growers, your local producers. And as my son pointed out yesterday,  you're a local crafters and repair people.

33:27
Because number one, you're supporting your community of people who do the work. And number two, you're getting less expensive, better services. I could not agree more. There's been a couple of instances just lately that we've realized that.  being the local egg dealer, it's been really cool because a lot of people, when egg prices spiked, they started to rely on us. And I was talking to my dad  the other day about it.

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I told them, you know what, I'm actually kind of thankful because if things ever took a turn, we could have neighbors that we could rely on for other things as well. You know, so people can rely on us for eggs and, you know, some garden stuff. But we also have friends that offer different services to us. And so maybe the whole egg price thing in the grand scheme of things happened for a reason so that we start to rely on our local capabilities  again.

34:24
Yes, and the tariff situation too. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, it'd be really nice if we get back to a smaller, closer economy. Yeah, we'll have to see what happens. We will see. Yeah, and then the other thing I did. Oh, do you have something else to add? Oh, no, I was just thinking of other instances. Like yesterday, I put on a huge preservation food class.

34:51
And  one of the gals that was in there is,  she works right next to my mom and we didn't even know that she owned an upholstery business.  And she was right next to my mom and upholstery is huge and finding a good upholstery person is very hard in the community. And so it's not what you know all the time, it's who you know. And so how funny that we put on this food preservation class, we meet our neighbors and we find out that

35:19
I cannot wait for her to redo our tractor seats, you know?  Yeah. Yeah. So  it's just wild. Yeah. I say all the time, it's not what you know, it's who you know. Yep. It totally is. Yep. And  I meant to ask you about your classes, but we're going to run out of time. So  for anybody in Tambor's area, she does classes on food preservation and I'm guessing probably some other stuff too. So  the list goes on, huh?  Okay, good.

35:49
And I wanted to add in because I need to start marketing myself too, besides marketing you guys.  Our farm stand and our high tunnel are going to be open on Mother's Day weekend for people to come buy bedding plants for their own gardens.  And we're going to have some of our homemade soaps and lip balms and candles out in the farm stand itself. So congratulations. That's so awesome. I hope it goes fantastic.

36:15
Well, we'll see, but I know that we have way, way too many plants to plant in our garden. So I would love it if people would come and buy plants from us to put in their gardens, because that's the other thing.  If you have room in your yard for a raised bed, or if you have room  to dig a spot in  the actual ground to put in plants, you should probably be doing that right now too. Not right now,  but in this growing season. A couple of weeks. Yes.  I totally agree with that.

36:44
Yep. And that's not just to sell my plants. mean, if you want to buy plants from somebody else,  go ahead. I just think that everybody should have some kind of a little kitchen garden going this year. I totally agree. And it gets a huge reward.  Oh,  absolutely. It does.  Nothing better than fresh herbs to use in your cooking or a sun warmed garden  ripe tomato.

37:11
that you eat right off the vine. I'm telling you, if you don't like them, you don't like tomatoes. I  did not agree more with that statement.  All right, Tamber, I'm going to let you go because I try to keep this to half an hour. Thank you so much for your time. I appreciate it. Sounds great. Thank you.  Have a great day. You too.