Today I'm talking with Bryna at Drunken Duck Farm & Rescue. You can follow on Facebook as well. A Tiny Homestead Podcast is sponsored by Cottage Foodie Con. Use the code HOME 15 to save 15% off your ticket price. atinyhomestead.com/support 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 00:00You're listening to A Tiny Homestead, the podcast comprised entirely of conversations with homesteaders, cottage food producers, and crafters. I'm your host, Mary Lewis. Have you thought about being a cottage food producer?  Or if you're a cottage food producer, have you thought about expanding it into a small business?  Cottage Foodie Con is probably for you.  You can find more information at cottagefoodiecon.com and if you use the code HOME15,  you'll get 15 % off your registration costs. 00:29and that price is valid through the end of November.  So again, check out cottagefoodiecon.com.  A tiny homestead is sponsored by uh cottagefoodiecon.com. Today I'm talking with Brina at Drunken Duck Farm and  Sanctuary in Ohio. Good morning, Brina. How are you?  I'm great. How are you doing today?  I'm good. Tell me what the weather's like in Ohio. 00:54Well, it's a little cold, but it's sunny. So we will 100 % take it, ah especially because where our farm is, we're at the  end of the power line and we lost electricity this morning. So it's a little cold in the house. Oh, I hope you get it back soon.  Oh, yeah. This happens to us probably about 30 to 40 times during the winter.  Might be time to invest in a generator that kicks on when the power goes out. We have one of those. They're really great. 01:24That is on our wish list for this year.  Good, because it's  so helpful. When we were looking for our property, we didn't know that the property we would end up with uh would have a generator that kicks on when the power goes out. And at our house, we have a well. So when the power goes out, there's no water.  And  we were very excited to find out about the generator just automatically sending power to the house. It's amazing. It is one of the most wonderful things about this place. 01:54Okay, well, the weather here is very gray and I think it's probably 37 degrees outside  and they are predicting snow tonight. oh wonderful. Congratulations. Yeah. And I'm in Minnesota. So that stands to reason that we would have some snow in November. I'm excited. I always love the first snow. The last one I'm like, are you kidding me? But the first snow,  I,  I'm just beside myself. I'm like a five year old. 02:20So I'm a little, I'm actually originally from near Lake Tahoe, Nevada. So I'm very pro snow. During the winter, I am always excited for snow and I am disappointed in rain  because for us  ice  and really frozen mud is like the worst thing we can ever want for on our farm. So when it snows, I get so excited because we have snow and not ice. Yeah, absolutely. And 02:50I get excited because I associate snow with cozy homes because I grew up in the woods in Maine and we had, my parents had a lovely little ranch home surrounded by pine trees and it would snow, we had windows in every room and we would just kind of hang out by the wood stove and watch snow fall and be cozy. Yeah, I really, I want to say probably fall and winter time are my favorite time. Yeah, mine too,  absolutely.  Okay, so. 03:18I have to know why is it called Drunken Duck Farm and Sanctuary? Okay, so it's a little bit of a longer story. That's okay. When I originally moved onto the property,  was leasing. I hadn't rented or anything. mean, was, let me try that again. I was leasing and there was two houses on the property. There was a converted barn that got turned into a two-bedroom, one-bath house that the owner had  and then an  old 03:48a  1890s house, three bedrooms, one bath that I went ahead and I rented out and I had a small yard arou