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Making Lemon Balm Syrup and Sowing Willy Nilly | VLOG | Roots and Refuge Farm
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- Learn to make this simple lemon balm syrup for a great calming sweetener (we call it honey medicine), a soothing before-bedtime herbal medicine, or even to use in cooking.
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So lovely to see 3 babies! Jess, To🤩by & Ben! 😊 Watching this episode takes me back to the early years of watching & falling in love with R&R. Makes me soooo happy! ❤😍🤗
My 8 year old just heard me watching this newest video and goes “wait is that Roots and Refuge?” I told him yes, and he exclaimed, WAIT FOR ME!
I love that he loves watching with me❤️
Quick tip about excess lemon balm - I snip off twigs of it and scatter it over the floor of my chicken coop every week or so. It helps reduce the FLY population in there!
I'm going to try this. thanks
Me too 😁 thanks 🌼
Nice hint, I will try that.
FYI: Be sure to let the lemon balm tea cool a bit before adding to the honey (down to at least 95 degrees). Otherwise the high temp will destroy the beneficial enzymes in the honey.
Great info TY
I just love watching this old video with little Ben. He's so cute!
you should do more about using herbs, this was great :-)
Yes more herbal medicine idess
AGGREE But I’m fairly new here so maybe you did? I really want to start utilizing all of my herbs for more then my salad and drinks :)
Yes please!!!!
I agree as well!
Agreed!
"sometimes mama just needs the grass pruned" got me laughing so hard hahaha that's awesome 😂
Me too...LOL
Me too - I laughed - OMG - she needs to make a shirt that says that!
Yeah, my uncle used to pay me whatever coins he had in his pocket to cut up old newspaper into little pieces to take home, said he was making a new mattress, very important work!! 😆
@@nomparfait that's another idea 🤣 lol! I've got a kitchen worm compost bin that I need shredded newspaper for anyways hahaha 😂
That was the BALM!!!
Little Ben is going to be a Master Gardner by the time he hits double digits 💕.
Funny Jess uploaded a video today talking about them pruning the grass and how he is now able, at 5, to prune tomatoes properly!! Ahaha.
Be still my heart, I absolutely love this little boy Ben, he is such a sweetheart and has a love for gardening. What I wouldn’t give to have a little partner in crime by my side in my garden.
Its certainly a wonderful thing. A little gardening buddy..💜
You and me both. 😇😇 My son Lance was a cute little fella like him. He was my best gardening partner ever. I miss him so much💔❤💜❤💗❤
We are vegan so no honey, but we do cook apple juice down until it is super thick, to use as a sub. it would probably work great for the "honey medicine" for infants who should not have honey!
I would also recommend yacon syrup!
You can make a substitute using dendelions.
That “honey medicine” sounds like it would be a good simple syrup for homemade lemonade or a summer cocktail. 😁❤️ Thanks for sharing!
With gin..... I'm thinking...
dry the mint and give it as Christmas presents to friends. awesome tea and good for tummies.
THANKS for the tip...:)
mistakes I made was letting my kids drink a soothing drink before bed without making them brush after so if anyone uses honey lemon balm drink, that honey will rot teeth if not brushed off...i grow lemon balm and made tea with it but it just makes me happy to pull off a leaf and rub between my fingers and breath it in from my fingers.
With anxiety and ADHD in our family we have learned to use lemon balm. Another name for it in EO and Natural medicine is Melissa, Which is expensive. I was happy to discover the highly productive plant to help us. Thanks for sharing as always, love and prayers ❤
Does it actually work?
Thank you for sharing this. My son has adhd and reading that it works for you is making me hopeful. 💗
@@kathyking2515 it is cal in I can’t say for managing ADHD. It grows very prolifically.
I would love an update on how people are using it to treat a variety of anxiety issues. Made my first batch. 🤞🏻
I know this was posted 2 years ago but I love that Ben loves the garden. I just had my first baby and I take him out to the garden with me every day since he was a few weeks old. He is 5 months now and he loves to feel the plants and look at the fruit growing and the leaves. Sometimes the only thing I can do to stop him crying is to take him to the garden to look around. It makes my mom gardener heart so happy
Ben's going to be another "Baker Creek" type founder.
I pray for that for him!
Oh my goodness! Baby Ben! My heart! Time just goes bye! Have I been following you that long already? Thank you for being here.
Nasturtiums are delicious chopped thinly into potato salad and tuna salad sandwiches or even in guacamole !!
Hmm, what a great idea.
My mom puts them in chicken salad to make what my siblings call “adult chicken salad” for the spice :)
I felt a sudden relief when you said the lemon balm smelled like lemon heads. I grow lemon balm and I always say it smells like that. And my family just doesnt smell it. I thought i was going crazy hahaha ❤
Yes, REAL food IS medicine. I can't tell you how much simply changing the way I ate and fed my family years ago effected us for the positive.
Watching this in May 2024. SO fun to see LITTLE Ben and LITTLE Toby!! They’re growing up so nicely! They’re so blessed to have such wonderful parents!
Me too. Ben's garden-dirty face is so adorable. He and Toby are so big now. It's crazy!
Thanks for the recipe. My overgrown lemon balm hedge will be no more tomorrow.
Please use honey only cold. Most of the healthy benefits are lost if heated.
Let the lemon balm water cool before you mix it with the honey to preserve the medicinal properties of the honey.
A spoon of honey in your HOT tea sweetens it, but does not make it a lot healthier, but adds a lot more calories.
Wow ok you sold me on growing lemon balm. Thanks for the recipe will be giving this a try soon.
Planted some lemon balm in a container a while ago, it is sprouting now look forward to harvesting some!
LOL..."grass pruning is the equivalent of snipe hunting". A friend and I took my daughter snipe hunting when she was about 8; that was 14 years ago, and absolutely hysterical . Thanks for bringing back that memory!!
Pruning grass. I’m dead😂😂
Putting lemon balm on my list of herbs to grow in my new place. It's getting closer. I can feel it.
brought a smile to my face. thank you. your excitement is bubbling out. good luck and many blessings for you.
Aww Ben the Gardener! That’s the perfect way to make sure they are ACTUALLY sown Willy nilly! This is so exciting!
He made me so happy sowing those basil seeds. I had my son (5yr) this morning sniff some basil and I asked what it smells like, he said “pesto!” (his fav). 💚 He is so excited for his basil that is growing.
Hi wanted to share this since mid summer is coming Echinacea like you get at dollar general in capsule form you open capsules and add a little water to make a paste it makes mosquito bits stop since you have kids it will stop itching and the burning sensation and of course for tooth ache when you can't get to dentist right away love your knowledge wanted to share mine bless be 🎃
I love how you let your children especially your youngest to do his own sowing of seeds all by themselves. That’s a great mom. 👍🇨🇦
Reckless beauty through plants is a delightful joyous worship as it brings smiles to faces and uplifts hearts! I have wanted to make wildflower seed bombs and scatter them through a town or along a country road where it will not interfere with what others are growing!
Zavia Hope Thomas - Wounded Soul Refuge - Wow! That same idea has occurred to me more than once. Especially when you drive along a beautiful blank canvas of grass.
@@jessiebeltran5928 I keep thinking how nice a steep bank that has nothing but weeds on it and no one could climb it without injury would be a great place.
I love see Master Gardener Ben in the garden.
Ben is a star 💫🌟 in these videos with you. I love that you include your little ones into you real life footage. So many people think that children take away from the content but I love your parenting style and that little boys smile always makes my day! p.s. Lemon balm doesn't get enough credit so thank you!
Thank you!
Great video & information. Thanks Jess for sharing. Also as a mother of 3 adult sons you are a terrific mother. Watching your boys in the garden is precious. Parenting done right. ❤
You could also add Chamomile to your Honey Medicine to add more relaxant & calming properties, especially for bedtime use.
I am still trying to get chamomile to grow for me. Lemon balm and mint, no problem. Chamomile and helichrysum, no go, 🤦♀️
I know this is an old comment thread but, I'm so glad to learn that I'm not the only one who can't get chamomile to grow. I'd be delighted if you've discovered the trick since then
This amazing plant has become one of the favorites in our family the smell the taste the benefits are a win win all around healing at out fingertips in our own gardens…God is so good…stay blessed…
Grass pruning is the equivalent of snipe hunting! 😂😂😂😂😂
That’s hilarious and I love it! You go mom! 🤜🏻💥🤛🏻
Heading to go get lemon 🍋 🍋 balm seeds....so I can be RECKLESS TOO!! I love that you did that...you are using all available space to grow wonderful food. Plus, you taught~~at least for me~~ a new plant to grow~~ never heard of lemon balm.....so thank you. I love your channel~~wishing you and the family continued success & blessing.
I love watching your old videos when you're in Arkansas because we live in Missouri!
You could do a mint-sirup :) we love that as a cooling lemonade in Summer ♡
I’m drinking a tummy tea right now! Fresh ginger, good squeeze of lemon with a spoonful of honey. So comforting at the end of the day. I want to grow lemon balm next summer. Thank you for sharing your gardens and recipes. 🌸🌸🌸
I love how you use the honey medicine as a treat at bed time for kids who need help to go to bed. My mom use to use her favorite cookie as a "magic" cookie that "helped" her grandchildren go to sleep when they visited.
"Sometimes mama just needs the grass pruned" I see a new t-shirt possibilities!! LOL With a pic of a pair of pruners with grass flying!!
That little boy is the cutest!
Great job!! Herbalists call lemon balm the happy herb 😊 it’s such a delicious diverse herb! I’m sure that your syrup will last a while with that much honey in it. The honey keeps it stable. Thank you for sharing!! ❤️🌱🌿🍃
How long do you suppose?
Ben is the cutest farm boy may God continue to bless you ,your family and your garden always. Love you jess keep it up!!!!
That was a great quote! "Sometimes Momma just needs the grass pruned."🤣
I know this is an older video, but I just now got around to watching it, and loved it! The whole time, I was thinking - you could freeze excess honey medicine in ice cube trays, and keep the cubes in a baggy in the freezer - would stay good for AGES, as well as all through winter. Make a cup of tea, pop a cube in there to sweeten it and cool it down a bit to make it drinkable - awesome! Yuo could even steep a whole knob of ginger with the leaves to infuse that ginger goodness into the mix as well. I will have to do this with my next big harvest of lemon balm - I was struggling to figure out what to do with excess mints. I'm Korean, so we do have citron teas, which is similar in concept to this - excess citrus (peel and all) + sugar + time makes for a nice syrupy sweet spoonful to add to hot water for a quick citron tea.
Your going to have stuff popping up in the walkways they way Ben was pouring them into his hands! So funny!
Hahaha I have sunflowers, carrots and kale growing between the bricks in my path because of my 4 year old lol we just step around them.
Thanks. I just bought some and had no idea how to use it. Thank you. Please continue to share how you use the herbs and vegetables y'all grow.
Thank you for the lemon balm Recipie! God bless you and your beautiful family🙋🏻♀️
This is so fun to watch Benjamin here after seeing the current videos and seeing what a little gardener he has always been , what a cutie!!
What a sweet sweet boy Master Ben is! LOL And his buddy!! Thank you for this...I was feeling kind of down and decided to listen to this before bed and you always make me laugh, Jess..."Mama need's a prune the grass kinda day!" haha I'm so looking forward to your Garden Of Abandon!!! lol Hugs, Kiddo...you rock!!
God has blessed me with your videos. Thank you for all of your hard work.
There are SO many things I am growing because of you! This is one of them. I can't wait to try this.
A good gift for the kids that love the garden a lot is kids garden tool kits.
big sprigs of dried peppermint would be nice in the chicken coop. I take gallon jars and pack with lemon balm and cover with white vinegar. Wonderful cleaning vinegar. Also make lemon balm tincture. Great for fever blisters.
I've heard of using it for fever blisters but never tried it. Could you elaborate on it?
At first sign of outbreak- 2-3 ml 3 X's daily. You can put in water or place in gelatin capsule and swallow. You can also apply topically with clean Q-tip. Disclaimer: Not a doctor and am not giving medical advise. I am saying what I do!
I made Fire Cider for the first time last summer. There was a terrible flu bug going around but I kept drinking my shots and I fought that bug hard. Going to try lemon honey. Thank you for all you do!
Diane Pettis What is ‘Fire Cider’ made with? We do “Grandma’s Mexican Tea” for colds and flu. My husband’s grandma used to make this when anyone was sick and my MIL passed the recipe onto me. It works wonders, doesn’t taste the best, but it really helps nip an illness back. Take a small palmful of dried oregano, 1/4 of an onion and 2-3 cloves of garlic, depending on how large they are. Put into a medium saucepan with about a quart of water, sometimes a quart and a half if I’ve made a little bigger batch. Let simmer about 10-15 min and cool a bit in the pan. Strain into a pitcher. Pour into a mug and stir in a liberal amount of raw local honey. The leftover tea I just leave on the counter and we heat a cup of it as needed when we’re catching a little bug. This recipe really helps.
I would love your Fire Cider recipe!
ShawnaLee I am so sorry! I just saw this! My recipe comes from you tuber roots and refuge farm! Love my recipe and this family.
I so love watching little Ben working with you in the garden. So sweet. I just wanted to share my thought on Lemon Balm. I noticed when I open a jar of Lemon Balm that I've dried and stored, the scent makes me think of Fruity Pebbles. I don't know why. I haven't eaten those in probably close to 40 years! LOL
The little guy is so adorable he makes me think of my great grand son David he loves planting seeds and watching things grow he's my little helper, thank you Jesse for letting us see this it was such a blessing to see his sweet little face ❤️🙏
Just used my last 1/2 cup of dried lemon balm to make a half batch of this “honey medicine” so good and looking forward to getting the medicinal benefits. Also stealing “pruning the grass” I can see my 3 yo being great at that. Currently he has his own pot of dirt to play in with a small shovel and rake.
The gardens are looking fabulous... Cute little boy too..👍💜
What a great idea Honey Medicine. You're certainly a clever gal..
I actually didn't know that children under 1 can't have honey. Well, there you go. You really do learn something new everyday..☺
All honey contains botulinum. Little bodies can't fight off that. ❤ 🐝 🍯
I can't wait to teach my grandbabies to garden.
Grass pruning! Jess, this is precious!
You and your family are adorable and I love you
I thought I was the only one that had a memory of snipe hunting...😏
That pruning will help a mother for a few good years...smile.
Thanks for sharing!
I have learned so many valuable lessons while watching your channel. Best tip yet: PRUNING THE GRASS! This Mamma understands! ❤️
I just want to say thank you so much. You give the best ideas to use the stuff I can actually grow.
Sweet Ben is such a delight!
Hey now, a go pro attached to kitten George's collar might be cool.
George got hit by a car!
I just want to give a bunch of hearts when Bens working in the garden!!! 🥰 thanks for the recipe on honey medicine!!
Your orange roses are the bomb. I have an idea for you... Don't move those, but maybe add a blue/purple clematis. That would get the trellis covered & give you blooms between flushes of roses.
I love watching Ben in the Garden with you. The apple doesn't fall far from the tree. He's so smart and I love how he loves being in the garden with you. So precious 😇
I just love seeing how excited Ben is for the garden. My 3 year old is the same way. He’s always begging to go to the garden.
He is so sweet ❤
So fabulous that he’s learning gardening at this young age. His mind is like a sponge soaking up all this wonderful knowledge. Hands on is a great experience. I enjoy seeing his joy in planting. So precious.
Y'all need to get those boys a push mower, they can keep the grass down in the garden and take turns, it's a work out!!! Nothing better than lemon balm tea at night with maybe some chamomile!!! TY Jess!!!
just thought i should congratulate you and your amazing children, was great to watch you together. thanks for the lemon balm syrup rrecipe x
Love the grass pruning! :)
I had every intention to fast forward to the recipe until I saw Ben. Actually both of you. I love seeing you interact with the kids in the garden and letting them do things buy them selves. Thanks for your permission 2 plan on a little willy nilly planting on my own. If I don't, it may not happen this year. I already tried to be orderly and somehow I managed to get all the tomatoes mixed up anyway. Thank you. Fun video, very enjoyable.
I have done daycare for 47 years baby and boy do I know, "Sometimes mama just needs the grass pruned..." !!!!! LOL
I know an old lady (nope, she didn't swallow a fly), who told me that in the weeks leading up to Christmas, her mother made all the kids fill up jars with balls the size of bbs made from newspaper. For Santa. One jar per kid. Pruning the grass seems pretty useful in comparison. Maybe it can be considered preparation for push-mowing?
Jess!!! YOU my dear are a rockstar mom!!!
I think I'm going to make this and add elderberry syrup! I've been soaking my lemonbalm in oil and making salve and lip balm with it (along with coconut oil, beeswax and essential oils).
Tell me more! I have so much lemon balm, lol.
Ben is about the cutest little gardener ive ever seen!❤ i knew he was gonna say basil too lol he is always hitting up the basil or being a lil dinosaur to the kale. My youngin is learning but its a slow game lol he loves to help out but he hasnt gotten the hang of how not to pull out the plants and just pull the weeds😂 but thanks to you Jess i have plenty of 'sucker' tomato plants for back up simce learning how to save them in your videos! Thank you for sharing your knowledge❤❤ Bless you 🙏
loveLoveLOVE...💕
I love that you are teaching as you plant. He is just adorable....!!!
You are an awesome gardener. Thank you for the recipe...:)
I forgot how small your kids used to be!! So precious and nostalgic to see the old Garden
Tons of fun and a great helper! I always end up with one "willy-nilly" bed. Right now it contains cucumber, sunflower, tomato, marigold, pepper and melon seedlings...I will have to make room elsewhere for many of those plants. Planting all the seeds is like an addiction.
Your son Ben is so cute! Pruning grass will be remembered forever. Thank you for sharing the lemon balm info I hope you do the same with some of the other herbs that you grow. Very informative. Take care and God Bless.
Connie Carson I can’t wait till she tells him to use elbow grease and sends him looking for it :)
This video is just what I needed! I've got some lemon balm that's getting really leggy and I was thinking it needed to be cut back, but wasn't sure what to do with it. This is just the ticket! Thanks so much for these and all your other excellent tips! xoxox
Ben’s shirt “I put the Zing in Amazing”. My 5 year old has the same shirt. He’s such a sweet kid. He played swords with me at the seed festival 😁😂
Hi Jess! Thank you for sharing this recipe! I've grown small pots of lemon balm for several years intending to add it to my iced tea, but never remember to do so before I've already added lemonade. It would definitely help to have some of this mixed up in the fridge. Also, if I really like it, I can plant more next year. Again, thank you! Also, it was fun watching Ben sow the seeds and then Toby helping to prune the grass. Too cute!
Hahaha, you are such a hoot chicky👍🤗😂. Bless you be..
Greetings from East Texas! Excellent video. Ask me how I know! 😊😁😂😂😂
so cool that you went loose like this with the sowing! So fun to see you giggle like that and being so happy!
I LOVE your videos! Thanks for all! 🌱
My family loves lemon balm tea, I grow it every year! Just harvested a bunch to send to some family on special request. A very delicious powerful herb. Thank you for sharing!
You're a great Mama!!! Thanks for the video. My lemon balm is going crazy right now so I'm here for ideas.
Our school does the farm to table and it's wonderful they have 2 gardens and it's amazing,I grew up with my dad and we had a huge garden so this hits home to my heart