I always ran outside when an afternoon thunderstorm was about to roll in, and I'd pick every single thing that was ripe or near to ripe. That way, they didn't have a chance to crack, and didn't taste all watery like they would have if I'd gotten to them after the rain. Glad I'm not the only one who sees the value in that timing!
Rofl, I try to do this, and I normally wind up chasing Littlebit to get her back inside instead. Yesterday the young one and I got drenched trying to get her out from under a car, and the fireworks started going off and she freaked. Wound up deciding to curl up under Mama Peach and that's when we were able to get her picked up.
Love your videos. If I may humbly suggest, as a lifelong horsewomen, the sitting in the barn with them is more fostering trust and relationship. A great resource, which I continue to learn from, is Warwick Schiller Attuned Horsemanship. The beautiful thing about horses is there is always something to learn, no matter how long we've been at it. Thank you for sharing your life with us 💖
I was going to suggest checking out Warwick, too! Great stuff there. After 30 years of riding and training, I really wish I had him as a resource sooner.
Thank you for another great video! I made butter this morning for the first time ever. You’re a great inspiration Jessica. I’m 61 1/2 yrs old today. I’m still learning but…. I’ve been gardening longer than you’ve been alive and I’m learning from you. You’re never too old to learn. Never.
My garden is so late due to my mom's passing, but the squash are doing great and so are the peppers. The tomatoes are getting there along with everything else.
My mother died this past Christmas...the day after. I am praying for your grief to dull and become loving remembrances that bring smiles and a heart full of love. And usually God helps gardens catch up. God bless you
Thank you for letting northern gardeners experience this a little early. My tomatoes are a bit behind anyways but I just noticed my first tomato starting to form. Now the long wait for them to grow and ripen.
Always amazes me how quickly you record, edit and publish your content! How the heck do y’all do it all! :) We are so thankful that you are sharing your journey with us! Blessings and Grace to you! Kimberly
Jess and Miah you started the Saturday morning on your porch I am starting my Sunday morning sitting up in bed and watching you drinking coffee and picking tomatoes. Waiting for my breakfast in bed😊 What a lovely way for you to start the day. As it is winter here I am not sitting out on my porch. Still 14C° but the Sun is shining. Will warm up later. The bull at the back fence standing to warm up a wallaby hopping around and the Whip bird hopping on the edge of my newly extended garden bed. Love it.❤ Have a fantastic weekend.
Nice tomato harvest ! You are great with diagnosing sick tomato plants and plucking them out then and there to spare the others. You two are a well-rounded and fun Homesteading duo. You started out my first Homesteader video love and inspiration sooo many years ago....and you still are my favorite !
Woohoo! 🎉 i was instantly happy for you when I saw the first tomato harvest! ☺️ we’re still a ways from that in Maine, so appreciate the vicarious pleasure.
GOD is amazing. I don’t watch your videos on a regular basis. This morning I was awake long before my alarm and played YouTub to hopefully calm my constantly irritated nerves when you passively mentioned the book “The Body Keeps the Score” that was on your table. I immediately bought it from Amazon. I am a combat Veteran from on of the worst battles in Iraq and my PTSD and anxiety are completely out of control, even though I been in therapy for years and see a therapist regularly. I hope and pray this book bring me some peace and brings my body some rest. Thank you 🙏
Love your linen wardrobe, Jess. The dresses look so pretty hanging on your clothesline. I've never been a fan of synthetic fabrics of any kind and have avoided them at all costs. Sadly, I have found 100% cotton has become more and more difficult to find and if available is insanely expensive. Have had some luck at thrift stores. I've noticed that often times linen is easier to source than 100% cotton. Your tomatoes are looking so tasty. Have a restful holiday. You deserve it!!!!
Lovely Saturday morning ritual of relaxation. Awesome clothes-line Miah ! Sweet poetic blanket revival with Ezzera . Toby is cool with his pink-shirt idea.... it is a vibrant background for prints for sure. Yay for horsemanship , teaching and learning about each individual animal. Nice video. Bear is awesome as usual.
Nice that you show that all homegrown tomatoes are beauties. A new gardeners may feel discouraged when they see the bumps and warts the tomatoes that they worked so hard on. What's good to know is that those same tomatoes will taste so good, not like disappointment. My hungarian oxhearts were big and so good last year, the hit of the season
We'll think fondly of them til they come back around next year..... We just finished strawberry, cherry, and mulberries here.... My kids are starting to notice when asparagus season is by the size of the stalks even though they are still storebought and we just started our own patch this year. And my son keeps saying he can't wait for a tomato sandwich..... Yet he knows it is pointless to try to buy tomatoes at the store. I never realized how you could transition to seasonal eating, but it truly is just a matter of growing things so you know what good tastes like.
Jess, you are such an inspiration to me to keep moving forward. A huge blessing from the Lord. This is my 3rd year gardening. I have big dreams of owning land and growing all of my food one day but for now I live in town and have a small in ground garden. This year I grew my great grandmothers garlic (my nana kept it growing year after year and now I have the blessing of growing it too.) and made homemade garlic powder for the first time 😊 It is ever so rewarding to know that I can cook with food that my great grandmother started years and years ago!
I do like that kind of thing "tomatoes are the best". I grew up on the dairy farm and we had ice cream often. Even more when there was a milk strike. Fond memories of hand cranked and later electric ice-cream maker. You children have the best life on the farm😊
I just saw your videos for the first time. Love them. I see you say you bought your plants. As a homesteader myself I save and grow my own plants. I have well over 11,00 varieties of tomato seeds alone.
Sweet Jess, I am excited for you on harvesting tomatoes. I have 6 tomatoes (babies) right now, and tons of blossoms. Soon tomatoes will be harvested. I can't wait for that first tomato sandwich. Vanilla ice cream oh my!!!😊
It will never not make me sad that kids are not being taught cursive anymore. How will they read older documents??? That quilt is something special :-) ♥
The clothes line is so beautiful. Can not wait to have mine! ☺️ 5:53 this is so happy to see you get a good tomato harvest after the last two years ☺️ 16:58
Beautiful tomatoes 🍅 😋. Spent part of my morning out in the garden, tying up tomatoes and zucchini. Ran some errands with Hubby, and a thunderstorm came through. The lower branch with my closest to ripe tomatoes broke off 😢. They'll be on my counter till ripe.
I'm going to get that book--although I have done lots of therapy for my mom's traumatic death by lightning when I was seven years old (I was alone with her at the time), I always thought the fact that I have epilepsy, which is essentially an electrical storm in the brain, was the way my body was working that trauma out. I would like to find out more about that body/mind/soul interaction. Thank you, Jess--you so often turn me on to books, ideas, and just different ways of thinking. You are a blessing!
So nice to see all those 🍅🍅 divine tomatoes harvested! I'm sure New Hampshire farms with large green houses will be selling tomatoes soon. We are not presently set up for that, but it lets me support our local farmer's markets. I was introduced to Egyptian tomatoes last year and really like them. Also planted Black Krim, Bumblebee Grape, German Stripe and a host of yellow varieties, including Pineapple. Well done on the varieties you chose for your garden. Summer is finally underway!
I'm reading that book for a second time right now. It's hard to take in but so necessary and such a blessing. Thank you for this video! It was beautiful to see the love of your family and the slower time spent on more simple things. This makes life beautiful! Happy weekend to you and the fam! xoxo
I’ve been reading that book (on audible). It has opened my eyes to many… many things about myself. I have a lot of PTSD and anxiety/ depression. Interesting to see what has caused my mental illness, ways of thought, mental/ physical processes of mine that are “odd”. My boyfriend started listening to it, and told me it would be a perfect book to look into. I have to listen in small chunks because it can be overwhelming for me at times. I strongly recommend!!!
I read that book last year Jess, and I completely agree that it is life changing. I’m glad you mentioned it as so many dear people deal with the effects of trauma, including health issues. PS…. I’m a linen girl too. 😊👩🏻🌾🌻
OMG I'm reading currently reading that book. I came across it because I'm starting my doctorate in integrative health this month but I was pleasantly surprised to find it on the best-seller list. So funny
My mom who would be 88 used to say "If god wanted us to iron he wouldn't have invented permanent press." It was probably soon after permanent press was invented. I agree with the natural fibers. I love Crocs and Polar fleece jackets, everything else is as much cotton as I can find.
Thank you for sharing your life and knowledge. I got so excited when perusing the end of season half off sale for one of my favorite nurseries- there were 2 Brad's Atomic Grape tomato plants in great condition! Then one of the suckers rooted for me (I passed that plant on to a friend so she too could experience the fun). I also giggled the other day when a friend told me that another gal I met recently asked if I had my own nursery. Nope, I just had some serious fun starting seeds this year and was beyond fortunate when 95% of them germinated into healthy plants.
I LOVE that you have a clothesline! I have fond memories of hanging clothes with my grandma as a young girl. I'd love to have one, but my garden miiiggghhhtt have expanded this year 😂😂.
I will never get over how comfortable that morning coffee on the porch looks. I can picture both of you old and gray watching the great grand children run threw the yard from those rockers. Can't wait to see them on the new porch
lol like the squeak of the rocker ....way tooooo hot to do much of ANYTHING ...here in zone 8a Nashville GA yup read it correctly ,,gotta Nashville in ga....not toooo far from you ....have a blessed n safe weekend ...
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I always ran outside when an afternoon thunderstorm was about to roll in, and I'd pick every single thing that was ripe or near to ripe. That way, they didn't have a chance to crack, and didn't taste all watery like they would have if I'd gotten to them after the rain. Glad I'm not the only one who sees the value in that timing!
Rofl, I try to do this, and I normally wind up chasing Littlebit to get her back inside instead. Yesterday the young one and I got drenched trying to get her out from under a car, and the fireworks started going off and she freaked. Wound up deciding to curl up under Mama Peach and that's when we were able to get her picked up.
@@GoingGreenMom Hey there GGM! Poor Littlebit!
@@GoingGreenMomwho's lil bit? Many blessings everyone.
@@MissBetsyLu Littlebit is one of my cats. Lol.
@@GoingGreenMom ahhhh. So now I know! Thanks so much. Many blessings everyone.
Love your videos. If I may humbly suggest, as a lifelong horsewomen, the sitting in the barn with them is more fostering trust and relationship. A great resource, which I continue to learn from, is Warwick Schiller Attuned Horsemanship. The beautiful thing about horses is there is always something to learn, no matter how long we've been at it. Thank you for sharing your life with us 💖
Warwick is amazing!
I was going to suggest checking out Warwick, too! Great stuff there. After 30 years of riding and training, I really wish I had him as a resource sooner.
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I too am a lifelong horsewoman, over 60 years and I couldn’t agree more!
Thank you for another great video!
I made butter this morning for the first time ever. You’re a great inspiration Jessica. I’m 61 1/2 yrs old today. I’m still learning but…. I’ve been gardening longer than you’ve been alive and I’m learning from you. You’re never too old to learn. Never.
My garden is so late due to my mom's passing, but the squash are doing great and so are the peppers. The tomatoes are getting there along with everything else.
My mother died this past Christmas...the day after.
I am praying for your grief to dull and become loving remembrances that bring smiles and a heart full of love.
And usually God helps gardens catch up. God bless you
Blessings and prayers and peace and love to both of you. Many blessings everyone.
So sorry that you lost your Mom
Thank you for letting northern gardeners experience this a little early. My tomatoes are a bit behind anyways but I just noticed my first tomato starting to form. Now the long wait for them to grow and ripen.
Always amazes me how quickly you record, edit and publish your content! How the heck do y’all do it all! :)
We are so thankful that you are sharing your journey with us!
Blessings and Grace to you!
Kimberly
She probably doesn't do the editing anymore. Banking up scheduled video's works great as well.
Jess and Miah you started the Saturday morning on your porch I am starting my Sunday morning sitting up in bed and watching you drinking coffee and picking tomatoes. Waiting for my breakfast in bed😊 What a lovely way for you to start the day. As it is winter here I am not sitting out on my porch. Still 14C° but the Sun is shining. Will warm up later. The bull at the back fence standing to warm up a wallaby hopping around and the Whip bird hopping on the edge of my newly extended garden bed. Love it.❤ Have a fantastic weekend.
Ate my first Sungold tomato this afternoon, standing in the garden in the heat of the day, and thought of you! 💗
2:07 .. I love the patchwork blanket that Ezra had. It’s adorable. 💓 🍅
Nice tomato harvest ! You are great with diagnosing sick tomato plants and plucking them out then and there to spare the others. You two are a well-rounded and fun Homesteading duo. You started out my first Homesteader video love and inspiration sooo many years ago....and you still are my favorite !
Woohoo! 🎉 i was instantly happy for you when I saw the first tomato harvest! ☺️ we’re still a ways from that in Maine, so appreciate the vicarious pleasure.
She is such a beautiful horse.
GOD is amazing. I don’t watch your videos on a regular basis. This morning I was awake long before my alarm and played YouTub to hopefully calm my constantly irritated nerves when you passively mentioned the book “The Body Keeps the Score” that was on your table. I immediately bought it from Amazon. I am a combat Veteran from on of the worst battles in Iraq and my PTSD and anxiety are completely out of control, even though I been in therapy for years and see a therapist regularly. I hope and pray this book bring me some peace and brings my body some rest. Thank you 🙏
Miah whistles and the horses come. I love watching training 😊 of horses and cows.
Love using our clothes line also!! It’s the simple things that bring the most joy 🥹
I love tucking into fresh bed sheets after they’ve been hung on the line.
So fresh and comforting.
I think i love your Saturdays, the horses and the ice cream.
I love the quilt! Awesome!
Love Your Boys Too!
Thank you for sharing your sweet man and sweet boys with us on your day off. Thank you too for sharing that gorgeous blanket.
Love your linen wardrobe, Jess. The dresses look so pretty hanging on your clothesline. I've never been a fan of synthetic fabrics of any kind and have avoided them at all costs. Sadly, I have found 100% cotton has become more and more difficult to find and if available is insanely expensive. Have had some luck at thrift stores. I've noticed that often times linen is easier to source than 100% cotton. Your tomatoes are looking so tasty. Have a restful holiday. You deserve it!!!!
Loved your poem about Maya. Those towels are so pretty.
I love that book too. Very comforting and informative.
The tomatoes are looking great! We lost a lot from all of the rain through Central Georgia but we do still have a few good looking ones out there.
Oh, horses, horses, horses! Smart plan Miah. And tomatoes! What a lovely video.
that horse was whispering secrets to its buddy....LOL ...miah ur lessons undermined lol
I'm reading the exact same book right now. Great book
oh my. those eggplants were GORGEOUS
I can't stand waiting for your videos.
You are a store of knowledge.
A great teacher of self sufficientincy
Lovely Saturday morning ritual of relaxation. Awesome clothes-line Miah ! Sweet poetic blanket revival with Ezzera . Toby is cool with his pink-shirt idea.... it is a vibrant background for prints for sure. Yay for horsemanship , teaching and learning about each individual animal. Nice video. Bear is awesome as usual.
been making grape tomatoes salads yummy lots of minced garlic,olive oil,Redman salt n basil ....nothing else n serve room temp ....
Nice that you show that all homegrown tomatoes are beauties. A new gardeners may feel discouraged when they see the bumps and warts the tomatoes that they worked so hard on. What's good to know is that those same tomatoes will taste so good, not like disappointment. My hungarian oxhearts were big and so good last year, the hit of the season
Your horse stalls are really nice! Horses are so much work, but so rewarding.
I fully expected you to turn and face the camera and say "Oh! Hello there! Welcome to my farm!" about 10 seconds in 😂
It still blows my mind that Wes is one of YALLs good friends and I got to worship with him while he lived In Dothan 😊
I so look forward to your vlogs, they never disappoint and I always learn something. Blessing to your family!
You said we would never see the laundry room lol!
I love it when you show your tomatoes!
I really like your hat too!
We'll think fondly of them til they come back around next year..... We just finished strawberry, cherry, and mulberries here.... My kids are starting to notice when asparagus season is by the size of the stalks even though they are still storebought and we just started our own patch this year. And my son keeps saying he can't wait for a tomato sandwich..... Yet he knows it is pointless to try to buy tomatoes at the store. I never realized how you could transition to seasonal eating, but it truly is just a matter of growing things so you know what good tastes like.
Blessings ❤
The Body Keeps the Score is absolutely life changing. Glad you mentioned it!
Jess, you are such an inspiration to me to keep moving forward. A huge blessing from the Lord. This is my 3rd year gardening. I have big dreams of owning land and growing all of my food one day but for now I live in town and have a small in ground garden.
This year I grew my great grandmothers garlic (my nana kept it growing year after year and now I have the blessing of growing it too.) and made homemade garlic powder for the first time 😊
It is ever so rewarding to know that I can cook with food that my great grandmother started years and years ago!
I do like that kind of thing "tomatoes are the best". I grew up on the dairy farm and we had ice cream often. Even more when there was a milk strike. Fond memories of hand cranked and later electric ice-cream maker. You children have the best life on the farm😊
Your sons look so different now, growing growing thank G^d with all His blessings at every moment. South Carolina nice place to grow kids!
Bless you😊
I watched one of your videos about growing tomatoes. I put eggs under my tomatoes-cracked. Best crop production ever! Thanks!
I love “The Body Keeps the Score” but it’s is like drinking from a firehose. I have to only read a little at a time. Excited for coffee!
THANK YOU FOR SHARING
You saved my beauties! I did not check the forecast today. Thanks a million!
I am glad you showed this to us.🍅
Bear is just a love doodle.
So happy you have your tomatoes 🍅
Those are some beautiful tomatoes👌
Enjoy! Can’t wait for my tomatoes! 🍅
Clothes line envy here...LOL! Blessings on your day !🥰🌻🐛💕
I just saw your videos for the first time. Love them. I see you say you bought your plants. As a homesteader myself I save and grow my own plants. I have well over 11,00 varieties of tomato seeds alone.
Thanks for bringing us along on Saturday! Your family works & plays together so well! Blessings to all 🤗💗🇨🇦
Love the clothesline
That blanket is so cool. I have the frost tender flower shirt in blue and grow stuff shirt in pick. They are my favorite shirts to wear.
Feel good video. Priceless ☺️
Sweet Jess, I am excited for you on harvesting tomatoes. I have 6 tomatoes (babies) right now, and tons of blossoms. Soon tomatoes will be harvested. I can't wait for that first tomato sandwich.
Vanilla ice cream oh my!!!😊
It will never not make me sad that kids are not being taught cursive anymore. How will they read older documents???
That quilt is something special :-) ♥
Saturdays were made for resting ! Seventh day :) thanks for letting us east and enjoy it with you :)
If there is so many of us agreeing on the Saturday is the last day, why are we going to church on a Sunday. 😊
The clothes line is so beautiful. Can not wait to have mine! ☺️ 5:53 this is so happy to see you get a good tomato harvest after the last two years ☺️ 16:58
I’ve been reading The Body Keeps The Score too! It was very helpful and very interesting!
You're the best!
What a cool quilt!
I like her sun hat too
Beautiful tomatoes 🍅 😋. Spent part of my morning out in the garden, tying up tomatoes and zucchini. Ran some errands with Hubby, and a thunderstorm came through. The lower branch with my closest to ripe tomatoes broke off 😢. They'll be on my counter till ripe.
Great video Jess,❤❤❤
Lol I love that shirt idea! Aww such sweet boys
Bless you Jess and Miah !
I enjoyed. Thank you.
I'm going to get that book--although I have done lots of therapy for my mom's traumatic death by lightning when I was seven years old (I was alone with her at the time), I always thought the fact that I have epilepsy, which is essentially an electrical storm in the brain, was the way my body was working that trauma out. I would like to find out more about that body/mind/soul interaction. Thank you, Jess--you so often turn me on to books, ideas, and just different ways of thinking. You are a blessing!
Please add what was the name of the book. I missed it.
It’s Called The Body Keeps the Score
@@RootsandRefugeFarm Thank you, Jess. I've ordered it, and am excited to have it.
Awesome harvest
Love the hat Jess!!!
So nice to see all those 🍅🍅 divine tomatoes harvested! I'm sure New Hampshire farms with large green houses will be selling tomatoes soon. We are not presently set up for that, but it lets me support our local farmer's markets. I was introduced to Egyptian tomatoes last year and really like them. Also planted Black Krim, Bumblebee Grape, German Stripe and a host of yellow varieties, including Pineapple. Well done on the varieties you chose for your garden. Summer is finally underway!
Toby looks so GROWN!!!!
Never commented before but had to say that I LOVE that you have studied the Body Keeps Score. Stellar book for healing!!!❤
It's so good!
i am just starting that book and i agree. I will be sitting in the garden this evening reading a few chapters :)
I'm reading that book for a second time right now. It's hard to take in but so necessary and such a blessing. Thank you for this video! It was beautiful to see the love of your family and the slower time spent on more simple things. This makes life beautiful! Happy weekend to you and the fam! xoxo
Clothes always smells so fresh from the clothesline
Great video Jess Happy 4th weekend to you n your family
I’ve been reading that book (on audible). It has opened my eyes to many… many things about myself. I have a lot of PTSD and anxiety/ depression. Interesting to see what has caused my mental illness, ways of thought, mental/ physical processes of mine that are “odd”. My boyfriend started listening to it, and told me it would be a perfect book to look into. I have to listen in small chunks because it can be overwhelming for me at times. I strongly recommend!!!
I can just about remember the days I ironed my linen and cotton shirts. 🥴😁
Enjoyed the video
I read that book last year Jess, and I completely agree that it is life changing. I’m glad you mentioned it as so many dear people deal with the effects of trauma, including health issues. PS…. I’m a linen girl too. 😊👩🏻🌾🌻
OMG I'm reading currently reading that book. I came across it because I'm starting my doctorate in integrative health this month but I was pleasantly surprised to find it on the best-seller list. So funny
My mom who would be 88 used to say "If god wanted us to iron he wouldn't have invented permanent press." It was probably soon after permanent press was invented. I agree with the natural fibers. I love Crocs and Polar fleece jackets, everything else is as much cotton as I can find.
My favorite shirt is know your roots…I have from ya 🌱
Gahhhhh I can’t wait to harvest tomatoes! I am probably at the least a month away from picking slicers but this makes me SO excited for it
Thank you for sharing your life and knowledge. I got so excited when perusing the end of season half off sale for one of my favorite nurseries- there were 2 Brad's Atomic Grape tomato plants in great condition! Then one of the suckers rooted for me (I passed that plant on to a friend so she too could experience the fun). I also giggled the other day when a friend told me that another gal I met recently asked if I had my own nursery. Nope, I just had some serious fun starting seeds this year and was beyond fortunate when 95% of them germinated into healthy plants.
Toby's hair is getting so much lighter! The boys are adorable as always :D
I made a blanket with all my girl scout leader t shirts.
Lovely memories
Laundry shot!! Pausing video. Just reminded me I have clothes in the machine from this morning.
I LOVE that you have a clothesline! I have fond memories of hanging clothes with my grandma as a young girl. I'd love to have one, but my garden miiiggghhhtt have expanded this year 😂😂.
The fruit boxes/ crates from Sam’s club are also great for harvesting tomatoes etc in.
Love your linen clothes collection! #wardrobegoals
Lovely tomatoes, I love them! Blessings ❤🤗🤝
I will never get over how comfortable that morning coffee on the porch looks. I can picture both of you old and gray watching the great grand children run threw the yard from those rockers. Can't wait to see them on the new porch
lol like the squeak of the rocker ....way tooooo hot to do much of ANYTHING ...here in zone 8a Nashville GA yup read it correctly ,,gotta Nashville in ga....not toooo far from you ....have a blessed n safe weekend ...
I am reading tht book too!
Great video🌸