I wouldn't quite consider myself a frost tender flower. I'm more like lettuce. I can tolerate colder temperatures, am happiest in moderate weather, and get extremely bitter when it's too hot outside.
Jess, when you said “I’m going to have a beautiful garden because it makes my soul sing”…..it touched my heart. You inspire so many of us to reach beyond ourselves to “fly”. Whether my gardening efforts succeed or fail…I’ve TRIED. Thank you for sharing yourself with us!! May God bless you and your family. BIG hugs!!!…..from “the window lady”!!!!!…Aiken.❤️❤️❤️
Still a little confused, though. Just piling up a bunch of wood chips does not a swale make. There needs to be some digging out of the soil to direct the water where you want it to go. Then putting wood chips at the bottom of the swale or on top of the berm would be a fine idea and would eventually build up fertility. But I know that Jess said she is in a permaculture course, so I would trust that they would know what they are doing. It's just a bit muddled in the vlog.
@@pamelapitrone7639 Oh yes, I get that. Been watching a long time. I just think it's good for those just dropping in for the first time to get a little more info from the comments - Jess can't talk about everything every time. Not meant as a criticism at all.
Loooving the greenhouse! I did want to drop a little info. Plexiglass is quirky, it can haze over easily. Do not use windex on it or any chemical cleaners, or it will have a haze. We normally use a soap and water in spray bottle. And clean soft cloth. I just wanted to share that. You probably already know it but incase you didn't want to help you preserve that lovely space.
I'm Tasmanian and we celebrate St Patrick's Day...we don't pinch either. Although we do for April fool's Day. Pinch and a punch for the first of the month...but only till noon
I am so very glad you changed your plans to include the raised bed gardens around the greenhouse. It will reflect the romance you had in Arkansas and you will feed your soul. Sitting inside the greenhouse with the views of the garden around you is your sacred zone and I am glad you will have that again. Being practical is not a bad thing but doing it the way you love should be the first thing. Thank you, Matthew, for being the factor in helping Jess come to that decision! I will add this small bit of advice, take the woven weed blocking mat and put it under your new raised beds. I will not prevent Bermuda grass from coming up in the beds but it will slow it down and greatly reduce the amount that does making it easier to remove as it shows itself! Having help in the garden will be a wonderful thing for sure. What a lucky girl to have access to knowledgeable people willing to work and share that knowledge!
I am going back today to your first video and watching to the current video. It really shows how far your family has come. You’ve gave us your passion for growing our own food. Now give us a passion for how to prepare all this food please. It would really be lovely to have a roots and refuge cookbook from garden to table. Have a wonderful day and thank you
My grandmother on my mother's side used to have a plaque that said "you're closer to God's heart in a garden than anywhere else on earth". Yes she was a gardener.
The green house is turning out great! Jeremiah is doing a beautiful job with the windows! And yes, I would come all the way from Indiana for a sleep over in your green house! LOL God bless!
Jess, I love the balance you have between admiring your children's strengths and independence of mind--of honoring them with deep respect and reverence, then also being unable to resist being same kind of the gushy/ embarrassing-super-fan-mom that I am to my kids: "so cuuuuute!" 😁 / "Aw, Mom" 🤦♂️.
YES! You can’t explain the love for warmth to people who can’t stand the heat. For me, when I started listening to my body. I discovered that my body hurts with the cold and functions much better in the heat. 🥰
I keep seeing many of the TH-cam people around you shifting to commercial story telling advertisements. I just want to ask you to stay you, stay the course that I think you both feel in your hearts. Stay authentic. Your my favorite peoples in the venue and I admire you so much.
Jess, I hope you see this. I am a member of Abundance Plus. I also just joined a Herdshare, and am milking a cow!! (Once every two weeks.). After a month now, I’m the lead recruiter for our Herdshare. And I’m about to train someone from the A+ group!!! And she said, “I watch Justin, but Jess is my girl!” “ME TOO!” 🥰. I’m meeting her face to face to train her on Tuesday and you just reminded me I need to wear my RNR merch!!! We are both now going to be supporting this small educational farm in the Los Angeles area! And getting our own raw milk because of your inspiration! Love you girl!
Hey Kim. Thanks again for sharing the Herdshare information with me. I am looking forward to meeting you on Tuesday!!!! Hi Jess!!!!!! Love watching all your videos!
Jess, I have been watching you for years and I have seen the brightest light shine in you when you are in the garden. I have been missing the jubilance and joy that you exude when you are planting. That light is definitely growing brighter and brighter in you with each step toward planting time. Makes me smile and look forward to seeing you in full bloom! Many blessings on you and your family! 🌱🌻🌸🌷
That greenhouse is seriously THE BEST design you guys!! Literally incredible!! I might have to build a similar style. We live in a high wind, constent wind, state in the U.S. plastic greenhouse is not an option, this, however, would work beautifully!! Thanks for the idea 😎😃
I'm so excited that its getting warmer! I have to take a breath and step back a tinsy bit. my last frost date isn't until the start of May. I know I can start some seeds right now and I do have some spinach trying to grow. I just reset up all my trellises (I didn't like how they were last year and im hoping that the reconfiguration will be 100% better.) but we will see. I wish everyone good luck on this upcoming growing season!
I'm in north Texas, so if I want to have ANY Spring at all I've got to claim every day of this time of year I can. Else I'd have NO Spring! So yes, THIS is Spring! Around here, Spring is until it hits 90 degrees more than 2 days in a row, becoming early Summer. Then it stops raining more than once a month and the temps hover around 100, becoming Summer. Then around December we get early Winter, because Fall sometimes forgets to visit us.
So glad you are making a sanctuary garden outside the greenhouse. I seem to sing or hum hymns like I walk in the Garden and Then Sings My Soul whenever I'm contemplating life in the garden. Eventually you could have soft, piped in music and everyone could relax and understand the importance of your garden. I truly think God loves a garden as so many lessons in the Bible are based on understanding how plants grow and of course, Eden. Your old garden was what got me to grow flowers in mine - for the plants/pollinators and for me to just plain enjoy beauty. I also must have a sitt'n stump to look over my kingdom. Can't wait to get ideas from yours.
You know if your wanting plug trays on a personal use, what about ice cube trays and just drill little drain holes in each space? Also your ventilation, air should be pulled up from under the decking which will be much cooler air and that will help
From a fellow Frost Tender Flower, thanks Jess, for making me feel normal, or at least not alone 😆 78 to 88 is perfection, but up to 100 or so is still welcome in my world!
Sooo pleasent to see you "play" around this potager-theme! The idea that you use garden as a way of worship is really lovely. This whole vlog is an explotion of inspiration ❤️ your spring comes much earlier than ours - so I can live it twice because of you lovelies!
Oh my Gosh!!! The way you express yourself about the garden and the worshiping and the artistic beauty of growing a garden SERIOUSLY makes my heart sing! LOVE IT! 🎶🎵🎶🎵🎼❤❤❤🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗
So awesome!! You inspire me so much! My husband is currently discussing with me building a greenhouse for me. I’m all about trying my best to growing enough food this spring/summer to cut my grocery bill throughout the year.
I’m heat tolerant too surprisingly since I live in Canada lol 😂 but I don’t even break a sweat either during the hottest times while working in the garden and my whole family is like why aren’t you sweating lol I tell them I’ve been hardened off lmao 🤣 I start coming out as soon as it warms up because I’m also frost tender and spend most of winter hibernating. Love and prayers from Canada 🇨🇦 🙏
When you mentioned benches around the fountain, my mind immediately saw curved concrete benches in the same color and style as the fountain, and a flagstone or brick pathway lined with beautiful growing things.
Oh I am so excited for your beautiful garden balancing form and production, wildness and purposefulness. It made sense that you'd be growing in ground in your new context, but this decision makes my heart so happy and I can't wait to see the vision come to life. As you were describing the arbor roses, flagstone paths and benches admiring the fountain I could see it already and I know that with Miah's practical know how and your artists eye the reality is going to be so much lovelier than I am imagining. I adore how you encourage us to balance the practical with the romantic. And the greenhouse is looking so stunning! so exciting to see the new space starting to come together
The greenhouse is so dreamy! I can definitely see you spending all your days...(and your nights, lol) enjoying this space. The spring bring such great energy and ideas for the growing season ahead! We still have snow here, watching your videos Jess is a wonderful break from the mess of spring we are in right now!! Always enjoy seeing your older boys, Not a lot of boys with the name Asher! My Asher is 18 now! Thanks for sharing! Bonnie 🇨🇦
Jess I bless you back! Your joy and appreciation of God's creation are an encouragement and a challenge to me to experience more of the simple pleasures of life. God is good!
You could still do what you were thinking with the walkway splitting and going on either side of the fountain with benches on either side. That would be so beautiful and inviting
It’s like every time I see one of your projects I think to myself, “they can’t top that. That is perfection.” But then you just go ahead and one-up yourself!
You riding along with your boys after school and the shot of your property literally made my heart swell with happiness for you! You are SOOOOO BLESSED!!!! 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼❤️
How lovely! From you, you wonderful TH-cam family. I am wooed. My 65 year old body craves your authentic essence! I am grateful for you all!!! Thank you for sharing your journey! 4 year fan girl!!!
Your greenhouse is simply outstandingly beautiful!!! I am super excited for your gardens to take shape because I can literally imagine what it's going to look like as you describe your vision. I have taken great inspiration from you in the past 2 years, and you have motivated me so much. Sometimes I wish there were more like minded people around me so I can share my enthusiasm with them. We also moved to our new property in August 2021, and I have planted about 50 fruit trees, because it gets very hot here, and I want to create my own little micro climate using the fruit trees for partial shade in time. May your vision be realised and your gardens be even more beautiful than you imagine. successful
Merch, stickers, books, plant sales, online classes, in person classes, coffee house, farm-to-table restaurant, TV show. Does anyone else feel like we are watching the birth of an empire? A gardening/food sustainability empire. Can't you see Jess designing aprons and coveralls, and Miah inventing useful tools and gadgets? I know the word "empire" can have a negative feel to it, but it is the word, phrase really, that floated into my mind as I was watching this video "birth of an empire."
I so understand being a frost tender flower! My son was (we lost him at 49 this past October 20,2021) and my grandson is a very warm blooded person. My son has been known to shovel snow in shorts, boots, a warm jacket, and knit hat!! With the drafts along the floor in my little rental house during the winter, it feels like my toes and feet are ALWAYS freezing cold along with my hands. Sometimes it feels like my toes are frozen and finally thaw in the spring. Our winters can get into single degree temps F⁰ +/-, and up to 110 ⁰F in the summer. Since I rent I can't dig in the yard so am trying container gardening for fruits n veggies this summer. Thank you for the inspiration! God bless!!
Oh my goodness, I love your greenhouse and all of your plans for it! Thank you for sharing. I hope your health has been doing well. We all care for you and so very much appreciate your sharing your family’s journey with us!
That garden she talks about - orderly areas, wilder areas, paths throughout...that's what I want to turn my 2 acres into. I want a space where little delights and discoveries are around each twist and turn of the path, and I don't see any reason why I shouldn't have it now that the person who stood in my way is gone from my life. Life is too short to mow grass.
Your friend was right about having benches by the fountain. It would be nice to have a rose arch above each for shade. So when taking a break for some water, you can become mesmerized by the sight & sound of the water while you take 5 in the shade. You better be there when Miah sets it up. The speed of the water in the fountain will have different sounds, just like an instrument. It can be maddening if it's not set right, LOL.
Jess, I dont know if you saw Lukes last MIGardener video on intensive lettuce gardening? To me, that is even MORE lovely than any flower you can grow. I get as much satisfaction from growing a vast beauty of nourishing food than flowers any time, knowing it will sustain my family.
I love your plans for your garden around the greenhouse. The greenhouse just keeps getting better and better. I can't wait to see all the gardens you'll set-up along the driveway to the house and the barn. The swales made from the woodchips sounds like an excellent idea. I'm so glad you have help from Will for the garden and his idea for the woodchip swales is brilliant! I think it is Spring! Have a great trip this weekend. Thanks for this Jess.
I'd do raised beds all the way. Your back will thank you for it in later years. I love your fountain. I could see some concrete walking paths going around it with stepping stones custom made by all of your family, with crushed stone filling in the blank areas, with alot of clay potted flowers and antique iron gardens things. Love the fence idea and the benches to sit on. Tell Miah he's a champ! Love the greenhouse, it's beautiful! God bless!
Your videos give me so much joy and hope. I love seeing you DO your dream! You are doing it! Even with kids and a husband and all the responsibility and crazy that comes with that. You are really doing it! I had big dreams really similar to this since junior high school, and getting married and having kids has kinda derailed that dream for me. But your videos encourage me to not give up on that dream! I am so proud of you for all the hard work and stewardship that you have put into building this dream of yours and so happy that you ARE living THE dream as far as I’m concerned! Thank you for blazing the trail for many of us!
So I've recently become pretty addicted to your channel, lol. I love watching how you're building this new space. It helps me think of ways that I can build up my 1/3 acre space. I would love to see another overhead view with some of your ideas for the garden belt area now that you've gotten it a bit more planned.
Personally, I'd say put in some low shelves along that front wall ( right below those vent windows). Just little 6 inch wooden shelves to put beautiful things there. Little potted plants or some of those quartz rocks. Just something to make it even more lovely. I have a little table out with a wicker bench in front of my garden and throughout the season it collects pretty little found things that are nice to look at❤️
It's called being Human..We all have an optional temp..65 to about 85..the middle is my sweet spot, like 75 You go sweet lady..I can't wait to see your dreams come true..the green house is looking Lovely..just so happy for you
I LOVE your plans for "around the fountain" and that fountain is lovely indeed! Roots and Refuge SC is/was such a beautiful view this day....the skies were Maxfield Parrish skies....and all of that true GREEN(ERY)GRASS ROOTS AND SEEDS A'SPROUTING OUT ALL OVER Happy Spring Equinox and Bright Blessings to All who live and work and play and create and teach each and every day at/on RootsnRefuge SC💚💚💚
I LOVE the heat! As I get older, though, I can tolerate colder temperatures more easily and I wear tank tops and flip flops in 60 and 70 degree weather as long as the wind isn't blowing 🙃
I showed the last greenhouse reveal to my husband and he said, "You can't watch this lady anymore - it always means more work". LOL
My husband feels the same way lol but I watch them anyways because they are too cute not to, they always make me smile.
My husband thinks I’m obsessed!!! 😂😂😂 but man I love all the things Jess is doing ❤️
Me too pluss some.
🤣😂😂
My husband said the same thing🤣
Jess! You should have a sticker that says “inspired by roots and refuge farm” so we can put it in the window of all our window green houses haha 😄👍
I wouldn't quite consider myself a frost tender flower. I'm more like lettuce. I can tolerate colder temperatures, am happiest in moderate weather, and get extremely bitter when it's too hot outside.
Never thought I’d identify with lettuce so much 😆🙌🏼
Hahahahaha. That's exactly right.
That fits me to a tee. I always say I can put on layers if need be to be warm, but you can only take off so much when it’s hot 🥵 lol.
Me, too. I love cold weather.
Me too!
When you show a "big" shot of the property, my heart swells, I have no words for how happy I am for you and your family. I pray for all of you.
I love that the only traffic noise is their own ;) 💖😊💖
Frost tender flowers, UNITE!!! You are speaking to my soul. Vitamin D is my BFF. 😂☀️🌻
Jess, when you said “I’m going to have a beautiful garden because it makes my soul sing”…..it touched my heart. You inspire so many of us to reach beyond ourselves to “fly”. Whether my gardening efforts succeed or fail…I’ve TRIED. Thank you for sharing yourself with us!! May God bless you and your family. BIG hugs!!!…..from “the window lady”!!!!!…Aiken.❤️❤️❤️
Now, that potager plan sounds truly like the Roots and Refuge we've all known and loved. What a wonderful bonus!
Gardens feed our souls just as much as they feed our bodies. Can't wait to see how it looks when it's done!
The swale is the ditch, the mound is a berm. You are going to make berms which will then result in swales beside them.
Still a little confused, though. Just piling up a bunch of wood chips does not a swale make. There needs to be some digging out of the soil to direct the water where you want it to go. Then putting wood chips at the bottom of the swale or on top of the berm would be a fine idea and would eventually build up fertility. But I know that Jess said she is in a permaculture course, so I would trust that they would know what they are doing. It's just a bit muddled in the vlog.
OK guys, in case you didn’t catch it she was giving you a brief description of an idea that they are developing.
@@pamelapitrone7639 Oh yes, I get that. Been watching a long time. I just think it's good for those just dropping in for the first time to get a little more info from the comments - Jess can't talk about everything every time. Not meant as a criticism at all.
I came to say this. The low part is the swale, the high part is the berm.
Thank you!
Loooving the greenhouse! I did want to drop a little info. Plexiglass is quirky, it can haze over easily. Do not use windex on it or any chemical cleaners, or it will have a haze. We normally use a soap and water in spray bottle. And clean soft cloth. I just wanted to share that. You probably already know it but incase you didn't want to help you preserve that lovely space.
Did you know that here in Ireland we dont do the whole pinch thing for Paddys Day? Most of us have never even heard of it. love the channel.
Never heard of it here either (Ontario, Canada)
I’m American never heard of it as well. 🍀🍀
@@trinapellegrino621 well if us Irish have never heard of it i dont know where it came from..
I'm Tasmanian and we celebrate St Patrick's Day...we don't pinch either. Although we do for April fool's Day. Pinch and a punch for the first of the month...but only till noon
I am so very glad you changed your plans to include the raised bed gardens around the greenhouse. It will reflect the romance you had in Arkansas and you will feed your soul. Sitting inside the greenhouse with the views of the garden around you is your sacred zone and I am glad you will have that again. Being practical is not a bad thing but doing it the way you love should be the first thing. Thank you, Matthew, for being the factor in helping Jess come to that decision! I will add this small bit of advice, take the woven weed blocking mat and put it under your new raised beds. I will not prevent Bermuda grass from coming up in the beds but it will slow it down and greatly reduce the amount that does making it easier to remove as it shows itself! Having help in the garden will be a wonderful thing for sure. What a lucky girl to have access to knowledgeable people willing to work and share that knowledge!
awe, Just him saying "I mean I'll do it if thats where your sleeping" Melts my heart! Such an amazing Hubby!
What a view! You in green with that glorious blue sky with white clouds! Breathtaking!!!
I am going back today to your first video and watching to the current video. It really shows how far your family has come. You’ve gave us your passion for growing our own food. Now give us a passion for how to prepare all this food please. It would really be lovely to have a roots and refuge cookbook from garden to table. Have a wonderful day and thank you
@Austin Howland good, baby chicks peeping in the dining room makes for morning entertainment with a cup of coffee. Just waiting on the sun ☀️
My grandmother on my mother's side used to have a plaque that said "you're closer to God's heart in a garden than anywhere else on earth". Yes she was a gardener.
You could do a wrought iron table with glass on top and it would probably hold up well in the greenhouse
I'm in Southern California, and right there with you. 60° is FREEZING! :D
The green house is turning out great! Jeremiah is doing a beautiful job with the windows! And yes, I would come all the way from Indiana for a sleep over in your green house! LOL God bless!
Slumber party!!
I love when Jess says he is making sure to make it exactly what she envisioned . Miah. I cannot define love better than that. Great job brother!!!
Jess, I love the balance you have between admiring your children's strengths and independence of mind--of honoring them with deep respect and reverence, then also being unable to resist being same kind of the gushy/ embarrassing-super-fan-mom that I am to my kids: "so cuuuuute!" 😁 / "Aw, Mom" 🤦♂️.
This Gal from the Foothills of the Ozarks of Arkansas, Loves ❤ the BLOND in your hair, Jess.
@@Godwinpounds4333 Good and you?
YES! You can’t explain the love for warmth to people who can’t stand the heat. For me, when I started listening to my body. I discovered that my body hurts with the cold and functions much better in the heat. 🥰
Great idea with the shade cloth. What a beautiful structure. Great job Miah!
I keep seeing many of the TH-cam people around you shifting to commercial story telling advertisements. I just want to ask you to stay you, stay the course that I think you both feel in your hearts. Stay authentic. Your my favorite peoples in the venue and I admire you so much.
Jess, I hope you see this. I am a member of Abundance Plus. I also just joined a Herdshare, and am milking a cow!! (Once every two weeks.). After a month now, I’m the lead recruiter for our Herdshare. And I’m about to train someone from the A+ group!!! And she said, “I watch Justin, but Jess is my girl!” “ME TOO!” 🥰. I’m meeting her face to face to train her on Tuesday and you just reminded me I need to wear my RNR merch!!! We are both now going to be supporting this small educational farm in the Los Angeles area! And getting our own raw milk because of your inspiration! Love you girl!
Hey Kim. Thanks again for sharing the Herdshare information with me. I am looking forward to meeting you on Tuesday!!!! Hi Jess!!!!!! Love watching all your videos!
Jess, I have been watching you for years and I have seen the brightest light shine in you when you are in the garden. I have been missing the jubilance and joy that you exude when you are planting. That light is definitely growing brighter and brighter in you with each step toward planting time. Makes me smile and look forward to seeing you in full bloom! Many blessings on you and your family! 🌱🌻🌸🌷
I ordered two shirts!! Cannot wait to rep my SC neighbors (60 miles away lol) and hopefully grow a little community of my own in the upstate
Growing community in a time such as this is key!
@@charlieadams1313 that's the truth!
That greenhouse is seriously THE BEST design you guys!! Literally incredible!! I might have to build a similar style. We live in a high wind, constent wind, state in the U.S. plastic greenhouse is not an option, this, however, would work beautifully!! Thanks for the idea 😎😃
Debbie here, Wa..👩🌾. Brilliant! Absolutely Brilliant! Garden swales, made using wood chips…🐝🐝🐝
I'm so excited that its getting warmer! I have to take a breath and step back a tinsy bit. my last frost date isn't until the start of May. I know I can start some seeds right now and I do have some spinach trying to grow. I just reset up all my trellises (I didn't like how they were last year and im hoping that the reconfiguration will be 100% better.) but we will see.
I wish everyone good luck on this upcoming growing season!
Let the fun and games begin!
I'm in north Texas, so if I want to have ANY Spring at all I've got to claim every day of this time of year I can. Else I'd have NO Spring! So yes, THIS is Spring! Around here, Spring is until it hits 90 degrees more than 2 days in a row, becoming early Summer. Then it stops raining more than once a month and the temps hover around 100, becoming Summer. Then around December we get early Winter, because Fall sometimes forgets to visit us.
Airbnb garden overnights in that greenhouse for sure!
You look excited for growing again.🤗🇨🇦
You will be teaching out of that beautiful space no matter what. People are drawn to you and will be drawn to the garden.
A garden can be Zen and productive at the same time!
Why have to choose one!
Oh, my.....this greenhouse is a sanctuary!
You should add a mini fridge to the greenhouse! Cold drinks in the summer! :)
So glad you are making a sanctuary garden outside the greenhouse. I seem to sing or hum hymns like I walk in the Garden and Then Sings My Soul whenever I'm contemplating life in the garden. Eventually you could have soft, piped in music and everyone could relax and understand the importance of your garden. I truly think God loves a garden as so many lessons in the Bible are based on understanding how plants grow and of course, Eden. Your old garden was what got me to grow flowers in mine - for the plants/pollinators and for me to just plain enjoy beauty. I also must have a sitt'n stump to look over my kingdom. Can't wait to get ideas from yours.
Good morning everyone, I love the sunshine too!! I need the heat!!!
No need to justify your dreams to us! You need to reflect you and your family in your sanctuary! Love watching your channel!
The green house is beautiful
Please take more videos with you driving in the side by side. It reminds me of my childhood on the trike.
You know if your wanting plug trays on a personal use, what about ice cube trays and just drill little drain holes in each space? Also your ventilation, air should be pulled up from under the decking which will be much cooler air and that will help
@@Godwinpounds4333 👍🏼 good
Sun...❤🌞...75 degrees and a nice breeze!
From a fellow Frost Tender Flower, thanks Jess, for making me feel normal, or at least not alone 😆 78 to 88 is perfection, but up to 100 or so is still welcome in my world!
Man, we all need a Matthew in our lives.
😂❤️
Agreed😁👍
The greenhouse will be your place of elegance and ordered beauty. The artists canvas. One of many expressions.
Sooo pleasent to see you "play" around this potager-theme! The idea that you use garden as a way of worship is really lovely. This whole vlog is an explotion of inspiration ❤️ your spring comes much earlier than ours - so I can live it twice because of you lovelies!
Oh my Gosh!!! The way you express yourself about the garden and the worshiping and the artistic beauty of growing a garden SERIOUSLY makes my heart sing! LOVE IT! 🎶🎵🎶🎵🎼❤❤❤🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗
👍🏼🌸😘🌼 I love your boys faces while you were driving home 😂😂😂
Star gazing in the greenhouse during sleepovers would be amazing!😍 Sign me up please !
I love how you're talking about 20⁰C like it might not be spring weather. That is a hot day in August where I'm at in Canada🤣😭🤣
So awesome!! You inspire me so much! My husband is currently discussing with me building a greenhouse for me. I’m all about trying my best to growing enough food this spring/summer to cut my grocery bill throughout the year.
I’m heat tolerant too surprisingly since I live in Canada lol 😂 but I don’t even break a sweat either during the hottest times while working in the garden and my whole family is like why aren’t you sweating lol I tell them I’ve been hardened off lmao 🤣 I start coming out as soon as it warms up because I’m also frost tender and spend most of winter hibernating. Love and prayers from Canada 🇨🇦 🙏
Same Canadian sister! I hibernate in winter and live the days barefoot under the sun for the other three seasons. Much love!
@@charlieadams1313 yes 🙌 the only way to be!
Luv all your videos and watching your son help out👍
When you mentioned benches around the fountain, my mind immediately saw curved concrete benches in the same color and style as the fountain, and a flagstone or brick pathway lined with beautiful growing things.
Oh I am so excited for your beautiful garden balancing form and production, wildness and purposefulness. It made sense that you'd be growing in ground in your new context, but this decision makes my heart so happy and I can't wait to see the vision come to life. As you were describing the arbor roses, flagstone paths and benches admiring the fountain I could see it already and I know that with Miah's practical know how and your artists eye the reality is going to be so much lovelier than I am imagining. I adore how you encourage us to balance the practical with the romantic. And the greenhouse is looking so stunning! so exciting to see the new space starting to come together
That greenhouse is a vision Miah definitely worships the ground you walk on it’s beautiful
Yes! Enjoying the first warm sun of the season! I call it defrosting❣️
I'm SO GLAD you will have your potager sanctuary again! It wouldn't really be 'you' without it 💜💜💜
The greenhouse is so dreamy! I can definitely see you spending all your days...(and your nights, lol) enjoying this space. The spring bring such great energy and ideas for the growing season ahead! We still have snow here, watching your videos Jess is a wonderful break from the mess of spring we are in right now!! Always enjoy seeing your older boys, Not a lot of boys with the name Asher! My Asher is 18 now! Thanks for sharing! Bonnie 🇨🇦
Jess is looking more like herself 💞💞
Jess I bless you back! Your joy and appreciation of God's creation are an encouragement and a challenge to me to experience more of the simple pleasures of life. God is good!
Spending the night in the greenhouse, looking up at the stars... so cool!
You could still do what you were thinking with the walkway splitting and going on either side of the fountain with benches on either side. That would be so beautiful and inviting
It’s like every time I see one of your projects I think to myself, “they can’t top that. That is perfection.” But then you just go ahead and one-up yourself!
Again & again & again. ⚡🌱💚
Greenhouse so beautiful 💐🇮🇪
Pretty cool 😎 place to do your starting seeds and stuff. Just beautiful
Everything looks awesome...
I am the same as you. It's brilliant that I live in a part of the UK where we only get a few days of 30C a year.
I need to leave.
You riding along with your boys after school and the shot of your property literally made my heart swell with happiness for you! You are SOOOOO BLESSED!!!! 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼❤️
How lovely! From you, you wonderful TH-cam family. I am wooed. My 65 year old body craves your authentic essence! I am grateful for you all!!! Thank you for sharing your journey! 4 year fan girl!!!
After a morning filled with stressful news, I'm thrilled to hear what I consider very good news....your new raised bed garden will be glorious 🌱
Your greenhouse is simply outstandingly beautiful!!!
I am super excited for your gardens to take shape because I can literally imagine what it's going to look like as you describe your vision. I have taken great inspiration from you in the past 2 years, and you have motivated me so much. Sometimes I wish there were more like minded people around me so I can share my enthusiasm with them. We also moved to our new property in August 2021, and I have planted about 50 fruit trees, because it gets very hot here, and I want to create my own little micro climate using the fruit trees for partial shade in time. May your vision be realised and your gardens be even more beautiful than you imagine. successful
Merch, stickers, books, plant sales, online classes, in person classes, coffee house, farm-to-table restaurant, TV show. Does anyone else feel like we are watching the birth of an empire? A gardening/food sustainability empire. Can't you see Jess designing aprons and coveralls, and Miah inventing useful tools and gadgets? I know the word "empire" can have a negative feel to it, but it is the word, phrase really, that floated into my mind as I was watching this video "birth of an empire."
I so understand being a frost tender flower! My son was (we lost him at 49 this past October 20,2021) and my grandson is a very warm blooded person. My son has been known to shovel snow in shorts, boots, a warm jacket, and knit hat!! With the drafts along the floor in my little rental house during the winter, it feels like my toes and feet are ALWAYS freezing cold along with my hands. Sometimes it feels like my toes are frozen and finally thaw in the spring. Our winters can get into single degree temps F⁰ +/-, and up to 110 ⁰F in the summer. Since I rent I can't dig in the yard so am trying container gardening for fruits n veggies this summer. Thank you for the inspiration! God bless!!
Oh my goodness, I love your greenhouse and all of your plans for it! Thank you for sharing. I hope your health has been doing well. We all care for you and so very much appreciate your sharing your family’s journey with us!
Instead of a desk what about mounting a swing chair or a hammock and using a camera mount on the wall😉
Haha! I've picked my kids up from school on the golf cart before! Love it!
That garden she talks about - orderly areas, wilder areas, paths throughout...that's what I want to turn my 2 acres into. I want a space where little delights and discoveries are around each twist and turn of the path, and I don't see any reason why I shouldn't have it now that the person who stood in my way is gone from my life. Life is too short to mow grass.
Love you Jess!!
Your friend was right about having benches by the fountain. It would be nice to have a rose arch above each for shade. So when taking a break for some water, you can become mesmerized by the sight & sound of the water while you take 5 in the shade. You better be there when Miah sets it up. The speed of the water in the fountain will have different sounds, just like an instrument. It can be maddening if it's not set right, LOL.
I love your gratitude and joy with each day…really noticing the beauty and changes around you.
Ordered two shirts! Thanks
Fabulous plans I cannot wait I’m so excited🤸🏽♀️🤸🏽♀️🤸🏽♀️🤸🏽♀️🤸🏽♀️🤸🏽♀️🤸🏽♀️
Jess, I dont know if you saw Lukes last MIGardener video on intensive lettuce gardening? To me, that is even MORE lovely than any flower you can grow. I get as much satisfaction from growing a vast beauty of nourishing food than flowers any time, knowing it will sustain my family.
I love your plans for your garden around the greenhouse. The greenhouse just keeps getting better and better. I can't wait to see all the gardens you'll set-up along the driveway to the house and the barn. The swales made from the woodchips sounds like an excellent idea. I'm so glad you have help from Will for the garden and his idea for the woodchip swales is brilliant! I think it is Spring! Have a great trip this weekend. Thanks for this Jess.
I'd do raised beds all the way. Your back will thank you for it in later years. I love your fountain. I could see some concrete walking paths going around it with stepping stones custom made by all of your family, with crushed stone filling in the blank areas, with alot of clay potted flowers and antique iron gardens things. Love the fence idea and the benches to sit on. Tell Miah he's a champ! Love the greenhouse, it's beautiful! God bless!
Your videos give me so much joy and hope. I love seeing you DO your dream! You are doing it! Even with kids and a husband and all the responsibility and crazy that comes with that. You are really doing it! I had big dreams really similar to this since junior high school, and getting married and having kids has kinda derailed that dream for me. But your videos encourage me to not give up on that dream! I am so proud of you for all the hard work and stewardship that you have put into building this dream of yours and so happy that you ARE living THE dream as far as I’m concerned! Thank you for blazing the trail for many of us!
The greenhouse looks gorgeous! I would place a hammock out there, and sleep under the stars. I'm so happy for you.
Respect from Africa 🇿🇦
So I've recently become pretty addicted to your channel, lol. I love watching how you're building this new space. It helps me think of ways that I can build up my 1/3 acre space.
I would love to see another overhead view with some of your ideas for the garden belt area now that you've gotten it a bit more planned.
The sky behind you is so beautiful! We hit 50°F yesterday here in Minnesota, it was amazing!! Grow the garden God leads you to.
Personally, I'd say put in some low shelves along that front wall ( right below those vent windows). Just little 6 inch wooden shelves to put beautiful things there. Little potted plants or some of those quartz rocks. Just something to make it even more lovely. I have a little table out with a wicker bench in front of my garden and throughout the season it collects pretty little found things that are nice to look at❤️
It's called being Human..We all have an optional temp..65 to about 85..the middle is my sweet spot, like 75
You go sweet lady..I can't wait to see your dreams come true..the green house is looking Lovely..just so happy for you
I know you have had other farm duties since moving, but oh it is wonderful to hear you speak so lovingly about your garden again ❤️🌻😊
I LOVE your plans for "around the fountain" and that fountain is lovely indeed! Roots and Refuge SC is/was such a beautiful view this day....the skies were Maxfield Parrish skies....and all of that true GREEN(ERY)GRASS ROOTS AND SEEDS A'SPROUTING OUT ALL OVER Happy Spring Equinox and Bright Blessings to All who live and work and play and create and teach each and every day at/on RootsnRefuge SC💚💚💚
I get you on the heat. Today it got in the 70's and absolutely love it. The other day it was in the 40's.
The greenhouse is absolutely beautiful.
I LOVE the heat!
As I get older, though, I can tolerate colder temperatures more easily and I wear tank tops and flip flops in 60 and 70 degree weather as long as the wind isn't blowing 🙃
We are looking at building a house soon in FL and I would live in your greenhouse! Not kidding!!😁