Me, too! I have thought what do I do with stickers? haha! But then she told us what we can do with them! Will have to start thinking about that as I straighten up my seeds this fall!
Jess, another thing about the east coast is that we clear out pine trees and keep the hardwoods. Interestingly, I’ve watched videos of folks in Arkansas, Oklahoma, and surrounding states that cut hardwoods and save pine trees. Here in northeast Georgia, we know that pines have shallow roots and fall easily, grass doesn’t grow very well under them, they are easily destroyed by pine beetles, and they have little shade. We cherish the shades of the oaks and other hardwoods and appreciate their sturdiness to stand for even 100 years! Welcome to the east coast!!
Very true. I’m in central NC and we call it tornado alley. To expound on your thought Dr B,, when we have hurricanes, accompanying rain, and the subsequent tornadoes, the pines fall easily.
Magnet idea.... some empty pots or green stalk and then some of those small veggies in kits so the kiddos (or grown kiddos) can arrange on the fridge and can rearrage as they want. Like a fridge garden! 💗 ETA maybe some garden bugs too! So the kids can send out the lady bugs after the aphids 🤣
The other day, for the first time in my 65 years of life, I had someone say to me "You really have a green thumb". My response was , "I don't have a green thumb, I have Jessica". Thank you!
Oh, please, make a sticker of your closing tag line..."We bless you, until next time." How lovely the would be on a fridge, on a box, or almost anything, as a way to bless those leaving your home or your presence. It's so upliting.
Outdoor kitchen is really useful if you’re doing canning or just big meals in the summer. It keeps the house from getting really hot. My folks had theirs on the back porch of their manufactured house. Lots of canned tomatoes. Yum!
@@nadiajames3883 My German step-mother’s parents had a stone summer kitchen with big, screened windows for summer canning and jelly making, but it was its own little standalone building out back by the pond with a 3/4 bath and enough space for a double bed and a sofa, so they added a little wood stove and made a tiny guest house out of it. We also used it in December for baking Christmas cookies with all the women and kids together around a bunch of folding tables, and all of us kids in our pajamas, rolling out sugar cookies and making pressed almond cookies. Sugar sprinkles and the family cookie cutter collection spread out everywhere. Their big Akita, Honshu, kept knocking cookie cutters off the table with his big, curly tail… It was a lovely, cozy mess that I remember very fondly even 30 years later. ❤️
"That's the scandal of grace... We don't have to be perfect, to be beloved and lovely." Oh, my heart. Thank you for that beautiful little drop of wisdom. God bless you all xoxo
How magical. You hired one of your viewers for work on the property. This is why I see the good in social media. Bringing folks together. R&R farm is EVERYONES neighbor. I love you guys!
I hope you guys read this even though it's on an older post. Just wanted to share how much you've meant to my family! My parents watch your videos all the time! When I go home, my dog and I will watch 'gardening videos' with Lala and Pop pop all the time! They have learned so much and have an awesome garden on their property now! They work hard together and enjoy their time in the garden. It's helped them change and grow together to have such an awesome project to work on. I bought some magnets for their anniversary this year from you guys! I'm so excited and thankful you decided to share your story and journey with them. Thanks so much and God bless!
Quartz usually means there is gold around there somewhere and also quartz has tremendous good energy! I think God must have picked this place just for yoU!
"The scandal of grace is that it gets to be imperfect and still beautiful." I look forward to a coffee table book in the future of your words and lovely illustrations Jess
Upstate SC checkin' in, welcome to the state. An idea for a new sticker to celebrate your new homestead maybe could include the SC motto: Dum Spiro Spero - "While I breathe, I hope"...maybe a scene of the tree with the swing and the pond? Be Blessed!
Jess- I just wanted to say that you radiate so much passion and joy when you talk about the things you love (family and friends, gardening, animals, your farm, etc), even when your life is as hectic as it is right now, and I simply adore you for that. You fuel my love and motivation to garden in the small eighth-of-an-acre property that I live on here in Massachusetts; when I watch your videos I feel like I get to connect with you even though we are complete strangers. Over the past year I have learned so much from you as a gardener and continue to learn more from you each day. I am 18 years old & moving on to college in the fall (to a college a couple towns over) so I hope I can continue to spend time in the garden during my time as a student & make the most out of the time left I have at home & the garden before I move on in life. One day I aspire to have a big beautiful farm and garden just like you. So thank you for sharing your beautiful life with us, and I wish you the best with your upcoming move.
I love watching all your videos. I just found you like a week or so ago. And I was so excited to actually find your book in our BAM store. I am reading now cover to cover. You are a bright light in these crazy days. You have a gift for making people smile, I know because I am one of them!!! Please keep bringing the light. Enjoy life and your new adventures.
I'm inspired that your kids don't want to leave. That is such a good sign. I think it's great that your viewers offer to help and you can hire them. I bet your kids can't wait to get in the new modular home. I'm anticipating you setting up your new garden spaces.
Ever since you shared your story about the spider, I wrote down what you said on a little piece of paper and it’s been on my kitchen window sill since, “You can’t have perfection and life in the same place.”-JS. I look at it every day and ponder. My husband even was going to make me a wood carving of it. So glad you are making a sticker for it. It really is such a beautiful saying.
Jess we need magnets of basic shaped garden beds and plots to help plan out garden beds!! Like areal view of square garden beds and green stalk planters! I always end up cutting shapes out on paper and moving them around. Cute magnets would be so much better!
So I am part way through this video and all of a sudden started thinking.... When I first found R&R it was so educational, teaching so much information, not so much anymore in this season. So then I realized, I'm really just watching someone else's life at this point, but I'm still watching. Lovin' this season of your life Jess!! I can't wait to see what's next!!!...Roots & Refuge come for the information, stay for the story.
@@RootsandRefugeFarm when that season starts, think of the audience you'll have at that point!! Making your classroom a wading room for others!! Hehehe. See what I did there...!!
Safe travels. Love to see you so giddy. Take a cutting from your most favorite rose and plant it at new farm as a remembrance of beginnings of Roots and Refuge and the beautifully sweet memories you have gained.
I used to go on holiday to Wales as a kid and they had a tonne of crystal rocks like that on the beach. I used to collect the ones with holes in where I could see the crystal glittering inside. Who needs fancy souvenirs when you have crystal rocks lol 😂
Jess, just a reminder that you have asparagus seeds in one of your survival seed kits that you did a video on. I know you said at the time why would anyone start them from seed? Well I started mine from seed this year and they are doing so amazing. If you can’t get crowns why not start your seeds? You have nothing to lose if they don’t work out and everything to gain if they do. I so appreciate you and family! Thank you for sharing your life’s journey with us. God’s blessings
oh my gosh girl, you have your own crystal in your yard. i would be in heaven. I am always buying crystal quartz and it aint cheap. I'd being running around like a happy fairy with my own crystal in my property. Love the new property, so glad thing's are working out so well for y'all. Blessings & Love to you and the crew.
Thank you so much for continuing to produce videos in the midst of all that! It's a lot to manage and you are doing it beautifully. Excited for you moving in properly and moving on to next chapter. Can't wait to see the video with the overall plan for the farm!
You, speaking about your little girl thrill, from seeing quartz stones, really made me feel a kinship. Even more than than gardening! I loved looking for beautiful rocks as a little girl, and it gave me such a fascination with the natural world beyond what I already knew of it. I also had a collection. ❤️ I wish you, and your kids a new rock collecting adventure. I hope you find new minerals to love. ,❤️
As you panned across the views of the fields and the ponds I just kept thinking about the immense amount of potential at your new farm; the excitement of a fresh new canvas to paint a new farm and garden home! SO EXCITING!!!
1) will that area face high deer pressure for those fruit trees? 2) start asparagus by seeds too. 3) start doodling your quartz sticker and willow tree sticker - that’s the first of your new homestead designs.
I'm amazed and awed at what you are undertaking!! I know I can't be your largest fan, I'm sure, but a fan, nonetheless. You're real. You're helpful. You're inspirational. Love that your family is thriving. I wish you only luck!
I bought some of your stickers in May. And I bought a sheet of sticky backed magnet page. And I peeled off the backing on the stickers and off the magnet sheet and then stuck the stickers on the sticky side to sticky side then cut out around the stickers. Waaaa laaaa! Refrigerator magnets! This way I can use them over and over anywhere there's metal.
I'm still waiting for a Goat Christmas magnet. That way I can stick them all over the fridge in hopes of brainwashing hubby by the holidays lol.~ P.S. Alpaca Christmas would be good as well :)
Hi! I’m from Michigan and my family had a big hickory nut tree in our back yard. As a child I gathered nuts every fall, cracked and ate them. Before Christmas my dad and I cracked nuts so my mother could use them in home made fudge and cookies. Nut trees are wonderful to have, too.
I know this is an older video but I found your channel this year (due to starting my own "classroom" garden) and i adore this channel so much that I've been going back to watch older videos. You have an amazing way of making us viewers feel like family/friends while also teaching sooo much awesome info. I really love seeing how far you've come but also that you're personality and humble nature has remained the same. I am like you in spirit and always want to teach, help, give, and inspire.... And laugh at our mistakes while rolling with what life throws our way. I'm sure we'd be good friends if we meet in person. Congrats and thank you!
We moved into our homestead Dec 26 of last year, so seven months ago. The garden/animal area was still grass in March. Now it’s thriving, we have duck, rabbits and chickens in static runs. I laughed when you said you’d be working a lot of us over a few years- ha! I thought that too. But we pushed and pushed more, six months later we’ve done about 3 years worth of ideas :) we are starting to be able to take a breath now :)
Awe! You guys work so hard and are so gracefully grateful . Hydrangea sound Great!Love your do over plans! Would love to see a sketched plot plan, like you've done on your notebook garden plans ;) Thank you for showing your realness about passing along your old farm. Stay at peace! You've got a lot going on...take a break if you need to. You are loved!
I would love to send you some special onion sets for your new home garden. I will send their story as well. They are dry and ready for the ground! Where shall I mail them to?
Plant some nut trees too!! Pecans, almonds, walnuts.....a macadamia?? Not sure if your climate would take one of those, but how cool would that be?? An olive tree or two might be good too!! Make your own olive oil 😊 I'm so happy for you all and enjoy watching what God is doing in your lives....I'm so excited to watch your dreams bloom. Also, don't delay planting some basil....for a huffing good time!! Lol. I think it will chase away any homesick blues and put you in your happy place! 😁 Prayers for you all! 🙏🙌
Just love the excitement in your voice. I so would help you in your garden while you wrangle the kids and pack to move to a whole new passel of blessings and happiness. Much love and respect. Peace
I am so excited for you! It is extremely tiring but it is equally fulfilling what you’re doing! I hope you feel the prayers of your “friends” here, every time you are on the road traveling. I know we don’t know exactly the date, but I’m telling you , the Lord puts it on my heart to pray harder for you at certain times. Jess and Miah, WE BLESS YOU! ❤️😁🤟
It's really happening! This is so exciting! You are on the home stretch of your move. I'm continuing to pray for safe travels for you all as you go back and forth from Arkansas to South Carolina, praying for your dad's health, and for good weather and a successful move with all the animals (and children!). :-D Oh, and magnets... Yay!
Yay! You made magnets!! This makes me happy.😊 Y'all make me want to move to SC. LOL I've been watching you for over a year and continue to learn from y'all. Love and appreciate you sweetie! ❤🙏 Prayers for your back and forth journey!
Magnets!!!!Yay!!!! Its coming along guys,I'm so proud of ya'll,you have big plans and big dreams.Can't wait see it happen.And its going to be so lovely...everything.Bless you.
Plant a bleeding heart ❤️ bush please. It is a favorite of mine that I have never achieved planting. I am 61 and do not see the possibility for that in my future. I would be honored to my core Jess. God bless you folks. 🙏🙏🙏💝
Re: hydrangeas. North Carolina, here. The hydrangea I planted about 18 years ago has never been watered by anything but whatever rain falls. I plunked it in the ground and let Ma Nature take care of it, and she does a lovely job. ;)
Thank you for your vlogs I am so attached to your content every summer the kids are so wonderful there is nobody like you its informative and inspiring and I wish you the best! The quartz is so cool! Miah is remarkable too!
Wow! I love seeing all of your enthusiasm for the beautiful new property and y’all have gotten sooo much done. I’m exhausted just from contemplating all of it. Hehe. Thank you for sharing this journey with us so that we can share in the excitement and experience. ❤️🌺
Jess, of course we all adore you, and love your blogs. But, hey, let's hear it for Miah !! He is putting up fencing, while you walk around with your coffee and a camera? He is hard-working, smart, kind, loves children and animals.....and he has all his teeth !! What more could a farm girl want? LOL !! Regards, Alice
Jess you said your a doodler when on the phone. No paper is safe with you. We have decided that You and our daughter Kyndal have alot in common. She does the same thing when making a grocery list. We all love You and your family.
I can’t imagine how excited you guys are about the move! I’m not moving and can’t wait for the new videos about the new property and learning how to grow in that area and deal with whatever garden issues are prevalent in that area! Great for new gardeners who are starting.
I have no idea what the humidity is like in SC. It is fierce in most of the South. It does Wonderous things with my hair! We are in TN. Our humidity wasn't so bad today! You are going to love the sounds in the evening around your ponds! Rent a "Ditch Witch" to make the trenches for your watering needs. Put them 2 1/2 to 3 ft down. Was one of the best investments we ever made. Also, for Electricity all over the place, Danny ran electric in PVC and put outlets around when I felt I might need them! Having the Electricity in different places has saved us a lot of time, energy and headaches! Love the idea of Hydrangeas! Hope your trip home was safe! GOD bless
Btw, not that you don’t have enough to do but have you ever considered a “photographing your garden & veggies” series? I’d watch or pay for that course. Just a thought.🤔
I've got two words for ya Jess. Sun Block. Protect you and yours. You guys are great. A real inspiration. Looking forward to all the progress in the future. God bless... 🙏❤️💯
Lime lite hydrangea is a great idea too. Ask your neighbours about bears too. If they are a bother or not too. Then plan for them in the future too. Just suggestions. Love you guys. Bless yous. In God's Grace. Sending healing prayers for your Dad too.
We went to a reunion in Pine Bluff and we had our boys with us, who went out gathering crystals. At the time they were 2 and 4. They are now 19 and 22 and I am still finding those crystals all over my house and property. They had buckets full that they brought home 😊
I suggest planting Nastutrium in the front entryway. They're not only beautiful but they're edible. They also will thrive without a lot of sun or watering. In fact, they seem to love neglect.
May I suggest a mulberry tree if it would do well there? I personally love mulberries but I've also found that with a mulberry tree birds will prefer eating them over the large fruit on other trees and the berries that are low to the ground
I had a few mulberry trees at my previous house and I used the berries and the leaves. The birds and groundhogs loved them, too. But don't put them too close to a driveway...it gets VERY messy!!
The "Homestead Do-Over" video was the first one I saw of yours and it's still one I recommend to new viewers. So exciting to see you come full circle! And yes, perennials choices are overwhelming!!! ^_^
Hydrangeas are a great idea! Paniculated varieties are the easiest. Limelight will get about 8 ft x 8 ft. Little lime is a little smaller. Strawberry shortcake is about 5 x 5 and turns a pretty pink as the flowers fade.
Thank you for sharing your journey. Loving these vlogs. I'm sure you have enough on your plate as is. We appreciate you taking the time to keep us in the loop! Can't wait to see the next video on how you are planning to use the space!
So excited to see you all transitioning into your new home & land. I can't wait to see how it develops and what fun things you do! Just a quick tip (which you have probably already thought of) don't forget to fence those new yummy fruit trees from the deer! It's always tragic to spend so much time and love planting new trees only to have them be a tasty snack for passing deer!
I have a rock garden full of rocks and minerals my girls found on our many hikes and Kayla trips as they were growing. The stars of the show are the giant chunks of rose quartz they found in Arkansas! Quartz has healing power and clears negative energy.
Take a small stone from your old garden and place it in your now garden so you'll always have a link to your old garden.
This is a beautiful idea!
What a great way to display where you came from!
Sweet idea. I always take a tree or bush but I also like this idea!
That’s so cool that Jeremiahs sister is moving with you. Built in girlfriend!
You had me at magnets. Stickers did not ring my bell, but magnets? Yesss!
Me, too! I have thought what do I do with stickers? haha! But then she told us what we can do with them! Will have to start thinking about that as I straighten up my seeds this fall!
Same here!!
Love stickers!
Stickers would be great on and in a garden journal
I'm with you...magnets are on point!
Jess, another thing about the east coast is that we clear out pine trees and keep the hardwoods. Interestingly, I’ve watched videos of folks in Arkansas, Oklahoma, and surrounding states that cut hardwoods and save pine trees. Here in northeast Georgia, we know that pines have shallow roots and fall easily, grass doesn’t grow very well under them, they are easily destroyed by pine beetles, and they have little shade. We cherish the shades of the oaks and other hardwoods and appreciate their sturdiness to stand for even 100 years! Welcome to the east coast!!
No kidding about the shallow roots. We’ve had 2 fall on our house in 10 years.
Very true. I’m in central NC and we call it tornado alley. To expound on your thought Dr B,, when we have hurricanes, accompanying rain, and the subsequent tornadoes, the pines fall easily.
And, of course, the autumn colors!
I live in central SC and I totally agree with you all. The pine straw also is a place where tick's, fleas and red bugs breed.
@@oneadams1 Don't forget about the copperheads. They blend in so well with pine straw.
Magnet idea.... some empty pots or green stalk and then some of those small veggies in kits so the kiddos (or grown kiddos) can arrange on the fridge and can rearrage as they want. Like a fridge garden! 💗 ETA maybe some garden bugs too! So the kids can send out the lady bugs after the aphids 🤣
What a great idea!!
Great idea!
Cool idea. Can see this being fun
Such a great idea!
Would absolutely love this for my 3 year old!
Good Afternoon Gardeners 💚🌿💚
I need that spider sticker in my life ☺️
Same same
I just want to amplify the fact that you had seeds delivered before your delivered your own self to the property 🤣😂😍🤷🏻♀️ that’s how we roll gurl!!!!!
The other day, for the first time in my 65 years of life, I had someone say to me "You really have a green thumb". My response was , "I don't have a green thumb, I have Jessica". Thank you!
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YOU COULD CALL THOSE QUARTS CRYSTALS SCATTERED IN YOUR GROUND 'KISSES FROM HEAVEN!'
Or jewels on or farm!
Oh my gosh the way he said "I thought it was just gonna be 7 days" so small and quiet like he was so sad almost broke my heart!
Oh, please, make a sticker of your closing tag line..."We bless you, until next time." How lovely the would be on a fridge, on a box, or almost anything, as a way to bless those leaving your home or your presence. It's so upliting.
Or on the exit view of a welcome mat!
She has one :) I am about to order it....it has flowers and tomatoes behind the saying...there is a sticker or magnet option.
Thank you. I missed it!
@@lonnievancura9702 love that!!! Great idea!
Sorry - the last link was for the magnet. This one is for the sticker:
www.rootsandrefuge.com/product-page/i-bless-you
Outdoor kitchen is really useful if you’re doing canning or just big meals in the summer. It keeps the house from getting really hot. My folks had theirs on the back porch of their manufactured house. Lots of canned tomatoes. Yum!
If so it would have to be closed off the flies are terrible this year
A screened off summer kitchen and some big barn fans are a lovely luxury on the east coast for summer garden canning!
@@chrissihr1031 that would be so relaxing and I could imagine using it in the winter too with a blanket and cup of tea to just relax
@@nadiajames3883 My German step-mother’s parents had a stone summer kitchen with big, screened windows for summer canning and jelly making, but it was its own little standalone building out back by the pond with a 3/4 bath and enough space for a double bed and a sofa, so they added a little wood stove and made a tiny guest house out of it. We also used it in December for baking Christmas cookies with all the women and kids together around a bunch of folding tables, and all of us kids in our pajamas, rolling out sugar cookies and making pressed almond cookies. Sugar sprinkles and the family cookie cutter collection spread out everywhere. Their big Akita, Honshu, kept knocking cookie cutters off the table with his big, curly tail… It was a lovely, cozy mess that I remember very fondly even 30 years later. ❤️
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"That's the scandal of grace... We don't have to be perfect, to be beloved and lovely." Oh, my heart. Thank you for that beautiful little drop of wisdom. God bless you all xoxo
We say that every time we pick a strawberry ever since we heard Daniel call it a “little strawberry blessing”
It always makes my son smile ❤️
"We don't have to strive for perfection to be beloved and lovey".......now there is a quote going on my fridge.
Finding your channel has given me so much peace, direction an has helped me learn to be a better partner to my fiance
same here
Exactly how I feel! They have that effect for sure!
It's amazing how therapeutic Jess and her videos are❤
How magical. You hired one of your viewers for work on the property. This is why I see the good in social media. Bringing folks together. R&R farm is EVERYONES neighbor. I love you guys!
I hope you guys read this even though it's on an older post. Just wanted to share how much you've meant to my family! My parents watch your videos all the time! When I go home, my dog and I will watch 'gardening videos' with Lala and Pop pop all the time! They have learned so much and have an awesome garden on their property now! They work hard together and enjoy their time in the garden. It's helped them change and grow together to have such an awesome project to work on. I bought some magnets for their anniversary this year from you guys! I'm so excited and thankful you decided to share your story and journey with them. Thanks so much and God bless!
Quartz usually means there is gold around there somewhere and also quartz has tremendous good energy! I think God must have picked this place just for yoU!
Jess you are absolutely giddy and high on life! It is so adorable to see your excitement!
Thank you for taking us along so we may share your journey.
Jess: I'm not much of an artist
Also Jess: Beautiful little stickers that truly present great artistic ability
"The scandal of grace is that it gets to be imperfect and still beautiful." I look forward to a coffee table book in the future of your words and lovely illustrations Jess
Store bought tomatoes taste like disappointment. 🤣💙✨
I love you all.
Just had my first ripe tomatoes sliced with dinner 2 nights ago! Definitely didn't taste like disappointment! They were so yummy!
Yes! Can't wait for ours! Almost there!
Upstate SC checkin' in, welcome to the state. An idea for a new sticker to celebrate your new homestead maybe could include the SC motto: Dum Spiro Spero - "While I breathe, I hope"...maybe a scene of the tree with the swing and the pond? Be Blessed!
You should make a rock garden bed (like the cottage garden) out of the quartz!
Jess- I just wanted to say that you radiate so much passion and joy when you talk about the things you love (family and friends, gardening, animals, your farm, etc), even when your life is as hectic as it is right now, and I simply adore you for that. You fuel my love and motivation to garden in the small eighth-of-an-acre property that I live on here in Massachusetts; when I watch your videos I feel like I get to connect with you even though we are complete strangers. Over the past year I have learned so much from you as a gardener and continue to learn more from you each day. I am 18 years old & moving on to college in the fall (to a college a couple towns over) so I hope I can continue to spend time in the garden during my time as a student & make the most out of the time left I have at home & the garden before I move on in life. One day I aspire to have a big beautiful farm and garden just like you. So thank you for sharing your beautiful life with us, and I wish you the best with your upcoming move.
I love watching all your videos. I just found you like a week or so ago. And I was so excited to actually find your book in our BAM store. I am reading now cover to cover. You are a bright light in these crazy days. You have a gift for making people smile, I know because I am one of them!!! Please keep bringing the light. Enjoy life and your new adventures.
I'm inspired that your kids don't want to leave. That is such a good sign.
I think it's great that your viewers offer to help and you can hire them.
I bet your kids can't wait to get in the new modular home.
I'm anticipating you setting up your new garden spaces.
Ever since you shared your story about the spider, I wrote down what you said on a little piece of paper and it’s been on my kitchen window sill since, “You can’t have perfection and life in the same place.”-JS. I look at it every day and ponder. My husband even was going to make me a wood carving of it. So glad you are making a sticker for it. It really is such a beautiful saying.
Your comment about the weariness of the process helping you be eager for the change reminds me of third trimester pregnancy 🤰
Jess we need magnets of basic shaped garden beds and plots to help plan out garden beds!! Like areal view of square garden beds and green stalk planters! I always end up cutting shapes out on paper and moving them around. Cute magnets would be so much better!
So I am part way through this video and all of a sudden started thinking.... When I first found R&R it was so educational, teaching so much information, not so much anymore in this season. So then I realized, I'm really just watching someone else's life at this point, but I'm still watching. Lovin' this season of your life Jess!! I can't wait to see what's next!!!...Roots & Refuge come for the information, stay for the story.
This blesses me. I’m so ready to be teaching and instructing again!
@@RootsandRefugeFarm when that season starts, think of the audience you'll have at that point!! Making your classroom a wading room for others!! Hehehe. See what I did there...!!
Those “investment” plants that you expect to stay for years-so right that’s DAUNTING! I know it’s going to be beautiful 🤩 thank you for sharing ❤️
Safe travels. Love to see you so giddy. Take a cutting from your most favorite rose and plant it at new farm as a remembrance of beginnings of Roots and Refuge and the beautifully sweet memories you have gained.
I used to go on holiday to Wales as a kid and they had a tonne of crystal rocks like that on the beach. I used to collect the ones with holes in where I could see the crystal glittering inside. Who needs fancy souvenirs when you have crystal rocks lol 😂
Please be very careful to take care of yourselves. The exhaustion and craziness of a move can lead to anxiety and illness. Be safe, sweet family. 😊
You touch my heart every time! Wax Poetic Darling! 💚💚💚💚💚💚
Jess, thank you for showing grace under pressure and that for some of us a few seeds makes our dreams come true.
Jess, just a reminder that you have asparagus seeds in one of your survival seed kits that you did a video on. I know you said at the time why would anyone start them from seed? Well I started mine from seed this year and they are doing so amazing. If you can’t get crowns why not start your seeds? You have nothing to lose if they don’t work out and everything to gain if they do. I so appreciate you and family! Thank you for sharing your life’s journey with us. God’s blessings
oh my gosh girl, you have your own crystal in your yard. i would be in heaven. I am always buying crystal quartz and it aint cheap. I'd being running around like a happy fairy with my own crystal in my property. Love the new property, so glad thing's are working out so well for y'all. Blessings & Love to you and the crew.
Thank you so much for continuing to produce videos in the midst of all that! It's a lot to manage and you are doing it beautifully. Excited for you moving in properly and moving on to next chapter. Can't wait to see the video with the overall plan for the farm!
Those little stickers for seed storage containers are such a good idea! Brilliant
Been waiting for some like that for homemade mini cards to go with the "blessings" we often give out.
I was trying to make some and got frustrated. I’m excited to get those.
You, speaking about your little girl thrill, from seeing quartz stones, really made me feel a kinship. Even more than than gardening! I loved looking for beautiful rocks as a little girl, and it gave me such a fascination with the natural world beyond what I already knew of it. I also had a collection. ❤️ I wish you, and your kids a new rock collecting adventure. I hope you find new minerals to love. ,❤️
I am so excited to be along on your journey of starting a homestead from scratch. Thank you for including us folks.
Fruit trees by the road! Maybe the kids can have a roadside stand one day!
As you panned across the views of the fields and the ponds I just kept thinking about the immense amount of potential at your new farm; the excitement of a fresh new canvas to paint a new farm and garden home! SO EXCITING!!!
1) will that area face high deer pressure for those fruit trees? 2) start asparagus by seeds too. 3) start doodling your quartz sticker and willow tree sticker - that’s the first of your new homestead designs.
I'm amazed and awed at what you are undertaking!! I know I can't be your largest fan, I'm sure, but a fan, nonetheless. You're real. You're helpful. You're inspirational. Love that your family is thriving. I wish you only luck!
I bought some of your stickers in May. And I bought a sheet of sticky backed magnet page. And I peeled off the backing on the stickers and off the magnet sheet and then stuck the stickers on the sticky side to sticky side then cut out around the stickers. Waaaa laaaa! Refrigerator magnets! This way I can use them over and over anywhere there's metal.
So smart!
I'm so happy to see S.C. is getting you guys as new residents. You will only enhance the state. I hope more people like you move here.
I'm still waiting for a Goat Christmas magnet. That way I can stick them all over the fridge in hopes of brainwashing hubby by the holidays lol.~ P.S. Alpaca Christmas would be good as well :)
Bless you all on this journey! Such wonderful gardens, birthing goats, and new memories with Miah and your children will be made.
The willow will be so good for the pond to stop evaporation and it looks so majestic even though it's small now
It will be beautiful in the years to come. A willow tree over a pond is one of my favorite things.
Plant some nut trees too! Almonds & walnuts for sure, and a Southern farm ought to have a pecan grove.
Hi! I’m from Michigan and my family had a big hickory nut tree in our back yard. As a child I gathered nuts every fall, cracked and ate them. Before Christmas my dad and I cracked nuts so my mother could use them in home made fudge and cookies. Nut trees are wonderful to have, too.
Welcome to South Carolina. We really love you guys here. You'll find that we are for the most part very helpful and genuine.
I love watching your family videos! Thanks for sharing your world with us. Will continue praying for the move. Peace of the Lord be upon you!
As a geologist I love to hear your appreciation for minerals and rocks =] Excited watching your new journey!
You will find quartz every time it rains once you start working the soil. I love that about our soul here.
I know this is an older video but I found your channel this year (due to starting my own "classroom" garden) and i adore this channel so much that I've been going back to watch older videos. You have an amazing way of making us viewers feel like family/friends while also teaching sooo much awesome info. I really love seeing how far you've come but also that you're personality and humble nature has remained the same. I am like you in spirit and always want to teach, help, give, and inspire.... And laugh at our mistakes while rolling with what life throws our way. I'm sure we'd be good friends if we meet in person. Congrats and thank you!
I 💖 how GIDDY you are about this property, Jess.
I would love the spider web and saying as a tattoo and/or wall art.
We moved into our homestead Dec 26 of last year, so seven months ago. The garden/animal area was still grass in March. Now it’s thriving, we have duck, rabbits and chickens in static runs. I laughed when you said you’d be working a lot of us over a few years- ha! I thought that too. But we pushed and pushed more, six months later we’ve done about 3 years worth of ideas :) we are starting to be able to take a breath now :)
Awe! You guys work so hard and are so gracefully grateful . Hydrangea sound Great!Love your do over plans! Would love to see a sketched plot plan, like you've done on your notebook garden plans ;)
Thank you for showing your realness about passing along your old farm. Stay at peace! You've got a lot going on...take a break if you need to. You are loved!
I would love to send you some special onion sets for your new home garden. I will send their story as well. They are dry and ready for the ground! Where shall I mail them to?
Plant some nut trees too!! Pecans, almonds, walnuts.....a macadamia?? Not sure if your climate would take one of those, but how cool would that be?? An olive tree or two might be good too!! Make your own olive oil 😊 I'm so happy for you all and enjoy watching what God is doing in your lives....I'm so excited to watch your dreams bloom. Also, don't delay planting some basil....for a huffing good time!! Lol. I think it will chase away any homesick blues and put you in your happy place! 😁 Prayers for you all! 🙏🙌
Continued prayers as you and Miah lead your family into this new farm....So impressive! Can't wait to see your dreams come to life!
Just love the excitement in your voice. I so would help you in your garden while you wrangle the kids and pack to move to a whole new passel of blessings and happiness. Much love and respect. Peace
I am so excited for you! It is extremely tiring but it is equally fulfilling what you’re doing! I hope you feel the prayers of your “friends” here, every time you are on the road traveling. I know we don’t know exactly the date, but I’m telling you , the Lord puts it on my heart to pray harder for you at certain times. Jess and Miah, WE BLESS YOU! ❤️😁🤟
It's really happening! This is so exciting! You are on the home stretch of your move. I'm continuing to pray for safe travels for you all as you go back and forth from Arkansas to South Carolina, praying for your dad's health, and for good weather and a successful move with all the animals (and children!). :-D Oh, and magnets... Yay!
Hydrangeas are SOOO SOUTHERN AND WELCOMING 1💜💚💜💚💙💙💚💚
Yay! You made magnets!! This makes me happy.😊 Y'all make me want to move to SC. LOL I've been watching you for over a year and continue to learn from y'all. Love and appreciate you sweetie! ❤🙏 Prayers for your back and forth journey!
Magnets!!!!Yay!!!! Its coming along guys,I'm so proud of ya'll,you have big plans and big dreams.Can't wait see it happen.And its going to be so lovely...everything.Bless you.
Plant a bleeding heart ❤️ bush please. It is a favorite of mine that I have never achieved planting. I am 61 and do not see the possibility for that in my future. I would be honored to my core Jess. God bless you folks. 🙏🙏🙏💝
Re: hydrangeas. North Carolina, here. The hydrangea I planted about 18 years ago has never been watered by anything but whatever rain falls. I plunked it in the ground and let Ma Nature take care of it, and she does a lovely job. ;)
Thank you for your vlogs I am so attached to your content every summer the kids are so wonderful there is nobody like you its informative and inspiring and I wish you the best! The quartz is so cool! Miah is remarkable too!
Wow! I love seeing all of your enthusiasm for the beautiful new property and y’all have gotten sooo much done. I’m exhausted just from contemplating all of it. Hehe. Thank you for sharing this journey with us so that we can share in the excitement and experience. ❤️🌺
Jess, of course we all adore you, and love your blogs. But, hey, let's hear it for Miah !! He is putting up fencing, while you walk around with your coffee and a camera? He is hard-working, smart, kind, loves children and animals.....and he has all his teeth !! What more could a farm girl want? LOL !! Regards, Alice
Jess you said your a doodler when on the phone. No paper is safe with you. We have decided that You and our daughter Kyndal have alot in common. She does the same thing when making a grocery list. We all love You and your family.
I was just thinking, I wish my stickers were magnets. Yay. I can now get the magnets to match my stickers 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 AWESOME!!
I can’t imagine how excited you guys are about the move! I’m not moving and can’t wait for the new videos about the new property and learning how to grow in that area and deal with whatever garden issues are prevalent in that area! Great for new gardeners who are starting.
I AM EXHAUSTED listening to you! Good luck on your new venture. I want one of the spider web stickers! It has deep, spiritual meaning!
I have no idea what the humidity is like in SC. It is fierce in most of the South. It does Wonderous things with my hair! We are in TN. Our humidity wasn't so bad today! You are going to love the sounds in the evening around your ponds!
Rent a "Ditch Witch" to make the trenches for your watering needs. Put them 2 1/2 to 3 ft down. Was one of the best investments we ever made. Also, for Electricity all over the place, Danny ran electric in PVC and put outlets around when I felt I might need them! Having the Electricity in different places has saved us a lot of time, energy and headaches!
Love the idea of Hydrangeas! Hope your trip home was safe!
GOD bless
It does take a village ! Awesome so much work amazing !!! God is good!
Btw, not that you don’t have enough to do but have you ever considered a “photographing your garden & veggies” series? I’d watch or pay for that course. Just a thought.🤔
I've got two words for ya Jess. Sun Block. Protect you and yours. You guys are great. A real inspiration. Looking forward to all the progress in the future. God bless... 🙏❤️💯
I have to choose...stickers which I love...or things that I need for surviving. ARGH! Love your designs, Jessica!
Lime lite hydrangea is a great idea too.
Ask your neighbours about bears too. If they are a bother or not too. Then plan for them in the future too. Just suggestions. Love you guys. Bless yous. In God's Grace. Sending healing prayers for your Dad too.
We went to a reunion in Pine Bluff and we had our boys with us, who went out gathering crystals. At the time they were 2 and 4.
They are now 19 and 22 and I am still finding those crystals all over my house and property.
They had buckets full that they brought home 😊
I suggest planting Nastutrium in the front entryway. They're not only beautiful but they're edible. They also will thrive without a lot of sun or watering. In fact, they seem to love neglect.
May I suggest a mulberry tree if it would do well there? I personally love mulberries but I've also found that with a mulberry tree birds will prefer eating them over the large fruit on other trees and the berries that are low to the ground
I had a few mulberry trees at my previous house and I used the berries and the leaves. The birds and groundhogs loved them, too. But don't put them too close to a driveway...it gets VERY messy!!
The "Homestead Do-Over" video was the first one I saw of yours and it's still one I recommend to new viewers. So exciting to see you come full circle! And yes, perennials choices are overwhelming!!! ^_^
So much positivity!!! Thanks for spreading the good vibes
Glad y'all are so blessed ❤ all the help and y'alls health and resources and all. So exciting!
Lilac would also be gorgeous around your entrance!!
BRB, spending all my money on magnets!
HAHAHAHA, riiiight?!
Hydrangeas are a great idea! Paniculated varieties are the easiest. Limelight will get about 8 ft x 8 ft. Little lime is a little smaller. Strawberry shortcake is about 5 x 5 and turns a pretty pink as the flowers fade.
Thank you for sharing your journey. Loving these vlogs. I'm sure you have enough on your plate as is. We appreciate you taking the time to keep us in the loop! Can't wait to see the next video on how you are planning to use the space!
So excited to see you all transitioning into your new home & land. I can't wait to see how it develops and what fun things you do! Just a quick tip (which you have probably already thought of) don't forget to fence those new yummy fruit trees from the deer! It's always tragic to spend so much time and love planting new trees only to have them be a tasty snack for passing deer!
MAGNETS! YAY FINALLY!
Please do a grow something lovely magnet!
As well as the spider web one please!! Doing an order now. :)
Sounds like you’ve really lucked out on awesome neighbors!
I have a rock garden full of rocks and minerals my girls found on our many hikes and Kayla trips as they were growing. The stars of the show are the giant chunks of rose quartz they found in Arkansas! Quartz has healing power and clears negative energy.