Unpacking a weekend FULL of Homestead Conferences | VLOG
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I absolutely love how Jessica spills her heart and energy with words,while Miah does his sharing with a nod and a carefully planned sentence.. like the final polish of the thoughts. You two are utterly beautiful ❤
Love you guys. Hope I am able to come to a retreat of yours someday🤠
Agreed!!
I can wait to meet you an fan girl one day Jess. One day we will make the trip from Australia. Im hoping I have a little garden boy in the making. My 5month old lights up when he hears your voice and sees you on the TV when we watch your videos ❤
I could not have said it better myself.
You two are so balanced as a couple. Love the sound of the children in the background.
I’m one of the ones who don’t comment much, just want you to know, I love listening to your life and your homestead. Feels like I’m hanging out with family.
This is exactly how I feel 😊
Me too 😊
Me too
Same!! I've been here daily since 2020. Thank you. it just doesn't say enough. ❤
Same feeling here…been watching since 2020 but am not much of a commenter. I can’t express how much value I get from your vulnerable teaching style and letting us glimpse into your beautiful family/life journey. Thank you, Sowards. ❤
My mom is 90 and she rides the inner tube, behind the boat in the river. Getting her back in the boat is a bit tricky 😂😂😂 what Grammy wants, Grammy gets.
My sister went on a horse weekend, when she arrived at her destination she found one of her chicken in her horse trailer. The chicken gave them a fresh egg the next morning.
Best note!!!!
Jess, I just want you to know that for many of us in this sphere, you are our Charles Dowding. Thank you.
I have often wondered if you ever stand back and wonder “how did I go from an unknown girl from nowhere Arkansas to someone so loved by and inspiring to over half a million people”. You are such an inspiration and I don’t know if I’ll ever get to hug your neck. We hope to make a little road trip to the homestead exchange some day after it opens but if we never meet, this is my virtual hug to you, my lovely friend.
All the time.
Aww❤
@@RootsandRefugeFarmspeaking of the Homestead Exchange, what is the projected opening date? Thanks 😊
You are inspiring to so many people. I was at the homesteading conference in Coeur D'Alene and attended your last minute fill in session. Let me tell you how many people you moved! I have been watching you for years and while excited to listen you, I knew what to expect from your "heart talks". Many people sitting around me, though, were not followers and were there for the other speaker. Through their tears, they were left feeling a lot more reassured, more whole, more connected and overall more peace, as was I. We are so blessed to get to share this time in the world with you. ❤
Yes! I agree!! For me, the heart talk was the HIGHLIGHT of the conference. It was exactly what I needed to hear. I'm patiently waiting for the recordings so that I can listen to it again with my girls. Love ya, Jess! ❤
I love that you no longer have to guide the goats to the stanchion. They just cutely run out of their pen and hop up on their platform. It's so adorable!
I came across a quote that said “you’re not introverted, you’re just surrounding yourself with the wrong people to connect with” and that HIT HARD. I find that I am so less exhausted when having conversations that are deep, meaningful and productive vs small talk with people who don’t share my values, passions and I am trying to make it “fit.”
Loved this video of you and Miah together. Enjoy the family in town and all that comes with it. Congratulations on the wedding as well, what a blessing!
I’m not a commenter, but I absolutely value your content and consume it all. My daughter watches your videos with me and has listened to the podcast as well and always says “mom I think you and Jess would be good friends”. We came thru Beulah on our way home from vacation, it was a market evening but it was just as you were going to every other week, and just as it was getting started. The coffee was amazing. And I said hi to Miah as we were leaving. It was a moment of oh they are real people and it was cool seeing Daniel making the coffee and Miahs sister taking our coffee order. I wish we had that kind of community. I do believe I may have been a blubbering mess if i had seen/met you, Jess. I’ve always held emotions in because if you weren’t even keel you are too much, but that isn’t true and having big emotions and reactions is ok. I’m learning to just be me and Jess you have helped give me permission to do just that. So thank you!!! You are greatly appreciated. Also, I ate my first tomato of the season from the garden and it was glorious!!
Jess + Jeremiah - THANK YOU for that weekend. You blessed the mess out of my soul. I'm grateful to have been able to sit at the table with y'all at Murray Fest and chat about the desires and personal convictions of this lifestyle. Still thanking God for growing my community in just a matter of two days 👏🏼🫶🏼 love y'all BIG.
A wedding in a coffee house sounds perfect!
Agreed!
I missed it...who got married?
Oh my gosh, I’m imagining smelling that wonderful aroma during the service.
That sounds like a marriage made in heaven to me!
Thank you Jessica and Jeremiah for just being you. Blessings Kiddos!🌻🐛💓💚🙏💕
I was at that conference in Idaho and absolutely loved hearing you speak .I even got my picture with you. Thank you very much for coming
Where in Idaho. Boise??
@@melissashreve2400 Coeur d’Alene
I was there too! And also got my picture taken with her!
You really matter to us Jess. I get emotional about PLANTS, and you understand. I still cry when I remember how you prayed for me after my comment, though we have never met. I'm crying now at this video. I guess it's like pen pals felt a century ago. Now go get some beauty sleep, my Mom called it. 4:30 am comes quick, but the sunrise is always worth it. Peace and Blessings to you and yours 🐝🌱🌻
Beautiful comment!
I love your videos, I've learned so much , I learned to can with Mrs Lori and I'm 72 ❤❤
I have never been to a Homestead conference.
But I strive to go this to one this year (2024) here in New England.
You Jessica are the reason I am striving to get there this year.
I can’t wrap my head around the fact that you will be 1 and 1/2 hours away from me.
I’ve got to get there
I’ve got to meet you
I’ve got to hug you.
And thank you in person.
For being you ❤️🙏
I turned in because you had really good gardening info. I stayed because you are a warm, relatable person who shares her heart. I'm 72, and I have MS. It's slowed my gardening down for the last couple of years. I'm still able to get out and garden, with some help from my husband and sister. Watching you motivates me to get out there. Thank you.
So glad you had time to listen, learn and love during your weekend! What a blessing. Stay strong, stay you! Say hey to Miah!
Awe.. Jess & Miah, you are the epitome of Joy, Peace, Dreams Lived and Real Life Blessings! Jess, it was an absolute Joy to share extra special lunch time with you when you arrived on the 48* stormy day. It was and has been so rewarding going deep with precious on target conversation, you sharing valuable information & good reads that I have in my hands now. Thanks so much for your friendship and the honor to be with you & witness all three of your incredible talks, especially your Heart to Heart Devotional talk that I have listened to over & over!!
You are welcome back to PNW & ID anytime, and hopefully Sweet Miah and your family will get to come too, for hugs!!!😊
I'm also looking forward to visiting family in NC, & you in SC, again, and attending the Homestead Festival 2025 at Rory Feek's..
PS.. Slicing Apples daily here brings you & your family to mind everytime!!
Thanks for your Heart Felt Blessings Always, I Love you all ❤️ Deb🌻🐐💐🙌✝️🇺🇸
I love the community feel of what "We The People" are bringing to the nation. So many of us, who don't have TH-cam channels, who watch you, and The Zimmerman's, and Living Traditions Homestead. I am praying for a large plot of land, to start my dream farm. I now live on a one acre lot, and I want cows, I want livestock. I raise chickens now, both egg layers and Cornish cross. So much more to come.
I am up in Northern Alberta Canada and have been watching you since the start. Not only have you taught me a lot about gardening and homesteading but I feel like you have directed me back to God. It’s a lonely life at times doing what we do. I’m still trying to find my tribe at almost 60. I’m also learning herbalism/astrology. I’m grateful for you. Gives me courage ❤️
I’m so happy you’re a real person! Being able to hug you and cry with happiness and the overwhelming love I felt I will always cherish. You have taught me to become the woman I am today, and been a great mentor through the past years. You and your family mean so much to mine. Thank you for turning on the camera and opening your heart for us to open ours.
Your second talk on Saturday was simply amazing ! Very heart felt and inspiring it felt like a worship service just not set to music 😆
Loved that you shared your travel and Palozaa experience through conversation. Sounds like a lot of amazing experiences and you're next big dream has shown you guys that it ready to grow. And I just thought, dreams like plants just want to grow. So happy for you and Miah!
Holy Cow!
She stayed on that tire the whole time???
Wow... Smart Kitty!!!
One of the nicest things about your channel is that you are so engaged. Learning to travel, be on your own is really a good confidence builder. It is just a skill that is good to have in your pocket. Enjoy it while you can.
Thanks for this. I used to do a lot of teaching and public speaking to homeschoolers, and I agree completely that vulnerable heart-to-heart connection (vs. insecurity or one-upmanship) is far too rare and so life-giving---true soul food! That's one reason I love your channel--you're real!
Also, I'm not a homesteader--just a gardener in the suburbs who turns 70 this summer--but I still get a lot of goodness from you guys, and I've somehow stumbled upon Anne of All Trades, too, and love her, too. People like you and Anne give me confidence to keep on doing brave things at any age.
I'm so glad you don't disconnect. Your so authentically awesome.
So positive and upbeat! Never lose that gorgeous smile. 😊
Can't wait to hear about your Homestead Conference Experiences.. And hearing about the Wedding and all going on!! So exciting for your families! Love you all so much ❤🌻🇺🇸💐
Love and prayers for your ministry. You have touched my life and that of so many. ❤❤❤❤❤
Thank you for just being you and sharing yourself with us.
I loved meeting you! Hearing you speak made me cry! Murray Fest was really the most amazing thing and I pry it happens again! I still can't believe I met you and RuthAnne! Serious dream come true. Sending you love and positivity!
Glad you had a good trip. What a busy month you've had.
I didn't have anyone to teach me the things, much less the importance of this lifestyle. I've learned EVERYTHING from a handful of people like you, Ruth. Anne and Sarah. I'm extremely grateful to all of you for giving me life!
💚 What a Whirlwind weekend! I'm so glad you got to visit Ruth Ann's farm. How wonderful to make so many connections and deepen relationships. I'm definitely going to prioritize a few Homestead Conferences in 2025. 💚
You are not "normal". You are SPECIAL, and I love how you share your heart and your faith with all of us in such a loving way.
I have learned so much from you about gardening and I really enjoy your videos. I have been watching your videos since the one where you showed how to grow in a soil bag in a plastic container. I really love your devotional videos. I am 78 years old and I love also to garden. Your devotional video about Daniel wrecking your vehicle and the emotion you showed while you talked displayed how much you love God. I bless you till next time.
Jess, I am so excited to visit Beulah when I come to SC for my cousins wedding in august! So sad it’s not a market week, I would have loved to come and see you! I’ve been watching since 2020 (like half of the viewers lol) and never thought I’d get to come. But I’m so excited because coffee and tea are my jam! Hope you see this and feel the love! ❤️
Wanted to add that I have a full small garden because of you. Everything I know about gardening I learned from you and have taught my daughters. One of them took a gardening project for 4H this year and got Reserve Champion 🥰
You two fill me up with so much love and joy! Thank you for being here and sharing yourselves with us! God bless you and your family 🙏🏻💚💚💚
I loved this so much. You have inspired me so much on the homesteading stuff as well as content creation. What you're doing is making big waves and there's ripples all over! Would love to connect with you someday, it's hard to leave the farm.
Thank you for all the many, many hours of enjoyment watching your videos over the last 5 or 6 years. I truly wish I had known someone like you when I was younger. At 61, I'm old enough to be your mother, but you have taught me ao much. I hope to one day meet you and give you a great big hug in appreciation. Thank you, and God bless.
I rarely comment even though I’ve been faithfully watching every video since you began. This sharing of your experiences with the conferences and with Miah’s family really touched my heart. I’ve been away from the farming life that was my childhood for nearly sixty years and you are one of my connections to my past and to as much of that life as I can still manage at age 76 in the suburban Northeast. Community and relationship is the true core of what is important. This community that you have built is so precious to so many of us. Your family is a true blessing to us.
Jessica, I've been lurking around on your TH-cam channel for years. It's been so long ago that I can't remember how I found your channel. It might have been from a TH-cam search for gardening. I did a few comments on the live stream that you did for a while but never on the channel. I just thought with hundreds of comments, there's no way you would read what I have to say anyway. I just can't not comment on this video. I'm so impressed with your way of explaining things and encouraging your viewers. Miah is an awesome designer and builder. It totally blows me away how much you have accomplished in such a short time when you moved. I've never in my life seen anyone attempt to move an entire farm with animals. My passion is backyard gardening and used to be vacant lot gardening. I'm getting too old to keep up with vacant lots so I'm now in this aging season of life concentrating on backyard farming. I just had to say how much I've enjoyed not just the garden content but the lifestyle chats over the years. I pray God continues to bless all your endeavors. I'll be continuing to lurk.
Nebraska Dave
Urban Farmer
Hi, I have been watching you since March of 2020. After a horrible gone wrong foot surgery, I had to force myself to walk 30 feet to my garden for 10-15 minutes three times a day to start my healing with sunshine and plants to over come the pain and limp. You taught me curiously and vertical gardening. By September 2020 I could walk 5 miles. So your blog today helps me realize I need to give you feedback. Your smile and calm approach is my one and first go to TH-cam videos when I can’t sleep due to nightmares from PTSD. I’ve had a rough, really rough time over the last 12 years. God has blessed me many times in many ways to keep going. You are one of my blessings! Thank you. I love you and your family. Keep making content. Keep smiling. God has used you mightily in my life. Sorry I’ve been quiet all these years and never said Thank you before! Please know you saved my sanity, I turn on your videos and God’s peace washes over me, my friend, you are the best! I pray I get to met you in person soon. Ps my third job is now being an organic garlic farmer! My long term dream is to break the cycle of poverty in Todd County SD for at least 70 families by helping others do truck farms on an acre of land too, working together creating a food hub in what is now a food desert in the heart of an agricultural driven state! Thank you for giving me hope and a vision, even if it is just a kernel of an unplanted seed right now!
You can hear the happiness and excitement in your voice as you talk. I am so glad that you had a good time.
It's such a joy to be connected with you in this space. Thank you for refusing to disconnect ❤
I absolutely love how you speak with the viewers,us. 😊 I don’t comment much but you have taught me soooo much. Thank you for all you and your family do and share.
I was at the Idaho conference, and I can't express enough how much I appreciate that you were willing to undertake such an intense schedule to be there. Meeting you was most definitely very much like it was for you when meeting Charles. You have poured so graciously into all of our lives. My life has been so blessed by you. ❤
I kept trying to express to my husband the overwhelming feeling of "I'm not alone" and "I'm not weird or crazy". I grew up doing some gardening and canning, but everything we did was with commercial products. I've had so, so much push back for moving things to natural, sustainable methods. It literally broke me wide open to be surrounded by so many like-minded and open people.
No way!! I honestly started for knowledge, and I DO want that. But I have stayed for you. All of you. I love being a part of your lives!
Left the city and bought our little farm December 2019. Knew we wanted to homestead but was clueless. You were the first channel I came across talking about tomatoes and your goatie girls. You are the reason we are doing this. You are the reason we have these beautiful milk goats. The day starts with God, goats, and greatfulness and I couldn't imagine it any other way. Thank you Jess, you have truly been a blessing.
I want to see Nana ride the zip line! Go Nana go Nana go Nana go! Happy birthday and congratulations to everyone in your family my goodness what an exciting party week♥️
I was raised in Eastern Iowa, so when I watch Ruthann's videos, it just reminds me of home. I absolutely love seeing the sun come up or getting ready to set over those beautiful corn fields. I'm so glad you got to spend some time in my home state. What a busy family you've been! Thanks for catching us up, good to see you home!❤❤
I love going on the journey of life with Jess & sweet Miah. What a rich & fulfeeling life y'all have. Makes my heart sing! ❤
I'm not a homesteader, just a software engineer by day and a gardener whenever i can. I've been following your channel since it was mostly gardening and I can honestly say that its been my place of peace as ive navigated my late twenties and early 30s.
Thank you for teaching me gardening tricks and not to fear canning (I canned my first food this past year after 4 years gardening!) for being all of your viewers' "internet friend" and for all the life lessons youve shared. 😊
Fun times travel buddy!!
Thanks for the shout out and could not agree more about how wonderful that trip was! Would do it again in a heartbeat!!
I wish I could post a pic here of the BIG WONDERFUL hug you gave me at the McMurray Fest - (someone got a pic of it for me & you gave me a tissue 😊) - I was one of the first ones you met right after your talk, and I had to go right away because I am from NW IA where we had lots of flooding. I volunteered the whole weekend and it was such an amazing event - and I did get to talk with Miah a couple times (he was great - comfortable, friendly, approachable) ……your session was perfect - PERFECT!! From the moment you both started - wet eyes, evolving to a few tears…but at the end - “thank you guys…..” I knew what was coming and I was like - I am RIGHT HERE and she is talking directly to us-face to face!! ……the tears came. Thank you for coming to Iowa (again) & the blessing of you being you and following God’s call on your life!!!!and…. You session is exactly what you are saying here - community &relationship is most important and most rewarding!!!!!
Thanks for sharing your heart, Jess. I appreciate you. It's been a pretty bad gardening year in Southern Wisconsin and this was a good reminder on why we do what we do.
I love y’all so much! I don’t comment much, but I’ve been watching for about 3 years or so and Jess, especially has been such an important part of my life. I do often feel like I’m listening to a friend when I tune in and I hope to one day meet you in person. My husband and I are trying to start a homestead in Hawaii on family land while we also care for my mother in law and help her with so many things. When we decided we were going to move here (from Florida), we had a lot to do before we could make it happen, so I “turned my waiting room into a classroom” and started binging TH-cam videos. Thankfully R&R Farm/Jess was one of the first I found and immediately fell in love with your sweet, casual, friendly nature and transparency. My husband & I are Christian missionaries with a large missions organization and I connected with you on a spiritual level as well. Thank you for all that you share and being such a safe space on TH-cam. If you ever consider coming to Hawaii, please know that you are welcome at our home. We would love to host your family and we have plenty of space. I’m totally serious. It would be a blessing to host y’all. 💛
I love to see that with a very busy life, we who are homesteaders, then knowing we have chores that have to be done NO Matter what. Thank you for sharing. Till next time, God Bless.
It was wonderful to meet you Jess❤ our garden hero!!
We have so much in common
Both have 5 boys... I had an extra 2 girls as well.
Both yours mine and ours families 👪
Both love Jesus 🙏
Both love gardening 🍅
Both love kiwi 🥝 pepper 🌶 jam!!! 😉
TTFN ❤ Marianne 🌻
Loved hearing about your weekend! Online homesteaders 🙋🏻♀️ I long for a local homesteading community and I know it will come in time and with prayer. Y’all give me so much motivation to keep going. Thank you for sharing!❤
This was really interesting. Thank you for all the acquaintances of which I follow a few of them. Very interesting to listen to.❤
I love that you shared this. It’s so reassuring to see that people can approach you super stars because your heart wants to greet their heart.
I love seeing how joyful you are. You laugh and smile all the time. I love seeing how happy you make each other. I love that you can pivot and change a wedding venue or have lots of house guests - I’d be a stress ball. I’m going to try to get better about that. WWJD, what would Jess (and Miah) do. 😉
Thank you for all the content you provide. ❤ I have watched you for 6 years and loving your gardens, animals and chats. What I have learned for homesteading I have learned from you and now a few others. Lots of fumbling along. We bought our place just over 6 years. I don't comment very often but I want you to know I appreciate You. One day I will get to meet you. Have a blessed day and I hope Nanna had a good time zip lining. 💖
I was at the Iowa conference and it was so fun to be able to see you both in the flesh!! And your talk was so heavy and amazing - truly a Sunday sermon. And to hear ‘Thanks for hanging out with us today, we bless you’ in person, through your tears - I will remember that forever!! THANK YOU for sharing your lives and hearts with us, you are an inspiration to millions!! ❤❤
I loved getting to hear all these stories about some of my favorite people (& realizing MOST of them I "met" through YOU! One day, I sure hope I get to meet y'all and hug your necks. R&R has been my gateway into the dreams for our homesteading future (& the learning in our waiting room classroom).❤
Dearest Jess, You could sit in your garden and giggle for the whole vlog and I would watch it and hear your joy as it becomes mine. You do that for me. I'm thankful. Sing God's Praise.
I've been watching Mary's Nest since pre- 2020. Love her channel. I've learned alot.❤❤
Thank you, Jess. I just harvest my first tomatoes ever (at 53) from my urban size garden. I’ve learned so much from your love of growing! I’m hooked! Growing is the best healing for my soul after the loss of my daughter. Looking for a small piece of land to start my mini homestead. You make it feel possible!
You both are so sweet, honest and uplifting that people are drawn to you and your channel. I believe God honors those who honor Him and it's obvious His blessings cover you.
I will be at the conference in N.H. and hope to see you there.
Thanks for all you do!
I loved how you mentioned Ruth’s motherhood. It’s funny, because I look to you for the same thing. I grew up without good parents and as an adult now, planning to have children in the next few years, people like you are my inspiration! I see how gentle you are, how much you enjoy this beautiful life, and it fills me with joy. You are teaching an entire new generation of people to come back to the home, to focus on love and slowing life down. It’s beautiful Jess ❤
Lovely video and farm-sounds as well as the brother-hood of home-steading and happy, happy children having FUN !
I love your channel. When you took time off I went and started binge watching your videos and it’s amazing to see where you are now from where you were when you first got to South Carolina. Thank you for sharing a glimpse into you and miahs day to day . Ps plant basil around your tomatoes should help keep the tomato horn worm . I learned this from Brian Lowell from next level gardening. He’s a gardener and homesteader also . I pray for blessings on you and your family and love you all .
Thank you Jess for always being so raw and real. Love you too! ❤
I found your channel looking for homesteading content. I keep coming back for the insight and deep spirituality you and your beautiful family share. Much love and appreciation for you, Jess❤️❤️
Jess your an amazing person! I don't comment alot but I have watched all your videos for about 3 years now along with Doug and Stacy. The 3 of you have truly changed my life through a screen.
This year I finally talked my husband into selling it all. We sold our 1400sqft beautiful home in Ohio that we faced another 30 year mortgage with and were able to use the equity to buy 11 acres in South East Missouri. In fact on the way to see the 11 acres Doug and Stacy actually pulled up next to us while on the highway it was insane and a true God sign that the land we where going to see was truly meant to be. I raced and rolled the windows down yelling "we are homestead hommies we just sold it all" they kindly smiled and although I didn't get to speak to then or meet them other then that funny driving fan girl moment. I went to their conference. It was a beautiful load of information however I left feeling dumb for my fan girl moment. I actually cried the whole way home as I felt like such an inconvenience. I waited in line for 30 mins twice to say hi to Stacy with my 2 children dreaming of a photo with her and express the beautiful influence she has been to me only to get shut down both times and walk away feeling like I was a nuisance. It weirdly broke my heart after truly selling it all, fermenting, chickens, cows, sourdough, purchased all their books, products and things they promote and fully doing it all following all the influence of them. Now we are on our raw 11 acres fully doing it and building our new home. I was so sad I actually told my husband I probably wouldn't go to another conference.
Hearing how you you truly cares for your followers restores my hope. I pray one day I can meet you and tell you in person how much your content and peace means to me and has changed my families whole life! My 13 year old loves your videos and my 2 year old cherishes watching Fraya and your other cows.
We also ended up on the same road 7 mins from Luke Hammonds farm (he works for seedtime). While talking to him buying produce telling him I worked at an 8 acre organic farm in Ohio I learned he works with my old boss and you with seedtime. Just another God sign! He makes fun of me as I am building raised beds and doing as I call it a mini "Jessica garden". This journey has been truly beautiful and restoring to my faith I was almost loosing. My husband was not on board with any of this and it almost broke us last year but it's strengthened us now that we took the leap more then I can even express. He loves it and building our home was a huge goal for him. Mine is clearly all things homesteading.
Thank you truly thank you so much for what you do. 💗
I bless you and your beautiful family right back!
I don't comment much, just love listening to you speak from your heart. I will forever remember the first few days in my new greenhouse, while listening to your podcasts. You were the one to make me say to myself that this is what I wanted and deserved. It felt fitting to listen to you in the first few hours in my new space.
I got the pleasure of getting to meet you at the Modern Homestead Conference in Idaho, and I was so nervous to meet you. You are truly just a wonderful, down to earth woman who is so incredibly kind! It was great to meet you and to be able to sit in on your presentations!
You truly are precious! I find your content so soulful and wholesome! And extra kudos for mentioning Ruthann Zimmerman… love her too! Thank you for being so real!
I bet many of us are imagining what it would be like to sit down at an event and look sideways and say "Jess???" What I can't imagine is what it's like to have so many random people come to you feeling like they've known you for years. I can't think you'd be anything but gracious. 💚
Uplifting and motivational are just a couple words that come to mind watching this video. Thank you for being open and willing to go where you are needed. I appreciate this so much. 😊
We weren’t meant to do life alone. A life with community is so very rich. Sometimes hard, but so worth it! I love how community minded y’all are ❤
I don't often 'engage' by commenting. However I ALWAYS watch and really enjoy! I learned to love the beautiful person that Jessica is inside and totally enjoy watching life as Jess knows it and all that she shares. Mia is a lovely man too, just a little more reserved although learning to share more lately. I would recommend this family channel to anyone and everyone. Thank you Jess & Mia for sharing and caring. 💜💜💜
I absolutely love seeing you with my other favorite teachers. It makes me so emotional knowing that you got to have your love cup filled by so many of your fellow “co-workers” 😉. We were CREATED for fellowship. ❤
My wife and I were at the Modern Homesteading conference! We were crying through your entire 2nd talk. Very powerful!
I always do that. I just talk myself out of stuff because of the uncertainty of going. I'm such a homebody. I am slowly getting out of that. I went to the Homestead festival this year by myself. I bought the ticket so I couldn't talk myself out of it (because I'm so frugal). I enjoyed it so much! I don't know how you get to talk to all those people. That's awesome! I'm always the one that just says hi and move out of the way because I don't want to hold up the line. I'm going to get better. So glad you will be doing more. Gives me an excuse to go too 😅
It's great to see you so happy and that the stress and painis no longer in your voice.❤
I appreciate you so much! I started watching you during the pandemic and started my first garden (at age 61!!!) You gave me the confidence and knowledge to just start a garden!!!!! I've watched and shared your videos with many others - now living in an apartment I have made a smaller garden on the deck! What fun I've had! Thank you for Blessing me each an every video!
I was at the Idaho conference and you did amazing!!! I was totally fan girl on you,but too shy to say hi😂. I think like you said it was so nice to be with like minded people that were so open and kind. Just so good for the heart. Michelle
Thank you for always sharing!! I have learned so much by watching you through the screen.... and actually my whe life has flipped upside down because I watched your "how to prune a tomato plant" video 3 yrs ago. We have moved from the city to 2 acres, make so much from scratch, we have 11 chickens, 1 50x75 foot veggie garden, a 30x20 fruit and come again veggies, and a small Grove of trees. If our development could have other farm animals you bet I would have them...😊. God has blessed you with an amazing opportunity and you have not taken it lightly. Blessing to you and your family!!❤
Omg I absolutely love watching your joy Jess.. 😊 Your passion is so contagious!!!
As always, it's a delight to share your heart(s). Your transparency and depth had me in happy tears with you! Thank you!
Enjoyed the very entertaining video. Love your family. Thanks for sharing your hearts ❤
I went and listened to the girl on Spotify that you mentioned and cried at how beautiful her songs and voice were Amazing!!! It did "All start in the Garden " ❤❤❤❤
I would cry if I ever met you . I watch all the channels you mentioned but you are one of my favorite and I don’t have many. I crochet a lot so watch those channels too. But I always watch you.
I couldn’t have said it better Jess, “having the opportunity for reciprocity.” I regularly admire your ability to articulate. Last week, I was able to meet a local business owner who had hosted my husband’s and my rehearsal dinner for our wedding, 7 years ago! She had gone over and beyond with details (like fresh flowers for the table, etc) and she did not charge us ANYTHING for this extra attention. I had been holding in all this gratitude for all this time, and I was finally able to thank her. We both teared up and the timing of the moment felt divinely perfect. I had been gifted the opportunity for reciprocity. Girl, get ready, if I ever meet you, I will ball my eyes out! To have the opportunity to thank you in person for how deeply you have encouraged me in my faith and in my garden! 🌺🦩💕
Thank you for sharing your amazing weekend! Greatly appreciated!🎉
Love your videos! I've been learning a lot. We've done 'traditional' gardening for a few years but, this is our first year attempting a raised bed/container garden.
Thank you for providing a channel where we not only learn but where we feel like part of the family. I found you years ago by searching for “goat maternity photos” of all things lol & have been hooked ever since! 💕