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- čas přidán 5. 07. 2023
- Hey ya'll, I'm Jess from Roots & Refuge Farm
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There was a time that all I wanted in the world was a little farm where I could raise my family and grow our food. Now, that is exactly what exists outside my door. In watching it unfold, a new dream was formed in my heart - to share this beautiful life with others and teach them the lessons we've learned along the way. Welcome to our journey, friend. I am so glad you're here.
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I sat in my Dad's lap as a small child while he plowed our garden and gardens for other families, using his Daddy's tractor, just after Grandfather had passed. I remember Mom canning green beans in the back yard by building a stove with cinder blocks and using a wash tub as a canner to keep the house from getting so hot. Dad kept the wood fire going. That was a cherished time that I remember so well and I was about 4 years old. As an adult, I married a good man and he and his two brothers raised a garden on an acre behind his mother's house. I was a teacher and canned all summer, even while in graduate school, and my husband helped me when he could. I planted my first herb garden at 23, having studied them for years. I have always had an herb garden since. Years passed and my husband retired. We moved to a house with 2 acres of yard. I became a Master Gardener and started growing flowers but also answered calls at the extension office. I talked with lots of homesteaders when they had problems and the desire kept growing in my blood. We were part of a 1,000 acre family farm which was used by the family to raise cows and horses and for recreation and I always wanted to just go live there. Our life's works just didn't allow that. My husband was quite a bit older and began to decline. My life's mission became caring and providing his every need. During the Covid shutdown, the desire to grow a garden became so strong because I didn't want to go to the store and bring germs back to him and I wanted to give us fresh, organic food. I grew a garden that year and, the next year, I learned to graft tomatoes and raised giant plants that produced amazing tomatoes. I canned and loved being at home with my sweetheart . We had walkie/talkies so I could go outside to work and know if he needed anything. He kept declining and last July, he passed. I will always love him and cherish all of the time I had with him, caring and providing good care and healthy food. Just watching TV together was a treat and I still can't watch much TV without getting depressed. I now live in a townhouse in Virginia Beach, near my son and family, and my tiny backyard is, guess what, a garden with raised beds, herbs, veggies, flowers, and strawberries. The garden feeds my soul. I walk through it and pull veggies and eat them right there without washing. Without it, I would not know how to live. I loved your talk and Miah's following discussion at the Homesteaders' Conference. It's inspiring to anyone who would hear it. I started following you during the shutdown, took some time away before and after my husband's passing, and am beginning to feel half-whole but still hurting. You have helped me more than you can imagine. God bless you and your family. Please say a prayer for me.
I'm so sorry. I will pray for you too. ❤
Reading this blessed my soul and heart. Said a prayer for you. May God enclose His love around you and bless your garden.
Your story seems a lot similar to mine as well live in Virginia Beach came from a rural area all of our family did the same as well lost my son and it's hard but gardening build my heart
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@@susan-almosta_farm8823 ❤
Peach relish is delish!
1/4 cup lime juice
1 Tbs. honey
1 small red onion, finely chopped
Kosher salt
2 ripe peaches, chopped
1/2 cup basil, thinly sliced
Great on pork!
What do you use this on? It sounds good!
@@leslitalley347 @ ktd said it was great on pork. I think sounds good on a salad also!
Do you have to let it sit for a bit before using it or can you just mix everything together and use it? Do you put it on raw pork and bake it or cook the pork first then add the relish just priorto eating? TIA!!!
It's like child birth. In April you forget the pain of July and August. That urge to grow something beautiful and tasty never goes away.
I totally agree! I have thought the exact same thing. 😊
So, so true!
As a child, we always had a garden. My father worked full time, came home and cooked, cleaned and took care of us three kids. My mother died when I was very young, so he was a doer of all things. It wasn't until I was a young teenager that I began to appreciate the garden. Tomato sandwiches were the best thing ever!
After I got married, the first thing I did at our new home was to make my own garden. I raised five children who had fresh vegetables all summer long. I never did learn to can (always wished I had) but I did freeze whatever I could fit in our small freezer. After 32 years of marriage, my ex decided I was too old and left for a younger woman. He foreclosed on my home and left me homeless. My one son let us live at his house until I could find an apartment. I'm disabled, on a very limited income but I still plant whatever I can in buckets. I plant a garden for my sister who has stage 4 cancer. I plant for my son. I share my excess with my neighbors, senior meals and the food pantry.
My "why" is because it gives me a reason to get up even when I'm in so much pain, it gives my serotonin a boost to watch things grow, it makes me feel connected to life to get my hands in the dirt and I know I have made a difference. I've even gotten my grandchildren interested in the gardens and how excited they are when we plant together.
Sorry for your disappointments in life . Thank God that gardening has given you a reason to feel good . Don’t give up , you have a purpose and deserve to be happy. I pray that you find love and peace again. I I’ll pray that you do! Don’t give up.❤
God bless you 🙏💕
@gdean108 Thank you. I'm grieving but I plan to heal someday.
@@debinbc Thank you.
Growing life…it sustains us. You done good.
Tomorrow is moving day for me! Finally getting to my retirement homestead. 😅 my reason is I've always found therapy in dirt. My 1st job, in the 3rd grade was transplanting tomatoes and peppers. Found it helped my ptsd. So many skills and processes to learn homesteading. The learning never ends, that's why I enjoy it. Bees are next for me. I enjoy my mother saying," your grandpa kept bees.."...❤ 🐝
Congratulations!! I agree, dirt is therapy
Congratulations ❤❤❤ I applaud you! I find the same therapy in dirt. We are saving to buy our homestead. It is so exciting to see people realize their dreams. It makes me feel it’s quite possible for me. I wish you could keep me posted on your progress. I pray your dreams are fulfilled ❤❤❤
@@tarabishop8499 thank you! It took me about 3 years to downsize and sell. And another 2.5 to find my house here. I moved with my truck and 2 pallets, from Ohio to Puerto Rico 🇵🇷. So anything is possible, if you are resilient and domt give up!! You can do it 💪 🙏🏽🤗
@@melissaw.9583 thank you so much!
Grilled peaches with lemon marscapone cheese. Blend the cheese with a little honey, some lemon zest and a bit of juice, if you like add a bit of vanilla extract if you like. Split peaches in half and remove pit. Put them on the grill until they have grill marks and have warmed through. Two halves on a plate, a generous dollop of the lemon marcapone. Try it, you can thank me later!
Great idea!
I worked as a commercial wholesale plant grower for almost 30 years. I am in my 60s now and disabled. We did not grow anything remotely like organic back then, but I grow as cleanly as possible now. Growing soil and plants is the air that I breathe. I must garden.
Like breathing! Exactly. Like getting up in the morning it is TIME!
I grew up on a farm, after graduating high school I couldn't wait to get away from it all. Now later in life it's all I want is to have a garden. I started my 1st garden this year in over 30 years of not having one. It was a huge amount of physical labor doing raised bed and container gardening, but it was worth every drop of sweat and it will double in size next year.
Turns out garden math is a lot like chicken math. My garden doubled in size this year and it's only my second year having one. I hadn't gardened since I was a kid as well.. but man am I glad I decided to give it a shot last year. The happiness and fulfillment from hard work in a garden can't be measured.
I was just about to say UNCLE, I GIVE UP! This helped me today. Thank you for this video! The potting soil I bought for my GreenStalks and grow bags was bad. Things started growing and then just stopped. No matter what I did didn’t work! It has been so frustrating and I thought I wasted so much money on the GreenStalks, grow bags, potting mix, seeds, soil amendments, fertilizer etc. Why should I try again? Then you said WHY….I started crying because I was doing it because of the world situation, emptying grocery shelves, and a need to keep my husband and daughter and my grands fed…..nothing I did worked but that won’t feed all of them. You changed my mind and I thank you. I’ll be starting over again…..I can still plant things now and at least get some harvest. Thank you Jess from the bottom of my heart! I’m almost 74 years old but I’m NOT giving up! You’re always so encouraging and wise beyond your years!I’ll be starting it all Saturday…..need to get new potting soil tomorrow. Just told my husband it will be my birthday present! 😂😂😂 I’ve been so frustrated but you set me straight again and I thank you!❤❤❤
I, like you, am feeling so frustrated with lack of production! But not in my green stalks. I have eggplants and Roma tomatoes and cherries too! But I have to find a way to start my own plants from seed! I have utterly failed at it for three years. As much pleasure as I will get from harvesting that bounty, the cost of buying the plants far exceeds the grocery store savings.
I’m 77 and I do my gardening on the gulf coast morning and evening - in my front yard! 4 green stalks and 3 2’x8’ waist high beds. Neighbors come by for chats when I’m outside. How very nice!
Seeing Jess’s tomatoes today made me even more hungry to learn more! Thank you Jess, for the encouragement and inspiration, 🥰
Hear me out. Your brown butter tomato snack (which has changed my life) with peaches 🤯 I made a salad with tomatoes, nectarines, brown butter, basil, and salty feta. It was fantastic
I did this exact thing today minus the cheese
My “why” was learning about the “unknowns” in our food supply 😮 I was a “never” gardener w a brown thumb!!! 😂 Six years later my husband and I have 5 raised beds now and I have discovered I CAN grow more than cucumbers!!!!! 😅 The main thing that I remember from the first time I watched your video was… the one thing you can be certain of is that you will fail but you will also succeed if you don’t give up!!! ❤ Thanks for being a Beautiful Light and an Amazing teacher!!! Love you sister!!! God Bless 🙏🏻
Gardening feeds my heart, increases my peace, and heals my body. The bountiful produce is a pretty great bonus too❤
The deeper and bigger my “why” gets, the bigger my passion gets, the bigger the risk and reward. And the bigger my garden gets. And the bigger the grasshoppers seem to get, too. 😂
If you can get chickens, they're super to patrol in chicken tunnels between and around rows of your garden. Our girls haven't adapted to the "chunnels" much, but our young chickens adore chasing the bugs that hop through the wire. LOL
@@OrganicMommaGA I actually did that a few years ago! Now I have guineas that free range but it is like a plague over here this year. 😂
I started growing in my little suburban back yard. Then we decided to move out of town to a little over and acre property. We got chickens first and then made a garden. Over the last ten years our garden has grown and so has this gardener. I love sharing with anyone who wants to learn. We just started a gardening group and I brought them some basil tea to try. They loved it, so I shared my Holy basil seeds. In my garden I always make sure that I grow something lovely 😉
I long for a homestead--my why is to be self sustaining and to teach my grandkids to grow their own food.
You may want to try peach-pineapple jam. It was my favorite for years and then the stores stopped carrying it. This year, I will make some myself. As for my why....I am 83 and I have been gardening any time I can since I was 18 and helped my grandfather grow tomatoes. Last year, after years and years of drought here in CA and a total fail garden because I was having so much trouble with my knees that I couldn't spend the time needed, I thought about giving up gardening. My son and daughter in law would like me to, they think I spend too mch time, money and energy on it. But this year it rained and I am re-energized. The knees are actually much worse and I am waiting for a knee replacement, but I love gardening so much, I ration my time at it and suck up the discomfort. Without a garden, how would I know what season it is? Without a garden, I wouldn't be able to watch the plants as they emerge, hear the birds as they nest in my trees. Without a garden, I wouldn't be able to complete the cycle of growing, cooking and eating that is so satisfying.
What a beautiful story, I feel your knee pain! But the garden is therapeutic, keep on growing 😊
I have always been a flower gardener and my late husband did a small vegetable patch. He passed in 2013 so no fresh produce in my yard since. But 2020 changed all that. My niece, nephews, and son helped me build a 4’ x 8’ bed and I started a veggie patch. I was worried about the food supply but I discovered growing food was so much more than that for me! Over the next fall I built 2 4x4 beds, 3 3x3 beds, and a 9x3 bed and called it my potager. I just love growing, learning about , experimenting in my garden. I live in south Louisiana so I can grow practically year round. I filled in the space between the 2 3x3 beds to expand them to 3x11. This fall I will build my second potager garden so i can grow enough to really can produce. Gardening is what I live for!! My 93 year old mom tells me often that my grandpa would be proud of me- he was a farmer! And that makes me so proud seeing the admiration in her face!!!
I come from many generations of farmers, and my dad brought me out in the garden every spring to help sow the early seeds. I was the youngest of my family, and of my generation of cousins. I think my why began as a way to be close to my family, many of whom passed away when I was quite young. My Mom died when I was 7. But later on, my why became that I loved how real food tasted, and I loved that autonomy of growing my own food. Now, I can't imagine NOT gardening--my friends laugh and call me the plant whisperer, and I feel honored by that.
I’ve been gardening for a few years now but this years garden is the best I’ve ever had. I feel close to God in the garden. I’ve struggled with the why. I just know the peace I find in the garden doesn’t compare to anything else .
We are 8 years in. Started on 1/3 acre in town. We were blessed to purchase 10 undeveloped acres in the country and have been building our homestead. It still amazes me how far we have come. This life is work but it's worth it. Thank you for the little reminders ❤
This is definitely not a recipe but my grandma slices good peaches really thin and dehydrates them. They're chewy, sweet, and tart just like a fruit roll up!
For peaches: last year I found a recipe for a wonderful peach salsa on the Ball website, which I made and have enjoyed thoroughly and will be making again this year. I changed it up a little by only roasting the peppers, tomatoes, and onions, which made for a wonderful depth of flavor, while simply dicing the peaches and adding at the end of the cooking process with the cilantro in order to preserve their texture. It worked out wonderfully and makes a delicious sauce to put over salmon or chicken - or any other use you might put salsa to.
My 'why' for gardening is that I've been gardening since I could walk - my first word was 'dirt' - and I love eating peas fresh from the garden and preserving delicious food to eat later - sunshine in a jar is what I call home-canned peaches. I love the rhythm of the seasons and the joy of watching people take a bite out of a home-grown strawberry or pear or tomato and watching their eyes light up. I love knowing that with my own two hands, the strength of my back, my imagination, and the miraculous law of God's good harvest I can grow beauty and abundance for the people around me - that I can create and build something good in a world that sometimes seems only to destroy.
I may not ever have my dream of five acres of land to make my own, but wherever I end up I will always be a gardener.
I really love and appreciate the simplicity of the garden or watching my ducks just doing duck stuff. I don’t love the hard work lol but it’s worth it to create a resting place that brings me so much peace and gratitude. Bonus is our food is in our backyard lol
I love this!!!
We just recently moved away from a large city and out in the country in East Texas.
One of the major reasons why we are homesteading is because so many great lessons are learned in the garden and out in nature.
My 5 year old has already taken to gardening and enjoys making videos of her progress.
There are things out here you can't learn anywhere else.
Thank you for all your great videos. We really enjoy them.
Welcome to East Texas! 😊
@@LazyKFarmstead thank you. 😊
My "why" is to be proud of what I can provide for my family. My "why" is truly finding my happiness, peace and passion
I decided to start growing a garden when my kids were small and I found out what was in processed foods. I still continue to grow a garden because it tastes better and I like knowing where it came from. Over the years I’ve added an orchard and berries. There is nothing better than eating a sun ripened berry or seeing jars of food on the shelves.
That not even one minute of close up cherry tomato picking was something i needed more then i realized. Man that made my heart happy! Tomorrow I can see my tomato plant babies again (not so baby anymore) as they are at my inlaws houses garden. Im so freaking excited!! Maybe I can harvest my first bigger tomatoes!
I planted a garden because I experienced the total and absolute fear of realizing I was completely dependent on the supply chain during the lockdowns.
I used to just buy what I needed from the market. I would walk 30 minutes with my toddler in the stroller to the supermarket and buy what I needed for two days and I did that multiple times a week. So when the lockdowns happened, I was TOTALLY screwed when I went to the market and there was absolutely nothing on the shelves.
I was terrified that I had totally screwed my family over because this was very early on during the lockdowns and I had no idea if they were stopping all the farms, food manufacturers and delivery truck drivers. They were saying that ppl were collapsing randomly in China so I thought if this was like the plague I had basically set up my family to starve.
I bought the very little that was left which was mostly frozen food and organic vegetables. Thankfully I had some canned stuff and pantry goods at home so I was able to make some stuff. But I was truly afraid that I had set my family up.
Thankfully, the food eventually did come back to the markets but I never made the same mistake again. I stocked up like crazy on shelf stable food after that and I started looking into learning how to garden.
We were living in Los Angeles at the time so we only had a small patio but I bought parsley, cilantro, thyme, rosemary, and a tomato plant to get my feet wet. I bought some seeds, started watching gardening channels and homesteading channels.
After all the crazy stuff that summer and J6, we decided to leave LA. My requirements for buying a home was that we needed land. I wanted to garden and I wanted some trees. The money printing from the CARES Act meant inflation was coming (I got a masters in Accountancy so I knew what the financial ramifications were).
So here I am now. On year 2 of my raised bed garden in rural TN. I read somewhere that it takes about 5 years to figure out how to grow stuff so I wanted to start ASAP.
I’m preparing for the Greatest Depression which I believe will be worldwide. God did so much in helping us get to this place. There’s miracles that happened financially that I know was His work. So I know we’re following the path He wants for us.
So I’m hoping to increase the number of beds, getting chickens, getting fruit trees. I don’t want to ever experience that feeling again. It was absolute utter helplessness.
Growing my own food, learning how to live off the land, growing native plants for pollinators. That all gives me a deep joy and I feel less helpless. It gives me the white pill I need to push forward. I’m so ever grateful that God has given us the internet to learn all these things (my mom and brother are total city folk) and He has given me this ability to not feel so dependent on modernity.
I love this sense of independence I’m gaining by learning how to grow my own food. I’m trying to even make my own huge piles of compost so that I don’t have to rely on the supply chain in any way.
It’ll be a long road to be totally self-sufficient but it’s a goal I have if possible. If not, as best as I can get is pretty good compared to what I was before. So I’ll take it.
Testify! We have been sold a pig in a poke with our system of suburbanite convenience modernity, that glamorous illusion got completely crushed with COVID. Glad so many now are breaking out of the gilded cage and getting back to something more self-sufficient and reliable.
It's all I've ever known, thank you Granny! I'm 56 years old..home grown tastes sooooo much better! It's relaxing, calming.. frustrating at times. For our health!
Sometime I find it's only when we step into the thing that the "why" becomes more clear... beforehand, it was more gut, intuition, desire, whatever. There is a cool interplay that happens when you follow something bravely and then it feeds back into your "why" and then it feeds your passion... and so on! 😊
From: Stacy's Fermenting with a Smile HONEY FERMENTS
FERMENTED HONEY PEACHES
3-4 organic peaches or
nectarines, cut into pieces 2 inch nub fresh ginger, peeled and chopped
raw honey
1 quart glass jar, cleaned
A pinch of each: whole cloves, whole star anise, whole allspice, and 2 cinnamon sticks
1. Place peaches, ginger, and spices in glass jar and cover with honey. Mix well so honey entirely covers peaches and honey is over peaches by 1 inch. 2. Place lid on top and ferment at room temperature away from direct sunlight for 14 days. During this time, be sure to flip the jar daily to coat peaches (to prevent molding) and to burp the jar to release gasses that build up through fermentation process. 3. After 14 days, place in cold storage root cellar or refrigerator. Enjoy these sweet, yet tart delicious peaches. Lasts a couple months.
Note: The flavor of the honey will be enhanced through the fermenting process. I like to use the honey in teas, as part of homemade salad dressing and marinades. I use the peaches over brie cheese with homemade sourdough crackers, pancakes, oatmeal, cheesecake, angel food and pound cake - a little bit of homemade whipped cream goes great with the pound or angel food cake.
I was thinking “that’s a lot of expensive honey”, so thanks for the reminder you can then use it!
Gardening is my stress reliever and I love eating what I grow and feeding my family healthy food ❤
I love to garden and put up food. We are in our 70's now and have a small kitchen garden. I still find myself going to local farmer's markets and buying large quantities of things to preserve. It is such a delight to open a jar of tomatoes in the middle of winter to add to soups or make marinara. There is nothing like the taste of summer in the middle of winter. I love giving jars of preserves and pickles to folks at Christmas. I guess my why is more to enjoy the process of having my hands in the dirt and engaging my creativity by using the bounty in the kitchen. Simple pleasures!
You might already be doing some of these. Water bath canned is great for grabbing and adding as a side or salad, making a desert. Prepared pie filling canned. Peach juice or nectar. Freeze dried. With the basics they can be made into many other things later. Have fun!💙💚💜😎
Gardening ain't for sissies.....I am currently in my "waiting room" and learning as I go. I'm in Arizona....I have just lost my entire garden due to temps of 109 degrees and heat indexes above 116. I have learned a LOT this Summer. Biggest take away is ...don't garden in the Summer in Arizona. I will plant seeds again here next month, plant out transplants in mid to late September and see how that goes. I won't give up. I didn't "fail".....I LEARNED!
I don’t blame the turkeys for not coming out.Lol😅
It’s too hot outside even here in Illinois. Love your blogs, I’ve been following you and your family since 2015. I have learned so much about gardening from you. Thank you 😊
A crock pot peach cobbler is pretty amazing.
I was excited to move from SW Kansas to South Carolina...Im about an hour South of you guys..in the midlands. We only got 2 acres and it's an old farm from 1917...it hasn't been farmed for many years. I tried to get a garden going by growing seedlings and figured by the time they were ready to plant I'd have the garden ready...well due to financial reasons it didn't happen. I managed to get some of my seedlings in pots and have given away over half of the rest left that I grew ...that I worked hard to keep going this long. I didn't want them to just die so I gave them to a neighbor who has a horse and cattle farm so they didn't go to waste. She has offered to help me with a garden and bringing me good soil which I couldn't afford to buy...gonna help me build raised beds from fencing boards so I can garden a bit easier. Sharing really brings people together. Im so glad I called her to give her these plants and now I will have help I needed. My husband has never really taken this seriously and he's not a garden person and he's physically limited on what he can do so these neighbors are our Blessing. I wanted to have a big garden with a greenhouse...chickens...small goats and small cows. Idk if I'll ever be able to get all that cause we only have 2 acres and you gotta be able to feed these animals. Love your videos..maybe one day I can go up to see your beautiful farm.
I pray to be able to homestead one day. I want to be in control of what is in my food. And have it taste like REAL food.
I will pray for you as well.
@@myurbangarden7695 Thank you so much! 🙏🏼🥹
Peach and ginger jam is delicious. If I had all those peaches, I would definitely make some.
My mom makes the best peach cream pie. The filling is 6-8 peaches, 1 cup heavy whipping cream, 2/3 cup sugar (more or less to taste), 1 tsp cinnamon, 1/4 tsp salt. This is only my second year gardening aside from when I was little at our family farm helping my grandpa pick potato bugs. My garden has taken off this year so much my husband can't see me if I'm in the tomato rows. I'm in Zone 3 so my big harvest won't be until August sometime but I'm already so excited to share with my neighbors. People are always stopping by to check out my garden since I'm out there for multiple hours a day and my neighbors who have gardened all their lives were inspired by my garden and planted flowers in their garden for the first time to bring in beauty and pollinators. I live in a very small town so I imagine next year everyone will have flowers in their gardens all because of your advice. Thank you for bringing joy to my small community!
My why, 100+ tomatoes and peppers and a community garden of corn, beans, squash😊 are found in the pleasure and blessings to those who can't or don't have a garden.
Your channel Jess has given me the courage and desire to grow a large garden I've been enjoying your videos for many seasons now. Thank you!!!❤
My “why” is 2 fold. The garden is a place of loving constant. The seeds will sprout, the seedlings will struggle to acclimate outside, the plants will produce, the bugs will come, the seasons will change. No matter what I do, no matter how I intervene nature will be consistent. The heat of July brings me comfort in that every year July heat will kick my butt and will produce abundance. Number 2 is to show others that it doesn’t have to be hard. There are hard days and frustrating moments but that gardening can be done however works for you and that even when it’s not done “right” abundance can still be overwhelmingly true.
You’re an inspiration but honestly I just can’t figure out how you manage your time to do all you do. I seriously can barely find time to watch your videos and I’m only growing weeds and blackberries this summer! You’re running a whole farm and starting other businesses and raising a gang of children and putting it all on video so your home is always in enough order to be seen by the whole world and you gotta edit and do all the tech bit. Plus you have time to read comments to find peach recipes! You’re doing a fantastic job and your kids and husband look happy to boot! God bless you and all your hard work!
I like knowing that I can do it, seeing plants thrive and crop well after I looked after them patiently. And when they fail, I can make my peace with having the chance of trying again or doing things differently. Nature doesn’t give up on you, you will always succeed in growing something. And there’s of course the real taste of freshly harvested food!
For instance, I love kohlrabi and in UK it is almost impossible to buy some, so I just grow it and it’s so easy!🌱🌱❤
Kedlubny jsou v Anglii, jak exotická zelenina. Pozdravy s Harrow, England .
Thanks Jess, for the 'why' reminder. I really do like hanging out with you. 😊 I made peach pie filling last year and it was delicious in January!❤
Grilled peaches with marscapone cheese and honey.. AMAZING
PEACH AND PEPPER JAM!!
PEACH BASIL (and pepper) JAM!!
PEACH GARLIC SAUCE (meat marinade)!!!
A PEACH - just put it in your mouth and smile while chewing and dribblin. ❤️
I grow because I worry about pesticides and herbicides that are in the food supply. Also I’m 77 and it makes me move. LOVE MY TREES TOADS SKINKS AND BEES THAT SURPRISE ME EVERY DAY.
My WHY I garden. It is fantastic to produce our own food, knowing what sprays if any have gone onto it, fresh from the garden, the full flavour of fresh picked produce. It also, in todays financial times, much cheaper to pick your own cauliflower from the garden than pay $8 from the supermarket (New Zealand). My Dad has always had a big vegetable garden, so I grew up “knowing” gardening. I worked in horticulture for years and have gone full circle and am back in it again in my later years. I find gardening, all aspects of it, good for my soul and mental health. Having my hands in the soil is relaxing, revitalising, rejuvenating. I just LOVE gardening.
I feel close to God in the garden and it’s all a wonderful reminder of creation. The work is worth it when I watch my young kids excitedly pull out a carrots, or snack on a fresh tomato, or when I pull a can of homemade sauce off my shelf. Not to mention the flavor of almost everything is better than store bought.
My mum said to me once, “You know how spring just passed so quickly this year? That’s what we’ll think about summer when autumn is here and we’re swearing at winter for coming so quickly” and I’ve never had a hot summers day go by that I haven’t thought about that at least once.
My peach jam didn’t set last year. I found a peach BBQ sauce recipe that I turned it in to.
My why is to know where our food comes from and for my kids and grandkids to learn how to grow food and keep chickens. I don’t think we call ourselves homesteaders. We just live on a hobby farm, have a garden, chickens, fainting goats and raise a calf for our beef about every other year. We’re old and tired, and I’m physically challenged so I’m never, ever gonna have a cow to milk. But a friend nearby has a dairy farm if the need for local milk ever arises.
My daughter and her family live nearby and in the past 2-3 years they have started keeping chickens and also growing a garden. She has recently started grinding her own wheat and learning to bake bread. This make me so happy.
Thanks for the inspiration. Your gardens are so beautiful!
just months before Covid my daddy came to live with us due to dementia, it could not had been a better time, worked from home and was able to care for him. Oh my caretaking is hard, I was on u-tube in any spare time and thank goodness found you. I went out and made hügelkultur beds as we are on chalk rock I would drive the neighbor hood and pick up wood where ever and did not have to have any human interaction (covid) had a load of dirt delivered prepaid and just gave the driver a wave. Daddy is now gone but loved to watch me from the porch and I am now a gardener and so very proud to say that, my why is ,,, I have never been so proud of me and the pleasure I get.
My way....I found you 4 years ago and I had never grown 1 tomato in my life. I planted and had the very best Purple cherokee I have ever had. That first year taste was actually the best I ever did on that tomato. This year is going to be awesome for my favorite tomato. I usually do not plant for the fall but this year I AM!! I am in love. I fell in love 4 seasons ago and every year gets bigger and bigger. POtatoes, cuc's, radish, carrots, Trying corn this year. Failed last year but trying again. Ants got it last year. AND GET THIS I now have TONS of flowers I grow. Simply beautiful! The bees and good bugs are all over my garden this year. NOT MANY bad guys at all! How about that! NOT ANY AFIDES either! Whoo hoo! Thanks Jess.
Fiery Peach Salsa from the All New Ball Book of Canning. Soooooo good! We make it every year, and it's our go to salsa!
I don't have land (YET), but I am turning my waiting room into a classroom and learning essential skills, like how to grow food in containers and make bread. But I want a homestead to learn and to teach. Getting back to the earth and treating our bodies and minds to the goodness of natural, hand made food. To give people and myself a refuge to practice story telling and home skills and art. And try something new.
Your such an inspiration. awesome garden!
My reason is to have something unique that I wouldn’t have access to otherwise. I think it was you that taught me radish seed pods are edible. Thank you for all the beauty and education ❤
A simple peach cake. It's delicious. The recipe can be used with all kinds of fruit to make it seasonal. Recipe is for about 6 so you may need to make a bit more for your family. pre heat oven to 356F (or around that, my oven is in C, that is 180C). 6oz sugar, 6 oz soft or melted butter, 8 oz self raising flour, 1 tsp baking powder, 3 eggs, 3 peaches (unpeeled is fine) or more if you make bigger chunks. In a mixing bowl mix everything except peaches to make a batter. pour in a greased oven dish. Cut peaches in wedges and press into the batter. spinkle over some demarara sugar or other hard sugar. Bake for 50 to 60 minutes until golden brown and done. delicious on its own, or with some (pecan) ice cream or whipped cream.
For me the garden is a bit going back to my family roots. My father grew up on a small farm and both his sisters had homesteads. The garden was my uncles favourite pasttime in summer. I remember growing up all the vegetables they brought every summer. Also a bit of food security and just to have something to do. Mine is really small just a few pots in the backyard of a towns house.
Freeze dried peach are soooo good.
Dr. Wyche’s for the win!! ❤ I missed my yellow tomatoes last year, so this year I grew a 60 ft row of different yellow and orange tomatoes to test them out…Dr. Wyche’s wins for me again for me in productivity in the heat, flavor, and texture.
Bless you Jess !
Picking those cherry tomatoes made my mouth water, yard snacks!!!!! At our homestead we make “Yard Tacos” - grab a leaf (collard or kale)add Cherry tomatoes, a mini cuke, a scallion, a nasturtium or three for spice and a small spicy pepper - yard tacos!!!
The answer to why we garden is a multi-purpose set of reasons: 1. Store-bought produce is unpredictable and less flavorful. 2. Paying for seeds and soil amendments (in the absence of saving seeds and making our own compost) is still cheaper than buying it at the grocery store. 3. The garden gives us a chance to be connected with our food and the natural cycles and we feel healthier because of it. 4. Having our front yard garden has made us "the Jonses" of our tiny community, and it inspires others to grow some of their own food, too in a very approachable way.
Peach "must haves" in our family: Peach cobbler, Peach "nice-cream" (because dairy allergies stink), Peach concentrate for peach lemonade, Peach jam, Peach conserve (with in-season cherries, if possible), and Peach (with apple) fruit leathers.
Oh my what beautiful abundance..!!!
I absolutely love harvest times
I just love hanging out with you. ❤ I garden for the peace of mind, the nourishing aspect of it and knowing I can grow the food we eat in my back yard. I just love it!
My why started out to learn a lost tradition. Now I want to not just feed my family but anyone who wants real food. My Niece is three and loves to help plant seeds, water, and of course eat the food. This year I learned that's my why above all. She is my garden buddy and if I keep on she will know what real food is and how to garden. And a tradition of growing food isn't lost. ❤
Love video❤❤❤❤
I look forward to every single video u post!
It connects me to my ancestors. I garden because my parents did it and I have a better health because of the garden we had as a child.
Thanks so much cor the tour your garden is beautiful those peaches are so pretty enjoy
I adore your videos, introduced you to my man and now we watch together and learn so much. We have a small backyard garden in southwest louisiana and 4 chickens, our tomatoes arent doing well in the heat but its okay. it wont deter me from growing a fall garden for the first time this year.
Amen sister, all area of life is why. ❤
I made a peach habanero jelly last season and it was delish! Not too spicy just sweet peach with a kick. You can do crackers with cheese and jelly or even use it in dishes like a sauce
excellent reminder -- thank you!
My why is how I cannot tame my August garden! In August i sit and watch in amazement! I work so hard for that moment when things are out of my hands!
I had drunken peaches last year from my SIL and they were seriously divine!!
Peach butter is amazing!! Also peach raspberry butter is good.
I grow my own food for my mental health. I do always say it's good therapy. We laugh, cry, and even relax. Plus it is so much more beautiful to have a garden then just grass😅😢😊💫⭐🌟
My Why: It just makes me happy. 😊
Thanks for the WHY
Thank you. Just thank you for this reminder! ❤
The timing of this video is amazing. I was watering last night and contemplating this topic
Peach Salsa!!! So good!
The tomatoes are beautiful! The colors are amazing!
I don’t can myself; but my mom makes peach and raspberry jam. It’s a wonderful combo, maybe my favorite! Thanks as always for sharing your world and your why.
Sounds good! Do you happen to have a recipe?
I always add basil to my peach cobbler and crisp recipes. Mmmm good!
Lol thanks for the soft reminder 🤣 10:59
Thank you so much for this. I needed to hear it today so much. We've expanded our garden and my goal was to be able to provide food for our family this year and bless others. It didn't happen and it was super discouraging. We've had many many pests, and a bunny who had babies who have been eating all of our food we are growing. But when I look at my why it makes so much more sense. I am doing this for many reasons but I'm doing it to teach my girls how to provide their own food for their own family one day. And many other reasons. So thank you. I needed this and it came at the very perfect time.
I love making peaches canned in a sweet tea syrup! So delicious!
Thank you. I absolutely love my garden. Nothing can make me want to stay out in the heat like my garden ❤ it’s my therapy ❤
Mmmmm. Peach Salsa sounds wonderful!
Tomatoes are looking great this year. 🍅
Olives and feta cheese cucumbers onions peppers and tomatoes greek dressing yum so refreshing in summer
Peach bbq sauce is a big one I can and use! I also just can peach slices as we eat them year round.
Peach chutney and curried peaches are my two unusual go to peach dishes.
My grandma would can half, quarters and chunks. We also would make a peach pie filling(with tapioca pearls). Line a pie pan with parchment or wax paper, place filling in the pan, freeze, remove and bag individually for winter defrost