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Hey ya'll, I'm Jess from Roots & Refuge Farm
Welcome to a place that feels like home. A small farm with a big family. We hope you'll pull up a chair, grab some coffee and visit awhile.
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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You got there because you dared to dream, and worked your way step by step. Now you show us that we can do the same, if we have the same courage and do our own work. Being grateful is important, but be proud as well. This is a mighty thing that you've achieved!
Amen!!
A TABLE AND CHAIRS SOME TRELLISES WITH 🌹 CLIMBING ROSES. Or MAYBE WAIT FOR A TABLE AND CHAIRS AFTER YOUR HOUSE IS BUILT…JESS YOU ARE LIVING THE LIFE‼️WE HAVE A BEAUTIFUL FATHER 🙏🏼☮️♥️🦋
Sometimes, not all the time, but sometimes you'll put two words together that really makes my tears roll out my eyes and down my cheeks. Gratitude and fulfillment just got me. Thank you for showing us that dreams can and do come true. If God is for us who can be against.
Every morning I write in my journal and I draw a picture of a barn and home (with land, a pond and a brook running through it) that I dream of owning someday - I'm 64 years old and still dreaming! Oh yes, there's a big garden full of vegetables and flowers there too - and LOTS of animals. Dog rescue? YES. Thank you for the inspiration to keep on dreaming!
May God bless your dream!
You are not too old to dream and make it happen. I'm 67 yrs old and I dream and ray. The Lord has answered my prayers and yes I worked my butt off. Now I have almost a few acres, a garden, my 2 horses and 15 hens and 1 rooster, 2 cats and a dog and pigs soon. So it's not too late. Believe it❤
@@debradixon6746 I love this! Thank you for sharing it! I will continue to dream, pray and work towards it!
@@haleymglick thank you so much!!!
For me Jess your videos are bottled fulfillment. Your hope and joy come through loud and clear. Thank you
Your joy and blessings are contagious. The other day my dad was looking out at our new small farm, dairy cows in the pasture, goats nibbling on a tree, dogs pacing the fences, kids barefoot in the trampoline. He turned and said to me "This is exactly what I pictured for you when you were growing up". He didn't know it but that comment underscored my belief that dreams come true and prayers get answered ❤ Thank you for sharing this. It inspires so many to believe in more for themselves.
Wow. That is so awesome!!!
This brought tears to my eyes. I lost my dad in 2020 and we’re still in town but urban farming and I imagine he would say the same. ❤
@@haleymglick My heart is with you Haley. Dads are such a blessing and their absence is a special kind of hurt. I lost my grandpa right around that time and its still hard to talk about him without tearing up. He was a good man and I wish he was here with me every day.
My favorite times of the day is when the fog is rising up from the valleys. Then in the evening light, just before the sun sets. The big red barn is so well designed. All those baby chicks have a cozy home. Thank you for the tour.
You have been richly blessed by our Mighty God who loves and cares about all of our dreams and hopes along with our everyday challenges, He is there with us.
Wow! Everything you, Jeremiah, and helpers have done to create your Homestead Heaven. Can't believe you have created so much in such a short time. Hope is alive.
Thank you for showing off the barn. Fantastic!
Golden hour is the bomb.
I didn't notice light until learning photography, and now I'm just so overwhelmed with the beauty of it every day. I'm so grateful for that!
I feel the same way about my farm. I dreamed of this day for so many years and to be here today stops me in my tracks. I love nothing more than to sit on my back patio and watch the sunset over my dream and know that this will only grow and become better with time and that I can share it with friends and family.
I think living on a farm makes you so much more conscious of the way the light changes throughout the year, the season, and the day. I totally understand your delight in the "golden hour".
Missy, you had me squalling by the end. God has truly anointed you. And, I bless you.
It was your garden a few years back that sent me into the journey of a love for the garden and I still don't have my farm but my dream of running a community garden is coming true at my work and I couldn't be more thankful that you planted the seed in me of what tremendous joy the garden can bring us ❤❤❤
My husband said to me this morning... for me to watch your videos, Jess, is like the testimony a person holds onto and says, "if God can do it for her, He can do it for me." ❤ I remember the first video I watched. You were telling us how to make money on our Homestead. That was so many years ago, now... I used to watch you and Justin and I didn't even know I was dreaming.
Jess I get a sense of peace watching your videos. That's so needed in this upside down world. I'm 56 but you remind me of my mom. She could take any plant and make it grow she had a green thumb for sure. She also loved the golden hour. She would walk around and check out her plants and flowers at the end of the day. I guess it gave her peace. Thank you for sharing that with us. Keep up the good work and God bless you all.
I bless you till next time
When you provide the loaves and fish God does incredible math. Thank you for inspiring us to dream.
You've planted A LOT of seeds, Jess. Anyone who has followed your channel for even a short amount of time can see that. 🌱😇
I love that you regularly express gratitude for the life that you live! It inspires me to express more gratitude as well! 💜
You were a huge part of my walk to God. Right there should be confirmation enough for you. Your seed was definitely planted here.
My husband came in saw this video and said it's good we do not have that many acres because we'd have animals everywhere too😂. I tell him as a little girl I always said I'd have a big farm with lots of animals. Hopes and dreams ❤️
Love the evening golden hour light. I sit out on my deck, watching the snow melting off my land and my heart bursts with gratitude. Thank you Jess for helping me believe this life was possible and helping achieve more than I ever dreamed!
You make my heart happy seeing all that you dreamed of becoming a reality, I always hope the best for everyone and that's what I do for you & yours❤ I'm disabled now and cannot raise anymore large animals or really anything other than my chihuahuas and my son helps with that but there was a time when I had horses, cows, pigs, chickens, rabbits, goats ... I miss them all so much...
I never thought there would be a day that I didn't get to ride and to be out in the pasture with the cattle but there was and is now...
It makes my heart so joyful to see you out with all of yours and in the garden😊 I watch a lot of homestead channels and I try not to miss any of your vlogs😊 God bless you and all those you love❤
Jess, I love how frequent your videos are! Very grateful to see so much content and be inspired. If God can do what He has done for you and Miah, I believe He's preparing the way ahead for the desires He's placed on our hearts too. God bless you friend, until next time! 💛
My father in law rototilled too close to his fifty foot row of horse radish. Oh my, it spread horse radish all over. For sure, it is like mint and bamboo, grow in a confined space. This was way back in the late 1970’s and this brought those memories right back like it was yesterday. Cracked me up!! 😂
It's such a treat watching you build this homestead!
Calves scampering across the grass is the cutest thing ever! The NC zoo a few years ago had rhinoceros calves and watching one scamper across the "savanna" was so precious.
The chickens!! I could watch chickens and egg collecting all day. Grateful you are sharing!
The smaller heffer has a heart shaped furry spot on her head!! ❤❤❤
I love seeing you interact with those beautiful cows-Thank you!
Oh the brooder!!! Miah has done it again. How glorious your farm is - so beautifully functional and tastefully done. You both are such an inspiration. ❤️
The last part of this video hit home. We find out today if our offer was accepted on a small ranch of 13 acres with two ponds, a well, irrigation and more than we could have EVER dreamed of. For the first time, my husband and my kiddos are super excited about purchasing a property and can't stop talking about it. I want to be just as excited but I just keep reminding myself if we aren't accepted, that Father is protecting us from something we can't see or don't know or, he has even better planned for us. Thanks for being the inspiration and for these little nuggets of wisdom - sometimes it feels like Father is speaking directly to me through you when whatever you're talking about is what has been on my heart or in my prayers and I'm so very, very grateful for that. ❤
Tilly and Ramona are just lovely!
Aren't they! Moving up from cute little babies into lovely little ladies🥰
I always took advantage of my family being gone to clean and rearrange. Again, this was oddly satisfying.
I love the light reflecting off the SnOw! My heart belongs in the north!
Jess you made me cry AGAIN! Also your first granddaughter is going to be the luckiest little Girl in the whole wide World!
Your gratitude is humbling.
I am going to lunch so I can putter around my garden and dream about my little farm... Thank you for that seed... I can feel it growing!!
There's every reason success should have happened for you! YOU WORKED FOR IT! You showed up, even when you didn't want to.
I want a cow so bad 😢 I will get one in the future! cows are by far my favourite animal 🥲 so precious
My children now call it the golden hours...... The sunrise and the sun set time frames. 😍 thanks for bringing that joy to them, I don't even think they realize who taught them “golden hour” ❤ but they have grown with you over the last few years and and have enjoyed learning with you. They are on calf watch with flash lights every few hours 😂❤
My favorite video of yours ever!!! He is lavishing His grace upon you my sister♥️I just bought your book for beginners and have skimmed through it and read the end where you were thanking people and at the very end - the best for last - King Jesus. I was like, I KNEW there was something about you that I loved and it was Christ in you!!!!💕💕💕💕
Jess, I know that a gratitude practice is uplifting. I feel your hope for all of us. The chicken brooder is phenomenal. The gate for the sheep is so smart. Jeremiah needs his shop STAT. Have fun with all the baby chips! squirrel Have you ever let an artichoke flower? It becomes a huge purple bee magnet & is gorgeous! I am grateful to have found Roots and Refuge. ❣
Jess u make me smile, laugh and just feel good when I watch u. I adore u!! I’m in NC at the Virginia border. So when I want to learn about gardening and cooking and just feel good I look for u!! Thank u dear!
Jess, you had a dream, and you shared that dream with the love of your life. And you prayed on it. God and Jeremiah made it happen. "Miah" is sweet, and God is great! I can feel what you have in your heart ❤️. Thank you for sharing your hopes and dreams. God bless always 🙏🤗🙏🤗🙏
That is my prayer. I want to work at home. Please say a prayer for me that I can find a way to do that. Thank you
I just want you to know your experience and suggestions are extremely valuable to me too, thank you🥰
I went on the carnivore diet thanks to you 20 years of gut issues, joint pain, heart burn, and even continued sinus infections has cleared up and I'm down 20lbs. I need new merch to buy to celebrate!!!
I love, love, love the sounds of your beautiful farm.
Honey I truly believe this DID happen for you for a reason. You are an inspiration and a blessing to a great number of people. I believe God hands great responsibility and work to be done to people who are truly capable of doing it. Thank you for not squandering that opportunity. Thank you for listening to his words and his calling.
Artichokes- do not cut off the tops, just turn upside down and hit on a hard surface to open the top. The prickly part will soften in the cooking. I cut the stem to the butt end of the plant and peel. Cut up with onions and stuff into the artichoke. Place in a large container heads up, add water 1/2 way up the chokes. Add olive oil and boil for 45 min or until you can pull a leaf off smoothly. We also stuffed with cooked sausage and /or hamburger, like a stuffed pepper and boiled. YUM YUM.....
Thank you Jess, we are blessed by you sharing you and your family's life with us, specially for those of us that don't live or can't live on a farm anymore, grew up that way, miss it but our family farm was dissolved back in roughly the 1998 ish time line. And I married out of being on it in 1986, so its been awhile, but I miss all of the animals, the freedom of walking the land and the diversity of the different areas of it, we had a creek that ran through it and it also had a mini swamp, and a pepper tree forest up on a hill too, besides the flat and dips and swells on it. I grew up there. We had cattle/beef/and dairy a few that we milked.and alot of the other animals that people have when you have property. So its been fun and will be fun, to watch you folks take that raw land and do what you have done with it and the future progression of what it will become, greater than it is. Thank you Jess, Miah and family for letting us follow you through your life and the abundance and blessing we receive through your gift of love!
The artichoke stems! If not too “old” (hard), the stems can be roasted too. Whole. Then split longways in half to scoop out the inner flesh.
Really wouldn’t contaminate with garlic…. The entire artichoke taste is an individual, short term harvest delight you’ll forever recall and anticipate as a need in a body’s minuscule window of desire.
NB don’t knock a shop bought gifted jar of artichoke hearts should one’s own harvest window goes wrong. 😊
The golden evening light sets something ablaze in my heart too! Thank you for sharing your passion and gratitude with us!
I'm thankful for living in a city where a drive to the country is only 10 minutes away.
You got me in my feelers today 😢.
Thank you for allowing me, us....to follow you in your dream that is now your reality!
Jess, I bless you till next time. ❤
Aww! That tiny devon has a heart ❤ on her forehead! ❤❤😊
It's the colors in the shifting light that bring out that urge to merge, LOL, into that same light, I love it when a sunset hits the light through a red haze and it looks like the trees are on fire one way and the other way is the sunset as well. Two views.
I love the chick brooder stall. What a great ideal. I just put some chicks out in an outdoor brooder we made years ago. The chicks love the space and were just scratching. We have 21 more in a brooder inside the basement that I want to bring out next week. We have another outside brooder with 2 sides that we can use. They are off the ground and fully enclosed. To think years ago, we were using large rubber mate totes to keep them in til we could add them to the coop area.
My older girls started laying finally after months off. Some are Marans so I put their eggs in the incubator.
The barn is beautiful. So are all the critters. That was a great ideal for the sheep to get out of the rain.
Devotional idea. The lillies and the raven. Luke 12.
It reminds me of your explanation of God designing us how we are supposed to be and giving us everything we need if we just have faith 💖
You are just so sweet, Jess.
Thank you for sharing your beautiful moments!
It’s called the law of attraction. Dreaming is key. Daydreaming even more.
5:13 Baseball size fruit sounds good to me! -Cara
I love the chicks step up. Looks so good.
That golden hour on the farm makes my soul just sing. It’s just one of those romantic wooing things that captures my heart and floods it with gratitude.
Exactly! Well said!
My dad used to get artichokes from the market in Birmingham back in the 80's and he'd cook them up and we would stand at the kitchen counter dipping the petals in melted butter.
It's one of my fondest memories from my childhood along with a bag of cherries eaten while on the No55 bus spitting the stones into my grandads hanky 🥰🥰🥰
God Bless you as well Jess and Miah on his own new platform.
We love you, too, Jess, & thanks for the updates at "The Golden Hour"!!
Yes, girl! Cook me some eye food
Your a light in our rainy times/time! Just planted everything and now it is on the second day of rain after!!! 🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🙏
I love the evening ! AND the early morning watching the sun come up... I lost my house of 39 years to a middle of the night fire, I travel all winter back and forth BUT I stay in a little camper spring summer and fall, doing my animals, gardens and flowers, I sit on the step of the camper watching the sun come over the woods with my coffee. Last summer, not getting very many starwberries was troublesome, and I was looking at the bed of them one morning wondering if I may just replant all new WHEN up pops a little squirrel head with a berry bigger that its head : 0 THAT's where my strawberries were going. SO- I got at it earlier and picked early instead of mid morning and there were about 8 squirrels ranting at ME for stealing THEIR strawberries. LOL Hens for eggs, but no meat birds as I can't kill them. - can't do it : ( I fed and cared for them and they look at me with an ax in my hand- nope, couldn't do it, so I sold them all by box full : D Goats, well they're just pets, milk and cheese : ) and good company. LOVE your videos Jess
Jess, I Love Your Videos! Thank You For Making Them and Sharing With Us!
Dear Jess, don’t laugh too much but yesterday I planted my first plants , only strawberries in a small version of a green stalk, one day in and they’re still alive lol. Thank you xx
Oooh, Malabar spinach (red vein) growing every year up the same trellis...truly magic colors.
You spread one of your seeds 3 years ago for me. Thank you! 😊Now I grow food too! ❤
You really are the sweetest girl and I wish I lived close enough to come have a cup of tea with you. You are right about dreaming of living on a farm because its been my dream for so many years. I don't think it will ever come true but I can watch your videos and live vicariously through them.
Those gorgeous Jersey faces!!! 💗💗💗
I never dreamed of being a farmer. My family had a huge backyard garden, but teen me had a love hate relationship with it. Yes I loved eating all the fresh veggies and all the things my mom canned, but while my friends were at the town pool, I was weeding, picking rows of bush beans or pruning and trellising tomatoes.
Other than herbs I avoided gardening most of my adult life. Yet, knowing what vegetables are supposed to taste like, I went to farm stands as often as I could. I am a foodie and as I grew older I realized I wanted more of that.
So I tried gardening, and it was challenging. The problem was the garden was tucked away between the garage and shed and there just wasn’t enough sun. Some how I convinced myself it was me.
So I secured a part time job as the manager of my town’s farmers market. It was a good gig and I did that for 4 years! My partner became quite ill so I had to let go of my market manager position.
My partner sadly passed. The next spring I put in 2 4’x8’ raised beds in the backyard. Better sunlight sure does help! I was a gardener again and loving it. A couple of years later, I got chickens, 6 lovely ladies! Who knew? Just prior to Covid hitting I decided I was building 4 more raised beds. Fortunately I scored the lumber before it became scared. So the garden expanded.
I decided because as I am nearing retirement I am going to keep expanding my food growing. So when it is time to retire, I will have my systems in place.
This season I have three new hens and I am adding 9 galvanized raised beds! I still don’t dream of being a farmer, but I am a homesteader!
Jess thank you for hoping that we can enjoy the golden hour, the blessings and for the inspiration to do just that!
Your happiness just jumps right out of my computer screen and l sooooo ❤ it....England uk
Jess, you are a Blessing. Thank you for sharing your farm.
I cannot imagine your frustration of growing all these amazing fruit and vegetables fresh from your own farm and not being able to eat them! 😢. I love your vlogs ❤
Just love seeing everything looking so beautiful
Hallie is the prettiest heifer I’ve ever seen!
Your videos are a moment of peace and of goal setting! I love seeing the farm in action and thank you for sharing your life with us ❤️🤟
So happy I found your channel today!! We are months away from starting our homestead and I cannot wait for evenings like this. ❤❤❤ sending love from Oklahoma.
Although I don't have the red barn,but with a green barn, I found myself as a young girl looking for the farm life and yes there is blood sweat and tears invested in this lifestyle, I often find myself thinking how I was so blessed to have this opportunity. While others around me have time to vacation and wander this Earth, I find my peace and my love in my little 10 acres of peace and tranquility cut out into pure bliss where I can just enjoy the golden hour around a small campfire with birds chirping and chickens squawking and roosters crowing and nature coming to life in the spring. Watching the trees budding and new life beginning it's a treasure that only certain people find relaxing and enjoyable and I am able to just embrace this life. ❤
The golden light is truly a thing!
What a sweet way to end the video, and a beautiful way to end my day!
My little baby boy will be 18 next month! Ahh, it is bittersweet. My baby isn't a baby anymore.
We don't have a barn, but we do have a few 3-sided shelters, and our cows definitely appreciate them when we have cold, wet weather.
😢Going to miss Hali. Give a big hug from me Jess. The last 6 weeks the neighbour cows are over the road. Hardly can wait to bring them back our side. The grass so tall they will have a great time. Usulally they get swapped every 4 weeks but the family had some bad news so they had to stay longer. Lucky you you can just walk out and can get some loving. 😊
As a fellow poultry enthusiast, I LOVE you brooder pen!
being from upstate NY..winter gloom and doom is so long...any sunlight just energizes me and lifts my spirits...SAD is a true condition...I know I suffer from seasonal affective disorder
You and your blessing keep me hopeful of Gods love and power. He says he will turn beauty from our ashes a garment of joy instead of a spirit of despair oil of joy instead of morning. I believe.
What a beautiful barn. So practical in every way, and also lovely. 💕🙏🏻 I recall my parents selling the first baby goat born on our farm. She went to a farm nearby. It was bittersweet to see Candy’s kid go. They named her Candycane. The memories came flooding back when you spoke of selling Hallelujah. 💕💕💕🙏🏻
Too funny, I whisper to each of my dogs not to tell the other but that she is my favorite 😂
That is a great idea to have a large enclosed room for your little chicks. 💜🐤
Yes girl. Your seeds landed in my hardened heart. Ty! ❤
Growing up in California, we always dipped ours in Mayo. The last few years of my parents' lives they pressure cooked their artichokes and preferred that although I haven't yet tried that. I live in WA and don't have much access to good, fresh artichokes but I am growing some this year!