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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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39 Comments
Secondhand Lions was a great movie. There are seasons to everything. The only constant in life is change. Embracing the changes and the seasons is just going with the flow. Resistance is futile & stressful. I like the dormancy of winter, the new life & hope of spring, the busyness of summer, the bounty of fall. Each season has its own beauty and function. Savor it while it lasts.
🇦🇺I can’t be around my kids when they would vomit as I would also. I can’t deal with it.
I’m making 20 Blackwork panels to make into a wall quilt. I’m on panel number 6 at the moment.
I am usually so relieved for the summer to come to an end, with the busyness of starting school and my part time work in the fall I am ready for the garden to be on the back burner, especially since I spend the fall canning!
I hear you about "no one throws up alone around me"! I am the same way. Why is that?? I thought I was the only one that did that. Guess not.
I've been collecting seeds from my spent flowers. 😊
I live in Florida so thankfully I'm just starting "summer veggies". Our fall is our "summer" but we also can grow a lot through what most states say is winter lol. The summer is our slow season in growing because our heat and humidity are too much for most veggies. I grow beans, cucumbers, and peppers only in the summer.
I make and use homemade beeswax candles which makes things cozy at night instead of depressingly dark
I love to of course plan for spring garden ,which I already have …but I keep switching things lol but I have plenty of time to change my mind haha….but I also love to read about the different kinds of lettuces because during the winter …I use the aero garden and grow hydroponically just lettuce and a few orange hat tomatoes.. so basically I love to learn about the stories behind them which ones may be a heat tolerant cold tolerant etc. I’m actually doing that right now before bed I wanted to leave this comment. So I guess I just tried taking more knowledge. And this year I did harvest a lot of wisdom but no tomatoes🥲 but I’m ready for spring with my suit of armor on.❤️Oh and I just started my tomatoes in the aero garden so every morning I get to at least wait for the little guys to sprout any day now. Love you videos though and your attitude it’s just infectious or should I say your laugh is. I’ve learned a lot from you thank you.
My favorite green tomato recipe is chutney. I got a recipe from a friend a few years ago and fell in love. Now I chutney everything, but green tomatoes are my favorite.
"Second Hand Lions" is awesome!
Here is AZ, we are exiting our “inside time” when it is too hot to be outside, and entering the season of our peak garden. So Fall for us always feels like a season of renewal, while at the same time, the sun goes down lower and lower in the horizon.
This fall I’m excited to get some organizing done with my jars of dried herbs, some sewing projects & the cleaning out of my office. I sure hope to get my windows cleaned before it gets cold out but we’ve had a marvellous late season here in central Alberta, Canada. I bless everyone 🤗💕🇨🇦
I am learning now to embrace the hard season that winter is for me by looking forward to reading, baking all the breads and things, food prep for freezing and so many things like that to help stock up on the items I can and focus on those type of inside projects. I also like to slow down with my kids we do a lot of movie nights and such and I enjoy the time we can spend together in the winter.
Fall cleaning seems to be a thing. And trying to wrap up projects.
Try Green Tomato Sweet Dessert Breads, 😋delicious. You can add in things like coconut, pineapple, apples, bananas; really anything you’d add to zucchini bread – taste the same.
Bless you 😊
I kept thinking "Puff the Magic Dragon" when Will was driving around. 😂
In fall, we love to travel. It's so sweet to come back to a wild garden after being gone. I also love puzzles and cooking or preserving a lot more.
I shift over to my shop and take In woodworking projects. First full year retired so the plan is to make things to sell.
It will freeze here in Minnesota before long. I always have a ton of green tomatoes. This year more of them have ripened but I will still, have some green tomatoes and am always looking for new recipes. I think I will try this. I love your videos. God bless.
For me I transition fairly easily. I embrace the change in the season by knitting, reading, and cooking our favorite recipes for the fall. I also read and watch gardening shows anticipating the coming growing season. I love all of the seasons.
Jess, I forgot to ask, can we get your recipe for the green tomato Chow chow?
I have a hard time killing things to. I pick my horn worms off and take them out to the woods. I tell my hubby there little legs are to small to make it back🐛
That is an awesome movie!
Its awesome Jess i hadn't made chow chow in years mom used to make it every year that brought back a special memory for me
I harvest my green tomatoes and d
Fry batches and batches of them, flash freeze them, then put then in a zip lock bag and heat them in a hot cast iron pan or the air fryer and eat them all winter!
So, it has taken me 71 years to finally get to the place that you are now. For the first time, I am not totally depressed that summer is ending and am actually enjoying this transition to the next season. Embrace the moment, whenever it takes place.
About the throw up…im like that too.cant stand looking a vomit of others…some time cat…other time people.
In my sort of cool weather..i have floods…a knee high stagnant water around my place with constant rains for a good 3 or more months.
Love looking and reading cook books. Making soups this time year and making apple sauce.
Green tomato salsa is a thing too. I have not tried it yet but the recipes I have collected look pretty good as an alternative to tomatillo salsa.
Man, you just reminded me of truly how much I can learn from seasoned gardeners. Not just the growing, but accepting and embracing the rest. I am already chomping at the bit, BUT I can give myself time to mull over hoping to expand the garden next growing season. So it doesn’t take me 10 years to learn to rest but thanks to you friend, I can learn from year 1.
Interesting, in Louisiana, chow chow is a fermented/ chuncky hot pepper sauce. Mostly used in gumbo, but gravies and stews and so on…
If it wasn't for picking green tomatoes and ripening in the house, I would have no tomatoes. However I do enjoy green tomato chow chow and a few other green tomato dishes – green tomato mincemeat being one. We have had our first light frost and although it is a time to transition, it is a season of scramble to get everything done before the snow flies. The chow chow I make has apples in it – so good with meats and such. After the garden is in, I process all I need to and then transition into using up the zucchini into baked goods as a start for Christmas baking. The indoor garden gets planted at that time as well.
Unfortunately here in Tucson, we don’t have a drastic change of seasons. I am always happy to see the temperatures reduce! We can have triple digit temperatures from April to late September….
Definitely taking more garden breaks to sit and enjoy the birds.
September is a lot of canning, and freeze drying, the last minute harvests before the first freeze in October. After that, it's crafting for Christmas gifts and scrapbooking photos of the garden and veggies. Then, there is always the fun activity of ordering seeds and bulbs from catalogs and online companies, along with sketching new plans for next spring's gardens. Organizing your seed bank is another task to help you down the road, and by then, it is time to start seeds indoors for spring.
Thank you
I start drawing and doing embroidery again as the fall moves in, I've really struggled with not drawing during the summers as I love to create but I'm slowly starting to accept the seasons and the fact that I create in the garden during growingseason. You've helped alot on that front!
But as I am still setting up my garden I also do some bigger hardscape projects outside. Mainly setting up new gardenbeds. Here in northern Sweden the frost could come any day now so I'm also harvesting everything I can find. Except for two babysized zucchinis that I'm hoping to harvest seeds from for next season!
Ezra, your sculpture is beautiful and i say that with all sincerity. I love tiny precious things ❤
Love Second Hand Lions…. great story!!!!!!!