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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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29 Comments
Where is your skirt from? 😍
Pretty trays
Are you still using bacto
Kevin and Sarah at Living Traditions Homestead did a video a couple years ago about printing their tags with a printer. I’m not sure what all is involved but it might be worth the investment to look into. 😊
Hi Jess! I just noticed in this video that you look so healthy and lovely. I'm so happy that you're (to outward appearances) doing better than you were a couple years ago. God has brought you to a place of such abundance and beauty, thank you for sharing! 💚
I made myself up pot the tomatoes just today, spring is here !
I love starting the tomatoes in groups, thanks to you . I love that when planted in a group pot ,plucked up and then now planted nice and deep at the start creating a stronger seedling is even better.
Even the most intense love needs space and rest. Take what you need. You've earned it.
I can definitely relate with juggling all of the areas. Gardening takes precedent because it can be timely and demanding. I mean, we stop to save lives often! 😅 plus, always looking ahead and thinking of the preparation for the next steps.
Oddly, I just sat down to relax after tucking everything in and felt the exhale of gratification at just doing what I knew needed done. Wonderful weekend of gardening and outdid tasks. I’m happily exhausted. Prepared, but feeling dread of the cold freezing dips that are on the way. I’ve got snaps, stock and bunny tail grass in…along with onions, kales and lettuces.
Love your gardens .Just up potted my tomatoes today .Enjoyed video ,thank you .
We had a pretty bad storm roll through here, as did a large portion of the country. The storm caused many of my freshly sown seeds to germinate. Now its less than a week later and its almost time to uppot my tomatoes and eggplant
I would like a spray nozzle that my youngest son can’t break 😂🤦🏻♀️ the last one got turned into a sword 😂😂
Have you ever thought to make your labels during winter? That would save you time when you're up potting. I feel for anyone who comments on having a bad harvest. And I don't feel alone. For all of us good luck this year! 💛🐸💜🐸💚🐸😎
Everything green❤
Did this Canadian happen to see some new Canadian geese tattoos?? 🇨🇦❤️
I used to save my dead zinnia heads and replant the following year and they came back in buckets! Enjoy them!
"You might be a Crazy Goat Lady IF… you have milked a goat early in the afternoon to get a cup of milk for a recipe". 😅
The worst thing for a sprayer is to leave it outside on a night that's going to be 35 F, and it gets to 31 F. They freeze and break.
Girl.. I hate all the maintenance involved with starting seeds and them growing.. adjusting my fussy lights.. hardening them off.. bringing them in and out…I just repeat a mantra.. “Your future self will thank you!”
Great perspective; thanks for sharing! I was one of a few people who was repotting hundreds of crowded little herb seedlings at my daughter’s greenhouse yesterday. Thankfully the fellows had prepped the soil & having others to chat with helped the time pass. Bonus is that I brought home a few seedlings that were destined for the compost pile😅. Blessings & continued good health for everyone 🤗🇨🇦
I'm optimistic about the DRAMM spray nozzles as they go into their second year.
I like to sit in bed with my pillow lap desk, sharpie, and ALL the seed packs I plan to grow for said season as well as having my dixi cups of blanks plant tags and one filled with old already labeled tags of my tried and true must grow plants. I sit there and watch TV or a movie and go over every seed packet I plan to grow and fill out a tag for every plant I want of said plant-to-be. Then, sometimes weeks later, when It's time to actually start my seeds I already know exactly how many minimum I need to start by counting how many tags I have ready and clipped to their respective seed packet all ready and waiting for me. Such and such tomato has let's say 20 tags filled out but 12 of them have a tiny 'S' written on the tag meaning I plan to share those 12 plants. Anyways its more of a relaxation thing I do once I know what seed packets I'll be planting, I make a 'fancy' cup of tea too that way its an extra treat to sit and write it all out.
*Forgot to mention when I bulk start seeds in one planter I just shove ALL the tags in one side of the soil so they all stay with the same pot. It's worked for me for YEARS and has never caused an issue for the roots.
My experience with spray nozzles has been the same as yours. I'm glad to know I'm not the only one.
LOL yeah I am transplanting tons to. I planted wayyyyy too many chamomile seeds! lol
Jess my mom always said the big thick asparagus are the male stalks and the thinner pencil size are the female that will produce the berries to go to seed. We also pick usually to the first of June in NE Missouri.
Please tell us more about that sky blue tray with squares on the diagonal!
I totally reward myself for doing a rubbish, ghastly, domestic chore by going outside and throwing dirt around and prepping spaces or the Ultimate by sowing seeds. I totally get that. I only wish you were in my hemisphere and I could do it alongside your timeline.
I’m currently in the process of deciding which crops to pull out and set up for winter. Cherry tomatoes are the first to go. We’re in 9b New Zealand, so we can actually grow year round. But it takes a LOT for me to get organised enough to be super productive. So many resources out there but 99% of them for northern hemisphere.
No-Till Growers did some research on the topic of planting depth and learned most seedlings & transplants can be planted up to their first set of leaves.
I'm in Louisiana and I ALMOST put out my tomatoes and peppers… Looked at my 10 day forecast and now it's going to be 35 tomorrow night… Whew…glad I listened to my intuision….