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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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48 Comments
Every time you show Miah pour the milk in jars without spilling a drop, I’m amazed. Every time.
Hi Jess, silly question, are the skins not edible? If they are, I would just cook them with it. I don't like it super sweet but if you add 1/2 cup to start and per pint that might be plenty. Happy cooking. BTW, I completely forgot you had moved to SC. Are you closer to Wesley Chapel/Monroe area? Like a drive away? My sister lives in NC but near the board and I mentioned your channel for her to see. I ask because whenever I go visit her, I would love to do a meet-up. I am also a cook and enjoy that you are including cooking videos. I look forward to seeing how your journey develops. Happy for you all. God bless.
I was happy to see Gabe in this video, the master of the pasture! I love that you're sharing your process of starting something new and all that goes into it, all the way to planning for preserving the nanking cherries. Maybe they would be good in a chutney or mixed with another fruit, like your berries for some tartness in a jelly.
Your excitement In.everything you do is infectious. You make me wish I didn't live in a big urban centre. Alas, I will do what I can with my 4 balcony planters.
I'm ALMOST to the point where I want to grow eggplant. I also love baba ganoush (what I've had at Mediterranean restaurants)….Would you be able to share a recipe?
Enjoyed the video 😊
Mean rooster stew. So this is probably a question for “the farmers table”. Can you talk about cooking/preparing old laying hens? Old roosters?
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You need to make this eggplant dish for your cooking channel! It sounds amazing!
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Back when I could ring a chickens neck I made a few Mean Rooster stews.
Did you plant the bush berries from seed? Where can I purchase seeds/seedlings/plants?
Jess, currants and gooseberries – they make the best jams will they grow where you live?
Now I want to get Nanking cherries! This year I am loving how my small garden is producing and I see the wisdom in God’s creations. This spring I enjoyed picking and eating sugar snap peas. They ended and then my bush green beans started producing. Now my blackeyes are starting to vine. Same with my fruit. Although my blueberries didn’t produce this year they are rebounding from the harsh freeze 2 years ago and last year. But my strawberries have given me fruit since the beginning of May and are now slowing down , just as the blackberries are amping up. First year of the blackberry
bushes giving fruit. I’m hoarding the blackberries to make jam! God is so good!
I am excited to see how your jelly turns out. I used to pick bush cherries at my grandma's house and make jelly, it was delicious.
I've made a ton of jelly that was made-up recipes or based on other recipes. You could go off of a sour cherry jelly recipe and it should be the same. On average you end up adding about as much sugar as you have juice. Sometimes it sets a little soft, sometimes pretty hard. Please do show us the final product!
The single most immediately impactful and easiest-to- implement revolutionary act we can choose is what we serve on our plates, to ourselves and our families.
I just love your videos! There are always so many hidden treasures in them. Can you share how you make corn tortillas? I have mastered flour tortillas but have yet to be successful with corn. Thank you for all you share with us!
I just stumbled across Will's channel. Fun catching up
Absolutely love Animal Vegetable Miracle!
I just yesterday picked Mimosa Tree flowers to make jelly for the first time, its amazing! 10:26
Hi Jess. How old were your cherry bushes when you planted them?
Lol! Rooster profiling
Hi Jess, I know you've gone through a health struggle recently, I am trying to eat more mindfully since feeling more and more terrible. Is there a chance you can do a day of what you eat ( maybe on The Farmers Table) I don't know much about gluten-free, carnivore, ect. Thanks for any extra tips, I know time is short these days. Thank you!!!
Will you be posting a video on your other channel of you cannung the cherries? Im interested in seeinghow they turned out.
What are Dutch babies? You mentioned your children eat it with jelly.
I love that term 'slow food'. Had never thought of it that way but it fits. Thanks for all the sharing.
"Mean Rooster Stew"….Revenge never tasted so sweet. LOL
Can’t wait to see how your jelly turns out please give an update, you are such an inspiration to so many, keep on farming.
Not only can you not get that type of cherry in the store, but cherries are listed in the Dirty Dozen so you are saving yourself from the pesticides that conventional cherries are known to contain.
I planted nanking cherries 3 years ago and they have just stayed very small and producing nothing…!
This fall i am going fertilize them and see what happens, i don’t have good compost and i am concerned about buying it given what happened to you last year…!
Would love to see your recipe of baba ganoush on The Farmer's Table 🙂🍆🤍
Yeah my son was traumatized from being attacked by a chicken at a friend’s house when he was about 8.
The long skirt, apron, & boots make you look like a cute original pioneer woman.
Roosters that become jerks, wind up in chicken pot pies here😉 At 53, i still carry a spur scar from a Whiterock rooster when i was 6 yrs old. Me now, nope chicken pot pie😁
I love these types of videos from you. Where it just feels like I'm sitting at the table with you having a conversation.❤
Stainless Steel Steam Juicer for the stove would be a worthy investment. It's the way to get the most from your fruit IMO
God Bless you too
Please share your baba ganoush recipe, Jess! 🙏🏼
Bless you, Jess darlin', until next time!
I finished that book today! I picked it up after you mentioned it in a podcast the other day. I loved it. I agree that it was inspiring because she was saying things I believe. It felt very validating!
Follow a chokecherry jelly recipe you should be able to get great results as chokecherries are much smaller than your cherries, and they are on the tart side more so than the sweet side. I believe I’ve seen a recipe using Pomona’s pectin by Prairie Homestead calling for 4 cups of juice. You may have enough with what you picked.
The beauty of Nanking cherries is that they will grow anywhere from zone 2 to 10! They’re lovely for pies if you have little fingers to pick all the pits out♥️ they are perfect cross pollinators for fruit trees. If you don’t have a lot of space for two fruit trees. Absolutely love that plant! Grow a whole hedge of them, and just marvel in their beauty.🥰
I would include the pulp and fish out only the seeds…
There is a meme/joke that I see all the time about how we spend hundreds of dollars for $3 worth of tomatoes (or something like that) and it always irritates me so much because I feel like it devalues everything I love about A)Tomatoes and B) Gardening in general. There is no price someone could offer me to stay out of my garden. I don't grow even close to all of the food my family eats but what do I grow I love almost as much as I love my children.
Did you know you can plant peas in the fall and they will grow extremely slow, but threw the winter. I've been eating peas in spring, and still going. Now that's slow and Amazing❣️❣️❣️
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Those look like what my great aunt glo grew. Theyre tart but she use to candy them and as a kid they were a great treat…sweet sour❤