A Seed Filled Friday | VLOG | Roots and Refuge Farm

[@raisingsunshine351]

I love your videos! I just found them the other day and have been binge watching them. An you are absolutely beautiful!

[@laurablanton703]

You two are really precious! The last minutes of the video were my favorite. I really enjoy the garden but also appreciate seeing how much fun you both have with each other.

[@deloresochoa6235]

We net the heads of our sunflowers to keep the birds from taking the seed before they have dried up. The net serves three purposes, one, it lets the seeds dry and two, if any should fall off they stay in the netting, and of course three, to keep the birds from eating them. We do let two sunflowers go to the birds for food. The netting comes from the fabric store. We cut a large square and tie up the four corners over the sunflower head. If you get the netting in different colors, the sunflowers look like they have pretty scarfs on. Lol! Love, love, love, your vidos!!!!!

[@sherry1674w]

so glad someone else suggested this too....

[@cynthiahurry-asoulsearcher729]

we' bag so they can ripen

[@tracyrenearn]

@@sherry1674w Where do you get these nets?

[@lindastrandquist2429]

That's is what I was going to suggest as well.

[@carriem7832]

tracyrenearn from the fabric stores

[@vickilynn5620]

Great video again... you are so cute..... Ive heard you sing and play guitar, which was awesome..now you play piano and sing...you are amazing. Thanks for singing for us..your garden is awesome. God has truley blessed you girl.

[@silverlineingstar]

The sunflower stalk battle was EPIC!!!

[@tdamron4185]

Your singing blessed me so much this morning 🙌😭😭😭 would love to hear more 🙏🙏

[@dollyperry3020]

Shuky Doodle! I'm taking notes! As someone who rarely swears...that's a gem!

[@thaliahelene]

I’m kind of a “Drat! Blast!” kind personally. I’m not sure I could pull off “ShookeyDoodle!”

[@TigOlBitties1985]

Your voice Jess!!! So beautiful! You are so talented! I just adore you and your family.

[@lifewithlois7262]

Have a amazing weekend really cool box from HomeStead box I picked like 5 peppers today 3 cucumbers 3 eggs it's a start. God Bless💕

[@katherinebelk8398]

Mike & his family @thefitgardener always gives their 1st harvest of something to someone else as a future blessing to their homestead. As magnificent as that sounds.... I'd love to get first Pickens for the fruit of my labor!

[@tess5564]

I swear your channel is sunshine on a rainy day to me.

[@onfireforjesus8374]

I figured you could sing and play piano. You are very talented. The Lord gave you beautiful gifts to share.

[@Britt1586]

Your singing voice is beautiful, Jess!

[@tammynevil2422]

My favorite thing to watch is when you share your music and worship

[@anniebytheocean]

You are one of the sweetest women I know. And you are the cutest couple. I love you’re videos!!

[@daniellelady27]

love rewatching old videos while waiting for new videos. the best inspiration!

[@tanyagray9097]

Exactly what I am doing!

[@thecityfarmer7430]

Ok I got the chills in the beginning

[@jyll.7132]

I just found your channel and I LOVE IT! My mom is the only other person I've seen use cattle panels all over their garden. Secret weapon!

[@michelles.5630]

Wow, didn’t know you could sing and play piano, love it so much it gave me goose bumps! You are truly blessed and lucky to have each other. I love watching your videos and always look forward to seeing a new video notification pop up on my phone. Gardening and homesteading isn’t easy, I was brought that way but I believe it’s worth it, for your health, sanity, happiness and so on. Keep up the amazing job you are doing. Ps. I really would love to see your horses, they are my ultimate favourite animal!! Thank you for being you!xxx

[@cassykellogg3216]

The love you guys have for each other is amazing to witness.

[@sparrowsknow8491]

Jess, I don’t know if this is weird or not, but I fall asleep to your blog playlist every night. It’s my “chicken way”. Someday I’ll have my farm. But in the meantime, thanks for giving me something to dream for. ❤

[@onalennasehume4586]

Throwback to the old kitchen and the woods next to the garden

[@dpmike1189]

Awesome video, I especially like the fight scene at the end.

[@sunsetsky594]

I just found your channel back in May 2020 so I'm going back to the beginning of your videos to work my way through all of them. I enjoy your videos so much and I learn so much! Thank you for doing this and may God continue to bless you abundantly!

[@CBsGreenhouseandGarden]

Awesome opening Jess! Your singing is so wonderful. Lots of things ya got done today! Love the new garden wagon. Saving seeds is a must over at our place. Face was priceless when you took a bite of that melon. Sunflowers done a good job this season. Lots of seeds to put up now. Oh don't forget any that is already fermenting. LOL. Have a great weekend folks!

[@GrammaDebsStorytime]

Love your chicken jammies! I didn't know you knew how to play the piano...you are so multi-talented! Thanks for sharing... You and Sweet Miah are too funny - love how you make fun while you work :)

[@debbytomlinson9970]

I love the sunflower tidbit at the end. Who knew !?!?

[@jennyduncan5799]

And with this episode you have just leaped through the atmosphere. I'm a fan for as long as you are Roots and Refuge here on You Tube. Thank you so much!!

[@Pepper5655]

I grew some hot peppers and slipped them into a small bottle of avocado oil. I like the kick when using the oil to cook with. I have used all the original oil, but I just refill it with olive oil as needed, and I need to add some more peppers to the btl.

[@dawnmorris3252]

Came back to watch the ones I haven't seen....y'all are so cute and silly💚🌱💚

[@shirleycourtney1138]

Have you ever grown your own dill? Have you ever pickled the melon rinds? Oh yum! Do you ever make Dilly Beans? Do you ever can your pickles in the oven? When there was more to process than burners we did this. Great save!

[@skilltes037]

I am working my way through your videos... It's fun! I wanted to thank you because you are making me think like a resourceful gardener. I just a bunch of bamboo from my neighbor and I thought it would support all my plants, but as I continue to garden, I ran out of it pretty quickly. After watching this video and chopping down some tall boneset(I think) growing wild in my backyard, I have decided to dry the stems and try to use them for supports. The stems are essentially the same size and thickness of a sunflower. Thanks for teaching me how to problem solve in the garden!!! 🌱🌱🌻🌻🌻

[@LorriesWorld]

LOL...time to put in a ramp Miah...The wagon is fantastic!

[@Crazycatlady1836]

We are about three years into homesteading, but I learned so much from this video. Thank you!

[@Meg_Davis]

Jeremiah with the camera is like a man tasting power for the first time 😂

[@leannac2743]

You two are so sweet together....refreshing! Your videos are always one of my daily highlights.

[@brandiw2983]

Perfect t- shirt design jess " Ahh shoekey doodle! " with the blue chair underneath lmbo

[@tammynevil2422]

Love the sunflower light saber fighting

[@carriem7832]

How cute of your hubby....!

[@gointothedogs2]

Shookiedoodle😉 who else backs up to catch phrases and to catch all the tips etc. Your tours are jam packed with so much good info. Fun and great tips and suggestions. I really needed a local person who could take me step by step through our growing seasons and help keep me on tract. I can no longer multi task to the degree that i can keep it all straight while doing it all. I feel like im not alone in my own thoughts and lessons in gardening and find someone else enjoys it like i do...we have so much in common...and yet very unique as well. I love it and appreciate your candidness and yet the joy of it all exudes throughout also. I dont know how your doing this all in this heat. This years attempts were pretty much a failure in what comes to the tablefor me..but with so many years experience, i know to shoot for fall. Physical set backs, bad weather and heat index etc made it harder but ive learned continuing to look at the next steps and always looking to try again and broaden the ways to figure out what works best is a daily lesson full of information . You just never stop learning in the garden of life...possibly an analogy lol. Didnt know you could save sunflower stalks for using for support. I hope one day to have coffee, swap a,couple seeds and talk about all the lessons and neat developments and finds in the garden. Your enriching so many lives by sharing whats inside. Your enthusiasm resonates with my own...and i find when you find others who love growing and learning in the garden you find a great soul. God bless you and provide, so you might continue to bless us with more programs.

[@wilmagregory8967]

gointothedogs2 lovely reply, from one old lady to another. Lol

[@janethescamilla2222]

Wow you have a beautiful voice...wow what beautiful sunflower so big..

[@samanthabarris3729]

You guys are such fun to watch 😁 Felt like you were speaking directly to me about beginning your homestead! Thanks for the super advice, I will be taking all of it 👍🏻. Garden first then a few chickens 😉

[@terrihubbard3741]

Sunflower samurai swords!! So funny....you kids! LOL

[@earlivey2420]

beautiful voice.

[@gabbiesmeemee]

Your vlog gets better every day. I dream of having a life like yours. But creating it in Kansas on a small lot for now. I'd love to start a vlog. Trying to build up the courage. Thanks for your awesome and humble personally. It's funny I did that same thing today. Great minds think alike.

[@lustraveller717]

The two of you are just so darn cute. Loved the video!

[@breezewood4062]

LOVE Your videos.. You & your hubby are Awesome. Your son son's reaction to smelly compost. Priceless..

[@loosefaith7]

I just found your videos this past Saturday (it was the one on how to trim your tomato plants) and I'm hooked!! Loved the advice you gave and the next morning went out and did your suggestions. But this one had the sunflowers in it and I definitely needed to see it because that was one of the first things I planted. I was so excited when one of them opened up last week! I have a small backyard raised garden but your videos are helping a lot! Thanks from San Antonio, TX!

[@wilmagregory8967]

Sweet hubby helps you out where he can. Mine too, we're lucky women. I didn't know your sweet voice was so nice and I bet your church and family enjoy it often. Great video, love seeing the garden and you threw in the family too, well that's just win win. Take care, love and peace to you and yours. Blessings

[@ToriFalzon]

Omg I’d die to be able to look at that garden out of my window 😍😍 came over from Kait Nichole’s channel ❤️

[@tuesdayskittens]

Thank you for sharing the love, beauty and magic that is your garden ♥

[@goatgal7884]

I got a cart like that (except mine is yellow) a couple years ago and just loved it.But then my husband loved it too and hooked it up to the 4-wheeler and claimed it.LOL.So last fall when garden supplies were on clearance, I found a black plastic chart that was $50 on clearance for $12.I like it even better, so light weight.But either way, charts are wonderful to have.

[@sunmoonrise]

Wow jess...im surprised you voice is angelic and you are good on music too

[@terridunning3450]

Wonderful voice and piano playing...please continually to sing...

[@CupcakeBaker1982]

This is such a lovely video. Really enjoyed it xxxx

[@angelalowe5987]

I love the garden. ❤

[@MsChopperdog]

I just let the Goldfinch have all my seeds, because I love watching them.

[@dianagalaxy7928]

Shooky-doodles! That was so cute. Love your videos. Thanks.🌻

[@karentuthill8308]

Hello Jessica 👋 ABSOLUTELY LOVED YOUR OPENING!!!😍❤🙏 Praise God🙏 AND Bless you!🙏 Tons of love, 💖 -Karen

[@matthewbenton1284]

"I just haven't been able to have the time to do anything with them.....ahhh SHOOKIDOODLE! that stool is hot! burn my buns." I know for a fact this is real garden life. I love this channel, beyond words!

[@RootsandRefugeFarm]

Hahahaha. Gotta keep it real!

[@joesoutdoorplaces]

I've learned so much from you, I felt I needed to share a tip. I gave up zip ties for 1/8 inch armature wire to build my cattle panel trellises. It is super easy to bend and reuse. I just wrap it around about three times at the point I am joining the panels, leaving tails at each end so it will be easy to unwind for storing the panels.

[@tiffanyhenry8574]

I've been bouncing around your videos watching the ones that seem most interesting and Im really enjoying them, you're living the life! haha great video!! xoxo

[@jaynemar1]

Paper bag the seed heads on the plants. I just got my old 63 year old self a nice green garden wagon! I love it! Lifting the wheelbarrow full of heavy stuff was just too hard.

[@LauraMichelGreenRaven]

I love the garden cart I bought this year. Looks like yours but green and will roll wilth several hundred pounds but not 800! It is much better than a wheel barrow. The only thing I will use a wheel barrow for inthe future is growing annual flowers. Hope you enjoy your cart. Laura

[@ashleygomez7691]

I was looking for gardening tips and came across your videos and I am hooked! You're such a beautiful person, inside and out. I love your personality and you have such a beautiful heart. Thanks for the videos! God bless you and your family. ❤

[@RootsandRefugeFarm]

Thank you Ashley!!

[@pinkwelliesful]

Nice cart🌼🌻🌼🌻💜🌼🌻💜🌼🌻

[@darshayfarmer1440]

Great vlog! We raised 120 chickens while still renting egg money was nice. Sold 85 pullets without trying but when we decided to purchase a place. I was over so many chickens so selling most of them was really nice! We built a really nice house and pen for chickens at the new farm but don't have any chickens at the moment the plan is 15 long term 25 or 30. Just trying to predator proof the perimeter first so i can turn them out during the day on pasture. Our veggie garden is pathetic this year so much extra money and time at the grocery store. We also didn't raise meat birds or turkeys this year so $$ on poultry. Honestly i don't mind as much for now too much other stuff happening. We raise our own beef. We buy lamb from a local family and need to raise some hogs this fall since we are out of pork. Home grown is always better if not local is the same :) We always share with family, friends and neighbors. Long term i would love a dairy cow for ice cream, butter, milk and a couple nubian goats mostly for soaps and lotions. Got to start some where :) slowly it will come together. Our garden is our next priority this year family and friends have shared lots with us but i miss my grocery store in my back yard.

[@billhiggins3845]

Love your raised beds so rustic 👍♥️

[@karenparra9768]

Y'all are so funny love watching

[@cursing_creations]

Love the cart! That’s the one I’ve been thinking about getting. Great video.

[@victoriahansen4028]

I know you harvested the sunflowers already, but next year you should try throwing some cheap dollar store “delicates” mesh laundry bags over them so they can continue to ripen on the plant, but the birds won’t be able to get to them!

[@cottingwhite7784]

Ah! Multitalented! I am entranced! You give me hope for the future by taking over the stewardship of the earth!

[@shininglight2644]

I LOVE YOUR VIDEOS , LOVE THE NEW garden wagon.

[@baneicorn7969]

You're a lovely person. That's all.

[@heatherlukhard9505]

You have so much brush/sapling growing that you could make woven sapling/wattle fencing for your caused beds.

[@bhharris]

Another fantastic video. Thank you 💕

[@GardenloveHomestead]

Beautiful, love your vlogs. Have a blesses day..

[@thecityfarmer7430]

I love your videos

[@diananore5528]

Loved your song! I was excited about the homestead box until I went there and realized it excludes Alaska and Hawaii. Such is our fate here in Alaska! Ah well, God is good and knows our wants aren't necessarily our needs.

[@Elisheba79]

Taking notes for when I grow my mammoth sunflowers 🌻 this year!💚

[@charitykamau1320]

Nice lesson how to reuse sunflower stems

[@brendachapman9431]

Maybe some knee high hose pulled over the top would help keep the birds away. Love the Jedi Sword Fight. LOL... Love

[@amyjacob2100]

Thanks for the sunflower info! Grew some in my garden this year but wasn't sure what to do with the stalks. Great idea to repurpose them next year!

[@jasminelouisefarrall]

Lovely video 💕

[@LifeofLauraVideos]

I just found your channel and let me say I am loving what you’re doing! You are #goals . I have a little garden myself and am patiently growing it to hopefully be the size of yours one day. Beautiful voice too!!

[@Amandahugginkizz]

My 4 kids LOVE hot stuff even my 2 year old daughter lol, I'm so excited to grow all the pepper varietys!!

[@farmonturtlehill1157]

Shookie Doodle 😜 Love the vid! ❤️

[@Hosemastenbrook]

Did I just hear you shout “shooky doodle”? Watch your mouth, young lady! Lol. I might just adopt that one for when the kids are around.

[@RootsandRefugeFarm]

Lol that was my mother’s favorite “cuss” when we were little

[@Hosemastenbrook]

I love it!

[@indridcold4469]

Great vid as always have a great weekend. From : Frog Mountain , Alabama

[@mamabear8590]

Thank You 😊

[@no-el4sb]

Looks nice

[@fridomsnowbird5148]

I make row cover ( Remay) bags to cover my Sunflower seedheads.

[@seekingandspeakingtruth7118]

I'm so glad u didn't edit out the part when u sat on the hot chair lol.

[@gardenerinthesand]

Interentesting about the melon. I live in Charente, the place that melon is named for :) They are in sale in the markets all over the place right now.

[@YogiUToo]

Put a brown paper bag, or cheese cloth, over the heads of the sunnies and save them from the birds.

[@Hapenparadise]

Sunflower heads can be baked and eaten I saw on a video 😊

[@amberburrus2448]

Sis can SANG!!!

[@emseashell]

Great video, you and your hubs always seem to have so much fun. My hubs and I do the same and it’s so much better than being serious and dull.

[@hikerx9366]

I love the orange garden cart, they use those in the Greenery we have here in town. Oh do you shell the sunglower seeds and use them for baking and eating? Thanks again guys for another real awsome video.

[@lbsmith83]

Thank you for sharing your garden. Could you put a pillow case over the sunflower heads to keep the birds away from the seeds? Same principle as the mesh bags you places on fruits. Love from NC