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[@miss_mish]

Have to say I love my Sunday night dose of you and your family Jessica. I have recently started a morning stroll with a tea watering the garden. Thank you for bringing such a simple but really calming start to my day.

[@joinmeinthedirt5186]

Mulberry trees remimd me of when my youngest was 2 and his feet were always purple and also the carpet but it was a good memory.

[@rhondabell7178]

I just look forward to your sweet calm voice on Sunday mornings lol your garden looks amazing good work !

[@chelseafailla9887]

"simple things in your life can teach your kids about how the world works" "science is all around us". Yes mam! Love this so much and I try and encourage other mommas with that as well

[@mercy2angl]

I appreciate how your children are involved in everyday chores, and science/engineering activities around the homestead. You are quite resourceful! From a STEM momma/teacher, your comment about science being all around us made my heart so happy!!

[@Imjetta7]

You really inspire me to do better and be more creative in my food preservation goals, thank you.

[@amyhunt9262]

Thank you for another wonderful video! You have such a beautiful life on your homestead!

[@janicew6222]

Loved watching your children playing and learning with dry ice. I look forward to Sunday mornings and your posts, blessings!

[@raynonabohrer5624]

I love walking your garden. And I believe the lettuce will come back. Sometimes you can get 2 or 3 cuttings off lettuce. And your children are beautiful. And so very helpful. You and Adam had both been very blessed. I bless you all and keep safe.

[@debrawilliams6949]

Awww so sweet seeing family working together it brings happy tears to my eyes remember when I was younger working in the yard with my siblings, mother, grandmother, and a great grandmother. I do work in the yard now my son

[@kimcwhite6509]

I really enjoy your videos. Your children seem so happy and content. Great ideas for cooking and canning.

[@metamud8686]

I've used Pomona for several years now and never realised they had a recipe book. I've just gone off the leaflet with minimal instructions they send along the package :)

[@sabrinadrabing595]

Your children are precious and being taught well!

[@DragonflyzPrepsteadNDesigns]

I so enjoy watching your videos. You and your children are such blessings. 🙏

[@robindykeman5841]

Really enjoyed watching the family together , and the recipes.

[@janicewoodard-heath7933]

For the cabbage moths and worms. I read a 1966 organic gardening book that said to mix flour and salt and spread on the plants early in the morning while the dew is on. This is what all the amish communities do around me. Love your channel!!

[@sarahjamieson-bas6156]

Your garden and family are thriving 💕 best wishes to you all 🥰

[@anitacolotto9282]

I sprinkled cinnamon around the plants in my yard that were getting chewed on by caterpillars. They’ve moved on!

[@rachelschmaltz3092]

New here. I love the ways you get your kids involved. I think it's so important. My boys are learning to can. This is my youngest 1 year helping can. God bless you and your family

[@rachelholdt6840]

We have true white mulberries that stay white even when ripe. One of our white mulberry trees is enormous, with a trunk 2-3 feet in diameter. We also have lots of black mulberries, as well as hybrids of the two. So yummy!

[@elisaworkman9669]

Really enjoyed watching this video and seeing your children so involved with everything on the homestead. They are truly living a beautiful life and learning so so much.

[@marilyncarter9282]

I love the way your kids help with all the chores,they really seem to enjoy their work. That just shows how well you and your husband are teaching and loving them. In these times it’s such a blessing to see a family that work together and also all the love. It reminds me so much growing up with my grandparents. May God bless you your new baby and all your family ❤

[@viviansmith1443]

Mom, there is a lesson about cooking out doors using a pizza box, aluminum foil and something else to cook. Of course you can make your own box. Love the science!🤗🤗

[@idahohoosier8989]

Y'all are si very amazing! Such a beautiful family. I pray for a rejuvenation rest for y'all. Blessings, julie

[@mzfitmama2361]

I love that your taking the time to teach them work love and care on the land with animals and plants. Thanks for sharing momma. Ps we wish we could do a field trip at your home stead. 😆 so so magical what a blessing

[@denisebozung126]

I have a mulberry tree in my backyard also, but it is very tall and grows into the electrical wires between the yards, so the electric company comes around every few years and trims the branches. Now the tree resembles a stalk of broccoli, only having the very tallest branches remaining but much too tall to harvest any berries. The birds are the lucky ones to benefit from the fruit. I enjoyed seeing how your garden is growing and the joy your entire family takes in watching and working together, growing with the garden. Thank you for sharing.

[@debbiemanzanares9517]

I love to catch glimpses of your Longaberger pottery. That apple pie looked amazing and I am glad you are feeling better.

[@nicolechew1029]

I really enjoy your videos. You explain everything so well. I love how you show how to store your harvest, and also how you use your stored food. So many people don't show that side. I learn so much from you!

[@TheCountryHomestead]

Thank you for the encouragement and bringing your kids in the picture when it comes to gardening. We are in the modern world of technology and kids rarely gets involved outdoors nowadays. I have been so inspired with all your videos.

[@franriley7660]

I had problems with rabbits also. I use a deer and rabbit repellent. Just spray it around the edge your garden or raised beds. It worked. They dont like the smell. I cant remember the brand but i found it on amazon

[@kathleenritter4532]

So glad you guys do ok through the storms we had last week. I was praying for all the farmers during the storms thurs with the large hail. Garden & family are both amazing. Thanks for sharing about the sun oven. Enjoy the cooler days before our next round of hot weather. God bless.

[@sadieandersen9993]

All of the children around the bowl shooing each other and hands flailing is so relatable 😂

[@threerivershomestead]

It was absolutely chaos 😂

[@kimberlykeating4164]

I planted dill in amongst my cabbage this year, hint from Brian Lowell, and NO BUGS!!

[@ilzitek2419]

I love your family. Such great kids.

[@lamgardn3800]

Concerning lettuce harvest, I have found it helpful to just harvest a few of the outer leaves of a number of plants at their base as they come to size, rather than cutting whole heads. You don't have to wait for a full head to grow, nor for a full one to regrow before harvesting. Then there is a steady supply of leaves from the bed and all plants at same stage in growth.

[@astidham80]

Amen Jessica! Doesn't get much better than children, gardening, making good food and all the while a baby in the oven!

[@EE-hi4re]

Good morning Jessica. You look beautiful and I pray you and baby are well. Can you please do a video series on pregnancy/labor/delivery? I'd love videos on pregnancy during your 40's, your previous labor/delivery stories, as well as what you have planned for your next baby (ex. home birth, hospital birth). Thank you!

[@stephaniemeads]

What a wonderful calming way to start my day! Thank you for sharing your beautiful family with us. Learning so much for you as I start a little suburban homestead. Have a blessed day!❤️🙏🏼

[@kaybusby7507]

Your garden is coming along great. I'm still struggling with getting my tomatoes to bloom. Jelly looks delicious along with the bread. Thank you for sharing your day.

[@mrmrsaofbarredowlcabin405]

If you drink milk, fill the empty container with water and use that to water your tomatoes. This has always produced blooms for me!

[@margiebenson2067]

Beautiful garden, and wonderful children ❤️

[@bettypearson5570]

Years ago I had an inhome daycare. I also had a relatively small garden. Every couple weeks we would have a contest to see who could find the most snails (we had a really bad snail problem) and caterpillars. The children were taught how to be gentle and it became fun. They would each have their own container. If they found a tomato worm or a very large snail it was worth double points. The kids were enthusiastic helpers and they learned something about gardening. For awards they not only had prize ribbons to show their parents but that day they would get homemade cookies with the top 3 getting small bags of cookies to take home for their families. They not only learned about how fun gardening was (we lived in a city of over 100,000) but sportsmanship and they would be so proud when presenting their bag of cookies to their parent. While your kids might not be as excited about homemade cookies for a prize since they already get to enjoy those regularly it can be fun coming up with some other prize.

[@kathysparks6338]

Thank you for sharing some special moments with us, please squeeze in some rest during your busy days, the children are such a blessing. God bless 🙏

[@susannichols2497]

Your garden is looking beautiful! I understand your frustration with the little cabbage worms. Last year was the first year i was able to actually harvest cabbages. I had seen a video where they used PVC pipe to make a small hoop house with their raised bed and put floating row cover over it. We used clothes pins to attach the row cover to the metal beds and used plastic clamps they sell on amazon to hold the row cover to the pipes. It looked like a little wagon train when finished. NO WORMS! I was dancing around my garden I was so happy to get a huge cabbage crop. Did it again this year and we will hopefully get the same result. I am in awe of all your garlic scapes! YUM

[@annabelcarter5266]

Great video Jessica. I don’t think I have ever had mulberries before, they look delicious. And the dry ice experiment is now a must do in my house, how cool! Thanks for taking the time to bring us along. I am always encouraged by your videos.

[@carolineglynn9251]

Beautiful video thank you for sharing. A little trick I learned from Charles Dowding( no dig market gardener from England); pick just the outer leaves of each lettuce head. Do this every 2nd or 3rd day, the next out leaves will have grown big enough to pick. This way You will get weeks of harvest from one head! Provided they dont bolt. No need to succesion sow. Happy Gardening and God bless from Ireland!

[@gma56]

What a wonderful rhythm to life! I really enjoy these. Blessings on you and yours

[@hopingforjustone]

It's so nice to see another KZbinr from Ohio...we are in west central Ohio....loving the fall weather currently

[@mariafraser2241]

What a wonderful life you and your family have

[@sandraboose3686]

This is wonderful. I love early morning time outdoors it's a new day a new start always a morning person. Your family and farm is such a blessing.

[@purplegreen5436]

Jessica, your videos are such a joy and wonderful to see. The comments are just as much a pleasure and sharing of love

[@Secalela21]

Our mulberry trees in Indiana are loaded this year as well! I questioned for a second if it was a bi-annual plant because we hardly had any last year haha! Really enjoy watching your videos. Thanks for sharing :)

[@joelenehammers8486]

One idea for extra jam or jelly you have that you want to try and use up before making more is putting some in smoothies for your kids.

[@judithbutler9695]

I love your videos! Peaceful,educational,and loving!

[@mississippiwoman5363]

I just found your channel yesterday and I'm enjoying looking through your video's. You have a lovely family and homestead. Now I'm on to the next video lol

[@ceepark114]

I used Pomona's Pectin the other day for the first time and my blueberry/strawberry/blackberry jam turned out great and with very little sugar! I didn't know Mulberry were actually trees, I thought they were a bush like blueberries. Thanks for showing us your morning routine, you guys are hard workers.

[@rachelfrees1268]

Hello from Texas. Just found your videos. Beautiful garden and family.👏💕

[@marywatt7063]

Thank you for sharing your blessings with us.

[@nomir4065]

I love pomonas! This week we took their blueberry rhubarb recipe and turned it into a mulberry rhubarb recipe. It is so good! If you have more mulberries and rhubarb I highly suggest trying it.

[@Ali-ct3xc]

What a wonderful education you are giving your children, Jessica. They are growing up on a little patch of God's paradise and you are a fantastic, nurturing mama xx

[@stoneshillhomestead2569]

We eat the bolted flowers on the radish. They are delicious on salads!!

[@judymay4469]

I'm learning so much from you. Thank you. I too live in north west Ohio in Bloomdale. I'm so going to purchase a sun oven. I never knew that about garlic eighter. Many blessings.

[@whitecreekhomestead6277]

I agree! We love ForJars too! No failures here ❤️ Our next order we will use your code! Thank you!! Have a beautiful week 🤗

[@jafrompa1555]

I loved this calm and beautiful video. Thank you. 💙

[@michellemoon3900]

Your voice is so calming and I feel like I have company while I get some things done. I am putting that solar oven on my list to get.

[@mrs.coleman4049]

We harvest the mulberries similar to you. We lay a tarp down under the tree and we get a very long pole and are able to shake around the higher branches with the pole. You can get about 6lb of berries this way. Also, I just learned that the green coriander pods are edible and delicious. It kind of makes up for the cilantro bolting and not being able to harvest any leaves. Fortunately you get plenty of seeds to be able to eat some fresh green ones while leaving plenty to dry.

[@LivingMiracleHomestead]

Everything is so exciting to watch grow. That was a cool way to harvest mulberries. I'm waiting on my sun oven to arrive but I've been using a friend's oven and I had to have one. I love the thought of being able to use it year-round here in Florida. But they do claim to be able to cook in it in the snow as well. I guess it's all about those UV rays. No wonder I burn so easily. LOL, It sounds like you are feeling better. You are in my prayers, God Bless, Cathy

[@kridder1018]

I have a very, very old mulberry tree on my property that I make jam with. There is just something so yummy about mulberries. Since they tend to be a little tart and a lot less juicy I tend to make a combo jam. This winter I did Mulberry Strawberry with some frozen berries. Since my berries aren't ripe yet, I plan to do a Raspberry Mulberry jam The combo of fruits is so yummy and with two different berries it is just added nutrients! For canners, there is a low/no sugar powdered pectin by Ball that is amazing. I have a lot of diabetics in my family so was excited to find it, tho I tend to use just regular Ball pectin with low sugar too. Something about letting the fruit speak for itself just seems right. Glad to see you are doing well, Jessica!

[@darleneking101]

Love watching your videos Jessica, you are such a blessing to your viewers!

[@justpatty7328]

I know the hard work of it all. A blessing indeed that the children help with everything. You've taught them well. I wish every parent did. God's blessings are bountiful. God bless!

[@dawnwilkinson3500]

God Bless, its like having tea with a friend! 🙏🕊😄

[@susantaylor8507]

That's great they really enjoyed that your children

[@southerngardenesse]

Seriously glad you mentioned the sun oven. I think it is one of the best things to have in our homestead arsenals, especially since we are being warned about blackouts.

[@02271953me]

Healthy abundance in every form is so refreshing to see! God's blessings to us all as we head further into our growing season.

[@JKnight911]

What a wonderful video. I love your videos with your narrative. Your voice is calming and a piece of serenity to me. You have such a beautiful family, home, and tradition’s. It’s too bad that more American families couldn’t slow down and truly enjoy life and the Lord as your family does. God bless you and your family. I hope you have an abundance of harvest for your family. Thank you for sharing. It’s always wonderful to watch your videos. I went strawberry picking yesterday and made jam. I ended up with 21 1/2 pints.

[@IreneNevins]

The berries have been extra abundant so far this year. The Lord is supplying us for a reason.

[@helenabaier7823]

Have you considered mulching your garden beds? I live in Australia, heat is a big struggle here,l need to mulch everything ,pots too,it saves me a lot of water and time watering the garden,and it protects the soil too. So much going on at your place! You are blessed 💕

[@sarahsiskin6780]

I just shook my mulberry trees yesterday! Much easier than picking by hand and not as much purple on my fingers! I love them and freeze them

[@helen1962]

This is a wonderful time of year! Thank you for sharing your life with us.

[@barbseverino1278]

I love your channel. You are such a good Mom.

[@tonyarueff3230]

Beautiful family, beautiful sunset. Thanks for sharing.

[@normamccomas9272]

Lovely! I've been using these lids since you put it on the first time. Love them!!❤🙏xo

[@cherylpresleigh6403]

What a lovely view with the sun setting. Beautiful.

[@o0OJenniLeighO0o]

We live in the desert, so not only do my ducks enjoy a few fresh pools a day- but they ask for a spray down with the hose too :) (And even some of my chickens do too!)

[@kimberlylholt]

Beautiful video as always. Thank you for sharing your week with us.

[@Adventuresawait68]

Love your videos. You have an amazing Family. Thank you for sharing.

[@renamaemcdonald2075]

Beautiful Homestead 😍 Thank you for sharing this!

[@angelacampana7058]

Good Morning Jessica👋👋👋 I hope you’re feeling well on this beautiful Sunday morning🙏 To all who may be reading this I hope you all have a peaceful, blessed and enjoyable day celebrating the men in your lives who’ve made great impressions on your souls and have guided you to be all you can be in other’s lives too. Happy Father’s Day to all those who identify as being a father, I wish you all peace and love♥️💫✨👼🏻✨💫♥️

[@JustTheTwoOfUsHomestead]

I can feel the beauty and peacefulness of your homestead through your video! Thank you for sharing your week with us ❣️

[@kniddelliz7512]

Hi Jessica! Your garden is looking fantastic! Wishing you a lovely Sunday ❤️

[@samanthabloggins1775]

Just be careful with the dry ice as you can get a burn from it if it touches your skin. I do love the way you teach your children!

[@loriajhar6855]

Thank you Jessica! I enjoyed this video so much. It was good for my soul!

[@deedrafulkerson2919]

Your children are so fortunate to be learning all those life skills! Things they would never learn in public school! I think the Sun Oven is so cool! I would love to have one someday! Thanks for Sharing your family and livelihood ! I have learned so much from watching you! 😍

[@positivelycarly]

I love, love, loved the clip with the kiddos around the dry ice, it's so exciting to be involved in experiments. Also that pie and the bread looked amazing 🥧 🍞!!! Have good week!!!

[@glendaharding4884]

As everyone else has said, I also look forward to your Sunday videos!! Thank you. Baby bump so cute!!

[@PC-mz5su]

Such a tray to watch you and your family work together. You see the fruits of your labor learn much from you thank you! God bless!

[@lorisilva10784]

Jessica, you have paradise on earth already. Beautiful!! Congratulations on your baby bump! God Bless you and keep you and your family safe!!

[@debidubay2838]

I so enjoy your posts and I've learned a lot from you. I look forward to Sunday evening when I sit down and "visit" with you. Have a wonderful week!

[@wendybertie1395]

Hello Jessica and Adam and family. How are you feeling Jessica I haven't seen your posts since you first announced your pregnancy as I have had some health issues and been in and out of the hospital. I'm glad to finally get to see your channel again. God Bless you and Adam and family from a viewer in Toronto Ontario Canada

[@heartofmythril]

My mulberry tree produced a lot this year too! I made some jam... I wanted to make a pie but i didn't get back out in time.

[@jeandunlop2922]

You are an inspiration. Thank you so much for sharing your experience.