Hefty Creams (The cold has come to SC) | VLOG

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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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[@HoneybeeHollowFilms]

My legacy at R&R farms lives on through “hefty creams” jar lids… I’ll take it😆💛

[@ericawhitfield9289]

Subscribed to your channel now, Taylor. I’m happy Jess shared that you had one. I love getting glimpses of you in Will’s videos.

[@HiveCreekFarm]

Smoked chicken, smoked turkey, smoked ham bones, and smoked brisket trimmings make the BEST soups. Even if you have 1 smoked carcass and other regular ones. SO much flavor. Delicious

[@katierox2043]

We've been so spoiled with roots and refuge posting the same day as the farmer's table 😂

[@hshepherd45]

I love these little pop in videos it feels like a phone call from a friend when I'm puttering around the house ❤

[@eileenbartnick7202]

In my house it's called "YO-YO" night.... You're On Your Own!! 😊 Enjoy your day off in the kitchen!! Hope Jeremiah feels better soon!!

[@tamararobinson2069]

YO-YO!! Love that😄 Ours was always Fend For Yourself

[@lindajackson8936]

Your kids moving things so you can't find them in the kitchen is preparation for when they are gone and you clean your own kitchen and can't remember where you put things. LOL

[@trinapfannmuller320]

We made it through our deep freeze. 🇨🇦 It was up to -16c today which still sounds cold but i tell you after -52c( with the windchill) -16c feels toasty warm 😅☀️

[@406regen]

Yeah I'm in Montana anytime you want your weather back you can have it 😂

[@joyces.9021]

Yup! Same here in southern Alberta

[@BuiltOnRootsFarm]

Slinging bales in a T-shirt weather now! 😂 we're in AB too

[@lisalink6976]

So, I jumped over and watch a couple of Taylor’s vlogs. What a blessing she must have been not only helping in the kitchen but showering you with obvious love that flows out of her and words of encouragement.

[@tealbruce7145]

SO!COLD! here in the MItten! I used to bake at an Inn. The chef had duck breast on the menu for a season. He found out he could buy whole ducks cheaper than the breasts. He let me take home ALL the carcasses. I was rich in duck for almost a year!

[@toniajones3572]

Omg, William's face when waking up at the beginning of the video looks like the face face my 4 year old makes when I try and wake him up in the morning 😂

[@trudeenrenault2493]

My youngest started college this fall....I still can't find stuff in my kitchen & I'm the one putting it away! I am lucky enough to have a tv in my kitchen area & I'm able to hangout with you while I'm cooking! You are such an inspiration.

[@OrganicMommaGA]

Every time I walk outside in this extremely frigid weather, feeling the ground's icy crunch under my sole, instead of complaining about the cold I imagine the expiration of many garden pests that did not bury deep enough in the ground to escape the bone-chilling cold. On the topic of when others "put things back" in a different place than you normally keep it - I found it's better to remember they WERE helping rather than focus on the momentary frustration of having to look for something. I find myself asking others in my household if they can show me where they put something that I cannot find in a few moments. When they locate it for me, I usually say something like, "Oh, I normally keep it here." (And show them where.) But, as ever, I thank them for their help and we move forward. 😊

[@flipflopgardener6629]

I have recently used smoked pork ribs bones as well as smoked turkey bones to make broth for soups. Wow, the flavor is just BOMB!

[@minioliver83grumpy25]

I used to work in a small commercial kitchen at a poultry farm and one of the owners would send a few turkeys every year to be smoked and we would cook it for a family meal and then make stock with the carcass (it was not cheap to get the bird smoked and we definitely didn't want to waste any! ) and one of my favorite soups to make with the stock was lentil soup with andouille sausage, delicious! I'm glad you're hanging in there with the cold! Was 7 and felt like -5 here in north central Massachusetts this morning! Take care and keep warm everyone!

[@lindawoody8501]

Prayers for Jeremiah's increasingly good health and being well. Glad you made the Elderberry Syrup for him and your family.

[@susanwright3843]

I love seeing Bear running next to you in the cart. He's such a good boy and loves you. ❤🐶

[@maryturner3534]

Taylor is a beautiful spirit and I am overjoyed for her and Will and their upcoming special delivery.

[@jerryabigailahrens8239]

Loving seeing all of your baby plants in the greenhouse! Stay warm!

[@suehill6194]

I enjoyed the sponsored ad Captain Marvel. And I don’t know why! ❄️❤️

[@susanrichards4844]

Love Taylor! She’s an amazing storyteller! So calming. You two make an incredible pair. 💕💕💕💕

[@rayyoung7780]

Even us grocery store suburbanites can do the extend the bird thing. We figured out recently that we got 16 servings out of one Costco roasted chicken. That is massive for the two of us. We ate a couple of chicken dinners, several chicken sandwiches, several chicken salads, then we picked what was left off the carcass and boiled what was left and made chicken stew by adding some veggies and the chicken back in and we had enough broth left use as a base for spinach soup. Talk about a value! I wish everything we bought gave us such results plus all of it was delicious.

[@sandrabeauchamp4207]

Hello my dear friend blessings beautiful family, I came back,the first thing I did see your videos 💯♥️🥰💯🙏🙏🙏

[@suewhalen3919]

I LOVE how you find joy everywhere- a lid with a memory. To hear you laugh, brings ME joy!

[@TracyCotterman]

Please give us a tour of that lovely cabinet with all of the medicinals. Would also love tutorials on how to use them in syrups, teas, and whatever else is helpful for families. Thanks so much.

[@socorromolina-sm9vy]

William the Kitty is so cute 🥺+ a beautiful coat😍 love it😍

[@cyndigreene8857]

We also have “ fend yourself nights!!” And call it that!

[@taraconroy6631]

Always best to check on your seedlings when hubby says "they look fine" 😊 Hope Miah feels better soon!

[@jmac9199]

💐Jess I really enjoy listening to you talk you ,can pop in anytime.Thank you for sharing.🥰

[@carolhamilton5164]

You are lucky Jess was 49 degrees in our house this morning. Our furnace went out sometime during the night and well into the negatives out side. Luckily the heating people didn’t take but a few hours. Now that we are much broker it is 72 degrees in the house.

[@joytotheworld2100]

Lol much broker. Isn't that the truth. Being a home owner is great, but those maintenance zaps really hurt. Glad you're heat is back. Stay healthy.

[@jessicarenaewiley]

Ok but Jes why did I have to turn my phone up so much when I got to the honeybee hollow channel from here😂 like you're so loud and I absolutely love it and shes so soft spoken I had to crank the volume up a lot more. Love both channels now! Thanks for a new favorite🥰

[@rachelgrinnell]

Jess, I'm now becoming a frost tender flower. At least thanks to you I have words for it. Haha

[@AnenLaylle7023]

I'm here in Aiken, SC. The cold has come, but it never lasts long. It'll be in the 70's next week. Planting out my first 1000 lettuce plants. Woot Woot.

[@joyces.9021]

"getting puny"... that's a new one for me!

[@deemckinney1486]

My momma says it always……

[@sharonknorr1106]

So I am now using blue painter's tape and a marker to label jars and lids. It is easy to tear off a piece and stick on to label and then also easy to remove when you need to change something. Before I was always looking for my labeler or writing over/adding stuff already there written with a permanent marker. This is so much easier. Will check out Taylor's channel.

[@shannon.N]

That’s funny. I literally just crossed out organic coconut oil, and labeled it fermented carrots 1-20-24. I didn’t feel like finding my painters tape.

[@itsallperfectlynormal9805]

Same! Also use it to date the refrigerator containers. I use the pint & quart size clear containers, deli style ones. They've been a game changer.

Awwww Sweet William! (like the flower) ❤ I missed him! 🙂

[@steveegbert7429]

Same! Fold kitties just exude cuteness!

[@amberthistle2803]

We smoke a turkey every year for Thanksgiving and i always make broth with it. It makes great turkey and rice soup!

[@Homestead-ish]

Taylor is salt of the earth! I love that girl! 6:27

[@elizabethlink3993]

💚 It's freezing in South Carolina! 💚

[@robingreany899]

Stay as warm as you can. ❤️

[@robingirven4570]

Heck. It’s been negative temps here. Ha! I’d love 60 in my greenhouse. No sun here, it’s lucky to get to 20°F in my greenhouse!

[@andrewhammill6148]

Last year I managed to get 3 Turkey carcasses. 2 were 14 - 16-pound turkeys that were deep fried and the other was a 26-pound Turkey that I smoked. That was the best Turkey stock I have ever made. I also took some of it and the shreds of meat and made Turkey pea soup. Tasty stuff right there.

[@WelcometomyCapeCodlife]

I love Taylor’s channel!

[@emilybarnes5920]

I sit watching this video with your book in hand. 😆 I finally got my little farm and ive read both your books multiple times.

[@ValdirSilva-sz1ms]

*UM DOMINGO ABENÇOADO PARA VOCÊ JESS ESTÁ MUITO GELADO 🧊 🌨️⛄🙏🏻*

[@kimmy_mac]

lovely collection of ingredient in your elderberry syrup

[@Homestead-ish]

I’m so glad you are sharing vlog style post 11:58

[@bc7848]

If you get a moment, can you and Will make a video about y'all's worm farm? I live somewhere very cold so composting outside during the winter is tricky and my next best option that I know of is a garage worm farm. ❤

[@ecocentrichomestead6783]

Yes, while the artic dips works their way across the continent, we'll never get it as cold as the interior.

[@maytezaldivar8384]

Thanks for sharing! I’m trying to comment on all your videos ❤

[@bethgaither1214]

I have made an amazing turkey salad out of a smoked turkey as well as broth from the carcass. I would love to see you make broth on your cooking channel. You may do something I'm not doing that I need to be doing! 😊 Thank you Jess!

[@Danielle-ff8qv]

I made smoked turkey broth from a couple turkeys our fire department smoked for a fundraiser and I agree that is delicious!

[@ChaosMakersHobbyHouse]

I also found myself bundled up with blankets and pets for a lazy day on this cold weekend (Charleston area) and next week will be in the 70s. Talk about weather whiplash!

[@codeN_8]

That fluff ball of a cat!!!!!❤

[@erinnelson255]

Thought of you this morning when I walked out on the porch to yell at my dogs to come inside… in shorts, tshirt and barefoot… it was 2 degrees 😂

[@alisien6227]

I live in North Texas and this winter I had to buy my kids snow bibs so they could continue to play outside 😂 even though we rarely get snow or ice, the wind will rip right through you. Both my husband and I also invested in real winter coats. Proper gear makes all the difference!

[@8thcelisabeth]

it was -20 real temp and -47 windchill during our blizzard last week. This morning it was -20 windchill, -7 real temp. But cold sucks. I will commiserate with you, just cause I like ya. Thank you for acknowledging our pain! I love that you get to garden right now. I do have some potato seeds sprouting inside and two pepper plants I am overwintering indoors. Blessed for that!

[@amylivingston458]

Magic eraser takes old sharpie off canning lids in case you want a clean slate for labeling.

[@russellrobinson505]

If there's no ticks this year it's worth the cold😮😊

[@stephaniekucharo1839]

We do fend for yourself on Sunday evenings.

[@gigisoutherngarden]

Please show us how you make the soup using the duck carcass on the Farmer's Table!

[@susanoswalt1169]

I live in Spartanburg South Carolina and I'm 64 and this is the closest I think it ever has been I don't remember it getting down to 16 and 17 degrees even in 86 0r87 when we had snow shut down the interstate.people it's cold 🥶🥶

[@jessicameyer4135]

Your greenhouse is beautiful.

[@hisservants8003]

I saw Bear in the background and was so happy. I had not seen him in a while. GSD's are the best! He is a cutie.

[@Abiding.Farmhouse]

We are also in SC and it has been so cold! 🥶😊

[@carmenfringer4740]

I love eating seasonally but winter will always be stored summer and fall food out here on the plains unless you can afford to fully keep a heated greenhouse with full off grid back up.

[@elizabethharriott9061]

Don't you just love that you cat warmed your coat for you?🥰

[@galeharris6696]

There will come a time (and I know you know this so well...) that searching for the things lost in your kitchen will seem so precious. My now 35, almost 36 year old now CLEANS the kitchen for me on the rare occasions he eats here, but I well remember when the Sunday cook-ins of he and his friends would leave the kitchen looking like a tornado touched down!! So crazy it was funny.

[@francesahrens1578]

Love your posts ❤.!

[@hazelbellefarm476]

Mmmm smoked bones for broth is our fav!!

[@dancnluc1]

I'm so sorry to hear Miah is not feeling good. I made Fire Cider last year and try to take it. I am over this cold. We got snow the other day. I live up the mountain with no 4 wheel. I had to leave my car near the end of the lane and walk half a mile to get home. Yikes! Some of my chickens are flying from spot to spot, so they don't walk in the snow.

[@deborahlawing2728]

Seems like there's been so much upper respiratory stuff going around this year. I have several friends as well as my brother who is suffering from this and it lasts 23 or even 4 weeks till people can get their strength back hang in there jeremiah.

[@GrandmomZoo]

Love your greenhouse Jess. ❤

[@lisaleidall5932]

I must share that your newest podcast really hit home for me (pun intended!). I feel SO validated. It is such a gift. "At times, our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us." -Albert Schweitzer Thank you for sharing your heart, Jess!! 💓

[@itsgoodforthesoilgardens]

Blizzard here! Although first real snow this winter, just bizarre how mild it has been. Stay warm!

[@leahharbison4932]

Bless you Jess !

[@cynithiadykes8537]

Husband helps in kitchen, yep hide and seek. Love the help tho

[@julieagain]

My favorite broth is made with smoked turkey necks. I love your friend vlogs. Please keep them coming ❤

[@CindyWhopantsCarter3421]

Can’t wait for spring!!!

[@lauriefederico6039]

Bless you😊

[@thegrowinggardener]

I had friends (acquaintances actually) over for lunch last Sunday. They commented on my jar of homemade croutons that say “chicken stock” on the lid 😂

[@deannewilliams3321]

Nice collection of herbs!!

[@kathystarnes6744]

I so love you GF! God bless you for being you🙏🏻❤️

[@lorenaestrada5014]

Guys seriously.... The pets in this vlog.... Cats being cute and in the end Bear rolling over in the corner... 😂😂😂 So much cuteness ❤!

[@karenm5681]

I’m glad you made this video. I enjoyed watching!💞

[@GrandmomZoo]

SC here too. My windows are wearing blankets for a couple of days! 😊

[@WindyRidge3348]

You say, "fend for yourself day." We always called it "must go." That's where you look in the fridge and say, "This must go and this must go..."

[@sabrinahonea8288]

We have all ways call the days I don't cook grab and growl

[@mlee7037]

Just hanging out with you is good enough for me!❤️

[@Seasoncromwell]

Ahh! Love it. Fin for yourself is what I grew up w too.

[@chezelleconroy2951]

Thanks Jess! Always lovely. Also, here in Australia my black hollyhocks are flowering, making me think of you whenever I’m in my kitchen garden. ❤

[@rootsrocksfeathers1975]

I got tired of waiting for my husband to feel like canning elderberry syrup so I made some to stay in the fridge using astragalus root, marshmallow root, fresh ginger root and cinnamon. Wish I'd had some whole cloves, but couldn't find them. In my kitchen, I have to search for things when my husband cleans up, no teenagers to blame, haha! I look forward to seeing the house build. ~Cynthia, N. Georgia mtns

[@NunyaBitnas2119]

I’m sorry the cold has creeped down to you!! 😊 My mommy-van is stuck in snow and ice in the driveway since last Friday! 😂😂😂😂

[@gardenguru5212]

I was unsubscribed from your channel for no reason😭 I’ll be keeping an eye out for it happening again. Everyone check your subscriptions often!

[@acmom902]

Saturday is our Fend For Yourself day too. 😆

[@jubilee1181]

Girl, you crack me up😂 I think you meant to say we have a mild winter😁 We definitely don’t have a mild climate here💕

[@RootsandRefugeFarm]

You’re too right! This summer with kill ya! 😂😂😂

[@rachelh885]

Ugh the cold is biting extra hard everywhere right now! We got 5 ft of snow up north in Buffalo! It's too much all at one time. Noticed your Buffalo hat ( ❤). Thank you for bringing us along on the day to day. I enjoy tagging along while in my own kitchen. Bless you and your family!!

[@samanthahoos9827]

❤Taylor! My family isn’t into creamy soups, but ice cream is still a favorite in the freezing winter. 😂 What did you start in the greenhouse?

[@deborahhilton]

We do the "fend for yourself" meals, too.

[@stephenbutler7176]

Red tart canned cherries went on sale at Christmas time and I splurged on 4 cans. We had 2 cherry pie lovers for Christmas dinner and we both live here. I got the idea to make cherry jam and have pie on toast daily. It rendered 5 pints of pure joy. One of the best ways to eat desert rice is with cherry jam. I have been singing God's praise over all the inspiration that I find here, the cherries being on sale and having pumpkin from the garden for the most requested pie at Christmas.

[@tracycouture3955]

Have you ever thought of putting the chicken's in a high tunnel 😂🐓🐔🤣🙏 in B.C. Canada we recieved almost 2feet of the beautiful snow ❄❄ my chicken's are not amused 🐔 spending all their days in the coop nice and warm with a red light and lots of fresh water ❤ Blessings 🙏