All I Can Think About is GARDENING (Farm Dog Fail) | VLOG

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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[@jerseytwister2489]

My husband and kid's got me a 10x12 greenhouse for Christmas ❤ I found it so difficult to concentrate on cooking Christmas dinner! I couldn't wait to sit down and plan the layout in my garden, shelving, what I'm going to grow ect..and of course watch all Jess's greenhouse videos❤Im so excited Best Christmas present ever ❤️

[@tweyesopen8713]

I got your books for Christmas. So happy

[@soulspaces]

How exciting!! Very happy For you!!!🎉🎉🎉

[@soulspaces]

@@tweyesopen8713oh I am jealous!!!

[@harvestandhome]

That’s so exciting!! ❤ happy for you and your future garden planning 🎉

[@triciajones7033]

I got one too! Same hoping to find all the info on how to do it well!

[@Zinniaqueen]

For a video idea: talk about soil health. People can be working on soil now and it’s always good to talk about soil health and how to build soil. I need a reminder about what I can be doing sometimes. Thanks! ❤

[@jamjar5716]

I learn better on repeat so I'm ok with repeat classes from Jess's classroom!😊

[@eileenjennings4446]

I'd love to see an updated Greenstalk planting geared toward someone who might not have a garden yet, but who has a patio. A greenstalk for feeding a townhouse.

[@irony11]

Have you checked their website? They have a list of what to plant for the original & the leaf. You only need to pick what you & your family will eat. Makes it so simple.

[@chezelleconroy2951]

I love your ‘over and over’ content. I’m definitely not a new gardener nor a new viewer to your channel, but I do so cherish these beautiful, familiar gardening conversations and especially the long garden tours- at any time of the year.

[@asiajo1010]

Bear just casually laying in that big mud pile 😂♥️ Bless his heart.

[@hannahblackwellbooks]

I’d love in depth content on soil building! Ideas, out-of-the-box fertilizers, necessities, cheap options, etc etc!

[@cltinturkey]

How to build healthy soil using natural components. All things budget gardening would also be great. Thanks!

[@shannon2776]

I love this idea too! Especially building your soil in a self-sustainable way. I feel like the pressure to spend money bringing in loads of compost, manure, and soil can be a lot when growing large gardens. Outside of crop rotation, and home composting, what else can we do in a fairly affordable way to help build our soil health?

[@Gloryonearth1213]

Yes! I’m just needing tips on sourcing dirt? Like where does one find good dirt?

[@kerstoncampbell8315]

Starting your own compost is a great way to start having your own nutrient rich fertilizer. Also, over the fall/winter when leaves fill up my beds I add extra on top. Near the end of the season, close to time to clean up the garden, I flip the leaves into the dirt. All that beautiful fungi, and nutrient spread throughout the dirt and continue to feed your garden through the season. I'm a lazy fertilizer, not going to lie. And throwing compost directly into your beds during the off season and flipping it into the dirt adds a nice punch. Just some fertilizer for thought lol.

[@sharim713]

Hey Jess! I'm almost done with the video and you just asked what kind of garden content we want to see. I would love to see you do a greenstalk. I know you've talked about them and I've loved those videos. What I want is for you to take one of the original greenstalks from planning to planting and the care of thru the season, what you would do if that's all the space you had. I have 2 and a few grow bags, I would love to work along with you like that. What you would plant, how you would arrange the plants based on how they grow. This is only my second gardening season. Thanks

[@danielleroseclark]

This is a great idea!

[@triciajones7033]

Would love this!

[@cortneyblack2754]

My neighbor and I sat down Christmas Day and planned out our 30x20 victory garden, green house and chicken coop. I’m so ready

[@livmegargle5420]

How fun to have a neighbor to share all the work and fun with!

[@thedirtyhoehomestead]

I can't wait to plan our garden. Im hoping to do a kitchen garden also. We have a greenhouse we made out of cattle panels and our hoop coops are made the same way.

[@debbiep7419]

It's so good to know I can always find my peeps here to geek out over gardening with. Had people over both Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. The day after was all day rain - perfect for a do nothing day. Today I started working on my 2024 garden - can't wait. Let the gardening season begin!

[@soulspaces]

Yes!!! So agree!!

[@hollynelson543]

HI friend😊

[@julieagain]

Even an ole gardener of 50+ years can learn something from a recap or redo video. Sometimes we forget simple things or learn something we never knew. Your redo videos are still very informative & if nothing else it takes me to another place uplifting my gardeners soul.

[@soulspaces]

We all need each others wisdom!!

[@lyndaash6766]

Even a 70 something too🙂

[@soulspaces]

@@lyndaash6766 you go girl!

[@buckeyehomestead]

When I have trouble falling asleep, I plan out my garden in my head.. anyone else? Lol

[@MissBetsyLu]

That would wake me up. Blessings all

[@erikacleroux3247]

Yep! And I plan out the stuff I want to build! Just last night I made a liste for all the building projects for 2024!

[@MissBetsyLu]

@@erikacleroux3247 You're done writing the list already????? Blessings all

[@katemalson2689]

Please do a greenstalk video.planting it ,where to locate it what grows best in them.i have two of them and they did poorly last year.i suppose its a learning curve.love your videos

[@julie-annepineau4022]

I laughed so hard at Bear in the puddle and your reaction! Thanks for the giggle! I am looking forward to seeing you establish the berry and perennial space where you had the potatoes. Tips for starting onions from seed and timing in comparison to last frost.

[@princessbuttercuppreps4440]

It’s time to make that greenhouse beautiful table! Every time I see it I wonder why it’s not made! It’s time! Just do it!

[@tinatedder8963]

I would love to see content on growing sweet potatoes. I have a 20x30 section of new garden area that I will be growing sweet potatoes in. If your Farmers Table channel could go over preserving them too, it would be fabulous!!

[@ourgoldenacre2695]

As soon as the Christmas tree goes out, the seed starting shelf comes in. This is the start of the 2024 garden season for me, too!

[@MissBetsyLu]

Lololol It's always good to have a plan. Blessings everyone everywhere and always

[@lifeaswegrowit8486]

Here’s a video/series idea. First a little backstory: I live in Southern CA and I eat mostly plant based. I try to grow as much as I can in my tiny backyard garden. Following you has been so encouraging to my heart and my (now) green thumb! Thank you for repeating content because you remind me when I should be doing what, each season! I need that. I have two 4x4 raised beds, two 2x2 raised beds and two GreenStalks. I make most of my own soil by composting in place and using mostly shredded paper, garden scraps and kitchen scraps. It’s alive and it works! Anyway, I would love to see more videos on growing successfully in my GreenStalks since my food grows “ok” but it’s always small despite my use of organic liquid fertilizer. Also, videos on growing maximum yields in small (urban) garden beds for cheap. Because…inflation 😬.

[@janicegilman7672]

I agree about information about planting in my GreenStalks, I have 4 total, leaf and regular,

[@joyborazjani5757]

❤❤😂But I'm a student with a shitake!😂 I had 4 plants in containers this summer and people were so shocked when they found out cuz all i talked about was my 'garden'. Jess's enthusiasm reminded me of that, hope its not too random!

[@carlalong1369]

I have a rule that i'm not allowed to look at seed catalogs until the new year so that I have something to look forward to after the holiday while its still cold. i'm still holding out that my last few broccoli in a cold frame will finish growing before i hit the consistent teens. this is the time of year that i go back and watch old garden tours from years past to re-excite my love of my "Wildest Ones Garden" and plan all the beauty and food together! thanks Jess!

[@user-px4ne5wm8g]

I am in England and it’s wet and yuck at the moment, I have had a huge amount of change in last couple of years and your content has got me through some dark periods so I just want to say thank you, I also love your thrifting part with clothes etc again thank you for allowing me to follow yours dreams and life

[@pearljamin]

Hawks are amazing, but I adore the owl who has now become a resident in our itty bitty in the city homestead. It’s such an absolute compliment each time the eco system grows around us. I’m going to miss it dearly and I hope the next person enjoys it

[@shill4]

There is absolutely nothing wrong with the same garden content each year/season. Please bring us along as you plan, start seedlings etc. I could honestly listen to you while you fold laundry. It’s like hanging out with your BFF. Plus I’ve only been starting my own seed for 2 years now and still feel that I have a lot to learn. I would also enjoy additional content on composting and amending my raised beds when there are limited resources available to me naturally. Even though we are in a farm with animal waste, I feel that we’re missing some critical key part of what we should do. Since having Lyme the past 10+ years my brain doesn’t function great at retaining what I read, so I’m still struggling with proper adequate composting and building no dig beds. We want to increase an “in ground” area of no dig beds and I’m uncertain on exactly how we should start. Thanks 😊

[@OZARKMEL]

My seedling peppers and tomatoes are up! Some of the herbs have sprouted, the celery is up. I garden in 9a in Tucson. We just had our first frost last night. I had all my tomatoes and flowers covered and all are fine. It will be harvest time for broccoli, cabbage and cauliflower this weekend. Cover crop will go in for a couple months and then it will be time to plant out the starts! Garden season really never ends here!

[@lindawoody8501]

I am jealous. Where we are here in NW AZ it's too cold for vegetables in the ground and I do not have a cold frame or greenhouse/hoop house. We have had several frosts and it was 28 F this AM at eight O'clock!

[@hummingbirdheightsfarm]

Hey there from upstate 9b we are above Lake Havasu, and just picking tomatoes that are just ripening! So much grows all year, cauliflower is just starting to head and my lettuce patch is 6 inches tall!

[@hummingbirdheightsfarm]

​@@lindawoody8501hey, you must be Kingman or Prescott area, we are 1500 ft so lots more can grow, but don't have mid summer to grow much except under shade cloth!

[@CambiDred17]

@@hummingbirdheightsfarmso lucky!!

[@lindawoody8501]

3'000+ a bit elevation in Zone 8B. @@hummingbirdheightsfarm

[@NunyaBitnas2119]

The sound of the peepers took me back to my childhood. The peepers were so loud at my childhood home it was almost deafening! My parents split, my dad developed dementia and long story short I don’t go back to my childhood home, so that sound has made my heart happy for a brief moment ❤

[@jenedge5579]

I’m in Southeast Pennsylvania, so I like that you repeat things every year. You’re just ahead of us, (frost wise) so you remind me when I should be getting started on things. Thank you ☺️😉

[@sophiebarnes3711]

A video idea: Seedling identification. Now I'm in my 4th year of gardening I've got a lot of GOOD self seeding and a lot of bad, too 😅. It's hard to identify which is which sometimes!

[@journeywithnichole]

And maybe how to identify it if we are picking weeds or seedlings. New gardener here.

[@daniellegarrett841]

This past Spring I couldn't tell if a seedling was a volunteer tomato or marigold. I was confused, because it was a pot that I experimented with growing 2 tomato plants in. I had to replant my entire tomato crop that year & they didn't have time to produce a lot where one would've fallen in, but a critter did steal one & could've dropped a seed. Google Image & even a plant ID app gave me all different kinds of ID's. None of them correct, lol. Even the people in my gardening group couldn't agree, some were even telling me that it was something poisonous that doesn't even grow near me. So I let it grow. It turned out to be a marigold from one of the previous year's seeds that somehow made it into that pot from where I was growing them. It amazed me how much it looked like a tomato seedling to me though. LOL!

[@karenl7786]

I'm in Zone 5b/6a, so things are pretty quiet right now, praying for somw broccoli to mature before a deep freeze hits. But I only lasted until a couple days after Thanksgiving before I started pulling out seed catalogs LOL! Best obsession ever ❤

[@LaurenHartog]

I am so excited about the mushroom classes. I’ve been gardening for several years and have just started to dip my toes into mycology. 🎉

[@caraoiler711]

We went to Dollywood about a month ago and they had purple cabbages in their landscaping! I was like omg look!!! And my kids and husband looked at me like I’m the weirdo 😂😂😂

[@tennisisme222]

Oh yeah...I've already moved out a few shelves I use when starting seeds. :) Been working on my garden beds covering them with leaf and grass clippings.

[@brianabluhm]

Jess I feel like we are best friends we have never met but hopefully this new year it will come. I feel so blessed to have found your KZbin many years ago. You have been an inspiration to me to expand my garden and switch focus from chickens to gardening. You have helped me become a better gardener and a better caretaker of God's beautiful creation. Thank you for being a long distance best friend and role model

[@sharonknorr1106]

So I am a very experienced gardener who lives in a totally different zone from you. However, it is always helpful to hear about others experiences with different seeds/plants, perhaps what they have learned over the years that may differ from "conventional" wisdom or advice. That is one of the joys of gardening - you never stop being surprised or amazed by something you hadn't experienced before. Sounds like you had a lovely Christmas - we also had a very low key couple of days and it was wonderful.

[@sharoncardenas5447]

You can hit the ground running this garden season Jess!!! Heck yeah...❤

[@FiveCanadianAcres]

Right there with you!! I love Christmas but I am never sad when it's over because I know it's gardening time. Even up here in Canada (Zone 3), I am starting seeds at the end of January. Also a great time to tidy up and organize the greenhouse, mine is at the top of the to do list :)

[@denisediaz1702]

It doesn't matter how many times I watch some of the informational videos, I usually find some new info I've overlooked or a reminder of something I've forgotten! So don't worry about making new "training videos" .... Tried and true is always best!

[@Sunnylane02174]

I’m combing through seed catalogs planning my garden! It gets me through the doldrums of the cold weather. I’ll be starting a boatload of seeds by late January. I’m itching to get planting!

[@RiannaNicole]

Jess, i so needed and love that contagious smile and laugh you wear and share so beautifully. it’s a hard season for our home right now, after loosing my trusty gardening dog, but something about you daydreaming and making plans is so infectious and has helped me today. so thank you for this, for blessing us with your goodness.

[@susanparker-heitel702]

I live in Florida and I miss it being the sunshine state- it has been sooooo gloomy for week after week. We need the rain we have been getting because we have been in a drought. I miss the sunshine.

[@theresaparodi6027]

I originally found your channel at the beginning of COVID because I was looking for tomato growing tips. I live in California with no way to live the dream life of farm life but I check in occasionally to see how your life is going. Long story short, you are an amazing women. Your personality and attitude towards life is admirable and adorable ❤

[@jenniferstafford1514]

I am most interested in how you plan on what you plant together in the same beds...I am struggling with trying to really maximize my beds and plants. Thank you!!

[@tsmgng2926]

I would love more info on maximizing yields through succession planting. Also, I would love to start onions from seed.

[@cherylkruse500]

Got 2 absolutely wonderful Christmas gifts from my son and daughter in law, I got your books Jess and I’m enjoying the gardening book so much, and I’m right there with you I can’t wait to get my hands in the soil. My son and my grandson in law are building raised beds this year and I’m so excited.

[@darcysimental5299]

I was going through my seed collection and I get so excited that I have to remind myself to slow down a bit. Last year was my first successful garden and oh my I want to expand and it’ll all be new to me. Scared no seeds will sprout, but that’s the faith required to garden. ❤

[@commonlaw5400]

Your seeds will sprout and then the next dilemma-Where do I plant all these?That's when your garden creativity kicks in, because you can't kill' them. Been there every year.

[@MissBetsyLu]

Congratulations with your first garden. Blessings everyone everywhere and always

[@lindaparshall9276]

That's why I listen to a book reading by a very deep voiced man...very soothing

[@stephenbutler7176]

Too cloudy here to see the moon right now. It was glorious this morning. The sun was rising at moonset. The moon is full tonight. Thankful I couldn't sleep this morning.

[@magsstewart5488]

“Burden of Abundance” Oh boy, yeah. I have learned the abundant way to only plant two okra, and two cucumber plants. I cannot keep up with more, lol! Bear enjoyed that puddle! 😅

[@PackRatManiac]

I hope everyone was has had a wonderful Christmas. I'm so excited for the gardening year, I've had my seeds out several times setting aside stuff I want to grow next year. My goal is to get the shed cleaned out and organized so I can start my peppers and tomatoes in there this year. I need to clean and sanitize my pots too. Last year I think I had some kind of bacteria or disease that was killing my seedlings because I wasn't washing my containers after I used them. My goals this year are to plant more mindfully and to work more toward preserving my harvest. I ended up composting or giving away stuff because I wasn't motivated enough to do anything with it or I had so much I got overwhelmed. We also had a family of mice eating up stuff and that was discouraging. I'm definitely planting less okra this year. I am trying to plant more things I know my family likes and I'm going to give them the space to thrive instead of crowding so much stuff together. Wish me luck because ADHD gardening can be a struggle.

[@suehill6194]

👏you got this! Enjoy the process!🌞

[@MissBetsyLu]

Enjoy it every second. Gardens don't need to be perfect. Blessings all

[@rebekahlape5104]

I feel the same, so excited for the coming garden season! I’ve had two years off now due to a complicated pregnancy, preterm birth and a medically complex babe. Now that she’s getting more stable I’m looking forward to taking her with me into our new garden and growing together. I’d love any of your knowledge or insight into fruit and nut trees. I was gifted a pecan tree for Christmas and am so excited. ❤

[@Jessica-us3gh]

Loving the maniacal laughing 😂

[@taylormesa6166]

I’ve spent this Christmas down with a nasty case of COVID. It’s hasn’t been all bad though. I sat in the bed, binge watching old garden tours and meticulously planning my garden. All while enjoying food my dad dropped off for me. So this garden year should (in theory) be my most organized of all time!! 😂

[@kariannecrysler640]

I’m honestly looking forward to your perennial food garden and your orchard 😁

[@livmegargle5420]

Me too! I’m a big fan of perennial gardens and there’s so much food that can be grown this way. I think info on lesser known items would be fun like pomegranate, fig, olive to name a few

[@kariannecrysler640]

@@livmegargle5420 💯

[@morganpeacock3652]

I've been watching you for probably 5 years and I love the older videos but I also dearly love older more experienced Jess reteaching everything again. Besides, we're gardeners we want to talk about all the things on repeat!!

[@EmmaMG21]

Ideas 1. Worm farm. Building one. Feeding them. Using the castings. 2. Small gardens/allotments. What best to grow for space. Making the most out of the space. My London plot will probably be the size of your greenhouse. Layout ideas? Thank you!

[@rachelgalus]

Give the people what they want. Seeds. Varieties. Seeds. Varieties. All day, everyday. 😊

[@justgoodness333littlehomes5]

A few weeks ago, a hawk was in my garden eating a rat. 😊 it's garden season here in S. Florida, so I was very grateful.

[@gjsmimi4474]

Right there with you, Jess! Once the Christmas festivities were finished at my daughter's home, i came home and started working on the placement for my new polytunnel! It's been delayed for a year, so I'm really excited to get it up!

[@johannafluegge2597]

We have a small hawk (1/3 the size of our chickens) that hangs out with 'em... its a symbiotic relationship as it greatly keeps rodents down & small birds from eating the feed ❤

[@loribaca9065]

Oh Bear!!!! He makes me smile. I have a big boy named Samson that I call Baby Bear, not because he's smaller, but because he's just as special to me as yours is to you.

[@saraquigley5414]

I’ve got some episode ideas- - winter sowing - natural pest control, specifically how to keep termites from chowing down on wooden raised beds - how to prepare for a fall garden, because I always have the good intention, but can never seem to get it to actually produce anything - favorite gardening products (tools, clothing, seed catalogs, miscellaneous) - least favorite gardening products (that perhaps could help others avoid wasting $ on) - best gardening choices you’ve made and worst fails - ideas beyond what you’re making on your other cool channel of what to do with an over abundance of each veggie (I’m always wondering to myself, “What does she do with all that kale, pumpkin, and tomato etc?”)

[@dragonflyfarm9154]

Lordy, we lost so many of our birds to 2 hawks last winter. They are very bold if they are hungry enough. And they were hungry! My heart breaks to those that have been lost. We have since netted the tops of all our coops. Crows are a blessing because they chase off the hawk and help protect your birds. We will often throw moldy bread (which crows enjoy a lot) across the road from us to encourage crows to stick around. They are my peacekeepers!

[@amberlovell4863]

First thanks for all of your great content! Garden questions/ ideas for videos: garden planning never gets old; do you set goals for your garden seasons?; what percentage of “new to you varieties” do you give space to?; starting cut flowers; do you grow anything specifically for your animals?; do you have garden deadlines for yourself?; what do you grow for nostalgia’s sake?; family favorite garden produce; how does art and beauty impact your garden planning design?; do you persistently struggle to grow anything?

[@honey-bee-farmstead]

You are seriously the BEST! Your channel is hands down my favourite, and you've never made a video that I didn't just LOVE. The other day someone said to me "you're the Jess of Australia" and it was seriously the best compliment I've ever been paid.

[@originalwoolydragon8387]

I know it isn't feasible, but I would love it if the seed companies would all send their catalogs by mail in between Thanksgiving & Christmas. Nothing gives me more joy than to snuggle up on the couch in the evening and start looking at seed varieties...

[@heathervredenburg1612]

I just got 3 in mail in last 2 days...

[@pearljamin]

I would love some videos on water. Irrigation, collection, how to find land with a good water source. Everything water. Some of us are not used to the hot dry summers. WI here, it’s been 50ish degrees….above 0. There wasn’t a snowflake on Christmas. Everything thinks it’s Spring and I’m still over layering

[@choirmom78]

Sweet, sweet planning spirit. Happy New Year!

[@samanthahoos9827]

I ❤ BEAR!!! 😂 It’s been raining so much that my Labrador left into the brook soaking himself, ran through the mud and was sequestered to the laundry room with a large chewie until he was dry for brushing the mud out. 😂

[@manon5826]

maybe a most loved variety's in dept? a 10/15 minute video about why you love these 5 pepers/tomato's/basils the most

[@janetbendes9216]

Hi Jess, those veins on your purple cabbage leaves would make a unique concrete stepping stone design. So much imagination goes on as we walk through your garden. Special thoughts make me happy; Good day😊

[@thehobbyhomestead]

Some content I'd appreciate more of this season: different composting systems and a bit of the science behind making good compost, more mushroom content with Will, and just being able to live vicariously through a warmer climate gardener as you start seeds before i can!

[@yvonnedavid91]

OMG, Jess, you are sch a breath of fresh air. ❤

[@karamarco5002]

Lol I started planning my 8 gardens the day after Christmas...I get you completely...thank you for all that you do!

[@Julkotte]

When the layer of snow ( about 60”) clears, I’m finishing the greenhouse me and my husband built. Planting a peach tree in there and growing so much! Can’t wait!

[@debsenritchedrefuge603]

Hope your Christmas was incredibly Super Fancy, sharing, relaxing and Gloriously Blessed as ever!

[@soulspaces]

You can feel your goodness.

[@colleenmccrum9450]

Jess, I’m just a beginner gardener (3rd year), with a small backyard garden (6 raised beds), but I feel the EXACT SAME WAY. As soon as Christmas was over, I started obsessively garden planning and I can’t stop! I love it so much.

[@audacitytosurvive]

I just want to see garden tours. I learned so, so, so much merely by staring at different parts of your garden week after week. It taught me spacing, timing, trellis techniques. I miss it.

[@darcysimental5299]

I was waiting for the dog fail 😂😂BEAR! The way he just laid down in the mud, he just thought it would be a good idea.

[@sherry2836]

For seed starting video content, I would love to see a timely seed starting segment included in each video for a specific vegetable or fruit, extending to harvest, Example; strawberries from seed; best varieties for growing regions, when to start seeds, the soil requirements, how to plant seeds, temp and water, caring for seedlings, when to plant out, care of the growing fruit, harvesting, uses for harvest, preparing beds for winter. Many channels just show bare root or begin showing vids on established plants. With all the seed starting vids you will be doing, including a little segment focusing on the growing life of just one veg would be so helpful.

[@evawood9655]

That one lazy day!!!!🎉 It was glorious... Leftovers for the win! Ham, egg and cheese sliders, and turkey egg noodle soup! Now onto finish my sewing projects and planning my potagerGarden. I believe a no fuss one this year. Grow the tomatoes, cucumbers that I like. More herbs adventures! But more cut flowers this year! As a family of 2, we've found that our freezer, canning is full. What we have an abundance of people don't really cook anymore... I have considered allowing the garden the 7th year rest, except for those tomatoes 🍅 😉

[@onlybev1]

I want to see the animals that are growing every day. All the animals please. Thanks Bev

[@deannewilliams3321]

19:12 my suggestion for content would be to simply keep me on track to what I need to be doing in my garden at that time of year. I think you’re one zone above me, so I won’t be be too far behind in the growing season. I’m a new 9a. I just did inventory on my seeds last night lol. And yes, winter should be over after Christmas lol. My bday is around Mardi Gras so that’s when we usually start warming up pretty good. We did Cajun Christmas this year. Your dumplings sound delicious mmm!

[@joyceswansey8116]

We all can appreciate old context. It serves as reminders sometimes. Also if I was lived closer I would your mushroom class.

[@rainerounduphomestead8942]

I hang pinwheels all over the bird runs and it keeps the hawks away. I’m definitely in gardening mode. My kids asked if they could come out and burn some cardboard and I said, “yes, but I’ll use it in the garden.” 😂

[@heatherdonohue9572]

Craziest thing just happened! I’m listening to you talk about hawks, look out my window, and see a HAWK on my chicken coop!!! 😱

[@terrieaves1682]

You have a beautiful smile Jess! So excited for you all and all the good things to come. God bless you ❤

[@christiscamelotgardens47]

Jess, just following along with you as you do your day is awesome 😊 As a "homesteader" in the beginning/classroom stage, I like seeing what others do daily to run and care for their homesteads and animals. I am waiting on pins and needles for Beulah and the Carolina homestead exchange to open to the public! I live about 2 hours from you and hope to make the drive fairly often Also interested in your newest goat journey as I am hoping to get my first doelings in March. I believe my friends does are due in just a few weeks!!!🎉🎉🎉

[@Apelsinkas]

It's ok to repeat things in your videos, because there's new gardeners AND old gardeners that forget things ;)

[@shill4]

Yes to old gardeners who forget. 😊

[@carriekassick7311]

Hey Jess, maybe you are a little maniacal, but that’s what we love about you! 😄🥰😘

[@HealyMeans]

hi jess 🤗 you got a lot of rain. i was dreaming about gardening all last week. i was so excited to wake up every morning-like the first day of grade school 😂🤣. as a result, i got a lot of gardening work done, including sowing seeds in one of my raised beds 12/26. today there's a good amount of rain, so i covered the bed with cardboard so the seeds don't wash away. yes, abundance is a blessing and at the same time, i have cried from being overwhelmed (that's what sharing is for). ive been watching you for years and your talks never feel old or stagnant. tfs

[@hannahrogers3836]

Yay garden planning!! I would love a video about fertilizer. Ideally a rundown of how to fertilize from seedling to harvest, and if it differs between types of plants :)

[@sophiebarnes3711]

"Ooh a Shiitake!" Made me chuckle for a good minute 😂

[@JennaGoforth]

So excited to be on this journey with you, Jess!! You are so refreshing amid my seasonal depression and longing for my garden! I hope you continue to be blessed ❤️

[@TheADHDHomestead]

If only the hawk had done its call, then you could have definitely figured out what it was 😅 I'm in the city and the red tailed Hawks never come in this far, but smaller hawks and falcons do and they love to prey on my songbird friends. They do keep the rats from the corner stores away from my tomatoes! Your joy when being able to think of gardening again 🥰 its infectious!

[@NASCARLIVE88]

Red Tail hawks are my favorite bird. They are beautiful.

[@SuperDave71176k]

Jess you could start an interactive "red cell" style gardening video game.from newbies to master gardeners level.Rewarding points for proper gardening techniques.

[@kimoverpeck1065]

I am a brand new gardener. Just moved to northern Idaho. And wanting to learn when how to sprout, how to decide what to plant, companion planting…. Pros/cons to different styles of gardening. I’m empty nest so not cooking or growing for a family. I’m devouring all your old content, but love the new… and also love your Farmers Table style and recipes. I’m fairly new to vegetables in general both growing and eating. Learning how to use what I grow is big for me… even if it’s seasonings, flavoring honeys or vinegars. Or making diy gifts for people. For instance learning to Carmelize 14-15 onions at a time and freezing… then learning how to use them in different ways, was awesome! Ty!! Love hanging out with you.

[@simplycitrusnursery7877]

Our 7 yo Grandson is so into plants. We bought him a greenhouse for his birthday. For Christmas he just wanted plants and mushrooms. We would love for him to see your work shop with Will. He would be so excited.

[@joanmackie6865]

It has been heavy rain at home in Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 j And high winds think is coming from your side of the world and I’m lucky enough I’m visiting my kids in Australia for a few months all the best to you Jess and the family for 2024 so I’m now growing vegetables her in wa all over again and loving it 🥰

[@LaBonnevie61]

My Lab Koda loves the pool. Bear he was beside you in spirit.

[@foragingandurbanfarmingatt4745]

Building Mommy's Garden Beds, by young Ben, is the best song I've ever heard!