7:47 "Can we please just celebrate the fact that people are interested in growing their food?" THANK YOU!! The more people interested in any amount of homesteading the better.
What?! People seriously ask you why stuff isn't DONE?! I've been BLOWN AWAY by how much y'all have done to that piece of land since you got it. It seems astronomical...for real. And now I'm blown away that there's people out there who are questioning why stuff "isn't done" on your farm. Say whaaaat 🤣
AMEN! Rant on about that sista! The more people that raise even SOME of their own food, the less pressure on the grocery stores for those who can't or just don't. Balance!
Whoever is wondering why projects aren't completed needs to sit back and think of all you have accomplished? I'm impressed at your accomplishments. Not only are you raising children, but you have businesses off-site you are building. I can't wait to see the table, but I have thoroughly enjoyed watching what you have accomplished in UNDER TWO years. Thank you so much for sharing.
We only have a little over 4 acres, so we only have 15 hens and I enjoy sharing eggs with others!!!! So you sharing those eggs touches my heart deeply! Thank you for sharing your journey with us. I can't put into words what it means to me to listen, watch and learn from you.
Jessica, I'm happy to see people growing their own food and raising their own animals. I promise you that if I were able to grow a garden and raise animals, I'd be doing it. It's just that I physically cannot do it. I'm proud of people who do it!
Lol! I am always checking out people's fields and gardens. My husband teases me about taking me from the farm, but not taking the farm from me. :) We also have an orchard and a large garden that we built after watching your videos. So thank you.
Thank you for speaking up about newbie homesteaders. My hubby grew up on a farm w/chickens, pigs, milk cows and steers and his Mom canned and did all the things. They butchered meat on their farm. When we were first married (55 years ago) he was in the Army. After a few years he got out and got a job. We rented a little acreage out in the country and got some chickens. I knew NOTHING about growing baby chicks into laying hens and all the things. Hubs told me what to do and I learned basically after a quick tutorial, not without some failures and deciding to do things differently. Thirty 6 years ago we bought a small acreage and now have chickens, hogs, steers, and two mini donkeys. I have had a huge garden for years and can all our garden produce, making compost, and all the things. I basically learned from books and trial and error. Anyone wanting to get into this life, I encourage with gusto! Yes, growing your own food is wonderful and yes, those of us that have been doing this for a while need to be encouragers. We are always learning and experimenting and that is part of the wonder of it all. We know what is in our food and we love doing it. Encourage those in your community even if it is a patio garden. Let's help, not hinder other willing to learn. :)
When we were younger and on our acreage with our large gardens, it was so rewarding in sharing the excess produce. Your comments caused a wash of good memories!! Thanks
Sometimes what I do is I score a pool noodle lengthwise to put it on top of the cattle panels so that it does not cut into my shade cloth. Then I put tennis balls on the ends of the T posts that fold up the edges of it
Hello Jess, regarding the shade cloth over tomato plants. For many years I have used 50% white shade cloth over our tomatoes to protect them from our hot South Australian summers. I learnt it from our local radio Gardening guru and have found it really helps stop scorching. I use 3/4" pvc pipe that will bend into an arch when new. Run the ends down T-posts and zip-tie securely. I then use zip-ties to loosely attach the shade cloth to the arch, stretching the cloth. I can then slide the cloth back in cool weather like an awning. These are easily rolled up and removed at the end of the summer and stored away. I hope this gives your creative juices a jump-start. Love your channel🌻🌻
Buy a pool noodle and cut a slit down one side. Place it on top of the cattle panel to protect the shade cloth from ripping if you do that in the garden.
You share your abundance and it'll come back to you! I've shared excess eggs to later be blessed with plant starts, plywood, etc. Thank you for not bashing us newbies! I started with chickens and gardening for the first time ever last year. So much to learn but I'm loving it! My husband and I are going to our first homesteading conference this June and I can't wait!
Jess, I don't know if you will ever see this comment... but Thank you for letting me walk through your garden with you! You are a dear friend to me and a true refuge in a difficult time of life. You have been a blessing today! God bless! ❤
When I saw you give the eggs away, I thought how great it was that you have gotten so far into your comfort zone that you have started comforting others. That's what God wants for us.
I'm egg rich right now on just 10 hens. I share with my neighbors. And I put 21 in an incubator a week ago. It will be my first hatch and I am so eggcited! There is a chicken swap the 3rd Saturday of the month, weather & holidays permitting at Collins Feed & Garden in Mullins, SC 8a-1p. People sell chicks and eggs.
You go girl!!! During the last Depression, growing food and chickens was a normal part of people’s daily lives. That was how people survived the Great Depression of the 1930’s. If those people didn’t have ways to create food at home, most of us wouldn’t exist!!! 😮Think about that!!! The flag stone is so beautiful. I love the colors in it. Those guys deserve all the praise for how beautiful that patio turned out. I am glad you shared the eggs with those guys. Jessica, I really really love you as a person. I wish we were neighbors. You are exactly the kind of person I enjoy spending time with. Thank you so much for sharing your life with all of us. You are a Blessing.
Jess, it just makes me so giddy every time I see your cows! Seems like yesterday you were sharing with us your dream to have a cow and then you found your first Helen and the rest is history ! now y'all have a herd it's so amazing
Jess, you're a wonderful example of a welcoming soul. I would much rather be a newbie chicken farmer than a newbie at welcoming people to the fold of my specialty. You have that down, and have a great deal to teach SOME of us. I'm always glad to have new gardening buddies and farming buddies, as there's enough work for everyone, ha ha!! The other side of things being sold out in stores such as chicks,etc, is that gives storeowners the message they need to stock more. This is a GOOD thing, ultimately, as the message gets out that farming is hot, and our stores need to respond. People just need to be thinking bigger; the farming community needs large hearts and open arms to our new wave of farming folk.🌻🌿🌿🍀
PREACH GIRL! So glad you addressed the negativity surrounding new people jumping into this lifestyle. We are better together, cheering one another on, giving wisdom and having a teachable heart to learn something from someone else. I’m not one to usually like trends but this trend of gardening and chickens is one I will cheer on forever!! 👊🏻
Jess I feel like you don’t have a vision for that contaminated high tunnel because it’s scorned you. Plant some beans, and maybe just fill the whole thing with legumes so you can have an epic win out of that high tunnel to revitalize your feelings about it!
Thank you thank you for supporting the idea of people coming into this lifestyle post covid!!! I'm going into 8 years of this myself, but ANY TIME someone says they'd like to try to grow food, I am all over it offering my help and anything I know!! God love them, they won't all stick to it. But those who want to learn I will teach all I can any day of the week!
We hatch and sell chicks, poults, ducks, and geese. It is a lot of work with tons of brooders around but it can bring in a pretty penny, especially heritage purebred birds. We've been doing it for years and there is a slight increase in new poultry owns the past couple of years. But we love that, we want to help everyone we can have more food security for themselves and their families.
I had to give my hens away because our city ordinance changed from when I first started raising chickens. I gave them to our daughter-in-law’s cousin and in turn she gives us eggs. Our son and daughter-in-law live in a rural town north of us and they have started hatching and raising chickens and quail. I can’t wait until their chickens are old enough to lay. The end of this month I will be getting a bigger and better greenhouse to replace the smaller on that was completely destroyed by one of Southwest Oklahoma 100 mph straight line winds 2 weeks ago. I’m going to start a few seedlings in the house this week but will go ahead and starting more in April. Our oldest son wants me to teach our other daughter-in-law to can and preserve food.😅 I think we will be learning together.😂
The burden of abundance. Two years ago my Craig's Crimson Cherry tree had, oh, maybe a billion cherries. Well, maybe not a billion but it sure was a lot. I finally found a family friend who has 7 kids who loved cherries. Don't get me wrong, I love cherries too but one can only eat so many without getting sick. She and her daughter came over and I cut out of the tree, with scissors, move than half of those super delicious cherries onto a canvas tarp. We then went through them and took out all the leaves and tada, more cherries than one could possible use for one year. God is good. Don't get me started on my yearly abundance of pluerry's. Can't wait to see if the high tunnel is healed. God bless your family.
For the cattle panel trellis put a pool noodles along the top and drape the shade cloth over it like a cartoon tent and set some rocks on the bottoms, that's what we did during the 2020 PNW heatwave, we live somewhere windy so the pool noodles prevents the fabric from rubbing itself ragged
I used to take the kids on the back roads just so we could see the cows and the farms. Always forever pointing them out and just enjoying that in the city. :) I hear ya on the rubbernecking!!
Corned beef and cabbage is a totally American thing. It came from the Irish immigrating to the US and shopping in Jewish areas. In Ireland it's way more common to do pork than beef. I do a pork loin roast, chop and fry up some bacon and fry up some potatoes in that, and then I save some pork water and boil the cabbage in there. My husband looks forward to it every year
Your “season of life” mentality has honestly changed the way I see and handle things in life so much in such a positive way ❤️ so thank you sweet Jess. Speaking of garden rubbernecking last year I was doing just that because I saw the biggest amaranth I have ever seen in all of my life. It was probably 10/12 feet tall and it made my soul smile.❤️
I am so thankful for you and videos every day!! There are days I can't even get out of bed, but I always enjoy and am so encouraged by everything you post. I have had chickens for a year n half now and they have really saved my life, they are such great therapy for me and now I am knee deep in seed planting and figuring out my garden, it will be small but plentiful! Thank you and bless you!
There is nothing better than fried cabbage in bacon fat and an onion sliced, fried but still with a "bite" left to it, not cooked to baby food mush. Finish with a drizzle of balsamic and a dollop of mayo, mixed together and that is heaven! I also do a balsamic mayo to dip my blanched asparagus in. So yummy!
My sister and brother in law live in North Florida and I helped them get started turning their place into a suburban homestead. They started with two Greenstalks. Then they built raised beds. Now they've added chickens. I'm so proud of them.
It feels SO good to give eggs to people! Our girls are in overdrive, and I feel like a Rockefeller when I hand someone a couple dozen eggs and thank them for helping me "get rid" of the abundance. I'm RICH!!!🙂
When my tomatoes start struggling and getting too tall, I trim them back to very close to the ground and leave a new stem and start all over! They grow so much faster because they're still attached to a full size root system. Spring tomatoes and autumn tomatoes from one plant, skipping the summer heat and fruit fly season. (Queensland, Australia. Zone 10?)
Had thought if I'm apparently not skipping tomatoes this year, to try cutting them down and starting over with big suckers, but of course! I can just leave the big suckers right there! Thank you for that.
I love watching yours and ACRE Homestead gardens because yours fruits before mine and Becky's fruits after mine so mine is right in the middle. It's nice to be reminded what's coming and where it started.
We’ve had chickens for over 15 years and we have given every egg they have laid away. We have blessed hundreds of people with our eggs. It’s our way of giving back what God has given us. We have about 30 chickens right now. Love your videos and you are such an inspiration to me. My husband said that girl has such a soft voice.
Jess, thank you so much for being so positive about newbies. I too think that anything anyone can do to grow some food is a positive, since just about anything they do means less impact on the earth, if only in terms of all the shipping and traveling. It is so helpful to be positive! I love hearing chickens in my neighborhood. My family used to have them, but they are not permitted in my current location and I am too chicken to flaunt that rule. However, I enjoy hearing a rooster crowing periodically somewhere in the local area. I love seeing squash vines peeking over fences. Food growing is so enriching for the family and the neighborhood!
Oh girl, come back to Arkansas!! I wish i had met you before you left!! Smelling the tomato seedlings--I thought I was the only person who would enjoy such a thing!! You are so young and yet already so patient. That table top is gorgeous!!
1. love the hair. 2. if you would be so kind as to keep me in your prayers. I lost my 17 year old only daughter last dec and my marriage of 26 years is not going well. My health is suffering. I need strength right now. 3. I've had floodlights in my back yard working for the last 2 hours (washington state) building my garden. Been listening to you the entire time. It feels like you've been a friend all these years and just your voice comforts me, doesn't matter what you're talking about....it just comforts me to know you're there. God Bless your sweet soul and sharing yourself with us. It matters so much.
I am really tired of people telling me how much work it is, how I can’t grow in Arizona, blah blah blah It’s very discouraging but I will have what I want whether they approve or not.
I’ve been making homemade bread and then making homemade French toast sticks out of that. Then I Freeze them in gallon size ziplock bags for breakfast. I can use up 10 eggs per gallon size bag of frozen French toast sticks from the bread and batter recipes! Kids love it too!
I want chickens soooo badly. I have names picked out already and everything, but we just can’t have them yet. Hopefully within the next 5 years we should have our forever place and I can finally get my girls. The idea of handing a friend (or my mother) a basket of fresh eggs is something I really look forward to.
I think the little steps are the big picture. It is the big picture being created one step at a time. Revel in the journery. The destination is important to know but the journey can be so much fun. Yes, I am a rubbernecker too. Sometimes I get my best ideas from other people. I can't even put my tomatoes and peppers out until mother's day. I am glad you are egg wealthy.
In Arizona here, that's a good idea about the shade cloth for tomatoes, I tried putting one in a large pot in the shade of my trees during summer, it survived and I've been getting small amount of tomatoes all winter. Can't beat homegrown tomatoes!
Jess it just makes my heart happy seeing people get back on the land or even in their back or front yard thank you Jess and Miah god bless and happy birthday ben 💕🎊🎂🎊💕😍
My local TSC sold out, within 4 hours, on the last 3 deliveries, over 500 chicks each. Over the weekend we picked up some chicks from a local man, charging same price as he has for years. I'm seeing lots of chicks for sale locally but the prices are crazy high.
Being resourceful & homesteading, is about using the land well, but definitely the abundance!!! Thank you for saying that! I appreciate your values and heart ❤️
Jess you're so cute!! You GLOW! I've been watching you since 2020 and you actually look like you have reversed in age by a few years! Keep on doing whatever you're doing.
I agree, we should 100% celebrate anyone interested in growing their own food. It's homesteading channels like yours that inspired me to grow a backyard garden. I don't have a homestead but I make it work with what I have for land, which isn't much. I had a successful, albeit challenging harvest last year and this year will be better because I've learned so much and I'm still learning because of people like you that are willing to share your knowledge & expertise. Growing my own food did more for me than just growing food for my family. It has taught me patience, resilience & perseverance. It has improved my mental health, my concentration, my mood & my physical health among other things. I can't even put into words how growing my own food has impacted my life. We need to encourage & support people that want to grow their own food to feed themselves and their families, not ridicule or scoff at them.
Love your positivity and support towards new-ish homesteaders and gardeners! I've learned so much from your videos already. Your attitude and approach is so refreshing. 💚
Thanks for your positive words to all those getting started to grow food. We will need them all and everybody once started as a beginner. It might be inconvenient when chicks and potting compost are sold out, but it is a wonderful sign that more people join the club, so welcome dear friens of the earth!😊
It's so nice to see some tomato starts. I get married on the 18th so I haven't started any of mine yet, & oh how I miss it!!! I'm extremely thankful that we have a long growing season. Still, I'm looking forward to finally getting my seeds started after the wedding!!
I never thought I liked cabbage until I saw your video awhile back of you frying it with bacon. I immediately wanted to try it with some of my own bacon, and I loved it. A couple days later I ran out to my closest nursery and bought their last three sad looking six packs of cabbage starts. This was the end of July or beginning of August, and grew those cabbages up and loved eating every bite of my first home grown cabbage. Thank you for always broadening my horizons!
Thank you so much for speaking up for the new homesteaders. I’ve been gardening my whole life but I’m a newbie at raising chickens. I’ve been wanting chicks for many years, but I finally got my husband on board with it this year. Sadly, I’ve read a lot of disheartening comments about us newbies. I’m trying to brush that off and focus on the positive, encouraging, helpful comments. Thank you for being so welcoming and supportive! ❤️🙏🐥
Congratulations on adding chickens to your home! Don’t pay any attention to the naysayers, you do what you want! Life is about trying and learning from others, it’s not about beating others down! Two things I try to remember…nobody is born an expert in anything and nobody puts pants on both legs at once. 😉💕👍
Everyone who's been keeping chickens forever had to start somewhere! Just doesn't make sense to naysay someone just starting out. Good luck and have fun!
Don't be disheartened, it's your way of living and nobody should judge another.. my house burned a year ago and I can't rebuild so i"m in a camper in summer doing my gardens, and AM getting more hens , a lot of travelling back and forth tending them in winter but.... : )
I love chickens and some of my family think I'm crazy for it but it's what I love along with gardening for the first time in a while but do what you love and want to do
Don’t worry about being a newbie. It doesn’t matter what you are learning, we always start out not knowing how to something. Forget about the naysayers. Learn and enjoy!! ❤️
I’ve been asked to sell eggs to people and asked to sell chickens for eggs or meat. Nope, tried it once and not interested anymore. I’d prefer to bless friends and family with free eggs, but my birds will grow old on our homestead eating plenty of pests around the gardens. I feel God has blessed us so bless others because we are already prospering in what God’s given us each day.
Jess, I just had to tell you just how amazing you look! Your energy, your stamina- you’re so much happier and healthier, it’s obvious! Carnivore and keto are amazing healers! 🎉You go, girl!
Thanks again for the eggs. Felt like easter circa 1993...💯😂
Amazing job on the patio, that stonework is stunning!
7:47 "Can we please just celebrate the fact that people are interested in growing their food?" THANK YOU!! The more people interested in any amount of homesteading the better.
What?! People seriously ask you why stuff isn't DONE?! I've been BLOWN AWAY by how much y'all have done to that piece of land since you got it. It seems astronomical...for real. And now I'm blown away that there's people out there who are questioning why stuff "isn't done" on your farm. Say whaaaat 🤣
AMEN! Rant on about that sista! The more people that raise even SOME of their own food, the less pressure on the grocery stores for those who can't or just don't.
Balance!
Whoever is wondering why projects aren't completed needs to sit back and think of all you have accomplished? I'm impressed at your accomplishments. Not only are you raising children, but you have businesses off-site you are building. I can't wait to see the table, but I have thoroughly enjoyed watching what you have accomplished in UNDER TWO years. Thank you so much for sharing.
I agree, celebrate people trying new things and growing food. It is a good thing.
We only have a little over 4 acres, so we only have 15 hens and I enjoy sharing eggs with others!!!! So you sharing those eggs touches my heart deeply!
Thank you for sharing your journey with us. I can't put into words what it means to me to listen, watch and learn from you.
Jessica, I'm happy to see people growing their own food and raising their own animals. I promise you that if I were able to grow a garden and raise animals, I'd be doing it. It's just that I physically cannot do it. I'm proud of people who do it!
Lol! I am always checking out people's fields and gardens. My husband teases me about taking me from the farm, but not taking the farm from me. :) We also have an orchard and a large garden that we built after watching your videos. So thank you.
I am a garden rubber-necker too! 😂 When people drive slow by my house (or even better -stop and take a photo), it is the BIGGEST compliment! ❤️🦩🤣
Yes!! I just started selling hatching eggs and I am literally in the process of hatching baby chicks and they are already sold!
Thank you for speaking up about newbie homesteaders. My hubby grew up on a farm w/chickens, pigs, milk cows and steers and his Mom canned and did all the things. They butchered meat on their farm. When we were first married (55 years ago) he was in the Army. After a few years he got out and got a job. We rented a little acreage out in the country and got some chickens. I knew NOTHING about growing baby chicks into laying hens and all the things. Hubs told me what to do and I learned basically after a quick tutorial, not without some failures and deciding to do things differently. Thirty 6 years ago we bought a small acreage and now have chickens, hogs, steers, and two mini donkeys. I have had a huge garden for years and can all our garden produce, making compost, and all the things. I basically learned from books and trial and error. Anyone wanting to get into this life, I encourage with gusto! Yes, growing your own food is wonderful and yes, those of us that have been doing this for a while need to be encouragers. We are always learning and experimenting and that is part of the wonder of it all. We know what is in our food and we love doing it. Encourage those in your community even if it is a patio garden. Let's help, not hinder other willing to learn. :)
When we were younger and on our acreage with our large gardens, it was so rewarding in sharing the excess produce. Your comments caused a wash of good memories!! Thanks
Sometimes what I do is I score a pool noodle lengthwise to put it on top of the cattle panels so that it does not cut into my shade cloth. Then I put tennis balls on the ends of the T posts that fold up the edges of it
Hello Jess, regarding the shade cloth over tomato plants. For many years I have used 50% white shade cloth over our tomatoes to protect them from our hot South Australian summers. I learnt it from our local radio Gardening guru and have found it really helps stop scorching. I use 3/4" pvc pipe that will bend into an arch when new. Run the ends down T-posts and zip-tie securely. I then use zip-ties to loosely attach the shade cloth to the arch, stretching the cloth. I can then slide the cloth back in cool weather like an awning. These are easily rolled up and removed at the end of the summer and stored away. I hope this gives your creative juices a jump-start. Love your channel🌻🌻
YES! I nearly drive off the road every time I pass a yard with a vegetable garden. LOL!😂
I’m a garden rubber necker too 😂😂 i love that title😊
Buy a pool noodle and cut a slit down one side. Place it on top of the cattle panel to protect the shade cloth from ripping if you do that in the garden.
You share your abundance and it'll come back to you! I've shared excess eggs to later be blessed with plant starts, plywood, etc. Thank you for not bashing us newbies! I started with chickens and gardening for the first time ever last year. So much to learn but I'm loving it! My husband and I are going to our first homesteading conference this June and I can't wait!
I too was raised with the saying of "abundance one is blessed with you should always share the wealth"!🙏🏽 It goes without saying!
Jess, I don't know if you will ever see this comment... but Thank you for letting me walk through your garden with you! You are a dear friend to me and a true refuge in a difficult time of life. You have been a blessing today! God bless! ❤
When I saw you give the eggs away, I thought how great it was that you have gotten so far into your comfort zone that you have started comforting others. That's what God wants for us.
I'm egg rich right now on just 10 hens. I share with my neighbors. And I put 21 in an incubator a week ago. It will be my first hatch and I am so eggcited! There is a chicken swap the 3rd Saturday of the month, weather & holidays permitting at Collins Feed & Garden in Mullins, SC 8a-1p. People sell chicks and eggs.
Love that you said to not to speak death over people! What an amazing world it would be if we all spoke life over everyone!❤❤❤
You go girl!!! During the last Depression, growing food and chickens was a normal part of people’s daily lives. That was how people survived the Great Depression of the 1930’s. If those people didn’t have ways to create food at home, most of us wouldn’t exist!!! 😮Think about that!!!
The flag stone is so beautiful. I love the colors in it. Those guys deserve all the praise for how beautiful that patio turned out. I am glad you shared the eggs with those guys.
Jessica, I really really love you as a person. I wish we were neighbors. You are exactly the kind of person I enjoy spending time with. Thank you so much for sharing your life with all of us. You are a Blessing.
Yes, let's celebrate people growing their own food. So much healthier! 🙌
Yes!! The more folks who grow food, the better off all of us are!❤
Jess, it just makes me so giddy every time I see your cows! Seems like yesterday you were sharing with us your dream to have a cow and then you found your first Helen and the rest is history ! now y'all have a herd it's so amazing
“That’s not for me!” Girl, thank you for saying that! Thank you for being real about it.
I just taught this phrase to my kids. It's set a boundary without judgement. I love it!
Jess, you're a wonderful example of a welcoming soul. I would much rather be a newbie chicken farmer than a newbie at welcoming people to the fold of my specialty. You have that down, and have a great deal to teach SOME of us. I'm always glad to have new gardening buddies and farming buddies, as there's enough work for everyone, ha ha!! The other side of things being sold out in stores such as chicks,etc, is that gives storeowners the message they need to stock more. This is a GOOD thing, ultimately, as the message gets out that farming is hot, and our stores need to respond. People just need to be thinking bigger; the farming community needs large hearts and open arms to our new wave of farming folk.🌻🌿🌿🍀
PREACH GIRL! So glad you addressed the negativity surrounding new people jumping into this lifestyle. We are better together, cheering one another on, giving wisdom and having a teachable heart to learn something from someone else. I’m not one to usually like trends but this trend of gardening and chickens is one I will cheer on forever!! 👊🏻
Jess I feel like you don’t have a vision for that contaminated high tunnel because it’s scorned you. Plant some beans, and maybe just fill the whole thing with legumes so you can have an epic win out of that high tunnel to revitalize your feelings about it!
That’s a beautiful idea
I was thinking the same thing! I'd just fill it full of flowers for a season or two so that every time I entered it would sing to me.
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That is a great idea!
They say sunflowers suck out the bad stuff!
Thank you thank you for supporting the idea of people coming into this lifestyle post covid!!! I'm going into 8 years of this myself, but ANY TIME someone says they'd like to try to grow food, I am all over it offering my help and anything I know!! God love them, they won't all stick to it. But those who want to learn I will teach all I can any day of the week!
I love helping share what I have learned as well, makes me feel justified in gaining this knowledge for a purpose, bless you!
We hatch and sell chicks, poults, ducks, and geese. It is a lot of work with tons of brooders around but it can bring in a pretty penny, especially heritage purebred birds.
We've been doing it for years and there is a slight increase in new poultry owns the past couple of years. But we love that, we want to help everyone we can have more food security for themselves and their families.
I had to give my hens away because our city ordinance changed from when I first started raising chickens. I gave them to our daughter-in-law’s cousin and in turn she gives us eggs. Our son and daughter-in-law live in a rural town north of us and they have started hatching and raising chickens and quail. I can’t wait until their chickens are old enough to lay. The end of this month I will be getting a bigger and better greenhouse to replace the smaller on that was completely destroyed by one of Southwest Oklahoma 100 mph straight line winds 2 weeks ago. I’m going to start a few seedlings in the house this week but will go ahead and starting more in April. Our oldest son wants me to teach our other daughter-in-law to can and preserve food.😅 I think we will be learning together.😂
Now that would make a great slogan on a tshirt "I'm a garden rubbernecker". Hint, hint! - Rhonda
The burden of abundance. Two years ago my Craig's Crimson Cherry tree had, oh, maybe a billion cherries. Well, maybe not a billion but it sure was a lot. I finally found a family friend who has 7 kids who loved cherries. Don't get me wrong, I love cherries too but one can only eat so many without getting sick. She and her daughter came over and I cut out of the tree, with scissors, move than half of those super delicious cherries onto a canvas tarp. We then went through them and took out all the leaves and tada, more cherries than one could possible use for one year. God is good. Don't get me started on my yearly abundance of pluerry's. Can't wait to see if the high tunnel is healed. God bless your family.
Yes.. Just be kind... World would be such a nicer place if everyone had that philosophy
For the cattle panel trellis put a pool noodles along the top and drape the shade cloth over it like a cartoon tent and set some rocks on the bottoms, that's what we did during the 2020 PNW heatwave, we live somewhere windy so the pool noodles prevents the fabric from rubbing itself ragged
Thank you for your Christian attitude. You welcome others to share in the bounty of growing their own food. You are a blessing to us.
I used to take the kids on the back roads just so we could see the cows and the farms. Always forever pointing them out and just enjoying that in the city. :) I hear ya on the rubbernecking!!
Corned beef and cabbage is a totally American thing. It came from the Irish immigrating to the US and shopping in Jewish areas. In Ireland it's way more common to do pork than beef.
I do a pork loin roast, chop and fry up some bacon and fry up some potatoes in that, and then I save some pork water and boil the cabbage in there. My husband looks forward to it every year
Your “season of life” mentality has honestly changed the way I see and handle things in life so much in such a positive way ❤️ so thank you sweet Jess. Speaking of garden rubbernecking last year I was doing just that because I saw the biggest amaranth I have ever seen in all of my life. It was probably 10/12 feet tall and it made my soul smile.❤️
The slate is fantastic. My dad did the hallway from the front door to the bedrooms. Way back in the 1970's.
I NEVER got tired looking at it.
I am so thankful for you and videos every day!! There are days I can't even get out of bed, but I always enjoy and am so encouraged by everything you post. I have had chickens for a year n half now and they have really saved my life, they are such great therapy for me and now I am knee deep in seed planting and figuring out my garden, it will be small but plentiful! Thank you and bless you!
There is nothing better than fried cabbage in bacon fat and an onion sliced, fried but still with a "bite" left to it, not cooked to baby food mush. Finish with a drizzle of balsamic and a dollop of mayo, mixed together and that is heaven! I also do a balsamic mayo to dip my blanched asparagus in. So yummy!
Yessss, preach about celebrating others getting into homesteading!! I always rather spread knowledge than just sell my products!
My sister and brother in law live in North Florida and I helped them get started turning their place into a suburban homestead. They started with two Greenstalks. Then they built raised beds. Now they've added chickens. I'm so proud of them.
Love the smells in all crops - tomatoes, sage, Basil, cilantro, rosemary…… I intentionally brush them as I pass by.
It feels SO good to give eggs to people! Our girls are in overdrive, and I feel like a Rockefeller when I hand someone a couple dozen eggs and thank them for helping me "get rid" of the abundance. I'm RICH!!!🙂
That way can say yes to the beauty the woderful table appears. That a beauty. Its like a portrait.
Yes! Celebrate the worthy lifestyle! Stop putting people down who are actually trying to make a difference x
Jess I am a garden rubbernecker. Also a maple syrup rubbernecker rubbernecker all the way, especially when I see bee hives.
When my tomatoes start struggling and getting too tall, I trim them back to very close to the ground and leave a new stem and start all over! They grow so much faster because they're still attached to a full size root system. Spring tomatoes and autumn tomatoes from one plant, skipping the summer heat and fruit fly season.
(Queensland, Australia. Zone 10?)
Had thought if I'm apparently not skipping tomatoes this year, to try cutting them down and starting over with big suckers, but of course! I can just leave the big suckers right there! Thank you for that.
Thank you for sharing your wonderful tip! Game changer for sure! Blessings on your day Kiddo!🌻🐛💕
I love watching yours and ACRE Homestead gardens because yours fruits before mine and Becky's fruits after mine so mine is right in the middle. It's nice to be reminded what's coming and where it started.
We’ve had chickens for over 15 years and we have given every egg they have laid away. We have blessed hundreds of people with our eggs. It’s our way of giving back what God has given us. We have about 30 chickens right now. Love your videos and you are such an inspiration to me. My husband said that girl has such a soft voice.
Jess, thank you so much for being so positive about newbies. I too think that anything anyone can do to grow some food is a positive, since just about anything they do means less impact on the earth, if only in terms of all the shipping and traveling. It is so helpful to be positive!
I love hearing chickens in my neighborhood. My family used to have them, but they are not permitted in my current location and I am too chicken to flaunt that rule. However, I enjoy hearing a rooster crowing periodically somewhere in the local area. I love seeing squash vines peeking over fences. Food growing is so enriching for the family and the neighborhood!
Generally I start seeds in the house or out on my lettuce table fully covered with a mesh bag from onions.
I used past pineapple plastic jars in the mesh bag.
When Jess describes how she is going to cook the cabbage 😋🫠 Just how my mom used to make it and how I make it 😊
Jess, I truly love your caring and compassionate nature. Your acceptance of others is refreshing. You are a beautiful young woman.
Chips are adorable, stonework is gawgeous! Spring has sprung!
HI Jess, "I'm a garden rubbernecker" would be a great t-shirt. 😃
Oh girl, come back to Arkansas!! I wish i had met you before you left!! Smelling the tomato seedlings--I thought I was the only person who would enjoy such a thing!! You are so young and yet already so patient. That table top is gorgeous!!
1. love the hair. 2. if you would be so kind as to keep me in your prayers. I lost my 17 year old only daughter last dec and my marriage of 26 years is not going well. My health is suffering. I need strength right now. 3. I've had floodlights in my back yard working for the last 2 hours (washington state) building my garden. Been listening to you the entire time. It feels like you've been a friend all these years and just your voice comforts me, doesn't matter what you're talking about....it just comforts me to know you're there. God Bless your sweet soul and sharing yourself with us. It matters so much.
Yes ma’am! I agree with you! SPEAK LIFE!!! Preach it sister!
I am really tired of people telling me how much work it is, how I can’t grow in Arizona, blah blah blah
It’s very discouraging but I will have what I want whether they approve or not.
I’ve been making homemade bread and then making homemade French toast sticks out of that. Then I Freeze them in gallon size ziplock bags for breakfast. I can use up 10 eggs per gallon size bag of frozen French toast sticks from the bread and batter recipes! Kids love it too!
I’d just like to say I’m addicted. I haven’t found out how to listen in yet but I don’t miss an episode here. Your passion is so inspiring.
I want chickens soooo badly. I have names picked out already and everything, but we just can’t have them yet. Hopefully within the next 5 years we should have our forever place and I can finally get my girls. The idea of handing a friend (or my mother) a basket of fresh eggs is something I really look forward to.
“I’m a garden rubber necker, how about you”? So true! I’ll admit I am! God bless you Jess ❤️
I think the little steps are the big picture. It is the big picture being created one step at a time. Revel in the journery. The destination is important to know but the journey can be so much fun. Yes, I am a rubbernecker too. Sometimes I get my best ideas from other people. I can't even put my tomatoes and peppers out until mother's day. I am glad you are egg wealthy.
It's good to share. it make everyone feel good.
I could not love your attitude and approach any more. I strive to develop you level of grace.
Yaaas! I am a garden, cool car, lighting, and yard sale rubbernecker! Rubberneckers unite!😁
Is anyone else loving her hair like I am? Love all her styles, but really like this
In Arizona here, that's a good idea about the shade cloth for tomatoes, I tried putting one in a large pot in the shade of my trees during summer, it survived and I've been getting small amount of tomatoes all winter.
Can't beat homegrown tomatoes!
Jess it just makes my heart happy seeing people get back on the land or even in their back or front yard thank you Jess and Miah god bless and happy birthday ben 💕🎊🎂🎊💕😍
My local TSC sold out, within 4 hours, on the last 3 deliveries, over 500 chicks each. Over the weekend we picked up some chicks from a local man, charging same price as he has for years. I'm seeing lots of chicks for sale locally but the prices are crazy high.
Being resourceful & homesteading, is about using the land well, but definitely the abundance!!! Thank you for saying that! I appreciate your values and heart ❤️
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TOBY!!! Blessings on your birthday sir! 🥰🌻🐛💕
Jess, you are looking so good and healthy. So happy for you that you found how to finally take care of your health. Keep it up.
Jess you're so cute!! You GLOW! I've been watching you since 2020 and you actually look like you have reversed in age by a few years! Keep on doing whatever you're doing.
I agree, we should 100% celebrate anyone interested in growing their own food. It's homesteading channels like yours that inspired me to grow a backyard garden. I don't have a homestead but I make it work with what I have for land, which isn't much. I had a successful, albeit challenging harvest last year and this year will be better because I've learned so much and I'm still learning because of people like you that are willing to share your knowledge & expertise. Growing my own food did more for me than just growing food for my family. It has taught me patience, resilience & perseverance. It has improved my mental health, my concentration, my mood & my physical health among other things. I can't even put into words how growing my own food has impacted my life. We need to encourage & support people that want to grow their own food to feed themselves and their families, not ridicule or scoff at them.
I've always pictured my retirement being raising a few alpacas, spinning their fiber, and weaving blankets.
Love your positivity and support towards new-ish homesteaders and gardeners! I've learned so much from your videos already. Your attitude and approach is so refreshing. 💚
Thanks for your positive words to all those getting started to grow food. We will need them all and everybody once started as a beginner. It might be inconvenient when chicks and potting compost are sold out, but it is a wonderful sign that more people join the club, so welcome dear friens of the earth!😊
I would love to see an update on the horses! Thank you for sharing your wonderful farm ❤❤
Yes! Let's support one another and not tear down!
"Oh, look. A basket!" That made me smile, and the timing was perfect for gathering eggs.
It's so nice to see some tomato starts. I get married on the 18th so I haven't started any of mine yet, & oh how I miss it!!! I'm extremely thankful that we have a long growing season. Still, I'm looking forward to finally getting my seeds started after the wedding!!
CONGRATULATIONS! You've got this!🌻🐛💕
Jess, yes, agree, celebrate the big interest in chickens and gardening…
I never thought I liked cabbage until I saw your video awhile back of you frying it with bacon. I immediately wanted to try it with some of my own bacon, and I loved it. A couple days later I ran out to my closest nursery and bought their last three sad looking six packs of cabbage starts. This was the end of July or beginning of August, and grew those cabbages up and loved eating every bite of my first home grown cabbage. Thank you for always broadening my horizons!
Thank you so much for speaking up for the new homesteaders. I’ve been gardening my whole life but I’m a newbie at raising chickens. I’ve been wanting chicks for many years, but I finally got my husband on board with it this year. Sadly, I’ve read a lot of disheartening comments about us newbies. I’m trying to brush that off and focus on the positive, encouraging, helpful comments. Thank you for being so welcoming and supportive! ❤️🙏🐥
Congratulations on adding chickens to your home! Don’t pay any attention to the naysayers, you do what you want! Life is about trying and learning from others, it’s not about beating others down! Two things I try to remember…nobody is born an expert in anything and nobody puts pants on both legs at once. 😉💕👍
Everyone who's been keeping chickens forever had to start somewhere! Just doesn't make sense to naysay someone just starting out. Good luck and have fun!
Don't be disheartened, it's your way of living and nobody should judge another.. my house burned a year ago and I can't rebuild so i"m in a camper in summer doing my gardens, and AM getting more hens , a lot of travelling back and forth tending them in winter but.... : )
I love chickens and some of my family think I'm crazy for it but it's what I love along with gardening for the first time in a while but do what you love and want to do
Don’t worry about being a newbie. It doesn’t matter what you are learning, we always start out not knowing how to something. Forget about the naysayers. Learn and enjoy!! ❤️
I’ve been asked to sell eggs to people and asked to sell chickens for eggs or meat. Nope, tried it once and not interested anymore. I’d prefer to bless friends and family with free eggs, but my birds will grow old on our homestead eating plenty of pests around the gardens. I feel God has blessed us so bless others because we are already prospering in what God’s given us each day.
Yes!! Let's celebrate more are growing! Nice to see more caring about the food they eat. Such great progress for so many!
Yes, I am a rubber necker too! Ben is your mini me! Tell him we are excited to see his garden grow.
what to do with the tunnel with the contaminated soil will come to you when it needs to
That should be a t shirt. "I am a Garden Rubbernecker!"
Love you girl, you are a great person. Why are people judging each other in the first place . . . breathe peeps
Jess, I just had to tell you just how amazing you look! Your energy, your stamina- you’re so much happier and healthier, it’s obvious! Carnivore and keto are amazing healers! 🎉You go, girl!