This is how we are suppose to live isn't it. GOD, family, a homestead and loving each other. You and your family live in paradise. GOD BLESS your loving family.
"An abundant life does not create a thankful heart. It's the spirit of gratitude that creates an abundant life." Words to live by. I'm a new subscriber and am enjoying your channel so much. Thank you.
Thank you, what a beautiful video. Ruthann you are an inspiration and a lovely person. Your children and farm animals are fun to watch. Did not realize how many animals you have. Peace, love and joy is what you represent ❤
Such an inspirational video to watch as your family works and plays together in harmony with God’s creation, brought me to tears . Blessings to you all
You live in the most beautiful place. This is my favorite video. Beautiful family, healthy children, lovely animals, what a great life. Sending love and blessings.
Amen......every word so true. It brought me to tears because my children are grown and on their own and I didn't learn this lesson until about 5 years ago. Gardening canning chickens ... I've never been so happy! Thank YOU for your message.
Thanks for the gentle reminder about the blessing of a simple life. I love watching your sweet family and your daily life of abundance. Thank you for sharing with us-I’m grateful for your hard work and wisdom.🙏🏻🙏🏻💕
i've watched & enjoyed all your videos, but, this one is my favorite so far. thanks so much for sharing & allowing me to live vicariously through you. you have created a beautiful life. you are my favorite you tube channel.
It was such a pleasure to watch this video! What a really good life you God has given you! The message and photography was inspirational and a blessing to all your viewers!
Ruthann you have out done yourself with this video with the Beautiful views and close ups of your produce and finished with wisdom of Gratefulness is what truly makes for a wonderful life ! Thank you :)
What a beautiful video , absolutely gorgeous. You’re family is blessed. The children have everything, fresh air, fresh food, skills, and the love of family, pets, and so much wisdom . I wish I grew up on a farm . Love love animals, gardening and canning and cooking from scratch . Thanks for sharing ..
I love your channel. This video was wonderful with a message for all on what is most important in life . I always tell my husband we are rich in what natters, love and the blessings of our family❤️ your photography is beautiful. The sunsets are amazing over your piece of heaven. watching this video brought me peace and joy. God bless you and your beautiful family💕
Thank you for sharing this. Makes me wish I was there. Your family is blessed, rich in love, prosperity and abundance. Your homestead is beautiful. I love all your adorable animals. The baby chicks and piglets and obsoletely loved watching the cows run across the field...lol. That is the way God intended us to live...God bless you!🙏
Precious and inspirational Ruth Ann. May God continue to bless, guide, and guard you and yours, and all you treasure. So thankful to God for YOU and your precious family. ❤ 🙏
Dear RuthAnn , Thank you for sharing your year with us ! So much joy , in working together for a common goal ! A spirit of gratitude does , indeed , create an abundant life !
Ruthann, i just stumbled across your channel yesterday and I must say, your videos are a joy to watch! This one in particular was so enjoyable; such abundance and joy from hard work, faithfulness in G-d and love of nature. This is what life ahould be about.
What a blessing to be able to live & raise your family this way! I love how you explain that the value in this lifestyle is far above monetary worth! What a great idea to celebrate Thanksgiving by remembering all the good things from the year through video! I may put together a video for our family to watch this Thanksgiving of all our good times together from this year.
I thoroughly enjoyed this video of your past year! You make your life seem so effortless, but I know it takes a lot of hard work and planning, Thank you for reminding us of what is the most important things in life that money can't buy.
Oh those baby piglets are so cute. I love watching the cows frolic in the pasture. You have a busy and productive life. The kids help you so much. I love that. ❤
A great Video thank you! As I watched this video I saw me and my 5 younger brother collecting potato bugs putting kerosene in the can and getting to set them on fire...that was our reward for picking them off! That eastern ks dirt farm was hard hard organic work..but we all survived and none of us were farmers but we all, I think had nice good gardens! lol thanks
Just read your write up in the Epoch Times. Awesome! I am from a Mennonite herritage also way back when. Just made our family Zwieback recipe to share. I am trying to do the same, be independent as much as possible on our 7200 sqft lot in southern California. Not sustainable here on such a small lot. Plan to move in the coming years, possibly with friends and family to help with the work. Awesome life story and thanks for being so succinct in describing the current cultural dilemma happening today!
I have just recently found your videos and just so enjoy each one. So, I have been binge watching for a few weeks now and came across this one today. Your life and family are so inspiring to me. When I was growing up I always told my mom that I wanted to our in a farm or a ranch Hut she always discouraged me bc she said it was a lot if work bc she grew up on a small farm but she never told me the benefits of all the hard work. So, now I get much satisfaction watching how your farm works with the help a of all your beautiful children and husband.
Such a Beautiful video Ruth Ann. Love the Sunsets in Iowa. I too love living in the Country. Love your Shaggy cow. I too helped my son and his neighbors process meat chickens this Fall. Have. Wonderful Christmas and safe Winter❤️
I am new to your channel but have been binge watching it the past few days. I grew up canning but have learned so much from your videos. Also, so much appreciate your references to God, and just watched your Thanksgiving video. It brought tears to my eyes to see how much you appreciate your abundant (but hard working) life. Thank you for sharing your skills, knowledge and faith in God with the rest of us.
Could you do a video on how you brew homemade root beer? Also, can you tell us what happened to the turkey babies? Why did they die? Do you have Wolves or Coyotes in your area, or do you hear them?
Hi Ruthann 🙂 at 11:00 minutes you show your cattle eating a quite luscious looking field of mixed vegetation. Do you know what all is growing there? Plain grass lacks the nutrients needed so I'm trying to find good plants to add to ours. Thanks! Nita
Thanks for sharing this video. I did not live on a farm but have always loved a garden and putting up as much food for fall. We are retired now but our oldest daughter cans and her dad goes out and helps, but the last two years she has slowed down. We had container tomatoes but they did not do very good this year but our hot peppers did great. We are picking the last of the peppers this coming week. I dry my peppers and put them in jars. I had about 10 different kind of hot peppers. I grounded up some peppers and I added no salt and the kind of seasonings I like to the hot peppers. It is good to rub on your meats before cooking them and to season our chili, sauces or what ever you like to put the seasoning on…I even sprinkle some on my buttered pop corn. Love your videos. Thank you for sharing. We are 85 and 87 years old and have slowed way down. The Bible is our guide for living on this earth. He is by our side always. Love you take good care of those precious children.
Hi ! I found your channel not long ago. It’s nice to see a fellow Iowan ! I’m from Tama County, but now live in Blackhawk County. What area are you from.? This video was awesome ! Iowa is so beautiful. Your garden with the flowers and picnic table amongst the flowers. Very beautiful! I love Zinnias too :) I love that you are a God loving person and you are raising your kids to be self sufficient. Kids doing chores is so important. You know what you said at the end of the video about gratitude and God is so true. God bless you all ❤
I am so envious of your life and I certainly don't believe it comes without never ending, daily work. The lifestyle is something I could totally wrap myself around and I'm so proud of you and the example you're setting. My children were not raised on this type of homestead but there were expectations of everyone and they are wonderful people because of it. I applaud you! Keep up the great work!
This is probably my favorite video so far, as you show the hard work and constant attention to the farm, the kids, and the animals and garden which you have created. You are so right, God has provided and he is good. God bless you and your entire family. Thank you for sharing your life and ideas with us.
Your life on the farm seems like a lot of daily work, but I wish I had grown up on your farm. I am an outdoor gardener but I live close to a small town. We don’t have homesteaders here, but your life seems wonderful! I love all your videos and you are a wonderful mother and teacher to your family. God bless you all❤
I cannot express the deep gratitude for you and your family sharing your lives with us. You sooth my tattered soul and bring hope love and happiness. God Bless you all and keep you healthy happy and blessed of all life’s goodness
Ruthann, you have such a beautiful way with words. Thank you for sharing bits of your beautiful family's life. I stumbled upon you in my quest to learn the art of sourdough bread making and have since watched so many of your tutorials. I love your calm, gentle, and encouraging demeanor! Wish I lived down the road from you so we could sit across the kitchen table and share a cup of coffee and a chat. God bless you!
I love your whole year of thankfulness. Those piglets! All different colors, oh I love them so much! …and the way you say everything is great. Especially about God.
Hello Zimmerman's... you may not see a monetary gain, but the knowledge that your children are gaining is priceless.
Thank you!!!
This is how we are suppose to live isn't it. GOD, family, a homestead and loving each other. You and your family live in paradise. GOD BLESS your loving family.
"An abundant life does not create a thankful heart. It's the spirit of gratitude that creates an abundant life." Words to live by. I'm a new subscriber and am enjoying your channel so much. Thank you.
I’m also a New subscriber and this quote also hit me so profoundly !
Thank you, what a beautiful video. Ruthann you are an inspiration and a lovely person. Your children and farm animals are fun to watch. Did not realize how many animals you have. Peace, love and joy is what you represent ❤
Such an inspirational video to watch as your family works and plays together in harmony with God’s creation, brought me to tears .
Blessings to you all
Thank you!!!
You live in the most beautiful place. This is my favorite video. Beautiful family, healthy children, lovely animals, what a great life. Sending love and blessings.
Amen......every word so true. It brought me to tears because my children are grown and on their own and I didn't learn this lesson until about 5 years ago. Gardening canning chickens ... I've never been so happy! Thank YOU for your message.
Thank you!!!
Thanks for the gentle reminder about the blessing of a simple life. I love watching your sweet family and your daily life of abundance. Thank you for sharing with us-I’m grateful for your hard work and wisdom.🙏🏻🙏🏻💕
This is such a great way to record your family life. Someday, your kids can look back and reminisce on the wonderful life they lived!
i've watched & enjoyed all your videos, but, this one is my favorite so far. thanks so much for sharing & allowing me to live vicariously through you. you have created a beautiful life. you are my favorite you tube channel.
Thank you!!!!
Very nice reflection of the past year. I so enjoy watching the children play outside. Nowadays few know what life outdoors is all about. ❤️
Your channel brings me such joy knowing that these kids will know all of this important knowledge to pass on..
It was such a pleasure to watch this video! What a really good life you God has given you! The message and photography was inspirational and a blessing to all your viewers!
Thank you!!!!
God truly is so good to HIS creation. Thank you for taking time to share.
Ruthann you have out done yourself with this video with the Beautiful views and close ups of your produce and finished with wisdom of Gratefulness is what truly makes for a wonderful life ! Thank you :)
What a beautiful video , absolutely gorgeous. You’re family is blessed. The children have everything, fresh air, fresh food, skills, and the love of family, pets, and so much wisdom . I wish I grew up on a farm . Love love animals, gardening and canning and cooking from scratch . Thanks for sharing ..
I love your channel. This video was wonderful with a message for all on what is most important in life . I always tell my husband we are rich in what natters, love and the blessings of our family❤️ your photography is beautiful. The sunsets are amazing over your piece of heaven.
watching this video brought me peace and joy. God bless you and your beautiful family💕
Beautiful way to show gratitude ♥️🙏❤
What a Blessing.
What a beautiful life ♥️ peace & Grace to you …more precious than rubies. 🌟♥️✝️🇨🇦
Thank you for sharing this. Makes me wish I was there. Your family is blessed, rich in love, prosperity and abundance. Your homestead is beautiful. I love all your adorable animals. The baby chicks and piglets and obsoletely loved watching the cows run across the field...lol. That is the way God intended us to live...God bless you!🙏
This was beautiful. Thanks for sharing
Beautiful, beautiful video!!!
Thank you Ruth Ann for sharing.
Such a beautiful homestead, thank you for sharing!
Beautiful display of Gods Glory in Iowa!💓
Precious and inspirational Ruth Ann. May God continue to bless, guide, and guard you and yours, and all you treasure. So thankful to God for YOU and your precious family. ❤ 🙏
such a lovely video. Ruthann you are a special person and an encouragement to all. Thank you.
Dear RuthAnn ,
Thank you for sharing your year with us !
So much joy , in working together for a common goal !
A spirit of gratitude does , indeed , create an abundant life !
What a masterpiece of a video and of life! You are sooo blessed by God.
Thank you!!!
Goodness, this video is beautiful and your home & farm & family are amazing. Thank you so much for sharing your world ❤
GOD IS GOOD…amen!!!! ALL THE TIME🙏🏼 Thank you Ruthann & family for your inspiring channel💕💕💕
Beautiful!! Thank you for sharing. God is our Provider and Source of everything we need for life and godliness! So inspiring! 🙏♥️🥰
What a beautiful video! Thank you for sharing your family and farm. GM
Wonderful video - your family is fortunate to live and work together in such a beautiful loving environment!
Thank you!!!!
GOD is good all the time! Great video!
Great family! Thank you for sharing with us 💐💙🙏🇺🇲
Lovely video. What a neat memory to have of the year. It makes me want to do one for my family!
Such a lovely video. Thank you for sharing and being such a positive encouragement ❤
Ruthann, i just stumbled across your channel yesterday and I must say, your videos are a joy to watch! This one in particular was so enjoyable; such abundance and joy from hard work, faithfulness in G-d and love of nature. This is what life ahould be about.
What a blessing to be able to live & raise your family this way! I love how you explain that the value in this lifestyle is far above monetary worth! What a great idea to celebrate Thanksgiving by remembering all the good things from the year through video! I may put together a video for our family to watch this Thanksgiving of all our good times together from this year.
I thoroughly enjoyed this video of your past year! You make your life seem so effortless, but I know it takes a lot of hard work and planning, Thank you for reminding us of what is the most important things in life that money can't buy.
Oh those baby piglets are so cute. I love watching the cows frolic in the pasture. You have a busy and productive life. The kids help you so much. I love that. ❤
A great Video thank you! As I watched this video I saw me and my 5 younger brother collecting potato bugs putting kerosene in the can and getting to set them on fire...that was our reward for picking them off! That eastern ks dirt farm was hard hard organic work..but we all survived and none of us were farmers but we all, I think had nice good gardens! lol thanks
What a beautiful memory!!
I love your videos! They give me a warm, calm,, Godly feeling inside. Thank you Ruth Ann.
Just read your write up in the Epoch Times. Awesome! I am from a Mennonite herritage also way back when. Just made our family Zwieback recipe to share. I am trying to do the same, be independent as much as possible on our 7200 sqft lot in southern California. Not sustainable here on such a small lot. Plan to move in the coming years, possibly with friends and family to help with the work. Awesome life story and thanks for being so succinct in describing the current cultural dilemma happening today!
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Watched this today, love the recap, beautiful scenes ❤️ absolutely love your channel ❤
I love your lifestyle. God looks kindly on you. May you always be Blessed.
Loved this video, thanks for sharing your family life with us. Inky the cat doesn’t know how lucky he is to be loved so.
Thank you for your simplicity (but dedicated hard work) of life! I love it!
You are so welcome!
Beautiful ❤️❤️❤️
You touched my heart.😊
What a wonderful video! My heart is full from your beautiful attitude! Thank you for sharing your year with us! God bless you!!
I have just recently found your videos and just so enjoy each one. So, I have been binge watching for a few weeks now and came across this one today. Your life and family are so inspiring to me. When I was growing up I always told my mom that I wanted to our in a farm or a ranch Hut she always discouraged me bc she said it was a lot if work bc she grew up on a small farm but she never told me the benefits of all the hard work. So, now I get much satisfaction watching how your farm works with the help a of all your beautiful children and husband.
This is beautiful 🤎
You and the folks from Montana/Alaska know how to raise wonderful children who will undoubtedly become wonderful, sensible unafraid of work adults.
I love Iowa, I have lots of family there. Your video is wonderful!! Ty so much for sharing!! ❤️
Loved this video. Each word so rich in truth♥️
Thanks friend!!!!
Amen sister! Amen! ❤
Such a Beautiful video Ruth Ann. Love the Sunsets in Iowa. I too love living in the Country. Love your Shaggy cow. I too helped my son and his neighbors process meat chickens this Fall. Have. Wonderful Christmas and safe Winter❤️
Blessing thank you for the video now that's thankful hardworking blessed family
Just beautiful!!
I am new to your channel but have been binge watching it the past few days. I grew up canning but have learned so much from your videos. Also, so much appreciate your references to God, and just watched your Thanksgiving video. It brought tears to my eyes to see how much you appreciate your abundant (but hard working) life. Thank you for sharing your skills, knowledge and faith in God with the rest of us.
What a great video to start off this beautiful Sabbath day! You and your family are an inspiration. May you all be bountifully blessed!
Thank you so much!
God's green and bountiful earth. You sure are blessed by God. Love your videos!.
Could you do a video on how you brew homemade root beer? Also, can you tell us what happened to the turkey babies? Why did they die? Do you have Wolves or Coyotes in your area, or do you hear them?
It's amazing to see how much your little boys grew over the year 💙💙💙
Loved this video. I so much appreciate your sharing your family and farm with us
Thank you Ruthann for sharing your beautiful family/home for us to enjoy and celebrate with you💞💫🙏🏼
I am blown away at such a beautiful garden and homestead. Thank you for sharing. Absolutely amazing what you are teaching your children!
I’m so thankful for your videos.
Your meals made my mouth water! Thanks for sharing. You are a blessing to us☺️
So Grateful for God's Abundance and Mercy towards us.
I absolutely loved this video! I feel inspired!
Amazing and beautiful video .Thank you.
I love your story of joyful hearts, happiness, abundance, so many good things. Thank you for sharing your life with us! God bless you!
Hi Ruthann 🙂 at 11:00 minutes you show your cattle eating a quite luscious looking field of mixed vegetation. Do you know what all is growing there? Plain grass lacks the nutrients needed so I'm trying to find good plants to add to ours.
Thanks!
Nita
So beautiful ❤
❤This city woman loves watching you and your family embracing your homesteading life. Your videos are beautiful and amazing. God is good.
What a beautiful video. Grateful and with Gratitude.....
You are a very wise lady, RuthAnn. You have a delightful family and a most magnificent God! It truly shows. Thank you for your videos.
Thanks for sharing this video. I did not live on a farm but have always loved a garden and putting up as much food for fall. We are retired now but our oldest daughter cans and her dad goes out and helps, but the last two years she has slowed down. We had container tomatoes but they did not do very good this year but our hot peppers did great. We are picking the last of the peppers this coming week. I dry my peppers and put them in jars. I had about 10 different kind of hot peppers. I grounded up some peppers and I added no salt and the kind of seasonings I like to the hot peppers. It is good to rub on your meats before cooking them and to season our chili, sauces or what ever you like to put the seasoning on…I even sprinkle some on my buttered pop corn. Love your videos. Thank you for sharing. We are 85 and 87 years old and have slowed way down. The Bible is our guide for living on this earth. He is by our side always. Love you take good care of those precious children.
Hi ! I found your channel not long ago. It’s nice to see a fellow Iowan ! I’m from Tama County, but now live in Blackhawk County. What area are you from.? This video was awesome ! Iowa is so beautiful. Your garden with the flowers and picnic table amongst the flowers. Very beautiful! I love Zinnias too :) I love that you are a God loving person and you are raising your kids to be self sufficient. Kids doing chores is so important. You know what you said at the end of the video about gratitude and God is so true. God bless you all ❤
You couldn't be more right in that last statement. About God's grace and abundance. God is absolutely good all the time.
This video should be a requirement for elementary school across America. Wonderful !!!
Thank you so much for this video. I enjoyed every minute of it. Your children are such smart hard working children and they seem to enjoy it all.
Your homestead is beautiful.
Here in Louisiana we do can peeled peached but we also freeze the peach peels and make fried peach pies. So good.
I am so envious of your life and I certainly don't believe it comes without never ending, daily work. The lifestyle is something I could totally wrap myself around and I'm so proud of you and the example you're setting. My children were not raised on this type of homestead but there were expectations of everyone and they are wonderful people because of it. I applaud you! Keep up the great work!
What an absolutely beautiful message in your wonderful video
This is probably my favorite video so far, as you show the hard work and constant attention to the farm, the kids, and the animals and garden which you have created. You are so right, God has provided and he is good. God bless you and your entire family. Thank you for sharing your life and ideas with us.
It’s such a glorious blessing to see your larder filled.
Such a beautiful testimony to your life and God’s graces.
Your life on the farm seems like a lot of daily work, but I wish I had grown up on your farm. I am an outdoor gardener but I live close to a small town. We don’t have homesteaders here, but your life seems wonderful! I love all your videos and you are a wonderful mother and teacher to your family. God bless you all❤
I am so glad I found your channel !! I have been binge watching !!
Yay! Thank you!
@@Ruthannzimm And I always give you a like :-)
I cannot express the deep gratitude for you and your family sharing your lives with us. You sooth my tattered soul and bring hope love and happiness. God Bless you all and keep you healthy happy and blessed of all life’s goodness
Your energetic life is amazing. I do love to watch all that you accomplish. It makes my heart smile.
Ruthann, you have such a beautiful way with words. Thank you for sharing bits of your beautiful family's life. I stumbled upon you in my quest to learn the art of sourdough bread making and have since watched so many of your tutorials. I love your calm, gentle, and encouraging demeanor! Wish I lived down the road from you so we could sit across the kitchen table and share a cup of coffee and a chat. God bless you!
Just today we are celebrating Canadian Thanksgiving 2023 - and I watched and really enjoyed this beautifully done - real life - capture - thank you
Happy holidays!
I love your whole year of thankfulness. Those piglets! All different colors, oh I love them so much! …and the way you say everything is great. Especially about God.
Thank you so very much for your wonderful home and farm videos! God bless!
A life lived for Christ is a full and abundant life. God bless you and your family for sharing his love and salvation.
What lovely memories your children will carry forward into their own adult life and how proud you must be of all of them