The Epic Showdown (And Our Farmer's Market) VLOG
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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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Jess … set up a bunch of buckets, each with stems of a different flower, line them up in the bed of a truck, and let folks choose/purchase the stems they want and make their own bouquets! Our farmer’s market has a couple of flower vendors that do this … makes it affordable for everyone! Takes the pressure off of you creating all the bouquets … you could create a few ‘signature’ Jess bouquets when you had the time/inclination ❤
Superb idea!!
also consider what dries well, you can extend your selling season into fall. (I run and curate markets if you need any tips!)
This is a great idea. You could charge a set price per ...say a dozen stems, like choose 12 stems $X.00 each. Or if there are some varieties that are considered premium, maybe they have a higher price per stem. So the premium ones at $1.00 per stem (I have no idea what is market price in your area-I'm just explaining the idea), and then B level stems at .50 per stem. ....that might be too fussy. Anyways, I think the back of the truck idea is great and more fun for people. I don't tend to buy cut flowers, but I'd be a lot more likely to, if I could choose my own.
Great idea
“Bermuda grass is just rude” 😂. Yes! Yes, it is very rude!
On a side note, gerber daisies are one of my favorite cut flowers 🌸
Jess you remind me of an English Ivy. You find a happy blue sky & you grow up, & up, & up. I BLESS you!!! ❤
The bees will thank you for all the mint!
I’m recovering from having a kidney removed and becoming septic.
I found your channel and now I’m addicted. I live in North Central Arkansas. I’m 62. Enjoy everything you teach on your blogs cooking your gardening animals. I’ve made the last 30 years on 75 acres cows, chickens, meat goats, and I learned something from you almost every day , I say a prayer for your health and your family thank you so much. I know the hard work and sacrifice it takes to live in the country work for your food maintain animals and raise healthy. Happy children in a safe environment. Thanks again you and your husband are becoming a part of my everyday life, good luck in everything you do
Get well soon
What a sweet woman you are. I’m sending prayers and love to you as well ❤️
I live is SEARCY; sending prayers for your quick and complete recovery. You’re gonna LOVE this channel. The family moved to their current homestead from Vilonia, AR! 😊
May God bless you with quick and total healing.
Saying a prayer for your speedy recovery.
Your happiness is contagious Jess ❤🌻🌸🌼🌾🌻🌹snapdragons, bee balm, anise hyssop, also dill is amazing in arrangements!
I so agree with you @katsimagination21.. jess's enthusiasm and happiness is really contagious.. it feels light in the heart.
An unusual addition to a flower bouquet is okra pods. My daughter picked some zinnias to take to her grandmother and added a few pods of my over grown burgundy okra to them. We stuck them on wooden skewers and added them. It was really pretty.
It doesn’t seem possible that it’s been three years. I remember finding Jess, as many did, in 2020. Time just flies anymore💕🌻
Jess I have nt given up on working my UA-cam channel like it's my job I just have so much going on I have hip replacement on the 5 th of April major back surgery it's called a fusion and dental surgery all going on this next few months plus trying to get my garden out Needless to say I need all the prayers
Sending love and prayers for strength, endurance of mind and body, and quick healing. 🙏🤍✨
I will send up a prayer
Abba Daddy, I lift up @bonnieskitchengarden to you, and thank you Jesus for all that you’ve done and continue to do in her life. I ask that you fill her up with your love so she feels your peace, a peace that surpasses all understanding as she faces life head on. Please meet her needs with her up coming surgeries and all that entails, guide her and give her all that she needs to survive and thrive in the next couple months. Help her, Lord, to get her garden in in a timely manor, without feeling overwhelmed. Remind her You will never leave her or forsake her, and she can do all things in Christ who strengthens her. Yet, Holy Spirit, whisper in her ear when she’s doing too much. Help her to surrender her plans to Your plans. Thank you! In Jesus mighty name I pray, Amen.
Prayers
Having painful health problems too. I understand wanting to garden. Please keep pushing it forward with what ever you do. God is watching us.
My husband and I have built 4 houses together. Once foundation and framing are in the rest goes quickly. So excited for you. I was sick the last house building 5.5 years ago. (Still struggling) and I developed multiple chemical sensitivity after. Pulling out carpet and replaced with ceramic tile that 👀 like wood. Less voc. I know you have had health issues yourself. Consider type of paint etc. 😢☺️🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 really enjoy your channel
Tall Snapdragons can be gorgeous in a flower bouquet 😊. Thank you for all your videos as well. This one really got me in the mood to enjoy spring. You are right. There is something about knowing what beauty is about to happen and just sitting there and appreciating that ❤
I toss mint and dill seeds along edges of my grass so when I mow the lawn my whole property smells AWESOME
Anemones are fabulous for late-ish summer buds. Unexpected delight.
“Bermuda grass is just rude” truest statement ever!!!!!😂😂
You could just fill buckets with different flowers and 'garnish twigs....' and allow customers to create their own bouquet for a fixed number of flowers and fixed price. Thus you save a lot of time and offer something very special where people have Fun.
Hey Jess, been watching since you guys were redoing your kitchen at the old place. Go check out , Flower Hill Farm.... but go back 3 years or so. She has so many ideas for different bouquet's . So glad to see you looking and feeling Healthy!
You're right, great suggestion! She is one of my favorite people, I love her bloopers.
Love Flower Hill Farm.
Nicole is always a fun watch and has me growing all kinds of flowers.
I love growing stock flowers and in the cool season here in the south.
I've learned a lot from her.
Mint is a wonderful bouquet filler! It lasts forever and will even root, so the consumer will have a mint starter when the bouquet is done!
Sweet Miah is smart enough to fashion out the perfect screen door for you!!! 😊 ❤ 😊
Same here. I was thinking about a sliding barn door type screen door, either one big one or two smaller on a track inside the greenhouse.
I was coming here mid video to say the same thing, I’m planning on making my own screen door, I loved the sound of the one on my front porch during my childhood as I’d run out the door and hearing it slap closed behind me is a sound I miss.
Flower ideas: Coneflower, Mountain Mint, Foxglove beardtongue, Cosmo
Don't tell my husband, but what I really love is just a couple of flowers or sprigs to "not" arrange" in a vase. Sometimes one is my favorite!!!
I live in Alberta Canada and manage an Alberta Approved Farmers Market in the summer on Thursdays from 3:30-7:30pm. It's amazing to bring local makers, bakers and growers together and build community, support small businesses and local food.
I live in the Hat! Is that where you're at?
I’m also from Alberta Canada. Jess has taught me so much since I found her in 2019..she’s been such a blessing
Bundles for the farmer's market. What about basil bundles with a card attached to make the teas. Shower bundles with sage and other herbs? Botanical bundles for teas, edibles for salads or baking into cookies or breads?
I also love this time of the year - the promise of an abundant year. Seeing the first seeds germinate is one of my favorite things.
3 years!!! No way; it can't be. I still miss your old place; it was so special and lovely. I'm sure, with some time, this place will blossom. Of course, now it's dreary everywhere. So looking forward to spring and warmer temps.
16:25 I vote zinnias for cut flowers. My favorite bouquet from the farmers market were just these bouquets of only zinnias, nothing else, just dozens of colors, similar sizes. They were so simple, and so beautiful, and probably so easy to put together for the farmer, I just loved them.
Zinnias are my favorite, too! I have about 15 different seedlings going of lemon peach, whirligig, and button zinnia. I can’t wait for them to be sprinkled around my garden.
I love that quote: "Bermuda grass is just rude. "
You could put the rolling barn door on the inside of the greenhouse with 2 screen doors. That way you can roll them out of the way on the inside. Just an idea ❤️
I love the idea of tomato branches in a bouquet, I love the smell of them!
I understand the gardener's joy of imminent Spring. Today was an atypical 70 degrees in Chicagoland and my yard called me...I was so happy digging and moving a few plants around! 🔆🌱
Sunflowers are excellent cut flowers! Bonus they pull toxins from the soil, including radiation. Teddy bear Sunflowers would look so pretty in a cut flower garden.
Jess, you’re such a lovely, kind and warm-hearted person. I love watching your videos 🩵
I splurged on "Bells of Ireland" to go into some arrangements for fun.
Jess I worked in the construction supply industry for 15 years and one thing I learned is “everything costs more and lasts longer than you expect”!
“Bermuda grass is just rude”😆 I can relate to the feeling lol
Jess, when you were saying a late warm winter day when you can almost taste spring, I felt ya! Here in my little spot of the world in middle Tennessee, I have stopped a numerous times today to just give thanks to Abba for the beauty all around me. I even stooped my husband in the middle of dinner to look outside (the windows opened) and just praise the Lord. I was later talking to a friend and told her she needed to quickly go outside. She did and said okay, what, to which I replied, look at the beauty in that sunset. So here it comes, another gorgeous day is working it’s way to the midlands.
Something unusual you could grow for a bouquet are "pumpkin on a stick" egg plants. They literally look like tiny orange pumpkins on branches. Very cute.🍊
You have done well in sharing that happiness of the anticipation of all that will be growing very soon. Thank you!
I would highly suggest growing dried flowers, like strawflowers, craspedia, sea holly, statice, gomphrena, etc.
Grow YOUR favorites. People will love them.
Bear!! He looks SO HAPPY! He’s literally loping in front of the 4x4. Always such a treat to see that sweetheart in these vids.
Also really happy to see you coming back into the garden. I’m hoping one day I can make my way down from MN to enjoy some coffee at your farmers market. ❤
Getting cabin fever ready for the spring to play in the garden
I share your joy at the promise of the planting season just out of reach. God's gifts of growing is such a blessing!❤🥰
Sharing the opportunity to just be happy is enough to make me happy. Thank you 🙏 😊
I love putting large okra in my late summer and fall bouquets!!!
I so love my winter weeds, I appreciate that they cover the soil and keep grass from taking over my sleeping beds, I appreciate that they mine minerals and nutrients from the earth and when I pull them in spring, I drop them where I can till them back into the soil or toss them into my grass pathways to chop with the mower and they decompose into the earth again giving more nutrients and life to my soil.
I get so excited every time your notification pops up!!! Just made my evening!!!
You don't have to convey your happiness. It shines through your smile. Also, when you get roses going, they would be beautiful in arrangements. Peonies, lilacs and hydrangeas also.
I just adore you. Your joy always brightens my day. I think tomato trimmings are seriously a genius idea for flower arrangements! So unique and beautiful! Looking forward to getting to enjoy spring on your farm as well friend ❤️
"It's the most wonderful time of the year" 🎶 I'm a few weeks behind you, but I share your joyful excitement!
Jess, congrats on being a good steward and not killing your trees!!! Hahahahah😂
This is the perfect day. Words of God then God beauty. Thank you Jess for allowing me to get my day off to a wonderful day. ❤
I like African Blue Basil in an arrangement, especially with sunflowers.
You should grow everglade tomatoes for the flower arrangements. They won't survive the winter, but they grow like crazy in the summer and would be fun.
I'm excited about Spring, too, Jess! Up here in Maine we won't be able to put out any baby plants until at least the middle of May, but for now... the birds are coming back and they are singing! The day-lilies are poking out of the ground, and some of the trees have started to bud. I love this time of year! ❤🌱🌷
Mint helps deter pests 😊
Oh no the house seeds have stopped growing, don't worry you will soon be growing it again. I can't believe that l have been watching you for just over 3 years.
You're so funny, "squirrel, chicken, butterfly😂" And yes, such a great perspective, all in Gods perfect timing. And, a cool thing to plant to add to flower bouquets, Purple Love Grass! It's a beautiful addition.
My nine year old wants to play in your yard,lol! Everything is coming along beautifully! Can’t wait to see your house! I am excited for you!
I was just about to say, "just think of all the mint teas you will be drinking", lovely.
I work at a construction engineering firm (technically, geotechnical engineering - what we do has more to do with the ground UNDER your house than the house itself), and if you want to get a jumpstart on your build, you could do a few things now. You could get the native soils in the building pad area tested for proctor value, minus 200 clay content, and organic content. The minus 200 fines (the clay) usually needs to be under 25 percent for building pad, and the organic under 5. Those tests are cheap and don't take long, and if you have unsuitable native soils you could get a jump start on removing them and hauling in some clean fill.
Also, if you come up with a way to keep your building pad and your fill soils stockpile DRY, it's likely to greatly reduce your build time. In that area, you're likely to deal with BOTH clayey native soils AND clayey commercial fill, and once that clay gets good and wet - everything grinds to a halt while you wait and WAIT for it to dry back down. It can't be compacted correctly once the moisture content gets too high, and it holds that moisture for a long, long time. If you sew tarps together to cover your stockpiles, or place your stockpiles under a pole barn roof, it'll save you a lot of time and aggravation in a rainy season.
I miss having a greenhouse.
I used drink my morning coffee in the greenhouse and I just loved it. So n8ce and warm in there on a cold day.
Well you have a good source of mint to add to bouquets! I love those almost spring days when the anticipation of the growing season just expands inside of you until you want to burst into song or dance from the joy of it!
I bought some loose tea from your Beulah Roasting Co. and it was the best loose tea I have ever bought. I am an avid tea drinker and I have bought many many ounces of loose tea in my lifetime and I am 68.
Great Video 😊 Thank you very much for sharing 🙏
I bet those baker creek spoon tomatoes would be neat in bouquets!! I got them as the free seed pack a couple times, and haven't found a reason to grow them. Giving me ideas! 😂
The spoon tomatoes would be adorable in arrangements!
Costco has a retractable screen door that might come in handy on your greenhouse.
I could spend the whole day wondering around "admiring" your farm! I feel like there are so many things going on😂
Not gonna lie… I stalked y’all this weekend. Beulah is BEAUTIFUL!!!! Was traveling home to Manning SC from Athens GA. Honestly, very pleasing. The look, the accessibility, the feel, everything. Awesome ❤️
This is too cute. I bet they didn’t mind your STALKING at all!
Oooh! You could plant some of those fussy teaspoon currant-sized tomatoes just for flower arrangements!
Baby gates stacked on top of each other work too. Not exactly the most eye appealing but will keep cats out without adding extra construction. Or some type of barn door slide screen door on the interior.
I’m rooting for the mint to take over the rude Bermuda grass 😂
Here in my neighborhood the Avocado trees are blooming! Have Mercy. ❣ Our Planet Gaia is struggling to return/maintain Balance. I have whiplash from decades of drought & fire, to having to tip saucers to prevent drowning my plants!!😂It has been fast 3 years. My heart goes out to people everywhere dealing with tragedy & real loss.
Jess, I see you growing & maturing. You followed Spirit's guidance with all your heart.. You & Sweet Miah set such a good example of common-sense living. You're striking while the iron is hot to build community and resources is working. Look at your last 3 years! Having lived 68y dealing with ADD, I love when you speak to your happy short attention. 💜You are building all sorts of community! ❣
☮Blessings of Peace to everyone
Jess - you should grow spoon tomatoes as they grow insane and with the tiny tomatoes, you could easy incorporate these in your cut flowers. The tiny tomatoes will look very cute!
I watch Garden Answer and she plants straw flowers. When she makes arrangements for herself she puts straw flowers in her arrangements and they look nice.
Happy happy! I love the spring time as well
Jess you are sharing your happiness with me, your enthusiasm is coming through. Thanks for all your mentoring. Bless you until next time.🌷
Lilies, Irises, Ranunculus, Lisianthus, Strawflower, Poppies, Coneflower, Snapdragons, Yarrow, to name a few that I'm planting this year. :)
Hope I get to visit from Michigan soon!
If you want a very prolific cherry tomato to use in flower arrangements, Matt's Wild Cherry goes NUTS in the Carolinas. I swear, every time I plant it, it starts heading for the house. Close the windows!
Beautiful video, beautiful soulful thoughts on this amazing time of year. Thanks Jess!💖💖💖
Jess, with the screen door, you will definitely need to tack hardware cloth over at least the bottom half of the screen doors. Screen doors are irresistible jungle gyms for cats. Learned that the hard way! Lol😊
Jess you would love You Can’t Eat The Grass flower farmer channel. She’s in Canada and her bouquets have a unique style that fits what you’re saying. Their actual business is Red Roof Family Farm. And as a Canadian need to represent!🇨🇦
If you can grow Daphne, it is a Heaven sent flower that could add incredible scent to an arrangement~
gerbera , baby's breath, and then
tulips, daffodils for next springtime
🌺So exciting to see your garden growth, and how happy you are, the excitement in your voice. Oh more happy days ahead. May God continue His great and wonderful hand on ya’all.
I think donkeys are good to keep coyotes away. Dogs from neighbors can be bad
"The Pollening" 😂 so ominous. It has certainly started here in NE Florida
We have 2 1/2 months of winter left. You are bringing me hope.
😂 the mint vrs Bermuda grass. Gave me an epic shirt idea.
A picture of a clump of grass. With the saying "How Rude!"
Celosia!!! So easy, reseeds, pollinators love them and it sets bouquets apart!
Currently doing a kitchen renovation and can’t agree more about letting go of how you think it’s going to go…they cut the power to divert electricity and realized after 3 days our freezers were on that breaker 😢. We saved some because the freezers were packed, cooked lots like an episode of Chopped, and composted the 1/2 of the produce we hadn’t already eaten that had turned to mush. But the kitchen will be great when finished so we just have to be grateful and this March was not the hungry month, since we had to cook EVERYTHING!
I have also planted some cooler weather springtime seeds directly in the ground. Lettuces, onion, chive, cilantro, dill, carrots, celery and artichoke. Already had a few garlic and carrots in and up. We have a very short season between cold and blazing hot. We live in the Mojave desert 3,500' elevation in AZ in Zone 8B.
I started watching you in your tough times, and wow have you come along way I love that you still give praise to the Lord for everything that you have, and that you seem to have remained a very sincere person. You deserve all the blessings that you have received.keep up the good UA-cam videos because it keeps the rest of us going
🎉HI Jess
Wednesday night rain turning to snow by Friday morning Denver is getting 20 inches. Thanks for all the teaching. My largest seed starting year❤from eastern Colorado
You all have done sooo much in 3 years just WOW.😊
Feeling your Spring anticipation and excitement this year. We look forward to seeing your 2024 perennial garden. If life gives you mint, make mojito’s. Mint is for sure a good ground cover for a trouble spot, for sure.
JESS! Speaking from the point of view of a mint sinner, harvest HEAVILY, down to the roots. In that way, you can control the spread... 😢. Good luck! When life gives you mint... make tea!
Mint is a HUGE takeover!!
I WISH I could have an invasion of mint!
I love eucalyptus in flower arrangements
As you move toward building, I recommend 36 inch entrance doors. This gives space for handicapped accessibility. I would recommend the same dimension for a downstairs bathroom. One never knows when it will be necessary.