Want More Roots & Refuge? Check Out:
Our Instagram: www.instagram.com/roots_and_refuge
Our Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rootsandrefuge/
My Infrequently updated blog: www.thehodgepodgedarling.blogspot.com
My Articles in Do South Magazine:http://dosouthmagazine.com/?s=jessica+sowards
Our Music is by our friend Daniel Smith
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvBpcMe9OjXGnjLgPuLGQPw
Email Us: rootsandrefuge@yahoo.com
To drop us a line:
PO Box 850
Vilonia, AR 72173
To have a gift sent to our house from our Amazon wishlist: https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/SFA0IZHZRCOZ?ref_=wl_share
______________________________________________________
Want to Support Our Channel?
Shop for our favorite things in our Amazon Storefront- support our channel at no additional cost to you!- https://www.amazon.com/shop/rootsandrefugefarm
Greenstalk Planter:
This is an affiliate link, use the code ROOTS10 to receive $10 off:
http://lddy.no/6xhd
Become a Wholesale member with an Essential Oils Kit: https://doterra.me/RjF77gV1
To Learn More About Joining my Essential Oil Team: jessicasowardsoils@gmail.com
If you would like to financially support our channel and farm, you can shop through our Amazon affiliate link, which will earn us a small commission at no additional cost to you here: https://amzn.to/2NcCBZ4
Also, sometimes I link Amazon Affiliate links in the description. Shopping from these links supports our channel with a small commission without any additional cost to you! So Thank you for using these links!
If you would prefer to give directly to our channel, you can send PayPal here: https://www.paypal.me/jessicasowardsWant More Roots & Refuge? Check Out:
Our Instagram: www.instagram.com/roots_and_refuge
Our Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rootsandrefuge/
My Infrequently updated blog: www.thehodgepodgedarling.blogspot.com
My Articles in Do South Magazine:http://dosouthmagazine.com/?s=jessica+sowards
Our Music is by our friend Daniel Smith
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvBpcMe9OjXGnjLgPuLGQPw
Email Us: rootsandrefuge@yahoo.com
To drop us a line:
PO Box 850
Vilonia, AR 72173
To have a gift sent to our house from our Amazon wishlist: https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/SFA0IZHZRCOZ?ref_=wl_share
______________________________________________________
Want to Support Our Channel?
Shop for our favorite things in our Amazon Storefront- support our channel at no additional cost to you!- https://www.amazon.com/shop/rootsandrefugefarm
Greenstalk Planter:
This is an affiliate link, use the code ROOTS10 to receive $10 off:
http://lddy.no/6xhd
Become a Wholesale member with an Essential Oils Kit: https://doterra.me/RjF77gV1
To Learn More About Joining my Essential Oil Team: jessicasowardsoils@gmail.com
If you would like to financially support our channel and farm, you can shop through our Amazon affiliate link, which will earn us a small commission at no additional cost to you here: https://amzn.to/2NcCBZ4
Also, sometimes I link Amazon Affiliate links in the description. Shopping from these links supports our channel with a small commission without any additional cost to you! So Thank you for using these links!
If you would prefer to give directly to our channel, you can send PayPal here: https://www.paypal.me/jessicasowards
Bee instruciton=Keep calm and carry on. lol and I hate thinning seedlings also! I've grown to either save things I know I'll use or thin and pray my fingers got the right plants out and didn't leave the lesss strong ones in. It's kinda a toss up sometimes when they all look similar. (that makes me a bit crazy haha). I oversees carrots EVERY time and then have to decide how far apart and never thin enough so end up with too small carrots. THIN the root veggies especially. The leafy ones will do ok in bunches unless you're trying to grow heads of lettuces, etc. I just grow lettuces in bunches of clumps and then remove leaves as they mature as the cut and come again method. It extends their lives a bit longer and you get smaller sweeter leaves most times that way. You surely know this but someone reading may not. 🙂
Jess, I downloaded the audible book of Joel Salatin's The Marvelous pigness of Pigs, it is a beautiful book and wow what conviction it brings to the way we eat nowadays. thnx for mentioning it the other day. When my youngest daughter was a teenager, she came home from being at a friends one day and informed me that none of her friends knew how to cook or clean, that their parents did everything for them. She was indeed surprised and felt a sense of pride that she knew so much because we had taught our kids to cook and expected them to do housework and mow the yard. thnx for sharing
Love Charles! beautiful spirit, gentle soul and an amazing gardener..much like yourself Jess
Jess we do not raised beds. Would it be possible to plant them in a bag of comost ie the one you used when you poked holes underneath and then cut the top part of the compost bag off a couple of inches from around the edge. Where would be thd best place to buy Garlic in England? Hopefully your followers will know that live in England x
I'm really curious about what you'll do with the bags of soil/lettuce when you're done with them. Can you put all of that into compost? Do you seperate out most of the soil to use somewhere else?
I'm so jealous looking at all your baby sprouts
When I see you with the kids I always think how much I love your way of being in the world.
It's the normal thing to plant more seeds and then thin but I'd wait a bit longer — the seed leaves don't always tell the tale
So glad I found your channel. I found living traditions homestead first, love them. Your my second. love watching you with your kiddos, brings me back to teaching my boys how to garden. Unfortunately we live in an urban area, but I make every inch of space count until we find our forever land. If you don't mind me asking, what state are y'all in? We've been looking for land in VA but alot has been going on political that worries me. So might be looking elsewhere. Thanks and enjoy your babies, they grow so fast.
My daughter is 17 and on her last year of homeschool. So many people have asked about how much time we spent homeschooling a day over the years. A lot of people don't get that it is about more than "curriculum". We have never, even in high school, homeschooled from 8-3, Monday-Friday. Homeschooling to me is every minute of every day. Its the seemingly small things that matter just as much, if not more, than book work. I just wish my daughter liked to garden like your boys do lol!
Loved watching your videos. I too love and are obsessed with seed catalogs and starting seeds. What is your soil mixture for planting your seeds in trays?
I put one seed in each corner and then separate as needed… thay way I don't need to thin and if something doesnt germinate, its ok.i just need to separate them into separate pots but being in separate corners it's easier to separate
So funny, I just hate to thin sprouts too. Seems like such a waste killing those little baby seedlings. Eating them is one solution LOL good idea
Aaah Jess I’m struggling just now it’s like 5 degrees c outside and we’ve just had a storm my greenhouse poly tunnel had to come down it was gonna be 70mile per hour winds. How do ya keep an outdoor growing space in the cool with strong wind? I was crying, but reminded myself the poly tunnel has been twice around the car park and damaged a neighbours car (praise the Lord my house insurance paid for it) and Father God has allowed me to spend time doing what I love. I’m still real tearful cause I can’t figure out a way to to have a poly tunnel that won’t blow away or get damaged can you help. We got 14 inch corkscrews and put in a corner our wind is mostly SW. I think I’m gonna have to move due to unfriendly neighbours I do want this
Yesterday my 3 yr old started crying hysterically because he wanted to grab his boots and the tomato seeds and start planting. I had to break it to him gently.
My kids are so excited! ❤️❤️❤️
Life skills are the basics, and have to say, I literally had to teach my ex-boyfriends son to TIE his shoes at the age of 8 or 9! The parents just didn't do it! Wow
Cooking is exciting to youngsters as well. Measuring,… anyhow. Rant over
Just recently found your channel and I am really enjoying your videos! Thanks so much for sharing. Just curious as to what camera you use to film with? Thanks
I really love seeing this 1:1 interactions (as it relates to gardening) with your kids! My twins are 2 and have been helping me in the garden since they were 8 months-ish. It's so fun to see how they've gone from "helping" to helping! I'd love to see more with your kids as well so I can put your methods into practice at my own home!
I hate thinning too, so much. What I do, which has been working really well for me, is sprouting seeds in wet paper towels, in a dark warm spot, then planting the germinated seeds. It also helps with that waiting period wondering if they'll germinate under the soil.
I totally agree with teaching lifeskills!
Children are apprentice adults. Teach them the skills your parents didn't teach you.
My four year old started pre k this year and they did an activity of making pizzas on English muffins. My four year was less than impressed that they were not spreading dough and cooking the pizzas. I was very proud of myself for being hands on with them in the kitchen.
I am a retired Home Economics/ Restaurant Food Service teacher and have always felt it is needed!!!