VIDEO: Garden Harvest June 13, 2019
We harvested more candy onions, squash, and our peaches! We planted some watermelon in the area where we just pulled the onions.
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VIDEO: Homestead Harvest Quail, Eggs, and Garden
Today we are showing some of our early spring harvests getting ready and making space for our summer garden crops. We harvested the last of our Red Russian Kale and weighed in our first harvest of Candy Onions. Our garlic dried enough to do a weigh-in. We are also starting to harvest our blackberries and…
VIDEO: Garlic Harvest May 2019
This is our garlic harvest for 2019. We left the garlic in the ground until all the foliage was dead this year instead of digging it as soon as the foliage started to bend over. We had a pretty nice garlic harvest!
VIDEO: Harvesting Red LaSoda Potatoes May 19, 2019
We didn’t intend to plant potatoes this year but we found a box of seed potatoes we had saved from last year’s harvest. Instead of throwing them away we just scattered these seed potatoes on the ground and covered them with hay. This is the resulting harvest.
VIDEO: Garden Update May 19, 2019
Our garden is finally starting to kick in and show some growth. Everything is starting out a little slowly because it has been such a rainy wet spring. This is an overview of how everything is growing!
VIDEO: WE BOUGHT TWO OF THESE ONLINE WILL THEY LIVE?
We Bought Two of These Online Will They Live? Buying trees and plants in general online is risky. Will they arrive in good shape? Will they be damaged in shipping? You never are 100% sure that plants will show up alive. In today’s video I show you my banana tree and orange tree which just…
VIDEO: We've Got WORMS!
The no till deep mulch method attracts millions of earthworms and eliminates the need for synthetic fertilizers. It’s great for soil building and soil aeration too!
VIDEO: Late April Garden Update
We have been able to get out in the garden and do a lot of weeding and cleaning up. It’s starting to look more like a nice summer garden!
VIDEO: Garden and Yard Update Before a Spring Clean Up
This is an update of our garden before we started cleaning it up for spring. We were letting a lot of things flower and go to seed to attract pollinators. This video is also an update of our ornamental plants in the front yard and our fruit trees in the back.
VIDEO: A Long To Do List and It Begins With Quail!
Spring is finally here and we have a long chore list that keeps getting longer! The weather is finally beautiful and we are able to get some things done around the place. Today we need to do a long overdue quail harvest and get the incubator going.
VIDEO: Garden Routes and Goat Kisses | VLOG | Roots and Refuge Farm
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VIDEO: Inside the Greenhouse Tour | What's Growing in March 2019 | Roots and Refuge Farm
The products mentioned here are listed on our Amazon storefront here: https://www.amazon.com/shop/rootsandrefugefarm How We Built our Greenhouse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KStTwIA9sw&t=8s Most of my seeds come from: www.rareseeds.com www.migardener.com www.wildboarfarms.com 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…
VIDEO: Harvesting Asparagus
Our asparagus is growing really well this year! This is an asparagus harvest video as well as a short garden update. We had some severe weather in the area this week and I included some video sharing what our tornado sirens sound like at the end of this video.
VIDEO: Surviving off of Gardening, Foraging, & Fishing for a Month: APOCALYPSE GROW CHALLENGE!
I’ve always been fascinated by post-apocalyptic scenarios. Zombies, plagues, you name it. I wonder: how would I survive in that situation? Well, I’m going to put it to the test. Announcing the Apocalypse Grow Challenge, where I’ll attempt to survive off of urban gardening, foraging, and fishing from June 1 to June 30, 2019. In…
VIDEO: Planting Candy Onions and Potatoes
It was beautiful and warm this weekend so we were able to get out into the garden. We planted our Candy onions and some Red Lasoda potatoes.
VIDEO: Guess What was Living Under Our Shed!
We have been noticing interesting prints in the mud around the garden and shed. We set a live trap to see what we could catch!
VIDEO: 2018 Garden Roundup Challenge
We have been tagged by Butterfliez Home & Garden for the 2018 Garden Roundup Challenge! https://youtu.be/RRMYklwy3b4 Questions: 1. What was your best crop of 2018? 2. What was your worst crop of 2018? 3. What was your biggest challenge of 2018? 4. What things will you do differently in 2019? 5. What are your plans…
VIDEO: Soggy Garden Update January 3 2019
It is a wet soggy mess here, lol!! This is the second wettest year on record. Daily chores are a lot more difficult when slogging through mud. Our lettuce is starting to look good and some of our direct sow greens are starting to sprout. Our seedlings we have started in flats are starting to…
VIDEO: The Hollars are HERE! | VLOG | Roots and Refuge Farm
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VIDEO: Anticipation | VLOG | Roots and Refuge Farm
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VIDEO: December Garden Update 2018
Not a lot going on in the garden. It has rained almost constantly for the past three weeks. Maybe a dry day here and there but almost no sun. We’re getting seeds started to replant some fall and winter crops.
VIDEO: Shiitake Surprise!
We found Shiitake growing on our logs we inoculated about three years ago! Pretty cool surprise!
VIDEO: My 3 Biggest Influences to Get Into Self Sufficiency Ep5 S1
This episode shows the 3 most influential things that got me into self-sufficiency and growing my own food on our small acreage homestead. Series playlist https://goo.gl/RaipxZ This is the fifth episode in our growing food in small spaces series ( see Ep1 here https://youtu.be/Nh0ol-eAN2U and Ep2 https://youtu.be/jkWWB9O2wQ8 and Ep3 https://youtu.be/RUpR6nGLFmw and #p4 https://youtu.be/27hf8uPWQxk ) This…
VIDEO: My MUST GROW Heirloom List | Garden Planning | Roots and Refuge Farm
Where I buy my seeds video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0UiiOCGZGc&t=549s My Favorite Seed Companies: Baker Creek: https://www.rareseeds.com/ MIGardener: https://www.migardener.com/ Hudson Valley Seed Co: https://hudsonvalleyseed.com/ Botanical Interests: https://www.botanicalinterests.com/ Trade Winds Fruit: https://www.tradewindsfruit.com/ Wild Boar Farms: https://wildboarfarms.com/ Below are the listed varieties: Tomatoes: Dr. Wyche Kelloggs Breakfast Paul Robeson Climbing Trip-L-Crop Amish Paste Pink Oxheart Wild Boar Farm Blue berries…
VIDEO: Lettuce and Peas and Christmas Trees | VLOG | Roots and Refuge Farm
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VIDEO: Garden Harvest November 4th 2018
Early November garden harvest! We are still getting green beans from our climbing Rattlesnakes and our Contender bush beans. We are still getting some nice harvests from our pepper plants. Not a bad day in the garden!!
VIDEO: Where Do I Get My Heirloom Garden Seeds? | Roots and Refuge Farm
Today I’m answering one of the questions I get asked the most: Where do I get my Heirloom Seeds? This video is purely my opinions based on my experiences buying from all these companies! Baker Creek: https://www.rareseeds.com/ MIGardener: https://migardener.com/ Hudson Valley Seed Co: https://hudsonvalleyseed.com/ Botanical Interests: https://www.botanicalinterests.com/ Tradewinds Fruit: http://www.tradewindsfruit.com/ Seeds Now: https://www.seedsnow.com/ Seeds of…
VIDEO: Another PIG?! (And Benny Vlogs) | VLOG | Roots and Refuge Farm
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VIDEO: Grocery Shopping in My FALL Garden | Roots and Refuge Farm
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VIDEO: Homesteaders of America Conference | A Food Growing Tribe | Roots and Refuge
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