Our new CALF (Eclipse Afternoon & The Slow and Meaningful Way) | VLOG
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
- 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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Fort Smith, AR was total, it got dark and the stars came out. The cricket started singing and the birds were quiet. The whole experience was awesome. God gives us such a wonderful show!!
I love how Asher is fully committed to robe life.❤
There is a convenience of cooking food and not having to trade my time, gas, and energy to go to a restaurant and spend a fortune for a sub par product. Having the ability to prepare food is truly a blessing. I raise a small garden and give extra to my neighbor and relatives. I really appreciate your videos on your farmers table channel and another youtube channel Acre Homestead. You ladies are a blessing.
Austin TX was in the path of totality. It was eerily beautiful. All of the birds that were chirping instantly stopped.....it brightened up and we all started cheering. I am in healthcare and we took some of the patients outside to witness it.
New Braunfels TX! Was out gardening when it happened. I didn't expect to be able to see much because of the cloud cover but it was pretty neat! Got much darker than I expected.
I was in the hospital because I had a seizure Monday morning (I have a neurological disorder) and I was glad that my kids and husband got to go see it after I was stabilized. It was really cloudy in East Tennessee and we weren’t in totality, but still cool from the pictures 😊
We drove an hour to Thayer missouri and watched the total eclipse. It lasted a little over 4 minutes and it was beautiful. I finished chemo in January and wasn’t sure I would get to see it. I am very thankful I got to experience it with my daughter and some family.
I was lucky enough to be in the path of totality and it was AWESOME! There’s really no way to capture how eerie the light gets. Shadows were just plain creepy during totality.
And how the temp dropped immediately!
Here too. So totality that it was dark for a couple minutes. The birds went quiet and there was an eerie ness. It was almost like twilight that is how dark it got. Our family is scattered but all within the path of totality so we were texting and sending pics. The local village was packed with 1000s of people not from here. I had to go to the post office so I was glad the parking out front was blocked off for customers. 😅 The next one on this path is in about 400 years so it was a great once in a lifetime event to share.
Only partial here but 20 minutes away. TOTAL. I noticed straight away the daylight change out the window, no birds, and it cooled off big time. Blue sky yet the colour was just eerie. It’s like the moon was to my towns left - giving us everything except the full covering - I ended up turning on the light too.
I missed this one but I got to see the one in 2017 here in Oregon, directly in the path of totality with friends in a remote part of the state away from the crowds. Such an amazing and memorable experience! The light was just unlike anything normal.
75% totality near SAVANNAH GEORGIA
You are so right about our food. I can remember my Grandma (born in 1912) saying, “if we didn’t grow it, we didn’t eat it”. Also, remember growing up as a kid and momma and daddy planting a huge garden every year. We bought quite a bit at the store but a whole lot less than the average household now a days. Trying to get back to it myself.
Thankful to have a Mennonite community close by to supplement what I can’t do.
Jess it IS hard to constantly grow, cook and eat healthy food.
But we choose it because we know the alternative is full of chemicals and toxins
That’s what drives me.
Plus I really enjoy gardening! It’s peaceful. Grounding.
Have a wonderful week!
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The joy your life brings you is palpable Jess. It makes watching your videos so wonderful. Here's to the slow and meaningful life!!
That picture of Socks among the buttercup needs to be made into a sticker! What a beauty.
That’s an adoreable idea
or a mug!
Or a T-shirt
Or all of the above
Yes!! So cute
That's so sweet that you are showing the people who couldn't see the eclipse! I was ssooooo lucky to be in Vermont, (along with about 160,000 visitors) and was able to share the eclipse with my partner and his family, friends, my son and his friends, and a few other folks who stopped on the road outside my house to watch. At the moment of totality, everyone went quiet, and it was like night. The birds started roosting, all our robins and nuthatches and such. The sun was AMAZING, and we could see the flares around the edges, some were gold and yellow, and a few were red! It was a very emotional moment. It felt very LARGE, like we were one with the universe and after all the flooding last year, and the long, hard winter, Mother Nature was gifting us with something so incredible. It was only a minute and 45 seconds, but it was so still. then, it started getting light again. I know you know Morgan Gold, and he put up a really neat video about his farm, and how the animals there reacted. He's about 45 minutes away from our farm. Bless you for sharing your experience with us, Jess. Little Socks is adorable.💕
I love when you take the time to stop and just show us shots around the farm during a regular vlog 😊 makes it really feel like I'm at the farm! ❤
Jess, I LOVE when you do those intros. I've been watching so long that it feels like settling in to chat with a best friend when you show a few peaceful clips to set the scene. Its beautiful that you succeed in capturing the ambiance of the farm. I'm sure that it could be easy to rush through or take for granted the familiar, but your pauses inspire me to take in the beauty around my life too.
As an 80's girl, thanks Jeremiah that song will be in my head all day and I am here for it! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I am in Ohio and we were in the path of totality, it was pretty cool.
In Montréal, Québec, Canada, we were fortunate enough to have a total eclipse. Wow! What a show!
We were lucky to drive to a place with total solar eclipse! Enon, Ohio. With family! 💜
New calf! 💙
We’re just one town over! Small world!
We always made a point of celebrating sky events with our kids-eclipses, star showers, comets, and even back when Mir and the International Space Station were docked together, we watched them cross our night sky. On Monday, I shared eclipse viewing with my husband and one of our sons-in-law in our garden. Our son watched it with 2 of our grandkids, which made me so proud. This one was less dramatic than in 2017 but still completely worth our attention.
I love seeing your Iris, such beautiful colors and textures!They always remind me of my mom and my grandmothers.
It makes my heart happy!
That calf is gorgeous! I loved watching u pet him, oddly therapeutic.
I love Asher!!! 😁He is ALWAYS chillen in his PJ's and his robe 😎💙💙
The last eclipse I was able to experience was the Oregon eclipse! It really is truly cool! It was really cool seeing the shapes of cresent moons everywhere. Love your videos as always!
Oh the song of the guinea fowl. I love having them on our property along with the crows of our rooster.
I absolutely love the light when there's an eclipse, no weather condition can replicate it.
So grateful for these snapshots into your beautiful life! Getting ready for night shift in the icu and your vlogs help center me and remind me of what “real life” really is! ❤❤❤
100% totality! It was such a amazing moment and feeling!🤩 New-Brunswick Canada 🇨🇦
I am in my mid 60s and realizing I'm not able to keep the pace I once did. Cooking dinner seasonally from scratch has been a challenge. I find myself wanting to grow the food and hand it off to someone else. I can't imagine how it must have been for women who not only had the meals to grow, prep and cook--they had to do EVERYTHING from scratch. Can you imagine meal prep on laundry day?? They probably got up before daylight to start the fire in their wood stove to fix breakfast, heat water to wash dishes and laundry, bake bread and biscuits,--we are so spoiled with our modern appliances! Imagine life without paper towels! They probably had a whole load of laundry in just greasy kitchen towels. It made sense to have large multi-generational households. Wow!
A hammock and your fountain is so relaxing 😌 that would be my joy.😊
BABY BOY SOCKS! ❤ Eclipse was fun 93% 😊 I’m so jealous that your iris are opening! Daffodils, crocus and a few alliums popped up, but looking ahead days will be warm/nights cold. I’m filling my greenstalks and starting seeds indoors in excitement with a little fear in the back of my brain that a surprise snow storm will come still.
We had 90*s snd a gloomy, shady shadowy day.What a handsome calf!
This is one of my favorite Vids! I Love it when you share your family on here! Thank You for all you do! Always so uplifting, knowledgable and fun to watch.❤❤❤
Can’t get enough photos of your lovely irises! I just love them!❤Blessings!❤
We were in the path of totality in southern Indiana. We had the day off of school and work. I spent a fantastic morning batch cooking for our upcoming busy spring, then went up to our park where our town had an eclipse party. Then the afternoon was spent helping our priest butcher our roosters to make chicken curry and planting onions. A lovely day! So happy we could experience the eclipse together. My favorite part was that it looked like a sunrise the entire 360 degrees around me on the horizon.
I'm in DeKalb, TX and we were right in the path of totality and IT WAS THE COOLEST EVER!!!!! I'll be 85 for the next one so I'm so glad I got to see this. I just can't describe how it felt, but very grateful to have gotten to witness it for sure.
Jess thank you showing the eclips.🎉 Also like to mention I am waiting for 6 years for a new kitchen. Today got the delivery but will take a couple of weeks before they putting it together. Hardly can wait and start cooking some nice things. Your house much much bigger task. I do hope next year you are really sitting on your porch.🎉
What a difference a year makes! One year ago (April 9, 2023) we were just at the cusp of digging the foundation for the new home we rebuilt after our farmhouse burned down. One year later its not finished (is it ever really finished?) but it is entirely comfortable as I work on all the little touches. A cupboard built into a wall with the doors from the first tv my husbands family had (big console), a peninsula with reclaimed floorboards from the farmhouse, hanging all the salvaged doors.....you get the idea. BUT, this has all happened in a year! What a whirlwind. Fasten your seatbelt and hang on!
Dallas tx. It was amazing. We didn’t think it was going to as wonderful as it was. It went as dark and 10 in the middle of the day. With a white light ring . The birds that were flying kind of lost their way a little and a red wasp kept bumping my head like he was lost. And it went dead quiet. Was eerie. But wonderful.
Congratulations on the baby! He is adorable! Thanks for sharing the eclipse...pretty neat!
I can see, Jax is bulking successfully! My son is going through similar phase - getting all the protein he can! It's nice to see him setting a goal for himself and working his way to it!😊
Every time you show clips of family things it reminds me that I need to do that more with my family - recording fun moments on video is so great 😊 We weren’t in the path of totality but got to see the crescent shape like you - we were in the high 80% range. My preschooler loved it. 🥰 Also I hope you were able to get some great photos of that sweet calf in the grass - I didn’t expect him to sit so still for you. ❤😊
lol the calf looks like it has go-go boots on. 🤣. I can’t unsee it lol.
Here in Chardon Ohio it was a total eclipse! I got a six minute video of it going over our deck. There was a total eclipse on March 7, 1970. The day we got married 54years ago. Awesome!
THAT WAS SO FUN AND EXCITING TO SEE THAT I LIVE IN OREGON AND WE DIDN'T GET TO SEE IT I JUST SAW SOME ON RUclips BUT YOURS WAS REALLY COOL THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR SHOWING THAT TO US 💗💗💗
We were in totality for about 4 minutes. It was eerie but amazing. All our landscape lights came on and it was pretty neat to see.
We got a 95% eclipse, but my sister and her husband were in Clinton, Arkansas visiting his mother, and they were able to experience totality. I saw a total eclipse as a child, so I was happy with the 95% on Monday. The light was weirdly greenish, and the birds were singing their evening songs. So cool!
Hey Jess! Love how pretty your farm looks already! Here in Canada, the snow is just all about melted and my garlic is coming up. You'll love Jerusalem Artichoke! We had a native couple come teach us about their plants at my school, and they told us that you should cook them before eating because you'll have a sore tummy. I grow them at home and I stake mine because they flop over in high winds and lots of rain. The deer even eat them!
The crescent shaped shadows was interesting. I didnt know about that. .
Handsome calf. Love his long white socks😂
Absolutely perfect view of the Totality in Northern Vermont. Blue sky, 60+ degrees and it felt like all of New England came to my little rural county. Absolute grid lock for about 6 hours of mass exit. One way in, one way out.
We enjoyed our visitors and all the unusual excitement at this usually quiet transition from winter to spring. For perspective…. We got 2 FEET of snow on April 5th.
I live at West Plains, Missouri. We had totality. It was SO AMAZING!!!! It was so incredible how dark it got!
Omg eat those beet leaves that’s my favourite part of the beet. You have such a beautiful way with words thank you
Jess!! I often feel like the odd ball out that I choose to spend what time and energy I have gardening. What time u spend now in the garden will ensure a continued healthy future❤️
Bless you Jess!
We were in the path of totality but had partial cloud cover and got to see some of the phases. The coolest thing was the darkening , it was totally dark (fortunately no light pollution ) and then minutes later lightened. Some of the chickens went into the coop, others stayed out and roosted on their outdoor perches. Amazing, now we wait until 2044!
The calf is a beauty! So precious
Just before totality I heard my chickens skitter up their ladder. So cute.
We were in the path and able to watch it from our backyard! Very neat to see!
It might be counter cultural and inconvenient to be conscious of food for so much of your time but it is completely worth it. I think this is something to think about every spring as the work load increases and you have so much more to keep track of. I grow for me, my parents and my sister and her kids. I have build a 14x20 greenhouse with inground beds for this season and am expanding to put in a 2 or 3 sisters garden for squash and corn. So much of my brain power is on food growing I worry that I don't have enough left for work and the rest of my life right now!
Ohio.....in totality. The heavens were Eerie and fascinating. The temp drop and darkness was odd to experience. Once in a lifetime for us.
Well Jess being in your garden you're happy place😊❤ knowing that the time lapse of things and preparing food for your family organically and then feeling rewarded afterwards is really an ahh moment for you and for other people like me too!! Knowing that you are eating healthy and getting the good nutrition that you need with fresh food😊 you are a very inspiring person on that part and other things I want to thank you for sharing this because it gives me ahh moments too!! And in this world that we're living in the food is really not that great unless we grow it 🤪😉💚
We were in the path of totality. I was thinking what's the big deal with all the hoolpa! Then it got dark and I was in awe!! And then suddenly it was light again. I understand the hoopla now.
Oh the calf is adorable!❤
Miah! Serenading the eclipse with Bonnie Tyler!! ❤❤
We were in totality where we are in TX. Our chickens were out free ranging and froze when it went dark. All the night critters around the pond woke up. It was super cool!
I to have pondered the amount of time I spend just creating healthy meals for myself, and for my Father to sometimes . I grow as much food as I can, more every year it seems. The shear volume of time it takes to grow food, maintain it daily, harvest it, prepare it and make a meal, not alone clean up is astonishing. And I still buy some things at the grocery store. And this is not for a big family like you and many others do! But I do put away as much as I can for the winter with drying food or freezing, occasionally canning. Usually those thoughts come up when I'm criticizing myself for how little "other" work I have got down, the kind I can earn money from. In reality though, I find myself quite sensitive to processed food and really need to eat as healthy as possible to keep living life the way I want to. I also wouldn't want to give up the time I spend outdoors in the garden, or the excitement of growing new things. That gives me ongoing daily joys, which helps to sustain me during the tired days. Thanks for bringing up the topic!
Ok Jess....
That's the absolute CUTEST photo of you ever!!! It should be on a magazine cover or seed packets or SOMETHING!!!
Those crescent shaped shadows are WILD!!!
We were in the path of totality! It was an amazing life experience. 😎☀🌑
Your farm is Looking very beautiful in the Spring🌻
Thank you!
Yes the last one we had totality but this time it was different but it was so cool. My boys loved it
I've seen like a couple of eclipse in my life time or 3, lived in a few different countries, I clearly remember the one in the 90s. I didn't know about the shadows being Crescent shaped, I'm happy I've seen 3 farm videos since yesterday and all very different. Thank you. Morgan at Goldshaw farm is my number 1 ❤❤❤
He's an adorable calf 🎉❤😊
We got totality in NW PA. It was stunning. We had clouds & rain all day weather broke just in time. Awesome experience
We are in Western NY and in the path of totality. It was amazing how much the temperature dropped and how pitch black it became on the farm. Total blackness lasted about 3 minutes. It was totally cool.
Oh it’s a little baby boy! He’s super cute!
I live in the path of totality and it was SO COOL that I would travel to see it again!
What a beautiful calf! I would name him Cupid because of the heart on his head! But alas, I'm too late and Socks is great! ❤
Thank you for the reminder!❤
Those crescent shadows were lovely! I've never seen or heard about them before. I was far out of the path of totality, but it has been really interesting to see homesteads I know go through the experience, and see their animals react (or not) as well.
Can't wait for those front porch pea shelling chats. Hopefully it will feel like just yesterday when you menitioned it. ❤
We experienced 87% and it was still very cool to watch. The birds started to roost. The temperature dropped and it felt like dusk.
My friend (I lost her a year and a half ago) loved irises, so seeing yours makes me think of her.
I’m in Nebraska and we had about 88% here. It was mostly cloudy all day except for around peak time the sky cleared. I had some glasses from 2017 when we had the total eclipse here so I dug them out from the glovebox of my car. My hubby had some he just bought. We both went out to watch. We had about 15 minutes to see it then the clouds came back. It was worth it 😎
I am in Tennessee and looked through a kitchen colander and the light going through the holes were crescent shaped! So cool! The actual daylight was muted quite a bit also…..fun experience!
Congratulations Jessica! You are in your comfort/covet place!
As you've always dreamed of and wanted, you now have a stage to show the entire world who Jessica is!!! Maybe, gardening, maybe vegetables, flowers, goats, cows, horses, who knows??????????? RUclips will support anything. And, you get to exhibit your children!!!
The "slow thing" is properly living. Thriving, as you say. I hope to be where you are one day
I planted about 5 Jerusalem artichokes in a vego bed last year and there must be 50 of them popping up. They were magnificent last year in the raised bed on the edge of a tall retaining wall but I had to add support and tie them together , they grew so much. I am dividing them and sharing with locals. You will get a lot of them next year.
Congrats on your new bull calf. I watched a total Solar Eclipse via a box viewer we made in our elementary school class back for the big event in 1963 when I was a girl. Was nifty! No view here as we just had a slice (Arizona).
I am in Indiana in totality. My friend and I are watching it. It was sfuning
I was in 96.3% totality! My favorite thing to do is look north. The greens almost glow against a blue sky that’s deeper than normal. With the shade that isn’t shade, it makes an almost magical existence for just a few moments. Beautiful 💯
Burnsville MS… 92% here. It was really cloudy but in between clouds we got really good views.
Cute calf… Socks is a good name for the new calf
We are in South central Missouri. We didn’t have glasses but the “feel” you’re talking about was so surreal. Everything was without dimension like an old Alfred Hitchcock film..flat and quiet. We consistently have bird sounds all day long-none were around on Monday. A very odd sensation
Oh my that is a beautiful calf!
Socks is adorable, congratulations! Still in my cow-culus waiting room classroom stage, but getting antsy! Thanks for everything you do, Jess!
Aghhhh!!! Watching this before breakfast and you had to go and say "pickled beets"... my favorites! Now my mouth is watering out of control... LOL - thanks as always for this and all your wonderful videos! 🥰🥰
Mountain View AR oh my lord!!! It was phenomenal!!!
Congrats on new baby socks. He’s so precious. Glad mommas ok too. We had 86% eclipse here in Virginia Beach. Oh and I ordered the coffee deal and some orange tea. Can’t wait for it to get here.
Thank u so much for a lovely vidio
Really enjoyed every minuet
So glad u got a few days away ,and came home to adorable baby ,
He really is sp precious,
Juzt love a walk around ur lovely green house and grounds ,zeeing all ur amazing plants ect
Carnt wait to see the ztart of ur new home
Looking forward to floowing the new build
Bet ue so excited ,
Well take care ,enjoy ur new baby
Oh we didnt get to see yhr eclips
Living in the uk
But appreciate seeing ur pics ,as with others we zeen ,my friend zent me some pics too from ohio ,so i feel i was seeing it ,too
Take care til next time
We had total eclipse in Ontario Canada and all the street lights went on when it was dark! It was so amazing
We were in 98% coverage and the eclipse was so surreal just with the way atmosphere looked outside. My daughter said "why is it both light and dark outside"? 😂
The shadows are amazing.
Azure sells Jeruselum artichokes to eat and you can plant them. One of my favorite foods.