Opening my FAV Wild Boar Farm Seeds (The Story of My First Tomato & That Time I Fangirled) | VLOG
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- Опубликовано: 3 фев 2023
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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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PS we are adding a new member to our family, an 8 week old black lab and we are naming him Ben. Your son has touched my heart ❤️ You have a wonderful family. 😊
Oh my goodness! I am in love with this business! I have a huge wishlist already, and I’ve just peeked at it! Thank you Jess, once again for inspiring me. At 66 and disabled I get so frustrated trying to move and breathe at the same time let alone garden. Every time I watch one of your videos, I’m motivated to keep moving, breathing and gardening.
I am in similar circumstances, and also currently without garden space, but I am determined to find a little bit of dirt somewhere to grow this year! We can do it! 👍☺
I’m in a similar situation and I am also determined to rise up and GROW this year!! I have 4 greenstalks that I’ve collected this last year from sales and 2 put together already. That took me days…but I DID it!!! I also have an area near my porch that I’ve been laying my flattened cardboard boxes for a while and I’m going to stake around it and put up wire and some old building materials. Then put old wood and sticks from yard and leaves. Then finish it off with soil! I know that’s going to take so much effort but I AM going to get it done and grow in it this year!!!! Times are definitely telling us to do this!!
I use a chair and container grow most of the time. Just slowly get things done. Keep going as you can. 😉
This will be my mantra... keep moving, keep breathing, keep gardening.. 💜💜
I feel the same, inspired by Jess. She's a blessing. I'm disabled as well. Having my garden is so much therapy for us...just good for the soul.
Did ALL the killdeer babies stick around? 🤣 Cuz they are making a ruckus! (Not enough to bother, just enough to make me giggle!)
Yes I think they did!
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Love their voices. Praying for early spring here in Northern Michigan!
Jess in T-shirt: "thinking of you who are in colder areas"
Me at -47 celsius today: 🥶🥶🥶 "Thank you" 🥰
It was sooooo cold today. My animals are unimpressed. As am I
I wanted to express that I love your philosophy ……a Gardener first..and a business person second ….such faith!
Who else loves tomato sandwiches??❤
I put tomatoes on lightly toasted Ryebread that has small curd cottage cheese, smeared on it first, with white and black pepper, sprinkled on top of it and then on top of the tomatoes. And if I want a little kick to it, I had some horseradish on the inside of the other slice of bread!
@@teahcrew I feel like this year will be a tomato sandwich year ❤️❤️
Hah! Last year was my sandwich year ! Only thing that grew tons of were the tomatoes. I had quit store bought for no flavor and sickly looking. Mine were SO TASTY AND SWEET🤗 Stalks of plants were huge and root systems were over 12 to 20 feet long! Gave away so many.
FIRST year to be able to dedicate time to the garden daily .
Mmmmm tomato and mayo sandwich 😋
My favorite thing...eating a mater sandwich over the kitchen sink because it is so wonderful and juicy and total joy.
I have been using sunflowers for shade partners for several years ! Pruning those bottom leaves a bit at a time also extends the life of the sunflower . Fun video !
Thanks for that tip! I'll let my sunflower wild daughters know 😉
Do they seem to take a lot of water from the tomatoes?
@@kathyprice5118 not at all ! They are not right up against the tomatoes , they are planted away from them , it is the shadow, in the heat of the day, is what you you are after 💙
Wow you just casually dropped some excellent knowledge on tomatoes and sunflowers, thanks! ☺️
I really love Barry’s Crazy Cherry. I’ve grown it for 2 years now and I’ve never had an issue with splitting thankfully. I first ordered from Brad all because of you. It was one of my very first small businesses I purchased tomato seeds from. I have several places I have now found and I’m still looking. I love looking at all the fun tomatoes on different websites. ❤
Lol, I do that with my weather app too! I also include where my family is.
I totally buy the clearance plants and they come here for hospice! Most don’t come back to life! 😂
My daughter is overseas doing missions work for the year. We live in MN. It’s become a joke between us to send side by side screen captures of our temperatures. The largest gap so far was 120 degrees! There are a lot of emojis included in said texts 🤪
Oh my goodness ❤I just placed my wild boar tomato order! I was with my elderly mother at the ER, and while they tried to figure out what is wrong wit her I thought shopping for Tomato seeds would lift her spirits! We ordered 7 varieties for our small urban garden….we are forever inspired by you and grateful for you teaching me how to garden🙌🏻🙌🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻. And also we always remember to turn our waiting room into a classroom ❤❤❤
Prayers and hope an answer is found for your mother! ❤
Prayers for your mother🙏
My semi truck brought me within 88 miles of Leesville sc today. Rode through beautiful Hartwell, Dam area. Loved the scenery and to top my day, a new video. Thank you for all your inspiration.
I just read this am on your blog about those seeds as well as many beautiful poems! It is wonderful watching your dreams become reality. I hope you have a wonderful weekend!
I didn't need another reason to grow more sunflowers, but here you go, giving me another reason 😂💛🌻
Omg i literally tore my book nook apart two days ago looking for "Animal Vegetable Miracle", to re-read as I'm currently obsessed with starting my own little garden and that book really stuck with me long before I was ready to take this step. What a kismet moment!
I'm glad I'm not the only one keeping tabs on weather in the places I love just because 🥰
I hear ya. Alaska had 27° and the states had neg.-22°.
When you came to Denver a few years ago and did the meet and greet, I totally had a fan girl moment meeting you! I’ve met celebrities and the like, but I get way more excited over meeting people like you. And it was hilarious that we were a few minutes late and Miah stopped the already going conversation and commented on my husbands beard. I’ll never forget he said “beard envy is real”
The black beauty was a show stopper! I loved it and will forever have a place in my garden
Brad's Atomic Grape is one of my favorite tomatoes! I actually saw some of them on this channel a number of years back, and was very excited to get my hands on them. They are really beautiful "prune plum" size tomatoes with all the wonderful colors, and more importantly .... fantastic flavor, as well as Tomato Blue Berries, and the Pink Berkely Tie Dye from Wild Boar Farms. The Tomato Blue Berries have a beautiful shiny vivid coloring, and is one of the most blemish-free skin, of which I never had a single one that I can remember, crack from the rain.
Most of the tomatoes that I grow, you will not see in a grocery store either. So many people are stuck on this "tomatoes are red 🍅" mentality, that they've convinced themselves that they won't like anything else. There is a whole other world of "not red" tomatoes out there, and they are unfortunately missing out on them. As a matter of fact, I grow very few red tomatoes these days. I like to grow the big yellow varieties such as Pineapple & Kellogg's Breakfast. I love Chocolate cherry, True Black Brandywine, Black Krim, Cherokee Purple, White Tomesol, Black Cherry, Purple Russian, Berkeley Tie Dye Green, and Giant Green.
Don't get me wrong, I love❤ red 🍅🍅tomatoes, and still grow a few. My reasoning is that I can get red tomatoes from a ton of local farmers, but none of the others I've mentioned. All the best to you, Miah & family as you move forward with developing your new property. I miss your old homestead, but your new one is growing on me .... plus I still get to see Bear 🐕🦺😂Take care Jess ✌🏻
So glad you are feeling better and have found some things that are helping! May you continue to improve toward optimal health. ❤️
And here I thought I had enough seeds for this season but…I just ordered some of these tomatoes!!😂
I haven’t heard of this company before but I’ve been growing the Brads Atomic Grape tomato for a few years now and I love it.
Thanks 🙏💜
I could watch your vids all day. TY for taking the time to make them.
Ben is definitely a little farm boy. I can see him growing up and sticking around the farm:)
I found Brads Atomic Grape seeds last year in one of our general stores in town. I loved growing them. My husband said they tasted like a crispy bell pepper mixed tomato 🍅. I loved giving them to our friends. I remember when my husband (of 18 yrs next mth) and I first seeing each other. The Lord put us together for he saved me and now we are forever soulmate.
Whoa with that tomato tip! I like to grow my peppers where the tomato plants or a trellis of beans shade them in the afternoon! I find they are much happier plants when they can be partly shaded in the worst heat of the day!
Wonderful story about your passion for tomato growing! Thanks for sharing! Ben is getting so tall & is still so sweet, like his momma! Blessings to your family 🤗💜🇨🇦
I am having to binge watch 16 of your latest videos, because I am so behind! lol. Your mom is a plant rescuer!
Thank you so much for sharing your false spring. We were in -47C with the wind chill this morning so seeing t-shirt weather and hearing the peepers was a blessing!
Dear Jess I had the Same Feeling about the seed Katalogs when I read The Egg and I from Betty Mac Donald. ☺️
That sunflower tip is going to be life changing for me! I have been very successful at growing tomatoes in South Texas, I love sunflowers and never really know where to plant them.....now I do! Thanks Jess!
Awesome video girl I just love the sound of the birds and chickens guess what we did today? We made a spot for a garden , we are planting potato , onion and some other things..
Jess girl, your excitement is just contagious!
‘Twas literally -47 degrees Celsius with the windchill here in New Brunswick Canada last eve and today (windchill ended this afternoon and more like -17 now). My car battery died at the grocery store!! I was soooo glad I had somewhere warm to wait. It was such an awful cold. I pray for everyone who doesn’t have secure shelter/home base. It was unliveably cold out there! 🥶 I don’t have any farm animals of my own yet, but it definitely would have been a case for bringing them into some sort of shelter. I have a goal within another year or so of starting that journey, so made me realize just how much there is to do when weather changes up north here and you also have a homestead. I’m mentally preparing…. 😅
Ben is getting so tall! I saw him walking up behind Jess and thought it was Toby at first!
What brad was talking about was shade avoidance. The plants are detecting a certain type of red light and are responding accordingly. The hormone you are referring to is auxin. There's many intresting experiments on shade avoidance that would be an intresting read, you could probably find videos on it to. :)
I just love that you remember the first hint you saw Miah! Thanks for sharing that story!
I remember the first time I saw my husband and I loved him right away. He didn't have the same feelings as fast as I did lol
I remember the first time I saw my husband, and it was the same day he asked for my phone number (land lines before cellphones even existed, lol). And I found out later that he had his eye on me at church weeks before he asked me for my number and told his friend that one day he was going to marry me 😊
I remember the first time I saw my husband's home. It was immaculately clean and tidy and I fell in love. 😆
First time my husband saw me, he thought I was weird lol we were in the 7th grade at that time. Little did he know he would start dating that weird girl 2 years later, marry her right out of high school, and will be celebrating our 13th wedding anniversary in a few months.
I sell bedding plants at a Farmer’s Market in Moose Lake, MN. I’m always trying to get people interested in the heirlooms that I grow. So many customers just want a “normal” red tomato.😢 I do have those for sale. But I keep growing the “exciting tomatoes” and telling people about them😀
Hello from Arkansas! I do the exact same thing with weather too! I keep up with the weather in places I love. So glad to know I'm not alone. 🤣 This is our first year living on our 40 acres. We sold our home across town and live in our camper while the house is finished on our new property. Its a season of stretching and character building. I've truly enjoyed your videos with a cup of tea or coffee....and making this waiting room, into my classroom (even as I homeschool my 2 kiddos). Bless you sister. Your devotionals are a true God-send. 👍 Love from Northwest Arkansas ❤️
As a somewhat newer Gardner and one who as struggled, thanks for the encouragement! I ordered the seeds. I don’t like tomatoes but my husband and daughter do. And I like to grow things. Win win!! Thanks for doing this! Super fun!
I keep tabs on. The weather where my kids, my bonus kids, sister & SIL live as well as areas where I need to travel thru sometimes. Right now in California we are having record low temps, an abundance of rain ( thank you Jesus) & snow!
Have my seeds started indoors chomping at the bit for spring.
So thankful I did not wait to order the Jess’s Favorite Wild Boar collection because I see now it is out of stock.
I love the sound of peeper frogs!!
Thank you Jess, just ordered and thanked him also. What a great blessing!
That tomato growing tip was just my Ah Ha Moment! I'm in Jacksonville Florida and the place I have been growing my tomatoes for the past few years get FULL SUN all day! I thought that was best for them. I will definitely try moving them to the shadier side of the year this year to see how it helps w productivity
After two weeks of bone chilling cold weather. I am so glad today has turned out so absolutely beautiful and stunning got a good beautiful day, blue sky's fluffy clouds & sunshine, oh my God!! Its so gorgeous out here, but the cold will be coming back.
Jess's story reminds me of something that happened recently. I got some fairly expensive perfume for my birthday. It smells nice but idk who makes it. I'm sure there are people that would be aghast that I have no idea who fashion designers are but you best bet I'd also fan girl if I met Brad Gates lol. I totally understand getting wooed by seed catalogs and pretty tomatoes.
In 2022 i grew 3 Barry's Crazy Cherry tomato plants and they were awesome!!
Great taste and great production!! They handled the heat better and longer than all the
other varieties I grew!! *Have a good'nnn*
My parents have been gardeners my whole life so every year we would get the Burpee and Gurneys catalogs. I remember as a very little girl hiding away with those seed catalogs and looking for hours and dreaming! Never was much interested in the flowers but I wanted all the berries and fruit trees and food plants! Should have taken it as a sign way back then!
This comment makes me so happy. Once I had kids I was so focused on trying to create memories and traditions with them like I had when I was little but I’m realizing now from this comment that the fact that I garden with my kids will probably be the thing that they will look back on a reminisce one day when I’m no longer here and it was just unintentional and natural ♥️
Our HIGH 2 days ago was -13 celcius! The low was -23 with the wind it was -35. With a warning that you could get frostbitten if you spend time outside. We survived
I'm so excited I bought and grew some last year brads atomic grape these things were so good .and some others I live in oregon but they all did well and I gave out over 100 tomato plants to teachers and people I know to hopefully spread the love of growing thing iv been watchen you Jess since you started and love ❤️ what you do . And just places my order of jess favs . Thanks guys god bless you guys.
I live in SC and have grown both Paul Robeson and Large Barred Boar tomatoes. I love the Large Barred Boar the best! I took LBB tomatoes to work and my colleagues raved. Love, love, love the LBB tomato!!🍅👍
I love your stories - it brings gardening and being a gardener to life and shares the joy. I really appreciate your description of each variety and the special things to either keep in mind for each variety and why they are so close to your heart. I didn’t grab the whole pack but based on your description picked three to order. I can’t wait to include these unique varieties in my summer salads!
Lol I so feel this! I have 17 cities open for their weather. Me and my mom used to watch the weather channel all the time when I was younger 3:28
That book is one that opened my eyes about buying local. It made me happy to know you read that book too. You have come so far, it will be great to see the garden you create this year.
Gald I got my order in early. He is nearly sold out of most tomatoe seeds but some good ones are still available. Thank you for blessing people by helping where you can.🍅🍅
Jess loved your Fangirl story. You are so knowledgeable and helpful. Thank you for all you do.
Thank you for this opportunity to explore more heirloom varieties! Love your tomato passion!
Bless you Jess !
Jess I think you have lost some wait looks good hope your ok health wise love you videos
love the look of those varieties! just ordered with a couple if others. I hadn't ordered my new tomatoe varieties but now I have. Thanks Jess I envy you the weather right now but not in the sunmer...
Absolutely love many of Brad’s tomatoes thanks to discovering you in 2018.
I hope someday to a company that specializes in Peppers like Brad does tomatoes. ❤ peppers like Jess loves tomatoes.
Congrats, Jess! We saw this one coming. 💚🌱🌻🌿🌾
Heading into my 6th year gardening and I’m so excited to have really honed in some truly exceptional tomato varieties. Of course I’m trying a few new, but these varieties bring back memories of previous years. This is such a soul warming preparation time, remembering years past and dreaming of the season to come.
Yeah I love story time with Jess and tea
I 100% went to Baker Creek that year to see you!!!!!! You are awesome! Love & Prayers
This is so awesome! The Atomic Grape is our oldest daughter’s favorite too. We have grown them for years for her. Always a staple. 😃
Sweet Jess, I'm getting the office/spare bedroom ready to start seeds under the grow lights, and heat pads....I'm biting at the bit to start planting seeds. Life is good!
Jess, aged compost squeezed in a bucket of rested or filtered water without chlorine can help a lot if not dissapear in around 2 weeks the poison in straw and you can trial this first with few spare plants or maybe supermarket tomato seeds (heh)
YAY!!!! I just placed my order!!! Thanks so much, Jess and Brad!
I’m the same with the weather. On my app I have where I live, the beach, where I like to go hiking, and then Alaska so I can feel good about our NC weather!
Ordered! You hooked me on growing different varieties many years ago instead of just 2 kinds. How sad was that. Thank you
I love Brad's too! I'm two days late seeing the video and your pack is already out of stock. Wow, way to go! Of course I will circle back and order what I can.
Have you thought about growing penuts? They’re surprisingly super easy to grow I had a penut plant just for fun from some store bought shell penuts! They take off! And they’re fun to pull out of the ground. And the leaves fold together at night and they look like they’re praying. Penuts are underrated as a garden plant. They’re wonderful to watch grow! And they also have these pretty flowers.
I am so excited for this seed collection!!!
You start seedlings I start winter sowing! We each have a way to get our hands in the dirt when it is still "too early" . Love it! 💛💚💙💜😎
You feel about Brad Gates like I feel about Fred Hempel. My favorite maters are Sunrise Bumblebee, Pink Tiger and Agi Red. Super sweet, long keepers without the thick skin. I get it lol!
False spring is here today, too in the mountains of Northern AZ.
I loved that book ❤ I think I will read it again.
Thanks for sharing I will check out wild Boar seeds out thanks and Gods blessings for you all
I love Animal, Vegetable, Miracle and Barbara Kingsolver in general!
I've ordered from Wild Boar Farms. Barry's Crazy Cherry tomatoes are real conversation starters. The Brad's Atomic Grape tomatoes are so pretty. Haven't planted the Black Beauty yet. So pretty the Pink Berkley Tie Dye!
i use beach umbrellas to shade my tomatoes during our hot los angeles summers. they are easy to takedown on cooler days. i love the idea to plant sunflowers
Just LUV a sun warmed tomato!! Last year I tried the Brads Atomic grapes. Had many of them growing in containers. In the late fall, I saved them from freezing, by bringing in the house. Picked the last one on Christmas day. Such a tasty treat. There's so many kinds to choose from at Wild Boar Farm. I'm sure I'll find a few new kinds to plant soon, very very soon.
Blue Beauties have earned a permanent place in my garden over the years! They are by far the most resilient tomato I grow, often producing right up to the frost!
I am trying so hard to get raised beds built so I can garden from a chair as I am disabled and mobility is very hard for me. It's a slow process since I'm on a very limited budget but am so excited to get back in to gardening. I grew up on a small farm where we grew and raised most of our food and my husband and I was doing good raising our food till he got Cancer and I became disabled, we had to get rid of all our animals it broke my heart. I am now trying to not only garden but have high hopes of building a chicken coop that is easy for me to take care of so I can get half a dozen hens again. Love your videos and search for new ones daily. Wish I had found you years ago when you still lived in Arkansas, I'm in North Arkansas myself.
Sometimes all you have to do is think and miah has it done for!! You are so close even you different individuals!! I like that!! Gods is blessing so much!! Thanks for sharing! Yikes care!!
That's who I bought my first seeds from..because of you❤ Thank you
Actually I grew sunflowers in behind my tomatoes last year so they would shade the tomatoes in the heat of the sun it worked great and the little birds snacked on sunflower seeds all winter 😉👍 here in bc 🇨🇦 I don't clean up beds til spring 👍 thanks Jessica
These are beautiful 😍 just placed an order. I'm living vicariously through your false spring, as we are bitter cold here in Michigan!
I'm with you on that ! Another Michigander. Been waiting 20 years for the colorful garden plants to begin selling again.
My Grandmother always got the odd balls for me to plant in her garden and oh how I've missing those days!
Michigander here too! I am over these below zero temps! But I started my onions, leeks, shallots, and green onions the other day. Dreaming of Spring.
Hey lady. I wanted to send you a picture of my cups I recycled for nice sturdy pots. I live in Myrtle beach ( where they shot the China balloon down, we could see it happen and feel the earth shake.) so any way, all the restaurants give souvenir cups for your drinks. Too many for the cabinet. I was about to buy solo cups then a light bulb went off. So hubby drilled holes and no need for solo cups. I got a little overzealous ordering tomato and pepper seeds. Good thing we added more rows in the fall. Pray there was no virus in that balloon that the misle blew to smitherines. The navy was out there to collect the debris. I wonder if any will wash up on the beach. They might have it blocked off. Thanks for all you do. Debbie from Myrtle beach
Got that collection last week. Awesome value. My first time ordering and growing his tomatoes
While I couldn't afford to get the whole collection today, I am really excited because I did order two new varieties that you recommend and hopefully soon I will be able to order more. I love supporting someone's passion so thank you for sharing this story with us.
Please give Brad my love for the colorful collection of his creativity 💗 I have been waiting nearly 20 years for these to be. Only last few years have certain vegetables come back or about. Nursery 's
Have not carried and look at me as if I'm the nut when i ask. I've viewed the color's that will be arriving soon to us and their amazingly exciting and tasty!
Hopefully, my garden will soon reflect these amazing plants!
Will definitely check out BRAD.
I do the same thing with the weather app.
Your short sleeve shirt tells us all we need to know about the temperature in South Carolina.
I’m in arkansas and we were iced in all week but Sunday was almost 60 and beautiful! 😊
Brad's Atomic Grape tomatoes are a favorite at our house.
You know what's funny? I've gardened in Berkeley for 40 years and the Pink Berkeley Tie-Dye doesn't do very well here. We look out on the Bay and the Golden Gate, and that ocean influence means it just doesn't get hot in the summer. Slicers really like the heat. We do better with San Francisco Fog tomatoes. 😂But that Tie-Dye sure is a pretty tomato!
I do the same thing with my weather app! I have like 10 places listed ❤