Oh Jess. I watched that very first garden tour and I just completely teared up at the start of this one. You and I have been gardening and homesteading for about the same period of time but that first garden tour you did reinvigorated me during a year that I was struggling with finding my way back to the garden with a toddler. My eldest, Willow, is the same age as Ben. You have unknowingly been my garden buddy for all these years and have kept me inspired. I am so incredibly happy for you and very excited to come visit your store in SC (we're in NC). I don't comment much but have loved every second of watching your dreams become reality. 💖
MHBL - it makes me feel that there's hope for humanity when I see (read) someone reaching out and letting that other person know that you appreciate and admire them. Betcha that Jess feels the same way about you. 💚💚💚
Your husband bringing you coffee about took me to tears.. so sweet, then the cute interaction you both had... That's what I want in my life.. blessed 💕
So I'm not going to admit I'm binge watching your videos on company time... But you always bring a smile to my face and make my day brighter. I've got spring fever waiting for the weather to warm up enough to put all my seedlings out so I'm getting my gardening fix through you at the moment :) Thank you for the great videos, they are always so educational and entertaining at the same time.
I was making lunch and I hear my 12 year old daughter say "Excuse me, Jessica has a full garden tour video already! I've got to watch this!" LOL And of course I said PAUSE that video till I'm done! My family loves your family :) Thank you for blessing us with positivity
Wow, you're quickly coming up on one year at the new homestead, and look at what you all have accomplished! Home, gardens, greenhouse, barn, cows, horses, hammocks, and don't forget the tree swing and the willow tree from the very beginning. Of course we want to see the baby birds taking their first walk! And I kind of don't want you to rip out all those damaged plants simply because I'd like to see if they recover at all, or if they just fail. Thank you, as always.
I am new to gardening and your channel but I am in love with both. Thank you & Miah for all you do. I am in NC so it’s great to see someone so close by!
As a perennial grower for a wholesale nursery, I recommend you plant the coral bells (Heuchera) on the north side of the greenhouse as they will burn in the southern sun in summer. They need some shade or shelter in the hottest part of the day. Everything is looking absolutely beautiful.
So excited to finally watch this. My whole world was flipped upside down last week and listening to your devotionals has been so healing and helpful but I didn't have the capacity to enjoy the new videos. Luckily I was able to save some of my plants and they are happily in bugge pots at our new home until we find our forever home and hopefully enough property to start my farm dream. Thank you Ms Jess for being a light in the darkness
Jess, I love your garden tour. I use to have a big garden, as I also raised 5 boys and 1 girl. I am now 80 years old and have a small garden, but it is plenty for me. God Bless You and Your Family.
I just love that you didn't "clean up" the garden before you did the tour. It looks just like ours. 😍 Obviously, ours is smaller, but it's always a work in progress too. Love that you just share things as they are...in all their messy glory. ❤️
I noticed that as well. She's as real as they come, I truly believe she's the same all the time. I can focus on learning from her and not feeling inferior bc I don't have a perfect garden...In fact, she did a sticker and I wrote that saying on my garden tool shed door..."You cannot have PERFECTION and Abundant Life in the same place". This is why we love her
It’s such a blessing to find a channel in your zone! So happy! We’re in south Louisiana and I’ve been searching for a homestead that I can relate to. Great stuff, thank you.
Thank you Jess. I actually lost my last home and urbanfarm due to contaminated compost I bought. Starting from scratch again, learned my lesson. Respect from Africa 🇿🇦
@@theurbanthirdhomestead I'm sorry for only replying 8 months later, but only got the YT notification now... 😉 I have 12 home made compost beds at my new rental place and I was seeding most of them this past week. Jesus and Jess keeps me going.
@@MissL4lly hey there sorry for only replying now.... YT notification only happened now. I have built a total of 12 beds over the past year at our new rental property. It's hard work. Gathering knowledge and wisdom is the goal.
Jess, you can broadcast mustard seeds to use as a biofumigant in your contaminated soils. In parts of agriculture India that I've visited, this is done at least once per season as a matter of course. Not as pretty as sunflowers perhaps, but quick growing and covers more area. It can be chopped and dropped before setting seed to act as green mulch as well.
I love seeing large fields of mustard. Very popular with the butterflies and bees. They grow big fields of it here in the Willamette Valley in Oregon as a green manure like you mentioned,allowed to flower for some honey production but mowed and tilled before it goes to seed. Theres also tillage radish feilds around here. When those flower it's gorgeous, like a field dusted with snow.
@@ArtByKarenEHaley I truly miss your neck of the woods! I lived in Pleasant Hill/Dexter area for over 7 years. From Eugene/Springfield area you can be in the Mountains or on the Coast in less than 2 hours! I miss it SO much. GOD bless
“The soil is the gift of God to the living.” ~ Thomas Jefferson. What a gift God has given you in South Carolina. I’m so happy for you. It’s beautiful. And as you my dear friend I believe said before Make your garden your favorite place to be.
Jess. Could you do a full farm tour?! Of all of your animals as well and where they live etc. I’ve followed you for a few but I’ve missed out on a lot over the last 6 months. Would love another hour long farm tour haha 🙌🏻🙏🏻
Grazon, applied to hay, grass crops to keep the weeds a bay, the cows, horses, sheep, goats ect. eat the hay and grasses, the Grazon passes through they’re system compost is made and the Grazon lives on, I believe it takes several years to leech from the soil. Or maybe salt, next level gardener ran into that problem with some compost he purchased. Salt is easier to leech out of the soil, but it still takes some work. I might suggest you have that soil tested before you eat anything you’ve grown in that area. P.S. you probably won’t read this, I hope you do, good luck ! 🌸💚🙃
No matter what type of potato I grow( most are determinate) I fill 10 gallon bucket half way with loamy soil, put 1-2 seed potatoes in and cover with more dirt. Fertilize once a week with my chicken poop tea and water well weekly. Works so great for us with limited ground space. Planting in buckets allows me to use garden space for other veg. Huw Richards on RUclips is someone you might enjoy watching. He has been doing no dig and building great soil. Using nettles and comfrey for fertilizer tea. On same idea as Charles Dowding but I find him easier to watch. I’m so happy for you ❤
Sweet Jess, the JOY on your face is priceless! We have prayed for you all, in the ups and downs of your lives over the last 3 years of faithfully watching your channel, and today is truly an answer to God’s faithfulness and love for your family. What you’ve all accomplished in such a short amount of time is nothing less than a miracle! Your and your sweet Miah are amazing and I remember the many times you shared your vision for this farm before it was even yours, and now look at it! Though I don’t have a homestead, just a third of an acre in the foothills of California, you have inspired me to grow even more food on our tiny lot. My husband Is so proud, and though my dream has limitations, I push those limits because of your encouragement! You and your family are always in my prayers. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. 🌻❤️🙏🦋🐝. Denise in California
Your giddy voice when ever you see your husband melts my heart. I love your relationship with him. Definitely working towards that with my husband. ❤️❤️❤️❤️
This is a lovely break from caregiving for my ailing parents…looking forward to this even if I can only watch it in bits and pieces and not straight through. Yeah✊🏼🎈
I Miss those days 🥺🥺😢😢 Cherish your parents while you have them . One day you’ll miss them an cleaning them up or the accidents 😯How I wish my Mom was still here❤ I took care of her for 11 years and the last three I got married & was blessed, my hubby loved her and did EVERYTHING when I was at work. Yes everything!!!!❤❤❤
I Pray honey, GOD will give you strength to take Extra Special Care of your Precious Loving Parents♡♡♡ I hope and Pray you Have The Most Amazing Beautiful Blessed Peaceful night ♡♡♡ GOD WILL SEE YOU THROUGH ♡♡♡ GOD IS SO GOOD♡♡♡
Jess, we met several years ago at Baker’s Creek Seed Festival and you were so darling and so encouraging to me on my own garden journey. We are growing about a 2700 sq ft in-ground garden and several raised beds now. I reference your gardening book and love it and can’t wait for your new book to arrive this fall on the homestead. I nearly cried during this video watching your dreams come true as I steward my own. Thank you for the wisdom you share with joy, love and enthusiasm. It truly makes a difference. Blessings dear one ♥️
Your planter boxes surrounding your cottage garden green house look beautiful. I love the contrast of the wood against the black greenhouse. Your garden already looks magical, you can see your heart throughout💗🌱
Do you know what growth I see Jess? You. 🥰 You were a fresh, open, earnest young seedling when you started in this RUclips community, and the fertilizer of our interest and joy of your sharing has grown you into a beautiful sunflower yourself... detoxing negativity, raising your head up, acknowledging the Lord while embracing All who love to grow... beautiful things. So you and Miah are very fine seed stock and the cultivar of teaching and sharing has matured you into simply... your own lovely garden of Life. Thanks for sharing. I never leave without a 😃 😊
I saw a social media post yesterday from a friend showing a bountiful harvest of squash, zucchini, beans, cucumbers and how she was canning and freezing them. About 8 years ago I gave her a couple of squash plant starts and some green bean seeds, we planted them in a small flower bed, harvested a decent little crop, and I taught her how to can. And I thought about the others I have mentored and bought plants, seeds, and canning supplies for. Without giving it much thought, I have taught folks to grow food. 2 of my 3 children have large gardens to help feed their families. It fills my heart with happy. Thank you, Jess & Miah, for sharing your journey with us.
Not necessarily garden tour related, but I think the replacement door on the greenhouse makes such a big difference! I love how the green disappears now and lets the glass be the focus.
Hey, just thought I would mention. I had a similar issue with herbicides from a horse bedding compost I get from a local stable that had a mishap. Alot ended up dying, so I planted sunflowers and an oat, barely, wheet cover crop mix. As soon as the cover crop mix was mature and setting flowers I pulled it out and replanted another round of cover crop. Here in New Zealand, were I am I have an almost subtropic Climate so was able to get about 3 rounds of cover crop to bioaccumulate that herbicide. And by the spring my tomatoes grew fine again 🤷♀️
Jess your enthusiasm and joy is wonderful! Makes me smile every time I watch a video. Thank you for sharing your highs and lows with us, and being such an inspiration to gardeners new and old. 💕
If I could smash that like button a thousand times, I totally would! Garden tours are baaaaaaaaaaack!!! YES! Also, thank you for talking about indeterminate vs determine potatoes. That has been such a confusing topic for me and you cleared it up in no time at all. Our non-profit in Austin also received some contaminated compost, so I appreciate your tips on remediation (outside of complete removal). Fingers crossed the sunflowers work their magic for you!!
Thank you Jess for sharing your passion and for being SUCH A BLESSING to all who find you. May Father continue to bless you and your family in abundance beyond all spoken words. ❤️
I’m so glad to see you doing the tour for us. I have to keep congratulating y’all, your success is amazing every dream has been come through and I really admire y’all for all the hard work that y’all have put in every thing you doing. And now my dream has came through without planing, I life in Jonesville SC like hour a half from lake Murray, we usually take 3 days vacation to the lake, and since I started washing the channel and y’all move to SC, I had my hope that I will see Jess like somewhere or 😂🤦🏻♀️I will send an invitation to stop by if y’all come by, and y’all will, anyway I ask my husband to take by the town bc I want to see where the store is going to be located and we did, then, there is a very good restaurant, we decided to eat there , so we went in seats and I started washing my RUclips roots and refuge farm channel bc I was a little bit behind, I see some people coming in, and look, and 😱 OMG I CANNOT BELIEVE is Jess and Familia so I got up went and I introduced my self I cry I people I want Y’all to y’all to know was the best experience in my life. Jess , Miah once again congratulations for all your success, from the bottom of my heart if is anything I can do to help out, please let me know I will more than happy to help y’all out to. Love y’all guys.
@@RootsandRefugeFarm you did my too. I have a story to tell Leto every body bc I was wasn’t expecting such a wonderful experience. I still in shock😘❤️. And I Bless y’all till next time 🙏
I like the way you don't get frantic with setbacks, just accept, make a plan and move on. It is truly very encouraging to accept stuff goes wrong but there's always next year. I am now planning and preparing for next year as we are in winter, but realised yesterday I will have to start seedlings in July!!! So already planning a homemade little greenhouse from things I have around and without the plastic cover, it will also be a great planet holder as they are wide metal racks, almost basket-like. We use what we have until we can afford what we want
💚 Woo Hoo, first garden tour and the baby Killdeer have hatched! So much is looking good. It will be interesting to see how the likely contaminated compost issue plays out. Thanks, Jess 💚
Jess, I remember when I was in SC we could have a Thanksgiving feast outside with deep fried turkey, smoked turkey and plenty of sunshine and great temps. I hope you get to experience that with your family too! ♥️🇺🇸🌻🌻🌻🌻
Omgoodness!!!!! Can we all just take a moment to celebrate the birthday of those adorable baby kill dears??? They are so sweet!!! I've been watching this momma lose her lid every time you go out there Jess 🤣😹 ii
I love that Jess just keeps on with what she's doing, and lets kildeer mom keep on with hers, and somehow that kildeer just...stayed and had BABIES! I'd love to see the little fluffballs, they are sooooo cute.
Thank you for sharing your garden and information with all of us. I always enjoy going along with you on your Garden Tours as well as seeing how your Farm is progressing. Blessings
Woo Hoo! So glad to be back in Tour saddle again! Loooove the new box surrounding the greenhouse! Gorgeous! About the deer, someone posted on the Friends group last week that she pounded stakes around the perimeter and simply strung fishing line only a couple of feet high around it. Deer can't see the line and when they approach the garden they feel something invisible pressing against them and it spooks them big-time. No more deer! Sure no shortage of fishing line at your place! 😁
You have been such an inspiration in my redesigning my garden to try and alleviate pest problems. It was one of your garden tours that I ran across that first drew my attention to your channel. I absolutely love the tours. The Bible not only says it but it says it twice.... Build houses and settle down; plant gardens and eat what they produce. Jeremiah 29:5 and Jeremiah 29:28
Oh my gosh! I didn't know this was happening so quick. I'm supposed to be cleaning the house, but now that I have seen the notification, the heck with vacuuming. Whoop! Whoop! I have my cold beverage and I am settling in to watch.
@@RootsandRefugeFarm You will have yours before you know it! I can't wait to see you take a bite of your first one this year. I just finished the tour (had to pause to feed the animals) and your garden is.....wow! Fantastic. Just like I thought it would be. You will figure out the soil issue in the high tunnel, I know you will.
I actually love your in ground beds, the fluidity of them all, greens of all different shapes melting into the straight pathways. Personally, I love the combination of the Birdies raised beds, along with the mass of in ground beds in their fluid rows. Loved the tour of your new gardens - exciting to see how they are developing and to feel the happy as gardener in you as they do.
Jess, you have given me the most enjoyable Saturday afternoon. This long garden tour has blessed my heart. I loved that Killdeer singing to you as you traveled through your lovely garden. How can I even express my thanks for you spending this time with us. Bless you.
Oh Jess! thank you! I don't have a garden this year because we're moving to our homestead and this just soothes my soul and helps me in casting a vision for our new homestead. Thank you.
We came here for a garden tour and got pointers, ideas, recipes and love. Jess, you are just amazing. Thank you, and I am so excited to see your garden thrive this year ❤️ God bless you and yours.
About the black...your garden is stained glass held together with black lead! Beautiful! Take as long as you need to show the whole thing...we're here enjoying it! I do miss your little sitting porch with your Bible teaching, hopes and dreams, poems and prayers. After the garden explodes, you'll find your place. I bless and love you and your family! Happy start to the day!
So frustrating about the compost issue! I had a similar situation when I filled my raised beds a few years ago. It’s disappointing but it can be overcome! ❤️
Jess, Your garden joy is contagious! I'm looking forward to seeing your dreams journey. And sweet Mihai, I just love today's coffee delivery... you're the good. 😉
I waited 2 days to find a single full hour so I could sit in quiet with my 2 month old and sip my coffee while watching this 1st garden tour of 2022 😍😍😍😍😍
Jess I want to thank you for inspiring me to move from utilitarian gardening to a potager style. It has brought me so much joy and I am so appreciative of your willingness to share your knowledge and joy of growing. I also find myself walking g around my garden smelling handfuls of herbs 😂 you are not alone!
Jess, I can wacth you talk about anything. You are what inspired me to do youtube. I have always done homesteading/Farm stuff, but Thank you for all you do for all of us. I smile, laugh, and cry with you. Thank you for much for all you do and all yoir share with us. God Bless.
This may seem like a strange comment, but I'm so happy to not hear traffic on the road. Your in a much better space in South Carolina. I'm happy for you. I haven't watched much since the move (I like the garden tours). You're not only going to love the land, but you'll love the privacy and the silence. Enjoy it all. You deserve it!
I am so thrilled for you to share your first garden tour in SC! 💕💕 Your excitement is contagious! I love how you share your successes as well as the challenges of the garden. Thank you for the reminder of how sunflowers can detoxify soil. It is such a valuable tool.Thank you for shining your bright light in the world!
💜 I have missed your garden tours! My garden is struggling this year. I live in Washington, just outside of Olympia and we had a crazy hot year last year but this year we have barely seen the sun. It has rained so much that anyone that is doing in ground planting is having all of their plants drown. I grow in raised beds so mine are surviving but my tomatoes have barely grown since transplant 2 weeks ago. I have had a garden for 8 or 9 years now. I enjoy every minute of it but having so many struggles makes it hard to not second guess yourself.
The garden tours are back!!!!! Yes! Your garden tours have always been the most relaxing and inspiring videos I’ve seen. Your journey from undeveloped land to full functioning homestead has been everything my soul needed to make my path clearer. I can’t thank you enough for the part you’ve played in my spiritual journey and my path to my future homestead.
Jess, I’m 60 and live in NW Montana and I am disabled and a widow. I also rent with very limited space and money all that to say this, you inspired me try to grow something. I tried Basil on my window sill lol. Today 6-11-22 I saw my first sign of three little green growth! I have been waiting and watching everyday I was Excited to say the least ! Thank you for making a difference. God bless you and your family. Tonda
Love this. Thank you. I wish there was one every day, I watch them while I water. I got told today that everything I planted won't make it as the oppressive heat arrived early. I grew all my seed starts inside, took over my whole house and got them in after the last frost. This is year 2 here and I am feeling incredibly discouraged. It was so easy in San Francisco. Central Texas is another beast. I also have that same dress which was funny to me! Thank you for encouraging us.
Jess, have you and the family considered building a few little Airbnb cabins on your land? I'm sure there are millions of people would be lining up to pay top dollar to enjoy a week or two of your lifestyle. Besides money considerations, it would be a great avenue for teaching and making new friends!
I love these garden tours and seeing the progress. Being able to go back is so valuable. Miah is indeed so sweet and you both are so amazing together and what a beautiful example of love.
My favorite use for zucchini: CHOCOLATE ORANGE ZUCCHINI CAKE Favorite Recipes of the Sutton Families & Friends Ingredients: 2 1/2 cups flour (unsifted) 1 1/2 tsp. baking soda 1/2 cup cocoa 2 1/2 tsp. baking powder 1 tsp. salt 1 tsp. cinnamon 3/4 cup soft butter 2 cups sugar 3 eggs 2 tsp. vanilla 2 tsp. grated orange rind 2 cups coarsely shredded zucchini 1/2 cup milk 1 cup chopped pecans or walnuts Recipe instructions: Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Combine flour, cocoa, baking, powder, baking soda, salt, and cinnamon. Set aside. With mixer beat together the butter and sugar until they are smoothly blended. Add the eggs; one at a time, beating well after each addition. With a spoon, stir in the vanilla, orange peel, and zucchini. Alternately stir dry ingredients and the milk into zucchini mixture, including the nuts as a last addition. Pour into a greased & floured 10 inch tube pan or Bundt pan. Bake in oven at 350 degrees for about 1 hour or until wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool in pan 15 minutes. Turn out on wire rack to cool thoroughly. Drizzle glaze over top. Cut into thin slices to serve. GLAZE: Mix together 2 cups powdered sugar, 3 Tbsp. milk and 1 tsp. vanilla; beat until smooth.
You have such amazing vision! Can't wait to see it as it continues to grow and develop. Thank you so much for your knowledge and inspiration. Despite having a broken ankle, we started vertical gardening with a couple of cattle panels.
I wanted to grow asparagus for YEARS. But every time I thought about it, it said ugh 3 years is a long time. I finally planted it after being in that house 16 years and ended up selling the house less than a year later LOL It's like the saying goes, the best time to plant a tree (or invest money) is yesterday. The second best time is today.
I'm sad that it's over but it looks so good and I can fully picture your future image of the spaces. I'm so excited to continue with my small scale container garden until I can buy land. Until then I will live vicariously through you. And Sweet Miah bringing you coffee, ughh, beautiful video.
Just what I needed on this rainy Saturday. Thank you Jess I just loved this video and I have bought and planted so many things that you have taught us and I can’t wait to try them all 🥰
You are a wonderfully articulate Arkansas girl who packs a whole lot of knowledge that she soooo generously shares with the world...with no bias or judgements...just loving what she does and is GREAT at what she does...💚🌻🌿
Everything in this video has me tickled right now. Your greenhouse is looking so lovely! And so are you! I love how you dress up a little for garden tours, feels kinda special 😉
If you think imma sit here for an hour and watch this garden tour ... I am!!! ☕
🤣🤣🤣 right?!?
SAAAAAME
Me too! ☕
me too!!
Yes please!!!
It’s the best thing when you call a manly man a sweet angel !!! Y’all are the best
Oh Jess. I watched that very first garden tour and I just completely teared up at the start of this one. You and I have been gardening and homesteading for about the same period of time but that first garden tour you did reinvigorated me during a year that I was struggling with finding my way back to the garden with a toddler. My eldest, Willow, is the same age as Ben. You have unknowingly been my garden buddy for all these years and have kept me inspired. I am so incredibly happy for you and very excited to come visit your store in SC (we're in NC). I don't comment much but have loved every second of watching your dreams become reality. 💖
I teared up at your inspiration too!
MHBL - it makes me feel that there's hope for humanity when I see (read) someone reaching out and letting that other person know that you appreciate and admire them. Betcha that Jess feels the same way about you. 💚💚💚
@@deborahthompson7803 Thank you :)
My girl is also Willow 🥰 and my boy is Ezra like one of Jess's boys.
“A garden is a piece of art”. Amen!
Your husband bringing you coffee about took me to tears.. so sweet, then the cute interaction you both had... That's what I want in my life.. blessed 💕
Me too!! 🥰🥰 goals!
Yep got me bawling 😢
I am grateful to have that love in my life. Be patient 🙏 and faith. ❤😊
So I'm not going to admit I'm binge watching your videos on company time... But you always bring a smile to my face and make my day brighter. I've got spring fever waiting for the weather to warm up enough to put all my seedlings out so I'm getting my gardening fix through you at the moment :) Thank you for the great videos, they are always so educational and entertaining at the same time.
I was making lunch and I hear my 12 year old daughter say "Excuse me, Jessica has a full garden tour video already! I've got to watch this!" LOL And of course I said PAUSE that video till I'm done! My family loves your family :) Thank you for blessing us with positivity
OMG....."I just wanna grab a handful and just huff it" 🤣🤣Cracked me up, but I sooooo understand, I feel the exact same way about basil and tarragon.
Basil and oregano for me!!😄
Wow, you're quickly coming up on one year at the new homestead, and look at what you all have accomplished! Home, gardens, greenhouse, barn, cows, horses, hammocks, and don't forget the tree swing and the willow tree from the very beginning. Of course we want to see the baby birds taking their first walk! And I kind of don't want you to rip out all those damaged plants simply because I'd like to see if they recover at all, or if they just fail. Thank you, as always.
I am new to gardening and your channel but I am in love with both. Thank you & Miah for all you do. I am in NC so it’s great to see someone so close by!
You are back in your element and glowing in this first full garden tour -- this felt really, really good to watch.
I think we viewers feel the same. It's comforting, to me at least, to have these lovely garden tours. Absolutely felt good to watch.
What a beautiful garden! I've watched your channel grow for years! I love your coffee mug! ☕️ 🙏👩🌾
As a perennial grower for a wholesale nursery, I recommend you plant the coral bells (Heuchera) on the north side of the greenhouse as they will burn in the southern sun in summer. They need some shade or shelter in the hottest part of the day. Everything is looking absolutely beautiful.
Agree
In zone 6a Huchera can handle a full day of southern facing summer sun!
Agree
So excited to finally watch this. My whole world was flipped upside down last week and listening to your devotionals has been so healing and helpful but I didn't have the capacity to enjoy the new videos. Luckily I was able to save some of my plants and they are happily in bugge pots at our new home until we find our forever home and hopefully enough property to start my farm dream. Thank you Ms Jess for being a light in the darkness
Jess, I love your garden tour. I use to have a big garden, as I also raised 5 boys and 1 girl. I am now 80 years old and have a small garden, but it is plenty for me. God Bless You and Your Family.
Jesssss I live for these 40-50 min videos ❤️
Nothing better then sitting in an ambulance and getting to watch Jess on a slow day at work
I just love that you didn't "clean up" the garden before you did the tour. It looks just like ours. 😍 Obviously, ours is smaller, but it's always a work in progress too. Love that you just share things as they are...in all their messy glory. ❤️
I noticed that as well. She's as real as they come, I truly believe she's the same all the time. I can focus on learning from her and not feeling inferior bc I don't have a perfect garden...In fact, she did a sticker and I wrote that saying on my garden tool shed door..."You cannot have PERFECTION and Abundant Life in the same place". This is why we love her
Ditto 🌻💓🌻
Miah is so sweet hence the name “Sweet Miah”.Can we take a minute to talk about that coffee mug it is stunning love it!🙂
I love the mug
I thought the same thing, I assumed her mug might be a Haley Rose but I could totally be wrong either way it’s beautiful! 🐝 🍯 ☕️
I’m already in tears just from the excitement that emanates from the beginning of this video, Jess!! Oh my heart, I am SO overjoyed for you!!!
It’s such a blessing to find a channel in your zone! So happy! We’re in south Louisiana and I’ve been searching for a homestead that I can relate to. Great stuff, thank you.
Thank you Jess. I actually lost my last home and urbanfarm due to contaminated compost I bought. Starting from scratch again, learned my lesson. Respect from Africa 🇿🇦
Aw man, so sorry for your loss.
I hope that six months on you have a garden again. regards from me x
That’s so sad….. 😞♥️🙏♥️
@@theurbanthirdhomestead I'm sorry for only replying 8 months later, but only got the YT notification now... 😉
I have 12 home made compost beds at my new rental place and I was seeding most of them this past week.
Jesus and Jess keeps me going.
@@MissL4lly hey there sorry for only replying now.... YT notification only happened now.
I have built a total of 12 beds over the past year at our new rental property. It's hard work. Gathering knowledge and wisdom is the goal.
Jess, you can broadcast mustard seeds to use as a biofumigant in your contaminated soils. In parts of agriculture India that I've visited, this is done at least once per season as a matter of course. Not as pretty as sunflowers perhaps, but quick growing and covers more area.
It can be chopped and dropped before setting seed to act as green mulch as well.
I love seeing large fields of mustard. Very popular with the butterflies and bees. They grow big fields of it here in the Willamette Valley in Oregon as a green manure like you mentioned,allowed to flower for some honey production but mowed and tilled before it goes to seed. Theres also tillage radish feilds around here. When those flower it's gorgeous, like a field dusted with snow.
@@ArtByKarenEHaley I truly miss your neck of the woods! I lived in Pleasant Hill/Dexter area for over 7 years. From Eugene/Springfield area you can be in the Mountains or on the Coast in less than 2 hours! I miss it SO much. GOD bless
@@ArtByKarenEHaley Oh, and do they still harvest MINT out in the valley? THAT is so wonderful! GOD bless
@@ArtByKarenEHaley that sounds glorious 😊
“The soil is the gift of God to the living.” ~ Thomas Jefferson. What a gift God has given you in South Carolina. I’m so happy for you. It’s beautiful. And as you my dear friend I believe said before Make your garden your favorite place to be.
Why do my groundcheries not grow 😒
@@riniewebb6855 are they not growing from seed or are the not growing from transplanting
@@GossMania they are growing from seed.
@@riniewebb6855 May I ask where you got them or if you sees saved or glad then a while in storage
Golly, look at all of the growing space you have now! What a dream come true. Love that about sunflowers! as always, thank you Jess.
Jess. Could you do a full farm tour?! Of all of your animals as well and where they live etc. I’ve followed you for a few but I’ve missed out on a lot over the last 6 months. Would love another hour long farm tour haha 🙌🏻🙏🏻
Grazon, applied to hay, grass crops to keep the weeds a bay, the cows, horses, sheep, goats ect. eat the hay and grasses, the Grazon passes through they’re system compost is made and the Grazon lives on, I believe it takes several years to leech from the soil. Or maybe salt, next level gardener ran into that problem with some compost he purchased. Salt is easier to leech out of the soil, but it still takes some work. I might suggest you have that soil tested before you eat anything you’ve grown in that area. P.S. you probably won’t read this, I hope you do, good luck ! 🌸💚🙃
I like when a homesteader in RUclips is organize and thinks about good esthetic. This channel definitely has these characteristics.
No matter what type of potato I grow( most are determinate) I fill 10 gallon bucket half way with loamy soil, put 1-2 seed potatoes in and cover with more dirt. Fertilize once a week with my chicken poop tea and water well weekly. Works so great for us with limited ground space. Planting in buckets allows me to use garden space for other veg. Huw Richards on RUclips is someone you might enjoy watching. He has been doing no dig and building great soil. Using nettles and comfrey for fertilizer tea. On same idea as Charles Dowding but I find him easier to watch. I’m so happy for you ❤
Sweet Jess, the JOY on your face is priceless! We have prayed for you all, in the ups and downs of your lives over the last 3 years of faithfully watching your channel, and today is truly an answer to God’s faithfulness and love for your family. What you’ve all accomplished in such a short amount of time is nothing less than a miracle! Your and your sweet Miah are amazing and I remember the many times you shared your vision for this farm before it was even yours, and now look at it! Though I don’t have a homestead, just a third of an acre in the foothills of California, you have inspired me to grow even more food on our tiny lot. My husband Is so proud, and though my dream has limitations, I push those limits because of your encouragement! You and your family are always in my prayers. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. 🌻❤️🙏🦋🐝. Denise in California
Your giddy voice when ever you see your husband melts my heart. I love your relationship with him. Definitely working towards that with my husband. ❤️❤️❤️❤️
This is a lovely break from caregiving for my ailing parents…looking forward to this even if I can only watch it in bits and pieces and not straight through. Yeah✊🏼🎈
I love the window green house.
🙋🏼♀️🕊. May the Angels watch over you and your family 🥀
I Miss those days 🥺🥺😢😢
Cherish your parents while you have them . One day you’ll miss them an cleaning them up or the accidents 😯How I wish my Mom was still here❤
I took care of her for 11 years and the last three I got married & was blessed, my hubby loved her and did EVERYTHING when I was at work. Yes everything!!!!❤❤❤
@@noramaegomez197 Amen 🙏
I Pray honey, GOD will give you strength to take Extra Special Care of your Precious Loving Parents♡♡♡ I hope and Pray you Have The Most Amazing Beautiful Blessed Peaceful night ♡♡♡ GOD WILL SEE YOU THROUGH ♡♡♡ GOD IS SO GOOD♡♡♡
Those baby birds ARE SO THE SAME COLOR AS THE GROUND!!!!!! God's design never ceases to amaze me.
Jess, we met several years ago at Baker’s Creek Seed Festival and you were so darling and so encouraging to me on my own garden journey. We are growing about a 2700 sq ft in-ground garden and several raised beds now. I reference your gardening book and love it and can’t wait for your new book to arrive this fall on the homestead. I nearly cried during this video watching your dreams come true as I steward my own. Thank you for the wisdom you share with joy, love and enthusiasm. It truly makes a difference. Blessings dear one ♥️
Welcome back, garden tours. We've misesd you. :)
Your planter boxes surrounding your cottage garden green house look beautiful. I love the contrast of the wood against the black greenhouse. Your garden already looks magical, you can see your heart throughout💗🌱
Your joy to film your garden tour just touches my heart. 💚💚❤❤
Do you know what growth I see Jess?
You. 🥰
You were a fresh, open, earnest young seedling when you started in this RUclips community, and the fertilizer of our interest and joy of your sharing has grown you into a beautiful sunflower yourself... detoxing negativity, raising your head up, acknowledging the Lord while embracing All who love to grow... beautiful things.
So you and Miah are very fine seed stock and the cultivar of teaching and sharing has matured you into simply... your own lovely garden of Life.
Thanks for sharing. I never leave without a 😃 😊
😭😭♥️♥️♥️
I saw a social media post yesterday from a friend showing a bountiful harvest of squash, zucchini, beans, cucumbers and how she was canning and freezing them. About 8 years ago I gave her a couple of squash plant starts and some green bean seeds, we planted them in a small flower bed, harvested a decent little crop, and I taught her how to can. And I thought about the others I have mentored and bought plants, seeds, and canning supplies for. Without giving it much thought, I have taught folks to grow food. 2 of my 3 children have large gardens to help feed their families. It fills my heart with happy. Thank you, Jess & Miah, for sharing your journey with us.
Not necessarily garden tour related, but I think the replacement door on the greenhouse makes such a big difference! I love how the green disappears now and lets the glass be the focus.
The video started with that lovely music and man, I'm glad garden tours are back!!
I've also missed the music too 🙂❤️
Hey, just thought I would mention. I had a similar issue with herbicides from a horse bedding compost I get from a local stable that had a mishap.
Alot ended up dying, so I planted sunflowers and an oat, barely, wheet cover crop mix. As soon as the cover crop mix was mature and setting flowers I pulled it out and replanted another round of cover crop. Here in New Zealand, were I am I have an almost subtropic Climate so was able to get about 3 rounds of cover crop to bioaccumulate that herbicide. And by the spring my tomatoes grew fine again 🤷♀️
Jess your enthusiasm and joy is wonderful! Makes me smile every time I watch a video. Thank you for sharing your highs and lows with us, and being such an inspiration to gardeners new and old. 💕
If I could smash that like button a thousand times, I totally would! Garden tours are baaaaaaaaaaack!!! YES! Also, thank you for talking about indeterminate vs determine potatoes. That has been such a confusing topic for me and you cleared it up in no time at all. Our non-profit in Austin also received some contaminated compost, so I appreciate your tips on remediation (outside of complete removal). Fingers crossed the sunflowers work their magic for you!!
Thank you Jess for sharing your passion and for being SUCH A BLESSING to all who find you. May Father continue to bless you and your family in abundance beyond all spoken words. ❤️
I’m so glad to see you doing the tour for us. I have to keep congratulating y’all, your success is amazing every dream has been come through and I really admire y’all for all the hard work that y’all have put in every thing you doing. And now my dream has came through without planing, I life in Jonesville SC like hour a half from lake Murray, we usually take 3 days vacation to the lake, and since I started washing the channel and y’all move to SC, I had my hope that I will see Jess like somewhere or 😂🤦🏻♀️I will send an invitation to stop by if y’all come by, and y’all will, anyway I ask my husband to take by the town bc I want to see where the store is going to be located and we did, then, there is a very good restaurant, we decided to eat there , so we went in seats and I started washing my RUclips roots and refuge farm channel bc I was a little bit behind, I see some people coming in, and look, and 😱 OMG I CANNOT BELIEVE is Jess and Familia so I got up went and I introduced my self I cry I people I want Y’all to y’all to know was the best experience in my life.
Jess , Miah once again congratulations for all your success, from the bottom of my heart if is anything I can do to help out, please let me know I will more than happy to help y’all out to. Love y’all guys.
It was so lovely to meet you Ines! You made my whole week better!
@@RootsandRefugeFarm you did my too. I have a story to tell Leto every body bc I was wasn’t expecting such a wonderful experience. I still in shock😘❤️. And I Bless y’all till next time 🙏
I like the way you don't get frantic with setbacks, just accept, make a plan and move on. It is truly very encouraging to accept stuff goes wrong but there's always next year. I am now planning and preparing for next year as we are in winter, but realised yesterday I will have to start seedlings in July!!! So already planning a homemade little greenhouse from things I have around and without the plastic cover, it will also be a great planet holder as they are wide metal racks, almost basket-like. We use what we have until we can afford what we want
💚 Woo Hoo, first garden tour and the baby Killdeer have hatched! So much is looking good. It will be interesting to see how the likely contaminated compost issue plays out. Thanks, Jess 💚
Jess, I remember when I was in SC we could have a Thanksgiving feast outside with deep fried turkey, smoked turkey and plenty of sunshine and great temps. I hope you get to experience that with your family too! ♥️🇺🇸🌻🌻🌻🌻
Omgoodness!!!!! Can we all just take a moment to celebrate the birthday of those adorable baby kill dears??? They are so sweet!!! I've been watching this momma lose her lid every time you go out there Jess 🤣😹 ii
I love that Jess just keeps on with what she's doing, and lets kildeer mom keep on with hers, and somehow that kildeer just...stayed and had BABIES! I'd love to see the little fluffballs, they are sooooo cute.
Thank you for sharing your garden and information with all of us. I always enjoy going along with you on your Garden Tours as well as seeing how your Farm is progressing. Blessings
Woo Hoo! So glad to be back in Tour saddle again! Loooove the new box surrounding the greenhouse! Gorgeous! About the deer, someone posted on the Friends group last week that she pounded stakes around the perimeter and simply strung fishing line only a couple of feet high around it. Deer can't see the line and when they approach the garden they feel something invisible pressing against them and it spooks them big-time. No more deer! Sure no shortage of fishing line at your place! 😁
You have been such an inspiration in my redesigning my garden to try and alleviate pest problems. It was one of your garden tours that I ran across that first drew my attention to your channel. I absolutely love the tours.
The Bible not only says it but it says it twice.... Build houses and settle down; plant gardens and eat what they produce. Jeremiah 29:5 and Jeremiah 29:28
Because they were slaves for decades
Oh my gosh! I didn't know this was happening so quick. I'm supposed to be cleaning the house, but now that I have seen the notification, the heck with vacuuming. Whoop! Whoop! I have my cold beverage and I am settling in to watch.
I’m just waiting to catch up with you on the Dr Wyche!
@@RootsandRefugeFarm You will have yours before you know it! I can't wait to see you take a bite of your first one this year. I just finished the tour (had to pause to feed the animals) and your garden is.....wow! Fantastic. Just like I thought it would be. You will figure out the soil issue in the high tunnel, I know you will.
You're right; it is the little things. 🙂 I love the surprises my garden brings me each season
I actually love your in ground beds, the fluidity of them all, greens of all different shapes melting into the straight pathways. Personally, I love the combination of the Birdies raised beds, along with the mass of in ground beds in their fluid rows. Loved the tour of your new gardens - exciting to see how they are developing and to feel the happy as gardener in you as they do.
I love how your new farm and garden are becoming your vision. I absolutely love the cedar with black metal raised beds!
Jess, you have given me the most enjoyable Saturday afternoon. This long garden tour has blessed my heart. I loved that Killdeer singing to you as you traveled through your lovely garden. How can I even express my thanks for you spending this time with us. Bless you.
Oh Jess! thank you! I don't have a garden this year because we're moving to our homestead and this just soothes my soul and helps me in casting a vision for our new homestead. Thank you.
We came here for a garden tour and got pointers, ideas, recipes and love. Jess, you are just amazing. Thank you, and I am so excited to see your garden thrive this year ❤️ God bless you and yours.
About the black...your garden is stained glass held together with black lead! Beautiful! Take as long as you need to show the whole thing...we're here enjoying it! I do miss your little sitting porch with your Bible teaching, hopes and dreams, poems and prayers. After the garden explodes, you'll find your place. I bless and love you and your family! Happy start to the day!
So frustrating about the compost issue! I had a similar situation when I filled my raised beds a few years ago. It’s disappointing but it can be overcome! ❤️
Your portage is well on its way to being very beautiful for anyone looking upon it! Great planning, and hard-work.
Garden tours make my heart flutter!!💗🌻🍅🥬🥒
Jess, Your garden joy is contagious! I'm looking forward to seeing your dreams journey. And sweet Mihai, I just love today's coffee delivery... you're the good. 😉
Hooray! They're back! Congratulations Jess!!
Edited to add: I was today years old when I learned about determinate/indeterminate potatoes!
yea I just looked up all of my varieties hahaha
“Today years old”…😂 Me too!
Today years old…love it. Me too! Never new potatoes were determinate/indeterminate.
I waited 2 days to find a single full hour so I could sit in quiet with my 2 month old and sip my coffee while watching this 1st garden tour of 2022 😍😍😍😍😍
Jess I want to thank you for inspiring me to move from utilitarian gardening to a potager style. It has brought me so much joy and I am so appreciative of your willingness to share your knowledge and joy of growing. I also find myself walking g around my garden smelling handfuls of herbs 😂 you are not alone!
Jess, I can wacth you talk about anything. You are what inspired me to do youtube. I have always done homesteading/Farm stuff, but Thank you for all you do for all of us. I smile, laugh, and cry with you. Thank you for much for all you do and all yoir share with us. God Bless.
It feels a little like coming home. Soooo glad to be back in the garden with you and especially glad it was a looooong video. ❤
This may seem like a strange comment, but I'm so happy to not hear traffic on the road. Your in a much better space in South Carolina. I'm happy for you. I haven't watched much since the move (I like the garden tours). You're not only going to love the land, but you'll love the privacy and the silence. Enjoy it all. You deserve it!
I am so thrilled for you to share your first garden tour in SC! 💕💕 Your excitement is contagious! I love how you share your successes as well as the challenges of the garden. Thank you for the reminder of how sunflowers can detoxify soil. It is such a valuable tool.Thank you for shining your bright light in the world!
I like the old videos where Daniel’s music plays through the whole video. It’s so relaxing to watch. I hope Jess goes back to that.
💜 I have missed your garden tours! My garden is struggling this year. I live in Washington, just outside of Olympia and we had a crazy hot year last year but this year we have barely seen the sun. It has rained so much that anyone that is doing in ground planting is having all of their plants drown. I grow in raised beds so mine are surviving but my tomatoes have barely grown since transplant 2 weeks ago. I have had a garden for 8 or 9 years now. I enjoy every minute of it but having so many struggles makes it hard to not second guess yourself.
Take some of those potatoes to the local food bank, please. They will be blessings to others.
Thank you for being so encouraging ❤️
Your baby birds are a special blessing!
"It's important to build a space that you want to be in." So true. :)
The garden tours are back!!!!! Yes! Your garden tours have always been the most relaxing and inspiring videos I’ve seen. Your journey from undeveloped land to full functioning homestead has been everything my soul needed to make my path clearer. I can’t thank you enough for the part you’ve played in my spiritual journey and my path to my future homestead.
Feeling so lucky to be a part of your dreams coming true! Thank you so much for posting these 🥰
It’s finally here!!!!! Don’t get me wrong, I will rewatch old garden tours forever, but I am so excited to see how this new property grows!
Jess, I’m 60 and live in NW Montana and I am disabled and a widow. I also rent with very limited space and money all that to say this, you inspired me try to grow something.
I tried Basil on my window sill lol. Today 6-11-22 I saw my first sign of three little green growth!
I have been waiting and watching everyday I was Excited to say the least !
Thank you for making a difference. God bless you and your family.
Tonda
Love this. Thank you. I wish there was one every day, I watch them while I water. I got told today that everything I planted won't make it as the oppressive heat arrived early. I grew all my seed starts inside, took over my whole house and got them in after the last frost. This is year 2 here and I am feeling incredibly discouraged. It was so easy in San Francisco. Central Texas is another beast. I also have that same dress which was funny to me! Thank you for encouraging us.
Maybe try some shade cloth it might help some things
Jess, have you and the family considered building a few little Airbnb cabins on your land? I'm sure there are millions of people would be lining up to pay top dollar to enjoy a week or two of your lifestyle. Besides money considerations, it would be a great avenue for teaching and making new friends!
Can't believe its been 4 years! I've been with you the whole time! Thank you for all of your hard work to bring this to us.
I love these garden tours and seeing the progress. Being able to go back is so valuable. Miah is indeed so sweet and you both are so amazing together and what a beautiful example of love.
My favorite use for zucchini: CHOCOLATE ORANGE ZUCCHINI CAKE Favorite Recipes of the Sutton Families & Friends
Ingredients:
2 1/2 cups flour (unsifted)
1 1/2 tsp. baking soda
1/2 cup cocoa
2 1/2 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. salt
1 tsp. cinnamon
3/4 cup soft butter
2 cups sugar
3 eggs
2 tsp. vanilla
2 tsp. grated orange rind
2 cups coarsely shredded zucchini
1/2 cup milk
1 cup chopped pecans or walnuts
Recipe instructions: Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Combine flour, cocoa, baking, powder, baking soda, salt, and cinnamon. Set aside. With mixer beat together the butter and sugar until they are smoothly blended. Add the eggs; one at a time, beating well after each addition. With a spoon, stir in the vanilla, orange peel, and zucchini. Alternately stir dry ingredients and the milk into zucchini mixture, including the nuts as a last addition. Pour into a greased & floured 10 inch tube pan or Bundt pan. Bake in oven at 350 degrees for about 1 hour or until wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool in pan 15 minutes. Turn out on wire rack to cool thoroughly. Drizzle glaze over top. Cut into thin slices to serve. GLAZE: Mix together 2 cups powdered sugar, 3 Tbsp. milk and 1 tsp. vanilla; beat until smooth.
Yum!
Thanks for typing it out.
Blessings everyone everywhere and always
“Soil loving, permaculture heart”…I love that!
This made my heart SO happy for your gardener heart. It was a joy to see you in your element today.
While I’m still building the confidence to post, you truly have inspired me to track our gardens progress via VLOG. Thank you for sharing 🥰😍
You have such amazing vision! Can't wait to see it as it continues to grow and develop. Thank you so much for your knowledge and inspiration. Despite having a broken ankle, we started vertical gardening with a couple of cattle panels.
Good for you
Blessings all
I wanted to grow asparagus for YEARS. But every time I thought about it, it said ugh 3 years is a long time.
I finally planted it after being in that house 16 years and ended up selling the house less than a year later LOL
It's like the saying goes, the best time to plant a tree (or invest money) is yesterday. The second best time is today.
This is super exciting Jess! The start of a new garden tour era 🎉
I love the way you and Myah love each other. Your beautiful family.
Lovely tour of your new homestead gardens! God is so good and you are a delight, as always. Keep spreading the joy and love, Jess.
I'm sad that it's over but it looks so good and I can fully picture your future image of the spaces. I'm so excited to continue with my small scale container garden until I can buy land. Until then I will live vicariously through you. And Sweet Miah bringing you coffee, ughh, beautiful video.
I watered my garden while watching this! Inspiring!
Just what I needed on this rainy Saturday. Thank you Jess I just loved this video and I have bought and planted so many things that you have taught us and I can’t wait to try them all 🥰
Garden chicken moat! Great deer fencing. Living traditions did it, I think it looks very cool with the chickens running around 😍
It's coming along wonderfully! It's exciting to see the emense progress that's happening all over the new homestead.
oh Jess, this make my heart so happy 😊 GARDEN TOURS ARE BACK!!! ❤😁
You are a wonderfully articulate Arkansas girl who packs a whole lot of knowledge that she soooo generously shares with the world...with no bias or judgements...just loving what she does and is GREAT at what she does...💚🌻🌿
Thank you 😭😭♥️♥️
@@RootsandRefugeFarm Absolutely!
Everything in this video has me tickled right now. Your greenhouse is looking so lovely! And so are you! I love how you dress up a little for garden tours, feels kinda special 😉