When I saw Asher walking away in his robe carrying his cat and you called him magical…. That was the most accurate statement. It was definitely the vibe he was giving lol.

@laurad7439

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My son has cerebral palsy and the minute his butt hits the chair from his day program his slippers go on!

@Soulfulbliss19

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It was and I just loved her reaction to him. Made me giggle!

@meganmackenzie5993

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Jess is such a great admirer of all their children for their unique qualities!

My grandmother, a newly wed at the time, wanted to make bread for her husbands dinner. It was rather chilly that day and she forged on with her bread. by early afternnoon the bread dough had not risen at all. So, not wanting to be embarrassed by her flat bread dough, she decided to bury it in the backyard. The sun then came out and warmed the ground and the dough. When her husband came home he looked at the backyard through the window and asked, what in the world is growing in the backyard? Needless to say, her secret was out. We have all had a good laugh from her escapade with bread dough. She eventually became an excellent baker. Love ya all, Patty

@charlesbrooks5003

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Aw 💚 thanks for sharing

@camicri4263

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That's so cute! 😅 Thanks for sharing!

@pamhill4882

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Sometimes you make good bread. Sometimes you make a good story.

@erikas974

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😆😄😆😃😀😊😇😇😇😇

@emilygardner

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We have a similar story about my grandmother too 😂

Jess (Gardener, KZreadr, Business Owner, Homesteader, Mom, Author…): “I’m a little overzealous with my time”😂😂😂😂 You might be more than a little overzealous….but we are all grateful for everything you do!!!

your pizza dough mishap reminded me of the first time, early, early in our marriage, that I tried to make bread from scratch, on my own. I grew up making pizza dough and rolls with my Mom, but never made it by myself from start to finish. So I put it all together, kneaded it, put it in a bowl on a wire rack, in the sink with warm water, and a tea towel over it all. We lived in a cold basement apartment at the time. Hours later, it still had not risen. I thought, bummer, toss it and start again another day. I put it in a what was, thankfully in hindsight, a clean plastic bag and tossed it in the kitchen garbage can, cleaned up and went about my day. Later that afternoon, my husband came home from class (he was in college still at the time, I was pregnant with our first child), and walked over to the garbage to put something in the can, and when I looked over at him to see why he was standing there so long, he had the plastic bag hanging from his hand, totally bloated, and asked, what is THIS? I gasped! The bread dough had risen in the plastic bag, in the garbage can! It was the perfect temp in there, haha! So, what did I do? Like any good, frugal, fairly newly married gal on a tight college budget, I gently rolled the bread dough out of the bag (remember I said it was clean?), divided it out into three loaf pans, and baked it! They turned out perfect! True story :)

@rainwaterrefugehomestead2267

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HAHA! This is fantastic 😌

@teresamariner4238

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Great story!! I used to watch my Mom make these delicious rolls. She called them refrigerator rolls as she would mix them up the day or two before and put them in a lightly covered bowl in the fridge to slow their expansion. When ready to use them she would pull them out say the next day, let them rise, pat them out and cut them, dredge them in melted butter, raise one last time and then bake them. They were the highlight of all our holiday dinners and ocassional treats with every day dinners when not expected. You couldn't eat just one! I decided in my naivety to make some for a women's luncheon. They looked right, smelled right, and tasted right, (everyone enjoyed them) but were heavy like a biscuit, not light like my Mom's rolls. Have to try to make them again soon so my grandson can enjoy them. Also need to make him Dutch babies. Hes 27 already and needs to experience these family treasures. Little pieces of my and my son's childhood I need to remember to pass on. Thanks for the sweet reminder. God bless!

@rosemaryclark610

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@@teresamariner4238 yup! that's probably the same recipe my Mom had. She called them refrigerator rolls too. SO yummy! Now, at 65 years old, they are not safe for me to make, haha!

@jonisilva8154

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What a GREAT story!

My dogs got all excited when you said "Wanna go outside?" Now we're on a walk while watching this 😅

I used pig poop to fertilize my flower beds a couple years ago, and I had tomato plants come up everywhere. 😂 it was great, best tomato year ever.

I was 100% just like Asher. My mom thought and still thinks everything I do is magic. Now that I have my own 5 month old son I get it! Just ✨magical✨

I quoted your tomato saying on a FB post this morning. And then I realized I had the T-shirt on, too. You have infiltrated every corner of my life. And I am so thankful for that.

We had giant elephant ears at my childhood home. We would pick the leaves and sit on them under the shade trees for picnic lunches. They were magical to me then and now. ❤️

You're such a genius for the pipe cleaner hack to dry herbs! My jaw may or may not have dropped 😆 thanks Jess! 🥰

Jess, i got my first 2 baby cows! Im so happy and excited. 💖

Your hair looks gorgeous Jess! The garden looks wonderful too!x

Your hair looks amazing and so healthy! And that sunflower with like 50 flowers on it made my jaw drop

I have a friend that feeds clover seed to her dairy goats to seed her pasture. Worked great.

I also have some of that “rotty” thing going on with my sugar rush peach peppers. First time growing these. I’m glad to have the comparison to yours, thanks!

Believe it or not, I have long wondered how to dry herbs. Thanks for the clear, concise explanation. What seems obvious to many is never obvious to all. ☺️

@cindissacredgarden1703

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Your post is important!! I like small bundles to watch for browning or uneven drying. Jess has excellent resources using pipe cleansers..if you can't find them..after wrapping the ends with twine or rubberbands, use large paper clips to hang, works nicely! Use what you have!!

@karenm5681

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Yes, I just wrap the stems with a rubber band, “unfold” a paper clip with one simple twist of the wrist (so it looks like a tall, skinny “S”) hook the bottom bend of the paper clip onto the elastic and use the other bend for hanging the bundle on the string! Yay for tiny hangers! I have also used twist ties or wire Christmas ornament hangers for an even more budget-friendly option. You can be resourceful and just use what you have.😊Hope this helps!

Idk if I’m commenting unecessarily, but back in ‘92 when I started my first garden near Atlanta, Georgia…I learned that you can pull up a tomato plant right before the first frost, and hang it by the roots upside down in a dark place and all the tomatoes (and the whole plant) will continue to grow and produce. (I’ve had fresh tomatoes this way all the way through December & sometimes in January, too! 🍅💞

@kristinasnyder2909

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Do you have to spray or water the roots?

@ArtByWendyKlein

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@@kristinasnyder2909 not even a drop! Just pull up the entire plant by the roots and hang them upside down and enjoy all the tomatoes till they’re all gone. Even the smaller ones will continue to grow and mature! Happy Tomato Eating! (Some older farmer shared that special thing with me back then). 🙏🏼 🍅

@Romans828girl

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Wow. That's amazing. I would never have thought that would work. Thank you!

@marcidevries5515

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I bring in pepper plants to finish this way, too. 🙂

@suzannemoore1232

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Thank you for tip! Already getting nights in 30s 40s, but so many green tomatoes! Fried a bunch, but now I'm going to try this!

I get so excited when your videos come out that I drop everything to watch them. Then I am bummed because I have to wait for the next one. You definitely leave this northern city girl wanting more!

@susanmckernan4644

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I agree!😊

I have a beautiful ground cherry story. My 2 youngest children amd I planted maybe 20 or more seeds in a planter late winter this year. My heart was set to eat one of my favorite little fruits and only 1 came up, then flowered under my lights so I hand polinated and long story short it died...then we borrowed a tiller this year and trippled my growing space turned our lawn into a garden and Boom...it happened, I saw what looked like a ground cherry pop up, I was shocked, I waited and waited thinking maybe my neighbors had grown tomatillos or something but when the husks began to dry we knew it was ground cherrys. The lord is so good to me. I'm so thankful. I didnt know they grew wild until I found the over ripe fruit in my moms new yard last winter, so I stole the seeds of course. So amazing. God bless!

@Romans828girl

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We just planted our first garden this year, and it's not ideal...we aren't getting a lot of produce from the things we planted, but we have learned about some of the "weeds" that have taken over...and so we are actually eating stuff from the garden...purslane, lamb's quarter, perilla...but now, there are parts of the garden that are nearly inaccessible because of the ground cherries. They're everywhere! I'm waiting for those little husks to turn brown...I so hope we like ground cherries...

Asher is a kindred spirit. Home time is robe time! I have my robe on right now. 😆

Jess, your hair looks so cute that length! And I'm digging the sundresses. I need more dresses in my life. Also, I would love a video about how and when and what you use to fertilize your garden. We've had lots of successes, but nothing like 9 ft tall okra plants or peppers with that much fruit. Please share your wisdom?

The best squash you will ever grow are the ones you don’t plant! I have had so many volunteers this year! We have two massive beautifully healthy squash that came up in the yard, a long distance from the garden. We surmise that hubby dropped a few pieces of squash on his way to grill last summer, or earlier this year and that’s how the seeds got there! Some really nice potatoes grew in the compost. Volunteers are Mother Natures way of gardening…..she’s not into neat little rows!

Asher is such a cool kid! Love he’s getting less shy!

It’s a joy to know you make mistakes and I’m not the only one 😂. I do occasionally misjudge recipe’s also. I wish I had the energy to have as big a garden as yours. I’m 72 and now I simply don’t but I still do garden and preserve some. Freeze dried 3 trays of peppers, 2 banana and bell pepper trays and 1 of Ancho Grande peppers. Now have tomatoes in freeze dryer.

So ridiculously pregnant and waiting to labor hopefully soon! My pelvis is so heavy. RnR/Jess are always always a welcome distraction ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

@teresamariner4238

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Best wishes!

@beccagee5905

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Praying for your child's safe and healthy birth.

💚 Oh, all those lovely peppers! Last year and this I haven't had peppers do well. I do have two from last year that overwintered and are doing well now...I love that shaded area where the pigs are, so glad you're taking us out there to see the pigs. Hang in there Mama pig! 💚

Jess your hair looks adorable today!!! Looks like a new cut and color, beautiful!

I love how your comments section sounds like a conversation between friends. Everyone has a story to tell, wisdom to share or a nice compliment for each other (and you) Feels like one big dinner table

@livingwellanyway3279

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Lovely isn't it?! 💚

@RootsandRefugeFarm

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I love that too.

@Romans828girl

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I'm just starting out on this homesteading journey, and I learn so much from the comments. It's like y'all are all my neighbors that I can go to for advice.

When my brothers and I were very young, we always thought our Granny was magical because all the seeds and stuff she threw in her "scrap pile" grew into flowers and food. Even the few peanuts left in the bottom of the burlap sack (Grandpa loved to buy raw peanuts and boil them out back in a huge cauldron) grew peanuts! She had African violets growing outdoors in west Texas, just from tossing in the leaves that broke off her beloved houseplants. Come to think of it, I guess she WAS magical. 🥰🪄💮🌻🥀

That sunflower plant is the most gorgeous sunflower I have ever seen.

Love the pipe cleaner tip! For drying my herbs I've found that putting them on a tray with holes in my greenhouse and then covering them slightly so that there is still some ventilation has been working the best! I don't know where you dry your herbs but if you are wanting to dry a lot of herbs the greenhouse is an idea! Love your videos as always!

I have an Asher who is 8 and your Asher actually reminds me a lot of mine. Precious boys, a gift for us mama’s!

Thanks to watching your videos over the last couple of years, I look forward to volunteer sunflowers. The garden may be wild, but it makes my heart happy.

I'm having some soil issues myself this year so I am in love with my volunteer plants. I am getting so many tomatoes from my compost pile and OMG the pumpkins that are growing behind the shed are huge. So grateful for my garden blessings!

I love that you and your boys are so close! ❤️ I also love that Asher always wears a robe at home. Who doesn’t love to be cosy at home? 😄 So cute

I love your hair. Enjoying your garden tours. We are finally getting rain in Texas!

@rainwaterrefugehomestead2267

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ISNT IT FANTASTIC?! I've been sooo happy 😭

@diannamc367

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I just teared up and said a prayer of thanks for all of you!

Katie looks sooo good 😍😍😍 I'm so glad she found you guys 🥰

I love how genuine you are Jess. Thank you for letting us peek into your beautiful life and family… Love from southern Colorado 🥰

Your hair looks amazing!!! Thank you for all your work-you have the absolute best gardening channel. And I watch a lot of garden channels, so I’m an expert ☺️

I recommend using rubber bands to bind herbs for hanging to dry. You can hook the pipe cleaner to the rubber band. That way you don’t have the stems falling out of their binding when they shrink as they dry. The rubber band will shrink with the stems and keep them held solidly. I also love mixing the habanadas with a hot pepper to make a less-hot, hot sauce.

@livingwellanyway3279

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I use a rubber band on my herb bundles as well. Works great! I also encase my drying herbs inside loose white cotton pillow cases to prevent dust and spiders as the herbs dry. Looks like ghosts hanging in my kitchen. Lol!

@Romans828girl

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@@livingwellanyway3279 Thank you for this! I have hesitated about hanging anything to dry because of dust and spiders.

It's the first few minutes of your video and I can see such tremendous growth in the spaces around you. This is a farm and a haven I will love watching as it keeps growing. ❤️

You said hey bear wanna go outside, homey stood up and was like hell yea let’s go 😆 I love it! ♥️

@RootsandRefugeFarm

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My ride or die 😂

I realize you're super busy, but wanted you to know how much I enjoy my "slow down" time in the morning while I watch your VLOGs. So, thank you for all you do to teach, entertain, share and be real to all who watch your families lives. I've become enamored and "lifted up" by your family and your focus on life and romanticized outlook on daily living. Love y'all because of Jesus!

Wow on those multi headed sunflowers 🌻! Wow...love them...❤️❤️❤️

It is such a joy to see how you celebrate and love people exactly as they are. It’s such a big inspiration to me

I have a Matts Wild Cherry tomato growing in my compost bin. It is heaven going out and stuffing my mouth with those delicious gems.

@amberbouchard5222

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I have one too and it is totally exploding in deliciousness!!

Hi Jess, Love the garden. Mike and I dry our herbs in our mud room. Nice cool room attached to the house. We are finally getting lot's of rain here in central Texas. Love the channel! Blessings, Rochelle

Asher’s whole vibe is 👌🏼 A robe plus a snuggly cat?? The world would be a better place if everyone subscribed to that way of life. 😆

I once had a random multi-stemmed flowering sunflower grow in my front yard. It must've been transported from the bird feeder somehow? When I was working in the front yard, people out walking, or driving by would stop & comment on it. At first I'd thought it might've been a fluke. Later I realized it must've been designed for the increased number of seeds per plant, likely for the seed sellers.

I have the exact looking sunflowers in my veggie garden. Mine are volunteers from the seeds of a hybrid sunflower called Vanilla Ice that I grew two years ago which were much lighter in colour. We usually get loads to volunteer sunflower seedlings germinating during a warm spell in the spring that never come to anything because of frosts. This year we had cold nights but no frosts lasting longer that 5 minutes around 4 am. They’ve been stunning.

I was very Sick in the spring and early summer (May thru Mid July) and even was in hospital for five days before they figured out what was wrong, bad intestine infection. Anyway I digress, I did not get to plant any vegetables in my large raised garden, and when I finally started feeling well enough to care about anything I would go sit by my garden bed on the patio for some strength that the sun can provide. I noticed a small but sturdy yellow crook neck squash plant trying to grow big and in another part of this raised garden there was three cherry tomatoe plants all in a row. This was a sign that God truly does provide, because that is one of my favorite summer dinners, squash and tomatoes sliced and cooked together with a little olive oil. He truly has our back!

I had a bunch of volunteer plants show up everywhere this year. It took me a bit to realize they passed through my Urban Worm bin; I use my worm castings in every grow. For example, my EarthBox planter of peppers produced a zucchini plant. At first I thought this was a bad thing, but the more I thought about it, the more I realized the benefit. My castings have plenty of food for the biology to continue feeding while they settle into their new environments. Another thing to consider from the benefit of raising pigs in shaded areas, while moving pens, is the resulting buildup of mycelium, which could lead to building clutches of eatable mushrooms if managed properly... Pizza with shrooms, onion, and peppers is my staple pizza. Y'all be well, and thank you!

Jess: New tshirt: “I have way more ideas than I have time.” That’s a spiritual lesson in less than ten words. Wow. 🙏🏻 Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I bless you, until next time. 💙

Pam here…. Your glass house would be the best herb dryer in the summer!!

I love Asher and his cat! Purely magical

Jess I believe the reason why people admire you so much is because you show the good, the bad and the ugly... We can relate to you so much.. you are real.. 💞💞

Magical...yes! We do find our sons and daughters to be magical! My YayYay has always been my favorite sweet boy even as he's starting college but magical is really the spectrum we're looking at when we look at our children 💚 Asher is a magical sweet boy!!

That sunflower in the middle looks like a greenstalk full of flowers the way the blooms are spaced out haha just lovely 🌻 ❤️

I really like when Asher wants to make an appearance. He seems like a really cool kid.

Your hair, and your garden look amazing! ❤️❤️❤️

I keep a note pad or some means of writing down notes with me when I’m cooking to mark down where I am when I get interrupted - because mom life is naturally chaos… and I got tired of stressing about how many cups I was at… 😂

Love your day in the garden and in the kitchen and LOVE your hair!!! 💕💕💕💕💕

You know we need to know what type of multi-headed sunflower that was!!!

That okra though😊 Very pretty sunflowers and you're looking happy & pretty too😊 Love those chicken & dumpling peas, I've never seen any until I saw yours😊 God bless and keep y'all❤

I loved this video! Thank you for the pipe cleaner trick! I dry alot of herbs, so this is great ! I was using twisty ties like from bread bag before, but they weren't big enough most of the time. Love the Sunflower in bloom! Have you ever grown sunchokes? They give gorgeous small yellow "Sunflowers" or daisies, and give edible, super nutritious tubers underneath as a winterish crop. I'm growing them for the 1st time this year. I'm going to start just dropping my deadheaded flowers on the ground too :) . I'm SO jealous of the shishitos! I'm spending like $10/week to buy them since I forgot to plant them this year...grrr. I hope your dinner was amazing. I'm sure your guests were wow'ed!

We could eat garden tomatoes everyday. We have had such a bumper crop this year, but we're like you with tomatoes. Easily 200 plants. We fill our shelves & put out a blessing table, give to friends & take some to the food banks. It's our way of giving back.

Katie and her zoomies are just too cute!!! Love all you animals and all your fruits and veggies

Love your hair !!! Love seeing your garden

For year 'round use of your greenhouses, you might try instaling "Mini Splits". They're easy to instal & fairly compact. They provide both heating & cooling.🌻

@jacquelineiversen5661

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Just one would do it for that space.

When it's a rough morning, I could listen to you for hours, even if I'm not really listening, lol. ❤

Hi Jess, the thing with herbs though, particularly basil is that they lose flavor when dried. If you just crush it in a food processor with a little oil and garlic and freeze it, that would be best. If you want to save it for tea then you can just freeze it without anything which will keep that strong flavor, however they will turn black unless you add something to it.

Thank yall for sharing the basil tea recipe! We made it for an event last weekend and it was a HIT! So tasty!

So true about the tomatoes...eating them off the vine, still warm from the sun......the best.

We tend to make things way more complicated that they are! Bless you

Amazing garden! Love seeing how you turned a blank canvas into something so beautiful. Garden goals. ❤️

I am your soulmate when it comes to garden tomatoes. I will cry when I eat the last one from my garden. Here in New Hampshire, that will be coming sooner than I am ready for. Trying to have a tomato sandwich everyday for breakfast. Love you and your family. I have your book and I learn so much from your channel. Thanks 😊

Kids have a natural talent for interrupting mom when she is concentrating on something. My son does it to me every time.

I have been drying herbs lately in my greenhouse. I lay them out on my drying trays and because it is so hot here in N. California they are drying fast. We are having temps over 100 but we have a drier climate than Jess has so it might not work as well for her to do this in her greenhouse. Also I don't run a heater in my greenhouse though my outside tems can go to 30 degrees and we do get some snow. I start my seeds on heat mats and that is the only heat they get. I have great success with my seed starting this way and sell plants in the early spring.

Your voice is so soothing at the end of my day. I love your gardens. You are the one who got me started growing things Thank you. I am glad seeds want to grow. I bless you.

We had a family wedding to attend May 20th this year. I did not have time to get my garden out beforehand. AND we took a month off to visit family and take a long well deserved vacation exploring upper NY state. I was upset I would have no garden this year. We did not get back to KY until June 18th. However to my surprise.......I had volunteers growing. My fav grape tomato, Chocolate Sprinkles, and my Black Cherry tomatoes. Of course I did not know what the heck they were until they started setting fruit, but I just waited patiently. Oh and cantaloupe. So I proceeded to plant a late garden. It has been a blistering hot one here in KY this year and I had some struggles getting seeds to germinate in the heat but I have Okra, squash, and purple hull peas, cucumbers, turnips, sweet potatoes, and butternut squash, jalapenos, oh and basil. Yeah.....just because your neighbor gets their lush garden going early in the year and has a bounty of harvest by May..........do not let that deter you from planting a garden (granted depending on your zone.........we have a long growing season in Western KY). Grow something !!! Also I dry herbs by cutting, placing in a shallow cardboard box, covering with a thin tea towel, and putting them up somewhere in my kitchen (on top of a pantry, or sometimes on the table). They will dry just fine this way also. I dry my peppers this way as well (small chillis anyway). Throw them in a box and forget about them. Check on them later. Thyme, Oregano, and Basil all dry well so far this way. My thyme & oregano overwinter here. Fantastic. I never knew what herbs really were supposed to taste like (the store bought stuff is junk now compared to home grown). Thanks for the great video Jess.

I grow 5 varieties of tulsi and dry them for tea. They have great adaptogenic properties. I have a tea of tulsi, sunflower petals, rose petals, lavender, nettles, chamomile and mint every single day. I dry gallons and gallons of it and it keeps very well. That hot sauce sounds really good. You’ll have to let us know how it turns out.

@teresamariner4238

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Can you share the variety of 5 you grow? Just getting into herbs so far I've been able to kill mint which I'm told is impossible. Thanks.

@Just-Nikki

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@@teresamariner4238 I grow Vana, Krishna, Amrita, Rama and Temperance. Actually I just remembered that I also grow blue spice basil as well. Strictly medicinal seeds website has great information on the varieties as well as many other herbs. It’s a good resource.

@Romans828girl

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@@teresamariner4238 We may be sisters from another mister. I have always joked that I have a black thumb, and it's a wonder my children survived. Now I'm trying to be a gardener. So far...things could be a lot better.

I use cleaned dried turkey wishbones and twine to hang herbs. I hang the wishbone from a hook, nail, door pull etc... Thine can tie two bunches from each wishbone.

Always lovely to drop in for a visit , I hope you show a little more canning and cooking , that is always enjoyable .The Farm is more beautiful every time I visit... God Bless..Amen

you could always freeze the tea in ice cube trays and store them in your freezer. I've also seen herbs frozen in water in ice cube trays and stored

A Pig Pun; a robed cat toting teen; don't disturb me while I'm counting out my cups commiserating; tomatoes off the rotting vines of late August... You never disappoint.

Jess, I got your book yesterday, and I am thoroughly enjoying it!

Asher looks more relaxed & grounded and yes Magical. He didn't seem embarrassed or shy. He is very cute & loves cats he is perfection!

I really love your Channel. You are living our dream. I'm so enamored by your love of the land Your Love Of The Lord and your love of just being with nature.

Asher is like a studio ghibli character. He’s lovely.

@emilyrpepin

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And I mean by the likes of howl and such.

Thank you so much for the pipe cleaner hanger tip!! Brilliant idea.

Let's talk about the yellow crook neck squash on the ground in the high tunnel!!!! Amazing

The multi-head sunflowers are beyond gorgeous!!!

@tracycrider7778

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Totally agree!💜💜💜💜❤️

@tracycrider7778

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@Roots and Refuge

Looking beautiful I get so excited when you post a new video thank you for being you!!!

I was thinking like others about the graves lol since you first established them! Lol 😂 so funny, sunflower 🌻 graves!

Asher is so handsome and any young man who loves cats is a special kind of guy. My mamma always said this and it's true.

Your farm is looking awesome so happy for you

Your convo at the end of this video I've repeated many times. My garden was moved this winter from one side of my property to the other to get better sun. My bf gets wood and splits it for his parents so that they don't have to buy it at full price. Since we moved my garden and all of the soil over to the new location he took over my old location. Beginning of summer I went out to bring him water and noticed that in his cut pile there were little baby nasturtium plants. Those little nasturtium plants have put out more flowers than the ones I actually planted this year by the new garden because of the deer and rabbits and other pests. Seeds just want to grow is the best advice a gardener can hear. Once you get to know what seedlings look like you start to see more and more volunteers and you become a believer in nature's ability to function without much help from us.

That motherland Okra has me thinking of that old End of Ze World youtube video, classic! I've never had luck drying herbs in my garage, hope to change that this season.

This just made my day 🥰

Blessings ❤️