After the Pivot

Roots and Refuge Podcast

Jessica Sowards

Home & Garden, Leisure

5 • 646 Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Hey y’all, welcome back to the Roots and Refuge Podcast!

After a season of big shifts and deep reflection, we’re talking about the art of the pivot—when and how to reassess, downsize, and realign with what truly matters. In this episode, Jeremiah joins me as we dive into the changes we’ve made on our homestead over the past year, from scaling back our dairy operation to shifting our focus toward resilience and sustainability.

Homesteading isn’t just about growing food—it’s about knowing your why and making sure the life you’re building actually aligns with your values. We’ve learned that more isn’t always better, and this past year, we took a hard look at what we really needed, what was serving our family, and what was simply too much. That reflection led us to make some major decisions, including bringing our kids back home for homeschooling and simplifying our farm to make it more manageable for us—not for the expectations of others.

This conversation is all about intentionality, resilience, and making mindful choices as we continue on this journey. Whether you're homesteading on a large scale or just dreaming about a slower, more connected life, we hope this episode encourages you to take a step back, reassess, and move forward with clarity.

Thank you for being here—you are so welcome at this table. 🌱💛

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0:00.0	Hey there, darlands.
0:07.8	Welcome back to the Roots and Refuge podcast.
0:10.7	I am your host, Jessica Sauerz.
0:12.3	My friends call me Jess, and I hope you will too.
0:14.5	And here on this podcast, we talk about all things homesteading, growing food by raising animals, growing gardens, enjoying, preparing, preserving
0:23.4	that food, and just trying to live a little more mindfully in relationship with each other
0:28.9	and with the earth.
0:30.8	We are back now to posting new podcast episodes every Wednesday on all major platforms as well as podcast episodes a week early
0:41.5	on our Patreon. Today I do not have a guest. I have my co-host. Co-host. I've been upgraded.
0:50.7	Yeah. Well, I mean, you're coming on regular now. So I'm a regular. You've got stuff to say. I have my
0:57.6	dear husband, Jeremiah, Sweet Maya, here with me recording today. And we want to talk to you guys,
1:04.5	kind of about our homestead moving forward, kind of the goals and the conversations we've been having let you in on that
1:13.3	because I think one thing we've learned in the you know over the last decade of very consistently
1:22.0	doing this life one thing we've learned is the art of the pivot. Oh, the adjusting.
1:29.2	Yeah, and figuring out what works for you.
1:32.3	Yeah.
1:32.7	I mean, even if you have like a real, real firm grasp of your goals, you know exactly what you want to do.
1:39.1	You're growing food.
1:40.9	And like your food needs change so much through different seasons of life especially
1:45.7	whenever you're raising a family i think it can also be because people don't ask why enough
1:53.6	yeah like why are you doing things yeah why am i doing it this way that's what it was for me
2:00.1	it was like i don't know moment of clarity and the question was, why are we doing this?
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