Hey guys, welcome back to the Roots and Refuge Podcast.

I'm your host, Jessica Sowers, and today I have my precious sweet lie here.

That's me.

And we are continuing on with a series that we've been working on, answering your questions.

We have been working through a list of questions that first came through on an

Instagram post and that secondly, we asked some questions in our Patreon, and we're going to be

tackling those as well.

Today's episode is following around the topic of kind of family life, home life, relationships.

Of course, I needed Maya here for this because we're married.

We are married and we are doing those things together.

If you're new here, our podcast is largely around the topic of the homesteading life,

which of course entails growing food,

cooking food, gardening, raising animals. But it also entails definitely the relationship side of

things and raising a family in a more mindful way. And eating the food. And eating the food.

Definitely a big part of it. We have been homesteading here in South Carolina for the last couple years

and then in Arkansas before that we have 27 acres in the midlands of South Carolina. We do not grow all

our food but we grow a very substantial amount of our food. That is true. And yeah, we love sharing it

through social media. We have a YouTube channel called Roots and Refuge as well as a website called Roots and Refuge.com. And here we are on the Roots and Refuge podcast. All right,

well, you want to jump into this topic, Sweet Maya? Like a deep end of a swimming pool.

I guess we could preface our relationship.

It is amazing. It is. It's really good. We've been married for 12 years almost next month, 12 years.

So together for 13 years.

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