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

I'm Jess.

I'm Maya.

And today we are going to be starting a series called Answering Your Questions.

On this podcast in general, we like to cover all kinds of topic around growing your own food, gardening,

homesteading, raising animals, as well as raising a family in a simpler way, kind of living the

homestead life. We also kind of tend to go a little off topic sometimes. We just wanted to have

this as a way to share conversation with you guys. Yeah. And I went on to Instagram a little while ago and asked, basically gave an opportunity for

people to ask us anything.

And so many great questions came in.

I love learning.

I love teaching.

And a very integral part of learning well is asking questions. So as I always say,

there are no stupid questions. And I think there's so much value in asking your questions because

you never know who's listening that doesn't know how to ask. So I took many of the questions.

I was not able to get to all of them, but I broke them up into a handful of different categories and today I have mine here with me and we're

going to cover some questions from the first category which is the homestead edition

which is why I'm here which is why you're here Jeremiah definitely has his

hands in the homestead side of our life.

He's not so much the gardener, but he is definitely the animal person.

He does, I would say he heads up the majority of the animal part of our operation.

I help and am involved with that more so in some seasons than in others, but he's the one

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