Dealing with Loss on the Farm

Roots and Refuge Podcast

Jessica Sowards

Home & Garden, Leisure

5 • 646 Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Hey, y'all! Welcome to episode sixteen of the Roots and Refuge Podcast.

Today’s episode is all about learning how to deal with loss on the farm. Death and dying on the homestead is an inevitability. Where there is livestock, there will be dead stock. I don't say this to be harsh, but I wish someone had prepared me better for this life before I jumped in with both feet.

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0:00.0	Hey guys, what's up?
0:06.6	Welcome back to the Roots and Refuge podcast.
0:09.1	I'm your host, Jessica Sowers.
0:10.6	My friends call me Jess, so I hope you will too.
0:13.5	Here on our podcast, we talk about all things homesteading, food growing, gardening, raising
0:19.2	animals, preserving food, and overall trying to live a more
0:22.6	mindful and simple life. The topic for today's podcast actually came from our Patreon account.
0:29.7	I gave an opportunity for our patrons to ask questions there. And part of that was so that I could do
0:37.3	some more Q&A style podcast. That's
0:40.6	something that we've been doing lately. I love that we get to kind of cover lots of different
0:45.8	diverse topics in those. But there were certain topics that came up that I thought definitely warranted an entire conversation on that topic.
0:58.3	So the one today that came up was a question asked by Jacqueline Parrish.
1:03.2	She said, can you talk about continuing after tragedy?
1:06.7	Specifically with animals, we just had a horrific kidding season.
1:10.2	I'm ready to be done, but I've worked so hard on these goats for five years.
1:13.8	How do you continue after trauma?
1:16.0	And this is such an important conversation.
1:21.3	And I think I felt particularly compelled today to address this because this morning,
1:27.1	I just happened to get up, get online,
1:30.4	and I was looking on Instagram and another friend had posted about having some ram lambs
1:38.2	born, still born this morning. So today's conversation is probably going to be a little heavy,
1:43.1	just here prefacing, but I think it's also probably going to be uplifting because these are things that we have to talk about if we're going to take on husbandry in any way. And while there will be some emphasis in talking about raising animals today. I think that the idea of loss
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