Hey guys, what is up? Welcome back to the Roots and Refuge podcast. I am your host, Jessica Sourdes.

I'm so thankful that you're here with me today listening to my podcast where we talk about all things,

food growing, homesteading, gardening, raising food, preserving it, enjoying it, sharing it,

as well as just mindfully engaging in relationship with the earth and with each other.

So today is a topic that I have somewhat talked about before.

I will continue to talk about because as in the intro to this podcast and pretty much everything I do,

we're talking about food. And I have some thoughts today that maybe just slightly incomplete.

I like to I like to ponder things. I like to ask myself questions. I think it's just a great

privilege in life to be able

to take time to figure out how you feel about a thing, what you want out of life, how you want to

approach things. I love to talk about mindsets because I view them as tools on our tool belt. Now you could build a house with a

rudimentary saw and a hammer, but you can build a much more beautiful house if you have

specialty tools. And so when I am living my life, going about the daily process of waking up

and doing all the things that I have to do

throughout my existence. I want to constantly look at my tool belt and think about how am I

framing the things that I'm doing because if I can see things through a new lens that gives me

a more specialty tool that I can add beauty and intricacy to my life.

At the end of the work that I put in, I'll have a more beautiful house. Does that make sense?

Here on my podcast, I've shared many times about my journey into homesteading, and I'll be brief,

but I originally did not start with this dream because I loved

food it was a it was a childhood thing I loved animals I loved nature and I had a very romantic and

pastoral idea of what farm life would be like however what actually catapulted me into really doing it, not just dreaming

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