Hey guys, welcome back to the Roots and Refuge podcast. My name is Jessica Sowers. I'm your host. My friends call me Jess, and I hope you will too. And here on our podcast, we talk about all things growing food, homesteading, gardening, raising animals, consuming food, preparing food, preserving food, all the things that go with that,

as well as raising a family in a mindful way and just trying to be mindful of how we're in

relationship with each other in the earth. So today I have a guest on the podcast, someone that

if you watch the vlog, you're familiar with his face and now you get to hear more from him.

I have to watch myself that I don't call you whiz this is West Green who is our dear friend

who Jeremiah is serious set to an Australian accent so when he calls it says

Wes Green is calling so now I call him Wes. He calls me Jess.

And when somebody sneezes, watch out.

We're getting blessed.

Welcome, Wes.

Thank you.

Thank you for being here.

We met Wes, I guess, the first week that we moved.

Yeah, I think I did.

I don't know if Maya met you prior to that no um but

came to church the first sunday that we were here or maybe it was a tuesday prayer meeting actually

and west opened the door and he introduced himself and he said we're we have a homestead not far from you and awesome you know like it was

the you were one of the first people that I met when we moved here and um they invited us over

to dinner just real early on and us being here I remember driving down your road and we were like

we were trying to figure out which house it was and then we saw the premiere one netting and we're like there they are. They've got chickens

and netting. And so we've met, we became very fast friends and of course Wes has been out here

on the farm quite a lot. You've seen you've seen him. I don't think you've met his family

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