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

and here on my podcast, we talk about all things, food, growing, homesteading, raising animals,

gardening, preparing food, preserving it, sharing it, enjoying it, as well as just trying to live

more mindfully in relationship

with each other and with the earth. We post new podcast episodes here every Wednesday, and on

Patreon, our patron members get podcast episodes a week early, so there's an extra one over there.

Today, I have a special guest sitting in my office with me recording. I've told you guys that

one day I'm going to figure out how to bring long distance guests on, but as it is right now,

when I have a guest on my podcast, we are bodily sitting down together. My friend Cass is here

and I have asked her to come record with me and share a little bit of their journey.

So will you tell my listeners about yourself and what y'all are doing?

Yes. So we have a small homestead. It's named Seimojo homestead after our children,

Selah, Mariah, and Josiah.

We have five acres of land, or just under five acres of land, and actively homestead on just under two.

We raise animals for protein, and we have a garden and a small front orchard yes they actually have a

really really beautiful place uh we met cass and jeremy i guess we met you the first time at the

azure standard pickup is that right yeah so yeah you guys have seen me do pickups on YouTube videos before.

But one time we were there and this family was there picking their food up and

introduced themselves.

And of course, we bumped into each other, I guess, over time and just became friends

here locally homesteading in the same area.

And what I just have loved getting to know them more and i want you to kind of share y'all's journey because i think it's

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