Some Fool Without a Phone (The Balance of Homesteading)

Roots and Refuge Podcast

Jessica Sowards

Home & Garden, Leisure

5 • 646 Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Hey y’all, welcome back to the Roots and Refuge Podcast!

This week, I’m sharing some thoughts from a damp, full spring garden and continuing a theme we’ve been sitting with these last few weeks—living slow, present, and rooted in truth. In this episode, we’re talking about balance—in nature, in our minds, and in the kind of lives we’re building. I share a bit about learned helplessness and how the homesteading life helped me unlearn mine, not by fixing everything, but by giving me something real to put my hands to. We’ll talk about fear, media, healing in the garden, and what it means to reclaim the driver’s seat of your life… even when the road ahead feels uncertain.

Thank you for spending time with me today. If you’ve found encouragement here, consider supporting the podcast on Patreon, where you can listen early and join our monthly Q&A.

As always—I bless you, until next time.

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0:00.0	Hey there, darlings, welcome back to the Roots and Refuge podcast.
0:10.0	I'm your host, Jessica Sauerz.
0:11.6	My friends call me Jess, and I hope you will too.
0:13.6	And here on my podcast, we talk about all things homesteading, growing food by growing gardens, raising animals, preserving, preparing, and enjoying that food,
0:22.4	and just trying to live a little more mindfully in relationship with each other and with the
0:27.5	earth. We've been on a little bit of a theme this last few weeks here on the podcast, and
0:33.2	honestly, when I'm talking to you guys about things, a lot of times I'm just sort of flushing out
0:38.3	what I'm processing in my own inner world, the things that I've been applying, the themes that
0:45.2	have been important to me. And today I want to kind of give you just a little bit of bearing
0:50.9	of where we are in the journey. It is April. It is thoroughly springtime.
0:56.3	I was driving with my boys yesterday. And I was like, guys, how did this happen? And just all of a sudden,
1:02.5	it's spring. And it's not all of a sudden. It's been happening little by little. And it happens
1:06.7	every single year, the change of the seasons. How this comes and sneaks up on me every year is still a mystery to me yet it still does.
1:15.6	But it's like I'm waiting on baited breath, checking the forecast, being like, oh, is it going
1:20.7	to get cold again?
1:21.4	Is it going to get cold again?
1:22.4	And the next thing I know, all the trees have leaves and everything is green, and we're
1:26.8	on our third mow of the grass for
1:29.0	the for the season and it's it's thoroughly springtime I've been plugging away at getting my
1:36.9	garden in we have a large garden and therefore it takes quite a bit there are multiple like full planting days that go into getting the whole garden in
1:49.3	and coupled with the fact that we had an incredibly wet early spring.
1:56.6	I'm technically a little behind on things as far as my area is concerned.
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