Hey guys, what is up? Welcome back to Roots and Refuge Farm. My name is Jessica Sowers

and I am your host. My friends call me Jess. I hope you will too. I'm so glad that you're here today.

My husband, Jeremiah, and I are homesteading on 27 acres in the Midlands of South Carolina. And here on the

Roots and Refuge podcast, we share all the details of our journey, including growing food,

raising animals, what we do with our food, how we raise our family, and just overall trying to

live in a more mindful way. Today I have a very personal topic to discuss with you that I think you are going to find

is very applicable to the homesteading life and is also very applicable to many of you

who are in the stage of dreaming of the homesteading life.

Maybe you are still living in a place where you feel kind of stuck or you're

just getting started. Maybe you've been doing this for a while. I think you'll find this very

relatable as well. So it's spring here on our farm. It is the throes of spring. And this evening, right

now, it's very dusky outside. It's, let's see, 8.27 p.m.

And I have just come in from a very long day of a lot of hard work.

I took a shower.

I'm now in a gloriously oversized sweatshirt sitting down in my pantry building where I record my

podcast with a big old glass of ice water, rehydrating. After a day that was very, very, very

strenuous, I'm not going to lie, today was really hard work. It was beautiful. It was wonderful.

I worked in the garden a lot today,

but it was hard. Today our turkeys came in. We ordered our turkeys that were going to be

raising out, some for, you know, for Thanksgiving, Christmas, holiday dinners, but also just because

turkey is a really great protein source on the farm.

And those were shipped in.

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