Hello and welcome back to the Roots and Refuge podcast. I am your host, Jessica Sowers. I'm so

thankful that you're here today here on our podcast. We talk about all things homesteading,

gardening, raising animals, growing food in all sorts of ways, as well as harvesting it, preserving it, preparing it, enjoying it,

and just overall trying to live a more mindful life, aware and relationally engaging with the

earth and with each other in a healthy and mindful way. My husband, Jeremiah, and I are homesteading

on 27 acres in the Midlands of South Carolina.

If you are new here and you're not familiar with us, we've been sharing our journey through social media over the course of the last decade.

You can find us at roots and refuge.com as well as Roots and Refuge on Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube.

That's kind of the big one.

And here on the Roots and Refuge podcast, we upload new content every Wednesday. I just started the podcast in January. I think I don't know what episode

this is 20 something. Here we are in June. And I've enjoyed this so thoroughly.

I wanted to do a podcast for a long time, but, you know, obviously it's not like we weren't busy.

We had a lot of things going on.

It keeps us pretty at capacity.

But I really felt like this year was the year to dive off into podcasting. I'm so glad

that we did because I feel like this format really allows us to go deeper into discussion

about some topics that it's harder to do in a video. Like obviously with the video, there is

the pressure to create like visual interest and and movement and all of the

different things whereas here we can really just relate a lot of information and I really like that

so today I'm here by myself sometimes I will have guests or my husband Maya will join me

but I really wanted to go sort of deep into the topic of the home dairy.

One of my favorite things to tell people is to turn your waiting room into a classroom.

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