The Kind of Person Who Bakes Bread

Roots and Refuge Podcast

Jessica Sowards

Home & Garden, Leisure

5 • 646 Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2025

⏱️ 36 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 the middle of a very full season—spring is here in South Carolina, and the weeds are wild, the animals are having babies, and I’m neck-deep in garden work. But in all of that, I’ve been thinking a lot about the difference between the idea of a thing and the reality of it. In this episode, I talk about the hard-earned truth behind romantic dreams, what it really means to “be the kind of person who bakes bread,” and how choosing to show up—again and again—is where real transformation happens. If you’ve ever longed for a slower life or felt stuck waiting for better circumstances, this one’s for you.

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. I am your host, Jessica Saurz. My friends call me Jess, and I hope you will too. And here on my podcast, we talk about all things homesteading, growing food by growing gardens, raising animals, preserving, preparing, and enjoying that food,
0:21.4	as well as just trying to live a little more mindfully in relationship with each other and with
0:26.1	the earth. I post new podcast episodes on all major platforms every Wednesday and those episodes
0:32.0	go out early to our Patreon members. Thank you to our patrons for supporting us and what we do.
0:37.2	We also do a live
0:37.9	Q&A over there every week. And of course, we are uploading content regularly to our three
0:43.3	YouTube channels, Roots and Refuge Farm, the Farmers Table, and Maya's Workshop. You get to see
0:48.6	all different dynamics of our farm life and the growing food, preparing it, enjoying it, and living relationally on those
0:56.0	three platforms. Today, I want to talk to you guys about something straight from the throes of what I
1:02.2	am currently living in. It is April, and spring has thoroughly sprung here in South Carolina.
1:10.0	We've gone through the great pollining. We're still in that.
1:13.3	All the trees are budding. And if you are not familiar, I live in the Midlands of South Carolina,
1:19.8	about 45 minutes outside of Columbia. And we live in a very rural area, and we're completely surrounded by pine agroforestry
1:29.6	and then about 15 or 20 minutes from my house or miles from my house you get into like lots
1:37.8	of agriculture trees like peach trees and orchards and then just in the summer I mean you could drive a five-mile
1:47.1	stretch in some areas and see probably like 10 different crops there are sorgums they're squash like
1:52.7	right now there's a bunch of fields that have kale and cabbages different brasca's growing and then
1:57.8	they'll switch over into peppers and tomatoes during the summer.
2:01.3	It's really cool because I was born and raised in Arkansas.
2:04.4	And Arkansas, the main crop that's grown there is rice and soy.
2:10.8	But here, a lot of the country's produce is actually grown here pretty close to where I live.
2:16.8	It's a great place to grow food
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