Youve Gotta Eat The Hobby of Food

Roots and Refuge Podcast

Jessica Sowards

Home & Garden, Leisure

5 • 646 Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

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

Food isn’t just something we need—it’s something we get to enjoy. In this episode, I’m diving into the idea of food as both a necessity and a passion. For generations, people spent most of their time and energy simply securing food for their families, but in today’s world, we’ve outsourced so much of that work in the name of convenience. What are we doing with all that extra time? And what happens when we take back some of that effort—when we slow down, grow what we can, and put intention into cooking real, nourishing meals? I’m sharing my thoughts on why it’s okay (and even good) to spend time thinking about food, how I’ve balanced making things from scratch while still allowing room for convenience, and why feeding people is one of the most beautiful ways to show love.

Thanks for spending this time with me today. If you love these conversations and want to support the podcast, be sure to check out our Patreon, where we post episodes early and do a monthly live Q&A.

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0:00.0	Hey there, darlands. Welcome back to the Roots and Refuge podcast. I am your host, Jessica
0:12.5	Sauerz. My friends call me Jess, and I hope you will too. And here on my podcast, we talk about
0:17.2	all things homesteading, food by raising animals growing gardens preserving
0:22.3	preparing and enjoying that food as well as just trying to live a little more mindfully in relationship
0:27.5	with each other and with the earth we post new podcast episodes on all major platforms once a week
0:34.2	and those go up early on our patreon we also do a monthly live Q&A over on Patreon. And a lot of
0:41.0	times when I am looking for my next podcast topic, I look to those questions that get asked
0:50.2	over in Patreon to be able to go a little deeper on those topics.
1:02.7	If you're new here, my husband Jeremiah and I and our family are homesteading on about 27 acres in the midlands of South Carolina.
1:12.9	We grow a lot of our own food and of course we've chosen a life that is very, very home-based and I love being able to do that. I do think homesteading comes in many different forms. I think that there are lots of ways that you can
1:19.0	embrace homesteading mindsets and just, again, just trying to be more mindful in your relationship
1:23.6	with the earth and with each other and with the things that you eat. Of course, we are
1:28.2	doing it on a scale that it really is feeding us in a big way, but it hasn't always been this way.
1:34.1	And today I want to talk to you guys about food. And it is a topic that comes up frequently,
1:41.0	obviously, because I actually spend a significant amount of my life thinking about
1:47.8	and working towards producing food. I recorded a podcast a couple of years ago, and I actually
1:54.4	was thinking about it a lot the last couple of days. It was called For the Love of Food, and I looked
1:58.2	it up, and I'm pretty sure I recorded that podcast.
2:08.5	It may very well be two years ago today. It was around this time. When it comes down to springtime and the work of the farm really ramping up, I'm thinking a lot about the food
2:17.0	that we're going to produce. Right now, my goats have
2:20.0	had their kids. It's been a little bit of a struggle the last couple of weeks because my goats,
2:23.9	as it turns out, are not very good moms. And so that's been difficult. And of course, we had our
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