let's catch up
This is a video of the first year at the Jackson Farm, from closing day through the first winter, spring, and summer. From Gibson to Jasper. If you're new to this blog, consider it our introduction.
Nice to meet you, I'm jenna. Welcome to the farm!
Nice to meet you, I'm jenna. Welcome to the farm!
posted by Jenna at 3:58 PM
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It's perfect. I can't wait for the rest of the tale. :)
well done, as usual, jenna!
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Oh Jenna, it's ALL worth it!
Bless you Jenna and carry on!
Fantastic video! Very inspiring!
Guh! Every time I watch that video I turn into a blubbering fool! It's so good!
Can't wait for my farm! August feels ages away!
There's the rub.... <3
That brought tears to my eyes. I can't even begin to tell you how much that (and your lengthy post earlier) have moved me. Well, I guess I can begin...enough to overcome my social weirdness and post on here for the first time! ;) Beautiful, thank you.
Soo much in just one year. You are truly an amazing woman. Thanks for all the inspiration and giving me a kick in ... to start.
I'm really proud of you, Jenna! Keep the good and hard work!
Coolness! What a wild ride! More! More!
O. M. G. So wonderful! So glad to know another pioneer woman!
O. M. G. So wonderful! So glad to know another pioneer woman!
Keep up the great work ! My wife and I read Barnheart after I purchased it for her christmas present... our Barnheart is aching, we have done the best we can living as city dwellers; rooftop container garden, as well as a community plot. We have also been pitching in on friends farms giving a hand here and there with harvesting and animal processing... we dream of following in your footsteps and having a homestead of our own... sooner than later we HOPE !!!!
I almost cried! I am so proud and inspired by you! I'm getting bees this spring! Bees! Everyone thinks I'm nuts! Why not me?
I almost cried! I am so proud and inspired by you! I'm getting bees this spring! Bees! Everyone thinks I'm nuts! Why not me?
stunningly breathtaking.
Totally. Frakking. Fantastic. Thank you for sharing the salty and the sweet. For this wowing video and for the previous post. Your courage and willingness is a light in the dark.
Wow!! My mom has a barnheart...I'm thinking your books would make a great present for her birthday coming up. Your writing is so honest and genuine!
I was wondering what the song playing behind this video is. It's so inspiring and I'm attempting my first 5K in a month and I'd love to add this song to my running playlist as it's so inspiring.
Thank you!
I will watch that video over & over. The best true farming video I've ever seen. My husband & I are in our 60s and just got our homestead after 38 years of trying to get here. We will do it ~ I look to you for inspiration, Jenna, and you never disappoint. Thanks for your blog.
Jenna - you are an inspiration. Your post this morning followed by the video was a tour de force. Your dreams are coming true because you rolled up your sleeves and jumped in and made them happen. Good for you Jenna - good for you. Keep writing, keep dreaming, keep working and the next thirty years will fly by so cherish every minute and to hell with the naysayers.
LOVE!
So when is your 2nd anniversary? I can't remember when you bought the place!
Ok, crying now...keep on going, girl!
Courtney
Excellent clip, Jenna. Love it. Did you do the editing yourself? If you did, you're quite professional.
Gorgeous.
Thank you! After the past couple of posts, that was the perfect palate cleanser. Brought me a HUGE smile, and some tears, too. :)
A visual expression of your mission. Well done Jenna.
You shed all negativity in inspiration. Tara said it well, cleansing the palate. Being a catalyst for change for the better for so many is a sweet reward. Long may you run, Jenna.
@Tara...agree!
@Jessica Hubbard - the song is "Inní mér syngur vitleysingur" by Sigur Rós.
Thanks for such a wonderful post, Jenna! I can't wait for a farm of my own (and I'm working hard toward that dream)!
That'll do pig, that'll do. I love new beginnings,happy endings,and all the good stuff that is sandwiched in between!
Holy Cow, Jenna!
I come over here to catch up about your horse and cart dreams...and..WOW! Just wow! The previous few posts highlighted the fact:
1. That I REALLY need to take the time to read online more frequently
2. People need to realize it's a PRIVILEGE when other people share their lives online; you didn't have to tell us anything about your farm, your failings, your successes. It's not really an open discussion about HOW to live your life. You are already doing it.
3. You have ALL the tools to succeed within you already, before anyone showed up with their advice.
4. As one person with their own horse drawn dream happening, to another: Give 'Em Hell, Kid!
Love love love!
I am sooo looking forward to meeting and talking with you, next weekend. :)
Love love love!
I am sooo looking forward to meeting and talking with you, next weekend. :)
It's been a fun ride. Can't wait for the next chapters.
I love that video. I've seen it before and I just love how upbeat it is. Wonderful!
Jenna, I like the fencing on your raised beds! Any info or tips you could provide about keeping critters out of the beds would be appreciated, I'll be constructing my first 3 in a few weeks. Good luck with the mini green house :)
Brillant! Just Brillant!
These are just bamboo poles turned into domes with electrical tape at the crosshairs, the four points deep in the soil in the corners, and covered with bird netting. Very cheap, worked for 3-4 months till the geese got smart and just threw their bodies into it to knock it down.
this year will be several raised beds in one large fence, I hope.
These are just bamboo poles turned into domes with electrical tape at the crosshairs, the four points deep in the soil in the corners, and covered with bird netting. Very cheap, worked for 3-4 months till the geese got smart and just threw their bodies into it to knock it down.
this year will be several raised beds in one large fence, I hope.
I've got tears in my eyes, I am so stinkin' proud of you as if you were one of my own!
Ok, with the post on the Canadians and now this "catch u" video...its what I always wanted to do...I did it in a way with three children...can't think of a better way to love a grandson...I'll start with what I have (4 goats, 6 hens, 1 rooster, a veggie garden...) and start dreaming now :)
Thanks Jenna, you are awesome!
Gives me chills every time I watch. Amazing, just amazing.
p.s. Jenna, what's the name of the song playing?
loved, loved, loved this ... thank you for sharing your year with all of us!
Awesome video! You are inspiring and I am so proud of you!
Awesome video! You are inspiring and I am so proud of you!
Awesome video! You are inspiring and I am so proud of you!
Jenna, You are so not alone. We are all here with you (in spirit, and i know that doesn't help with chores, or give you a shoulder to lean/cry on, but know we a re cheering and crying too).
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I'm still working my way through all of your blog posts from Idaho on and I hadn't seen this video yet. What a fantastic way to move forward from the rough last week. Thank you for sharing so very much of your life, experiences, and heartwarming moments with us. If it wasn't for your emotional insights and reactions we'd all be reading a blog that smacked of cross-eyed boredom. 'Today the sheep arrived. Later I will feed them. I fed them around 6pm. Sleep will follow.' --Ugh! No thanks, I prefer the gritty and the real-that's where inspiration germinates.
such a wonderful video!! We just bought our little place in September of 2010 and our slowly turning it back into a farm. (it use to be a landscape supply company and ugh junk and piles and piles of mulch and soil) but we've had our chickens for a year now and I love it. thanks for the inspiration to keep chugging along here
This is beauty: fresh air, seasons, birth, life, death... all of it.
Wonderful.
Thank You for sharing your life with us. It's a life I dreamed of once, but now know won't happen for me. Thank You for taking me along for the ride!
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I am just a crazed chicken herder in suburbia, so it was wonderful to watch this :) We really want to expand to include dwarf nigerian goats, but who knows when that will happen. As long as it does, I am happy. Even if it means having to fetch my little boy cat out of their house every evening. He loves our chickens, and will be so overwhelmed by larger furry friends.
This is just beautiful, Jenna. Thank you for sharing. And I think the music is Sigur Ros, no?
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