jesssowards
Jess Sowards

Homesteader. Gardener. Lover of good food and pretty words. South Carolina is home.

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2025-11-16 16:48:03 UTC

Good morning, darlings.
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2025-09-09 06:26:18 UTC

Spent the last week or so in Bonnie Scotland. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 It’s been lovely getting to know her.
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2025-08-27 11:49:24 UTC

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Yes I still have her. This was from when we moved the flock into the garden at the end of the season to do clean up duty. She’s an old girl now, probably about 4?

2025-08-26 16:51:01 UTC

This is, to date, one of my favorite photos I’ve ever taken. #photography
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2025-08-25 20:47:13 UTC

I actually love paying people to do jobs I can’t do. Being able to support others to be able to use the skills they have feels good. BUT….i also have a toxic dose of DIY running through my veins. Frequently I have to talk myself off the ledge, reminding myself that supporting someone else to do a job 10 times more efficiently and with more skill than me is better, freeing my time up to do the things I am good at.
Occasionally though, the DIY makes sense. Occasionally I do have the tools, if not the skill, and though I may have to bumble through, it’s a bumbling worth doing.
I’m currently adding “food photographer” to my list of jobs. I don’t particularly care for this work. I much prefer telling stories through my photos. However, I’m saving a lot of money photographing my cookbook myself and I do like the fact that it makes it more personal.
Anyway, here’s to learning new skills, and for knowing when not to.
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2025-08-24 19:49:22 UTC

Grocery shopping in the yard. You can just grow food. #grownostr #growfood
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2025-08-23 15:26:52 UTC

Saturday morning in the August garden. #grownostr #growfood
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2025-08-22 16:47:16 UTC

Artists, these chickens. They’re artists! #colorfuleggs #farmtotablebreakfast #growfood
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2025-08-20 12:59:23 UTC

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I think people are just picked for their willingness to conform. Consider the sororities and fraternities so many of them come from as one single example of a system that demands sameness to succeed.

2025-08-18 01:25:38 UTC

Brought my boys down to Charleston for a little homeschool history trip. I could wander the historic district all day just taking in the gardens. 😍
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2025-08-16 15:50:48 UTC

She’s wild and I love her for it. #gardenstr #grownostr
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2025-08-12 14:23:35 UTC

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Happy birthday Lois ♥️♥️♥️

2025-08-12 12:22:41 UTC

Good morning darlings. The garden is dwindling and I’m realizing how much I love August. For years, I lamented the end of summer but these recent years, it’s come like blessed relief. Tearing out the tomato plants and turning under the patch where the potatoes grew feels like permission to rest.
I love the season of the garden where the roots grow, where the evenings are chilly and there is so war to be waged on pests. I do miss the dahlias though, so now I’ll just appreciate every offering they make as if it might be their last. #grownostr #gardenstr
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2025-08-10 00:09:52 UTC

Grilled marinated chicken thighs, herby new potatoes, roasted feta with fresh herbs. Green salad not pictured.
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2025-08-10 00:08:19 UTC

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They’ll probably be pretty seedy but you could use them. Maybe roast for dip and try to remove the seeds.

2025-08-09 23:16:13 UTC

We built this herb garden by the house this year and every time I run out to grab a handful of herbs while food cooks on the stove, I’m thankful for the proximity.
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2025-08-08 19:14:06 UTC

This years doelings are some of the sweetest and best looking girls I’ve had in over 10 years of goat keeping. Two are going to a friend and the other two are staying with me.
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2025-08-06 01:21:11 UTC

Recording a podcast after taking a little break.
This summer was a season to let the low end drag. Multiple injuries and illnesses in our household meant we met our limit at a lower capacity than usual. Prioritizing became necessary, and I had to choose what from my to-do list would be left undone.
Before I began picking things back up, I took the opportunity to assess everything in my life that I give my energy to. There’s nothing like a forced slowdown to show you just how fast you were moving in the first place.
The pace of this culture is inhuman. It is not cohesive with healthy humanity. That is why people keep laying their most basic needs on the altar of it.
They give up sleep, neglect the care of their bodies, set aside the needs of their relationships, and trade them for what?
This culture hands them money, earned in a rigged system that steadily robs the value from our days and hours.
I am making space for margin. Time to drink coffee slowly. Time to go for a walk after dinner and leave the laptop closed. Time to stop seeing every empty block on the calendar as a space where I should be working harder.
I am choosing margin. I am quitting the things that do not matter, so I can carry the things that do.
This podcast is one of them.
New episodes coming soon.
https://fountain.fm/show/M1s4EKnaRZne2MBRtq6A
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2025-08-04 14:00:13 UTC

Came to the orchard to pick pears and found a bonus shirt full of the biggest, fattest figs I’ve ever had. #gonnabeagooddaytater #growfood
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2025-08-01 16:49:38 UTC

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And thank you!!! ♥️

2025-08-01 16:49:25 UTC

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It’s currently slated for the end of summer 2026!

2025-08-01 16:45:39 UTC

Sadly, we are coming to the end of the tomato onslaught. I consider any tomatoes I get in August and beyond a bonus, as the plants have blight and struggle with our summer heat. It’s always sweet while it lasts though.
Took these photos for my coming cookbook. Chowed down afterwards. #growfood #eatgoodfood #grownostr
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2025-07-28 10:19:25 UTC

Front porch. Summertime. Preferably eaten barefoot after finishing garden chores.
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2025-07-25 16:25:01 UTC

I recently got into smoking meat. I still have a lot to learn but I did a pork belly the other day and my boys approved. Anyone have any favorites that I should try next? I do have a home raised turkey in the freezer I’m thinking of pulling out and trying. #foodstr
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2024-10-14 12:27:47 UTC

Any fiber crafters here?
I get so joyfully excited about a freshly wound ball of yarn.
#crochet
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2024-09-29 19:10:19 UTC

Post hurricane cooking continues….
Omelet with cheese, dried chanterelles, leftover chicken and dried shallots & canned peaches on the side.
#thrivenotsurvive
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2024-09-29 14:38:37 UTC

Sourdough discard pancakes on the blackstone during the power outage post Helene.
2 C. Flour
1 C discard
2 tsp baking power
1 tsp baking soda
3 T sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp salt
1 1/2- 1 3/4 C milk
Mix together and let sit for 5-10 minute before cookings. Will be a little lumpy.
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2024-09-26 21:25:29 UTC

A little homestead harvest from earlier this week. The edge Helene has been dumping on us since the morning with no end in sight. I probably won’t see eggs this clean for at least a few days. #grownostr
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2024-09-26 21:23:23 UTC

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A mix, but mostly the brown turkeys are coming in right now. Several varieties are barely setting fruit here in middle SC

2024-09-24 23:00:10 UTC

My favorite food in the wide world. #grownostr
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2024-08-15 23:21:43 UTC

I lost two lambs today. These two guys were in rough shape when I found them. Thankfully, with some intervention, I think they will pull through. I suspect selenium deficiency, and am moving my sheep over to the highly recommended Duraferm mineral and supplementing all the lambs born in the last week.
My heart is heavy today. Farm life is beautiful but not for the faint of heart.
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2024-08-11 00:28:29 UTC

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No ACV though, just honey so much thicker and used more like a condiment

2024-08-10 23:19:28 UTC

Fermented hot pepper/garlic honey underway. Would it be weird to set a two week countdown on my phone and wait eagerly by?
Cup of sliced garlic cloves
6-8 sliced chili peppers
One diced onion
A handful of thyme
Covered by a quart of honey
Cover with something breathable and leave it on the counter for two weeks. Don’t seal, it’s going to be gassy and need to breathe.
You could make less, but why would you? #grownostr #tastynostr
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2024-07-16 18:41:05 UTC

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You could also make a tea and soak the foot in the tea! Hope it feels better soon.

2024-06-20 16:16:56 UTC

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I’d love to do a seed swap! I do save them.

2024-06-20 13:46:37 UTC

If you’re gardening in a hot climate, I cannot recommend this cucumber enough. Silver Slicer can be picked young for pickling or allowed to grow large as a salad slicer. White skin, prolific and doesn’t get even a tad tough or bitter with our 90+ daily highs in SC.
4 plants will give me enough to can a years worth of pickles and relish. 👏👏
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2024-06-18 22:43:19 UTC

Lovely views and sumptuous feasts, the garden gives generously, again and again. #grownostr
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2024-06-04 14:34:02 UTC

If you’ve never sunk your fingers into the earth and come up with golden plunder,
Dusted dirt away and washed tender skins gently,
Cooked a new potato gently with cream or butter or duck fat,
Sprinkled it with chunky salt and maybe some torn herbs just plucked from the garden,
I am afraid, dear friend, you may not know what a potato was meant to taste like.
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2024-05-20 17:32:24 UTC

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They’re pretty much finished in SC but it was a loud few weeks

2024-05-10 19:30:13 UTC

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Such a fierce little cutie!

2024-05-10 18:42:36 UTC

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Lovely view 😍

2024-05-08 17:20:06 UTC

This morning: a goat milking story. #raisefood #feedyourself #grownostr
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2024-05-04 11:42:03 UTC

Spring is in full swing on our South Carolina homestead.
Goats and cows in milk
Eggs are coming in strong
Three ewe lambs born this week
So. Many. Strawberries.
Chamomile harvesting
Artichokes setting
The last of the beets and rutabagas pulled
Onions are bulbing.
Hog processed, filling the freezer after winter.
Seeds are popping up, plants transplanted.
What food are you growing? What is your favorite season of harvest?
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