"An abundant life does not create a thankful heart. It's the spirit of gratitude that creates an abundant life." Words to live by. I'm a new subscriber and am enjoying your channel so much. Thank you.

Thank you, what a beautiful video. Ruthann you are an inspiration and a lovely person. Your children and farm animals are fun to watch. Did not realize how many animals you have. Peace, love and joy is what you represent ❤

Such an inspirational video to watch as your family works and plays together in harmony with God’s creation, brought me to tears . Blessings to you all

Hello Zimmerman's... you may not see a monetary gain, but the knowledge that your children are gaining is priceless.

Amen......every word so true. It brought me to tears because my children are grown and on their own and I didn't learn this lesson until about 5 years ago. Gardening canning chickens ... I've never been so happy! Thank YOU for your message.

This is how we are suppose to live isn't it. GOD, family, a homestead and loving each other. You and your family live in paradise. GOD BLESS your loving family.

Thanks for the gentle reminder about the blessing of a simple life. I love watching your sweet family and your daily life of abundance. Thank you for sharing with us-I’m grateful for your hard work and wisdom.🙏🏻🙏🏻💕

What a beautiful video , absolutely gorgeous. You’re family is blessed. The children have everything, fresh air, fresh food, skills, and the love of family, pets, and so much wisdom . I wish I grew up on a farm . Love love animals, gardening and canning and cooking from scratch . Thanks for sharing ..

You live in the most beautiful place. This is my favorite video. Beautiful family, healthy children, lovely animals, what a great life. Sending love and blessings.

i've watched & enjoyed all your videos, but, this one is my favorite so far. thanks so much for sharing & allowing me to live vicariously through you. you have created a beautiful life. you are my favorite you tube channel.

Thank you for sharing this. Makes me wish I was there. Your family is blessed, rich in love, prosperity and abundance. Your homestead is beautiful. I love all your adorable animals. The baby chicks and piglets and obsoletely loved watching the cows run across the field...lol. That is the way God intended us to live...God bless you!🙏

Very nice reflection of the past year. I so enjoy watching the children play outside. Nowadays few know what life outdoors is all about. ❤️

It was such a pleasure to watch this video! What a really good life you God has given you! The message and photography was inspirational and a blessing to all your viewers!

I love your channel. This video was wonderful with a message for all on what is most important in life . I always tell my husband we are rich in what natters, love and the blessings of our family❤️ your photography is beautiful. The sunsets are amazing over your piece of heaven. watching this video brought me peace and joy. God bless you and your beautiful family💕

Oh those baby piglets are so cute. I love watching the cows frolic in the pasture. You have a busy and productive life. The kids help you so much. I love that. ❤

Ruthann you have out done yourself with this video with the Beautiful views and close ups of your produce and finished with wisdom of Gratefulness is what truly makes for a wonderful life ! Thank you :)

What a beautiful life ♥️ peace & Grace to you …more precious than rubies. 🌟♥️✝️🇨🇦

This is such a great way to record your family life. Someday, your kids can look back and reminisce on the wonderful life they lived!

Precious and inspirational Ruth Ann. May God continue to bless, guide, and guard you and yours, and all you treasure. So thankful to God for YOU and your precious family. ❤ 🙏

Great family! Thank you for sharing with us 💐💙🙏🇺🇲

Beautiful!! Thank you for sharing. God is our Provider and Source of everything we need for life and godliness! So inspiring! 🙏♥️🥰

I am blown away at such a beautiful garden and homestead. Thank you for sharing. Absolutely amazing what you are teaching your children!

Your channel brings me such joy knowing that these kids will know all of this important knowledge to pass on..

Such a beautiful homestead, thank you for sharing!

Loved this video. I so much appreciate your sharing your family and farm with us

Beautiful way to show gratitude ♥️🙏❤

What a masterpiece of a video and of life! You are sooo blessed by God.

Dear RuthAnn , Thank you for sharing your year with us ! So much joy , in working together for a common goal ! A spirit of gratitude does , indeed , create an abundant life !

Your homestead is beautiful.

such a lovely video. Ruthann you are a special person and an encouragement to all. Thank you.

Ruthann, i just stumbled across your channel yesterday and I must say, your videos are a joy to watch! This one in particular was so enjoyable; such abundance and joy from hard work, faithfulness in G-d and love of nature. This is what life ahould be about.

Beautiful, beautiful video!!! Thank you Ruth Ann for sharing.

GOD IS GOOD…amen!!!! ALL THE TIME🙏🏼 Thank you Ruthann & family for your inspiring channel💕💕💕

I love your videos! They give me a warm, calm,, Godly feeling inside. Thank you Ruth Ann.

Wonderful video - your family is fortunate to live and work together in such a beautiful loving environment!

Goodness, this video is beautiful and your home & farm & family are amazing. Thank you so much for sharing your world ❤

What a Blessing.

This was beautiful. Thanks for sharing

What a blessing to be able to live & raise your family this way! I love how you explain that the value in this lifestyle is far above monetary worth! What a great idea to celebrate Thanksgiving by remembering all the good things from the year through video! I may put together a video for our family to watch this Thanksgiving of all our good times together from this year.

Such a lovely video. Thank you for sharing and being such a positive encouragement ❤

GOD is good all the time! Great video!

Beautiful display of Gods Glory in Iowa!💓

I thoroughly enjoyed this video of your past year! You make your life seem so effortless, but I know it takes a lot of hard work and planning, Thank you for reminding us of what is the most important things in life that money can't buy.

Thank you Ruthann for sharing your beautiful family/home for us to enjoy and celebrate with you💞💫🙏🏼

Lovely video. What a neat memory to have of the year. It makes me want to do one for my family!

God's green and bountiful earth. You sure are blessed by God. Love your videos!.

What a wonderful video! My heart is full from your beautiful attitude! Thank you for sharing your year with us! God bless you!!

❤This city woman loves watching you and your family embracing your homesteading life. Your videos are beautiful and amazing. God is good.

What a beautiful video! Thank you for sharing your family and farm. GM

Loved this video, thanks for sharing your family life with us. Inky the cat doesn’t know how lucky he is to be loved so.

A great Video thank you! As I watched this video I saw me and my 5 younger brother collecting potato bugs putting kerosene in the can and getting to set them on fire...that was our reward for picking them off! That eastern ks dirt farm was hard hard organic work..but we all survived and none of us were farmers but we all, I think had nice good gardens! lol thanks

You and the folks from Montana/Alaska know how to raise wonderful children who will undoubtedly become wonderful, sensible unafraid of work adults.

It’s such a glorious blessing to see your larder filled.

Watched this today, love the recap, beautiful scenes ❤️ absolutely love your channel ❤

Such a Beautiful video Ruth Ann. Love the Sunsets in Iowa. I too love living in the Country. Love your Shaggy cow. I too helped my son and his neighbors process meat chickens this Fall. Have. Wonderful Christmas and safe Winter❤️

Thank you so much for this video. I enjoyed every minute of it. Your children are such smart hard working children and they seem to enjoy it all.

I love your whole year of thankfulness. Those piglets! All different colors, oh I love them so much! …and the way you say everything is great. Especially about God.

You are a very wise lady, RuthAnn. You have a delightful family and a most magnificent God! It truly shows. Thank you for your videos.

Just read your write up in the Epoch Times. Awesome! I am from a Mennonite herritage also way back when. Just made our family Zwieback recipe to share. I am trying to do the same, be independent as much as possible on our 7200 sqft lot in southern California. Not sustainable here on such a small lot. Plan to move in the coming years, possibly with friends and family to help with the work. Awesome life story and thanks for being so succinct in describing the current cultural dilemma happening today!

Thanks for sharing this video. I did not live on a farm but have always loved a garden and putting up as much food for fall. We are retired now but our oldest daughter cans and her dad goes out and helps, but the last two years she has slowed down. We had container tomatoes but they did not do very good this year but our hot peppers did great. We are picking the last of the peppers this coming week. I dry my peppers and put them in jars. I had about 10 different kind of hot peppers. I grounded up some peppers and I added no salt and the kind of seasonings I like to the hot peppers. It is good to rub on your meats before cooking them and to season our chili, sauces or what ever you like to put the seasoning on…I even sprinkle some on my buttered pop corn. Love your videos. Thank you for sharing. We are 85 and 87 years old and have slowed way down. The Bible is our guide for living on this earth. He is by our side always. Love you take good care of those precious children.

Your life on the farm seems like a lot of daily work, but I wish I had grown up on your farm. I am an outdoor gardener but I live close to a small town. We don’t have homesteaders here, but your life seems wonderful! I love all your videos and you are a wonderful mother and teacher to your family. God bless you all❤

This is probably my favorite video so far, as you show the hard work and constant attention to the farm, the kids, and the animals and garden which you have created. You are so right, God has provided and he is good. God bless you and your entire family. Thank you for sharing your life and ideas with us.

What a great video to start off this beautiful Sabbath day! You and your family are an inspiration. May you all be bountifully blessed!

Thank you for your simplicity (but dedicated hard work) of life! I love it!

I love your story of joyful hearts, happiness, abundance, so many good things. Thank you for sharing your life with us! God bless you!

I am so envious of your life and I certainly don't believe it comes without never ending, daily work. The lifestyle is something I could totally wrap myself around and I'm so proud of you and the example you're setting. My children were not raised on this type of homestead but there were expectations of everyone and they are wonderful people because of it. I applaud you! Keep up the great work!

Blessing thank you for the video now that's thankful hardworking blessed family

I cannot express the deep gratitude for you and your family sharing your lives with us. You sooth my tattered soul and bring hope love and happiness. God Bless you all and keep you healthy happy and blessed of all life’s goodness

I love Iowa, I have lots of family there. Your video is wonderful!! Ty so much for sharing!! ❤️

Ruthann, you have such a beautiful way with words. Thank you for sharing bits of your beautiful family's life. I stumbled upon you in my quest to learn the art of sourdough bread making and have since watched so many of your tutorials. I love your calm, gentle, and encouraging demeanor! Wish I lived down the road from you so we could sit across the kitchen table and share a cup of coffee and a chat. God bless you!

You couldn't be more right in that last statement. About God's grace and abundance. God is absolutely good all the time.

Just today we are celebrating Canadian Thanksgiving 2023 - and I watched and really enjoyed this beautifully done - real life - capture - thank you

Amen sister! Amen! ❤

I love your lifestyle. God looks kindly on you. May you always be Blessed.

I am new to your channel but have been binge watching it the past few days. I grew up canning but have learned so much from your videos. Also, so much appreciate your references to God, and just watched your Thanksgiving video. It brought tears to my eyes to see how much you appreciate your abundant (but hard working) life. Thank you for sharing your skills, knowledge and faith in God with the rest of us.

Thank you so very much for your wonderful home and farm videos! God bless!

Loved this video. Each word so rich in truth♥️

Such a heartfelt message and I love seeing your family’s togetherness and love! God is so Good!

Just beautiful!!

Hi ! I found your channel not long ago. It’s nice to see a fellow Iowan ! I’m from Tama County, but now live in Blackhawk County. What area are you from.? This video was awesome ! Iowa is so beautiful. Your garden with the flowers and picnic table amongst the flowers. Very beautiful! I love Zinnias too :) I love that you are a God loving person and you are raising your kids to be self sufficient. Kids doing chores is so important. You know what you said at the end of the video about gratitude and God is so true. God bless you all ❤

So Grateful for God's Abundance and Mercy towards us.

You touched my heart.😊

Your energetic life is amazing. I do love to watch all that you accomplish. It makes my heart smile.

What a lovely documentary, your voice is so soothing to my soul. Blessed be to you all.

Here in Louisiana we do can peeled peached but we also freeze the peach peels and make fried peach pies. So good.

I’m so thankful for your videos. Your meals made my mouth water! Thanks for sharing. You are a blessing to us☺️

It's amazing to see how much your little boys grew over the year 💙💙💙

I still want to move from Indiana to Iowa and just help out - - - it brings such joy to my soul to see you doing it all with love!

I could watch this video over and over! Just beautifully made, what a wonderful life you've created! God bless you...

Beautiful ❤️❤️❤️

What lovely memories your children will carry forward into their own adult life and how proud you must be of all of them

What a wonderful life you live! Thank you for sharing it with us! God is so very good!

This is beautiful 🤎

A life lived for Christ is a full and abundant life. God bless you and your family for sharing his love and salvation.

I am so glad that I can watch your videos. You are so right God has blessed you and myself with an abundance of love.

What a beautiful video. Grateful and with Gratitude.....

I too am a new subscriber, This Video blessed my Heart so much, God is so so Good, Bless you Sister, You made me cry, Tears of gratitude that Folks like you all exist, Thank you

I love your farm and family thanks for staring.

I am so happy for you & ur kiddos. They seem so happy with everything they do. Praise God they are getting a firm foundation. May the Lord bless & keep you & ur family.

Truer words were never spoken. Thank you for sharing