i was visiting with tess everyone's favorite shepherd is earlier for an
important meeting more on that later by chance when i arrived i happened to walk in
just as tess was starting the sheep show tess has an airbnb house on her
farm and she likes to give the guests the farm experience so for our airbnb we have a lot of
guests that are really interested in in experiencing sheep i've called this the sheep show
because it's an opportunity for kids oftentimes from the city who haven't had chance to be with a
livestock to use little pea pellets and this kind of like seeds candy for sheep you know and they
they get to move the sheep and put them in a new pasture and stuff like that girl she likes to eat
this is the one that was on the chain hoist and look at her now
we didn't give up on her do not have teeth on the top they only have teeth on the bottom
so this is george george was a bureau of land management donkey that was captured and sold off
and then he was sold to a farmer and that farmer couldn't use him anymore so then i got to buy him
and his job is to keep dogs from hurting his boys these are his his ram boys he's
not a young guy at all but he is really good at caring for his baby so we we call him uncle
george but look at how kind and soft his eyes are how does he protect them if he sees a dog
he'll go and stomp the dog that's what he'd like if a dog were to get into the kitten
or coyotes okay he would kick the heck out of the dog out of the tyres yeah yeah and and also he
has such a strong braying that when he's when he's here he can tell me if anybody comes in in
the past my reasons for visiting tests were either to buy sheep learn how to milk sheep or make other
educational content and a whole host of subjects many of you by now have heard of the documentary
film that i made for the abundance plus network that documentary is set to release
friday september 10th on abundance plus but that was just the pilot for a series
about people who leave wherever they are to come homestead and realize their homesteading dream in
north idaho justin rhodes who owns abundance plus loved the film i made and said go make some more
i'm really excited to announce that the next documentary i'm making in that series will be
featuring tess and her amazing story tess was a motocross racing vocational nurse turned doctor of
oriental medicine turned sheep rancher her story is so rich and inspirational it's such an honor
for me to be able to tell it once the business side of it was worked out i met with tess to
interview her to get all the details of her story so i could start putting the pieces together so we
just wrapped up i don't know how many hours have we been sitting here like how many pages of notes
so tess how do you feel about being the star of my next documentary that's going to be on abundance
plus well it's wonderful to have an opportunity to talk to people that have the same value system and
the same interest that i have in keeping keeping care of the land and in grass-fed homesteading and
you know seeing that what is possible how are you feeling about the process here like and
moving forward with the production of the story i trust you i've had such really good results
with all of the video work that you've done and i've met so many people and and that has served
so well for connecting me with the same minded people who want grass-fed homestead information
so i have a lot of trust in that you're going to capture that in a way that conveys these ideas
even though my ideas may seem a little bit all over the place and too many stories um
i think i have confidence that you'll you'll make something out of it that people can watch
thank you i appreciate your confidence it's getting late in the season here in north idaho so
we had to start production on it quickly i spent most of today with tess for day one of filming the
documentary here's a look at some of the footage i got today as a young girl it feels were mine
we played hide and seek four hours raised our shadows among the times
so offshore playful and free without a care in the world i was one rich little girl daydreamer
take me back all the way back
when i was filming the acupuncture sequence just out of curiosity not for the film
i asked tess hey what are the different colors on the end of the needles what do they mean
so to answer your question dan acupuncture needles come in all different sizes and
diameters and those are used for various different parts of the body for instance these are very tiny
and then you have the next size typically is what is in the ear this is sort of more a standard size
so then i tap that so that tap is just a tap and then once it is in then i do what i call
i it's almost like you're turning in the light bulb or you're unscrewing the light
bulb it's a very subtle thing but you know the difference you are putting in something
or you're taking out something so you're either dispersing the energy from that area
or adding energy to that area they're just to make a signal to the body so they don't
put anything in they don't take anything out they just make a signal i like to liken it to
my horses can do every kind of maneuver out in the corral and if i get in sync with them
they know that my leg means we're going to do this move or my if i'm in front of them they're
going to stop going this way you know so it's a prompt similarly the acupuncture prompts the body
i go back in a couple days for day two of filming which hopefully will be the last day of filming
and then we can move it into post-production and get this out on abundance plus as soon as possible