I have so much respect for gardeners, farmers, and the like! I didn’t realize how much work, care, and help is needed in planting. May your family have more than an abundance of over flow in vegetation for all of your hard work..😊
Bring the children to do gardening is a good example to the generations today to learn how grow own food instead playing games on phones or watching tv and can learn also how healthy to eat the food from hard work, watching from philippines godbless guys
Having large gardens in the past 40years, a half acre, I know the hard work that goes in one. Now being older I use container garden such as laundry baskets ect. I admire your fortitude and dedication
The only problem with your videos....they aren't long enough. Kidding, not kidding :) Always appreciate you sharing your family and gardens, cooking and helpful information. I could watch your videos for hours working as a family Unit. It's a rarity in this day and age. It brings so many memories of growing up on the farm. My parents had a massive garden and I always helped. We would can and preserve and our larder was bursting at the seams for the cold harsh winter ahead. Mom didn't go the store to buy veggies, eggs, dairy or meat, We had our own. So grateful to have grown up to learn the lifestyle. You are teaching your children a very valuable work ethic and hopefully they will adopt a similar lifestyle.
I remember those early blog posts about this journey, both gardening and how it helped your health as well as growing a year's supply of veg for your family. Your yearly updates, refining your numbers and process, helped me so much. So much has changed yet I still refer to that blog page. Thank you so much for sharing! 💚
My first year of growing for a family of 5, more than 300 hundred onion (red and white), tomato, mustard green, sugar loaf and cabbage, carrots, spinach and beetroot, I'm now harvesting mustard and ij can't wait for the rest, we'll done to you and your family
Even though I don’t have a space to have a vegetable garden, I love watching your videos. Especially like your background music. All the videos bring a smile to my face watching you and your family create all this bounty for your family.
Throw some pumpkin seeds on that large compost pile. They'll probably grow amazing.😊 We always put some in our fresh horse manure pile and it grows huge pumpkins every year.
Lots of work with the family but the rewards are more than satisfying knowing you grew your own foods, even some for the animals. See you all at harvest time😁🇦🇺
We are looking at moving soon to a small farm soon, that we can have a few heads of cattle and grow our own vegetables/fruits and this video proved that I was severely underestimating the size of a garden we were going to need in my head. Great video. Very helpful
I've been successful as a container gardener in the Bay Area, CA since before pandemic. But, still very inspired by gardeners like you! You truly exudes hope that growing food for your family is more than possible. Love how you share your experiences through your videos. Big kudos to the whole family!
There is something so special about watching your process. To see everyone working together is heart❤warming. I have a small garden that brings me so much joy. I hope your season produces a lot of fruit and vegetables 🌻🥒🫑🍅🥑
I watch many homesteaders on the ole TH-cam (learning as much as I can) and your videos, my dear, are like none other. The forethought, the meticulous placement of each and every plant, the commitment to success is just unmatched. Seriously inspiring. Keep it up, mama and family. I hope you get to kick back a tad bit now that it's all in the ground! 🌼🤍🌻
I don’t know how you keep up with it all even in your mind as far as starting all the different crops at the correct time without missing something. Do you prune your tomatoes? I planted around 60 tomatoes and I find them to be very high maintenance. One thing is for sure. Your children will definitely know how to provide for themselves when they are grown!
I prune the indeterminate varieties to one leader. However, all of the Roma tomatoes get no pruning, they are a determinate type and don't like being pruned!
What a beautiful food garden ❤ So much family hard work gone into it 👏👏👏👏 Such a pleasure to watch things video 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 As always a pleasure to watch Love from the UK x
I too had alot of trouble with squash beetles. I learned that if I put up small hoops and frost blanket over the row of plants and bury the edges of the cloth with dirt that prevents nearly 100% of the bugs! Works great
I am very impressed by the great family you have, systematic work and maximal investment that yields great results. Only one thing stopped me from continuing to watch to comment (I will continue to watch after I write), corn has no pollinators, it gets pollinated by the wind. That is why it is recommended to plant corn in large clumps. If there are many seeds, plant in a long block, if there are few, plant in a square block so that the wind coming from different directions spreads the pollen from the upper end of the plant to the strings of the ears.
Years ago when we had a much larger garden than we have now we planted corn in long rows. We got over 300 ears of corn. And that was the first garden we ever had. I suppose they pollinated well because no matter which way the wind blew they blew against each other. We had a hail storm that year and it blew our corn over so bad we thought it was lost but it made it! We cut it all off the cob and froze it.
Love your videos! You have inspired my family and I to start our own homestead journey! We started in the spring and are learning as we go best practices. We are doing raised beds in a 900 sq ft fenced off area on our 2.5 acre property. Keep the videos coming!!
Im at 4min in. The music/month part previously was the most beautiful and relaxing video I have watched in as long as I can remember. It would be cool if you could make a recap of the year in the exact same way, at the end of the year. It would be so relaxing and amazing. Although your videos are already amazing!
All I can say is WOW! Thank you so much for sharing all of your incredible work. I have the utmost respect for what you are doing. I know tye work that commercial farmers do that have equipment doing a bulk of the work. Seeing you all doing it by hand and never giving up. I hope my children will continue the little bit that we do into something like what you do. What an incredible blessing
Wow. A lot of effort but so rewarding to harvest your own. I’m jealous that ginger works for you. We grow it but it’s always completely tasteless. No idea why.
Beautiful family! You all have a wonderful spirit. It reminds of an account I read where a travel asked a young woman for a drink of water. Well her not only gave him a drink. she volunteered to water the camels also. (Considering a camel can drink up to fifty gallons! So, that was no small task). What I'm saying our spirit is undaunted by the challenge.
I admire you for What you are all doing. I feel the same, I am the happiest with my current lifestyle, where we grow our own food for a whole year, and I don’t need to go to the supermarket 🙏👩🌾 Happy gardening and all the best to you 🐝👩🌾
Absolutely LOVED the recap. Been watching your channel for two years ( or more!). Love Your Family togetherness and work ethic of helping one another💜🦋Beautiful Family❗️
I absolutely love LI cheese pumpkins. Im growing four times more this year. I grew them because I saw yours. This is my second year growing them. I still have to sow my lemon squash. Your such an inspiration. I added 5 new raised beds and a green stalk. I grow all my starts from seed, so economical. Thank you so much for sharing your garden, recipes and preservation methods. I enjoy all of your videos. I'll even go through and watch your other videos. After four years of gardening, there's always more I am willing to learn. This Grandma wishes she started to garden a long time ago...lol. ❤
Your videos are SO enjoyable. I could think of a few other adjectives but......mostly just enjoyable. I have seen everyone. I feel like you have made all of your viewers part of your family. Great job! PLEASE keep them coming and keep up the good work. God Bless you, your family, and your homestead.
I love your videos so much!!! I suck up every bit of beauty and knowledge that you share! Thank you so much for the time you take to share this life of yours with us all!
As a family, this is an important opportunity to talk about food supply, monetary implications, food value/nutrition, budgeting (time/money) pros and cons, seasons and the realities with crops and meat animals. My grandparents instilled this in our family, and it has truly been a Godsend. One of my favorites canned for fall/winter is stewed tomatoes🍅
The amount of knowledge you have about gardening is incredible. I’m new to all of this - it would be great if you could do a video on like step by step bed preparation. Like. Why are you broadforking instead of using the bcs? What benefit do you get from that roller thing you roll across? At what point did you buy a seeder? You are what Erin benzentyne is to the flower world. You could seriously create a course or write a book. It’s amazingly useful information and so needed. Thank you for your passion. And sharing it.
It's so beautiful seeing your whole family out there. not only being together but seeing how the kids understand where it all comes from. I am glad i stumbled upon this channel.
I just did corn for the first time in cell blocks, it went just fine! Popped up in 4 days, planted after a week and they had roots almost 4" long already!
I love you guys' channel. You are so meticulous about how you plant and how you harvest/preserve. I get a kick out of it. I am THE chaotic gardener. And I grow massive quantities of whatever survives. And then I plant more seeds next to that which has failed. And then it's like Revlon - It goes on and on and on and the next person, etc. LOL. as a note: I am 65. I have always tried to grow a garden in whatever situation I have been in.
I look so forward to your videos and unfortunately I didn't get notified about this one. Needless to say, I didn't see it uploading until it was already 3 hours old 😞 I am so happy you got what you needed done done! Now we get to watch it grow and become food for your family. This is absolutely my favorite time of the year! Watching you bring in the harvest and preserve it into canned, freeze dried and whatever else you are going to do with it. Your family is amazing and you all should be proud of yourselves ❤️
I Love watching your channel, ,watching you all working together is amazing, and everyone Loves to do it, Thank you for sharing, i am looking forward to your Graden tour .
Love your video. Can you include how many of each plant for when you do your garden tour? You mentioned 150-200 tomatoes; stuff like that. It would be so helpful to know how much to plant. Thank you ❤.
🤯🤯🤯 You guys just Blow my Mind on your amazing work ethics & knowledge!!!! I Always learn something interesting and new & get so much inspiration & you get my get up & get it done! going!! Thank You!!💚💚💚💚💚💚💚
Do you re-use your garden fabric or buy new every year? If you re-use it how do you mark it so you know which is for potatoes and which is for peas etc.? Where do you get yours from to keep the cost down?
And as much work as this may seem, it is only half the battle. There is harvesting and preserving it for the winter. We only have a quarter acre garden and it alone keeps me busy with planting, maintaining, harvesting and preserving.
@@emkn1479 When I put cardboard I have tons of slugs living underneath...🤦🏻♀️ But I noticed that when I put some kind of paper it breaks down quick so slugs won't live in it. And watching this video it clicked to me. I think it's the same paper used to wrap things?
I love this! I'd be curious to know how much it costs to produce all this food. Fertilizer, weed paper, compost, soil for starting seeds, etc. I think so many people assume it's "free" to grow your own food, but whew. It adds up.
Just because my whole family is ill since end of April (all the time someone and something different)...how can you go on while being sick? We do have chicken and a small garden. Only 2 children. And still are there times I don't know how to get the work done if they all need a special care and I can't sleep at night. You have a baby and so much more work. Do your days have 72 hours? ❤
While this is an amazing accomplishment, making sure our family’s emotional needs are met and our own mental health stays in tact are of utmost importance. Be careful of comparison. (I say this having homesteaded for 16 years, as a homeschool mama to nine.)
This looks truly amazing. I would be curious what the cost is every year for seeds, starts, weed paper, mulch etc Do you have any idea how many thousands of pounds of food you end up producing? I'm guessing it's way to much work to weigh it. 😅
I have so much respect for gardeners, farmers, and the like! I didn’t realize how much work, care, and help is needed in planting. May your family have more than an abundance of over flow in vegetation for all of your hard work..😊
Bring the children to do gardening is a good example to the generations today to learn how grow own food instead playing games on phones or watching tv and can learn also how healthy to eat the food from hard work, watching from philippines godbless guys
Having large gardens in the past 40years, a half acre, I know the hard work that goes in one. Now being older I use container garden such as laundry baskets ect. I admire your fortitude and dedication
The only problem with your videos....they aren't long enough. Kidding, not kidding :) Always appreciate you sharing your family and gardens, cooking and helpful information. I could watch your videos for hours working as a family Unit. It's a rarity in this day and age. It brings so many memories of growing up on the farm. My parents had a massive garden and I always helped. We would can and preserve and our larder was bursting at the seams for the cold harsh winter ahead. Mom didn't go the store to buy veggies, eggs, dairy or meat, We had our own. So grateful to have grown up to learn the lifestyle. You are teaching your children a very valuable work ethic and hopefully they will adopt a similar lifestyle.
I agree.
You and your family so impress and amaze me. Gardening is so much work. To have enough that you don't have to buy one single veggie is just awesome
I remember those early blog posts about this journey, both gardening and how it helped your health as well as growing a year's supply of veg for your family. Your yearly updates, refining your numbers and process, helped me so much. So much has changed yet I still refer to that blog page. Thank you so much for sharing! 💚
My first year of growing for a family of 5, more than 300 hundred onion (red and white), tomato, mustard green, sugar loaf and cabbage, carrots, spinach and beetroot, I'm now harvesting mustard and ij can't wait for the rest, we'll done to you and your family
It is so great to have the whole family working together. To me, this is life at its best.
Oh my I wish I was your neighbor so I could come learn from you in person 😊
Even though I don’t have a space to have a vegetable garden, I love watching your videos. Especially like your background music. All the videos bring a smile to my face watching you and your family create all this bounty for your family.
Throw some pumpkin seeds on that large compost pile. They'll probably grow amazing.😊 We always put some in our fresh horse manure pile and it grows huge pumpkins every year.
Doesn’t the fresh manure burn the plants?
Lots of work with the family but the rewards are more than satisfying knowing you grew your own foods, even some for the animals.
See you all at harvest time😁🇦🇺
Why am I always so excited when I see a notification from this channel? ❤❤❤
We are looking at moving soon to a small farm soon, that we can have a few heads of cattle and grow our own vegetables/fruits and this video proved that I was severely underestimating the size of a garden we were going to need in my head. Great video. Very helpful
I've been successful as a container gardener in the Bay Area, CA since before pandemic. But, still very inspired by gardeners like you! You truly exudes hope that growing food for your family is more than possible. Love how you share your experiences through your videos. Big kudos to the whole family!
There is something so special about watching your process. To see everyone working together is heart❤warming. I have a small garden that brings me so much joy. I hope your season produces a lot of fruit and vegetables 🌻🥒🫑🍅🥑
I watch many homesteaders on the ole TH-cam (learning as much as I can) and your videos, my dear, are like none other. The forethought, the meticulous placement of each and every plant, the commitment to success is just unmatched. Seriously inspiring. Keep it up, mama and family. I hope you get to kick back a tad bit now that it's all in the ground! 🌼🤍🌻
I don’t know how you keep up with it all even in your mind as far as starting all the different crops at the correct time without missing something. Do you prune your tomatoes? I planted around 60 tomatoes and I find them to be very high maintenance. One thing is for sure. Your children will definitely know how to provide for themselves when they are grown!
I prune the indeterminate varieties to one leader. However, all of the Roma tomatoes get no pruning, they are a determinate type and don't like being pruned!
@@TheSeasonalHomestead That’s what I do but I don’t know how you do so many.
Love watching the hard work and dedication. Amazing to watch all kids doing their jobs! 👍👍
What a beautiful food garden ❤ So much family hard work gone into it 👏👏👏👏 Such a pleasure to watch things video 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 As always a pleasure to watch Love from the UK x
Love watching the entire family get involved with the entire process!
I too had alot of trouble with squash beetles. I learned that if I put up small hoops and frost blanket over the row of plants and bury the edges of the cloth with dirt that prevents nearly 100% of the bugs! Works great
I am very impressed by the great family you have, systematic work and maximal investment that yields great results. Only one thing stopped me from continuing to watch to comment (I will continue to watch after I write), corn has no pollinators, it gets pollinated by the wind. That is why it is recommended to plant corn in large clumps. If there are many seeds, plant in a long block, if there are few, plant in a square block so that the wind coming from different directions spreads the pollen from the upper end of the plant to the strings of the ears.
Years ago when we had a much larger garden than we have now we planted corn in long rows. We got over 300 ears of corn. And that was the first garden we ever had. I suppose they pollinated well because no matter which way the wind blew they blew against each other. We had a hail storm that year and it blew our corn over so bad we thought it was lost but it made it! We cut it all off the cob and froze it.
Thank you! It's planted in a block :)
Love your videos! You have inspired my family and I to start our own homestead journey! We started in the spring and are learning as we go best practices. We are doing raised beds in a 900 sq ft fenced off area on our 2.5 acre property. Keep the videos coming!!
Just found your channel, i love hpw helpful your kids are too.
Im at 4min in. The music/month part previously was the most beautiful and relaxing video I have watched in as long as I can remember. It would be cool if you could make a recap of the year in the exact same way, at the end of the year. It would be so relaxing and amazing. Although your videos are already amazing!
The vegetable garden is really beautiful, I really like it. you are really good
So glad I found your channel! Thanks for sharing your knowledge and experience.
Thank you for sharing! I always appreciate when you remind us that you've had failures and how long it has taken you to get to this point
All I can say is WOW! Thank you so much for sharing all of your incredible work. I have the utmost respect for what you are doing. I know tye work that commercial farmers do that have equipment doing a bulk of the work. Seeing you all doing it by hand and never giving up. I hope my children will continue the little bit that we do into something like what you do. What an incredible blessing
Wow. A lot of effort but so rewarding to harvest your own. I’m jealous that ginger works for you. We grow it but it’s always completely tasteless. No idea why.
we use straw for our strawberries. works really well.
Beautiful family! You all have a wonderful spirit. It reminds of an account I read where a travel asked a young woman for a drink of water. Well her not only gave him a drink. she volunteered to water the camels also. (Considering a camel can drink up to fifty gallons! So, that was no small task). What I'm saying our spirit is undaunted by the challenge.
I admire you for What you are all doing. I feel the same, I am the happiest with my current lifestyle, where we grow our own food for a whole year, and I don’t need to go to the supermarket 🙏👩🌾 Happy gardening and all the best to you 🐝👩🌾
Absolutely LOVED the recap. Been watching your channel for two years ( or more!). Love Your Family togetherness and work ethic of helping one another💜🦋Beautiful Family❗️
I absolutely love LI cheese pumpkins. Im growing four times more this year. I grew them because I saw yours. This is my second year growing them. I still have to sow my lemon squash. Your such an inspiration. I added 5 new raised beds and a green stalk. I grow all my starts from seed, so economical. Thank you so much for sharing your garden, recipes and preservation methods. I enjoy all of your videos. I'll even go through and watch your other videos. After four years of gardening, there's always more I am willing to learn. This Grandma wishes she started to garden a long time ago...lol. ❤
Beautiful video. Beautiful music. I always get hungry when you mention sweet potatoes! Yum. Your energy and work ethic continue to amaze me.
Your videos are SO enjoyable. I could think of a few other adjectives but......mostly just enjoyable. I have seen everyone. I feel like you have made all of your viewers part of your family. Great job! PLEASE keep them coming and keep up the good work. God Bless you, your family, and your homestead.
WOW! Not only long days, but into the night!! I hope all of your hard work makes for a great harvest this year. God bless y'all and keep growing.
Lovely. enthusiastic family ❤
I love your videos so much!!! I suck up every bit of beauty and knowledge that you share! Thank you so much for the time you take to share this life of yours with us all!
I love how meticulously neat and tidy all of you are.
As a family, this is an important opportunity to talk about food supply, monetary implications, food value/nutrition, budgeting (time/money) pros and cons, seasons and the realities with crops and meat animals. My grandparents instilled this in our family, and it has truly been a Godsend. One of my favorites canned for fall/winter is stewed tomatoes🍅
The amount of knowledge you have about gardening is incredible. I’m new to all of this - it would be great if you could do a video on like step by step bed preparation. Like. Why are you broadforking instead of using the bcs? What benefit do you get from that roller thing you roll across? At what point did you buy a seeder? You are what Erin benzentyne is to the flower world. You could seriously create a course or write a book. It’s amazingly useful information and so needed. Thank you for your passion. And sharing it.
Hello Rebecca 👋
How are you doing today?
It's so beautiful seeing your whole family out there. not only being together but seeing how the kids understand where it all comes from. I am glad i stumbled upon this channel.
Wow!!!! You’re all amazing, How wonderful to have the whole family involved. Well done. So inspirational ❤❤❤
I'll be interested to see the corn turnout! I hear it is a hard one to transplant.
I'm glad you're taking the camera with you for your road trip. Wishing safe travels!
Wonderful!
So very pleased the entire family is working towards this great goal.
Humility is an attractive trait that I perceive in you. Nice work ladykins!
I just did corn for the first time in cell blocks, it went just fine! Popped up in 4 days, planted after a week and they had roots almost 4" long already!
I love you guys' channel. You are so meticulous about how you plant and how you harvest/preserve. I get a kick out of it. I am THE chaotic gardener. And I grow massive quantities of whatever survives. And then I plant more seeds next to that which has failed. And then it's like Revlon - It goes on and on and on and the next person, etc. LOL. as a note: I am 65. I have always tried to grow a garden in whatever situation I have been in.
Such an education for those kids. My favorite was diggin potatoes with my kids cause thought they struck gold.
Wow, I'm so impressed with your garden and how everyone gets involved. Happy gardening 😊
Your garden always looks so amazing. ❤
I love watching you and your family work together! You are blessed! May you have a wonderful and productive growing season 😊
It's very cool that all hands turn to for the prep and planting
I found 2 volunteer plants in my garden plot: one tomato and one huckleberry.
Amazingly beautiful video and garden. Your hard work and knowledge are on full display. Well done!
I look so forward to your videos and unfortunately I didn't get notified about this one. Needless to say, I didn't see it uploading until it was already 3 hours old 😞
I am so happy you got what you needed done done! Now we get to watch it grow and become food for your family. This is absolutely my favorite time of the year! Watching you bring in the harvest and preserve it into canned, freeze dried and whatever else you are going to do with it. Your family is amazing and you all should be proud of yourselves ❤️
I Love watching your channel, ,watching you all working together is amazing, and everyone Loves to do it, Thank you for sharing, i am looking forward to your Graden tour .
I wish I was able to grow like u guys. Maybe in the next few years I'll become as productive as u!!! Ur an inspiration
Love your video. Can you include how many of each plant for when you do your garden tour? You mentioned 150-200 tomatoes; stuff like that. It would be so helpful to know how much to plant. Thank you ❤.
Great music. Wow that's a big plot. Great job.
Your family inspires me! I buy plants already started at a nursery but SSOOO expensive this year…..Will start from seed next year.
🤯🤯🤯 You guys just Blow my Mind on your amazing work ethics & knowledge!!!! I Always learn something interesting and new & get so much inspiration & you get my get up & get it done! going!! Thank You!!💚💚💚💚💚💚💚
Wow, you guys are hard at work! I wish you a few moments, in july when everything is growing well to just stop and enjoy what you have accomplished. ❤
The garden looks great!!
Amazing. Best of luck with this years crops!
I’m looking forward to your garden tour. May the bless the work of your hands.
Your videos are always informative and entertaining. I just love them.
Incredible production!
Nice work my love ❤🎉
Love all the information and that the kids are right in there with you.
You guys are still amazing. Good luck and thanks for the video...
Sweet pic of you and Noelle planting with the sun going down. ❤ Loved your chicken tee😅
I use a bulb planter where I put paper. It works great.
Do you re-use your garden fabric or buy new every year? If you re-use it how do you mark it so you know which is for potatoes and which is for peas etc.? Where do you get yours from to keep the cost down?
Beautiful video, it was a joy to watch.
And as much work as this may seem, it is only half the battle. There is harvesting and preserving it for the winter.
We only have a quarter acre garden and it alone keeps me busy with planting, maintaining, harvesting and preserving.
Hello Kimberly 👋 How are you doing today?
Lovely video 😊 thank you for taking the time to put it together for me to enjoy!
I love this !! Thank you for the inspiration to plants in the future!! BIG HUGS!!
garden look beautiful
Its a very hard work. You are the troopers!
I highly respect your work!
New subscriber here! I appreciate your honesty!
That was a very informative and helpful video. Thanks.
Amazing what you do! Great job and video. Val C
What's your total garden area to feed all of you?
I really like the paper base. Never thought of it ❤
Same! Cardboard takes a little while to soften under mulch and it’s a pain to deal with. I wonder how much a roll of it is…
@@emkn1479 When I put cardboard I have tons of slugs living underneath...🤦🏻♀️
But I noticed that when I put some kind of paper it breaks down quick so slugs won't live in it. And watching this video it clicked to me. I think it's the same paper used to wrap things?
@@Gabiviolino that’s what I thought but it’s a specific gardening product that’s linked in the description. Maybe it’s thicker?
as usual outstanding, thanks you for sharing
Awesome family effort ❤
I love this! I'd be curious to know how much it costs to produce all this food. Fertilizer, weed paper, compost, soil for starting seeds, etc. I think so many people assume it's "free" to grow your own food, but whew. It adds up.
Yes, it can!
Just because my whole family is ill since end of April (all the time someone and something different)...how can you go on while being sick?
We do have chicken and a small garden. Only 2 children. And still are there times I don't know how to get the work done if they all need a special care and I can't sleep at night.
You have a baby and so much more work. Do your days have 72 hours? ❤
Your plants look so healthy. Do you have a recipe for your soil block mix?
While this is an amazing accomplishment, making sure our family’s emotional needs are met and our own mental health stays in tact are of utmost importance. Be careful of comparison. (I say this having homesteaded for 16 years, as a homeschool mama to nine.)
Vary good! So how do you store your root vegetables?
Superbe vidéo 😊
So cool to see! 😊
This looks truly amazing. I would be curious what the cost is every year for seeds, starts, weed paper, mulch etc Do you have any idea how many thousands of pounds of food you end up producing? I'm guessing it's way to much work to weigh it. 😅