Seeing the boys help take care of their sister and giving hugs/kisses just warms my heart. Those boys are getting the life lessons they need to become fine young men. You must be so proud!
Probably my favorite video of yours. This says many things...family, teamwork, love, knowledge, etc. That baby backpack has got to be the smartest thing for any parent of a newborn! Love how the entire family got in on the shucking...making sweet memories while making sweet corn, lol. Buggy watching her bobbas...loved that. You know the old saying..."a woman's work is never done", is so true! That bundt pan idea was fantastic! You guys rock!
I 'know!' Their eyes don't miss a trick. There's going to be a gaggle of grateful wives one day...at least I hope they will be. These lads deserve the best! : )
I spent 3 days and got my Yukon Gold potatoes harvested....waiting til next week to start pressure canning and dehydrating them. Freezing apples for pie filling today. In 10 days it will be time to harvest the Katahdin potatoes. I will squeeze in time somewhere to finish up the tomatoes. yes, it is a lot of work, esp. for a 72 yr. old, but SOOO nice to have our own food all year long and not have to drive to the grocery and pay the exorbitant prices for food that is not as healthy. You are teaching your young children the RIGHT way to do things. Keep up the great work. God Bless. And HAPPY BIRTHDAY BUGGIE
🎂Happy Birthday Buggie😘🤩 It is amaizing how time flies. Soon you have to watch her every move when she takes off in her new found freedom, walking. I have got tired just to watch you Meg processing all that food. You are a GEM. Also most of the time carry Buggie on your back as you work. Just be careful not to do damage to your back. Love you guys. See you soon.
Well Happy Birthday Little Buggy 🎶 🎈🎉💖🎂🐦. It's so nice to have helping Hands 😘. You will so Love to have this Fresh Corn come Winter Yum! Y'all did a nice job💗. JO JO IN VT 💕😄
It says August 16th but it was released on September 2nd? Happy Birthday Lillianne! (sp?) She is sooooo cute. Wow, nice job of using the chickens backs to make broth and meat! Elderberries too! And dehydrating peppers! Amazing how much you guys do in food preservation! Really cool to watch. Wow, that's a lot of corn! Yay, pigs will love the husks and the cobs. I cut the kernels off and bag them and put that in the freezer. It's so nice to have sweet corn for Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Easter! I've never frozen a whole cob. I blanch it and cut it off the cob just like you did. Cool, purple potato pasta. Beautiful jars of corn. I love that pop sound too. That is one huge pot full of cut tomatoes! Thanks for this guys!
Happy Birthday, Buggy! I can’t believe she’s a year old. She is a precious little girl. I can tell she’s got the boys wrapped around her little fingers. So cute watching them with her. Y’all stay safe and healthy. Blessings, Love & Hugs from Vicki in Ft. Worth, Texas 🇺🇸👍❤️🥰🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
@@bethany493 - Where is your family from? My husband’s family was from Poland & settled in Ft. Worth. Immigration changed their name to Bogart. It was Bogaslavski (not sure of spelling).
So amazing... so inspiring... BEAUTIFUL family! Those children are EXTREMELY Blessed! The boys... so precious... and now buggy! The two of you... it's overwhelming how amazing of a family you are!!!
I would suggest looking into making Another building and make a walk in freezer and walking fridge and get some solar for reduced costs. ( And a freeze drier). Love the baby boss supervising you. Maybe also prepare for a bedroom extension since the baby is going to need containment space. Extra bedroom space for you and baby and extra storage for food.
Dear Meg and Ben, You did such an awesome job on your house. You are like living in a palace, and Meg, in your videos when you first started youtube, I just loved listening to you explaining your life in ways I could understand. I've loved watching your videos over 3 years now, all of you could be my grandkids. Corbin and Buggy really look like twins, 8 years apart. I miss your videos. Love from Fort Myers!
I'm not sure if you've thought about this, it just popped into my brain watching Meg. Your "farm house" down the hill. I know Meg uses it for her soap "stuff". But maybe with a little work, not sure how sturdy the roof is, it can become a giant food processing plant. Lol. Meg is working so hard, but it might be a little easier if she had more room. Long counters around the walls, and one big one down the center of the room. Two or three cooktops to have more than one canning pot going at one time. Three dehydrators so less time waiting between batches. And the putting up food would be faster. And Then, you could even invite friends to use your processing kitchen for their canning. In my "vision" two or three family's helping with all the kitchen work, so one person isn't slicing 30lbs a tomatoes by themselves, because there's no more counter space or cook pots. Lol, just a vision...kind of like the giant kitchen in the show Downton Abbey. It would be better than Meg would've had it 200yrd ago. An outdoor processing kitchen would barely be four posts and a roof. Maybe a wall on the windward side, lol. Especially in hot and muggy North Carolina at summers end.
She doesn't do her soaps down there as they lost power (the power pole went down) and the power company told them they would have to pay for a new pole etc. So no power to the farm house.
@@SagebrushRambles OH? I missed that some how. Power poles are expensive. But they cook with propane anyway. And a generator can provide light. Might be time to look into solar power. Even if it's just for out buildings.
🙋🏼♀️🕊. With the little ladybug 🐞 coming last year , and trying to get used to the land , sometimes you have to balance what you have. They will get to the house when it falls into place, The Team will get to it, You all are just making it work ,blessings 💐
DID YOU KNOW that after cutting the corn off the cob, you can take the "back" of your knife and scrape down on the cob and remove some wonder juice along with small pieces of corn. This adds LOTS of flavor to your canned corn. Love watching you!
I’ve been canning my butt off. 😁😄. Raining here today too SO HARD and STEADY there’s a small lake by my chicken coop door 😧. HAPPY FIRST BIRTHDAY BEAUTIFUL BABY GIRL. ♥️💞. WOW- where’d the year go 😯. She’s so gorgeous 😊. I could stare at her eyes forever 😊😊 So..... start now and she’ll have an of age playmate by the time she’s two 😃😄👍
So awesome! Just can't believe Bugge is a year old, seems like last week. Congrats, to the lucky little girl who has such a lot of handsome big brothers and two awesome parents. God bless you all. I can remember when the chicken walked thru the backdoor and into the house in Cali.........LOL Long ago and far away it seems now. God bless for this new season of life for all of you!
It is extremely refreshing to see your family doing something as simple yet Hardwork no doubt about it, as canning and gardening and preserving eat up for the winters call me together, with such a happy joyful attitude!! No fighting no fussing no grumbling from the kids just an understanding that we’re a team and a job needs done and we’re all going to do it together and we’re all going to benefit from OUR ACCOMPLISHMENT!! I am I say “Mommy,@ “ you are the best multitasker I’ve ever seen for sure❣️ The amount of tomatoes that you cut up for canning, I think you said 29 pounds who is so refreshing to see, as it’s been years since my mother canned tomatoes!! IA loved watching the juice and the seeds fall over her hands and she put them into the canisters fresh, waiting for them to boil for canning in the jars. You work so fast and without any distractions it appears although, you clearly interact with your children and husband, but I think you are the most accomplishing woman in multitasking I have ever seen❣️❣️❣️❣️❣️🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈 You were always doing four and five different things at the same time and I honestly don’t know anyone who is not really doing that number of items but the quantity that you were working with. I was from a family of 12 children and how much time you could hold a pan of peas to remove the stem and open the pod and push those little peas out into another bowl, you were involved in canning…After that it was tipping beans which seem to long progression before the next phase. Regardless, I don’t ever remember as larger production is what I see you doing, and I’m sure it had to be because of the size of our family plus we help feed my cousins family as my uncle was often ill and unable to work. Mom must’ve been doing it somewhere else with Grandma, especially as we purchased a different farm when I turned 10 and that was the tiniest kitchen and you have three times the size my mother had until our new home was built which wasn’t for another 10 years completed. Anyway I just want to acknowledge your amazing accomplishments and talent and just say that as a woman who grew up doing that and still does some of that, I greatly admire you😊❣️❣️I also admire the camaraderie between your husband and yourself as you work together with your children that is NOT an easy interest to develop in your relationship, & yet, the Both of you seem to command a mutual respect for each other as you worked in the kitchen not only in how are you talk to each other and the children, but working as a team and helping one another to complete task. It’s refreshing to see when so much of the world is focused on everything but what your family is doing. I hope people are watching and taking this all in so that they may establish new ways of doing things in their home even if they should just start with one Blessing at a time, they see from your videos. It is truly a remarkable gift of love and joyful respect for what God has blessed your farm with as well as each other❣️❣️
Don't throw away the corn leaves and the hairs, in Korea we turn those into tea and drink them, it's known to keep your gums healthy, it's really good, you boil them with water, take the leaves and hairs out and keep it in refrigerator and I usually drink it cold but old people drink them room temp or hot.
It’s know to be good for people who’s on a diet as well benefits, I left a you tube video, you don’t need to understand the language to know what their doing.
I love watching your wife put food away! She has skills! And I love hearing the stories of how she learned doing things growing up. So precious. ❤️ Thanks for sharing!
Buggy yelling at her bubbas. 😍 She and G are two peas in a pod. Squealing little Chickies who just love being snuggled, walking the garden, and being with their peeps. 💜
Meg and Ben, my last year of high school ended in May of 1963, but thereafter, in Arkansas where we lived, the vegetables would soon be coming. The strawberries would come off first -- in late May and June. My grandpa had LOTS of strawberries which we all helped pick and he sold the majority of them. But, there were always more than we could possibly process and freeze, etc. My mom always made lots of jelly and preserves. When the corn, green beans, okra and tomatoes came off, we made (and canned vegetable soup. I'll never forget mixing up the soup starter fixings -- my youngest sister stirred the vegetables together in a #3 Washtub (new and well scalded), and then mom would stay up all night making sure the jars of vegetable soup were processed in the pressure canner. We did something similar about 30 years ago, but I'm past the age now that I am able to do all that stuff. I wish I were able to do that stuff, but I'm not. We're in the midst of trying to get our roof replaced now and it's a real pain in the neck! We always cut our corn off the cobs similar to what you were doing, but we didn't even have a Bundt pan back then! LOL!
Evening Beautiful HH Family 👋. Happy Birthday Beautiful Lily Bug🎂🍨🌻. Y'all are blessed with a beautiful family. Thanks for sharing another great video. And for reminding me of those special canning memories with family. Proud of y'all for keeping it real. Hoping y'all didn't get any damage from the storms. Stay safe beautiful people. God Bless y'all and the homestead 🙏✌❤😊
Just serms yesterday we were watchimg you guys just tryimg to finish the house so bug eould have a house God bless be blessed Celebrate Bugy as a blessing think how far you come.
I could never cut corn like that. I hold it in my left hand and cut with a butcher knife, cutting toward my belly, my mom taught me, then after you cut the kernels you scrape each row, that makes your corn creamier. Later my husband bought me a corn cutting board, but I could cut an ear faster with a knife and didn’t get so tired. I love watching you young girls preserve food. I’m a 74 year old widow that doesn’t need to anymore. 🙏❤️❤️❤️🕊😀
The work ethic of both of you is amazing. Your skills also assure that your homestead will be successful and no one needs to advise you unless you ask. Thank you for the inspiration.
Happy born on day little one. Time for an outdoor kitchen. I can outside on the patio with propane burners, keeps the heat and humidity outside. I just finished peach preserves, its amazing how much one tree can produce. God Bless.
Happy birthday sweet well loved baby girl!❤😉 My grandson just turn 1 as well. I Remember celebrating both births last year. Thanks for letting us hang out with you. Glad to see y'all putting back some great food for the winter. Love the teamwork. Love and prayers ❤🙏
@@toothaching the taco soup is (for a small pot) 1 lb ground meat of your choice seasoned for tacos, 1 medium onion, 1/2 cup of black beans and red beans, and 1 cup pinto beans 8 oz of corn and 1 packet of ranch dip seasoning, 1 - 2 quarts of diced tomatoes, one can of rotel if you like the spice. I scale it up by 10 or so and it's super forgiving. The chicken pot pie is chicken roasted, taken off the carcass, and diced 2 cups diced carrots, 2 cups peas, I make broth from the carcass with parsley, rosemary, thyme, etc and use that with a bit of cornstarch slurry to make a gravy. But for canning I omit the cornstarch until I'm ready to make it for dinner. It makes good soup when thin, and thickens easily once heated in a pot. Just follow the meat canning guidelines for the size of jar. Oh and dont use sage as a seasoning it turns the flavors off when canned.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY BUGGIE!!!!!! I have so much enjoyed seeing you grow little princess! Thank you all for your videos. Have a Blessed Week **HUGS & PRAYERS** from Kelly and the critters at Piney Haven Homestead.
I love it that the whole family is pitching in! Nothing is wasted-even the pigs get a little snack. Happy Birthday Buggy! Hard to believe it’s been a year. She is such a good baby. 🌷
Uploaded five minutes ago! Wow. I've never been this early. Now to watch, lol. ~ Done! ~ Dang, I love you guys. My mom was raised on a farm, grew up to be a choir director and dress shop manager. Somehow, she still managed to bring a bit of farm life to our home, including canning or even just blanching vegetables for freezing. Your family brings back so many memories and helps me appreciate my mom's efforts much more. Happy Birthday to your little Bug Bite! She's adorable on the floor, playing with her own ear of corn at one point. And Ben, I love it when you show up in the videos with your hair down! Please don't ever cut it short.
Happy Birthday Buggy!!! Meg, girl you're the canning, and dehydrating queen!!! You just go, go, go!!! I'm going to call you the Energizer Bunny 😉 Nice looking corn you picked up! I picked up sweet corn from our neighbor, and ended up freezing it. We still need a stove I can do canning on. This flat glass top just doesn't work well with the large pressure canner. This year everything was frozen or canned to make thing easier. Next year, will be buying a different stove. Received my order of the soap you made, and we all love the bars. Ben, like the long hair dude!!!
FYI: lady on 1870 homestead uses a turkey roaster to prepare some of her garden harvest for canning. Sets it on low and cooks vegetables overnight to get a head start for.the next day. Blends zucchini with almost every veggie in her garden. Apparently, zucchini is easy to absorb flavor of other produce and spices. She has afood processor attachment for her Kitchen Aid mixer which she uses to grind up the zuccini.
We used to get corn, in the shucks.. by the long bed pickup bed load (like 1970's, 8 foot pickup bed). and have two grandmothers, uncle, cousins, mom, dad, sibling.. and a full weekend of shucking, silking, cutting, canning..
Gosh... it feels like yesterday that Ben panned the camera from the ground up to reveal Meg’s “baby bump”. Now “buggy” is celebrating her first birthday. Time flies! Yup, squirreling away food for the winter is a good thing. Pickles and sweet relish are finished. Now I’m dehydrating the last of the green peppers. Best wishes from Kate in Olympia, WA
Little Buggy, just one year old and you have every male running after you and doing your bidding. 😆 Lots of good and useful work needing done indoors so let it 🌧.
Ben you are a lucky man. A beautiful family and a beautiful wife who not only loves to cook and provide for her family but enjoys it! Happy Birthday Buggy! peace, y'all
Happy Birthday, Buggy xox Home grown corn this winter is gonna rock. You guys are awesome. Love the homestead way of life. You all rock xx Keep up the good work. Many blessings to you and your family.
Happy birthday Buggy! With all your canning and getting ready for winter I don't know how you were able to get two batches of soap out for ordering! Wow! Kudos to you and the family. ❤
PS- Your baby daughter is SO EVENLY TEMPERED Oh around all of you and though she clearly likes to be held and loved on, she has her own sense of autonomy and independence oh… Not at all demanding constant attention and constant “Her Way” only, as so many toddles act out! This is a direct result of the harmony between mom and dad and the rest of the family! Again I applaud you for the peace and love and joy that this baby girl found upon her arrival into your home as well as receives from all of you and her contentment is a testimony of all of that & for ALL YOU DO IN & FOR YOUR FAMILY😊♥️❣️ So proud and honored to be able to watch your videos. Good luck with the rest of your garden and fall season harvest❣️🥕
Ben...since you like to smoke on the grill...smoke some corn, freeze it then in the winter ...say "pretty please" to Meg and she could make you Smoked Corn Chowder....you won't be disappointed
Happy Birthday sweet baby girl. I got to see my baby granddaughter today too. We went to her sisters' cheer leading practice. She is 2 and she told" some of her new "friends" that Grammie is funny & she's my best friend" Made my heart melt. And Buggie looks so much like my grandbaby. I hope you made her a nice cake momma. She is a great kid & I hope her day was wonderful.
Hi...... Meg and Ben nice to see you love watching your videos, thank you for showing your video homestead chicken farmer garden 👋 bye 👋 bye 👋 bye 👋 👕🐔🐓🐥🐖🌱🌺🌹🌿🌻🌸🌷🍀🏡🎥👍👍👍
I thought for sure when you said "I have a bundt pan" you were going to just push the cobs through the hole kinda of the same concept as the "board with a hole in it". Only with the bundt pan... 🤣 Happy Birthday little Bug!!
Nice video. So true. August is rough, but awesome. I love squirreling food away too🤣. It’s exhausting, but such a great feeling. Your baby is sooo chill!!
Wow, the corn looks so good. When it’s out cheap in the supermarket, I cut it off the cob like you did and freeze the kernels. So much better than canned!
Seeing the boys help take care of their sister and giving hugs/kisses just warms my heart. Those boys are getting the life lessons they need to become fine young men. You must be so proud!
What a beautiful family!
Probably my favorite video of yours. This says many things...family, teamwork, love, knowledge, etc. That baby backpack has got to be the smartest thing for any parent of a newborn! Love how the entire family got in on the shucking...making sweet memories while making sweet corn, lol. Buggy watching her bobbas...loved that. You know the old saying..."a woman's work is never done", is so true! That bundt pan idea was fantastic! You guys rock!
Your 4 boys are just the sweetest. They are learning so much self sustainability it's awesome to see.
I 'know!' Their eyes don't miss a trick. There's going to be a gaggle of grateful wives one day...at least I hope they will be. These lads deserve the best! : )
I spent 3 days and got my Yukon Gold potatoes harvested....waiting til next week to start pressure canning and dehydrating them. Freezing apples for pie filling today. In 10 days it will be time to harvest the Katahdin potatoes. I will squeeze in time somewhere to finish up the tomatoes. yes, it is a lot of work, esp. for a 72 yr. old, but SOOO nice to have our own food all year long and not have to drive to the grocery and pay the exorbitant prices for food that is not as healthy. You are teaching your young children the RIGHT way to do things. Keep up the great work. God Bless. And HAPPY BIRTHDAY BUGGIE
HAPPY BIRTHDAY BUGGY GOD BLESS YOU AND ALL THE HOLLARS FAMILY
🎂Happy Birthday Buggie😘🤩 It is amaizing how time flies. Soon you have to watch her every move when she takes off in her new found freedom, walking. I have got tired just to watch you Meg processing all that food. You are a GEM. Also most of the time carry Buggie on your back as you work. Just be careful not to do damage to your back. Love you guys. See you soon.
dried tomatoes, either bits or powder.. in your bread when making the dough. "Sun dried tomato bread".
That sounds fantastic, I'll definitely give that a try.!Thanks for the tip!
Dried tomatoes are my favourite stored in olive oil with basil and garlic. Taste amazing on top of a toast with a good cooked ham deli meat.
also in homemade tortillas, and as part of popcorn seasoning. I love my dehydrated tomato powder!
Yes...this is great sprinkled on focaccia with basil and Parmesan cheese just before baking!!
Well Happy Birthday Little Buggy 🎶 🎈🎉💖🎂🐦.
It's so nice to have helping Hands 😘.
You will so Love to have this Fresh Corn come Winter Yum!
Y'all did a nice job💗.
JO JO IN VT 💕😄
Watching Bug with her brothers🥰 that little girl is so loved. Happy Birthday Beautiful! 🎂
It says August 16th but it was released on September 2nd? Happy Birthday Lillianne! (sp?) She is sooooo cute. Wow, nice job of using the chickens backs to make broth and meat! Elderberries too! And dehydrating peppers! Amazing how much you guys do in food preservation! Really cool to watch. Wow, that's a lot of corn! Yay, pigs will love the husks and the cobs. I cut the kernels off and bag them and put that in the freezer. It's so nice to have sweet corn for Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Easter! I've never frozen a whole cob. I blanch it and cut it off the cob just like you did. Cool, purple potato pasta. Beautiful jars of corn. I love that pop sound too. That is one huge pot full of cut tomatoes! Thanks for this guys!
Happy Birthday, Buggy! I can’t believe she’s a year old. She is a precious little girl. I can tell she’s got the boys wrapped around her little fingers. So cute watching them with her. Y’all stay safe and healthy.
Blessings, Love & Hugs from Vicki in Ft. Worth, Texas 🇺🇸👍❤️🥰🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
I noticed her brothers have assigned her Royal Princess status. And she insists on being right in the mix with everyone. So cute.
I’m a Bogart too!
@@bethany493 - Where is your family from? My husband’s family was from Poland & settled in Ft. Worth. Immigration changed their name to Bogart. It was Bogaslavski (not sure of spelling).
So amazing... so inspiring... BEAUTIFUL family! Those children are EXTREMELY Blessed! The boys... so precious... and now buggy! The two of you... it's overwhelming how amazing of a family you are!!!
You guys make me realize we still have good in this world. Happy Birthday bug
I would suggest looking into making Another building and make a walk in freezer and walking fridge and get some solar for reduced costs. ( And a freeze drier). Love the baby boss supervising you. Maybe also prepare for a bedroom extension since the baby is going to need containment space. Extra bedroom space for you and baby and extra storage for food.
Happy Birthday 🎉 Sweet Baby Girl 🥇
PLEASE. PLEASE. PLEASE More videos. We miss ya'll....
OMG! That Bugster was trying to snap like her Daddy...too funny! Love Aunty in Ireland. Bless y'all!❤🇮🇪🍀
Yes, I saw that the little one was trying to snap her fingers, just like Daddy was doing... So Cute!!!!
I caught that also, just adorable!
Dear Meg and Ben,
You did such an awesome job on your house. You are like living in a palace, and Meg, in your videos when you first started youtube, I just loved listening to you explaining your life in ways I could understand. I've loved watching your videos over 3 years now, all of you could be my grandkids. Corbin and Buggy really look like twins, 8 years apart.
I miss your videos. Love from Fort Myers!
I'm not sure if you've thought about this, it just popped into my brain watching Meg. Your "farm house" down the hill. I know Meg uses it for her soap "stuff". But maybe with a little work, not sure how sturdy the roof is, it can become a giant food processing plant. Lol.
Meg is working so hard, but it might be a little easier if she had more room. Long counters around the walls, and one big one down the center of the room. Two or three cooktops to have more than one canning pot going at one time. Three dehydrators so less time waiting between batches.
And the putting up food would be faster. And Then, you could even invite friends to use your processing kitchen for their canning. In my "vision" two or three family's helping with all the kitchen work, so one person isn't slicing 30lbs a tomatoes by themselves, because there's no more counter space or cook pots. Lol, just a vision...kind of like the giant kitchen in the show Downton Abbey. It would be better than Meg would've had it 200yrd ago. An outdoor processing kitchen would barely be four posts and a roof. Maybe a wall on the windward side, lol. Especially in hot and muggy North Carolina at summers end.
She doesn't do her soaps down there as they lost power (the power pole went down) and the power company told them they would have to pay for a new pole etc. So no power to the farm house.
That's a fantastic idea!
@@SagebrushRambles OH? I missed that some how. Power poles are expensive. But they cook with propane anyway. And a generator can provide light. Might be time to look into solar power. Even if it's just for out buildings.
This person really thought about this! Lol
🙋🏼♀️🕊. With the little ladybug 🐞 coming last year , and trying to get used to the land , sometimes you have to balance what you have. They will get to the house when it falls into place, The Team will get to it, You all are just making it work ,blessings 💐
Happy birthday little gal
Happy Birthday Buggy!!!
DID YOU KNOW that after cutting the corn off the cob, you can take the "back" of your knife and scrape down on the cob and remove some wonder juice along with small pieces of corn. This adds LOTS of flavor to your canned corn. Love watching you!
Happy B-Day lil lady
I’ve been canning my butt off. 😁😄. Raining here today too SO HARD and STEADY there’s a small lake by my chicken coop door 😧. HAPPY FIRST BIRTHDAY BEAUTIFUL BABY GIRL. ♥️💞. WOW- where’d the year go 😯. She’s so gorgeous 😊. I could stare at her eyes forever 😊😊
So..... start now and she’ll have an of age playmate by the time she’s two 😃😄👍
Hi everyone 👋🏻 Hope you’re all ok Happy Birthday beautiful little Buggy 😊
I love your inside days! (Bonnie)
So awesome! Just can't believe Bugge is a year old, seems like last week. Congrats, to the lucky little girl who has such a lot of handsome big brothers and two awesome parents. God bless you all. I can remember when the chicken walked thru the backdoor and into the house in Cali.........LOL Long ago and far away it seems now. God bless for this new season of life for all of you!
Happy Birthday Bug
When I see a good family like yours it gives me hope for the world. Happy Birthday to your little one.
I totally agree with you! Blessings💖🙏
Your home is so cozy and efficient. ❤️😉
Awe shucks. You guys are so cute. The family that shucks together. Happy birthday Buggy.
Meg you should do a canning book
Yes! Another inside/kitchen video! Thank you for sharing:)
It is extremely refreshing to see your family doing something as simple yet Hardwork no doubt about it, as canning and gardening and preserving eat up for the winters call me together, with such a happy joyful attitude!! No fighting no fussing no grumbling from the kids just an understanding that we’re a team and a job needs done and we’re all going to do it together and we’re all going to benefit from OUR ACCOMPLISHMENT!! I am I say “Mommy,@ “ you are the best multitasker I’ve ever seen for sure❣️
The amount of tomatoes that you cut up for canning, I think you said 29 pounds who is so refreshing to see, as it’s been years since my mother canned tomatoes!! IA loved watching the juice and the seeds fall over her hands and she put them into the canisters fresh, waiting for them to boil for canning in the jars. You work so fast and without any distractions it appears although, you clearly interact with your children and husband, but I think you are the most accomplishing woman in multitasking I have ever seen❣️❣️❣️❣️❣️🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈
You were always doing four and five different things at the same time and I honestly don’t know anyone who is not really doing that number of items but the quantity that you were working with.
I was from a family of 12 children and how much time you could hold a pan of peas to remove the stem and open the pod and push those little peas out into another bowl, you were involved in canning…After that it was tipping beans which seem to long progression before the next phase. Regardless, I don’t ever remember as larger production is what I see you doing, and I’m sure it had to be because of the size of our family plus we help feed my cousins family as my uncle was often ill and unable to work. Mom must’ve been doing it somewhere else with Grandma, especially as we purchased a different farm when I turned 10 and that was the tiniest kitchen and you have three times the size my mother had until our new home was built which wasn’t for another 10 years completed. Anyway I just want to acknowledge your amazing accomplishments and talent and just say that as a woman who grew up doing that and still does some of that, I greatly admire you😊❣️❣️I also admire the camaraderie between your husband and yourself as you work together with your children that is NOT an easy interest to develop in your relationship, & yet, the Both of you seem to command a mutual respect for each other as you worked in the kitchen not only in how are you talk to each other and the children, but working as a team and helping one another to complete task. It’s refreshing to see when so much of the world is focused on everything but what your family is doing. I hope people are watching and taking this all in so that they may establish new ways of doing things in their home even if they should just start with one Blessing at a time, they see from your videos. It is truly a remarkable gift of love and joyful respect for what God has blessed your farm with as well as each other❣️❣️
Don't throw away the corn leaves and the hairs, in Korea we turn those into tea and drink them, it's known to keep your gums healthy, it's really good, you boil them with water, take the leaves and hairs out and keep it in refrigerator and I usually drink it cold but old people drink them room temp or hot.
Nice to know Gina!
They're not throwing them away, they're turning them into bacon. :)
It’s know to be good for people who’s on a diet as well benefits, I left a you tube video, you don’t need to understand the language to know what their doing.
Little Buggie, you are a spittin image of your daddy. Happy Birthday sweet angel. 🎁🎂🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈
Wow! I can’t believe she’s a year old either! Happy birthday little one!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY 👶
I love watching your wife put food away! She has skills! And I love hearing the stories of how she learned doing things growing up. So precious. ❤️ Thanks for sharing!
Buggy yelling at her bubbas. 😍 She and G are two peas in a pod. Squealing little Chickies who just love being snuggled, walking the garden, and being with their peeps. 💜
We need to get them together! I bet they would love each other. 🥰
I so enjoy you two and your family . Meg seems to know every possible way to process food LOL !
happy birthday buggy love from denmark
Happy Birthday to Buggy! It was so cute to see her helping with the shucking. Beautiful produce.
Hello beautiful how you doing
Meg and Ben, my last year of high school ended in May of 1963, but thereafter, in Arkansas where we lived, the vegetables would soon be coming. The strawberries would come off first -- in late May and June. My grandpa had LOTS of strawberries which we all helped pick and he sold the majority of them. But, there were always more than we could possibly process and freeze, etc. My mom always made lots of jelly and preserves. When the corn, green beans, okra and tomatoes came off, we made (and canned vegetable soup. I'll never forget mixing up the soup starter fixings -- my youngest sister stirred the vegetables together in a #3 Washtub (new and well scalded), and then mom would stay up all night making sure the jars of vegetable soup were processed in the pressure canner. We did something similar about 30 years ago, but I'm past the age now that I am able to do all that stuff. I wish I were able to do that stuff, but I'm not. We're in the midst of trying to get our roof replaced now and it's a real pain in the neck! We always cut our corn off the cobs similar to what you were doing, but we didn't even have a Bundt pan back then! LOL!
Happy birthday buggy, what a cutie
Oh how happy Buggie day!!! I love how when youre shuckin corn.. Shes just crawling around.. Helping getting loves from her bubbies.. Just beautiful
Her birthday already 🤦🏼♀️ how fast has time gone. Happy birthday Bug 🥳🎂🧃🍫🍭🍩
When you said it was baby girls birthday I couldn't believe she was turning 1. So Happy Birthday
Evening Beautiful HH Family 👋. Happy Birthday Beautiful Lily Bug🎂🍨🌻. Y'all are blessed with a beautiful family. Thanks for sharing another great video. And for reminding me of those special canning memories with family. Proud of y'all for keeping it real. Hoping y'all didn't get any damage from the storms. Stay safe beautiful people. God Bless y'all and the homestead 🙏✌❤😊
There is no way she's already one!!! So adorable!😍
Meg is holding a sleeping baby and processing a ton of corn! She is a trooper for sure!!!
Just serms yesterday we were watchimg you guys just tryimg to finish the house so bug eould have a house
God bless be blessed
Celebrate Bugy as a blessing
think how far you come.
Happy Birthday Buggy ♥️
Throughly loved watching you put up the Food so awesome!!!! 🙏♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️🙏
Much Love,
Grandma Patricia
Keep rocking the pony tail. Looks good. You look bigger and stronger.
Great to watch... Meg works so hard (supported by all the family of course). Buggy a year old unbelievable! God bless you all.
Elderberries Soo awesome 🤩
You are using the heck out of that little kitchen.
I cannot believe how grown up your boys are now.
Those boys are the best!! So strong, hardworking, and sweet!
Hello beautiful how you doing
I could never cut corn like that. I hold it in my left hand and cut with a butcher knife, cutting toward my belly, my mom taught me, then after you cut the kernels you scrape each row, that makes your corn creamier. Later my husband bought me a corn cutting board, but I could cut an ear faster with a knife and didn’t get so tired. I love watching you young girls preserve food. I’m a 74 year old widow that doesn’t need to anymore. 🙏❤️❤️❤️🕊😀
The work ethic of both of you is amazing. Your skills also assure that your homestead will be successful and no one needs to advise you unless you ask. Thank you for the inspiration.
Happy #1 Birthday to your little Buggy.
Love seeing all the preserving
Happy born on day little one.
Time for an outdoor kitchen. I can outside on the patio with propane burners, keeps the heat and humidity outside. I just finished peach preserves, its amazing how much one tree can produce. God Bless.
Happy birthday sweet well loved baby girl!❤😉 My grandson just turn 1 as well. I Remember celebrating both births last year. Thanks for letting us hang out with you. Glad to see y'all putting back some great food for the winter. Love the teamwork. Love and prayers ❤🙏
This must be the canning day, let alone the season. I made 34 quarts of taco soup, again, and 12 pints of chicken pot pie filling
wow! do you have favorite recipes that could be shared?
@@toothaching the taco soup is (for a small pot) 1 lb ground meat of your choice seasoned for tacos, 1 medium onion, 1/2 cup of black beans and red beans, and 1 cup pinto beans 8 oz of corn and 1 packet of ranch dip seasoning, 1 - 2 quarts of diced tomatoes, one can of rotel if you like the spice. I scale it up by 10 or so and it's super forgiving. The chicken pot pie is chicken roasted, taken off the carcass, and diced 2 cups diced carrots, 2 cups peas, I make broth from the carcass with parsley, rosemary, thyme, etc and use that with a bit of cornstarch slurry to make a gravy. But for canning I omit the cornstarch until I'm ready to make it for dinner. It makes good soup when thin, and thickens easily once heated in a pot. Just follow the meat canning guidelines for the size of jar. Oh and dont use sage as a seasoning it turns the flavors off when canned.
ITs canning season Indeed. Today I finished a batch of pizza sauce and sundries tomatoes. So worth!
Cheers!
@@SaraPfeffer Thank you so much for sharing!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY BUGGIE!!!!!! I have so much enjoyed seeing you grow little princess! Thank you all for your videos. Have a Blessed Week **HUGS & PRAYERS** from Kelly and the critters at Piney Haven Homestead.
I love it that the whole family is pitching in! Nothing is wasted-even the pigs get a little snack. Happy Birthday Buggy! Hard to believe it’s been a year. She is such a good baby. 🌷
Happy Birthday Little Bug. You are adorable. Blessings to you.
Uploaded five minutes ago! Wow. I've never been this early. Now to watch, lol. ~ Done!
~ Dang, I love you guys. My mom was raised on a farm, grew up to be a choir director and dress shop manager. Somehow, she still managed to bring a bit of farm life to our home, including canning or even just blanching vegetables for freezing. Your family brings back so many memories and helps me appreciate my mom's efforts much more. Happy Birthday to your little Bug Bite! She's adorable on the floor, playing with her own ear of corn at one point. And Ben, I love it when you show up in the videos with your hair down! Please don't ever cut it short.
Happy Birthday Buggy!!!
Meg, girl you're the canning, and dehydrating queen!!! You just go, go, go!!! I'm going to call you the Energizer Bunny 😉
Nice looking corn you picked up!
I picked up sweet corn from our neighbor, and ended up freezing it. We still need a stove I can do canning on. This flat glass top just doesn't work well with the large pressure canner. This year everything was frozen or canned to make thing easier. Next year, will be buying a different stove.
Received my order of the soap you made, and we all love the bars.
Ben, like the long hair dude!!!
Lil Bug's BIRTHDAY?! OMHeavens, how did that happen, for reals?! As adorable as all get-out! Happy Birthday, Sweetums!!🍧🍨🎂🧁🎈🎉🎊🎀🎁
You are one hard working woman. I so admire you!
FYI: lady on 1870 homestead uses a turkey roaster to prepare some of her garden harvest for canning. Sets it on low and cooks vegetables overnight to get a head start for.the next day. Blends zucchini with almost every veggie in her garden. Apparently, zucchini is easy to absorb flavor of other produce and spices. She has afood processor attachment for her Kitchen Aid mixer which she uses to grind up the zuccini.
Rachel is amazing, her cowboy candy, Yum, just finished her Zucchini Relish too!
I make my tomato sauce that way now. So easy and set and forget while I’m doing other things.
Happy Birthday baby girl!!! Can’t believe you’re already one!! 🥳🎈🎂🎈
We used to get corn, in the shucks.. by the long bed pickup bed load (like 1970's, 8 foot pickup bed). and have two grandmothers, uncle, cousins, mom, dad, sibling.. and a full weekend of shucking, silking, cutting, canning..
Gosh... it feels like yesterday that Ben panned the camera from the ground up to reveal Meg’s “baby bump”. Now “buggy” is celebrating her first birthday. Time flies!
Yup, squirreling away food for the winter is a good thing. Pickles and sweet relish are finished. Now I’m dehydrating the last of the green peppers. Best wishes from Kate in Olympia, WA
Little Buggy, just one year old and you have every male running after you and doing your bidding. 😆
Lots of good and useful work needing done indoors so let it 🌧.
Loved this one. Felt like 20 minutes of pure HOME 🥰
Happy birthday bug may God bless your household
Put tomatoes in a jar with oil and spices, later use on bruschetta and/or blend into paste for a dip and also add to pesto and pastas.
Happy 1st Birthday, Buggy! I loved watching Meg “squirrel” away food. Looks like a lot of work but I’m sure the rewards are worth it! 🥰
Hello beautiful how you doing
Ben you are a lucky man. A beautiful family and a beautiful wife who not only loves to cook and provide for her family but enjoys it! Happy Birthday Buggy! peace, y'all
Happy Birthday, Buggy xox Home grown corn this winter is gonna rock. You guys are awesome. Love the homestead way of life. You all rock xx Keep up the good work. Many blessings to you and your family.
Always love your videos Happy birthday beautiful little buggy can't believe it has been a yr. Blessings to all of you
The words "Let's Pray" fill my heart with joy
Many happy returns of the day to the young lady of the Hollar homestead! 🎂🥳🌷
I love your family and all your videos!
Your boys are sooooo damn good with Buggy!
Happy birthday Buggy!
With all your canning and getting ready for winter I don't know how you were able to get two batches of soap out for ordering! Wow! Kudos to you and the family. ❤
PS- Your baby daughter is SO EVENLY TEMPERED Oh around all of you and though she clearly likes to be held and loved on, she has her own sense of autonomy and independence oh… Not at all demanding constant attention and constant “Her Way” only, as so many toddles act out! This is a direct result of the harmony between mom and dad and the rest of the family! Again I applaud you for the peace and love and joy that this baby girl found upon her arrival into your home as well as receives from all of you and her contentment is a testimony of all of that & for ALL YOU DO IN & FOR YOUR FAMILY😊♥️❣️
So proud and honored to be able to watch your videos. Good luck with the rest of your garden and fall season harvest❣️🥕
When store shelves are empty you’ll be so glad you did this!
When? My stores are mostly empty right now. Sheesh. But yes, I hear you.
So true the store shelves can be empty in a day depending on the next scamdemic the worlds governments want to pull on the people
I love that you pray before you eat
Ben...since you like to smoke on the grill...smoke some corn, freeze it then in the winter ...say "pretty please" to Meg and she could make you Smoked Corn Chowder....you won't be disappointed
Happy Birthday, little girl!
You have been so busy putting up vegetables etc! Everything looks sooo good!
Happy Birthday sweet baby girl. I got to see my baby granddaughter today too. We went to her sisters' cheer leading practice. She is 2 and she told" some of her new "friends" that Grammie is funny & she's my best friend" Made my heart melt. And Buggie looks so much like my grandbaby.
I hope you made her a nice cake momma. She is a great kid & I hope her day was wonderful.
She is such a cutie pie.
With a houseful of growing kids. The stored food will be awesome! I love squirreling away food too!
I grab all the Berry's and fruit in summer and freeze them. Then this winter when the house is cold warm it up making jelly.
Hello Debbie how you doing
Hi...... Meg and Ben nice to see you love watching your videos, thank you for showing your video homestead chicken farmer garden 👋 bye 👋 bye 👋 bye 👋 👕🐔🐓🐥🐖🌱🌺🌹🌿🌻🌸🌷🍀🏡🎥👍👍👍
I thought for sure when you said "I have a bundt pan" you were going to just push the cobs through the hole kinda of the same concept as the "board with a hole in it". Only with the bundt pan... 🤣 Happy Birthday little Bug!!
Nice video. So true. August is rough, but awesome. I love squirreling food away too🤣. It’s exhausting, but such a great feeling. Your baby is sooo chill!!
Wow, the corn looks so good. When it’s out cheap in the supermarket, I cut it off the cob like you did and freeze the kernels. So much better than canned!
Happy Birthday Buggy!!!🥳🎊 Meg, you're doing a great job preserving all the food for wintertime!!!!👍