Most inspirational video ever! Currently filling my 6 month pantry stock and this is just what I needed to see. Thanks so much & congratulations! Julie 🌷
Great video and looks amazing!! Would you mind sharing how much it costs to run a cold room? We tried a large commercial style fridge and it’s very expensive to run it all year. Looking for an alternative. Thanks 😊
Just a quick safety tip on canning, if you keep the rims on, if the seals fail, the pressure from the rims could cause the lids to reseal and you wouldn’t know that the food is contaminated. You might just have them on loosely, which would prevent that problem, but I just wanted to say it just in case. Botulism is no fun, so I just double check that ppl know the safety stuff. ❤️
Same... why does society put so much pressure to go to college? I’m in college right now trying to make the biggest difference I can but this seems far more rewarding.
College professor here. I teach and run a small homestead. Too all the young people here, I would very much suggest following your calling, if you can make it work for you. You won't be rich, but you'll find that doesn't matter if your spirit is satisfied.
Do I have a garden? No. Do I grow my own food? No. Do I have the space to stash food? No. TH-cam: Do you want to watch this stranger showing you her root cellar? Me: Sure, why not.
Awesome comment! This is precisely the kind of wisdom we are losing and need to work to keep alive. Not a jar of pasta or beans on my nan’s shelves that didn’t contain a bay leaf. She’s moved on. Thanks Annie Alexander for reminding us of her(their) knowledge.
I discovered my first weevil infestation when I opened 10 lb. of grits. I couldn’t throw them away so I put them in a big pot with bay leaves, outside loosely covered. All the weevils ran away! Hooray!
@@valeryclark Awesome wisdom.By putting the bag of grits outside was smart.You know it would not hurt to tie bay leaves together then hang them up around the storage container's in your pantries.Put bay leaves all around.
@@becauseiam7915 It was like a trip back in time, in a beautifully done way. Old time root cellars should make a come back, as well as what's put in time....priceless video.
This is much how the storerooms and cellars of my family looked 60 years ago. Not much was bought from the store and items like flour, beans, sugar and lard were bought in several hundred pounds quantities each fall. Coffee, salt. And sources as well as baking powder in smaller quantities. But all dair,meat, vegetable and fruit was raised or grown on the place and put up ( canned) with a lot of hard work.
Yes, my grandparents on my mothers side most likely as well. Farmers, 10+ kids. But unfortunately over the past 60 years society has taken the corporate grocery store bait.
It doesn't really look like this, except for the food. I have an 1856 house with a cold cellar (root cellar if you are from the south). It has shelving on the walls and huge built in wood crates for potatoes and root vegetables.
@@SirenaSpades do you use it? Lol we don’t have any kind of cellars in Australia, well most didn’t. House we’re not build with cellars. But in my mind they will always be a scary place cause so much shit happens in cellars on scary movies, and attics 😂😂😂
And then communism stepped in and made the majority of people move into communist housing ("pods" as the above comment said) and be reliant on the government for everything. Even if you want to live correctly, but you're disabled, you aren't allowed to live correctly.
@@mikey4016 it has nothing to do with communism. People advanced and no longer needed to rely on themselves to live. We can rely on businesses to be able to feed us. The supermarket has nothing to do with communism. We grew tired of breaking our backs just to eat, so we used human ingenuity to create a way to where we dont have to do that. Farming and growing your own food is HORRIBLY labor intensive, speaking from experience, and people didnt want to do that. Especially with people working jobs in a society, they didn't have time to farm their own food. The concept of having people grow your food so you dont have to is called CAPITALISM, and has nothing to do with communism.
"...besides the stock pots. I know those aren't exciting". And I got super excited to see the pots. Imagine the history and stories around all those pots. Thanks for all the inspiration you send out to the world.
It warms my heart when you say "we made" because I did make it with you and even though we've never met, you have a way of making me feel like a close friend. I appreciate that 😊 Thanks for another wonderful video ❤❤❤
She's informative, enthusiastic, and pleasant enough, but I got this creepy Martha Stewart vibe toward the end. Don't ask me why. I don't know. I subscribed and gave it a thumbs up.
That’s it.... I’m revamping my root cellar! My house was built in 1910 and the root cellar is now more like a crawl space but this has inspired me to change that!
Nice cellar :) FYI-Jams jellies canned goods etc, really should be stored without the rings. Not sure if this has been mentioned. If one of the jars breaks its seal, the ring can make it reseal and the contents is bad, you won’t know it. By taking off the rings, if a jar loses seal, you know it’s bad.
I'm not from the US, we don't have those jars, but I do can, and I know that if the content of some food you canned are bad, you know it, because it's spoiled and it smells, maybe it has mold. Use your senses and common sense.
My boyfriend and I are about to start our homestead journey on raw land this spring. To many it sounds overwhelming, but we are craving to learn what hasn’t been taught to us. There is so much to prepare and plan for, and I love that you show how fun it is but also keep it real! So thankful for your videos and your beautiful family. All the love to you! 🌿
EcoCentric Homestead thank you for your reply! That is such good advice! It’s easy to get excited and want to do a bunch of stuff at once, but I’m excited to really slow life down living off the grid and take my time focusing on one task at a time. ✨
KennaHart thank you so much!!! We are very excited to start from scratch and create what we’ve always dreamed of. We might be starting a TH-cam bringing everyone on our journey with us, so look out for that! 🥰
Congrats on your up coming adventure! My husband and I did the same many years ago, it's a lot of hard work but worth it. The best advice I could give to anyone starting out is to plant those fruit and nut trees straight away, even before the construction starts. Have fun!
KennaHart that’s so awesome, this has been our dream for a long time. It will happen for you someday! When the stars align kind of thing. We honestly had no clue we were going to find our dream property and start this journey now. We just went to northern Idaho to see if we would like it and boom there it was! We weren’t pre approved for anything, we had no clue where we were going to get the money and it just fell right into our laps I guess you could say. If you keep dreaming and imagining yourself homesteading, it WILL happen. I’m rooting for you!!!
"Our years worth of food in our bunker", me getting bombarded with mental images of how I will perish in the apocalypse if I dont start a garden immediately.
Me remembering how bad noodles with just pure tomato sauce and nothing else are because I didn't stack up and then we were quarantined because of a positive case in our household.
We pack all of our root crops, apples, cabbages etc. layered in soaking wet wood shavings in plastic crates (with vents). They are perfect all winter and into early summer. Squashes, onions, garlic are stored dry at room temperature ( in a cool room). I plant the root crops back into the garden in the spring to grow seeds for saving.
@@geckogal89 I think that the pine shavings, just the ones used for animal bedding, create an acid environment which suppresses mold, funguses and bacteria. Once I have used the root crops up I just throw the shavings on the hen house floor.
We had a huge pear tree in our yard growing up and we canned tons of them every year..My favorite was the spiced pears that my mom made for Christmas every year. S made two jars with red dye and two with green dye and I always thought they were the prettiest things...
I'm canning my lemons from our tree and I'm starting to realize how much work it takes to preserve you own food. Great work, I'm happy many are preparing for whatever life gives us. It also motivates the rest of us to get up and get to work!! :)
Incredible, this is how we lived in Ukraine village. The only way to survive! Thankfully my parents brought us to America :) are we still do canning but definitely not as much storing!! Great job!!!!
What a self sufficient self made life. Most of it home grown and stored. No running to the malls every month to buy commercial market stuff. The lady is very hard working. What a peaceful glow on her face when she is proudly showing off her home grown supplies
I loved this. My mother taught me how to can at a young age. I never thought it was a useful skill, until this year. She also used to make cordials and schnapps every year, for Christmas. My chore was to stir the cordials and schnapps every day, before delivering newspapers. Yes, I was a paperboy!
That is amazing!!! I remember my grandmothers canned tomatoes that we would make steak & tomatoes out of along with her canned green beans all from her garden. Memories of her basement storage & helping her snap beans on the front porch. So delicious and those jars were coveted in our family. It was a big deal when we ate the last jar after she passed away. Making memories as well as yummy food!!
Hi I'm a SAHM in CA homeschooling a kindergartener. I just came across your videos today; on the first day of our farm unit. We read a book that took us through the seasons of farming this morning and it was awesome to find your videos to support our learning; particularly this one, the bee swarm, and your milkmaid videos. It's so nice to see how you respect and care for your animals. And being that I'm the only one that absolutely loves dairy in my household, it made me so happy to watch you make your cheese and hear the passion in your voice taking us through the process. Your videos made my day today! Thank you.
Stumbled upon your youtube channel today. I have just started thinking about canning and progressing toward homesteading. Thank you for the tour of your root cellar. What a wonderful environment you have created for you and your family. I will spend some time going through your videos and I am so excited to begin now! Thank you :)
Have you thought to utilize your grow racks in wintertime for microgreens/sprouting? Especially for the colder months when fresh greens can't be grown or harvested outdoors?
Canning is hard work but so rewarding later, I see you leave your jar rings on your jars we were taught to remove them after a few days. I like your hair color now.
Omg loved every item on your shelves. So beautiful and healthy and nutritional. I so envy your children. I imagine no fish fingers and wafle for them. Absolutely lovely
If that's not cause for a celebration, I don't know what is! A great big CHEERS TO THE ELLIOTTS!! It was so amazing I had to watch it again! Thank you all so much for sharing the beautiful way of living you got going on. So awesomely inspiring!
You are an inspiration to us all! America and the world need this self reliance mindset to feed off each other, literally. Keep up the good work with all these beautiful vids👍
This is awesome! What I want to know is how does it look to eat this way day to day. I’m so entrenched in the grocery store and we don’t usually eat jams or ferments or canned anything. How do all these ingredients end up becoming a menu?
I know it's enrichment for the soul. I started gardening ten years ago and today I have to have a spare room for my canned goods. I'm now digging a root cellar for my fruits and vegetables, wines, vinigars and preserves. When I cook for someone, or give away a jar or two of goodies, it feels so good. I get a real kick out of making my own things. So much better than bying. Though I do buy straw, manure and phosphate in place of fresh food lol.
Congratulations on an outstanding harvest! I truly appreciate the amount of effort it takes to can, preserve and store the harvest. My husband and I spend several weeks in late summer and early fall “putting up” for the year. We find it extremely satisfying as well as being able to feel a great sense of security knowing we are well prepared. Thank you for sharing- may God continue to bless you with his abundance!
My algorithm just suggested you to me and I could not be more thrilled! Thank you for the food storage tours!! As an avid gardener, I feel that this last year has be rampant with anxieties over feeding our family's. It has not been easy but I am now feeling a sense of renewed joy and preserving more as it continues to ripen. Brightest Blessings!
I feel like I was born into the wrong family...I should have been born into a homesteading farm family. I do have a small homestead with my hubby in retirement but we can't do the heavy work required too well because both our spines are deteriorating 😞 thank God for our younger friends who help us out. Love your root cellar. Is your root cellar im your basement?
It was the 1st video that I saw on your channel. Since that time I've changed a lot in my lifestyle. You gave me the understanding that life can be different from what humanity consideres to be normal. Country life is going to be THE NEW NORM! I hope you have everything your heart desires. 🥰
I've never been to this channel, I don't know how I got here. But 10/10, an amazing video, and you really nailed the PERFECT volume for your background music. Never lose that passion.
😍😍😍😍 sooo beautiful! Please do one every year! I moved into my homestead last year and this year had a big garden and have canned and frozen a ton of food. I’ve done some ferments, but I don’t have the refrigerator space. I definitely plan to build a walk in cooler like yours though and a cold pantry in the basement for my canned goods. I did manage to can nearly 200 jars of food this year, so I’m excited about that and I still have apples to do and the last push from the garden. I love growing my food!
Andrea Bellato well I did suburban homesteading for 7 years, I did some canning but not on this scale, a garden but just for fresh eating, and chickens on 1/10 acre. Now we have 23 acres, sheep, pigs, lots of chickens, turkeys, and 1/4 acre vegetable garden, so the scale is just a lot bigger.
Andrea Bellato There’s a learning curve 😂, but really we have about 8 acres in pasture and yard around the house and the rest is woods. But I was just outside in the dark stacking hay because it’s going to rain and I had to get it protected. And the woman that was going to buy my hay backed out and so now I have too much for my sheep so we’re talking about adding a couple of steers since most people are offloading animals because hays expensive. It’s lots of daily decisions like that. Keeping up with processing the produce has been a challenge for sure. And I just found out I should get my sheep sheared in the fall, my breeder told me just the spring, but now I’m finding out the wool could mat and be unusable. It’s sort of like juggling, with lots of balls in the air, but I’m having a blast. I’m doublecloverfarm on Instagram if you want to see more ☺️
Loren Lynch whoa definitely a learning curve, good way to put it haha. Have you seen biggest little farm? Your attitude reminds me of a part of the movie when things don’t work out, you look at it with a new set of eyes...it’s an opportunity instead of a problem. I love it. I’m getting ready to start my own homestead journey on raw land, so I will definitely give you a follow and look forward to learning from you!
Oh my God...I just discovered a goldmine🔥🖤!! Cant imagine how much hard work and love went into each and every bottle . I am excited to binge watch all your previous videos and catch up . Much love to you . Thank you for sharing your baby #cold storage 🖤
Beautiful storeroom and cellar . Reminds me of my grandma’s place, her garden and farm , my childhood a nonstop work that we did to take care of all of it . Amazing memories. I love your life style of being closer to the nature .
I am so glad your doing this in a few years I will have my own home I've always wanted root cellar I never knew where to begin I'm so glad your doing this I've wanted one since I was a young girl
I don’t at present preserve any food but I now have a allotment so from next year I will start the process. I follow all the things you do so I have the knowledge when I can. I get so excited when I see your cold room and pantry. I live in the uk ang we don’t have cool
I love this! My family has farming/ homesteading background. I moved to the city & my parents are getting older so we hardly do as much as we used to. It makes me happy to see other people doing this.
Just found your channel. You and your family have accomplished the real American Dream in my book, land, love, knowledge and good food to nourish you and your family. This is the way we are meant to live. Lived this way for most of my 20s, will be getting back to this in my mid 30s over the next few years. Thanks for all the knowledge!
This takes me back to my childhood and a simpler time. The fall and helping my grandmother with canning. Tomatoes. Tomatoe sauce, Chow Chow, Rhubarb Apples(sauce,and pie filling,)Apple butter, Pickles(dill, bread &butter and the ones that were lime green??)Beans, Corn, beets, pickled beets(I 💜pickled beets)Concord Grape Jelly, Plum Jelly. We also had Deer and Elk to Butcher from hunting season.
@@obsidiansea The Deer and Elk would be skinned and clean of internal organs..then hung to dry age in the cool room in the garage. Then it would cut up, wrapped in plastic and butcher paper, and put in the freezer. We would grind the some of the meat with suet to make deer and elk burger for the freezer. We made sausages,jerky.. Grandma would also brine and can the meat as well...
You have so much more preserves in your root cellar than the preserving and embalming of King Tut's body, or mummification process on his way to the Ancient Egyptian afterlife. Love, Light, Peace & Gratitude.
God has blessed you a lost talent,I HAVE CANNED FOR FIFTY YEARS THE LABOR YOU HAVE IN YOUR ROOMS IS IMPRESSING.Because of health reason I can’t do it as much but last year I did in the wheel chair. And loved every minute of it THANK YOU FOR SHARING I’D LIKE TO GET YOUR RECIPES
I am so loving this show. So I’m not the only person doing this and enjoying it too! You make me work harder and not give up, and try new ideas. Thank you 😊
So much love and family togetherness on those shelves. Producing, storing, and then over the next few months, eating! This is a visual representation of what your family means to you and your husband. Love!
I’ve always wanted to understand how to do a root cellar. And understand more about it-those pears-they stay good all winter like that? Please teach! 💕
I’m also trying to understand how to root cellar. I have a “crawl” space under my house deep enough to stand up in easily so I could build a root cellar there, but other than cooling it with electricity, I don’t know what to do. It seems silly to use electricity, since that sorta defeats the safety and resiliency aspects. Please teach more on decisions and planning for low-energy-use food storage. Thank you.
I am so grateful that we have channels like yours, gives me ideas, inspiration and guidance! Both my mother and grandmother passed at young ages and aren't around with me in my 30s. You remind me of my mom with all the flavored booze! She was getting into that a few years before she passed. I like a drink on occasion and the way you do it seems to make it real special. I need that in my life. I even have my moms wine fridge...didn't know I could use it for cheese! Thanks for the tour! Its actually very psychedelic looking! Beautiful 😍
Wow, overwhelmed is an understatement. Did you learn this growing up as a way of life or learn it as you do it. This is my first experience with your channel and I must say what you've done is amazing.
Amazing i loved looking at her tour its shows how.much hard work this family does looking at all this. It make me wanna live on a farm and you can tell they have no issue with dealing with crazy city life
I enjoyed this video so much! Living in Chicago I purchase all of my pantry needs, it is not even close to being as beautiful as yours but it meets our needs. I loved today’s show n tell and you are a very good teacher, love learning. Thanks for sharing. 🌻
I made sloe gin this year, the great thing about it is once you've made the sloe gin, you can re-use the sloes and make sloe port as well by just adding a red wine and some sugar! And THEN when you're done you can stew down the fruit to make a boozy jam/preserve :)
Do you have a video on how you made your cold room? Is it separate from your Root Cellar? Is there something you have in there as far as electronically to keep it cold?
I am so zealous about preserves. I love them. Pickled jalapenos for one, sloe gin but also homemade cranberry sauce or apple sauce and chutneys. I love your root cellar and when you do a tour of any room in your house. The root cellar after harvest has to be my favourite. Your's is wonderfully done and wonderfully enjoyed and used. One day if I'm ever blessed enough to own a farmhouse with a cellar. I know exactly what I'd do with it. 😁
Hi Shay, as we are in Australia I'm really keen to know the temperature of your pantry and cold room. I think in most cases we'd need a lot more insulation to keep cool here, but something to aim for would be good to know as its not standard practice here. I have plans for these to be built into our new home. Love your videos, very inspiring.
Yep I’m in Australia too, and houses just were not build with cellars, well most weren’t. I wonder how we stored food back in the old days..hmm I’m feeling some research coming up.
I don’t subscribe to this channel, nor have I ever visited it before…BUT your thumbnail and video title caught my attention! I am totally interested in seeing how someone keeps their entire years worth of stored goods, canned good, vegetables etc.! Growing up at home my mother would can her own strawberry jams, home made apple sauce, canned rhubarb and that’s basically the extent of our home made canned goods. It’s nothing compared to what you have here, but it’s nice to revisit that small piece of my past in comparison to your modern day home made canned goods! Thanks!
Shaye, I read somewhere where Irish Spring soap (original smell) deters mice. Last winter we put four bars in our storage shed and no mice. Perhaps it would work in your root cellar.
At IKEA, they have those huge IKEA 365+ Boxes with a silicone ring around the edge. I use them to store my 2.5kg sacks of flour and all the other dry goods, so nothing can get in there 😊 just a tip if you don't have a room that can be made completely pest-free and also helpful to stop a pest which was probably already in the goods when you bought them, because they won't come out of the box and can't get to your other items
Whew! This is a fun one to share. SO MUCH WORK is tucked into those jars and shelves. Almost makes me weepy.
Most inspirational video ever! Currently filling my 6 month pantry stock and this is just what I needed to see. Thanks so much & congratulations! Julie 🌷
Your homestead is amazing. Keep up the good work and thank you for sharing it with us.
Great video and looks amazing!! Would you mind sharing how much it costs to run a cold room? We tried a large commercial style fridge and it’s very expensive to run it all year. Looking for an alternative. Thanks 😊
Just a quick safety tip on canning, if you keep the rims on, if the seals fail, the pressure from the rims could cause the lids to reseal and you wouldn’t know that the food is contaminated. You might just have them on loosely, which would prevent that problem, but I just wanted to say it just in case. Botulism is no fun, so I just double check that ppl know the safety stuff. ❤️
How can I store cream cheese?
This. This is my dream. I don't know why I'm in college, but this is what I want.
Same! I'm in high school and very overworked and these kinds of videos are my lil way of escapism.
Please do it, you'll never regret living such a rewarding way of life.
Growing your own food is amazing!
Same... why does society put so much pressure to go to college? I’m in college right now trying to make the biggest difference I can but this seems far more rewarding.
College professor here. I teach and run a small homestead. Too all the young people here, I would very much suggest following your calling, if you can make it work for you. You won't be rich, but you'll find that doesn't matter if your spirit is satisfied.
YES!!!!
Do I have a garden? No. Do I grow my own food? No. Do I have the space to stash food? No.
TH-cam: Do you want to watch this stranger showing you her root cellar?
Me: Sure, why not.
Same!
You've been YT'd!!!
hahaha me too!
😂😂😂😂😂
hahaha
Put a couple of bay leaves in your dry goods. That will keep out the weevils.
TRUE, but add a few cloves of garlic too.
Awesome comment! This is precisely the kind of wisdom we are losing and need to work to keep alive. Not a jar of pasta or beans on my nan’s shelves that didn’t contain a bay leaf. She’s moved on. Thanks Annie Alexander for reminding us of her(their) knowledge.
I did not know that. Thanks for some new found knowledge.
I discovered my first weevil infestation when I opened 10 lb. of grits. I couldn’t throw them away so I put them in a big pot with bay leaves, outside loosely covered. All the weevils ran away! Hooray!
@@valeryclark
Awesome wisdom.By putting the bag of grits outside was smart.You know it would not hurt to tie bay leaves together then hang them up around the storage container's in your pantries.Put bay leaves all around.
I want this woman to be my best friend and teach me everything
Its called a utube chanel
We have all the knowledge inside us, just tap into hun 🍃🌹🍃
I thought this too !!
What you've done is almost a lost art in today's world. Salute! It was a truly awesome tour.
And everything looked sooooo yummy, no packages , no labels, just pure goodness, I loved this video.
a lot of people still do this, maybe in smaller quantity but it's common
@@becauseiam7915 It was like a trip back in time, in a beautifully done way. Old time root cellars should make a come back, as well as what's put in time....priceless video.
Farming is a lost art?
It's only a lost art to those that lack common sense, like millenials ...
This is much how the storerooms and cellars of my family looked 60 years ago. Not much was bought from the store and items like flour, beans, sugar and lard were bought in several hundred pounds quantities each fall. Coffee, salt. And sources as well as baking powder in smaller quantities. But all dair,meat, vegetable and fruit was raised or grown on the place and put up ( canned) with a lot of hard work.
Yes, my grandparents on my mothers side most likely as well. Farmers, 10+ kids. But unfortunately over the past 60 years society has taken the corporate grocery store bait.
It tastes SO much better. I enjoy canning!
It doesn't really look like this, except for the food. I have an 1856 house with a cold cellar (root cellar if you are from the south). It has shelving on the walls and huge built in wood crates for potatoes and root vegetables.
@@SirenaSpades You're blessed.
@@SirenaSpades do you use it? Lol we don’t have any kind of cellars in Australia, well most didn’t. House we’re not build with cellars. But in my mind they will always be a scary place cause so much shit happens in cellars on scary movies, and attics 😂😂😂
A year's worth of food stored on site just in case?
Very wise.
Very wise indeed.
Not just in case. It looks functional. Like hauling up a quart of fruit to make a pie in January. Nothing like peaches you have put up yourself.
@@cynthiastinson7059 Yes. If it's grown or canned by you, you control the growing and/or processing conditions.
When you’re deep into Alaska/the wilds this kinda living is mandatory
@@MrsStevenBrown We've been doing this in Maine for hundreds of years.
100 years ago this is basically in everybody home
Try 20. My Nana's pantry looked similar.
Now we just run to the store and we are stuck if we don't find it.
No, they are going to make these illegal and force us to live in pods.
And then communism stepped in and made the majority of people move into communist housing ("pods" as the above comment said) and be reliant on the government for everything. Even if you want to live correctly, but you're disabled, you aren't allowed to live correctly.
@@mikey4016 it has nothing to do with communism. People advanced and no longer needed to rely on themselves to live. We can rely on businesses to be able to feed us. The supermarket has nothing to do with communism. We grew tired of breaking our backs just to eat, so we used human ingenuity to create a way to where we dont have to do that. Farming and growing your own food is HORRIBLY labor intensive, speaking from experience, and people didnt want to do that. Especially with people working jobs in a society, they didn't have time to farm their own food. The concept of having people grow your food so you dont have to is called CAPITALISM, and has nothing to do with communism.
"...besides the stock pots. I know those aren't exciting". And I got super excited to see the pots. Imagine the history and stories around all those pots. Thanks for all the inspiration you send out to the world.
Jeff ! Yeah, my eyes landed on those stock pots & the stuff above! I love that graded green pot, oooow I would love to cook in that!
Yep the pots caught my eye too, I was drooling over them.
I was interested in the pots too.
That green pot was beautiful.
Yeah the green one was beautiful 🍃💫
The pride on your face as you’re talking through this is so wholesome 🥰
It warms my heart when you say "we made" because I did make it with you and even though we've never met, you have a way of making me feel like a close friend. I appreciate that 😊 Thanks for another wonderful video ❤❤❤
YES! I did too, those vids on salts and simple ways to preserve tomato - I was right in their with you and Shaye - fun isn't it?
Ah, I feel the same about these videos :) I really hope my pickles turn out as beautifully as the Elliott's!
Love your comment ❤️😊❤️
What a SWEET thing to say :)
She's informative, enthusiastic, and pleasant enough, but I got this creepy Martha Stewart vibe toward the end. Don't ask me why. I don't know. I subscribed and gave it a thumbs up.
All I can think of is:
When society collapses, this woman is gonna be just fine.
So true!!!
well... except now 192000 people know what shes got.
Right
For a year or less.
@Turquoise Cheetah
That’s messed up but something tells me they’re also stocked up on guns & ammo
That’s it.... I’m revamping my root cellar! My house was built in 1910 and the root cellar is now more like a crawl space but this has inspired me to change that!
How is you root cellar coming along??
Lucky you!
Oh my god it's haunted!!!😱😱😱
Nice cellar :) FYI-Jams jellies canned goods etc, really should be stored without the rings. Not sure if this has been mentioned. If one of the jars breaks its seal, the ring can make it reseal and the contents is bad, you won’t know it. By taking off the rings, if a jar loses seal, you know it’s bad.
I'm not from the US, we don't have those jars, but I do can, and I know that if the content of some food you canned are bad, you know it, because it's spoiled and it smells, maybe it has mold. Use your senses and common sense.
My boyfriend and I are about to start our homestead journey on raw land this spring. To many it sounds overwhelming, but we are craving to learn what hasn’t been taught to us. There is so much to prepare and plan for, and I love that you show how fun it is but also keep it real! So thankful for your videos and your beautiful family. All the love to you! 🌿
The homesteading journey doesn't need to be overwhelming. It's like "How do you eat a whole elephant?", "One bite at a time!"
EcoCentric Homestead thank you for your reply! That is such good advice! It’s easy to get excited and want to do a bunch of stuff at once, but I’m excited to really slow life down living off the grid and take my time focusing on one task at a time. ✨
KennaHart thank you so much!!! We are very excited to start from scratch and create what we’ve always dreamed of. We might be starting a TH-cam bringing everyone on our journey with us, so look out for that! 🥰
Congrats on your up coming adventure! My husband and I did the same many years ago, it's a lot of hard work but worth it. The best advice I could give to anyone starting out is to plant those fruit and nut trees straight away, even before the construction starts. Have fun!
KennaHart that’s so awesome, this has been our dream for a long time. It will happen for you someday! When the stars align kind of thing. We honestly had no clue we were going to find our dream property and start this journey now. We just went to northern Idaho to see if we would like it and boom there it was! We weren’t pre approved for anything, we had no clue where we were going to get the money and it just fell right into our laps I guess you could say. If you keep dreaming and imagining yourself homesteading, it WILL happen. I’m rooting for you!!!
"Our years worth of food in our bunker", me getting bombarded with mental images of how I will perish in the apocalypse if I dont start a garden immediately.
😂... Same here. Just bought my first canner though, I already have a dehydrator. Gotta start somewhere
Me remembering how bad noodles with just pure tomato sauce and nothing else are because I didn't stack up and then we were quarantined because of a positive case in our household.
Reality!! Soon will play hunger games.
@@everhappy6312 let’s hope it doesn’t come to that. We all gotta start making a stand and do not let them take away our freedom of speech.
😂😂😂😂
This is Amazing!!! The bounty. The work! Girl, who else does this? Nobody!!! Not like u do!
Her girlfriend Angela.
Rainbow Citizen my mother’s been doing it for years, as well as do most Appalachian women, and there’s food for at least 5-10 years not kidding😂😂
The fruit stays longer if individually wrapped in news paper. Skin on skin makes rotting quicker.
wow good tip thanks
Thanx 🌳✌
Thank you for the tip 😉✌
Never tried but good to know
So... no rodents will attempt to eat any of the food??
It might look full now but wait till Thorin Oakenshield and 12 other dwarfs decide to come by ....
i totally understand you are talking about lor however, my brain went straight to roots and refuges buck (thorin oakenshield is his name lol)
This comment is gold
And don't forget about those two hobbits, Pippin and Merry, they're the most dangerous..
Chip the glasses and crack the plates
@@spencermay1777 that's what Bilbo Baggins hates !
We pack all of our root crops, apples, cabbages etc. layered in soaking wet wood shavings in plastic crates (with vents). They are perfect all winter and into early summer. Squashes, onions, garlic are stored dry at room temperature ( in a cool room). I plant the root crops back into the garden in the spring to grow seeds for saving.
More details please
@@geckogal89 I think that the pine shavings, just the ones used for animal bedding, create an acid environment which suppresses mold, funguses and bacteria. Once I have used the root crops up I just throw the shavings on the hen house floor.
@@johnpino4837 Never heard of that method. Interesting.
We had a huge pear tree in our yard growing up and we canned tons of them every year..My favorite was the spiced pears that my mom made for Christmas every year. S made two jars with red dye and two with green dye and I always thought they were the prettiest things...
I'm canning my lemons from our tree and I'm starting to realize how much work it takes to preserve you own food. Great work, I'm happy many are preparing for whatever life gives us. It also motivates the rest of us to get up and get to work!! :)
Incredible, this is how we lived in Ukraine village. The only way to survive! Thankfully my parents brought us to America :) are we still do canning but definitely not as much storing!! Great job!!!!
I'd love to see how your family did it.
What a self sufficient self made life. Most of it home grown and stored. No running to the malls every month to buy commercial market stuff. The lady is very hard working. What a peaceful glow on her face when she is proudly showing off her home grown supplies
And writes books and is homeschooling their four children.
I loved this. My mother taught me how to can at a young age. I never thought it was a useful skill, until this year. She also used to make cordials and schnapps every year, for Christmas. My chore was to stir the cordials and schnapps every day, before delivering newspapers. Yes, I was a paperboy!
Kenneth Kauzlaric wow that is so cool! I wish I grew up learning stuff like that! I can’t wait to learn and teach my own children 😊
That is awesome ❤️
I was a paperboy too! Paperboys unite! 🤜✌
You blow me away. Such selfless love of supplying health whole foods to your family
You are one hardworking lady! God has blessed you abundantly.
That is amazing!!!
I remember my grandmothers canned tomatoes that we would make steak & tomatoes out of along with her canned green beans all from her garden. Memories of her basement storage & helping her snap beans on the front porch. So delicious and those jars were coveted in our family. It was a big deal when we ate the last jar after she passed away. Making memories as well as yummy food!!
Hi I'm a SAHM in CA homeschooling a kindergartener. I just came across your videos today; on the first day of our farm unit. We read a book that took us through the seasons of farming this morning and it was awesome to find your videos to support our learning; particularly this one, the bee swarm, and your milkmaid videos. It's so nice to see how you respect and care for your animals. And being that I'm the only one that absolutely loves dairy in my household, it made me so happy to watch you make your cheese and hear the passion in your voice taking us through the process. Your videos made my day today! Thank you.
Stumbled upon your youtube channel today. I have just started thinking about canning and progressing toward homesteading. Thank you for the tour of your root cellar. What a wonderful environment you have created for you and your family. I will spend some time going through your videos and I am so excited to begin now! Thank you :)
Have you thought to utilize your grow racks in wintertime for microgreens/sprouting? Especially for the colder months when fresh greens can't be grown or harvested outdoors?
Canning is hard work but so rewarding later, I see you leave your jar rings on your jars we were taught to remove them after a few days. I like your hair color now.
Omg loved every item on your shelves. So beautiful and healthy and nutritional. I so envy your children. I imagine no fish fingers and wafle for them.
Absolutely lovely
If that's not cause for a celebration, I don't know what is! A great big CHEERS TO THE ELLIOTTS!!
It was so amazing I had to watch it again! Thank you all so much for sharing the beautiful way of living you got going on. So awesomely inspiring!
I completely agree
You are an inspiration to us all! America and the world need this self reliance mindset to feed off each other, literally. Keep up the good work with all these beautiful vids👍
I just started fermenting! And I love my purple cabbage sauerkraut
This is awesome! What I want to know is how does it look to eat this way day to day. I’m so entrenched in the grocery store and we don’t usually eat jams or ferments or canned anything. How do all these ingredients end up becoming a menu?
Such a great question! I would love to see her meals as well.
I know it's enrichment for the soul. I started gardening ten years ago and today I have to have a spare room for my canned goods. I'm now digging a root cellar for my fruits and vegetables, wines, vinigars and preserves. When I cook for someone, or give away a jar or two of goodies, it feels so good. I get a real kick out of making my own things. So much better than bying. Though I do buy straw, manure and phosphate in place of fresh food lol.
Wevils are actually in the flours/oats/etc. They are in the form of eggs. When the conditions are right they will hatch. Extra protein!
Exactly, they're already in the food. I freeze my flours etc. for three days to kill the eggs then put in jars or buckets to store long term.
What a skilled and amazing housewife/homesteader she is. And her husband obviously, too. Awesone!
Congratulations on an outstanding harvest! I truly appreciate the amount of effort it takes to can, preserve and store the harvest. My husband and I spend several weeks in late summer and early fall “putting up” for the year. We find it extremely satisfying as well as being able to feel a great sense of security knowing we are well prepared. Thank you for sharing- may God continue to bless you with his abundance!
My algorithm just suggested you to me and I could not be more thrilled!
Thank you for the food storage tours!! As an avid gardener, I feel that this last year has be rampant with anxieties over feeding our family's. It has not been easy but I am now feeling a sense of renewed joy and preserving more as it continues to ripen. Brightest Blessings!
My wife made your herb salt and cherry tomatoes in oil. Such great recipes, thanks for sharing! Congratulations on your harvest.
Great work! You can tell you work hard but you can see the great results of all that work! Cheers from Minnesota!
I feel like I was born into the wrong family...I should have been born into a homesteading farm family. I do have a small homestead with my hubby in retirement but we can't do the heavy work required too well because both our spines are deteriorating 😞 thank God for our younger friends who help us out.
Love your root cellar. Is your root cellar im your basement?
I'm in the same boat but no one helps me.
@@redpilled4781
Find a farm hand, there's lots of young people without gardens that would love to learn gardening if you can provide the land.
It was the 1st video that I saw on your channel. Since that time I've changed a lot in my lifestyle. You gave me the understanding that life can be different from what humanity consideres to be normal. Country life is going to be THE NEW NORM! I hope you have everything your heart desires. 🥰
Fascinating pantry. I could play in there for a couple hours. Thx for sharing
Me too 😊❤️😊 love watching pantry tours
I've never been to this channel, I don't know how I got here.
But 10/10, an amazing video, and you really nailed the PERFECT volume for your background music.
Never lose that passion.
😍😍😍😍 sooo beautiful! Please do one every year! I moved into my homestead last year and this year had a big garden and have canned and frozen a ton of food. I’ve done some ferments, but I don’t have the refrigerator space. I definitely plan to build a walk in cooler like yours though and a cold pantry in the basement for my canned goods. I did manage to can nearly 200 jars of food this year, so I’m excited about that and I still have apples to do and the last push from the garden. I love growing my food!
Loren Lynch that is amazing that you are already doing all of that after just one year into homesteading! Congratulations ✨🌿
Andrea Bellato well I did suburban homesteading for 7 years, I did some canning but not on this scale, a garden but just for fresh eating, and chickens on 1/10 acre. Now we have 23 acres, sheep, pigs, lots of chickens, turkeys, and 1/4 acre vegetable garden, so the scale is just a lot bigger.
Loren Lynch wow that’s incredible! How is it managing 23 acres?! I am itching to learn everything haha
Andrea Bellato There’s a learning curve 😂, but really we have about 8 acres in pasture and yard around the house and the rest is woods. But I was just outside in the dark stacking hay because it’s going to rain and I had to get it protected. And the woman that was going to buy my hay backed out and so now I have too much for my sheep so we’re talking about adding a couple of steers since most people are offloading animals because hays expensive. It’s lots of daily decisions like that. Keeping up with processing the produce has been a challenge for sure. And I just found out I should get my sheep sheared in the fall, my breeder told me just the spring, but now I’m finding out the wool could mat and be unusable. It’s sort of like juggling, with lots of balls in the air, but I’m having a blast. I’m doublecloverfarm on Instagram if you want to see more ☺️
Loren Lynch whoa definitely a learning curve, good way to put it haha. Have you seen biggest little farm? Your attitude reminds me of a part of the movie when things don’t work out, you look at it with a new set of eyes...it’s an opportunity instead of a problem. I love it. I’m getting ready to start my own homestead journey on raw land, so I will definitely give you a follow and look forward to learning from you!
Oh my God...I just discovered a goldmine🔥🖤!! Cant imagine how much hard work and love went into each and every bottle . I am excited to binge watch all your previous videos and catch up . Much love to you . Thank you for sharing your baby #cold storage 🖤
Oh Shaye! You have my heart! You are so inspiring and you have such a way with words! I could listen to you talk all day!
Beautiful storeroom and cellar . Reminds me of my grandma’s place, her garden and farm , my childhood a nonstop work that we did to take care of all of it . Amazing memories. I love your life style of being closer to the nature .
Wow, how incredible. Your passion for healthy homegrown food shines through you. Thanks for sharing. 🍸🍹👍
I am so glad your doing this in a few years I will have my own home I've always wanted root cellar I never knew where to begin I'm so glad your doing this I've wanted one since I was a young girl
This was wonderful! Thank you 😊
You and Shaye are my favorite people to follow!! Both of you have the most amazing looking food! 😍😍
When I see the logo I immediately know who owns this, also a fan of yours.
@@Eggylovespancakes Right? God bless!
Simple living Alaska and Elliot homestead... you guys are the best you tubers!!! I’m always looking forward to your videos!! Thanks for sharing!
Wow.. can’t believe I stumbled upon these two inspiring channels!! I love binge watching your videos!!!! ❤️❤️
My family and I make a foraged elderflower cordial every year! It's so good! I love how real this tour is, and how tasty everything looks.
I don’t at present preserve any food but I now have a allotment so from next year I will start the process. I follow all the things you do so I have the knowledge when I can. I get so excited when I see your cold room and pantry. I live in the uk ang we don’t have cool
I love this! My family has farming/ homesteading background. I moved to the city & my parents are getting older so we hardly do as much as we used to. It makes me happy to see other people doing this.
It just feels so good to be stocked for the year.. it’s just amazing
Just found your channel. You and your family have accomplished the real American Dream in my book, land, love, knowledge and good food to nourish you and your family. This is the way we are meant to live. Lived this way for most of my 20s, will be getting back to this in my mid 30s over the next few years. Thanks for all the knowledge!
This takes me back to my childhood and a simpler time. The fall and helping my grandmother with canning. Tomatoes. Tomatoe sauce, Chow Chow, Rhubarb Apples(sauce,and pie filling,)Apple butter,
Pickles(dill, bread &butter and the ones that were lime green??)Beans, Corn, beets, pickled beets(I 💜pickled beets)Concord Grape Jelly, Plum Jelly. We also had Deer and Elk to Butcher from hunting season.
How did you store or preserve the deer and elk?
@@obsidiansea The Deer and Elk would be skinned and clean of internal organs..then hung to dry age in the cool room in the garage. Then it would cut up, wrapped in plastic and butcher paper, and put in the freezer. We would grind the some of the meat with suet to make deer and elk burger for the freezer. We made sausages,jerky..
Grandma would also brine and can the meat as well...
I like how she takes her basket into each room.
May you gain a cheese cave sooner than you ever think.
with all thats happened this year that sounds vaguely threatening 😂
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You have so much more preserves in your root cellar than the preserving and embalming
of King Tut's body, or mummification process on his way to the Ancient Egyptian afterlife.
Love, Light, Peace & Gratitude.
This is really something to be proud of!! WOW 🤩
God has blessed you a lost talent,I HAVE CANNED FOR FIFTY YEARS THE LABOR YOU HAVE IN YOUR ROOMS IS IMPRESSING.Because of health reason I can’t do it as much but last year I did in the wheel chair. And loved every minute of it THANK YOU FOR SHARING I’D LIKE TO GET YOUR RECIPES
I am so loving this show.
So I’m not the only person doing this and enjoying it too!
You make me work harder and not give up, and try new ideas.
Thank you 😊
So much love and family togetherness on those shelves. Producing, storing, and then over the next few months, eating! This is a visual representation of what your family means to you and your husband. Love!
Have you ever done a video on how you created that gorgeous root cellar? I would love to know how to recreate that space.❤️
I’ve always wanted to understand how to do a root cellar. And understand more about it-those pears-they stay good all winter like that? Please teach! 💕
I’m also trying to understand how to root cellar. I have a “crawl” space under my house deep enough to stand up in easily so I could build a root cellar there, but other than cooling it with electricity, I don’t know what to do. It seems silly to use electricity, since that sorta defeats the safety and resiliency aspects. Please teach more on decisions and planning for low-energy-use food storage. Thank you.
Mice.... I thought I had a nice set up of emergency foods. Well I checked on it today & nice are everything except canned goods.
Mice ate* not what my idiot spell corrector changed it to!
I live in Tennessee. No basement to speak of.
Love, Love, Love.... how you bring back those old methods of preserving foods.
I am so grateful that we have channels like yours, gives me ideas, inspiration and guidance! Both my mother and grandmother passed at young ages and aren't around with me in my 30s. You remind me of my mom with all the flavored booze! She was getting into that a few years before she passed. I like a drink on occasion and the way you do it seems to make it real special. I need that in my life. I even have my moms wine fridge...didn't know I could use it for cheese! Thanks for the tour! Its actually very psychedelic looking! Beautiful 😍
Wow, overwhelmed is an understatement. Did you learn this growing up as a way of life or learn it as you do it. This is my first experience with your channel and I must say what you've done is amazing.
Agreed!
I’m absolutely new. Where is she located?
You'll be doing this soon, or starve. If you haven't figured out it, the supply chain doesn't work.
@@SirenaSpades yep C was just a small sample of what could happen.
Put the big jars down! I am always dropping things so that is what i was imagining!
I love your VLOGs! Thank you so much and keep up the good work!
Amazing i loved looking at her tour its shows how.much hard work this family does looking at all this. It make me wanna live on a farm and you can tell they have no issue with dealing with crazy city life
Your voice is calming like Martha Stewart and you look like Drew Barrymore 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
She does!!
Mixed with Kate Hudson
Really? No offense to Drew, but I think she's prettier than Drew! 😁
Hihi you also look like Rens Kroes so much!, sister of Doutzen Kroes
I so agree with all of you ...she's got a calming way about her,
She’s very enchanting! I want this woman in my life!
TH-cam _really_ wanted me to watch this video. I have no regrets.
I grew up with this in moldova...parents and us kids worked the land from seeds to veg then work on the preserving them in jars...awesome
I enjoyed this video so much! Living in Chicago I purchase all of my pantry needs, it is not even close to being as beautiful as yours but it meets our needs. I loved today’s show n tell and you are a very good teacher, love learning. Thanks for sharing. 🌻
I love your green stockpot! Thank you so much for sharing. I can't wait to have a root cellar of our own!
I made sloe gin this year, the great thing about it is once you've made the sloe gin, you can re-use the sloes and make sloe port as well by just adding a red wine and some sugar! And THEN when you're done you can stew down the fruit to make a boozy jam/preserve :)
Only wished I could sit down one time at your dinner table ! Awesome use of what the world can truly offer one willing to do the work ! AMAZING JOB !
What a gold mine! Everything looks amazing and delicious! I think you’re official my food storage hero! 🦸♀️ 👑
This is taking me back to my childhood , we all had root cellars in Pennsylvania German country ❤️ God bless your family and farm
Bayleaves are good for deterring weevils. I always put it in my rice, flour, and cornmeal jars
Hey .. everyone Moniee-Mon, is listening thanks for the info and videos. Keep doing what'cha do best God bless you 🙏 🙌 ❤ 💖 Monica Smith 🙏
Do you have a video on how you made your cold room? Is it separate from your Root Cellar? Is there something you have in there as far as electronically to keep it cold?
She does.
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I am so zealous about preserves. I love them. Pickled jalapenos for one, sloe gin but also homemade cranberry sauce or apple sauce and chutneys. I love your root cellar and when you do a tour of any room in your house. The root cellar after harvest has to be my favourite. Your's is wonderfully done and wonderfully enjoyed and used.
One day if I'm ever blessed enough to own a farmhouse with a cellar. I know exactly what I'd do with it. 😁
This was lovely to watch, thank you for sharing!
Agree ❤️😊❤️
I’ve been slowly growing my food storage so this is great motivation. Thanks so much for sharing!
Really enjoyed that one ! I love that you ferment and store as much as you can over caning ! I'm a bit of a fermented pickle freak myself haha
Gorgeous cabbage and pear gin sounds great, pear gin is a new idea to me but on the bucket list now.
Hi Shay, as we are in Australia I'm really keen to know the temperature of your pantry and cold room. I think in most cases we'd need a lot more insulation to keep cool here, but something to aim for would be good to know as its not standard practice here. I have plans for these to be built into our new home. Love your videos, very inspiring.
Hi, I am in Australia as well, and very keen to understand the temperature as well.
Hi, I am in keen as well, and very keen to well the keen as well.
Yep I’m in Australia too, and houses just were not build with cellars, well most weren’t. I wonder how we stored food back in the old days..hmm I’m feeling some research coming up.
I don’t subscribe to this channel, nor have I ever visited it before…BUT your thumbnail and video title caught my attention! I am totally interested in seeing how someone keeps their entire years worth of stored goods, canned good, vegetables etc.! Growing up at home my mother would can her own strawberry jams, home made apple sauce, canned rhubarb and that’s basically the extent of our home made canned goods. It’s nothing compared to what you have here, but it’s nice to revisit that small piece of my past in comparison to your modern day home made canned goods! Thanks!
Shaye, I read somewhere where Irish Spring soap (original smell) deters mice. Last winter we put four bars in our storage shed and no mice. Perhaps it would work in your root cellar.
Interesting!
I use electronic devices, it’s ultrasound and doesn’t bother anything but those vermin and friends
I tried Irish Spring soap around my garage and the mice around here actually nibbled on it 🤦 lol
@@GridIronHillFarm "....And They Like It Too....!"
@@GridIronHillFarm oh no ☹️
Simply awesome , eating with the seasons and self made natural product , how very satisfying
At IKEA, they have those huge IKEA 365+ Boxes with a silicone ring around the edge. I use them to store my 2.5kg sacks of flour and all the other dry goods, so nothing can get in there 😊 just a tip if you don't have a room that can be made completely pest-free and also helpful to stop a pest which was probably already in the goods when you bought them, because they won't come out of the box and can't get to your other items
Have you heard of mylar?
Easily the best video on TH-cam right now.
We are so dependant on stores for everything. Its a matter of time when food supply will be rationed.
Hard work is a beautiful thing and your root cellar is proof!