I thought my husband was a crazy prepper UNTIL the storm of the century, blizzard of 1993. I was pregnant with our fifth child and had no electricity for two weeks. We lived on a steep ridge and could not get off of it. We lived in complete comfort because of my husband's foresight. We had a generator which we turned on for one hour per day (one gallon of gasoline). We took baths (had propane water heaters), washed clothes vacuumed the floors, everything. Some people had no electricity for a month, and were unable to take a bath, wash clothes, and had very little food. I felt kind of guilty. We now prep for our neighbors who think we are "fringe" because of their lack of grip on reality. People become rather irritable when they do not eat for a while. We prefer to feed them rather than shoot them when they come to steal our preps. I am totally unashamed of being thought of as fringe. I am not on this Earth to be popular.
@@Keachybean I know, I wish more would say something along these lines as well, BUT I have found out that many who talk all pro-shoot-em ( or whose husbands r the ones who talk that way, more flippantly ) really do plan to share as they can, just they realize that wayyyy more people r gunna be hungry in many scenarios, than they can have ability to feed, and these same folks do seem to feel quite entitled to what others have worked hard for, in addition to their otherwise also very busy, hard-working, lives. Tho, again, the Christians oughta be a little more prayerful, and ready to do good as possible with a smile & a prayer for the food to miraculously not run out, imo ( as a Christian myself - but I admit I get fed-up with people too. And it will be very hard for me to share, then we all go to the aid tent together, as I have allergies & other issues, and DO NOT want to be eating what is handed out. In the case there is any such aid available.) .
We are seniors and live in a remote area of WV. We have the same exact view of things in our small area. We would rather feed our neighbors, who are mostly seniors also. Since earlier in the year, alot more of our neighbors are preparedness minded. Bravo, if more people had your mindset, our country would be a lot nicer place to live👍
I can't prep for all those who don't. But I have been able to share. This covid-19 had hurt many of our younger families. I've been lucky to have been able to share some of my hens. Two families with small children now have means to fresh eggs. It's the little things we all can do to help. In time it will be good for the whole community we each call home. We can do the same with seeds and know how.
@@Keachybean being as im disabled and live in an apt in the city i find it hard to prep but i do what i can i always keep water and can goods that are edible even not heated i can some veggies but thats about as far as i can go i would love to have a little cookstove for my balcony but since i cant feel im afraid i would burn myself so with help from neighbors and friends we do quite well storing stuff they have a cook stove and i have dry goods and such i have enough food in the apt to feed myself for 2 months and the 3 apts combined we could probably last 4 months im very thankful for who and what i have hugsssss from Canada
My grandfather always told me. "If you dont have enough food for 5 years. You will starve next winter." This includes storing seeds to grow food for 5 years.
Oh, that is a beautiful idea. I've seen a lot of "survival cans of seeds" on Amazon, but never really liked the varieties. I belive I probably need to just make my own now.
@@idkm07 I agree with the previous message. Aim for a year! Five months is still almost 5 months more than most people have, which is scary if you think about it. It's definitely a good start!
@@idkm07 every time you go shopping add a little more, it adds up over time. Think of it as food insurance. Sooner or later we all need it. Good luck and stay stocked up.
I live alone - except the livestock and pets - so most of my garden this year was put through the dehydrator. I usually freeze most of my produce, but needed freezer space for my meats I grew this year, since freezers were on the endangered list!! I love being able to put together a home grown meal with a foot of snow on the ground. Thank you to my grandparents for teaching me to save some over.
@@F-J. There are online videos by people who dry meat quite effectively. They have equipment, but do not usually do it in a dehydrator--they have rooms or places in their home that they prepare for drying meat (ie like barrels, etc)...
Bri I care for you and your family and this is why I say what I’m about to say. Don’t show the world all you have. ESP in these times. This is for your safety.
Your a walking target to the ones that will do what ever it takes to get supplies, including killing you. Stay safe an build a M.A.G. for a stronger security system. Never do your hand outs at your home unless they knew you before hand
Bay leaves are so good for this. I do the same. I like to pack them with the beans in the Mylar bags especially since I use the bay leaves when cooking beans anyway.
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost!
Bri, you really could do a whole series of videos geared to newer homesteaders and farmers, or those who are trying to be, showing how you plan your food for a year. Like, right down to how you decide what to grow or raise on the homestead, and what you buy. How often different things get used, how do you plan meals to make sure you rotate through all your stored items and keep meals interesting, how much food do you calculate per person. How do you even know what you need to store the food in, what makes you decide to buy another freezer instead of buying more canning jars and building shelving. We all can look at what we currently eat and do the simple math version, but if we're transitioning from all store bought to home grown, food preservation and bulk buying, we're going to need those new skills, its a different mind set. Part of your "grocery" budget is seeds, soil amendments and livestock feed, really. And then follow up with skills like how to use dried beans and other things a lot of people probably dont know how to cook, or use in their cooking.
My missus and I are about to buy land ourselves, we'd watch the heck out of a series like that. It'd be a life saver. Perhaps literally given the way things are going.
We are trying to learn these things too! Already doing a lot of canning, We raised some Cornish cross for the freezer, and growing our own herbs. My husband has been wanting me to try Azure for a while now.Its good to know I can do an order and help you guys out a tiny bit at the same time. I would love to see a video series like this. I love you guys!
@mickey mousey123 thanks for the recommendation; I will check her out. {Edited to add: I think you might have meant Rain Country? Listening now and enjoying her!}
Maybe You need a camera and alarm set up. Sharing all your bounty on this video might make someone what to go shopping at the Art & Bri Store. That would be devastating so please protect yourselves and all your food! Or find a friend to live in the camper so the homestead always has someone there. Be safe, love your show
I can’t watch this time - oh Lordy - between the lock downs and civil disobedience going on - truthfully I’m surprised you share as much information as you do! Love you - please stay safe.
For many homesteaders this is just part of the country life. My skills came not from my family, but from my neighbors. This is just life for those that live here and if is the way most live here. Even our young single fellows buy extra, just because it's to far to go shopping each day. If all crashes they will be the one asking " I got a deer, can you tell me how to dress it?"
In 1980s. I did the same things. Storing OUR FOODS. BUYING bulk. NOT SHOPPING at box STORES. Semi truck came to me with Amish MEATS. That was my co-op job. Our main co-op came from. ANN ARBOR MICHIGAN. LOCAL. THEY WOULD DROP IT OFF AT A LOCAL CHURCH ON SATURDAYS ONCE A MONTH. I WOULD HAVE MOST PEOPLE COME TO GET THE MEATS AT OUR HOME THE SAME DAY THE SEMI TRUCK CAME. I HAD A LIST OF NAMES AND SERVED THE PEOPLE. AT THAT TIMES WE LIVED IN THE CITY. WE HAD 1 AND HA L F ACRES OF LAND. WE WERE BLESSED. WE HAD. A SMALL CREAK ON OUR PROPERTY. I DID NOT HAVE THE AIR TIGHT BUCKETS LIKE YOU. GLAD THINGS ARE IMPROVING. I ALSO HAD A SWEET GENTLEMAN FARMER BRING US EGGS. NOW I AM BY MYSELF. SO I USE VERY SMALL AMOUNTS OF FOOD. I DO HAVE LOTS OF RICE. LIKE YOU SON WHO LOVES RICE. HOW CUTE WAS THAT? YOU BLESS ME SO MUCH BY TEACHING OTHER'S. VERY IMPORTANT. I HOPE YOU CAN GET A GENERATOR AND A COLD ROOM SOONER. YES YOU ARE GETTING A ROOT CELAR GREAT. I LOVE THE ONE YOUR HUSBAND ART FOUND WALKING AROUND. I LOVED THAT PIECE OF PROPERTY. DO YOU THINK YOU WILL BUY MORE LAND? I HOOE YOU CAN GET WHAT YOU NEED. BY PRAYING IN JESUS'S NAME. GOD IS BLESSING YOU BOTH SO MUCH. I LOVE HOW YOU BOTH WANT THE SAME THINGS. I WISH WE HAD THAT. BUT WE DIDN'T. LOVE HUGS PRAYERS LIVING IN MICHIGAN. ENJOYING YOUR FIG 🌳 TREE. I DO BY WATCHING YOU BRI AND YOUR CHILDREN. GLORY BE TO GOD.
Food storage is insurance against times of sickness, times of unemployment, times like we are experiencing this year when we have been quarantined due to the pandemic.
Yes this exactly. My hubby thought I stored too much. Well he lost his job and then became ill. With our food stores we survived for a year before things got too tight. All is well now and we're building back up our storage too.
Just Rhodes just bought a huge generator for his food and house incase of loss of electricity. I think that was the smartest buy for their family, especially when a baby is coming. You dont need to worry about your food at that time.
@@Jomama02 The one benefit, for me, of living where winters r long & cold...at least it gives u more time, between thaws, to deal with that ;) ! I otherwise dislike winter... . WI here.
@@sherraleeclark1654 and he has already used it. They lost power when the last big storm went through (not sure which hurricane it was) but the generator kicked.
I’ve been “storing food” for years...many of my friends and family labeled me a food hoarder etc...until COVID hit...guess who didn’t panic when the grocery shelves were empty?,...they no longer think I’m crazy lol. We all have families and we are kidding ourselves if we don’t think the worst can happen...we all got a taste in 2020 of how quick a crisis can happen...and we have to eat! Blessings y’all 🙏🏻💖
Storing up for the winter is not only historical, it’s biblical. I don’t consider myself a prepper but technically I guess I am...I “prep” (prepare) for winter or hard times. If it wasn’t for the stuff I stored, things would have been incredibly difficult when my husband lost his job for 7 mo! I LOVE Gamma lids!
Absolutely, I can remember my grandfather who ran a farm like yours and he always saved for lean years. Seed potatoes and he had fruit trees. He rotated the crops leaving a portion fallow to "rest the land". Everything is connected. Seeds and root cellars kept them going in lean years.
@taraboo art army Matthew Pace Save yourself some money on the gamma lids. Not all of your buckets need them. Seal up your buckets with decent lids, but as you open new buckets, just switch the gamma lid to the new bucket. Those lids aren’t cheap. Good job though.
I store all my homegrown carrots and beets in moist sand in containers with lids and put in our garage where it is cool but not freezing...they last from October till July!
@@christineosborne3155 I pack in layers the carrots. The sand should be moist but not overly wet...cover each layer of carrots with sand. Kinda like make lasagna! Try to keep the carrots from touching each other. I use a cardboard box in a plastic Walmart tote that has a lid. You will probably have 6 to 7 layers in the cardboard box. The cardboard lets it breathe a little. Then put wet newspaper on the top layer and put on the lid. Do the same with beets. I have never had anything work as well as this! This past summer I dug out some carrots from the previous fall and they were still crisp!
I feel this way every time I see my favorite homesteaders do a complete tour of all their food security. You can teach about why it is important to prep without showing the world what you have.
Haven't things been "about to get bad" for a while now? I think life is better when you don't live in fear. It is good to be prepared, but don't expect things to get "really bad soon"
I have been prepping for over 20 years. I am certain I have enough food on hand for me for a year...and now I've turned my attention to my daughter and other family. It's very much a blessing.
Years ago, we were given 200 lbs of apples and 60 lbs of potatoes at the same time. We knew they would take days and days to process (like your tomatoes). We took our 3 pressure canners and 3 more that we borrowed, to our church kitchen. We spent an entire day canning on their big industrial gas stove. A few friends came to help, it was a fun day. We left some canned produce for our pastor, too.
Your channel has always been a favorite among the Homesteading channels I watch. Mainly due to the beutiful photography and and your personalities. Also of all the you tubers in your vicinity I(western NC) I think your homestead has the most beautiful settomg. Since Art left his nursing job the quality of the videos has really stepped up in the amount of useful information. Just seeing y'all so happy has also added to my enjoyment. Thank you for sharing!!!
I just finished watching Lori over at Whippoorwill Holler and her latest video -pantry tour. Wow, is all I've got to say. I watch and follow many folks who put up food for various reasons--her pantry is a working, sustainable pantry inside their cabin just off the kitchen. In all the videos I've watched in my life about this topic her video is by far the most comprehensive. Like you, she has a stocked pantry because her momma and grandma and gr. grandma and so on did. All canned /dried foodstuffs in jars/ plastic containers and some store-bought just in case. Love your videos--thanks for sharing!
Glad to see I’m not the only one storing food,water,medicine.This will get worse before it gets better.Our country had taken a turn for the worse lately.Just be careful sharing your food storage people will get desperate.I’ve been prepping since last March.My family thought I was crazy buying extras every week.I have enough food stockpiled for 5 yrs and I feel good about it.Take care and God Bless you all.
I started prepping this year . I canned, dehydrated, freeze food, stocked up on medicine cabinet items. My son and husband each got a deer and my husband is buying half a pig and having it processed. Have a great week.
@@Jomama02 Yes that's tru but Kevin and Sara said they have different sizes and layaway option and explained why freeze dry is better than dehydrating .
I would too, but the problem is how LOOOOONG the process takes! It's not practical for putting up stuff from the garden or when butchering. Two to three days to process a few shelves of food wouldn't do it for us!
I'm learning all I can from you tube videos. Don't know anyone personally concerned with food storage. Have started my own library on books for herbal medicines, foraging, life skills. Only have a small patch of land that gets any sun but have started container gardening. Gardening is a whole lot harder than I ever imagined. (And I don't mind being considered fringe.)
I have always been a prepper, my folks were alive during the depression, the tail end of it. Sooooo they always had a well stocked pantry, My Aunt May taught me how to can everything. love it!
I wuv it. eating the dry rice. My heart. Oh my goodness I have never seen such a big bag of popcorn! That's a hoot. I love these videos. I have always stocked up for years, we grow a cow on a farmers field for every year and a half. I buy local pork 1/2's and chicken etc. I grow a garden but its tiny but still get some storage. I stock up on squash, onions etc. from local farmers too. Get my canning vegetables from them as well. We have one store that is able to get local grown veggies probably stored in the winter so going there for my fermenting produce. It is really nice to see your storage always and learning the other things you store too. (Teaching me a lot) Thank you. hugs and wuv
The Ball Canning book and quart size pressure cooker are also great tools for food preservation. I also forage for pecans and black walnuts. You also have a lot of food stored on the hoof. Love this video.
Thank you for your unselfishness and being so willing to help others learn how to be self sufficient. I am brand new to this concept. It does all seem overwhelming, I just don’t know how to start. Again, I am so glad I found your TH-cam videos, thank you.
This video came just in time because I have been looking into Azure. I’d like to order from them also. Thank y’all so much for sharing. Love your videos and appreciate them so much. God bless y’all.
I think that homesteaders are the people most prepared for most situations because of their normal way of life. I think it is prudent that we should plan ahead. It amazes me how many people have not learned from the first “wave” and are behaving as if this is a big surprise to them. Love your channel.
The whole point of being a homeateader, is to save up food for the winter, isn't it?😊 And I can understand why you Americans are prepping food during this Corona period... In Sweden things have not been so bad because we never went into lockdown, of course, things did disapear from the shelves but after a while when people realised that there is no need to panic, then thing stsrted to return on the shelves and everything went back to almost "normal." 👍🏻😊💖🇸🇪
Wow and I think it’s a chore to go down to my one freezer in the garage! The one fridge just full of tomatoes - love it! I love your outdoor life with all the activities.
whole grains and legumes are essential--learning to eat and enjoy rice and beans is a gift--as is barley, lentils (a miracle), all beans, chickpeas, quinoa and grits...these are staples in the diet--easy to prepare--never go bad...tasty as well...dts
Not putting food by is a fairly new thing, when I grew up, everybody had cellars or put food by as my grandma called it. Mom said it was for a rainy day
I absolutely love watching y'alls videos. You can tell you come from the heart. What you shared is very practical and takes me back to how I was raised. Trying to do that with my little quarter acre homestead in the suburbs. I don't have as much but it is still amazing what you can do with even just a little space and thought. Hopefully you guys have inspired others to do the same.
Living Traditions homestead just showed how to use a deep freeze dehydration. It was really fascinating. They were able to dehydrate eggs and showed how they rehydrate them. Really cool.
I am just stocking up like my grandmothers did. When you grow your own food, you preserve it til the next harvest. If you don't want to run to the store every week for things you don't grow, you buy in bulk. When you are poor, you buy as much on sale as you you can afford. It is just a smart thing to do. And it is nice to be able to help others, when there is a shortage or they are in need.
Bri, you have to move real quick after you open and insert the oxygen packets into the milar bags. You can't open them and leave the bag open. You have seconds, not minutes to get them in the bag and re-seal.
I store my dry goods by using a Food Saver. I love it. It also works good with storing your meats and frozen food because when you get all the air out of your bags then your meats etc don’t seem to get freezer burnt
Our house is only 800 sq ft so not a lot of storage space for food. I have , of late, been feeling the need to “prep” so have been doing a lot of dehydrating. I was glad to see how you are using the Mylar bags and oxygen absorbers. I need to learn that part.
I have a rotating pantry too and I love it. I did a 3 month run and now that's the way I'll buy groceries from here on out. We have a greenhouse for fresh veggies. I do a weeky raw milk run, but that's about it.
Whether or not you are a serious prepper (regardless of your reasons) there's a lot of useful information here. Buying in bulk is definitely cheaper as long as you can store it without spoiling as so much food is wasted because people don't store it correctly. It also makes sense to have a store of food in case of bad weather, loss of income etc and there is nothing quite like a home cooked meal with friends or gifting a meal to someone who needs it. Looking forward to learning more about this from you.
Have you considered investing in a freeze drier? Have watched Living Traditions homestead vlog and they love their new drier and it could really help with storage for a large family or to bless people with food they could use in the future too! 😃
We about to be there again if truckers strike and 160000 a day with covid by Christmas probably be between 3 and 5 thousand deaths a day 1% don't look so small when its a hard number stock up on everything.
Great video. You guys are an encouragement to others wanting to live a similar life! Thank you! Merry Christmas to you and your family, and a blessed New Year!
How funny, never thought I was considered a prepper. My great grand parents, grand parents and Mom and Dad taught us all, down the line, on how to preserve the food we grew and the harvesting of our animals. When we bought our home we did as they did......we built shelving in the back of every closet in the house. It was used to store all our caning goods and dry goods too. The garage had shelving from top to bottom holding onions, garlic, corn, sweet potatoes and tons of regular potatoes, herbs and so on. Seeds every where, drying and packaged for the spring and fall plantings. The freezers had all the meat, fruit and veggies. My favorite freezer because of the frozen grapes, lol. They were like candy to me! We did barter for meat because our land wasn't large enough for grazing animals. But it was a whole animal that we bartered for every year. We had fruit orchards and veggie gardens and that was used as money to get the meat we needed. Fish was plenty because of the large deep creek that ran through the land. Now that we are great grand parents, we do like you and buy in bulk only the items we use a lot. We still have meat birds and hens for eggs. And small raised gardens for veggies and 20 fruit trees. We have family that helps during the fruit harvest. It's to much for us in our old age. Thank you for sharing, it reminded me of the days way back when it was just a way of living. Love and Blessings from south Texas.
Grace and Joyful are growing up so beautifully!! Brighton, I love playing in the mud too!! Mr Wilder rice is my favorite side dish. !! I'm on Whole 30 and miss it so much!! This year I think has taught us to use due diligence. You guys are smart to do what you can. Due to space we can only store for 3-6 months. We are townies, so we can't grow our own meat. We buy organic from a local market. Not sure how to initiate the process but hope to connect with some local farmers to see if we could share raising some meat. I have 3 new raised garden beds ready for next next year and I hope to do better. Word to the wise... I know you want to be transparent and show the daily true lives of people like yourselves, but I think you need some form of security at your homestead. At least while you are off the farm. You are sharing alot of information and unfortunately there are bad people out there. Please, please be careful. Be well from Canada❤️
I grew up in the LDS church and we are all encouraged to having a 1 year food supply. So food storage is something that I have done all my life. At times I have stoped for one reason or another but I am never comfortable with my pantry until it’s bulging. My daughter thinks I’m a little excessive,but I’m planning on making another closet into another pantry. Plus the 25yr.emergency dry food. And I don’t consider myself a “proper” . just prepared!
I haven't done much preserving in the way of pickling, fermenting, or canning yet, though I did buy various sizes of canning jars last summer, anticipating growing lots of veggies. Unfortunately I hadn't prepared the beds in the previous fall, & then had injuries that held me back from extensive yard work, & still limit me, but if I had a good amount of freezer space, I could make the soups & stews I enjoy eating, & then freezing them in smaller portions, which suits my life today. The one soup I routinely make is a dried bean & veggie base, which I can change up in many ways. I usually cook it up in a large pot then dole out portions to freeze. When I want to make a new batch based upon veggies on sale or that will come from my next garden, I can add a frozen portion or two to heated up boxed organic broth to heat up with more fresh or self frozen veggies or meats, to defrost along with the container of homemade condensed soup base. It thickens after cooking the beans in fresh water, for a long enough time that it takes the dry beans to cook. I use an old French method of cooking beans which removes the chemicals that cause gas 1st. After that process, I can begin to cook the veggies with the beans, starting with the hardest veggies 1st, added when the beans are nearly cooked., followed by the smaller cut veggies, along with herbs & spices, which are added near the end. With the veggies it makes its own broth, but sometimes it thickens up so much, when stored in the fridge, and that's when I'm willing to try a trusted boxed organic broth when reheating a thickened soup. It's a good way to use up small amounts of leftover meats & veggies too. It's yet another way to preserve food, in the form of home made vats of soups & stews stored in plastic containers in numerous sizes. They keep for a few months when frozen.
WOW, you guys are an incredible resource. Just stumbled upon you today! Thanks for the amazing information! Super inspiring. We are converting a skoolie right now, and trying to plan out a space for food storage. Eventually we will have a homestead we part the bus on while we build our workshop & food storage. Also while we plant food trees and a garden. We feel we are a bit late to the game with all that is going on in the world, but everything in divine timing. Excited to see what else you guys talk about! Big love from Ontario Canada. - Erin + Brian too
In the 1940's, Ag Secretary Henry Wallace implemented a policy called the Ever Present Grainery where the government provided a floor price for strategic commodities so that farmers received a parity price and the government stored up a certain quantity. He said he learned it by studying Confucious.
You are not hoarding you were preparing for what may come in the future to help your family there is only two of us I am not hoarding I am preparing. I think everybody should
I really appreciate these videos right now. So helpful. The more the better! Our whole block is prepping now and our neighbors have started growing crops for each season which leaves me wanting to do the same. Right now we’ve been bartering bread for little bags here and there of their vegetables. I’m having issues growing & have no idea where to start with it. I’ve found a lot of people have the mentality to not help others start in the community. I bought the seeds and am currently trying to figure out where and how to start the seeds and when to plant them and in what area of the yard and soil to use?? I live in California. Any help on this would be greatly appreciated. Our children I feel are going to become a whole generation of preppers. It would be nice if it started with me. I learn by seeing so I just really appreciate it. Where do we get the buckets from? What are good books to get? For the canning and jarring where do we get the supplies for that? And again what are some good books? Starting from the bottom here. I’ve been buying from the stores week by week to stock up on small boxes, bottles and cans and this way just seems way more practical and cheaper! Thanks again for the awesome video.
I grew up with my Grandparents who "prepped"....I was 1 of 7 children. Prepping and frugality was a lifestyle. Granny bought meats & breads on sale and froze them, canned goods on sale and stored those. They always fished. We bartered with neighbors when they went hunting. The prepping didn't make sense to me until thunderstorms would knock the power out for days. That's when I knew what prepping was for.
Everyone can stock up even if its only $5 or $10 worth every time you buy food. Go for basics. And try to get a small variety. Pasta, beans, lentils, rice, even a few canned meats, and fish. Then buy the items that turn these basics into great tasting dishes and a little will feed a lot of people.I have an extremely tiny income and I've been able to put back some food basics. I may not be eating exciting gourmet dishes, but I will be eating a smal variety of foods should there come a time the stores do not have food. Which I think with everything that has happened & what is happening right now, that this winter will be our first test to see if we have prepared well enough to survive.
Great video once again guys- I have been canning like mad as I live in sub-tropical Queensland & have a fabulous vegetable garden- can't do home grown meat as I live in suburbia & don't think my neighbors would like my pigs & cow hahaha. I believe preparing for any outcome ( massive Bush Fires here last year) & then we got hit by Corona virus this year so it made me extremely aware. Cheers Denise - Australia
You know, I watched this video the other day when it came out and Ever since then it has been really bugging me. Then today I saw another youtuber do a video where she spoke about not showing your preps and she's correct. When you post this kind of stuff it make you/your family a target. I'm not trying to be bossy or tell you what to do, I'm just worried. With everything that has gone on in 2020, the bare shelves at the stores, lack of supplies etc this video worries me. The people who watch on here don't know where you live, but you have lots of neighbors who do and when people get hungry friendships etc go by the wayside.
Cool to see how u all do this too. And crazy excited as Azure is coming to New England! Just got word on our specific drop....2022 for first one. Lol but still a step to have them here. They are testing routes.
Please tell my husband that 🤦🏼♀️ I've caught him several times telling family members things about what I am doing (yeah I'm the crazy red hen around here) do it worries me who else he's talking to. I have to keep reminding him that it shouldn't be announced.
@@nonamepainter I think what Jesus Loving Freedom Fighter is saying that loose lips sink ships. Sometimes people brag about what they are doing. Her husband should be concerned about her “feeling” safe. That is one of his responsibilities as a husband. Certainly, they will probably share with loved ones. Have a great day.
YET AGAIN! Y'all have opened my eyes to some realizations. I will be coming back to this video that's for sure! My wife and I love your channel and what your family is about/stands for. We just moved to the midwest and we're trying to find a home and start our own place. You are right though, there is no better time to learn the trade than now. Thanks as usual 😉
Hi Art and Bri! Thank you for the information! I live in the city and I started stocking up on food 2 months ago. I live in a 566 sq foot house so I've had to get very creative as to where I store my food as I only have 1 closet in the entire house but I'm doing it though! I've learned how to pressure can meat and dehydrate fruits and vegetables! Will you keep sharing about food storage please. I knew about the gamma lids and the food grade buckets I even bought 90 mil food grade buckets because you can see through the 70 mil buckets didn't think that was thick enough but didn't know about the mylar bags ( I needed that ) much success to ya'll!
I normally just watch your channel for pure entertainment but I want to thankyou for this video. Really has me thinking about food storage and the different things I can do. At my parents we already have an xtra fridge and a seperate freezer in the basement and my mother is a smart shopper but at the same time this video shows me that there is so much more that we cld do (especially during this pandemic) Weve had to all be tested this past week, my grandmother is in the hospital with covid. we were already wearing masks and taking this pandemic serious but now it has made it even more a reality how serious we really need to be about not running to the grocery store needlessly. I was never into the (conspiracy theory prepper idea) but you've laid it out in a logical reasonable way and I appreciate that. 👏
Yes yes yes! I love this! I store dry goods also, and I love the charity aspect. Not just for a large emergency, but what if my neighbor gets laid off and needs food? I can give them a whole grocery load! Love your channel!
I thought my husband was a crazy prepper UNTIL the storm of the century, blizzard of 1993. I was pregnant with our fifth child and had no electricity for two weeks. We lived on a steep ridge and could not get off of it. We lived in complete comfort because of my husband's foresight. We had a generator which we turned on for one hour per day (one gallon of gasoline). We took baths (had propane water heaters), washed clothes vacuumed the floors, everything. Some people had no electricity for a month, and were unable to take a bath, wash clothes, and had very little food. I felt kind of guilty. We now prep for our neighbors who think we are "fringe" because of their lack of grip on reality. People become rather irritable when they do not eat for a while. We prefer to feed them rather than shoot them when they come to steal our preps. I am totally unashamed of being thought of as fringe. I am not on this Earth to be popular.
“Feed them rather than shoot them”. If only more Americans would think that way.
@@Keachybean I know, I wish more would say something along these lines as well, BUT I have found out that many who talk all pro-shoot-em ( or whose husbands r the ones who talk that way, more flippantly ) really do plan to share as they can, just they realize that wayyyy more people r gunna be hungry in many scenarios, than they can have ability to feed, and these same folks do seem to feel quite entitled to what others have worked hard for, in addition to their otherwise also very busy, hard-working, lives. Tho, again, the Christians oughta be a little more prayerful, and ready to do good as possible with a smile & a prayer for the food to miraculously not run out, imo ( as a Christian myself - but I admit I get fed-up with people too. And it will be very hard for me to share, then we all go to the aid tent together, as I have allergies & other issues, and DO NOT want to be eating what is handed out. In the case there is any such aid available.) .
We are seniors and live in a remote area of WV. We have the same exact view of things in our small area. We would rather feed our neighbors, who are mostly seniors also. Since earlier in the year, alot more of our neighbors are preparedness minded. Bravo, if more people had your mindset, our country would be a lot nicer place to live👍
I can't prep for all those who don't. But I have been able to share. This covid-19 had hurt many of our younger families. I've been lucky to have been able to share some of my hens. Two families with small children now have means to fresh eggs. It's the little things we all can do to help. In time it will be good for the whole community we each call home. We can do the same with seeds and know how.
@@Keachybean being as im disabled and live in an apt in the city i find it hard to prep but i do what i can i always keep water and can goods that are edible even not heated i can some veggies but thats about as far as i can go i would love to have a little cookstove for my balcony but since i cant feel im afraid i would burn myself so with help from neighbors and friends we do quite well storing stuff they have a cook stove and i have dry goods and such i have enough food in the apt to feed myself for 2 months and the 3 apts combined we could probably last 4 months im very thankful for who and what i have hugsssss from Canada
My grandfather always told me. "If you dont have enough food for 5 years. You will starve next winter."
This includes storing seeds to grow food for 5 years.
Wow! I am just trying to get to 5months storage 😫
Oh, that is a beautiful idea. I've seen a lot of "survival cans of seeds" on Amazon, but never really liked the varieties. I belive I probably need to just make my own now.
@@idkm07 Most of us can’t store that much without having a farm but You are doing good! After you have 5 months go for a year! You will need it!
@@idkm07 I agree with the previous message. Aim for a year! Five months is still almost 5 months more than most people have, which is scary if you think about it. It's definitely a good start!
@@idkm07 every time you go shopping add a little more, it adds up over time. Think of it as food insurance. Sooner or later we all need it. Good luck and stay stocked up.
I live alone - except the livestock and pets - so most of my garden this year was put through the dehydrator. I usually freeze most of my produce, but needed freezer space for my meats I grew this year, since freezers were on the endangered list!! I love being able to put together a home grown meal with a foot of snow on the ground. Thank you to my grandparents for teaching me to save some over.
I have been hearing more and more about dehydrators and water filtration systems...I am going to have to look into these...dts
What about drying meat ?
@@F-J. There are online videos by people who dry meat quite effectively. They have equipment, but do not usually do it in a dehydrator--they have rooms or places in their home that they prepare for drying meat (ie like barrels, etc)...
@@F-J. I am going to experiment with my smoker over the winter - I am guessing it will come out a bit like jerky.
Bri I care for you and your family and this is why I say what I’m about to say. Don’t show the world all you have. ESP in these times. This is for your safety.
I agree
Amen
Totally agree!
Sad but true. I agree
Your a walking target to the ones that will do what ever it takes to get supplies, including killing you. Stay safe an build a M.A.G. for a stronger security system. Never do your hand outs at your home unless they knew you before hand
I have a lot of elderly neighbors so I’m stocking plenty for them too......we may live on soup but it will be yummy soup !!!
That's very nice of you! God bless.
What kind of soup will you be making? I'd sure appreciate some new ideas
@Darryl Duncan well said! That's why we are all here. It does feel great ♥️
me too. i want to make sure they have what they need.
@Darryl Duncan wow good on u hun. God bless u!
I use dried bay leaves mixed throughout my dried foods for storage. They deter any food mites or weevils. Work really well.
Bay leaves are so good for this. I do the same. I like to pack them with the beans in the Mylar bags especially since I use the bay leaves when cooking beans anyway.
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost!
The Good Life you go ahead and do that then let us know how it works out for you 👌
@The Good Life but isn't that toxic? How do you avoid contaminating the food?
@The Good Life The stench never mind toxic gas . Not a good idea.
Bri, you really could do a whole series of videos geared to newer homesteaders and farmers, or those who are trying to be, showing how you plan your food for a year. Like, right down to how you decide what to grow or raise on the homestead, and what you buy. How often different things get used, how do you plan meals to make sure you rotate through all your stored items and keep meals interesting, how much food do you calculate per person. How do you even know what you need to store the food in, what makes you decide to buy another freezer instead of buying more canning jars and building shelving. We all can look at what we currently eat and do the simple math version, but if we're transitioning from all store bought to home grown, food preservation and bulk buying, we're going to need those new skills, its a different mind set. Part of your "grocery" budget is seeds, soil amendments and livestock feed, really. And then follow up with skills like how to use dried beans and other things a lot of people probably dont know how to cook, or use in their cooking.
I totally agree
This ^^^ 👍🏻
My missus and I are about to buy land ourselves, we'd watch the heck out of a series like that. It'd be a life saver. Perhaps literally given the way things are going.
We are trying to learn these things too! Already doing a lot of canning, We raised some Cornish cross for the freezer, and growing our own herbs. My husband has been wanting me to try Azure for a while now.Its good to know I can do an order and help you guys out a tiny bit at the same time. I would love to see a video series like this. I love you guys!
@mickey mousey123 thanks for the recommendation; I will check her out. {Edited to add: I think you might have meant Rain Country? Listening now and enjoying her!}
Maybe You need a camera and alarm set up. Sharing all your bounty on this video might make someone what to go shopping at the Art & Bri Store. That would be devastating so please protect yourselves and all your food! Or find a friend to live in the camper so the homestead always has someone there. Be safe, love your show
I can’t watch this time - oh Lordy - between the lock downs and civil disobedience going on - truthfully I’m surprised you share as much information as you do! Love you - please stay safe.
Amen, security cameras and signs along with good locks. Good home owners insurance or farm insurance too.
Don’t forget to keep your oxygen absorbers in an airtight container after opening the package, if you didn’t know that. ❤️
Much love!
For many homesteaders this is just part of the country life. My skills came not from my family, but from my neighbors. This is just life for those that live here and if is the way most live here.
Even our young single fellows buy extra, just because it's to far to go shopping each day. If all crashes they will be the one asking " I got a deer, can you tell me how to dress it?"
You shouldn’t show everything you have... these are unsettling times. And ppl will be hungry . It’s sad to say but it’s scary times ahead!!!!
In 1980s. I did the same things. Storing OUR FOODS. BUYING bulk. NOT SHOPPING at box STORES. Semi truck came to me with Amish MEATS. That was my co-op job.
Our main co-op came from. ANN ARBOR MICHIGAN. LOCAL. THEY WOULD DROP IT OFF AT A LOCAL CHURCH ON SATURDAYS ONCE A MONTH. I WOULD HAVE MOST PEOPLE COME TO GET THE MEATS AT OUR HOME THE SAME DAY THE SEMI TRUCK CAME. I HAD A LIST OF NAMES AND SERVED THE PEOPLE. AT THAT TIMES WE LIVED IN THE CITY. WE HAD 1 AND HA L F ACRES OF LAND. WE WERE BLESSED. WE HAD. A SMALL CREAK ON OUR PROPERTY. I DID NOT HAVE THE AIR TIGHT BUCKETS LIKE YOU. GLAD THINGS ARE IMPROVING. I ALSO HAD A SWEET GENTLEMAN FARMER BRING US EGGS. NOW I AM BY MYSELF. SO I USE VERY SMALL AMOUNTS OF FOOD. I DO HAVE LOTS OF RICE. LIKE YOU SON WHO LOVES RICE. HOW CUTE WAS THAT?
YOU BLESS ME SO MUCH BY TEACHING OTHER'S. VERY IMPORTANT. I HOPE YOU CAN GET A GENERATOR AND A COLD ROOM SOONER. YES YOU ARE GETTING A ROOT CELAR GREAT. I LOVE THE ONE YOUR HUSBAND ART FOUND WALKING AROUND. I LOVED THAT PIECE OF PROPERTY. DO YOU THINK YOU WILL BUY MORE LAND? I HOOE YOU CAN GET WHAT YOU NEED. BY PRAYING IN JESUS'S NAME. GOD IS BLESSING YOU BOTH SO MUCH.
I LOVE HOW YOU BOTH WANT THE SAME THINGS. I WISH WE HAD THAT.
BUT WE DIDN'T. LOVE HUGS PRAYERS LIVING IN MICHIGAN.
ENJOYING YOUR FIG 🌳 TREE. I DO BY WATCHING YOU BRI AND YOUR CHILDREN. GLORY BE TO GOD.
Food storage is insurance against times of sickness, times of unemployment, times like we are experiencing this year when we have been quarantined due to the pandemic.
Yes this exactly. My hubby thought I stored too much. Well he lost his job and then became ill. With our food stores we survived for a year before things got too tight. All is well now and we're building back up our storage too.
@@vickiSS Good job Vicki!
I did not recall, but hopefully those freezers have a backup power system incase of power outage. Losing all that food would be devastating.
I was thinking the same thing
Just Rhodes just bought a huge generator for his food and house incase of loss of electricity. I think that was the smartest buy for their family, especially when a baby is coming. You dont need to worry about your food at that time.
@@sherraleeclark1654 they were given the generator.
@@Jomama02 The one benefit, for me, of living where winters r long & cold...at least it gives u more time, between thaws, to deal with that ;) ! I otherwise dislike winter... . WI here.
@@sherraleeclark1654 and he has already used it. They lost power when the last big storm went through (not sure which hurricane it was) but the generator kicked.
I’ve been “storing food” for years...many of my friends and family labeled me a food hoarder etc...until COVID hit...guess who didn’t panic when the grocery shelves were empty?,...they no longer think I’m crazy lol. We all have families and we are kidding ourselves if we don’t think the worst can happen...we all got a taste in 2020 of how quick a crisis can happen...and we have to eat! Blessings y’all 🙏🏻💖
Storing up for the winter is not only historical, it’s biblical. I don’t consider myself a prepper but technically I guess I am...I “prep” (prepare) for winter or hard times. If it wasn’t for the stuff I stored, things would have been incredibly difficult when my husband lost his job for 7 mo!
I LOVE Gamma lids!
Absolutely, I can remember my grandfather who ran a farm like yours and he always saved for lean years. Seed potatoes and he had fruit trees. He rotated the crops leaving a portion fallow to "rest the land". Everything is connected. Seeds and root cellars kept them going in lean years.
I love gamma lids, but I sure don’t love the price of them.
Now, that's an oxymoron.
@@findland4323 what’s an oxymoron?
@taraboo art army Matthew Pace
Save yourself some money on the gamma lids. Not all of your buckets need them. Seal up your buckets with decent lids, but as you open new buckets, just switch the gamma lid to the new bucket. Those lids aren’t cheap. Good job though.
I store all my homegrown carrots and beets in moist sand in containers with lids and put in our garage where it is cool but not freezing...they last from October till July!
Thats awesome
That is fantastic! Thank you for sharing!
Do you have to redampen the sand periodically? With a spray bottle?
@@christineosborne3155 I pack in layers the carrots. The sand should be moist but not overly wet...cover each layer of carrots with sand. Kinda like make lasagna! Try to keep the carrots from touching each other. I use a cardboard box in a plastic Walmart tote that has a lid. You will probably have 6 to 7 layers in the cardboard box. The cardboard lets it breathe a little. Then put wet newspaper on the top layer and put on the lid. Do the same with beets. I have never had anything work as well as this! This past summer I dug out some carrots from the previous fall and they were still crisp!
@@christineosborne3155 I forgot to say that I keep checking the newspapers and mist them every now and then
I'd be careful sharing my preps. Things are about to get really bad
I feel this way every time I see my favorite homesteaders do a complete tour of all their food security. You can teach about why it is important to prep without showing the world what you have.
Haven't things been "about to get bad" for a while now? I think life is better when you don't live in fear. It is good to be prepared, but don't expect things to get "really bad soon"
@@rhondasargent945 where to read up on this?
@@drprepper4357 the passage is in 2 Kings chapter 20 in the Bible, you can search for commentary of the scripture as well
@@jmc2356 actually the account you are referring to is book Isaiah chpt.39:1-8( specifically verses 1-2)
“All homesteaders are preppers but not all preppers are homesteaders” -Tammy McNeill
Praying for your safety. Please stay very vigilant.
I have been prepping for over 20 years. I am certain I have enough food on hand for me for a year...and now I've turned my attention to my daughter and other family. It's very much a blessing.
This is awesome. I hope more people begin to understand that security is not crazy.
Years ago, we were given 200 lbs of apples and 60 lbs of potatoes at the same time. We knew they would take days and days to process (like your tomatoes). We took our 3 pressure canners and 3 more that we borrowed, to our church kitchen. We spent an entire day canning on their big industrial gas stove. A few friends came to help, it was a fun day. We left some canned produce for our pastor, too.
Your channel has always been a favorite among the Homesteading channels I watch. Mainly due to the beutiful photography and and your personalities. Also of all the you tubers in your vicinity I(western NC) I think your homestead has the most beautiful settomg. Since Art left his nursing job the quality of the videos has really stepped up in the amount of useful information. Just seeing y'all so happy has also added to my enjoyment. Thank you for sharing!!!
I just finished watching Lori over at Whippoorwill Holler and her latest video -pantry tour. Wow, is all I've got to say. I watch and follow many folks who put up food for various reasons--her pantry is a working, sustainable pantry inside their cabin just off the kitchen. In all the videos I've watched in my life about this topic her video is by far the most comprehensive. Like you, she has a stocked pantry because her momma and grandma and gr. grandma and so on did. All canned /dried foodstuffs in jars/ plastic containers and some store-bought just in case. Love your videos--thanks for sharing!
Glad to see I’m not the only one storing food,water,medicine.This will get worse before it gets better.Our country had taken a turn for the worse lately.Just be careful sharing your food storage people will get desperate.I’ve been prepping since last March.My family thought I was crazy buying extras every week.I have enough food stockpiled for 5 yrs and I feel good about it.Take care and God Bless you all.
I started prepping this year . I canned, dehydrated, freeze food, stocked up on medicine cabinet items. My son and husband each got a deer and my husband is buying half a pig and having it processed. Have a great week.
next time bring the camera when your sitting and listening to the animals and creek I would love to hear that too.
Thanks so much for mentioning Azure! We are a family of 8 and will for sure be trying them out!!
Living Traditions homestead recently bought and started freeze drying as another option to preserve food its amazing.
@@Jomama02 Yes that's tru but Kevin and Sara said they have different sizes and layaway option and explained why freeze dry is better than dehydrating .
@@Jomama02 Their idea was the saving of the food value/nutrients, for the freeze drying.
roots and refuge has one too
I would too, but the problem is how LOOOOONG the process takes! It's not practical for putting up stuff from the garden or when butchering. Two to three days to process a few shelves of food wouldn't do it for us!
The medium is $2695 and they offered layaway plans
I'm learning all I can from you tube videos. Don't know anyone personally concerned with food storage. Have started my own library on books for herbal medicines, foraging, life skills. Only have a small patch of land that gets any sun but have started container gardening. Gardening is a whole lot harder than I ever imagined. (And I don't mind being considered fringe.)
I have always been a prepper, my folks were alive during the depression, the tail end of it. Sooooo they always had a well stocked pantry, My Aunt May taught me how to can everything. love it!
I wuv it. eating the dry rice. My heart. Oh my goodness I have never seen such a big bag of popcorn! That's a hoot. I love these videos. I have always stocked up for years, we grow a cow on a farmers field for every year and a half. I buy local pork 1/2's and chicken etc. I grow a garden but its tiny but still get some storage. I stock up on squash, onions etc. from local farmers too. Get my canning vegetables from them as well. We have one store that is able to get local grown veggies probably stored in the winter so going there for my fermenting produce. It is really nice to see your storage always and learning the other things you store too. (Teaching me a lot) Thank you. hugs and wuv
The Ball Canning book and quart size pressure cooker are also great tools for food preservation. I also forage for pecans and black walnuts. You also have a lot of food stored on the hoof. Love this video.
Thank you for your unselfishness and being so willing to help others learn how to be self sufficient. I am brand new to this concept. It does all seem overwhelming, I just don’t know how to start. Again, I am so glad I found your TH-cam videos, thank you.
Goodmorning, so glad to see you today. I absolutely agree with being prepared, been doing it for years. Got to be ready for anything.
We got our first azure order and loved it.we canned the yellow potatoes and carrots.thank you from Arizona for letting us know about the company .
This video came just in time because I have been looking into Azure. I’d like to order from them also. Thank y’all so much for sharing. Love your videos and appreciate them so much. God bless y’all.
If you use their affiliate link they get credit the first time you order
@@christineosborne3155 thank you.
I think that homesteaders are the people most prepared for most situations because of their normal way of life. I think it is prudent that we should plan ahead. It amazes me how many people have not learned from the first “wave” and are behaving as if this is a big surprise to them. Love your channel.
The whole point of being a homeateader, is to save up food for the winter, isn't it?😊
And I can understand why you Americans are prepping food during this Corona period...
In Sweden things have not been so bad because we never went into lockdown, of course, things did disapear from the shelves but after a while when people realised that there is no need to panic, then thing stsrted to return on the shelves and everything went back to almost "normal." 👍🏻😊💖🇸🇪
Wow and I think it’s a chore to go down to my one freezer in the garage! The one fridge just full of tomatoes - love it! I love your outdoor life with all the activities.
I am currently putting things in place to store and use bulk food. Tell Mr. Wilder I really love rice too.
whole grains and legumes are essential--learning to eat and enjoy rice and beans is a gift--as is barley, lentils (a miracle), all beans, chickpeas, quinoa and grits...these are staples in the diet--easy to prepare--never go bad...tasty as well...dts
I’m so happy y’all are blessed, and are able to bless others with your farm
Not putting food by is a fairly new thing, when I grew up, everybody had cellars or put food by as my grandma called it. Mom said it was for a rainy day
I absolutely love watching y'alls videos. You can tell you come from the heart. What you shared is very practical and takes me back to how I was raised. Trying to do that with my little quarter acre homestead in the suburbs. I don't have as much but it is still amazing what you can do with even just a little space and thought. Hopefully you guys have inspired others to do the same.
Living Traditions homestead just showed how to use a deep freeze dehydration. It was really fascinating. They were able to dehydrate eggs and showed how they rehydrate them. Really cool.
I love how the goats are running along following you. So sweet!
I am just stocking up like my grandmothers did. When you grow your own food, you preserve it til the next harvest. If you don't want to run to the store every week for things you don't grow, you buy in bulk. When you are poor, you buy as much on sale as you you can afford. It is just a smart thing to do. And it is nice to be able to help others, when there is a shortage or they are in need.
Thank you Bri - I really enjoyed your vid. You are working so hard towards your dream.... and your childrens future.
Bri, you have to move real quick after you open and insert the oxygen packets into the milar bags. You can't open them and leave the bag open. You have seconds, not minutes to get them in the bag and re-seal.
Thanks.
I was going to say the exact same thing. I was thinking...hurry!! Lol
Thank you for the updated tips on storing with buckets, awesome !!
It’s been another great day watching you xxx
I store my dry goods by using a Food Saver. I love it. It also works good with storing your meats and frozen food because when you get all the air out of your bags then your meats etc don’t seem to get freezer burnt
Love love love this video. New to your channel. Love how down to earth y’all are.
Our house is only 800 sq ft so not a lot of storage space for food. I have , of late, been feeling the need to “prep” so have been doing a lot of dehydrating. I was glad to see how you are using the Mylar bags and oxygen absorbers. I need to learn that part.
I have a rotating pantry too and I love it. I did a 3 month run and now that's the way I'll buy groceries from here on out. We have a greenhouse for fresh veggies. I do a weeky raw milk run, but that's about it.
Whether or not you are a serious prepper (regardless of your reasons) there's a lot of useful information here. Buying in bulk is definitely cheaper as long as you can store it without spoiling as so much food is wasted because people don't store it correctly. It also makes sense to have a store of food in case of bad weather, loss of income etc and there is nothing quite like a home cooked meal with friends or gifting a meal to someone who needs it. Looking forward to learning more about this from you.
Have you considered investing in a freeze drier? Have watched Living Traditions homestead vlog and they love their new drier and it could really help with storage for a large family or to bless people with food they could use in the future too! 😃
We would love to. They are $5000, so we will need to save for one.
@@Brifromscratch their middle size is under $4000 right now
$2,600 and well worth the money.
So appreciate you sharing about your food storage. I feel it is very important these days.
You're doing an excellent job!
I love that these videos exist and you're benefiting from them as well, this is awesome!
Pandemic certainly taught us a few things about being prepared to the point of being independent 🙏🙏
So true
Excatly
We about to be there again if truckers strike and 160000 a day with covid by Christmas probably be between 3 and 5 thousand deaths a day 1% don't look so small when its a hard number stock up on everything.
I agree
Great stuff love the farm and family. Good idea to keep ready with your food i spend too much time at the store. Chris from England.
Wise people 🌸
Thank you for sharing. U are so organized. Bri I need your organizational skills! I sure wish Azure Standard would do drops in New England.
I never heard of azure, I will definitely look into them. I like the idea very much, makes sense. Thank you!
Great video. You guys are an encouragement to others wanting to live a similar life! Thank you! Merry Christmas to you and your family, and a blessed New Year!
Thank you SO MUCH!!! I am hoping to start with Azure Standard first of next year. (East Orlando, FL!) Have a Great Day on The Homestead!! 😁
They do drops in Winter Garden Fl, I live in Orlando also.
@@purpletulips4648 also in Titusville, which I found out about today. It is closer to my location. Just gotta save some $$$. 😁
@@janiceschriber4762 Oh! I'll need to check that schedule out because I'm always going to Titusville. Thanks for the info.
Seeing the the numbers on bulk saving would be great!
Dependence on self and close community is survival when times get rough. Eating in season & storage for winter is how we're suppose to live.
Love it❣ "stop playing with your food" was what I always told my kids and now tell my grandkids that live here on the farm with me now!
How funny, never thought I was considered a prepper. My great grand parents, grand parents and Mom and Dad taught us all, down the line, on how to preserve the food we grew and the harvesting of our animals. When we bought our home we did as they did......we built shelving in the back of every closet in the house. It was used to store all our caning goods and dry goods too. The garage had shelving from top to bottom holding onions, garlic, corn, sweet potatoes and tons of regular potatoes, herbs and so on. Seeds every where, drying and packaged for the spring and fall plantings. The freezers had all the meat, fruit and veggies. My favorite freezer because of the frozen grapes, lol. They were like candy to me! We did barter for meat because our land wasn't large enough for grazing animals. But it was a whole animal that we bartered for every year. We had fruit orchards and veggie gardens and that was used as money to get the meat we needed. Fish was plenty because of the large deep creek that ran through the land. Now that we are great grand parents, we do like you and buy in bulk only the items we use a lot. We still have meat birds and hens for eggs. And small raised gardens for veggies and 20 fruit trees. We have family that helps during the fruit harvest. It's to much for us in our old age. Thank you for sharing, it reminded me of the days way back when it was just a way of living. Love and Blessings from south Texas.
This video is awesome and informative , thank you!
Grace and Joyful are growing up so beautifully!! Brighton, I love playing in the mud too!! Mr Wilder rice is my favorite side dish. !! I'm on Whole 30 and miss it so much!!
This year I think has taught us to use due diligence. You guys are smart to do what you can. Due to space we can only store for 3-6 months. We are townies, so we can't grow our own meat. We buy organic from a local market.
Not sure how to initiate the process but hope to connect with some local farmers to see if we could share raising some meat.
I have 3 new raised garden beds ready for next next year and I hope to do better.
Word to the wise... I know you want to be transparent and show the daily true lives of people like yourselves, but I think you need some form of security at your homestead. At least while you are off the farm. You are sharing alot of information and unfortunately there are bad people out there. Please, please be careful. Be well from Canada❤️
God protect your bounty. Bri don't apologize for what you think you should have done. You are amazing in all you do. Stay safe.
You guys are living my dream.
Having enough to share and eating meals all from your land is so fantastic!
The old farmer had a three-year food supply in storage just in case he would have crop failure two years in a row.
Best luck to you and your family!
How did he store it for so long?
I grew up in the LDS church and we are all encouraged to having a 1 year food supply. So food storage is something that I have done all my life. At times I have stoped for one reason or another but I am never comfortable with my pantry until it’s bulging. My daughter thinks I’m a little excessive,but I’m planning on making another closet into another pantry. Plus the 25yr.emergency dry food. And I don’t consider myself a “proper” . just prepared!
I haven't done much preserving in the way of pickling, fermenting, or canning yet, though I did buy various sizes of canning jars last summer, anticipating growing lots of veggies. Unfortunately I hadn't prepared the beds in the previous fall, & then had injuries that held me back from extensive yard work, & still limit me, but if I had a good amount of freezer space, I could make the soups & stews I enjoy eating, & then freezing them in smaller portions, which suits my life today.
The one soup I routinely make is a dried bean & veggie base, which I can change up in many ways. I usually cook it up in a large pot then dole out portions to freeze.
When I want to make a new batch based upon veggies on sale or that will come from my next garden, I can add a frozen portion or two to heated up boxed organic broth to heat up with more fresh or self frozen veggies or meats, to defrost along with the container of homemade condensed soup base. It thickens after cooking the beans in fresh water, for a long enough time that it takes the dry beans to cook.
I use an old French method of cooking beans which removes the chemicals that cause gas 1st. After that process, I can begin to cook the veggies with the beans, starting with the hardest veggies 1st, added when the beans are nearly cooked., followed by the smaller cut veggies, along with herbs & spices, which are added near the end. With the veggies it makes its own broth, but sometimes it thickens up so much, when stored in the fridge, and that's when I'm willing to try a trusted boxed organic broth when reheating a thickened soup. It's a good way to use up small amounts of leftover meats & veggies too.
It's yet another way to preserve food, in the form of home made vats of soups & stews stored in plastic containers in numerous sizes. They keep for a few months when frozen.
Do tell the old French method of cooking beans!
WOW, you guys are an incredible resource. Just stumbled upon you today! Thanks for the amazing information! Super inspiring. We are converting a skoolie right now, and trying to plan out a space for food storage. Eventually we will have a homestead we part the bus on while we build our workshop & food storage. Also while we plant food trees and a garden. We feel we are a bit late to the game with all that is going on in the world, but everything in divine timing. Excited to see what else you guys talk about! Big love from Ontario Canada. - Erin + Brian too
In the 1940's, Ag Secretary Henry Wallace implemented a policy called the Ever Present Grainery where the government provided a floor price for strategic commodities so that farmers received a parity price and the government stored up a certain quantity. He said he learned it by studying Confucious.
You also have the knowledge and ability to guide family friends and neighbours to grow and rear food
You are not hoarding you were preparing for what may come in the future to help your family there is only two of us I am not hoarding I am preparing. I think everybody should
I really appreciate these videos right now. So helpful.
The more the better!
Our whole block is prepping now and our neighbors have started growing crops for each season which leaves me wanting to do the same.
Right now we’ve been bartering bread for little bags here and there of their vegetables.
I’m having issues growing & have no idea where to start with it.
I’ve found a lot of people have the mentality to not help others start in the community.
I bought the seeds and am currently trying to figure out where and how to start the seeds and when to plant them and in what area of the yard and soil to use?? I live in California. Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.
Our children I feel are going to become a whole generation of preppers. It would be nice if it started with me.
I learn by seeing so I just really appreciate it.
Where do we get the buckets from? What are good books to get? For the canning and jarring where do we get the supplies for that? And again what are some good books?
Starting from the bottom here. I’ve been buying from the stores week by week to stock up on small boxes, bottles and cans and this way just seems way more practical and cheaper! Thanks again for the awesome video.
HOLD THE PHONE!~!!!! I saw blue dots in the NE!!!!!! Shipping there doesn't start until Feb, but cooool. Heard they were expanding- checking it out!
they dont come to NJ. yet. still waiting. hopefulle soon. got burnt real bad from Zaycon a few yrs back so hoping Azure comes here soon
@@greatdanerescuemom1 looks like Feb of 2021 they'll be hitting us up. :) good luck mai pi!
@@mommabears993 you too.. blessings.
I grew up with my Grandparents who "prepped"....I was 1 of 7 children. Prepping and frugality was a lifestyle. Granny bought meats & breads on sale and froze them, canned goods on sale and stored those. They always fished. We bartered with neighbors when they went hunting. The prepping didn't make sense to me until thunderstorms would knock the power out for days. That's when I knew what prepping was for.
Everyone can stock up even if its only $5 or $10 worth every time you buy food. Go for basics. And try to get a small variety. Pasta, beans, lentils, rice, even a few canned meats, and fish. Then buy the items that turn these basics into great tasting dishes and a little will feed a lot of people.I have an extremely tiny income and I've been able to put back some food basics. I may not be eating exciting gourmet dishes, but I will be eating a smal variety of foods should there come a time the stores do not have food. Which I think with everything that has happened & what is happening right now, that this winter will be our first test to see if we have prepared well enough to survive.
Absolutely Love and Appreciate ur post. Keep doing what your doing. Like modern day pioneers. Love You Guys! randall-MO.
Ugh I wish I could have Been adopted my rather than how my life was growing up. Y’all are so calm and inspiring
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Great video once again guys- I have been canning like mad as I live in sub-tropical Queensland & have a fabulous vegetable garden- can't do home grown meat as I live in suburbia & don't think my neighbors would like my pigs & cow hahaha. I believe preparing for any outcome ( massive Bush Fires here last year) & then we got hit by Corona virus this year so it made me extremely aware. Cheers Denise - Australia
You know, I watched this video the other day when it came out and Ever since then it has been really bugging me. Then today I saw another youtuber do a video where she spoke about not showing your preps and she's correct. When you post this kind of stuff it make you/your family a target. I'm not trying to be bossy or tell you what to do, I'm just worried. With everything that has gone on in 2020, the bare shelves at the stores, lack of supplies etc this video worries me. The people who watch on here don't know where you live, but you have lots of neighbors who do and when people get hungry friendships etc go by the wayside.
I agree. Show the process and some stuff. BUT, definitely not the location and everything that you have?
Cool to see how u all do this too.
And crazy excited as Azure is coming to New England! Just got word on our specific drop....2022 for first one. Lol but still a step to have them here. They are testing routes.
*Security Note 1.0 :
Nobody outside your compound should have knowledge of your stores.
Please tell my husband that 🤦🏼♀️ I've caught him several times telling family members things about what I am doing (yeah I'm the crazy red hen around here) do it worries me who else he's talking to. I have to keep reminding him that it shouldn't be announced.
@@nonamepainter I think what Jesus Loving Freedom Fighter is saying that loose lips sink ships. Sometimes people brag about what they are doing. Her husband should be concerned about her “feeling” safe. That is one of his responsibilities as a husband. Certainly, they will probably share with loved ones. Have a great day.
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YET AGAIN! Y'all have opened my eyes to some realizations. I will be coming back to this video that's for sure! My wife and I love your channel and what your family is about/stands for. We just moved to the midwest and we're trying to find a home and start our own place. You are right though, there is no better time to learn the trade than now. Thanks as usual 😉
Since you're not living at the farm, aren't you concerned that someone will empty your freezers while you're gone? Just wondering
That was my thought also.
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Great video! Very practical.
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Hi Art and Bri! Thank you for the information! I live in the city and I started stocking up on food 2 months ago. I live in a 566 sq foot house so I've had to get very creative as to where I store my food as I only have 1 closet in the entire house but I'm doing it though! I've learned how to pressure can meat and dehydrate fruits and vegetables! Will you keep sharing about food storage please. I knew about the gamma lids and the food grade buckets I even bought 90 mil food grade buckets because you can see through the 70 mil buckets didn't think that was thick enough but didn't know about the mylar bags ( I needed that ) much success to ya'll!
Id love to see some ways that u write down for 2 weeks worth of meals... I need good meal plan ideas
I normally just watch your channel for pure entertainment but I want to thankyou for this video. Really has me thinking about food storage and the different things I can do. At my parents we already have an xtra fridge and a seperate freezer in the basement and my mother is a smart shopper but at the same time this video shows me that there is so much more that we cld do (especially during this pandemic) Weve had to all be tested this past week, my grandmother is in the hospital with covid. we were already wearing masks and taking this pandemic serious but now it has made it even more a reality how serious we really need to be about not running to the grocery store needlessly. I was never into the (conspiracy theory prepper idea) but you've laid it out in a logical reasonable way and I appreciate that. 👏
Organic apples a dollar a pound!! Wow
Yes yes yes! I love this! I store dry goods also, and I love the charity aspect. Not just for a large emergency, but what if my neighbor gets laid off and needs food? I can give them a whole grocery load! Love your channel!