Carrots, Beets, and Leeks | Last Harvest of the Year
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 17 ต.ค. 2019
- With the garden season coming to an end, we pull up carrots, beets, and leeks and get them stored away for the winter months.
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Both of you are obviously high capacity people with very impressive homesteading skills along with critical thinking skills and are the type of folks our nation needs raising the next generation.
Lol I love the bloopers. So enjoyable watching your harvest and seeing what you cook with them
I have not seen such a beautiful healthy prolific garden since my grandparents in the 70's. You guy know what your doing!
Marie H thank you 😁
It's crazy. You guys are warmer than we are here in the mountains of New Mexico.
@@MaximusCommodus pretty crazy.
In the middle of winter the farm animals, pigs and chickens would enjoy a veggie now and then.
seeing your carrots triggered a childhood memory for me. when i was a girl there was an older man in the neighborhood named harry. he grew carrots like yours & us kids knew if we asked harry would pull & wash a carrot for each of us. love your videos thanks for letting me live vicariously through you!
Carrot & beet greens, btw, are edible raw in salads, but even better than that, if you have a dehydrator, you can dehydrate them and grind them into a powder for greens powder, which can be put into soups, stews, scrambled eggs, and so forth, giving everyone a bit of folic acid (good for digesting iron) and a number of micronutrients not often found in bulkier foods. Beet greens contain oxalic acid, which can irritate stomachs or worse in large quantities, but boiling or steaming can help remove the oxalates, including before dehydration. Sometimes the green bits of leeks can also be dehydrated and added to greens powder. And if you want to 'sweeten' the bitterness, spinach and cabbage or brussel sprouts (yes, those things) can also be shredded and dehydrated and ground for adding in.
ladyofthemasque thank you, we went with air drying the greens this year ☺
Your videos make me happy. You got yourself a winner of a mate... (both of you) life's a garden, dig it.
Bloopers are the best
I'm in no way familiar with fresh food storage. Finding your channel has been so amazing! I never knew you could store carrots like that! Maybe one day I'll have a property and garden as beautiful as yours! ♥️
Those carrots are huge looking!
Your dogs keep watch while you work in the garden. Pretty cool. This is obviously not your first trip to the gardening rodeo.
Compared to many other shows hands down u two have figured out how its supposed 2 be done. My opinion. Think abt it. The hook 4 me is someone uprooted their life away from the modern. People r curious abt how u will eat.grow.store.food.preparefood. show us how great it tastes from the ground.keep warm.get rid o pests.protect. property. Animals.water. etc...... All sorts of living off the grid stuff. U two nailed the mix of that and couples.fam thing great! U balance it just right. Great attitudes. N energy. With outtakes it helps make us see u as regular people. Not high n mighty. Other shows were. Ugh. One kept making us viewers feel like sht cuz. We have 2 grocery shop.another in Colorado started bashing their own visitors who wernt used 2 walking wooded areas. Used 40 min strait bashing negative. Abt people who tripped. N something is wrong with them. Etc.another one. Husband n wife appeared 2 be fighting 4 vid face time. He kept cutting her off with negative type tone. Hard 2 watch turned it. Another show has 2 much kid stuff n almost zero farming.setting up things. Building. Nothing. It was like a daycare center off grid. I love kids but kinda wanna see u build a shelf in ur chicken coop more.or plant more things. I got bored. I can see kids here at home. One guy almost stopped watching when he began lecturing abt politics like a CNN analyst. Don't wanna hear abt THT sht. His show hook living off grid setting things up same as urs. But glad I decided give him chance hes been good ever since. He was good be4 THT odd episode.he has balance 2. Anyway thanks
That was so funny at the end Ariel, both of you laughing:)
Wow look at these fresh carrots...
Nice crop. Love beets and carrots. Enjoy
How industrious y’all are. Hubby & I really enjoy your videos.
You have no idea how much I enjoyed this video. It's been decades since I saw real carrots. I get sick of seeing F1 hybrids and having to put up with their bland taste. I envy you guys having real organic unaltered varieties. Well done on your bumper harvest.
You're killing me, show the finished dinner!! Enjoy your videos, thanks both and keep it up. I don't want anymore pickled food lol.
We stored them between layers of shredded newspaper and would put them away only after the dirt completely dried. Potatoes the same way. Apples and pears we wrapped in newspaper. We canned a lot of beans, tomatoes, peas, meat, fosh, carrots, some potatoes and turnips. Cabbage was made pickled same with cucumbers. Corn was canned and frozen.
I watch the whole video just for your smile! It looks like you all are doing a great job, thanks for the video.
I can almost smell the fresh produce, they look so good!☺️👍🏻
Did you know you can wash and the boil the carrot greens and use for veggie stock! Golden beets are the best boiled, peeled and eaten warm. No need to even put salt on them!!! Yummmmm
My father used to store veg in a similar way during WW2. They used to put straw in a hole then cover with more straw and then cover with earth. They called it a Tump in Wales.....Just an aside.
You have a beautiful winning smile. Such a hard worker you two! I taught my children a good work ethic and what a difference it makes in ones life. Work hard and the rewards will be great!
My God, and all this your first year! I see your videos over and have fun specially when you gays are having such good time. Keep it up 👍 I love 💗 seeing you so happy 😃
Wowzer you two lol. What a great harvest of everything you have grown this year. Those were some huge carrots for sure and leeks are one of my fav vegetable to eat, I love them better than onions. You both should be so very proud of yourselves and what you have achieved in your garden this year. I have been blown away by the sheer beauty and volume of abundance. I would call this year a huge success wouldn't you? Hugs, Michelle
bohemiangypsy99 Thanks Michelle, we are so grateful 😁 we never imagined things would have grown this well in the first year. We did have some things not grow as well but we were both pretty estatic overall!
You should be proud of your harvest for the first year. I have learned so much from you guys. Now if you could just get a moose or deer or meat of some sort, you would be completely set up for the winter.....congratulations on a job well done!
I never seem to get over the miracle of pulling food out of the ground !
Your lifestyle requires such diligence and hard work...but you're both so good at it you make it look effortless...beautiful bountiful harvest...so looking forward to watching you through the winter months.God bless you both.
You two are really so inspiring, hardworking, beautiful,and have the most wonderful senses of humor!!
I don’t even know how you are going to eat all of that food!!
I’m sure soon you will be feeding half your community with your amazing gardening skills! Thank you for sharing your Alaskan journey and commitment to simple living with us. It makes me want more of that for myself and my family.
IKR!!? ME TOO😊
Fresh and natural ... !!
Carrots 🥕 are beautiful & plentiful love beets nice winter supply root vegetable
Dry sand layered in pails is a simple means of storing and preserving carrots and beets for indoor winter cold storage.
Picking veg is a great time of year
What an awesome Harvest, actually your entire harvest has been amazing. I love Beets, any way any kind they are amazing. Great job Y'all. Especially love the hairy carrot line, lol
You guys make it look so easy! Yummy dinner, I bet it smelled amazing. ^_^
Beautiful harvest & the size is Phenomenal Those carrots 🥕 funny 😆 twist
Keep your beet greens . The larger leaves make great mini cabbage rolls . Beet greens are healthier than spinach
I just love your smile. It alone is enough to draw me in and watch this :)
Holy moly! That's a lot of carrots!
When the carrots get a bit dried out this winter, just bring them into the kitchen a bit earlier in the day...cut off the ends, and then cut them into chunks. Pop them into a bowl. Cover them with water, and put them in the fridge...or whatever's nice and cold.
Don't try to peel them till it's time to cook dinner, but by dinnertime, they should have crisped up, and be much easier to prep and eat.
Growing up, we always stored carrots with sawdust from a lumber mill.
The past two years, and this year, I stored them in moist sand.
I like the moist sand better.
In my cellar, they kept eleven months!
Hairy carrots need love too. Great video guys. You do a great job always.
LOL at the end...
Love the corkscrew carrot...you guys should write a book about Alaskan homesteading and put pictures of your produce in it next time. :)
pickled beats = win
OMG, what a bumper crop of amazing vegetables! You’ve done so well to grow so much high quality produce - I don’t think I’ve ever been able to grow that size carrots, beets and leeks here in Australia. I reckon the root cellar must be filling up nicely (any chance of a sneak peak in the cellar please?). You are both so very inspiring. Thank you for allowing myself and others to share your journey. Much appreciated. Cheers. Jeff 👍😀🌻🥕🥬
Please don't stop videos a tumor in spine has put me house bound again thank you
That was a crop and a half. Love the carrots they were huge.
I’ve really started looking forward to your videos. They are a great mix of entertaining and instructional. I’ve already learned a ton about food storage.
Pickled Beets and also fresh Buttered Beets are sooo good. My mouth is watering. Wow, you guys had an amazing first year for your Alaskan garden wow. Fantastic job. Love seeing the homestead come together.
Interested in a root cellar update once the hauls are stored. Also, want to see a video of you all getting that carrot tote down the ladder. “Contents will shift upon handling” lol
Good Evening from Cajun Country! Great video!! wow, ya'll got alot of veggies this harvest season! the summer was so bad down here, 100+ temps, our garden didn't produce at all, most of it died, so glad ya'll did alot better! Lots of loves and blessings from N'awlins Louisiana!! U.S.A.!!!
Just when I thought I was devastated that the video was over you saved me from utter ruin and damnation with a blooper reel and the "this is how we use this food" scene. I was completely enraptured throughout. Thank you so much! (Maybe a cellar update soon?)
Your carrots are so beautiful and uniform. No puny ones. You must thin them pretty well.
Wow love your harvest of beets and carrots.
The "Very Hairy Carrot!" Priceless!
Great looking harvest.I love red beets,
Oh my gosh you guys are good to go for the whole winter time. That's really wonderful.
Amazing crop. Lol bloopers. Adore you both. Hug's from Australia xx
What a food stash you guys have harvested this year. Congratulations!
Good Morning. Wow. I want to learn to grow like you guys. You guys are Awesome! Have a blessed day from your TX neighbor!
Not excessive when you consider it will need to feed them for 8 months until next years garden starts to produce.
@@thelandofmint Are you serious? Do you know what Winters are like in Alaska?? Do you have any idea how difficult it is to take that late night jaunt to Wal-Mart's for the 'oops I forgot' grocery run? How many grocery stores do you think they have outside of Seward, Wasilla and Ankorage? Lol at this comment! The canning they do preserves food for sometimes years. Both them AND THEIR ANIMALS survive on that food for 3/4 of a year before they can stock up again. Too much food?!!?! Yeah......no, I don't think so.
Really cool guys. Novice here, taking notes and enjoying. One thing for sure, you will bit starve this winter.
OMG..they are awesome!!..garden grown vegetables taste so much better🤗
Great stuff, and you can never have enough pickled foods lol !!! 👍👍👍😃✌️
Harry Carrot “Cubs win! Cubs win!”
Your garden was amazing. You all did do well for your first year. I am looking forward to next year, now that you are seasoned Alaska Gardeners. We are striving to moving there next year so watching you all has been such an inspiration to us. Keep up the great work.......love your videos.
You guys are killing it. Hard to believe this is your first year. Wait until next year, you probably double the harvest this year. Maybe after you are done harvesting everything, you can do a recap video to show all the food you canned and stored away for this year just like the garden update you did before
Yes, good call bud!
Congratulations on your harvest
|HAAA! Your face when you said you're not a fan of a hairy carrot! :)
You should try making pickled eggs in beet juice with beets that you grew, they are pretty good and easy to make.
I love your videos WITHOUT that bumper music. I can just hear your animals and you as you work so enjoyable.
I love hearing the ducks,geese and rosters.
Package some of the carrots and send it USPS to Brooklyn, NY. Please and thanks 😊
That was very nice watching you get the vegetables ready for storage,
Great garden haul
Gorgeous beets, my favorites!
Really wanting an updated root cellar tour!!!!
Great harvest! I love seeing all your hard work paying off.
You two are so cool. Never change keep doin what your doin 😊. Lol
God Bless.
Love those beets--pickled and/or fermented. Cleaned, dried then dipped in paraffin wax keeps them fresh looking 4-5 months. Good looking produce!
I’ve only eaten pickled beets. Never tried roasting fresh ones until lately. I’m going to plant a few next Spring. I’m about to harvest my turnips here in middle TN. Just dug my sweet potatoes.
@@jonihughey1352 my mom made beets tolerable for me by first boiling till tender, then she sliced them about 3/8 inch thick then sauteed in butter with plenty of salt and pepper. Even the canned ones are much better this way IMHO 😎
Carrot, beets, and leeks oh my!
Beetroot caviar. For cooking, we need: Beets - 4 pieces. Onion - 1 head. Tomato paste - 2 tablespoons. Sugar - 1 tablespoon. Salt to taste. Ground black pepper - 0.5 teaspoon. Vegetable oil for frying vegetables. 1. Four raw beets on a fine grater and fry for 5-7 minutes in a frying pan in vegetable oil. 2. Cut onions into small cubes, fry in a separate pan for 4-5 minutes until transparent. 3. Mix the vegetables in one pan, add salt, sugar, tomato paste, mix. Cover and simmer for 15 minutes. 4. Add seasonings, mix. Fry for another two minutes and you're done! Cool caviar.
WOW! Look at that magnificent soil and those spectacular vegetables!
Here in the California Sierra near Angels camp we get snow and learned from and old 80's episode of the PBS series The Victory Garden how to layer a good two feet of straw over our rows of root crops as well as cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli after the first frost so that when snow came and temps dropped we could still be harvesting the vegetables well into March.
Beth Grant-DeRoos Angels Camp... We grew up with a cabin in Arnold! Miss that place.
Awesome crop!
Love watching your harvest time wow that’s a lot 😇❤️
I wait for your outtakes. So fun. Always brings a smile.
WISH YOU GUYS WOULD SHOW HOW THE LOFT LOOKS LIKE NOW. CURIOUS TO SEE HOW YOU ARE UTILIZING THAT SPACE???
GravInducedSleepTrac we haven't done much at all to the inside of the cabin, although we'd like to in the future ☺
You folks are amazing! My heart aches as I watch your videos, I often miss Alaska so much!
You must be looking forward to winter, now knowing how still and beautiful it will be over there. You won't be hungry that's for sure. Peace!! ✌️🏵️
Great return on hard work!!👍🏻❤️
Mmmmm, I miss eating carrots and radishes fresh out of the garden. But that ending, that made me hungry. Also had me laughing with your out take.
Gotta love bloopers! Thanks for adding those!
That shrill little rooster always brightens my day hearing him! How about a short little video on him one day?
Ont n arrive jamais avoir des carottes comme la photo du sachet de graines sont plus ont moins tordues 👍👏🇺🇸
Try packing your carrots in sand. They store well. Just an option if you're paying for those shavings.
No more pickled food! LOL! love the outtakes!
God morning we are enjoying your videos very much.
Couple of tips excess manure can cause some carrot varieties to become hairy like your purple ones.
Leek are great for drying.
If you soak your carrot in clean cold water they will store better.
Have a blessed day !
Wow! What a haul! Good job! ❣️♥️❣️
Great crops!
HOLY CARROTS!🥕 You guys are well awesome.