We Grew Corn in Alaska | Harvesting 200 Heads of Garlic
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- Cold climate gardening is a constant challenge but the reward of growing your own food never ceases to motivate and inspire us. We are grateful for our little plot of land that provides us with such abundance. With the warm spring much of Alaska experienced this year, plant growth in the high tunnel was rapid. We harvest beautifully pollinated corn, peppers, and tomatoes and get our hands dirty digging up our yearly supply of garlic.
Onion Jam Recipe -
5-6 lbs sliced onions (red, yellow, white and shallots)
1 cup balsamic vinegar
1 cup red wine vinegar
1 cup honey
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/3 cup olive oil
2 tbs unsalted butter
1 tsp kosher salt
1 tsp pepper
Chopped Oregano, Sage and Thyme
Saute onion mixture with butter, olive oil and herbs of preference for 30 minutes, stir frequently.
Add vinegar and continue to cook for an additional 30 minutes.
Add honey and sugar, mix well, cook for another 15 minutes or until consistency desired is reached.
Process onion jam in 1/2 pints with a water bath canner for 15 minutes.
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Many decades ago my Grandfather taught me a trick for growing tomatoes. He would leave steel nails outside over the winter to rust and then place 3 of them around every tomato plant in the spring. Tomatoes love iron and the nails slowly leach iron via the rust into the soil to feed the plant. I have grown fantastic tomatoes ever since. Cheers from southeast BC.
That is great to know, especially since I live in Alaska. Thank you for information..
WOW!
@@brenda9140 Yup, crazy eh! The #1 nutrient all types of tomatoes need is iron. I live at the 3,000 foot or 1,000 meter level in the Canadian Columbia Mountain Range (left of the Rockies) and this hack works well in my region so I thought it might be useful for Alaska.
I'm going to have to try it
I am going to try this thank you!
I love how everything Eric eats is the best thing he’s ever eaten in his life. 😆 Your harvest makes me want a garden so badly!
The abundance of food you guys harvest every year always amazes me.
And the wisdom in which they manage their abundance exceeds excellence
They are like magic gardeners. It shames me.
I love that pretty much every time you bite into something new you have prepared you declare “That’s one of the best things I have eaten in my life.” Your enthusiasm for a good bite is so endearing:)
You are right Anne, great process, the corn are strong and very enticing to have some bite. Where are you from 🌴
It's a very nice thing to see people living such a healthy and self providing life style like you do.. Greetings from Algeria..
It has been a suspiciously long time since a pickled egg video. I'm hoping for a 2 hours long egg pickling video with a q and a with the chickens. I feel like their opinions on current world events are needed in these hard times.
🤣🤣🤣
Agree
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Hard times? It's all intentional. First they must destroy, in order to pave the way for global communism.
Just me but I love the non political videos. I nice respite from the harsh cruel world. What they are doing fits quite nicely in with any food saving without the ugly talk of today. Please stay the same and dont change.
I love the genuine joy you both have when harvesting your garden. It's like you're opening a present with each garlic pulled, each vegetable picked. Thank you for sharing your journey!💕
Eric... your cat always belongs in the show! She is glorious and beautiful!
Ariel is the Dough Master!!! Everything she makes looks so good.❤❤love this time of year, watching you can all your goodies. Love to Bo , Bandit and kitty.🙏💜🙏💜
One of the prettiest Kitty flowers ever there. She's helping garden.
“We had to take a quick break to pet a cat”. I would do the same thing Arielle. 🤣
I would LOVE the recipe for those corn flour/ pepper cheese Patties… they look amazing… Thank you for everything you do….
I LOVE you guys. Love seeing how strong your bonds are with each other, your fur babies and the land. Stay safe and well.
Your cats look of pure adoration warmed my heart.
Thanks for letting Pepper make an appearance in the garden.
She loves the high tunnel 🙂
I hate hate hate when your videos end. I love them.
The corn cheese pepper cakes were making me drool! Very nice production by the way. Love the focused shots where we are almost "overhearing" your conversation. Thanks
You are right Michelle , the process is really great and the corn is quite enticing, where are you from ? 🌴
Never thought of harvesting unripe tomatoes and other crops before they’ve matured. Great for ripening and drying! Awesome video
“This is the best thing I’ve ever tasted”😂😂😂That cracks me up every time Eric!
Everything looked awesome! That was a fine garlic harvest for sure! Thanks for bringing us along! MN 🇺🇸
For years now I have to say that I've enjoyed practically every last one of your videos, and when it comes to harvest and canning time these are some of my absolute favorites. Although the harvest aren't always what you hope for you always seem to be so thankful for you are able to produce, and like with the corn and even though it has taken several years! Finally success. May you continue to be successful in all that you do experiencing good health, growth and continued blessings and prosperity and I thank you for being such a wonderful blessing to my life and I am so happy for you and all that you have been able to accomplish at your home in Alaska and with your TH-cam channel.
Very well said!
Those look goood
In my opinion and as a veggie gardener for two-three decades in unforgiving Calgary weather (average 90-100 frost-free days), you have done extremely well with you veggie garden trials and errors - and by and large succeeded. My accolades to the the two of you, from Kurt, who has watched most of your episodes since last autumn. Please stay happy and forever content together in your mutual efforts in southern AK.
It never dawned on me that green tomatoes would fully ripen in the house, I always throw mine out when I pull the plants, I pickled them once, but wasn`t a big fan, I won`t throw them out any more. I love all the canning videos, I have been canning for 3 weeks now, 35 qts. tomatoes, 17 pints salsa, 14 qts. hot peppers, I have 16 empty qts left for the 4 tomato plants I still have, keep up the great work, I love the videos. The best thing I ever put in my mouth, Eric kills me, all the best.
I was happy to see Ariel so excited over growing corn. It is pretty amazing that you were able to do that in the high tunnel. If you try it again next year, when the corn tassels shake the stalk to get as much pollen transferred. Love you two. You are so real. Till next time...
Ahhh loved the kitty in this video. So cute
There's something incredibly soothing about harvest, I love watching you do it for yet another year!
Have just discovered your Utube channel and am now binge watching back 4 year's.
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Woohoooo…… I made 9 pints of corn relish as our local food had all the corn you could shove into one of their bags for $1.00! Love watching you….oh yes, we did 14 bags of frozen corn for winter!
Corn relish was one of my great life surprises. It sounds TERRIBLE but it is one AMAZING. Had it with dinner, in fact.
I made pickled corn relish for the first time this year and it is fantastic!
Every time y'all show your garden Mike comments. It's the nicest looking garden of all the folks we follow/watch. Now I hear people say 100%, best, most, and etc everyday. That's not what I'm doing. We catch up with our virtual world on the weekends and after looking at many of those homesteads and farms we've decided your garden is the best. And y'all are in Alaska! We are thoroughly impressed. Your dedication shows. And you have inspired us to try harder. Thanks 😊
25 minutes after posting 8,594 views. Way to go guys. Seeing great things in the channels future and yours too. I’m thinking 1 million plus subs by Christmas. 👍👍👍
Thank you for planting n harvesting 🌻 ...this Iowa mommy is proud of you for having positive 🌽
Along with potato and onion harvests , garlic harvesting is my favourite. I'm in south east Australia and my garlic is just starting to really grow - exciting times ahead. Thanks again for sharing!!
life is best when in the absolute simplest form. Good food. Staying warm & working hard ... you both do it perfectly. Thanks for the example.
You guys continue to make my mouth water watching your videos. Those pancakes were to die for, and that onion jelly was off the hook! As I’ve said before and I’ll say it again, you guys eat like Kings!!
That kitty is living its best life! Looks SO happy.
Best channel on TH-cam! Pepper getting comfortable in your lap was so sweet. I actually looked up a recipe for arepas after watching this. They look delicious!
pound for pound you guys r definetly thee most abundant providers
Good job with the corn crop 🌽
I would be interested in a video about where/ and how often you guys buy flours, sugars, oils, pasta, and other specialty items. I know it’s not often you buy food, but it’s interesting to know. 😊
They go to Costco
Milk and eggs weekly from local farmers and we did end up getting a Costco membership this year and have stocked up on all of the non/long perishables so we don’t have to shop this year again
@@helenshack2838 Most probably 3 bears Costco is all the way in Anchorage :)
I enjoy the sound of you guys pulling the roots. So fresh
Those onions! How are you two not tearing up? Even the cat gets teary eyed when chopping too many onions.
My favorite couple! Thanks for posting…
I'm super happy for you guys, you managed to grow some "warmer" weather vegetables after many years of trial and error. Well done and congrats on the hard work paying off.
Tip for cooking with garlic. Instead of chopping , great the whole bulb on the finer side , skin and all. The skin separates and you use the grated garlic in your dish .
Loving your beautiful garden .
Congratulations on the corn! And the great garlic haul! I can only imagine how rewarding it is to harvest your own, amazing garden. Beautiful onion weave, delicious looking food!
Those faces of you when you tasted those cornflowered-cheese-pepper-bread-thingy’s. Then you KNOW itks goooood! Could almost smell/taste it up here. What a harvest this year by the way. Beautiful vegetables!
Excellent video, love all the colors and fall and harvest what I miss the most about the north...garden looks great..I'm 62 and tried fried green tomatoes for first time in my life...delicious..Erik you totally crack me up w/the "thats the best meal I've ever had" cat looks happy as always..good to see sweet Bo..would love to try onion jam, also I've never tried kimchi sp? Flower jelly looks amazing..my sister makes Queen Ann's lace jelly...love you guys , keep it coming
Wow what a fabulous harvest & yes CORN (fantastic)- I have never tried fried corn & as I have a bed in at the moment I will be in the future. I never blanch my corn as I just shuck & freeze uncooked works out beautifully. I have saved this video for future reference as I have trouble braiding onions as well & that was great instructions :) you are a both good teachers. I LOVE the ending of all your videos as we get to see you guys mucking around xx Cheers Denise- Australia
Many congratulations on the beautiful corn!
I was full of sad over having hardly any hot peppers, and then, it rained. A lot. And now I have a bunch of peppers and have already made cowboy candy, haha. A good problem to have.
A big kiss to Bo, who indeed looks sad. That might be why I love him so💖 Also best to Pepper, Bandit, and those raucous chickens. Take care
Wow amazing harvest of garlic and corns thank you for sharing friend
Gorgeous garlic! Love the sound of the crunch of harvesting corn. This was THE summer for corn in Alaska. Well done.
I love your kitty!!!
I am so happy that you finally grew corn in Alaska! You are now a master gardener! Very impressive!!!
You are right Janet, the process is quite amazing , corm look strong in Alaska , where are you from🌴
I love your videos so much from the fabulous garden and happy cat to the amazing and inspirational cooking. I had to pause and eat because I got so hungry!! Lol!!
Forever living vicariously through you two. Great harvest 🌽🧡
Love the gardening videos. Tell us more about your pets, please! They're so sweet!
What a fantastic harvest you both did. That corn looked so good this year. Onion jam looks very yummy. Thanks to both of you. I love watching your little family and Eric, Pepper counts all the time. She is a beautiful cat. I also love the photo this month to. 😍 🤩👍
Lindos los videos un abrazo para los dos 🇨🇱🇨🇱🇨🇱🇨🇱🇨🇱🇨🇱🇨🇱🇨🇱
That’s amazing. Food always looks delicious. The yellow of that corn is phenomenal! You guys are great!!!
I loooooveeee everything you guys do. You are hands down my favorite you tubers. The visuals are National Geographic quality. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge and experiences with us.
Much love and appreciation!!!
You are right Yael, great process and knowledge is great and admirable , enjoyed watching and the corns are enticing! Where are you from
Harvesting and canning and eating all in the same video is my favorite. Lol. Let’s not kid myself, everything is my fave. ❤️❤️
The onion braiding is super cool. Thanks for the tutorial. Also, I've been storing my root vegetables in my dark cool food closet and they have definitely lasted a bit longer - thanks to you guys....Have a good one.
YOU guys ARE one of a KIND! Greeting from the LAND of SMILE THailand! More Power to your Channel!
I know this is HARD WORK (labor of love) for y'all however, I absolutely LOVE seeing all of your amazing accomplishments!!!💯💯💯 I can't wait to see more canning and the meals y'all make (if you are wanting to share)!!!😋😋😋 Congrats on the corn!!!🥳🥳🥳 Much Love from FL 💖💞🌴💖💞🌴💖💞🌴
BO!!! He's one of my favorite internet dogs, and I wish I could just give him a big ole hug. Always a joy to see him!
As someone who lives in an apartment block, I try to plant some green leafes plants and grow them in my balcony, as well as hot peppers. But watching you guys harvesting all that food is so relaxing and somehow rewarding :))
I've gained 5#s just watching your video, now it's to put the feet up and relax after that wonderful earthy meal!!!!
This was like a flash episode of all the amazing foods you guys do! I always learn so MUCH from you guys!
As much as I love watching the harvest, I enjoy the cooking/canning more.
Our onion harvest was over the top this year. Seeing the onion jam was just the idea we needed. Every Sunday morning we have a few shows on TH-cam we watch and your channel is one we faithfully watch. Love you guys!
Hi Blake
@@mariarusso1325 Hi Maria.
@@ahorseman4ever1 hello nice to hear from you Blake.
My wife’s cute lil old grandma used to come over for Sunday dinner every week and have exactly one glass of wine. She’d be toasted! Every meal would be “the best meal I’ve ever had”. Eric’s comment about the best thing he ever had reminded me of this. I miss that woman as my own grandparents passed before I remember. I fortunately was able to hold her hand as she passed, she loved how warm my hands always are. 🥲
Just discovered your channel and have binge watched for a week. Love your work ethic and personalities. Thank you for taking us along!
It took me three weeks to binge them all haha 😂
Sometimes I wish I could watch some of the Videos for the first time again...
I am 68 years old, I love watching your video’s you make me wish I was young again and in good health I would love to have lived in Alaska. Loved the lifestyle you have. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks so much for the onion braid tip. I was putting mine away tomorrow! Also I received a tip from a farmer who grew and sold corn….pour some sugar into your boiling water….enhances the flavour of your corn!! Do not add salt to the water, it pulls the sweetness out of the corn.
The harvesting is going great and the recipes looked great too.You will enjoy all of it during the winter. Looking forward to your next video with more produce to pick. Take care and be safe.(Judy NB)🌲🇨🇦
I learned to do my onions same way this year. Very easy and love the look
Another great harvest from the garden, great yeild , can't wait till you two start canning l learned alot about pleasure canning thanks to you two... . Can't wait for the next video.
Canning kimchi kills all the good fermented bacteria so last year I tried the traditional storage method and dug a hole in one of my garden beds and buried 8 pints. Surprisingly easy to dig up and kept perfectly 👍
What is kimchi.? Whats it made from?
@@Bernie5172 a traditional Korean side dish of salted and fermented vegetables, such as napa cabbage and Korean radish.
@@fabulousfaith6886 Thanks
I love watching your garden videos while I'm smoking purple.
Should try leaving the corn in the husk and roasting it on a grill or over an open fire. Cinnamon butter is magnificent on it also.
I adore all of your videos, (fishing ones are my favorites!) After having kind of a lousy day I saw just now that you have a new video up, and I know that for the next half hour everything is good and nothing matters to me more than your garlic!
We hope you have a better day 😃 thank you for watching!
Fishing are my favorite too!! Well, besides harvest!
I sure did enjoy this video, as I do all your videos. Your garden harvest was abundant and beautiful. I really enjoy watching you process the different veggies and the recipes you use in canning. I think you could sell that onion jam. It sounds delicious. Your jelly at the end was such a pretty color and you used flowers in the making of it! Your diet is so healthy with all of the foods you can and freeze, including moose, fish, chickens, eggs. No preservatives and chemicals like the food in the stores. The cheesy stuffed round bread with peppers fried in the pan - oh my! All that oozy mozzarella! My mouth was watering!
The corn looked amazing along with everything else you have grown this year.
That background noise of happy bees in the high tunnel is soothing! Another great video!
Sure would love the recipe for the arrepo con queso's, they looked amazing. I always love watching the two of you planting and harvesting and of course cooking. I've always wanted to garden but didn't come from a planting family so I never learned how, when and what to grow, then I became a mom myself and just didn't ever find the time, I tried a basil plant this Summer and I'm sad to say it didn't last and I really didn't get to harvest any of it. Thanks for sharing your time with us, it's always interesting.
@T G No one taught me how to garden. I did trial and error, bought some books bc that was before the internet, and learned something new every year. If you wait for someone to take your hand and teach you every little thing you will wait a very long time.
Take charge and do it yourself. You want the arepas recipe? Do what they did and google up a recipe.
You can do this!
Edit: mixed tenses, sigh
1 cup cornmeal, 1 cup water, 1/2 tsp kosher salt, 4 Tablespoons cheese of your choice, 1/2 cup peppers of choice. Follow the steps on the video! 😉 enjoy.
@@sunshine6729 thank you.
@@Angela_Alaimo at 60ish years of age, handicapped and no longer a homeowner, but a renter, there will be no garden for me. I shop my local farmers markets and buy fresh and local. I'm not sure why it offended you so that I asked them for a recipe, I do know how to use google, I just thought I'd like to make mine look like hers. Seriously there are real reasons to be upset with people in this world, but my asking a simple question directed at the people who posted the video shouldn't be one you take offense too. With 14 thumbs up on my comment, I'm guessing there are others who would also love the recipe.
@@Angela_Alaimo
@TG asked for a " hand up" not a "hand out". If you try discerning the difference in future, and being more of a generous spirit , you may find you help people more, rather than hurt them.
I love watching you two in your garden and then preserving your food for the winter. When I was a child, we had a black Persian cat that looked exactly like your kitty. She LOVED corn. I've had several kitties that liked corn.
Amazing production! My entire corn crop was wiped out by raccoons a couple of nights ago. I may have to try it under cover next year too
Boy I have real problems with raccoons and deer when I plant corn - put a eight foot fence to stop the deer but the raccoons climb over it - next year I will put a electric wire around the fence - it is nice to see wild life but they sure can be a pain
That's sad after all your work. Subscriber from SC, 🇺🇸 USA.
2 strands of hot wire, low on the poles, keeps raccoons out. Maybe deer ,too, if they touch it without ripping it out.
Grow squash or zucchini around your corn crop. The raccoons won’t cross the vines. It hurts their paws.
Had a neighbor planted a small corn patch every year.
He tried every practical means to deter the bear.
Turns out the bear won every contest and on the eve of the very day harvest was decided.
Every year I knew within minutes when he lost the patch to the bear.
The bear went by my house by way of the porch, and was too fat to managed the steps.
That bear looked like a monstrous, fuzzy, bloated, tick.
Well, the corn patch is over grassed now, and the bear benefactors have gone beyond; but there are new folks in the old house.
Just wait until they figure out where that bear winters...
“I almost forgot I had a back until I stood up” probably the most relatable thing I’ve seen on TH-cam in a long time 😂😂😂 I felt that that in my soul 😂
Ariel, would you tell us your recipe for those corn cakes, please. Everything looks so good!! ♥️🙏🏼♥️
Yes please, maybe a cookbook in the future?
Yes yes please share!
Me too please
Would love the corn cake
Yes please
Garden rock stars! 👍😎📷🇨🇦🐾🐾🐾🌶🫑🍅🥔🧄🌽🥦
Almost forgot! My girlfriend, who's a Kansas Farm Girl, taught me this trick about cooking corn several weeks ago.....don't add salt to corn when cooking the corn. It pulls sugar out of the corn. The way she showed me was she boiled the corn on the Cob with sugar added to the water. Salt & Butter after cooking.
Solid Michigan way too.
Adding sugar does nothing corn is only as sweet as it is when grown it will not absorb it
one ear of corn complete with silk and husk, microwave 3 minutes, let sit for 5 min, peel and eat.
Adding sugar is the Iowa way too
@@bigeyedave100 , according to Martha Stewart, adding both milk and sugar helps intensify the sweetness.
It's so nice to see how much you love your plants...you love the land and the land loves you back 3 fold =^..^=
Elote is a good option for your corn next year I think. Grilled with homemade cheese, mayo and some lime/lemon.
throughly enjoyed your harvest. So interesting and entertaining.
I wish you would share the recipe for the corn cakes, they look amazing.
so enjoy watching your videos..... thanks for sharing with us all...
would you do a day in the life when we barely leave the cabin over winter? DO you ever have those days?
Hello, I'm from Morocco, north Africa. I like your videos and also your life style.
I loved learning your onion braiding technique. I’ll use it next year. How do you store your green tomatoes while waiting for them to turn color? Your food is always so much more interesting than mine. You guys come up with some really interesting ideas of cooking. That onion jam looked amazing. Also I pulled my garlic 4 weeks after cutting scapes off, because I thought it was time, you know? But I didn’t have near the development of cloves and size as I did last year. I would have never left them I the ground like you did, and I wish I would have. I learn so much from you guys. I bought Reg Yaple’s book finally. I’m northern Minnesota and zone 3, so I think it has a lot of good advice.
Bo knows! Pepper's like: "Worship me, mom." Some great lookin' meals and food prep there.
Now you all are safe from the vampires
Wow that corn looks amazing.thinking I need to start a high tunnel myself…and that garlic! My first yer starting garlic and so far so good…we have onions and garlic almost everyday…can’t imagine being without…went to the store about a year ago and NO GARLIC.shocked me and was a super wake up call got it started with in that week…thank you for sharing all of your hard work and love of the land…stay blessed corn is next on the list this year!