It’s Not Invasive If You Eat It
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 12 ก.ย. 2024
- Ben’s out planting today - winter sown fruit seeds in his airprune bed to grow out some trees. He’s also digging up some Jerusulem Artichokes and talking about why he doesn’t feel food should be labeled as “invasive”.
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"Threaten me with a good time." 🤣🤣🤣Totally agree! Food isn't invasive, it's provisory. Invasive are the plants that choke out the food.
Ben, you are having entirely too much fun exploring the rewards of a farmer there, learning, experimenting, appreciating the One who set it all in motion one way and another. And I know 'I'm' have a huge amount of satisfaction, in the comfort of my home, taking it all in with you. And Meg...don't get me started on Meg's efficient and tasty uses of the gifts from the Hollar Homestead. How the offspring can endure so rich an environment is no mystery...FAMILY ON A FIRM FOUNDATION! : )
Buggy’s “GROW!!” And papas “thank you! Now they know what to do…” just made me 😂🤣😂. Thanx for the chuckle guys…
Good thing she came along, because your "Grow" instruction earlier was a little anemic. Jack, we saw you sneaking back to the stove for seconds (thirds?)!
Love when Buggy yells "GROW" so sweet.
Yayyy..it’s the Hollars!
With your new skirting,your home looks so nice! You and you family are doing great. Many prayers and blessings,and love to you all!!!!!
Totally agree. People typically want to see homesteaders and preppers with fancy houses or cabins. I love the simple living. Modest is beautiful.
@@compton1808Looks Beautiful and Complete 👍🎄✨🎅A Home is What You Make It ❤❤🎉
@@maryjemisonMaryjay1936 you are so right!
Can't wait to hear what the family thinks of the Sunchokes! Looking forward to Meg's update on how she prepares them!
Me too!
That would be sooo flipping cool if you grow some apricot trees and peach trees or chestnut trees it’s a very cool experiment and I’ve never heard of a box like that before! Love this!! Can’t wait to see the results!!
I love the things that you can plant and forget about I did that with a cucumber plant into hydroponics and it’s one plant that’s been producing cucumbers like crazy since May and this is indoors in Canada in a south facing window and all I do is cut off the dead branches and leaves and the cucumbers just keep on coming! I just harvested five cucumbers that were ten inches long and I made four pints of sweet relish with them today! Life is good!!🥰❤️🙏🏻🍁🇨🇦
You know your house almost looks like a new house! Great job on the skirting everything looks so clean and tidy now. Will you and the family be planting any flowerbeds out front of the house? Would love to know what your list of spring projects are. Merry Christmas everyone
Love seeing all of you and your families hard work come to fruition. Buggy is so adorable with her telling the plants to "GROW". Diatomaceous earth and citrus oil extract can rid you of a few fire ants, is organic and non-toxic to kids and four legged critters. Just a little around the mounds while it is cold should do the trick. Blessings for all.
I love you guys. I know that sounds extreme since I have never actually met you, but I really look forward to your videos every time.
I like all your videos, you impart humor, warmth and knowledge-something sadly lacking in some Americans.
Have a look at their friends on Sow the Land! 🤓
I’m a regular there too!
With your ant problem , at the nest mess up there mound get them mad and wondering around then sprinkle grits over the mound , when they settle down they take the food into the nest and eat it , if your lucky the queen ant will get some , after eating grits they go for water and there stomach will blow up and the remaining ants usually move to another location , just repeat and the will leave your property if not dead .
I made some of Megs basic bread. We made pizza crust and it was the best crust, ill make a loaf of bread with the other half of it. The trim around the bottom of your home makes it look very nice.
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Thanks Ben learned something new about planting tree seeds.
Meg, made your bread recipe this weekend for Christmas gifts to go with the Silcilian Spaghetti and lemon bars and the bread turn out perfect, so thank you.
Blessings to you and the family. 😊🇺🇲
my Auntie just gave me 4 dozen Jerusalem artichoke bulbs, and I've eaten them out her garden for 20 years. Yes, they can be invasive, but eating them is the best defense. When cooked in soups or stews, they taste like a mild sunflower seed, as they are from the same family. They hold up well when pressure canned as soups or stews, tend to be slightly mushy when frozen, but are a fantastic never-ending food supply.
I hear they are a good food for people with diabetes.
@@purpletulips4648 yes.
I'm so glad to hear they're tasty, very edible and can well! I've grown them in pots for 2 years but was told not to bother eating them. I'll be trying them now, and I'll share them with diabetic farmer friends to grow for themselves!
@@mary-ue4ir as I said, they do taste like sunflower seeds, but if you like the flavor, it is a wonderful change of taste in a stew. If you can it, make sure that you enjoy the flavor first by making a smallish stew first. I have always enjoyed them but 2 of my 3 kids didn't like it at all. I even enjoy them as an addition to Asian cooking...add them sliced when you stir fry meals for a great crunch and different flavor...
@@mommas2470 Thank you so much! I love the flavor of sunflower seeds!
That was hilarious....... that 3ft tall person eating your well harvested seeds...That little lady needs her own goproand channel....lol
I love how nice and neat the house looks since you put the skirting on.
Sounds like you have the start of a Nursery. Nice little organic side hustle. Your amended soil looks great.
Gotta love free seeds !!!! My stone fruit seeds I dry a day or 2 on the counter. Then crack open ever so gently. Seeds in a moist paper towel in refrigerator in ziplock bag until they sprout. Plant once they sprout about 2 in. Outta the 36 from last year only 2 didn't make it. I have 27 in there now. Now I wish I could graft.....maybe one day. Done cutting with so so results. The refrigerator stratification has been the best for me with all kinds of seeds. Wishing you the best of luck. Growing your own food is the best!!
Ben, you need to prune your fruit trees, perhaps a local nursery has seminars you can attend. Pruning and thinning will produce larger fruit
They were amazing, we dug up 50 kg this year and gave them half away, the artichoke that is
It is so neat to see you starting trees from fruit seeds
G.son want to plant fruit trees
To dig without damage, try using your air compressor. It won't hurt the roots. And you keep your hands away from the ants.
Ben, I've enjoyed when you talk about trees. You have a great passion for them.
Good way to check viability of larger seeds is the float test: drop them in a jar of room temp water and those left floating after 5 minutes are usually dead...sinkers are the ones to plant. Not a 100% but about 80% true.
Merry Christmas Hollers your outside home is looking awesome! Great job love watching you guys your family is a blessing to me💜
My mother used to slice them thin and put them in Asian salads. Tasted like a water chestnut. Never bothered my stomach.
That skirting looks GOOD.
Love love love your video. I just wait to see you when you get on TH-cam lol always check in. I’m smiling and I’m happy. Where is the little one? Ben you have a lot of knowledge people learn a lot listening to you on your videos and Meg too. She also has a lot of knowledge love watching her cook you guys are awesome people awesome family.❤
Keep on keeping on with the tree seeds. I'm pretty sure you'll have plenty to plant. We have wild plum, and persimmion trees on our property as well. Next year I'm thinking about making jam with the fruit.
Your broccoli veg, bacon and cheese soup looked good. Soups, and stew with homemade bread, or rolls are awesome meals when cold out.
The beautiful sound of your wind chimes in the background. Wow 😮
Another great upload. Can’t wait to see your orchard in the future sprouting forth fruit!
In the UK Cobb nuts are treasured and sell at a premium. They are hazelnuts but very different in form, they are longer and larger. I'm too old now to plant a cobb nut tree. I would if I could... maybe start a trend, look it up.
The air prune using colanders its a well know technique used in bonsai trees to improcedente the root system. Good call!!
So much fun going along with you today, Ben! Meg, the amazing cook! Looks so yummy! God bless you this Christmas season! ❤
your house now looks awesome!
Keep it up! Buggy was so busy eating today, so cute 🥰! Blessings 💞🙏
Hey, I like black walnut, too, so I get little sister 😁. Actually, when I was about her age, I lived in Pomona, California (1959) and had a black walnut grove right next to the house. I would eat black walnuts until I would get sick.
I have never cooked the Jerusalem Artichoke. I slice them and dip in Ranch dressing or put in a salad. Super good!! I'am jealous you all can grow them. The ones we get are the size of a baseball.
Ben, with your passion, knowledge, and drive in regards to trees... might be smart to build quite a few more air prune boxes for saplings this year (if you can source more tree seeds) or for next year. There is a huge market for saplings, whether from known or unknown lines for all sorts of uses. Takes very little time, or energy, just period seasonal tasks and a plan from year to year. And a lot of times people who buy trees are looking for large numbers, especially if the price is right. So having several beds and focusing a bit more on varieties that people are always looking for would make a lot of sense, and in the end I bet would be quite lucrative, especially in terms of the amount of time, money, and energy spent in getting to a 1-2 year old sapling for sale.
I watch all your videos, but I haven't seen you walk out the front door since the new skirting at the bottom. It looks fabulous and makes the whole area look so neat and tidy!
I discovered how easy it is to plant acorn seeds by accident. I had so many acorn seeds that dropped I raked them in piles. I didn't get to two of the piles and two weeks later....Omg....the bottom seeds sprouted and I had to dig them out of the ground. Might I suggest Ben that you throw a bunch of seeds on the opposite side of your pig fence? That would be a natural food source for your pigs. I think you might be onto something re: natural planted tree's and nursery tree's. Who knows maybe they do something to stunt or slow down the growth...just like they bred out the broodiness of most chickens.
To get rid of the ants, go to the laundry aisle in your store and buy some borax. Mix a tablespoon or two with some honey or syrup. Place near the ant bed. They will eat it and take it back to the nest for others to eat. In no time, they will all disappear. You might put the mixture in a bowl with a hole on the side so the ants can get in but keep the cat, rain, or whatever out of the borax. We have used this method several times and it really works. You might need to refresh the supply after a few days, but you should have success if the ants find the mixture.
My grandmother would pickle artichokes, she would wash thoroughly scrape with blade of a paring knife, pack in mason jar cover with cider vinegar and cap. No processing necessary just soak and after about month use at will. I would eat as is along with a meal.
Enjoy your videos! Buggy is so adorable! I love her bye at the end. Meg, have you ever shared how to make scrapple. Our family will soon butcher 3 hogs. That’s our yearly tradition. Would you share your recipe with me. I loved it as a child, my mom died in her late 50’s and she never wrote it down. I love your family and I think my family would enjoy making this and all will enjoy eating it. We are a hard working farm family in Islandton, SC.
Thanks for talking about your air prune box for starting trees Ben. Very interesting. I like all the variety of seeds you're trying to start. Thanks for telling us about the volunteer moldy tree seeds that finally started growing. Peach trees and cherry tress! I don't know about Jerusalem sun/artichokes. Tastes like carrot. American plum trees too. Yum, that cheesy broccoli soup you're making Meg looks divine! Thanks for this video Hollar family!
I grow Jerusalem artichokes mainly for the flowers. I got mine from my brother who does eat them and he makes them like you would sweet potatoes and claims that they taste the same. He's been growing them for some time and yes, they've taken over the original bed and now he has several beds of them all over his property. I was disappointed in mine this year in that they didn't flower until late September, early October so the frost got them before they were done blooming.
I planted 10 Jerusalem Artichokes in 2022, got maybe 40 but left 10 in the ground. This season I got 15lbs which I donated to our local food pantry - which they said were well received. I planted mine in a raised bed 4ft by ft to control them but nothing seems to slow them down. I cannot eat them because of the stomach concerns
We deal with fire ants a great deal here in Texas. What is starting to work for us is using an orange oil recipe to drench the mounds and spreading an organic ant bait across the lawn. Doing the drench alone they just move. Those who use chemicals pour Amdro on the ant hills.
"Threaten me with a good time", lol! Hoping you get a great crop!
For her high school graduation you could do a compilation of a scene a year of Buggy looking at a new planting saying “Grow!” LOL
The underpinning looks so good. Id forgotten.
Have you noticed that since she started yelling GWOW, everything grows much better:)))
I'm super interested in seeing how your seeds for the peach trees go. My grandpa used to dig a whole, chuck in a batch of seeds and just let them go. If they popped up, great! He'd dig them up and separate them young and give them away. If they didn't, no loss. I have several pits from the couple I brought home and planted that have had to be cut down since then. I think I need to just make the move and dig my hole. See what we get.
My fav thing is watching "Mama" making dinner. I usually skip forward. ;)
Great music choice to go with Meg’s cooking! 🎶
Love Jerusalem artichokes! I think they taste like a cross of a raw potato and kohlrabi. I chop them and put them in salads. Haven't cooked them yet but will when I get more.
We all need to know more about eatable plants we might have if times get worse we could eat them.
Very informative video😘. So interesting to learn about how tree seeds grow and multiply. You have self taught yourself so much and have passed a lot of it on to us😘! Buggy was really into that wonderful soup Meg prepared for dinner🍜🍜🍜🍜!
Ben I agree with you! I feel that way about my mint. It doesn't grow fast enough and trust me....I have lots. I do several cuttings throughout the growing season. I dry it. I use it for tea and most importantly I dry garbage bags full and freshen my deep liter bedding in my chicken coop. The chickens love it too. It gets -20-30 here in Wisconsin. The chickens enjoy the little treat in the dead of winter. I appreciate the fresh smell. Now you need a nice deck on both sides of your home. You will be surprised at how much more room you will have in your home because the kids will spend lots of time on the deck. I look at my deck as extended living space.
Hey Ben
Pour some 5 minute quick GRITS on ANT hill, and wait, put a few holes in hill first
I love sunchokes. I think they taste like a water chestnut. I've only ever eaten them raw, but I know that they can be cooked. Some people think they taste like a carrot/potato cross.. They can be added to soups and stews. Yes, they can be invasive and you'll never harvest 100% of the tubers. they'd probably be good animal food. I'll bet the pigs would love them.
Jerusalem artichoke is called topinambour in French, if you want to look up recipe. Sustained lots of people in hard times
From my understanding, there were ancient cultures and nations that, when hard times hit, lived off Jerusalem artichokes and amaranth. If everything ever goes to pot, you can let those suckers run wild, and you will always have food.
Also, Meg, that soup looked divine. I just ate breakfast, and I got hungry watching you make that.
We have native plums here on our farm in southern Ohio. The pits are pretty big, but the flesh is very good when very ripe. My hubby used some to flavor a batch of mead once and was very happy with it. Here they like the edges of our woods, especially near to low areas, but not in the wettest lowest part. They’re one of the first trees to bloom here so we are always hoping we don’t get late frost after we see them in flower. Good luck! We are always competing with wildlife for ours. There are always deer trails next to them. We have had some luck ripening them in a paper bag, not quite as tasty as ripe off the tree though.
I follow a several foragers on TikTok from KY, VA, NC, GA and AL . One of them found an abandoned house with a huge Fig tree that took up at least 3/4 of this backyard. She asked around found out that it’s been abandoned for almost 20 yrs. She picked at least 50 figs and got 7 clippings and is going to graft them to her root stock. You would think the neighbors would be picking up fruit also but nope.
I like the idea of planting the artichokes for next year while digging up this years food.
My only concern is, if you plant the smallest and eat all the biggest, you are growing next year's crop with inferior genetics. I am a believer that I give the first fruits to God. Give him the best, and next years crop will be even better.
I read Chestnut forests can make up a good profit an acre in 5-15 years so keep planting those chestnuts.
that your are growing Sunchoks! !! THANK YOU!
I had two apricots seeds sprout this week. They grew almost two inches in one week and are looking very good. They were seeds from apricots that I bought at the grocery store this summer, and stratified in my refrigerator. I am starting turmeric this week. The roots in pots freeze easier than the plants in the ground do. Wild plumbs are smaller but very tasty. I am stratifying Italian plumb seed now. Don't you just love that God made seeds that just want to grow food for us? I may not get to taste any of these but someone will, and it cost me nothing extra to save the seeds and plant them. I am eating food now from trees someone else planted.
My dad grew Jerusalem artichokes and we used them like water chestnuts in stir fry dishes. Delicious.
Very exciting, growing trees.
Hey Ben, I just came across something interesting but I think you might have an interest in for your chicken water through the winter. The two guys TH-cam channel is enjoying the Northwoods “freeze proofing chicken water with no electricity heater” I also seen another one American outdoors network, preventing livestock water container from freezing. I understand this would only work for the chickens not the pigs, but I just thought it was extremely interesting and that you might have a use for it.
Once an old farmer said to me "we are spraying to kill the sun chokes and you are planting them!" so the next Sunday I passed out a baggy of slice chokes and said here try one. They taste like water chestnuts.. He agreed and he liked them
So much available food if you just know what to do. An airbed sounds like great addition. 💕💕🌻🌻
Thank you! YOu all Keep me Sane!
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Have a good week.
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Your home looked SO good when you stepped out this AM! I got so excited by growin Jerusalem Artichokes that when they were ripe I cooked them like mashed potatoe and oh my what an internal cleansing! Better to mix them with mashed potatoes- they can be intense!!!❤️
Buggy was hungry
Having done the Jerusalem Artichokes before. Those stalks make awesome mulch if you run them through the chipper.
Planted sunchokes...aka Jerusalem artichokes in my chicken run. My black australorps loved them so much they tunneled under the protective wire around the plants and ate all the tubers. None came up this year. They are very nutritious.
I learned something new today. Edible sunflower tubers lol.
I need buggie to scream at my plants next growing season!!❤❤❤❤
We call those wild pplum trees "Deer apple" plumbs in East Texas around Caddo Indian territory. The indiian tribs planted them when they migrated from one area to the other.
WOW I would Buy some Black Walnuts from you, I'm from Texas and I know why they taste like, like to watch your channel.
Thanks family!!
When i was a little girl one of my aunts had 2 big plum trees like the American Plum you described. If I remember correctly, the little plums were yellowish orange when ripe. My cousins and I used to fill our bellies with the plums we could reach on the trees! They were about the size of big cherries and so sweet! I have 3 huge black walnut trees on the edge of my property that belong to my neighbor. Through the summer months I can't tell you how many little walnut trees I see sprouting around my yard where squirrels bury the nuts. I aways pull them up as they are too close to my house. Meg's broccoli/potato soup looked delicious! A warm bowl of soup when the weather is cold is hard to beat! So hearty and good👍🥣
If you dry the jerusalem artichoke, and cut them in tiny pieces, you can use them as a spice. There's an umani taste to them, and my mum use them in creamy potatoes. It's so difficult to explain how it tastes, but it somehow improves the taste.
Making myself hungry here!
Ben, could you DE the area with the Fire Ants?
For Buggy's safety as well as the ability to replant! 🐜
I love this idea! I may try a bed next year. 👍👏
Love the idea of a tree seed bed!
I used to buy "sun chokes" at my local Krogers (just outside Atlanta) but now they're really hard to find. Guess I'll have to grow my own! I'll have to take my laptop out in the yard so the tubers can hear Buggie telling them to grow.
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Sunchokes (Jerusalem Artichokes) are great sources of Inulin. A great digestive aid.
I saw your home in the background. All your hard work paid off your home looks so very nice. Lets you know that you're a full-time resident.
The best opening! 😅
Taste like water chestnuts!! You can pickle them like bread and butter pickles
Awesome. Buggy adorable
Nice video! Looking forward to seeing what sprouts in spring. Looks like Buggie was enjoying her dinner, and couldn't say,"Bye!"
I keep meaning to get some Jerusalem artichokes. Thank you for the reminder!❤