Food Security Is A Family Affair
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ก.ย. 2024
- The whole family is out today planting another 100 strawberry plants, securing our food future for delicious eating.
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Intro: Let Me Love You by Loving Caliber
Love For The Ocean by Pastis
Love Love by Heyson
Morning Hike by Lindsay Abraham
Nothing Makes Sense Anymore by Daniel Gunnarsson
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I remember using that "forked tongue" weeding tool in our Paradise Valley, Arizona backyard in the 1950's fighting Bermuda grass invasions! What a wonderful exploration of your growing gems~Thanks for the walkabout Hollar Family, we appreciate the nice musical stroll.
I love the way your family gel. You all (seem) to work well and play nice and the lads and Buggie seem to love helping you to do the gardening and all sorts of stuff. And you all NEVER look unhappy.
More strawberries!!!!!🍓❤ Taco potatoes sounds so good! Next time I decide to make taco salad, I'm going to remember to bake potatoes to add to it!! Thanks for another dinner idea Meg😘
Taco potatoes has sounded mildly interesting before, but the visual made it into a must make!
I love watching you all working together. I too have made myself sick on cherries and peaches. I love both of them. You make my day!!!
Weeding is very satisfying to me especially when you see the clean look after the hard work. Family affair always fun! 💜 Meg, I can relate! I can eat cherries and blueberries until my tummy hurts lol!
Making family memories ! They are the best .
Great to see people doing this as a family!
I was thinking you should build Meg a enclosed all season front porch off the front. It would extend your living space. Also a enclosed outdoor kitchen she would love too. Just advocating for the lady of the house. Girl power you know!❤
How 'bout YOU go build it for her! :p
I lived in a house that had a cherry tree in the yard. I was so excited! I was waiting for the cherries to ripen. I went out to check them one day and discovered that the birds do not care if they are ripe or not. The tree was picked clean! Later, my sister and her husband bought the house. They cut the cherry tree and a huge apple tree down to put a satellite dish in. 😯💔 I was shocked. Both the trees were big and produced a lot of fruit.
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When Ben said, "What a beautiful site that is!" my heart quickly agreed, BUT (although the sky was beautiful), I thought he was talking about the "site" of seeing his family coming to work together on the homestead! Both are gifts from the Lord. Cherish every moment and pray like crazy as parents for they will be gone all to soon in a world where "right is wrong and wrong is right" in many a man's heart, but God is Sovereign, and there we find our joy and peace! Blessings from am YT mama of young adults and Grandma!
Amen!
“Strawberry Fields Forever!” Strawberries were one of my granddaddy’s cash crops. We would all help him pick! Great memories! 🍓
This is quite possibly my all-time favorite episode. Thanks kids!
What a beautiful sight to behold….watching the Hollar family walking to the planting site with the sun in silohouette🤗🤗🤗! Another great video from your family to ours🍓🍓🍓🍓🍓🍓!
One of my absolute best memories are of crawling under some bird netting, standing in front of two huge blueberry bushes and eating my fill before climbing up a nearby cherry tree to sit on the barn roof where I would eat all the best cherries I could pick! That would be breakfast, lunch was split between the strawberry field, the grape vines and the pear trees depending on the days:-)
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The family that prayers together and works together stays together! 💕 beautiful video!
The forked screwdriver is excellent for planting strawberries. Put the bottom of the root between the tines and push. Viola. Planted.
Ben my strawberries are vining out already, I think there are going to be some huge berries this year, I’ve got the ever bearing berries, so I get berries into the fall season, I’ve got 5 huge mounds like a tractor tire big, that I’ve done with steel bands spirals all around, each year I end up giving away so many plants.
I’m so happy your growing so many strawberries this year!
Someone once said to buy a peach tree so you can have lots of peaches one year out of five. They often get frostbit.
Buggy is so cute😍😘
It's been wonderful watching how far you have come on your homestead. See how much it has developed and grown I'm so happy for you.
Such a lovely hard working family. I admire your commitment to your homestead lifestyle. How your family works together to get projects done is inspiring. Take care and God bless. 🤗🙏💕
We still have 18" of snow in our yard, gardening will not start here until maybe mid May, I am ready to even pull weeds at this point.
You guys have come such a long way. Your fortitude and persistence has really paid off. From my limited perspective ya'll seem so much happier and at peace than just a couple years ago. It warms my heart. Much love, faith and good will to your sweet family.
my grandmother used to make the best cherry pies. We used to live in town and one of our neighbors had a cherry and apricot trees. The biggest most beautiful cherries and best apricots ever this side of God's creation. Funny they gave the fruit to neighbors because as they got older they couldn't eat them. They gave me access to their trees as long as they didn't go to waste. I called my grandmother and she and my mother were both ecstatic. I enlisted a couple uncles and my dad who helped save the rest of the fruit. We insisted on paying them at least something and my uncle mowed their yard. We feasted on the fruit. My grandmother did ask for my neighbors favorite pies they could eat. Banana cream and coconut cream with meringue. We were lucky enough to live next door for 3 years and we swapped the garden veggies. Best neighbors. They were in their mid 80 when we first met. oh yes and they had strawberries. We swore we were living on top of a gold mine.
Cover your lower peach trees with spunbond fabric. It will help to retain the heat to protect blossoms during a frosty evening. Tie the fabric right over the tree and make a small tent tying loosely at the bottom.
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So wish we had warm day!😢 supposed to get rain and snow mix tonight! North west Washington! I want summer!!
strawberry fields are forever.....❤ WHAT A CLASSIC .best of luck your family has come a long way,GOD BLESS AND KEEP PUSHING FORWARD👩👩👦👦👨👦👦👨👧👧👩👦👩👧👧🍓🍓🍓🍓
Beautiful sight the whole family contributing to the food security
Hats off to Meg! Her face describes the taste of fresh Cherries!! Came across an Old Growth Black Cherry Tree way up in the hills .. knew it would be at least a week before riping. Got there, happy with my bucket, ready to climb... Stepped in a Steaming pile of black bear dung... Looked up at the 200ft Cherry tree . I hear wmmmwoof....over and over.
He was stuffing his gullet.. I just wanted to bake a pie... Came back 3 days later... He stripped that old tree from top to bottom... Good for him .. I went to the market.. brought some cherries home and laughed all the time baking my pie!
Strawberry are so good.Great planting team
So nice to have everyone involved! 🤗💞🤗
North Carolina in the Spring. Oh, how I miss those song birds!
I've been slowly propagating the strawberries from one plant I salvaged from the previous owners small garden. I have tons now plus alpines I started from seed. One of the easiest things to plant once and then just let it take over
It’s so wonderful to have all the kids come out and help and then do the chores and I have a regular cherry trees here in Massachusetts and they do OK my peach trees. Oh my Lord they go crazy my apple trees I don’t have that. Good luck with them, but it’s still a learning curve. The last two years of my peaches have been incredib.
Frost will act a little like water, always run to the lowest point. So it`s always better when delicate plants can be planted at more height, then they will be affected for a shorter time. Great planting, I think I will plant strawberries too this spring!
Love your family all working together 🍓🍓🍓🍓🍓🍓🍓🍓🍓
Hello Hollars was a good day for planting much love ❤️
Everyone has worked for the strawberries! We have clay soil and plant comfrey too. We get droughts and very wet times too. Also frosts and extreme heat, plus strong winds. Not garden friendly at all so I can kill comfrey! Wonderful to see the full team out getting the job done. 💕💕🌻🌻.
What does all the comfrey do? Some make salves, some hate the smell and here its getting planted everywhere.
@@heatherk8931 It is deep rooted and it penetrates the clay soil and brings up the nutrients that are locked in the solid clay.
@@mgtmoffat8411 ahhh, thanks for that. Lots of clay out there!
So excited Meg! You have my lawn mowing slippers! We are so cool! Lol
So so cool 😂
Oh fun about the cherries!!!!!!!!! So excited for you with that! I love them, too!
Cherries are awesome! When we were kids a neighbor had a beautiful cherry tree and her kids and I sat in it and nearly wiped out the whole crop! 😁 Their mom was NOT happy, she only got 1 pie that year! 😏🍒
I have waited all day to see your family life
Thank you so much. Blessings
The frost will also flow down the hill so smart to plant on that hill.
Great video and blessings for the new plantings. Spring has just sprung in the pnw and my lower back is feeling it. Oh my. Ya jump out and do what you can to get up to speed before the rains return and darn it. So sore but we got some great stuff done. BAM!!
Family is everything. I heard something when you have different levels as heat rises on your Hill, temperatures at the bottom of the Hill get colder. On a separate note I plant strawberries at the bottom my tree because they handle the frost. Great Frost cover. I learn a lot from your show and you guys always inspire me
Thanks for letting all of us visit
Fun fun! Can’t wait for peaches and cherries!
Love this whole video. 😀Kept hitting the thumbs up not realizing already did this!
(In my defense, tons of interruptions including harvesting lunch. Love this time of the year, hardly any prep to those big salads!)
1) Your bees will LOVE all that comfrey!
2) You are struggling with the heat and we are struggling with cold and rain! 🥴
3) Wonderful seeing everyone work together.
4) Grew Foster Flax in 2018. Now that I’m regularly adding flax to my homemade bread, it is time to grow flax again. Got a bunch of seeds started this morning.
Take care and best wishes from Kate in Olympia, WA - 4/20/2023.
Made me giggle when you took a heat break .... we still have snow! Lol Love what you all have achieved in such a short period of time ❤ Cheers from northern Ontario Canada
You have an herbal treasure trove on your property! Dead Nettle! Chickweed! Comfrey and more!! Herbal healthcare and food to boot! I am so jealous~ 😊 Add the comfrey to your compost too - adds huge amounts of minerals. Also can rot it in 5 gallon buckets and use the concentrated liquid like a liquid fertilizer!
Great video today guys❤
Maybe a smal greenhouse over you’re peachetree? One you can take off whene the frees time is over. In the Netherlands they put water over the appeltrees whene they know it will frees.
The water become ice and that protects the bloom.
Cool that you have now cherrys!
No Dad could resist those little hands😍
Good luck with the peaches, the first year I got a good bunch of peaches was the last year of good peaches. Once the bugs found out about the peaches it was over, the tree got sick and never gave another good peach. I never wanted to use poisons but the extension office said that I would never grow any good fruit unless I did.
The coldest air pools in the valleys, so it will stay warmer by a few degrees on the hill sides so less frost.
We love taco chicken or beef over anything. Ill just do the sald make Pico digao and it a salad . Its all so good. You knocked it out of the park. Our strawberries i planted in fall are just coming out and big so i thought i had lost them in the freeze even told hoss . But the Lord blessed me . Like you my peaches 3yrs in a row . Looked like Halloween with all the sheets but ive heard you get up early morning when it really fips and sprsyvwater on the trees it saves the blooms . God bless you working to a self sufficient homestead hallelujah ❤🙏👍
I just wanted to say that i think you are awesome. I enjoy your videos very much , and look forward to each new one. May God continue to pour out His blessings upon you.
Your family is great!
Love the way Meg cooks!
Now that's a beautiful sight a family that prays together 🙏 stays together. And the family working together in the cool or the day is beautiful ❤️
Oh Meg 🍒 Cherrys are my favorite to.
When I was pregnant of all my five beautiful children, I Craved Cherry's every time.
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Thanks for sharing.
Beautiful thing to work in the orchard as a family! What a great message you are sending to your viewers! Love what you do Ben! And love seeing all of Meg’s hard work on those creative delicious dinners! God bless your farm!❤
Great to see u planting lots comfrey and r u aware that u can also feed it to all livestock. We have feed all our animals and chickens with fresh comfrey leaves for years. The English harvested and dried comfrey leaves to feed livestock during winter l think it was 1700 - 1800 century. We plant around fence lines to suppress weed growth in spring and summer and in damp ground areas. Strawberries around your fruit trees as ground cover is way to go, u will end up great results.
Nourse Farms for all the berries - phenomenal, never had a bad batch!
Ben, can you please tell me why you want so much Comfrey on your homestead field?
I really enjoy watching your sons help and their kindness to their little sister.
Your handy dandy little tool was originally designed for getting dandelions out of your yard
I’ve had a terribly stressful day, thank you for your post. I can now breathe out.
Enjoy much love and blessings so much fun
Thanks!
I love your team work. The whole family is such fun to watch. Cherries are also my favorite fruit Meg. Blessings!
Love how you explain your theory and then show results. Your knowledge and experience have made my garden sooooo much better. Keep doing what you're doing.
You guys are so well established and have such a good base of followers. TH-cam is starting to put longer commercials in your videos. It used to all be short commercials but you have graduated to long commercials
Hopefully the berries will do wonders in the new location.
What are you using Comfort for? Love all the strawberries you planted. Love your family garden work. 💞
Love your family!
Pam says- strawberry leaves can be used as a tea, high vitamin C, good for stomach issues but they do have a laxative quality that should be acknowledged. 😎
Wednesday for you Thursday for everyone else. Friday for me in Australia 🇦🇺😃
I wouldn't know what day it was without a calendar...lol
I just learned in the last couple of weeks that most of the weeds you named are great medicine and or to eat! Good to know.
Just compost the strawberries in the fall and they'll live. I live in a cold snowy area and I compost with either leaves or straw or hay and haven't lost any.
Love how the family works together many hands makes the work go faster.
Not sure what day this came out, but I see your going to get some nasty weather either Friday or Saturday be safe.
I do taco potatoes with beef, salsa, cheese and sour cream yum. Sometimes with broccoli, bacon, cheese and sour cream yum again. Again interesting about different climate with the other fruit trees. Oh and yes cherry trees are toxic to cows. We had to fence off our cherry trees so the cow couldn't get them.
Blessings to you and the family. 😊🇺🇲
This is such an informative video, and I appreciate all the effort put into it. As a TH-camr myself, I've found it challenging to keep up with comments, but fantaclaus has been a lifesaver!
Great family work day; thanks for sharing! I love fresh strawberries; they even survive our Alberta, Canada winters especially if they get a nice straw covering. Blessings to all 🤗💜🇨🇦
Thank you guys keep up the good work
I just saw your videos on how you almost decided to end your marriage. But you worked thru the difficulties and sold everything and moved on . Things did change and look at you now. Happy in love. Wonderful Family, very helpful son's and the little peanut. So happy to see you both decided to add another family member. Can't wait to see if it's a girl this time.
In my head I heard Justin say “Megan where are your shoes”. Barefoot girl myself. The Japanese maple is looking incredible.
Almost a farm tour thanks
Hi there Hollars! I'm in a suburban townhouse in Melbourne Australia & just wanted to let you know how much I look forward to your videos sharing your little patch of paradise. Thank you, so very much ❤
Love seeing the whole family together outside ❤. Meg I’m with you about 🍒🍒😍
Have a great day 👵🏻👩🌾❣️
clicking on video every second.
What a difference a few minutes of are in a bed makes! Inspiration for me to go out to a few of my neglected areas, thanks!
Looking forward to the next video in Megs herb garden.
Whatever weed is in there looks way easier to pull out than Creeping Charlie, thats what takes over garden bed here in cental Illinois.
We have Creeping Charlie in Minnesota, too. It's horrible! Something you definitely don't want.
A full turnout of crew even the cat came too.
I love your family!
Fruit trees, oh my fickle friend the fruit tree. We have the same problem wit frost up here in central Pa. I've just planted my first apple and peach tree using the same theory you have. Except mine is in the creek bottom. So let's hope here in 3-4 years they'll start producing. But you got me thinking so I figure why not give it a try. 👌
Very cool that you have the micro-climate so the fruit trees can flourish😊
Reinier cherries yum!
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Nice hat !