You could come live here, I have many raised beds , chickens and guinny hens but will have my goats back this year. Maybe a beef or three. I live in eastern washington state. I love canning ,making cheese, noodles and breads. Besides then i would have someone to have coffee with in the morning😂😂😂 my daughter cant talkor walk. So it would be welcomed believe me.😊❤❤❤
Save your beetroot tops and consume them like spinach. They're delicious in quiches, veggie pies, omelettes, stirfries, soups, etc...just get creative and experiment! Plus, they actually taste better than spinach without leaving that iron aftertaste which you get when eating spinach. There's no waste when growing beetroots as every part of them is edible and they don't take up lots of space as some crops do and only a small part is edible. For this reason, we love growing beetroots in our small English garden. Btw, your beets were humongous...what's the secret? May our generous God continue to bless you all abundantly even in your spiritual growth! Mei Machin x
Thank you! Agreed that the beet leaves are delicious! Thanks for the suggestion. I should have used them, I was just overloaded with greens already and knew the cows would enjoy them :). No huge secrets for growing beets, besides good soil, and we do have a drip irrigation system for watering.
And so nice that everyone pitches in. So many parents are impatient and shoo their children away rather than taking the time to show them what to look for and how to do the job.
We grow also a lot of fresh food during winter. After reading the book of Ernest Coleman I startet growing Kale (Ostfriesische Palme, Federkohl white and violett , Zierkohl, Nero di Toscana and Flour Sprouts and Rosenkohl). They stand the winter in Austria and spend us fresh and very healthy food . Also we grow a lot of Salad in the unheated Greenhouse. It gives us lots of freh Salad Bowls during winter. The beans we put into a pillowcover and then the kids may walk over, they have exactly the optimal weight for this duty. They like this job. Also making Sauarkraut, they have to wash their feet and then they walk on the cabbage, it's annother nice job for them. It's important to have the kids with us to learn to respect food and nature.
Consumed so many of your videos after discovering your recommended channel through my YT gardening watch feed. The 3 sisters grow system works great it’s so easy but with everything overgrown, we have deadly snakes here in Queensland Australia, it wouldn’t work, in fact it could be a deadly decision. Instead many of our Australian gardening channels use cattle panel arches, trellises for pumpkins (squash), beans, cucumbers and anything vine related. Overgrown grass becomes a haven for vermin which attract snakes. Rodents & snakes don’t like to be exposed to aerial predators. You’re fortunate to be able to implement the 3 sisters but the downside is the overgrowth chaos. I’ve enjoyed watching your self sustaining lifestyle. Inspirational, relaxing and peacefully fulfilling. Many thanks 🙏
Here is a smart idea my husband came up with several years ago. When you are in your 60s and your back is not what it use to be you have to work smarter. Dig your potatoes with your tractor bucket. Put your tractor bucket parrel to your potato bed and take the buck deep into the potatoes plants and bring up the dirt, potaotes and plant in the bucket. Then you pick the potatoes out of the tractor bucket, {so you are not having to bend over) leaving the plant and dirt in the bucket to be dumped back into the place you just dug it up. Move tractor and repeat. when finished put the boxes or crates full of potatoes into the tractor bucket and haul to the house. We grow several hundred lbs every year. We only grow reds. They do better for us in the wet warm springs of southern Oklahoma. We plant potatoes in late Feb and have to dig before the plants die off. Due to our wet springs and potatoes rotting in the ground. Always enjoy your videos
"....and have to dig before the plants die off..." Just a thought--have you tried sorta squashing the main stems? You might try it with one plant? I have seen gardeners do it with Onion tops....seems possible with taters....
Sweet potato leaves are so good! Treat them like spinach, they are not bitter at all. …one of our favorite greens. I also dry lots of the leaves for use over winter.
@@allolobophorus Sweet potato leaves contain as many vitamins, minerals and other nutrients as spinach. The oxalic acid in sweet potato leaves is less than one fifth that of spinach.
What a beautiful, abundant harvest! And so nice that everyone pitches in. So many parents are impatient and shoo their children away rather than taking the time to show them what to look for and how to do the job. And you're so good at praising and including every child. Even the baby was able to contribute. You are such awesome people! ❤
Fantastic video! I learned SOOO much! I am in awe of how organized and successful your gardening and storing efforts have been! The proof is in the pudding- your family is beautiful, vibrant and healthy! To me, its the real American dream ❤😊
This approach not only reduces dependency on supermarkets but also connects families to traditional methods of food preservation, such as root cellaring and drying. It's a practical and inspiring reminder of how planning and thoughtful crop selection can contribute to food security and healthier, homegrown diets. The video underscores the value of self-reliance, teaching useful skills that promote resilience and reduce waste.
My MIL taught me to grow potatoes in hills and to hill up around the plants as they grow. That way you can work the potatoes out from the sides of the hill. Another method which seems to work nicely (i haven't tried it myself yet, but am intrigued) is to grow your potatoes in garbage cans. When you are ready to harvest, over goes the can and there are the potatoes.
I like your videos. It will make your content more relevant to give your growing zone or location on your gardening videos. That way we can duplicate successes, and skip those not applicable. Growing seasons and climate make things that work one place not relevant in another place or zone. And thanks for sharing your family.
When I was little, my grandmother pulled off the beans and we picked the riped ones for drying. After a few says, she used to put them in a bag and "beated" the bag with a long stick. The beans pods cracked immediately. The not full riped ones we used it at beans soups, they are very tasty. Also, you can make a dish with them, with fried onions and tomato sauce. If you have too many, you can store them raw in the freezer, we keep them that way over winter.
sweet potato leaves can be made into salad,u can boil them quickly in hot water and drain..sprinkle with tomatoes,onions,sugar,salt and pepper to taste..just dont overcooked them..Philippines here..
Mount up leaves around your potatoes, and that should solve the problem. Make sure you put at least 4 inches or more. Your welcome, love your channel keep harvesting. ❤ You can usually get a landscaper to give you leaves for free in the autumn.❤
wow, this is the first time I've seen a small apple tree with so many fruits. The apple looks so tempting. The vegetables in the garden are also lush. Wish your family good health ❤
I am 60 + and really want to join a small community that grows organic while I develop my online wellness business. So I want a mix of these lifestyles. I live very simply in Arizona. I hope I find this kind of heart centered and small sized community. Dear Divine here is my wish list online for 2024 going forward ❤🎉🙏!
You can actually pick all of the beans at once, then place them on a screen to finish drying. Even the beans you picked that appear dry should be allowed to dry further before and after you shell them. For the last 43 years I've been storing dried beans in a cotton sack for about 3 months to dry them completely before putting into an airtight container.
My Daddy always dug a potato hole under the house and put the potatoes in then straw then another layer of potatoes and straw they lasted all winter.Then he would have enough to plant again in the spring
I saw a video recently where the man grows his potatoes in pots with a watering system set up. He gets great amounts, minimal pests and they're easy to harvest.
Just watched another video,the lady said she wouldn’t grow her sweet potatoes in the ground as they go down to deep.She grew them in potatoe bags and she got a great crop,and was easier got at.Your kids are a great help to you,you have learnt them well to gently put the crop into the basket.Smiledat the wee boy with the wheel barrow.🥰🌺🌺
Plant potatoes in any old hay mounds that have been setting out all Winter. Then add more hay or mulch after planting, hill up with more hay or leaves and you'll have much easier harvesting
Love how you involve the kiddo's .. life experiences are great, especially with knowledge of growing and harvesting veggies. My parents always gardened and canned but never involved us.
Team work makes the dream work and all hands on deck are 2 of our most common sayings around here! It really is a team effort to make it all happen and we are grateful to do it alongside each other. 😊 Thanks for watching!
What you were using is a potato fork, which is for digging potatoes. A pitchfork with sharp tines is used for pitching hay for cattle. :😊 . I grew up on a farm and used them both 😅 don't you ever grow sweet corn for eating fresh and preserving. Corn on the cob is soooo yummy.
I can just about everything I grow! That is the best for us. We are in Michigan in the forest and loose power often! I can alot of different soups, stews, chili, venison, chicken, beef, and veggies! Mostly do pressure canning. It's nice to be able to open a jar and have a meal ready to eat. Also fermented sourkraut. I still freeze some of each but not alot because if we loose power for too long, I don't want to panic can everything at the same time. Your family is amazing! Warms my heart to see all of you working together
Just a question. Do you not like beet greens? I was surprised that you fed them to the cows. Growing up we cut the greens off the beets and cooked them like spinach and added them to smoothies when we dehydrated and turned them into a powder. Love your videos. They are so informative ❤
Good question!! We love beet greens too and usually we do eat them but this time I didn’t think we’d get to using them in the next few days and I already have enough dried greens for the year ahead. Thanks for watching!
@@FromScratchFarmstead My sister boiled and canned her beet greens for the first time this year. They came out great! Pop open a jar and drizzle with olive oil, freshly squeezed lemon juice and salt. Super yummy! This is something I will start doing next year.
Beautiful garden, I love gardening with my family because it helps us bond together. Gardening helps relieve stress and relax. Thank you for sharing these wonderful photos with everyone.
Maybe potted plants to start? We started by cooking from scratch and volunteering at local farms. It was so helpful to get that experience before trying things on our own. Just a thought! :)
Very nice for the cows, but I would definitely be eating the beetroot tops and stems--use the leaves like lettuce and add chopped stems to a salad for extra crunch!
Well guys, after having a bad experience with canning, we turned to freezer storage. Our main goal is to make enough tomato sauce to last the two of us a year. But, who would have thought living in the west side of SC, we would be hit by a hurricane? We lost power on Friday, and won’t get it back for a week or so!😢 It was impossible to find ice, so we had to give up on saving all our food stored in freezers. Next year we will be canning everything!!! I’ll use your videos, but I be willing to pay for a detailed class in canning too! RIP beautiful veggies!! Thank you again for sharing all your knowledge!!😊
@@FromScratchFarmstead That was our only loss (besides many large branches from our trees, and none fell on our house), so we feel very blessed! And, by some miracle I was able to find a hotel room. My husband sleeps with a CPAP machine, so it was vital for him to have electricity.
If you go to homesteading family on youtube, they have several videos on both pressure canning and water bath canning. They have lots of free trainings on youtube, but they have also started the traditional skills classes. Listen to pay $300 for the year, and watch and fill out skill sheets on all the classes they have which right now is about 30. The classes are instructed by amazing people like Joel salatin, Justin rhodes, and many others. Hope this is helpful for some folks.
Chelsea with Little Mountain Ranch can show practical canning tips for just about everything. I am so sorry. It happened to us twice this year in Houston 5+ days without power meant we lost our freezers and fridges. It is tough to lose all you have stored. I bought a whole house generator now.
@@beadwright Thank you for your sweet comment. I’m so sorry you’ve lost everything twice now! Since we are empty nesters, we make a lot of casseroles and freeze it into portions for one meal for us. I was sad to see all that yummy food ruined too. But, everything we lost can be replaced, not like many others. We are thankful!
For me cross-pollination is one of the best aspects of growing my own food. I get some great surprises and always save seeds from them to grow the following year. For example, this year my butternut squash cross-pollinated with trombocino squash giving me a long variety of butternut - which is great because my regular butternut only produced two small fruits. Also some of my Yellowstone tomato cross-pollinated with a red variety giving me an orangey-red fruit, as opposed to the standard yellow. They taste amazing so I'll be growing them next year as well.
Potatoes grow really well in raised long boxes. Any scrap boards will work. Need about 18 “ of soil. Plant close together. No to Little weeds, very easy to harvest and water. About 40 ft of row gave me 5 five gallon buckets. I used old deck boards to build mine. Nothing fancy just need it to hold dirt
Wonderful job. And a beautiful family. If you plan on building a cellar, you can store all your root crops without refrigeration . Also, you can start your own sweet potato slips and save a lot of money
So fun watching your littles help in the garden! Apples are beautiful 😍. What a fantastic harvest! Have you ever considered growing butternut on trellis? I grow them on cattle panels- so easy and fun to watch them grow!
We eat the beet leaves in a stir fry, and they are delicious like sweet potato leaves, just slice only the leaves in thin strips, chop some garlic, onions fresh sliced green /red chillies or some mild chillie deseeded that isn’t spicy, according to your preference , add some oil and stir fry everything with salt and dash of chillie flakes or a dash of balsamic vinegar if you can’t handle spice we are Asian so we love the chillies 🤦♀️🙈 we hv the stir fried beet leaves with hot jasmine rice and some meats
This is the first time seeing your video. Do you compost? Those beet greens, carrot tops , corn stalks, grasses etc. would make a wonderful compost to add back to your garden soil to loosen up the soil and add nutrients.
We grew our sweet potatoes on the farm I worked at in hills. Harvested them by machine but I would imagine would make it easier for hand harvesting as well
Hii.., i'm your new yt channel subscriber! 😊 I just found your channel and love it. I actually enjoy gardening but don't have enough time to do it. Farming, raising livestock and kids growing up in a healthy environment 🌺
On the generator topic, which I think was mentioned in a different video you posted. Harbor freight makes a great generator for the price especially when you can get a no exclusions coupon. And as an off grid solution, look into gassification as a fuel source. Much of your remaining biomass from gardening can even be used to create syngas. It’s a rabbit hole to go down, but the tech is not new and it does work.
I plant my potatoes and sweet potatoes in deep raised no dig beds. When it is time to dig them up, I cut the stalks off about 6 inches inches above the ground, so you can see where the plants grew. Then you can simply loosen the ground with your hands and dig the potatoes up, less chance of damaging the potatoes with a spade or garden fork. Or another extremely good method of planting both sweet and normal potatoes is using the Ruth Stout method, which involves laying straw bales down in your beds before winter. They will decompose over winter, and you simply pull back the top layers of straw and plant your seed potatoes and sweet potatoe slips in the thick compost below the straw and cover them up again with the straw. This is a very effective way of growing both types and also save water! You can also use more straw to mulch the potatoes later. They do not have to be watered as much as the straw slows down evaporation. Also saves ones back and aches!! Good luck!!
Looking forward to the storage video and how you make the produce last all year round. Thank you for sharing. The future is going back to our wholesome past.
Nothing to do with your harvest (very well done of course!), but we also LOVE our Earth Runners. Glad to see they serve you well on the homestead. You've got me inspired to look for Bogs for us and the kiddos too. Thanks for all you do!
Wonderful harvest! I grow my potatoes in growbags to avoid difficulties with harvesting and avoiding volunteers. It also frees up growing space in my beds. I put the growbags at the bottom of a slope I'm developing for herbs by building up the soil there. I have raised beds for future old age to save my back a little.
It is one of the most satisfying type of video you produced - last year I modified my planting according to your 'long storage idea'. It worked great for my family. The only difficulty I met was corn variety. I planted sweet corn since I could not get 'flour'corn. Here we have either corn for animal food or sweet one. Nevertheless thank you for a positive influence 😊 Lots of work you did ❤ God bless 🌸🌸🌸
I've been waiting on this video. I'm not disappointed. I'll be waiting on the next one. This was great! Your harvest is great. I'm so happy for you. I love your great family. Ty for sharing.
You are so lucky, we had a late frost that got my blooms on my apple trees so didn't get anything this year, fingers crossed and Lord willing we will next year. Beautiful harvest, ours turned out pretty good also. I won't get carrots until December because I love the sweetness they have growing them in the fall. If I can suggest adding a lot of sand to your potato rows it makes it soooo much easier, I have sandy dirt that grows root veggies beautifully. I grow sweet potatoes in the 10 gallon grow bags it makes it so much easier come harvest time.
CrystalSt. What a wonderful idea. I'll pass that tractor tip along to other homesteaders. So many have tractors 🚜 and abundant potato 🥔 harvests Genius
I’m glad the cows enjoyed those beet greens but it was sort of hard to watch. Beet greens are my favorite add in to scrambled eggs and they can be canned too.
Enjoyed the video, especially the kids participation. You might want to investigate growing your potatoes under a thick layer of straw or hay. Few weeds, less water use, and virtually no digging. Some call it the Ruth Stout method but it shows up under many names. Just beware of voles.
I love the squash operation. Your squash in the grass is just what you'd get with a food forest and/or permaculture operation - you're halfway there - just a thought that might make your life even more fun, more beautiful, and even more productive - though my only knowledge of it is from TH-cam; we're hoping to start building our permatculture food forest this fall or next spring.,
Make sure you cut the vines off your sweet potatoes before you get a big frost. Frost will kill the vines and can turn your potatoes black. Sweet potatoes also need to cure for a couple of weeks before you eat them.
Your blog with the list of 10 storage crops along with this video is pure gold for the people who want to eat from their garden year-round. I will definitely be rethinking my garden for next year and researching the storage crops that do best here in my area of NW Georgia. Love your videos, and your laid-back style of gardening and living. Thanks for all that you share with us. just FYI, I got your ice cream maker and made peach ice cream with fresh peaches from our tree this year and it was absolutely delicious.
Is that a type of hemlock near the apple tree early in the video? I have a lot of that type and wasn't sure if it's the toxic kind. So amazing that you guys, as a family, work together. Those kids are going to grow up into fine adults!!! Thanks for sharing with us!
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Anyone who wants to do this forever with me?
You guys are really blessed ❤️🔥.
Such a fulfilling way to live! We are grateful. Thanks for watching! :)
You could come live here, I have many raised beds , chickens and guinny hens but will have my goats back this year. Maybe a beef or three. I live in eastern washington state. I love canning ,making cheese, noodles and breads. Besides then i would have someone to have coffee with in the morning😂😂😂 my daughter cant talkor walk. So it would be welcomed believe me.😊❤❤❤
Save your beetroot tops and consume them like spinach. They're delicious in quiches, veggie pies, omelettes, stirfries, soups, etc...just get creative and experiment! Plus, they actually taste better than spinach without leaving that iron aftertaste which you get when eating spinach. There's no waste when growing beetroots as every part of them is edible and they don't take up lots of space as some crops do and only a small part is edible. For this reason, we love growing beetroots in our small English garden. Btw, your beets were humongous...what's the secret?
May our generous God continue to bless you all abundantly even in your spiritual growth! Mei Machin x
Thank you! Agreed that the beet leaves are delicious! Thanks for the suggestion. I should have used them, I was just overloaded with greens already and knew the cows would enjoy them :). No huge secrets for growing beets, besides good soil, and we do have a drip irrigation system for watering.
It’s easier to put the bean pods in an old pillowcase and pound the bag. Not too hard but firmly enough that the beans leave the pods. 😊
Great idea!
After pounding on the ground pour near a fan to blow out the chaff.
Haha I just came to the comments section to mention this too.
Yes, in morethanfarmers they did the pillow thing, I saw it there. I hope to do it too next year😂
Or store them in a brown paper bag. I leave them until a winter storm snow day project.
And so nice that everyone pitches in. So many parents are impatient and shoo their children away rather than taking the time to show them what to look for and how to do the job.
Honestly, we are so grateful for their help and get to do it alongside each other!
@@FromScratchFarmstead That's why I love your videos.
We grow also a lot of fresh food during winter. After reading the book of Ernest Coleman I startet growing Kale (Ostfriesische Palme, Federkohl white and violett , Zierkohl, Nero di Toscana and Flour Sprouts and Rosenkohl). They stand the winter in Austria and spend us fresh and very healthy food . Also we grow a lot of Salad in the unheated Greenhouse. It gives us lots of freh Salad Bowls during winter. The beans we put into a pillowcover and then the kids may walk over, they have exactly the optimal weight for this duty. They like this job. Also making Sauarkraut, they have to wash their feet and then they walk on the cabbage, it's annother nice job for them. It's important to have the kids with us to learn to respect food and nature.
I love this! Thanks for sharing. Maybe we'll have to try that method for making sauerkraut!
Consumed so many of your videos after discovering your recommended channel through my YT gardening watch feed. The 3 sisters grow system works great it’s so easy but with everything overgrown, we have deadly snakes here in Queensland Australia, it wouldn’t work, in fact it could be a deadly decision. Instead many of our Australian gardening channels use cattle panel arches, trellises for pumpkins (squash), beans, cucumbers and anything vine related. Overgrown grass becomes a haven for vermin which attract snakes. Rodents & snakes don’t like to be exposed to aerial predators. You’re fortunate to be able to implement the 3 sisters but the downside is the overgrowth chaos. I’ve enjoyed watching your self sustaining lifestyle. Inspirational, relaxing and peacefully fulfilling. Many thanks 🙏
Here is a smart idea my husband came up with several years ago. When you are in your 60s and your back is not what it use to be you have to work smarter. Dig your potatoes with your tractor bucket. Put your tractor bucket parrel to your potato bed and take the buck deep into the potatoes plants and bring up the dirt, potaotes and plant in the bucket. Then you pick the potatoes out of the tractor bucket, {so you are not having to bend over) leaving the plant and dirt in the bucket to be dumped back into the place you just dug it up. Move tractor and repeat. when finished put the boxes or crates full of potatoes into the tractor bucket and haul to the house. We grow several hundred lbs every year. We only grow reds. They do better for us in the wet warm springs of southern Oklahoma. We plant potatoes in late Feb and have to dig before the plants die off. Due to our wet springs and potatoes rotting in the ground.
Always enjoy your videos
Love it! Thanks for sharing!
Great idea!🙌🏼
This is so smart!
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"....and have to dig before the plants die off..."
Just a thought--have you tried sorta squashing the main stems? You might try it with one plant? I have seen gardeners do it with Onion tops....seems possible with taters....
Sweet potato leaves are so good! Treat them like spinach, they are not bitter at all. …one of our favorite greens. I also dry lots of the leaves for use over winter.
I’m so excited to try them! Thanks for sharing!
Yes they are. Its actually our favorite of all the greens.
But full of oxalic acid. Beware! 😮
@@allolobophorus Sweet potato leaves contain as many vitamins, minerals and other nutrients as spinach. The oxalic acid in sweet potato leaves is less than one fifth that of spinach.
What a beautiful, abundant harvest! And so nice that everyone pitches in. So many parents are impatient and shoo their children away rather than taking the time to show them what to look for and how to do the job. And you're so good at praising and including every child. Even the baby was able to contribute.
You are such awesome people! ❤
Thank you! ❤️ We certainly have our moments and can be impatient too but it’s really fun to do it together and figure this out alongside our kids! 😊
Fantastic video! I learned SOOO much! I am in awe of how organized and successful your gardening and storing efforts have been! The proof is in the pudding- your family is beautiful, vibrant and healthy! To me, its the real American dream ❤😊
Thanks so much! So glad it was helpful!
This approach not only reduces dependency on supermarkets but also connects families to traditional methods of food preservation, such as root cellaring and drying. It's a practical and inspiring reminder of how planning and thoughtful crop selection can contribute to food security and healthier, homegrown diets.
The video underscores the value of self-reliance, teaching useful skills that promote resilience and reduce waste.
My MIL taught me to grow potatoes in hills and to hill up around the plants as they grow. That way you can work the potatoes out from the sides of the hill. Another method which seems to work nicely (i haven't tried it myself yet, but am intrigued) is to grow your potatoes in garbage cans. When you are ready to harvest, over goes the can and there are the potatoes.
Thanks for sharing! We will definitely do some more mounding/mulching next year. :)
I like your videos. It will make your content more relevant to give your growing zone or location on your gardening videos. That way we can duplicate successes, and skip those not applicable. Growing seasons and climate make things that work one place not relevant in another place or zone. And thanks for sharing your family.
We are in Zone 5b! Hope this helps! Thanks for watching!
A wonder-filled way to raise sons and daughters. Thanks and love from South Afrika
It's the best! Thank you for watching!
When I was little, my grandmother pulled off the beans and we picked the riped ones for drying. After a few says, she used to put them in a bag and "beated" the bag with a long stick. The beans pods cracked immediately.
The not full riped ones we used it at beans soups, they are very tasty. Also, you can make a dish with them, with fried onions and tomato sauce. If you have too many, you can store them raw in the freezer, we keep them that way over winter.
So much wisdom from Grandmother's! Thanks for sharing!
sweet potato leaves can be made into salad,u can boil them quickly in hot water and drain..sprinkle with tomatoes,onions,sugar,salt and pepper to taste..just dont overcooked them..Philippines here..
Awesome! Thanks for sharing!
Mount up leaves around your potatoes, and that should solve the problem. Make sure you put at least 4 inches or more. Your welcome, love your channel keep harvesting. ❤ You can usually get a landscaper to give you leaves for free in the autumn.❤
Thanks for sharing!!
Holisticly this family is very healthy and happy 👍💯♥️
I remember my childhood years i go farming with my parents. So that they know how survive in the future to be a farmer someday.
So glad you got to experience that. How cool!
wow, this is the first time I've seen a small apple tree with so many fruits. The apple looks so tempting. The vegetables in the garden are also lush. Wish your family good health ❤
Thanks so much! ☺️
I am 60 + and really want to join a small community that grows organic while I develop my online wellness business. So I want a mix of these lifestyles. I live very simply in Arizona. I hope I find this kind of heart centered and small sized community. Dear Divine here is my wish list online for 2024 going forward ❤🎉🙏!
Love that vision! :)
Never lived on a farm before, but I just love your lifestyle, hard work but well worth it. Raising and storing your own food, such a blessing.
Yes! Totally agree! Thanks for watching!
I agree.
What a beautiful family!❤
Thank you!
Midxle of New Mexico also has a thriving pistachio grove. Delicious!
You can actually pick all of the beans at once, then place them on a screen to finish drying.
Even the beans you picked that appear dry should be allowed to dry further before and after you shell them.
For the last 43 years I've been storing dried beans in a cotton sack for about 3 months to dry them completely before putting into an airtight container.
Thanks for sharing - good to know!
My mother was always planted her potatoes in a mound of dirt. It was so easy to dig up.
My Daddy always dug a potato hole under the house and put the potatoes in then straw then another layer of potatoes and straw they lasted all winter.Then he would have enough to plant again in the spring
I saw a video recently where the man grows his potatoes in pots with a watering system set up. He gets great amounts, minimal pests and they're easy to harvest.
Sounds great! Thanks for sharing!
Just watched another video,the lady said she wouldn’t grow her sweet potatoes in the ground as they go down to deep.She grew them in potatoe bags and she got a great crop,and was easier got at.Your kids are a great help to you,you have learnt them well to gently put the crop into the basket.Smiledat the wee boy with the wheel barrow.🥰🌺🌺
That’s interesting about the sweet potatoes! Our kids were gifted that wheel barrow a few years back and it’s very well loved around here! ☺️
Plant potatoes in any old hay mounds that have been setting out all Winter. Then add more hay or mulch after planting, hill up with more hay or leaves and you'll have much easier harvesting
Thanks for sharing! We definitely plan to do more mulching next year.
Tried this one year and it was a disaster. It was absolutely full of weeds and grass.
Roberts, definitely put beans 🫘 in a potato case. More Than Farmer's use that method & it turns out better than they could imagine. God bless ✨️
Love how you involve the kiddo's .. life experiences are great, especially with knowledge of growing and harvesting veggies. My parents always gardened and canned but never involved us.
Team work makes the dream work and all hands on deck are 2 of our most common sayings around here! It really is a team effort to make it all happen and we are grateful to do it alongside each other. 😊 Thanks for watching!
What you were using is a potato fork, which is for digging potatoes. A pitchfork with sharp tines is used for pitching hay for cattle. :😊 . I grew up on a farm and used them both 😅 don't you ever grow sweet corn for eating fresh and preserving. Corn on the cob is soooo yummy.
Thanks for sharing! Maybe we’ll do sweet corn next year 😊
I can just about everything I grow! That is the best for us. We are in Michigan in the forest and loose power often! I can alot of different soups, stews, chili, venison, chicken, beef, and veggies! Mostly do pressure canning. It's nice to be able to open a jar and have a meal ready to eat. Also fermented sourkraut. I still freeze some of each but not alot because if we loose power for too long, I don't want to panic can everything at the same time. Your family is amazing! Warms my heart to see all of you working together
Hard work pays, beautiful harvest
Thank you! ❤️😊
I just love the kids helping out
Carrot tops are delicious! Tastes like Parsley with a mild carrot after taste. Lovely served as a garnish, in salads or soups. 🥕
Thanks for sharing!! Yum!
I really enjoy seeing your family and children having fun as well. Excellent lessons for them.
Just a question. Do you not like beet greens? I was surprised that you fed them to the cows. Growing up we cut the greens off the beets and cooked them like spinach and added them to smoothies when we dehydrated and turned them into a powder. Love your videos. They are so informative ❤
I thought the same!!! We have always eaten the beet greens.
Good question!! We love beet greens too and usually we do eat them but this time I didn’t think we’d get to using them in the next few days and I already have enough dried greens for the year ahead. Thanks for watching!
@@FromScratchFarmstead My sister boiled and canned her beet greens for the first time this year. They came out great! Pop open a jar and drizzle with olive oil, freshly squeezed lemon juice and salt. Super yummy! This is something I will start doing next year.
Beautiful garden, I love gardening with my family because it helps us bond together. Gardening helps relieve stress and relax. Thank you for sharing these wonderful photos with everyone.
So glad you get to experience that alongside your family too! Such a blessing!
I would suggest you check out more than farmers. They have a lot of tips and tricks
I want to start a small garden but live in a townhome. This is the dream ❤
Maybe potted plants to start? We started by cooking from scratch and volunteering at local farms. It was so helpful to get that experience before trying things on our own. Just a thought! :)
That little girl did so much Hard work 😂, give her some snacks and milkshake, I will pay the amount
She's a hard worker :) Thanks for watching!
I love the kids participation!
It's BIG Harvest!!! LOVE IT!!!😍😍😍
Thanks so much! 😊
Very nice for the cows, but I would definitely be eating the beetroot tops and stems--use the leaves like lettuce and add chopped stems to a salad for extra crunch!
potatoes this season are delicious, with all kinds of dishes like grilled, boiled, cooked... everything is delicious :D
Agreed! So good!
Great harvest!! 🌿
Oh your beets are beautiful. I love , love beets. Pickled beets so good, and so easy.
Well guys, after having a bad experience with canning, we turned to freezer storage. Our main goal is to make enough tomato sauce to last the two of us a year. But, who would have thought living in the west side of SC, we would be hit by a hurricane? We lost power on Friday, and won’t get it back for a week or so!😢 It was impossible to find ice, so we had to give up on saving all our food stored in freezers. Next year we will be canning everything!!! I’ll use your videos, but I be willing to pay for a detailed class in canning too!
RIP beautiful veggies!! Thank you again for sharing all your knowledge!!😊
Oh, Patti!! I’m SO sorry! I’m glad you are ok. Praying for everyone that’s been impacted by those.
@@FromScratchFarmstead That was our only loss (besides many large branches from our trees, and none fell on our house), so we feel very blessed! And, by some miracle I was able to find a hotel room. My husband sleeps with a CPAP machine, so it was vital for him to have electricity.
If you go to homesteading family on youtube, they have several videos on both pressure canning and water bath canning. They have lots of free trainings on youtube, but they have also started the traditional skills classes. Listen to pay $300 for the year, and watch and fill out skill sheets on all the classes they have which right now is about 30. The classes are instructed by amazing people like Joel salatin, Justin rhodes, and many others. Hope this is helpful for some folks.
Chelsea with Little Mountain Ranch can show practical canning tips for just about everything. I am so sorry. It happened to us twice this year in Houston 5+ days without power meant we lost our freezers and fridges. It is tough to lose all you have stored. I bought a whole house generator now.
@@beadwright Thank you for your sweet comment. I’m so sorry you’ve lost everything twice now! Since we are empty nesters, we make a lot of casseroles and freeze it into portions for one meal for us. I was sad to see all that yummy food ruined too. But, everything we lost can be replaced, not like many others. We are thankful!
Great family and great KIDS!😇!😇!😇!😇!😇!😇!
Love this two voice choir 🥰
You have a happy family, and your garden is beautiful.❤
Thank you!
For me cross-pollination is one of the best aspects of growing my own food. I get some great surprises and always save seeds from them to grow the following year. For example, this year my butternut squash cross-pollinated with trombocino squash giving me a long variety of butternut - which is great because my regular butternut only produced two small fruits.
Also some of my Yellowstone tomato cross-pollinated with a red variety giving me an orangey-red fruit, as opposed to the standard yellow. They taste amazing so I'll be growing them next year as well.
Love that! Very cool!
We use also the leaves that are green and beautiful. They are excelent minced in vegetable soup
Yum! And so nutritious!
Potatoes grow really well in raised long boxes. Any scrap boards will work. Need about 18 “ of soil. Plant close together. No to Little weeds, very easy to harvest and water. About 40 ft of row gave me 5 five gallon buckets. I used old deck boards to build mine. Nothing fancy just need it to hold dirt
Wonderful job. And a beautiful family.
If you plan on building a cellar, you can store all your root crops without refrigeration .
Also, you can start your own sweet potato slips and save a lot of money
Thank you! We are hoping to do our own sweet potato slips next year!
Such an abundant harvest! Just wonderful. Love seeing your family all working together. Well done! Val C ❤️🙏🏻
Thank you, Val!
So fun watching your littles help in the garden! Apples are beautiful 😍. What a fantastic harvest!
Have you ever considered growing butternut on trellis? I grow them on cattle panels- so easy and fun to watch them grow!
Oh interesting! I’ve never thought of growing butternut squash that way! Thanks for sharing!
Wow the green corn is so beautiful! I'm growing pink corn next year, very excited to see how it will turn out
Oooh! Pink corn - sounds lovely! I love the diversity in dent corn varieties!
Thank you for sharing how you store the carrots! Those kind of tips are so helpful.
Glad this was helpful! Thanks for the feedback! 😊
We eat the beet leaves in a stir fry, and they are delicious like sweet potato leaves, just slice only the leaves in thin strips, chop some garlic, onions fresh sliced green /red chillies or some mild chillie deseeded that isn’t spicy, according to your preference , add some oil and stir fry everything with salt and dash of chillie flakes or a dash of balsamic vinegar if you can’t handle spice we are Asian so we love the chillies 🤦♀️🙈 we hv the stir fried beet leaves with hot jasmine rice and some meats
Yum! That all sounds delicious!
This is the first time seeing your video. Do you compost? Those beet greens, carrot tops , corn stalks, grasses etc. would make a wonderful compost to add back to your garden soil to loosen up the soil and add nutrients.
Yes! We do compost too! Thanks for watching! 😊
I have 4 liberty apples, 2 are better than the others.. they have different rootstocks. Great video.
What a lovely video for a pleasant family view of homesteading
So glad you enjoyed it!
We grew our sweet potatoes on the farm I worked at in hills. Harvested them by machine but I would imagine would make it easier for hand harvesting as well
Thanks for sharing! I think that would make it much easier.
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So glad to hear this! Thanks for being here!
On the generator topic, which I think was mentioned in a different video you posted. Harbor freight makes a great generator for the price especially when you can get a no exclusions coupon. And as an off grid solution, look into gassification as a fuel source. Much of your remaining biomass from gardening can even be used to create syngas. It’s a rabbit hole to go down, but the tech is not new and it does work.
Thanks for sharing!
So happy for your abundant crop
Thanks!
I really enjoy seeing your family working together in the garden. Everyone is very lovely, and your garden is so lush with many types of vegetables.
So glad you enjoyed this one! ☺️
Excellent Family Team Work 👍🙏. First time I see Red Potatoes 😊😁🙏
They make a potato puller plow you can connect to your cultivator/rototiller. Love the channel!
Thank you!
I plant my potatoes and sweet potatoes in deep raised no dig beds. When it is time to dig them up, I cut the stalks off about 6 inches inches above the ground, so you can see where the plants grew. Then you can simply loosen the ground with your hands and dig the potatoes up, less chance of damaging the potatoes with a spade or garden fork. Or another extremely good method of planting both sweet and normal potatoes is using the Ruth Stout method, which involves laying straw bales down in your beds before winter. They will decompose over winter, and you simply pull back the top layers of straw and plant your seed potatoes and sweet potatoe slips in the thick compost below the straw and cover them up again with the straw. This is a very effective way of growing both types and also save water! You can also use more straw to mulch the potatoes later. They do not have to be watered as much as the straw slows down evaporation. Also saves ones back and aches!! Good luck!!
And your cows will love the leaves and vines of the sweet potatoes.
Thanks for sharing this! Very helpful!
Looking forward to the storage video and how you make the produce last all year round. Thank you for sharing. The future is going back to our wholesome past.
That video should be up by the end of the weekend! Totally agree. Thanks for watching!
Nice harvest. For sweet potatoes, grow them on ridges and they will be easy to dig out.
Thank you!
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Nothing to do with your harvest (very well done of course!), but we also LOVE our Earth Runners. Glad to see they serve you well on the homestead. You've got me inspired to look for Bogs for us and the kiddos too. Thanks for all you do!
Check fb marketplace or second hand for bogs! Those are the only boots I get for our kids anymore. Love earthrunners too! Thanks for watching ☺️.
A colorful farm, of course, requires hard work to achieve results. I congratulate you and your family. I from Vietnam
Thank you! ☺️
Oh how beautiful is your life ! You are blessed with abundant food ! God bless you ! I subscribed I just found you . I am from Chicago
Thank you! We are just outside of the chicagoland area :)
Wonderful harvest! I grow my potatoes in growbags to avoid difficulties with harvesting and avoiding volunteers. It also frees up growing space in my beds. I put the growbags at the bottom of a slope I'm developing for herbs by building up the soil there. I have raised beds for future old age to save my back a little.
Thanks for sharing!! Love it! 🙌
Wonderful harvest 🎉🎉🎉
Oh, it all looks so rewarding and beautiful. I love that green corn. I tried growing it one year, but it didn't do well against the worms.
I love this time of year (for the most part 😉) and totally agree with how rewarding it is! Thanks for watching!
It is one of the most satisfying type of video you produced - last year I modified my planting according to your 'long storage idea'. It worked great for my family.
The only difficulty I met was corn variety. I planted sweet corn since I could not get 'flour'corn. Here we have either corn for animal food or sweet one.
Nevertheless thank you for a positive influence 😊
Lots of work you did ❤ God bless 🌸🌸🌸
Thank you! We are talking about trying sweet corn next year in this system 😊
Thank you. Awesome information!
I've been waiting on this video. I'm not disappointed. I'll be waiting on the next one. This was great! Your harvest is great. I'm so happy for you. I love your great family. Ty for sharing.
Thanks so much, Carol! ☺️
I like the walkies on each of your kids. I bet thats both safe, and hilarious when youre listening in.
Ha! Yes, they love those things! :)
I’d LOVE to see how you store everything. Things spoil so quickly for me; I’d adore any tips!
Yes! Will do! Thanks for watching!
Your chickens love you lil man❤
You are so lucky, we had a late frost that got my blooms on my apple trees so didn't get anything this year, fingers crossed and Lord willing we will next year. Beautiful harvest, ours turned out pretty good also. I won't get carrots until December because I love the sweetness they have growing them in the fall. If I can suggest adding a lot of sand to your potato rows it makes it soooo much easier, I have sandy dirt that grows root veggies beautifully. I grow sweet potatoes in the 10 gallon grow bags it makes it so much easier come harvest time.
Thanks for sharing! Ugh about the apples - such a bummer!! Glad it’s been a good harvest year for you! 😊
CrystalSt. What a wonderful idea. I'll pass that tractor tip along to other homesteaders. So many have tractors 🚜 and abundant potato 🥔 harvests Genius
That adorable pint sized wheel barrow! 😍
It’s the best!
I’m glad the cows enjoyed those beet greens but it was sort of hard to watch. Beet greens are my favorite add in to scrambled eggs and they can be canned too.
I love them too! We just had so many greens but I probably should have done something with them :) Thanks for watching!
Sweet potato leaves are so good!
Enjoyed the video, especially the kids participation. You might want to investigate growing your potatoes under a thick layer of straw or hay. Few weeds, less water use, and virtually no digging. Some call it the Ruth Stout method but it shows up under many names. Just beware of voles.
Thanks for sharing! We are definitely planning to add mulch next year. Appreciate it!
What a beautiful harvest 😊
Loved your garden.
I love the squash operation. Your squash in the grass is just what you'd get with a food forest and/or permaculture operation - you're halfway there - just a thought that might make your life even more fun, more beautiful, and even more productive - though my only knowledge of it is from TH-cam; we're hoping to start building our permatculture food forest this fall or next spring.,
Thanks for sharing and watching! 😊
Make sure you cut the vines off your sweet potatoes before you get a big frost. Frost will kill the vines and can turn your potatoes black. Sweet potatoes also need to cure for a couple of weeks before you eat them.
This was such a helpful tip - we made sure to get them harvested before the first frost. Thanks!
What a beautiful, abundant harvest!
You are such awesome people!
❤️❤️❤️ thanks for the kind words!
Your blog with the list of 10 storage crops along with this video is pure gold for the people who want to eat from their garden year-round. I will definitely be rethinking my garden for next year and researching the storage crops that do best here in my area of NW Georgia. Love your videos, and your laid-back style of gardening and living. Thanks for all that you share with us.
just FYI, I got your ice cream maker and made peach ice cream with fresh peaches from our tree this year and it was absolutely delicious.
Yay!! I love that you started making your own ice cream! That's the best!! So glad this was helpful!
Is that a type of hemlock near the apple tree early in the video? I have a lot of that type and wasn't sure if it's the toxic kind.
So amazing that you guys, as a family, work together. Those kids are going to grow up into fine adults!!! Thanks for sharing with us!
I’m honestly not sure if it’s a hemlock. Thanks so much for watching and the kind words ☺️.
Above ground box tower method is a way to make it easier to harvest