I’m Not Tellin’ You Not To | Homestead Vlog | March 25, 2024
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- Today we are picking up our first cornish cross chicks of the year and it's also time to get some taters in the ground!
We get our chicks from Valley Farms Hatchery in Alabama. We got our seed potatoes from Hoss.
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It's called root Stout method
Hey Andy and Megan, I want to say this, I thank yall for your conversation, your talking with us, without all the Bad Words , without Cursing. Thank you so much. We can sit down with yall family and have a good clean conversation. I can let our grand children sit and watch yall and the children. Love yall. Lee family
Yes Indeed! That is a Gift for us from them!
You work together as a wonderful family! So inspirational!
I love the clean language also thank you
These people are told great parents and take car if he animals God bless you have a place in my ❤️
I cut up potatoes no more I buy big baking so good sweet family I am in middle writing you all letter 😮❤
Love the joke the young man told his little sis about the eyes and ears of the garden. I’ve already told it to my oldest son. Looked at me like a mule looking at a new gate.
Boys will be boys! My brothers teased me like Jacob. Always butt of the jokes men and boys share. 😂😊
No Cell Phones in them kids hands Thank God! They are being taught Real Life Lessons to Live later in life
I loved how Andy paused to wave a passing car. It’s a southern thang! Growing up in my small town NC, you always drove with a hand at the top of the steering wheel and gave a wave to about every car that passed you. Keep those videos coming-I love every one of ‘em!
Hahaha I about drop what I'm doing most of the time just to wave at someone!
I don't think it is a southern thing. It is a country thing. Up here in Minnesota we do it here too. They don't do it in the big cities though.
Memories of dragging a big chain down rows mixing in fertilizer when I was their age, cutting up those seed taters, walking behind the tractor feeling the dirt between my toes..... aahhhhh. Your children are so blessed to have you as parents.
So good teaching children about God's nature and how to grow their own healthy food . God Bless !!!
Seed potato cutting trick I learned from a pro breeder: keep your seed potato cutting knife dipped in a can of lime water between cuts and you'll avoid transferring diseases.
Homesteading was the first 60 years of my life but we never called it that, we just called it farming. Raised our own meat and grew the majority of our food.
If you throw Potato Peelings in compost from fixing supper etc. they WILL grow potato plants, Celebrating Appalachia said they have grown HUGE taters accidently and Granny always planted her peels too in their beds
Yep - have to deal with that in compost all the time
Loved the no secrets in the garden joke!! 😉 Beautiful sunrise for sure, and new chicks 🐥 too. It is awesome that the children pitch in & work right alongside y'all. Tyfs
Yes, baby chick's and planting potatoes. God is good. God bless y'all from the bootheel of Missouri.
Watching how your kids work with y'all just blesses me. You have a wonderful family ❤
Yall should have plenty of potatoes. You know it's good to help others who don't have or not able to garden. 😂 God bless you guys.
I just love to watch your little family working together, I can remember planting potatoes with my dad and mom many years ago. Those chicken n dumplings look delicious.
Morning!! Love watching your videos and your beautiful family!!
Have an amazing day!! Thank you for sharing!!
Potatoes got eyes and corns got ears !!!!! 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Can’t wait to see how the potatoes do in the different beds. So much fun . I love garden experiments.
A row of Sun Flowers by the road in that Potato patch would look amazing to people driving by..Just a thought!!.. I appreciate your videos they are inspiration to us all
we usually do plant a patch of sunflowers in the field across the road, they're one of my favorite flowers
It brought back memories of when I was a child watching your children help cut those potatoes, I remember my mother would start what she called graveling the potatoes.She would take a kitchen fork and rake the soil away from the roots and pull some of the tiny potatoes off and leave the plants to mature. I remember that they would be about the size of a nickel or quarter and she would cook them in green beans,they were wonderful.
OH the sweet song of baby chicks! I'm thinking Jake will be harvesting them with no help needed and Maggie will be planning the crops before long.
Love y'all!
Something we started last year was canning potatoes. We like the reds the best, but they don't store as good. With canning, we can have mashed potatoes within 5 minutes of opening the jar.
I've found farming seems to be one big experiment.
What works one year may or may not work the next year ..😊😊😊😊
Good Monday morning,
Love ya and all your video's. God bless
I ❤ the way yinz experiment with things! I am so looking forward to see how the potatoes turn out I. The leaves! I think yinz (sorry I'm from Pittsburgh PA 😂) are on to something there! Love your channel and the way you are teaching your children! God bless!
I just love your videos. I've learned so much from you. Your a blessed man, your wife is such a hard worker and so calm.❤
Meagan is a Proverbs 31:10-31 woman ❤
thank you!
Good to teach children that all things take work and don’t come from a grocery store, the taste is so different from home grown, no comparison ❤
Have a blessed week yall. Greatest week in history. God bless you ALL! 💜
Always learning something
And relaxing to watch all your videos. Thanks
Chicken and dumplings looked delicious! My Mom always made the fluffy biscuit kind of dumplings, so I do too. Besides chicken and dumplings, I love dumplings on a pot of beef stew. My mother-in-law put dumplings in her pinto beans. She made small little dumplings. They were also delicious. She made them to stretch her pot of beans to feed more folks, especially for Sunday supper because she never knew how many folks would show up--grown children and their families, cousins, in-laws, anybody who was hungry seemed like were always welcome at her table. That's one thing I learned from her--there was always room at the table for one more. Sorry, I spend a lot of time remembering the past thinking of times and people gone by--happens when you get old. God bless.
we love hearing these stories!
Happy you're here to listen!
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Precious family
And I second the comment about being able to watch y’all without having to worry about a “ bomb” being dropped. Gets so old , to start loving to watch something and having to quit because of the language ! Thank you guys so much ! Y’all take care😍
♥️✝️🇺🇸 I love seeing the family team work 🥰 hoping y’all have a great harvest this season ♥️
Love watching your lil ones learning , helping and bonding.....that's what makes a real family in my opinion.....
Kinda, just found you guys...I'm hooked, love you and your family! Love the way you live and cook! How can you can better than me and I'm only 29 and holding??? Your little ones so helpful and smart ❤ Beautiful family. God is good!!
Digging with a shovel is tilling. The key is all the earthworms live in the top five inches of the soil (per worm growers for composting and fishing), so when you stir up that area the worms have to regenerate from eggs left behind. Healthy worms leave the equivalent of fertilizer as you'd have from rotational grazing cattle/acre. Worms recover faster from strip till than full tillage because there are colonies close to the strips to repopulate.
very Interesting, I see a ton of earthworms in some of these areas that we dont till as much, however I do see them in the tilled areas too just not as many
I enjoy your videos very much. It's so practical and real. I enjoy seeing your kids working right alongside you guys, I come from a very large family. We had to work hard ourselves. It ISO k, as we grew up. We all were able to take care of ourselves and make enough money to support.
What beautiful day to bring baby chicks home ❤ 🐥🐥
Really enjoyed the Tater Planning and Planting. Hope to see a great crop of potatoes from all the experiments. You all worked so well together getting the job done. Those Chicken and Dumplings really looked great Mega. Thank you all for sharing with us, stay safe and keep having fun around there. Fred.
Oh my goodness, I'm worn out !!! You are such hard workers, I love how you let the kids help !!!
I would kill for the amount of space you have to plant all your veggies etc etc!!! I love this channel and am learning so much from y'all! Jacob telling Maggie that little garden joke was so cute!!
I love this channel y'all are living my dream.
My family has made dumplings that way for generations. We love them. Those that make them the other way are like pasta and not as good in my opinion. I love your good old fashioned way of cooking, living and raising your children. So glad I happened to notice your channel on TH-cam.
Hi Megan and Andy! I'm glad y'all got your potatoes planted. That reminded me of the big potato patches we used to plant at Grandpa's years ago. Getting those listing disks set right can be a chore. I actually bought an extra set of cultivator arms that I keep the disks on year round. Nothing wrong with experimenting. Sometimes you can make some great discoveries that way. The chicks look good!
Andy I can remember helping my granddaddy gather sweet potatoes from his garden he would dig them up with a shovel and I would get them and drop them in a bucket and when he planted his corn he would plant watermelon behind his corn patch and he always had a lot of watermelon
I love watching y'all
Just want ya'll to know how much I'm enjoying watching and listening to these videos. I have gone back and watched many older ones and nary a one has been boring. Thanks for the information and entertainment!
Thank you so much!
Howdy all,,, Maggie and Jacob need there own little bucket to help plant the taters.those little chicks are so cute💐💐💐
I just bought your cookbook and made pone bread and shared with my friend. Really enjoy the videos it gives me peace just watching. I would be in heaven living there it’s absolutely beautiful. I wish y’all the very best.
Thank you!
Hello and thanks for another great video. I love seeing the children help out on your homestead. I don't care what anyone says, you are fantastic parents and I pray they grow up and appreciate the way they were raised and continue your way of life. God Bless you both!
thank you
Your rainy day live chat popped up in my feed yesterday where u were making chicken and dumplings and that sounded so good. I've always just used the canned biscuits but made your drop dumplings last night in it and 😋. It was so good. I'm thinking about having more for lunch today haha. Be blessed y'all cause u sure do bless me
Love you guys! Oh how I miss our own food. I would can everything I could get my hands on. Loved the joke, so cute. Have a great day and God Bless. Hugs from OHIO, Rebekah
Love love love love your videos love your son's comment about the secrets in the garden that was a good one.
So jealous of Andy driving the tractor when we were very young my husband decided to get this old tractor they delivered it and he told me to drive it across the creek up to the house start up the bank that booger rare it up with me and that was the end of my love for tractors that is why I do everything by hand I like to keep my feet on the ground love the way that you guys divide and conquer and work together to do it you guys are amazing keep up the good work
We had one baby chick hatch yesterday morning. Ready for the rest. We got the start and grow for them to eat on.
Where do you get the time??? Lol I work 8-10 hours a day 5 days a week and if the weather doesn’t stop me I’m in the garden. I’m really jealous of what you have done for your family.keep it up as long as you can. Thanks JD😎
either weekends or evenings after work, I work full time, Meagan just works part time. however I do work for myself so my schedule is a little more flexible than others
My favorite Southern recipe! Yummy 😋
Enjoy watching your videos. Thank you for sharing. Best wishes, D
Megan, here is an interesting sort of method for Amish flour, from Face Book ... Canning Simple Recipes Food Gardening Preserving and Crafting group · I have been researching WWII methods of survival and found this old technique that I thought was brilliant. certainly, with supply chain issues the first thing that will fly off the shelves is bread, then yeast and flour. I thought this was a brilliant and sustainable way to stretch precious resources with something most of us can grow very easily.
Zucchini flour.
Might be old news to some, but you never know right. With rising concerns on wheat costs just thought I’d share it.
There’re probably fancier ways of doing this out there, but here’s how I learned. Easy peasy. Nothing to it.
We love and make tons of zucchini flour every year. You may have heard it called Amish flour or troops flour before. It’s a Staple in Amish and Mennonite household for generations here. It was also embraced in the 1940’s during rationing.
You let your zucchini grow, oversized is actually better. Large to extra-large. Marrow sized. I peel mine with a carrot peeler, into thin even strips for less drying time. Or slide it through a mandolin for speed of prep.
Run it through the electronic dehydrator or just thread it. . No large seeds if possible for finer texture. Everything else is fine. It must be absolutely dry. It’s essential. If in doubt always dry it more, any moisture will ruin it during storage.
Then run it through a food processor or hand grinder until you have a powdered consistency. It will be a marbled green looking power. Texture is similar to a good quality whole wheat flour. That is zucchini flour. Three large zucchini is about four or five cups for me finished.
It can be used to replace 1/3 of flour in most recipes without any change to the finished products, acts as a thickening agent for gravies, great for breading fish but we really tend use ours for tortillas and Bannock since those are our quick go to breads. It also makes great dumplings and brownies.
Store in airtight jars, or we often vac pack ours
For us, we still purchase grains from a local family-owned grist mill. So this is free, sustainable, easily produced on site and it has a mild taste. Most people wouldn’t pick up on it. It cuts our flour usage by a third. You can do the same with sweet and regular potato, other squash acorns, and pumpkin. I just find myself zucchini is the least flavored. Plus, we get overloaded by the darn things. Sorry its so long, I didn't know how to send it to you. 🤭
Thanks!
Glad to see y’all today and see y’all are finally getting them potatoes in the ground!!! I’ll be waiting on the potatoe keeping video. !! Great videos!!!
Love fluffy dumplings too. Learned a lot about the chick's. Hope they all made it.
Megan I had an uncle that use to plant his potatoes in a grass and leaf compost bin that he had out in the back corner of his backyard and he usually had a pretty good crop plus he would plant Lima beans and other vegetables in his garden and my aunt would put whatever they got out of their garden in the freezer except the potatoes
Loved Jake's joke! 😄Cute helpers and great teamwork! 🥰
Just stumbled across your channel and we are actually "neighbors"! Love your channel and how you aren't trying to get clicks, just living life and raising your family ❤.
Welcome!!
Love Jacobs joke!!❤😂
I love growing potatoes.
North Carolina sunrises and their sun sets are beautiful to see .
Good morning, Megan! Enjoyed the video! There is nothing as cute as baby chicks! We have to chit our potato's up here on the mountain. Our ground stays frozen longer than ya'll down the mountain, plus we can have frost as late as May 15th. Year before last we had a heavy frost on the 18th. That was a shock to both us and the plants we had only had in the ground for a couple of days. Had to start all over with anything that was above ground. I fixed chicken and dumplings last week. One of my favorite dishes! Hope you and your family have a wonderful Holy week and a great Easter. He is Risen!
Love me some dumplings! Love seeing kids helping in the garden! Great learning experience for them!
Yall stay blessed. love from Lonnie on the coast of North Carolina.
Meagan, you always make the best looking meals.
thank you
The potatoes that you planted in the deep leaf mulch will probably need a lot more water. They will sprawl out and grow well in the loose, nutritious 'soil', but mine dried out easily when I had a 50/50 mix of composted leaf mulch and soil.
I love to watch ya'll. you're just simple and easy going and keeping the old ways
Those little chickens are so adorable. I hope that little one makes it. I'm anxious to see how your potato experiments work. I've not had good luck with growing potatoes, and I really wish I did, because we eat them a lot!
Looking Good. 👍
Megan, you made the perfect dumplins. Who cares about the chicken. This great grandma is impressed ❤
Thank you ❤️
Good morning from Algonac, Michigan. ❤ watching your shows
Gosh,I gotta plant my taters! Love y’all’s videos.I look forward to all of them.
Howdy y'all from here in Michigan 👍🤓👍.
Potatoes look promising ❣️
Sitting here with Beckett. He sees your thumbnail and had to watch your video!!!
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Good morning guys!!
You plant so many potatoes for a couple of reasons. The first being because of the strong Irish heritage in the area. Another is, the Appalachian diet is built around what we could grow, so it is largely starch based. The mountain region was not as accessable as other areas. Starchy foods tended to thrive. And we like them.
thats an amazing explanation and very accurate too!
Just found your channel ... just subbed ... looking forward to going through your videos. God Bless! 😊👍✝
Hi guys .,Del in Texas
Plus I have been super busy in my garden 🌱🌱.,but I try to keep up with ya 💚💚🌱🌱
I always love watching!
Great video, can’t wait to see how the potatoes do.
This was a great video. Love seeing the kids helping out!!
Have seen some massive tater harvest come from beds that have been layered with leaf litter and soil, multiple layers of each.
Have even seen folks shove layers of newspaper off in there amongst the leaf litter and soil, and they put out good too.
It's the "fluffy" layers that helps em put out more.
Peelings from taters will put out more taters, that's probably what happened in your compost heap, it happens in many.
Where I come from, a no till garden was just a bunch of holes dug out in a row or here and there, and you still had to mow around every plant, not in beds like y'all have, but nowadays folks are calling what y'all have a no till garden, so call it what you want, your back might be calling it something else though. ;-)
hahahaha no joke! my back didn't like it!
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I'm sure.
You sure have some good help that's how to raise kids awesome. Happy Easter.
Planting potatoes in leaves will work. I put some in tires, but they were small. And watching out for yellow jackets nests in the tires and leaves.
I remember when.n you dug these they did good look so good they lasted.
Keep the leaves wet and your Potatoes will grow. I have even put Potatoes in bail of Hay and they grew..Just keeps moist they grow almost anywhere,,PS I ordered your Cookbook and it came in yesterday
thank you!
The taters being planted was quite interesting, but now all I can think of is how much I want a big bowl of those dumplings! LoL One of my favorite 'comfort foods' of all time right there :)
Great family and great companionship 👏Bravo!!😇
Great video thanks for sharing
Good video, your little Younghans step on in and help whatever has to be done ❤
Hello! Great video,! baby chicks are so cute !! When I was little you could buy them at the dime store for Easter and they were dyed different colors!
Maggie’s face was so sweet when big brother told her the joke about tater eyes and corn ears 😍 God bless y’all!
Hey yo I don't know of any homesteaders that have bad language in their videos they're all very respectful
I like the way the kids help out
Hey Andy, do you have any idea how luck you are. 2 great kids, a fox of a wife with an awesome accent. Darn pretty land and pretty decent soil. You've got it right adding leaves, more is better. Keep doing what you're doing.
I thank God for it everyday my friend
@@TrueGritAppalachianWaysgood to hear, God has blessed you with a fine woman. Oh ya, more leaves the better for taters, compost mulched leaves, plow a deep forrow put a deep bed of leaves and throw them taters in. Cover with a bit of dirt and mulch em deep with more leaves. You need an even fertilizer and son you'll be amazed.
I tell you.... Chicken or squirrel in big fluffy dumplin's. Yum! Lip smackin good.
Absolutely!