I have to tell you - some of my fondest memories are of the conversations between my Mom and I while digging up potatoes. She passed away last September. She was happiest when her hands were in the dirt! RIP Mama ❤
The best conversations are while stringing beans. The last time that I saw my sweet aunt was in my Pa and Grandma’s yard and the 4 of us broke up beans, drank coffee, talked, and laughed. She had a brain aneurysm a couple of days later and passed a month later. I cherish that memory and I can never string beans without thinking of her. ❤
We are in our 60's now. Don't own a farm but sure do remember back when we were kids and did this kinda thing with our Aunts and Uncles that have now passed on. Nothing like today whatsoever where kids just want to play videos and text their friends on cell phones. Sadly they will never know about our AMERICAN History or know how to survive in any kind of disaster. Love this so much. TFS and God Bless all the hard work. 👍🙏❤
When I was a kid, my family grew acres of sweet corn. All of the kids would pick at 6am, and then we would sell it by the highway. The money went to our school clothes. Then we would swim all day once everything was sold. We freezed in the husk, cutting off each end. The worst job was sucking a straw in the bag and sucking the air out of the freezer bag. Lol
Sitting outside, on the back step, in the evening, shelling peas, snapping beans, and shucking sweet corn are some of the best memories we have. It was the best of times, and we didn't even realize it! Thank you for keeping the traditions alive!! ❤❤❤
Found your channel as I have been recovering from back surgery the past 2 months. Time to go back to work today, and I’m going to miss my morning routine of watching y’all! When there’s not a new video I’ve caught up on old ones! I’ll still be watching but I just wanted to thank you for being there. It’s helped me get through this so much and inspired me to work hard to get better watching how hard you all work. I need to get better to have our small farm in retirement. Even though I only have a small backyard garden right now, especially this year even smaller, my husband has helped me keep up with watering, I put up 8 pints of pickles yesterday and 7 pints of green beans! Anyway, Love your teaching, sharing and your faith. Thank you!!!🤗
I always loved canning green beans. I used to can anywhere from 100 to 150 quarts. One year I canned a little over 300 quarts. 100 was for my mother-in-law because she was house setting for her daughter and was in another state at the time of picking and canning. She was pretty happy she didn't lose out on canned beans since she was gone and wasn't able to can them herself! I always loved breaking beans too. Even when I was a little girl back in the 50s and 60s, my parents and I would sit on our front porch after supper and break beans. Sometimes our neighbor would come join us! Those were good conversations while breaking beans!
Megan, that's the best way to eat the corn, fresh and raw yum. I'm 68yrs and still love that first ear picked. Pick it, shuck it, and eat it right there in the garden.
We used to pick corn by the pickup load. We would help each other pick shuck and cut off then blanch and freeze. It would be like an assembly line. Grandpa and brother picked after the silks turned black. Good old days. ❤❤
This is a great harvest. I was just thinking of all the money country people save. You raise your food,eat the best food and get all the exercise needed to stay fit. I truly love watching your videos. It's families like you that when times get hard you could show the rest of us how to make it thru hard times. Love to all the family.
Bird netting over blueberries helps in several ways 1. Keeps birds off 2. Helps stop them from being over exposed to the sun and drying out. It acts like a shade cloth no matter how lightweight it is.
I’m just now getting to watch this and when you said God’s water is different than well water you are so right. I’m gardening this year for the first time since I was a kid and it was quite accidental. I have tomatoes and zucchini only, threw some OLD seeds in dirt just to see if they would grow. I’ve been watering daily due to lack of rain and we got a shower a few days ago. I swear everything is greener and grew so much overnight that it’s obvious that the rain is so much better for them!! Thanks for sharing your life with us, you have inspired me to try and I see with tomatoes on the vine and several fried zucchini suppers that I can garden, even if it’s in a grow bag, even with bad backs, bad knees and a full time job. I have loved dealing with my tomato and zucchini these past few months. It’s calming to me to be able to go out in my little container garden and see them grow!!
You can can just blackberries whole. Then you can put them in oatmeal, pancakes, muffins,cobbler, pie, biscuits, scones, ect.. when I make a pie filling I open a jar of berries, fill jar with water and pour in heated pot, add 1 cup sugar and 1/4 cup of cornstarch or clear gel, heat till thicken pour in pie shell. You can always can pie filling so it's ready when you need something fast😉 You can also juice them for a cold drink with ice cubes on a hot day.
Hello Family Watching your videos sure do bring back some of my fondest memories sitting with my grandmothers and great aunties on the back porch stringing beans shucking peas and churning butter all the while having listening to what life was really like from the late 1880's thru the depression and all the wars. I learned to preserve food from them since I was 5 yrs old. At 8, I was able to can basic fruit and vegetables on my own by ten to create various recipes for canning. I learned to preserve from the ladies that came long before any fda regulations was created or pressure canners. I'm 63 today, still preserving, and not ever did I hear of any family member or friends living or passed on ever suffer from any illness eating our preserves. My great-grandmother who passed away at 104 yrs of age was still in our kitchen and back porch, helping with the summer harvest guiding each of us young ones till she was 100 and 101 yrs old. Same as my grandmother with our children. I remember when my grandmothers got their first pressure canners in the 1960's, it wasn't for food safe it was to consume more of their time doing other things than hours at time on one thing. The best I've found to keep corn is to cut it off the cob, spread across cookie sheets and freeze completely, then bag or vacuum seal and freeze. Thus keeping the corn from being big iceballs. No matter how you freeze corn i find it does loose alot of its texture especially on the cob. But doing it the i do i didn't lose that texture or sweet taste in the kernels themselves. Also, when canning our beans, we put 1 all narural zinc mg tablet in each pint jar or 2 in each quart jar to keep that gorgeous green color of the beans. The zinc really does help them keep better and is completely healthy for you.
I absolutely loved seeing the pig in the water trough. When I b was a kid we went to the woods to eat brair berries. They are wild black berries. Yalls are bigger and no thorns. I'm still loving yalls channel and glad to see the kids helping
I love that your husband sat there with you doing the corn 🌽 and when you and your son were together at the table doing the green beans ❤it was so sweet him just talking away to you about whatever was on his mind 😊
Here in MN we had two years in a row of severe drought. The garden had 4 to 6 inches deep of what was similar to cement from the dryness. This year however we are in flooding territory. In June we had 7 days without rain and all rain up to today in July with another 7 days of rain in the forecast. The fields of corn and beans that surround us are under water and the losses will be enormous for the farmers. I hope you guys get rain soon, Ill talk to the person in charge to send some of mine your way! Blessings.
I have been canning green beans. I dry canned my. My great Aunt told me how to do them. And they are so good. You pack your jars and the add a teaspoon of salt to the qt. jars. You don't put any water in them. They will have a little water when they get through canning. They are so good this way.
My wife and I have tried frozen corn ears put in freezer bags. We have also frozen them in the husk in freezer bags with similar results mushy. I am going to try a s mall batch like yours in clear wrap then a freezer bag. Will it be mushy or crisp?
Next best thing is watching a family string beans together 😊i love to see Jacob and Maggie participating in garden chores and such instead of being glued to devices. You guys are awesome parents teaching your kids "real life". To be so dry ya'lls garden at the house looks great. I love hearing the guineas in the background. We just got rain here a little while ago, hope it made it to your house too.
I came across your channel a few months ago and i just love it. Reminds me of how we grew up. Everyone in our family had gardens and animals and lived like this. I miss it dearly. It's a far better way to live and to eat. I'm from WV originally, and everyone grew their food like this. Even in the cities. They've since passed laws preventing some of the animals in city limits. Sad. Y'alll are doing it right and I'm envious.
I got a huge bunch of corn given to me. I remembered watching this video and I did exactly what you did. I shucked and wrapped in cling wrap and froze. I just tried some yesterday and I absolutely loved it! I’d never seen it done this way before and I’m so glad you shared this!! Love it frozen this way now!
So I’m new to your channel, and wanted to say how much I love it! I love all the day to day stuff, the explanations, seeing all the progress (please rain! Btw, we are finally getting a little today and supposed to tomorrow. Most of our farmers have lost their first corn harvest~So. IN). I love seeing you put up and explain food preservation. I canned so much as a kid but I have forgotten so much. The kids are beautiful. I’ve got a 10 year old grandson that threw helping me in the garden over for video games. Unless it involves picking berries he can eat. My 5 year old got bit a couple times horrible bad by horse flies so now he’s afraid of all bugs, but likes to help. Oh well I’ve ran on. Just know I love your channel, God Bless You, and make your videos as long as you want! Have a great day, and I’m praying for rain for you all and everyone who is in need of it.❤ P.S. when I moved to this house, my pickle recipes “disappeared “. I’ve found a sweet pickle recipe that’s similar, but still not like the recipe handed down thru the family. My dill pickle recipe also disappeared the same day. They were the best. I remember I had to soak them 24 hours, but don’t know anything past that. Your 14 day pickles look delicious! I would love if your dill pickle, or others could be tagged. I have a really great zucchini relish recipe that only a few ppl have. I would be happy to email to you if you are in need. Thanks!
Corn will dig for water …. I love your sweet family so much got mail coming so pay art I hope you will love it stay here it’s all for you all every one lives to come and the fair Andy would love it all would it’s for you all love prayers
I cut it off gallon I write you love it you all are my types we love you all one on Chanel’s oh Lord I write in letter be safe those children are adorable the cats. Dogs. Goats chicks horses cows pigs 🐷 cows 🐄 cows our cows black white I do love you all so dear I give a way to every one God is good my cat is Lilly she is all I got I send you it’s delicious 😮 about need jars I am about done canning jars spotless boxed ready to go pints. Qts ready be safe and be alert ‼️ nite nite we to have bad thunderstorm to nite I pray 🙏🏻 for your pretty beautiful home. Garden. And the Children and you both u live it up here we just over the hill 🛌🙏🏻❤️🐷🐷🙌 Bless
Meagan, I made your sweet potato surprise, but I used my last jar of canned butternut squash from last fall. I added brown sugar a little maple syrup and butter and turbunato sugar on the top. It was superb. Thank you so much for the tip. ❤
Vacuum packing works great. We put up in different amounts to the bags for different occasions. Stacks well and keeps the taste and crunch. Thank goodness our garden is finished for this spring and all put up. "Feels like" temps have been 105 plus for days now. Thanks for vlogs. Truly enjoy each one!
When I had gardens, the only green beans I planted were Kentucky Wonder. They were the bush beans, and mom and daddy were always there ti help snap beans and pack n jars. A friend had planted several rows of them one year, ours didn't live, so she shared hers. She said please, pick the vines clean. We did, and got 5 1/2 bushels. That was on a Friday, and mom and I canned 90 quarts of beans over the next two days. We even did 14 qts of dilly beans 😊 They tasted so good
I wish I could string a bushel of half runners with my Mama, it’s been 26 years and every summer harvest I think the same thing. Love watching y’all, hope ya get some rain soon.
Megan when my grandmother was living all I ever heard was snap beans I don’t remember her ever saying green beans and she canned hers and they were the best beans to eat and I really miss her when I watch your videos it brings back so many memories of her and I think about my granddaddy when Andy and you talk about your corn I was really close to my granddaddy and where I live now isn’t that far from where him and my grandmother are buried they lived in Webster county in Mississippi and also it’s close to where my mama was born and raised in Webster county
Growing up there were long hedge rows everywhere and tons of blackberries growing there. My siblings, cousins, aunts, mom would get together and spend hours picking. We always got tons, most years we'd get 10 to 15 five gallon buckets full. My mom made stewed berries with dumplings with the fresh ones, canned whole berries, jelly etc. Like you she noticed that seeds in were more pronounced in frozen so she pureed them in the blender before freezing.
When you freeze corn in the schuks you just cut the very top and the bottom, and also the outer s, and that will take care of any worns if there are any on the corn. You can put five hears to a gallon bag. It pretty much taste like fresh out of the garden when you cook. I find that it is best to cut it off the cob while still a little frozen.
I sure enjoy and learn from yalls videos. I really like the learning to can food etc. I want to thank yall for taking the time to teach us. God bless you and praying for rain for yall and Alabama. ❤
We have a local farmer who has been bringing us city folks pickup loads of corn early in the morning for over 30 years come mid -late July. It's a tradition that's as sweet as that first bite of summer corn. God bless the local farmers.
Ive been so happy to have found your program on youtube thanks to Tipper on Celebrating Apalachia. But I couldn't figure out your corn talk. I grew up in the Southern Illinois River Bottoms. Worked in the seed corn fields from age 12 to 18. Us school kids job was to de-tassel the corn. That's pulling the stalk over and pulling off the tassel on top. What you call the tassel is the silk on the ear later in the growth season. That's pure seed corn once the tassel is gone. Otherwise is just plain old field corn. A lot of teenagers over the decades worked their way thru middle and high school detasselling all that corn by hand. Your sweet corn is so pretty!
oh reminds of my love for gardening!!! After losing my dad a fews weeks ago... have lost interest in everything!! Gosh... Life is no more beautiful... exciting and nothing is interesting except sleeping.... I don't know how i will live on. I am scared 😱 of life and feel very bad.
My blueberries didn’t produce much this year either since I didn’t give extra water with my rain barrel water. Your corn looks amazing. Thanks for all your hard work being shared with us to teach and motivate us. You all are so positive despite the lack of rain! Love seeing how you teach your children just by your lives and hard work!🙏🏼✝️❤️
Haven't had green beans to can in a few years now. I'am going to the farmers market to get at the least a caner full to have for Thanksgiving and Christmas. Our neighbor always grew them but has moved away. I miss doing that and making elderberry jelly, it's my favorite. I would've loved to hear the conversation you and Jacob had. I loved this video so many memories come back to me. The corn is beautiful and oh so tasty lookin. Be Blessed you all. Hugs, Rebekah.
It was fun and heartwarming to watch your family work together. ❤ I love fresh food from a garden, but for some weird reason, everything makes me itch like crazy when the foliage touches me this year. 😢
When you pick it and eat it fresh, leave the shucks on chop off the big end microwave for 3 minutes per ear and when you take it out grab the tussle end and pull the shucks off and it brings every silk off❤
Megan, I pressure can at 10 lbs. for 20 minutes, then turn canner off and slide off burner and leave for about 15 minutes to cool. Beans perfect. I do hotpack with boiling water, though. I think I must pack my jars a little tighter than yours, too. Love your family and the videos. You keep it real😆 Maggie was precious when she talked directly to the camera about her perfect carrots. Thank you for all the great videos. They bring back so many precious memories of farm life.
Hey Megan Those berries look like cobblers to me. Hope you have the easy 123 recipe. If not I will send it to you. Such hard working people. Love you guys. ❤
I always grew Illini extra sweet corn and blue lake bush beans. So yummy, here in indiana. When I picked my beans, I pretty much stripped them, because the more I picked, the more they grew.my grandkids and kids all remember sitting on the porch swing , breaking the beans.
Ever since the webcajun/bayou gardener passed way there has been a huge void in that type programming. I have found that your channel has helped to fill that void. Great job. The lack of rain has plagued everyone this year. I’m in central Alabama and we are hurting for rain really bad. Anyway, I enjoy you channel.
Love conversations while picking and putting up food. Also, I vote to get another freezer. 😂 I’ve not ever seen someone have to many. One for chicken, one for other meat, one for veggies, one for corn. Hahaha! I really love putting up food. I get excited about it.
I found the more mature (older ) the berry's get the bigger the seeds are - afteral, the bushes goal in life, like all creatures and things ( including us ) is to propagate it'self - survival of the species - berry's are so luscious snd tempting to all creatures that they get eaten, carried off into new places and deposited - reminds me of an ancient song, still sung today - Does a bar shit in the woods - oh lord , ya know he does 😊
My husband's parents used to freeze corn in the husk. I tried it once and hated it. Tha silk was hard to get off frozen. I shuck my corn and vacuum seal it 6 to a bag. To cook it I put the frozen corn in cold water and as soon as it comes to a boil its done. So fresh❤
Love picking corn and putting in the freezer too ! We put our sweet corn on the cob in food saver bags works great 😀. So enjoy watching your videos. Pray y’all get rain soon🙏
Hi guys! Again another great video! All the work you did during the day was so wonderful to watch, but bless I could just feel the water in the air! So muggy here in se Mo. too, you just melt! Truly love y’all’s attitudes and love for each other. ❤️ We prefer our corn medium, don’t like to accidentally pull one too soon! It really is good to eat right of the stalk mmmmm. Maggie’s and jacobs gardens are fantastic!!! We call the hairs you pull off the end of the ear silks, and call the top of the stalk, tassels :) God bless you guys!
Aw, too bad the berries are drying up. May you be blessed with rain. I love how Maggie calls you mudder. :) Sounds a lot like a PA Dutch accent I grew up around. 😊 Beautiful canned green beans. Have a wonderful weekend. 💖🌻
My favorite channel on TH-cam ❤ I was wondering if you and Andy would mind doing a video on when to start your vegetables from seed for the spring and summer season and then another one for all the vegetables you start from seed for a fall season harvest. I have learned so much from y’all. I can completely understand if you don’t want to do it. I know y’all are very busy. Thank you so much for showing us your gardening adventures etc etc
The world would be such a better place, if more people were like yall. You work hard for your food, dont expect handouts, and mind your business. People dont have time to get into mischief, when they stay busy, and work for everything they eat. Dont know where yall are, but im here in Western NC. We need some rain bad too. Hope we all get some soon. God bless your sweet family.
I used to live in California for 58 years. I absolutely loved driving through sweet corn fields at bloom with my windows down because it smelled amazing. I live in Indiana now and the farmers mostly grow dent corn. I was very excited about the bloom, but, they don’t have any smell at all 😢
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I have to tell you - some of my fondest memories are of the conversations between my Mom and I while digging up potatoes. She passed away last September. She was happiest when her hands were in the dirt! RIP Mama ❤
The best conversations are while stringing beans. The last time that I saw my sweet aunt was in my Pa and Grandma’s yard and the 4 of us broke up beans, drank coffee, talked, and laughed. She had a brain aneurysm a couple of days later and passed a month later. I cherish that memory and I can never string beans without thinking of her. ❤
I know the feeling and feel your heart ❤️
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Precious memories sending blessings and peace 🕊️
I loved Maggie telling about her perfect carrot!!
I loved when she said" Here you go, Mudder!"....Lol ❤
You know I love watching you’ll because you make me feel normal in a world that thinks we are abnormal. Love you guys ❤
When Maggie said "Oh, Lovey you waiting for me?" I melted!
@@patdavey2690 I know it. That was too sweet!!
The sweetest 🥰
I was always very aware of how grateful I was for the time to chat with my kids doing these kind of chores. Makes me miss them being young.
We are in our 60's now. Don't own a farm but sure do remember back when we were kids and did this kinda thing with our Aunts and Uncles that have now passed on. Nothing like today whatsoever where kids just want to play videos and text their friends on cell phones. Sadly they will never know about our AMERICAN History or know how to survive in any kind of disaster. Love this so much. TFS and God Bless all the hard work. 👍🙏❤
When I was a kid, my family grew acres of sweet corn. All of the kids would pick at 6am, and then we would sell it by the highway. The money went to our school clothes. Then we would swim all day once everything was sold. We freezed in the husk, cutting off each end. The worst job was sucking a straw in the bag and sucking the air out of the freezer bag. Lol
Sitting outside, on the back step, in the evening, shelling peas, snapping beans, and shucking sweet corn are some of the best memories we have. It was the best of times, and we didn't even realize it! Thank you for keeping the traditions alive!! ❤❤❤
Found your channel as I have been recovering from back surgery the past 2 months. Time to go back to work today, and I’m going to miss my morning routine of watching y’all! When there’s not a new video I’ve caught up on old ones! I’ll still be watching but I just wanted to thank you for being there. It’s helped me get through this so much and inspired me to work hard to get better watching how hard you all work. I need to get better to have our small farm in retirement. Even though I only have a small backyard garden right now, especially this year even smaller, my husband has helped me keep up with watering, I put up 8 pints of pickles yesterday and 7 pints of green beans! Anyway, Love your teaching, sharing and your faith. Thank you!!!🤗
Aren't they wonderful Deborah? Watching their videos brings me so much peace.
I'm praying for you sweetheart - speedy recovery 🙏😘
You just made my day and so glad to hear your recovery went well! ❤️
I always loved canning green beans. I used to can anywhere from 100 to 150 quarts. One year I canned a little over 300 quarts. 100 was for my mother-in-law because she was house setting for her daughter and was in another state at the time of picking and canning. She was pretty happy she didn't lose out on canned beans since she was gone and wasn't able to can them herself! I always loved breaking beans too. Even when I was a little girl back in the 50s and 60s, my parents and I would sit on our front porch after supper and break beans. Sometimes our neighbor would come join us! Those were good conversations while breaking beans!
❤What a great team you two make!
"Here you go, Mudder..."--Maggie is so cute! Jacob is a little man...such good kids.
Always enjoy your videos. God bless!
Hi, this channel is wonderful and takes me back to my childhood days. I enjoy learning new things from real people. Thank you.
I love to watch the kids just stop and get a snack from garden to eat
Kentucky wonders are hands down the BEST tasting green bean. Especially home canned. Worth every second snapping & stringing.
You and your family are doing great. This is what families need to do more of. Good eatin!!!!
Yall are just a breath of fresh air while I'm at work.
Whenever I have extra berries I make syrup for pancakes and waffles !
Megan, that's the best way to eat the corn, fresh and raw yum. I'm 68yrs and still love that first ear picked. Pick it, shuck it, and eat it right there in the garden.
We used to pick corn by the pickup load. We would help each other pick shuck and cut off then blanch and freeze. It would be like an assembly line. Grandpa and brother picked after the silks turned black. Good old days. ❤❤
Tipper from celebrate Appalachia grows silver queen now that she has more land
This is a great harvest. I was just thinking of all the money country people save. You raise your food,eat the best food and get all the exercise needed to stay fit. I truly love watching your videos. It's families like you that when times get hard you could show the rest of us how to make it thru hard times. Love to all the family.
Andy can grow some corn.over the years I been watching he knows what's going on when it comes to corn really the whole garden. Amen
Yes growing corn is honestly one of his many passions!
Little carrots are big carrots, they all cook up
Bird netting over blueberries helps in several ways
1. Keeps birds off
2. Helps stop them from being over exposed to the sun and drying out. It acts like a shade cloth no matter how lightweight it is.
I’m just now getting to watch this and when you said God’s water is different than well water you are so right. I’m gardening this year for the first time since I was a kid and it was quite accidental. I have tomatoes and zucchini only, threw some OLD seeds in dirt just to see if they would grow. I’ve been watering daily due to lack of rain and we got a shower a few days ago. I swear everything is greener and grew so much overnight that it’s obvious that the rain is so much better for them!! Thanks for sharing your life with us, you have inspired me to try and I see with tomatoes on the vine and several fried zucchini suppers that I can garden, even if it’s in a grow bag, even with bad backs, bad knees and a full time job. I have loved dealing with my tomato and zucchini these past few months. It’s calming to me to be able to go out in my little container garden and see them grow!!
We just got a good downpour the last hour PRAISE THE FATHER!
You look so tired today. Bless your heart. Yummy veggies! ❤
Busy time of year ☺️
You can can just blackberries whole. Then you can put them in oatmeal, pancakes, muffins,cobbler, pie, biscuits, scones, ect.. when I make a pie filling I open a jar of berries, fill jar with water and pour in heated pot, add 1 cup sugar and 1/4 cup of cornstarch or clear gel, heat till thicken pour in pie shell. You can always can pie filling so it's ready when you need something fast😉
You can also juice them for a cold drink with ice cubes on a hot day.
Praise God it is raining good in Tennessee right now.
we finally got some yesterday evening!
@@TrueGritAppalachianWays it quit right after I typed that lol
Hello Family
Watching your videos sure do bring back some of my fondest memories sitting with my grandmothers and great aunties on the back porch stringing beans shucking peas and churning butter all the while having listening to what life was really like from the late 1880's thru the depression and all the wars. I learned to preserve food from them since I was 5 yrs old. At 8, I was able to can basic fruit and vegetables on my own by ten to create various recipes for canning. I learned to preserve from the ladies that came long before any fda regulations was created or pressure canners. I'm 63 today, still preserving, and not ever did I hear of any family member or friends living or passed on ever suffer from any illness eating our preserves. My great-grandmother who passed away at 104 yrs of age was still in our kitchen and back porch, helping with the summer harvest guiding each of us young ones till she was 100 and 101 yrs old. Same as my grandmother with our children. I remember when my grandmothers got their first pressure canners in the 1960's, it wasn't for food safe it was to consume more of their time doing other things than hours at time on one thing.
The best I've found to keep corn is to cut it off the cob, spread across cookie sheets and freeze completely, then bag or vacuum seal and freeze. Thus keeping the corn from being big iceballs. No matter how you freeze corn i find it does loose alot of its texture especially on the cob. But doing it the i do i didn't lose that texture or sweet taste in the kernels themselves. Also, when canning our beans, we put 1 all narural zinc mg tablet in each pint jar or 2 in each quart jar to keep that gorgeous green color of the beans. The zinc really does help them keep better and is completely healthy for you.
I absolutely loved seeing the pig in the water trough. When I b was a kid we went to the woods to eat brair berries. They are wild black berries. Yalls are bigger and no thorns. I'm still loving yalls channel and glad to see the kids helping
Was just stringing and canning beans the other day.
Megan and Andy do y'all ever plant peaches and cream, OMG you can eat that in the field it is so good... GOD BLESS 🙏🙏🙏
Yes we planted it a couple years ago, made a great canning corn
we planted it a couple years ago
I just love your videos. They bring me back to my youth when life was simple and healthy. Keep them coming and God bless your family. ❤️😋🌽🌾
Hello, I enjoy yall so much
The kids makes me think of my childhood, I Georgia lots farming, gardening canning etc.😊❤🙏
Ms. Ruby
Me & grandma shelling purple hull peas ❤
I love that your husband sat there with you doing the corn 🌽 and when you and your son were together at the table doing the green beans
❤it was so sweet him just talking away to you about whatever was on his mind 😊
Them pigs are looking good
The Presto canning pot has been used. Every video brings memories back to someone. Thank you!
Here in MN we had two years in a row of severe drought. The garden had 4 to 6 inches deep of what was similar to cement from the dryness. This year however we are in flooding territory. In June we had 7 days without rain and all rain up to today in July with another 7 days of rain in the forecast. The fields of corn and beans that surround us are under water and the losses will be enormous for the farmers. I hope you guys get rain soon, Ill talk to the person in charge to send some of mine your way! Blessings.
Lord, if that pressure canner could talk😂😂. Much love and respect from Whiteville North Carolina ❤
I have been canning green beans. I dry canned my. My great Aunt told me how to do them. And they are so good. You pack your jars and the add a teaspoon of salt to the qt. jars. You don't put any water in them. They will have a little water when they get through canning. They are so good this way.
I love it when Maggie talks so sweetly. She calls Megan Momma. Haha CREEK WATER.
My wife and I have tried frozen corn ears put in freezer bags. We have also frozen them in the husk in freezer bags with similar results mushy. I am going to try a s mall batch like yours in clear wrap then a freezer bag. Will it be mushy or crisp?
That takes me back to when I would sit on my Grandma’s porch and help her and my Mama shell purple hull peas and sit and talk! Love those memories!
Next best thing is watching a family string beans together 😊i love to see Jacob and Maggie participating in garden chores and such instead of being glued to devices. You guys are awesome parents teaching your kids "real life". To be so dry ya'lls garden at the house looks great. I love hearing the guineas in the background. We just got rain here a little while ago, hope it made it to your house too.
we got some last night and a little this evening! thank the lord!
I came across your channel a few months ago and i just love it. Reminds me of how we grew up. Everyone in our family had gardens and animals and lived like this. I miss it dearly. It's a far better way to live and to eat. I'm from WV originally, and everyone grew their food like this. Even in the cities. They've since passed laws preventing some of the animals in city limits. Sad. Y'alll are doing it right and I'm envious.
You're very lucky to have a husband that wants and willing to help you do your gardening.
I got a huge bunch of corn given to me. I remembered watching this video and I did exactly what you did. I shucked and wrapped in cling wrap and froze. I just tried some yesterday and I absolutely loved it! I’d never seen it done this way before and I’m so glad you shared this!! Love it frozen this way now!
So I’m new to your channel, and wanted to say how much I love it! I love all the day to day stuff, the explanations, seeing all the progress (please rain! Btw, we are finally getting a little today and supposed to tomorrow. Most of our farmers have lost their first corn harvest~So. IN). I love seeing you put up and explain food preservation. I canned so much as a kid but I have forgotten so much. The kids are beautiful. I’ve got a 10 year old grandson that threw helping me in the garden over for video games. Unless it involves picking berries he can eat. My 5 year old got bit a couple times horrible bad by horse flies so now he’s afraid of all bugs, but likes to help. Oh well I’ve ran on. Just know I love your channel, God Bless You, and make your videos as long as you want! Have a great day, and I’m praying for rain for you all and everyone who is in need of it.❤
P.S. when I moved to this house, my pickle recipes “disappeared “. I’ve found a sweet pickle recipe that’s similar, but still not like the recipe handed down thru the family. My dill pickle recipe also disappeared the same day. They were the best. I remember I had to soak them 24 hours, but don’t know anything past that. Your 14 day pickles look delicious! I would love if your dill pickle, or others could be tagged. I have a really great zucchini relish recipe that only a few ppl have. I would be happy to email to you if you are in need. Thanks!
Corn will dig for water …. I love your sweet family so much got mail coming so pay art I hope you will love it stay here it’s all for you all every one lives to come and the fair Andy would love it all would it’s for you all love prayers
I cut it off gallon I write you love it you all are my types we love you all one on Chanel’s oh Lord I write in letter be safe those children are adorable the cats. Dogs. Goats chicks horses cows pigs 🐷 cows 🐄 cows our cows black white I do love you all so dear I give a way to every one God is good my cat is Lilly she is all I got I send you it’s delicious 😮 about need jars I am about done canning jars spotless boxed ready to go pints. Qts ready be safe and be alert ‼️ nite nite we to have bad thunderstorm to nite I pray 🙏🏻 for your pretty beautiful home. Garden. And the Children and you both u live it up here we just over the hill 🛌🙏🏻❤️🐷🐷🙌 Bless
You are making great memories for/with your children. Beautiful scenery you have!!!!
Meagan, I made your sweet potato surprise, but I used my last jar of canned butternut squash from last fall. I added brown sugar a little maple syrup and butter and turbunato sugar on the top. It was superb. Thank you so much for the tip. ❤
Watching y’all reminds me so much of working in the garden when I was a kid! ❤
My daddy would plant silver queen and Merritt. Yummy!!
Silver Queen is my favorite.
It’s great that Andy and the kids help with preparation of the vegetables for you to preserve them.
I’m so happy I discovered your channel, I love it. I love that y’all do a lot the old way and love to listen to you talk.
So true nothing like shelling peas and conversation..
Vacuum packing works great. We put up in different amounts to the bags for different occasions. Stacks well and keeps the taste and crunch. Thank goodness our garden is finished for this spring and all put up. "Feels like" temps have been 105 plus for days now. Thanks for vlogs. Truly enjoy each one!
When I had gardens, the only green beans I planted were Kentucky Wonder. They were the bush beans, and mom and daddy were always there ti help snap beans and pack n jars. A friend had planted several rows of them one year, ours didn't live, so she shared hers. She said please, pick the vines clean. We did, and got 5 1/2 bushels. That was on a Friday, and mom and I canned 90 quarts of beans over the next two days. We even did 14 qts of dilly beans 😊 They tasted so good
Make some dumplings to go with your blackberries. We really enjoy watching y'all grow, reminds us when we're starting out
I wish I could string a bushel of half runners with my Mama, it’s been 26 years and every summer harvest I think the same thing. Love watching y’all, hope ya get some rain soon.
Good Morning! Hope yalll have a great day and get some rain!! Thanks for inspiring me to keep going!
We actually got a good shower from an isolated storm last night, praise God!
Megan when my grandmother was living all I ever heard was snap beans I don’t remember her ever saying green beans and she canned hers and they were the best beans to eat and I really miss her when I watch your videos it brings back so many memories of her and I think about my granddaddy when Andy and you talk about your corn I was really close to my granddaddy and where I live now isn’t that far from where him and my grandmother are buried they lived in Webster county in Mississippi and also it’s close to where my mama was born and raised in Webster county
Ya'll are just great with the ole family ways
I love it! Freeze the worm too. Y’all’s page is great. I love watching it. ❤❤❤
Growing up there were long hedge rows everywhere and tons of blackberries growing there.
My siblings, cousins, aunts, mom would get together and spend hours picking.
We always got tons, most years we'd get 10 to 15 five gallon buckets full.
My mom made stewed berries with dumplings with the fresh ones, canned whole berries, jelly etc. Like you she noticed that seeds in were more pronounced in frozen so she pureed them in the blender before freezing.
When you freeze corn in the schuks you just cut the very top and the bottom, and also the outer s, and that will take care of any worns if there are any on the corn. You can put five hears to a gallon bag. It pretty much taste like fresh out of the garden when you cook. I find that it is best to cut it off the cob while still a little frozen.
I see good, old-fashioned work ethic in this one...and it makes me tired LoL
I sure enjoy and learn from yalls videos. I really like the learning to can food etc. I want to thank yall for taking the time to teach us. God bless you and praying for rain for yall and Alabama. ❤
We have a local farmer who has been bringing us city folks pickup loads of corn early in the morning for over 30 years come mid -late July. It's a tradition that's as sweet as that first bite of summer corn. God bless the local farmers.
We vacuum seal all our corn. Shuck and seal. Taste just like you pulled it from the garden in the middle of winter. Delicious!
Ive been so happy to have found your program on youtube thanks to Tipper on Celebrating Apalachia. But I couldn't figure out your corn talk. I grew up in the Southern Illinois River Bottoms. Worked in the seed corn fields from age 12 to 18. Us school kids job was to de-tassel the corn. That's pulling the stalk over and pulling off the tassel on top. What you call the tassel is the silk on the ear later in the growth season. That's pure seed corn once the tassel is gone. Otherwise is just plain old field corn. A lot of teenagers over the decades worked their way thru middle and high school detasselling all that corn by hand. Your sweet corn is so pretty!
oh reminds of my love for gardening!!! After losing my dad a fews weeks ago... have lost interest in everything!! Gosh... Life is no more beautiful... exciting and nothing is interesting except sleeping.... I don't know how i will live on. I am scared 😱 of life and feel very bad.
My blueberries didn’t produce much this year either since I didn’t give extra water with my rain barrel water. Your corn looks amazing. Thanks for all your hard work being shared with us to teach and motivate us. You all are so positive despite the lack of rain! Love seeing how you teach your children just by your lives and hard work!🙏🏼✝️❤️
Haven't had green beans to can in a few years now. I'am going to the farmers market to get at the least a caner full to have for Thanksgiving and Christmas. Our neighbor always grew them but has moved away. I miss doing that and making elderberry jelly, it's my favorite. I would've loved to hear the conversation you and Jacob had. I loved this video so many memories come back to me. The corn is beautiful and oh so tasty lookin. Be Blessed you all. Hugs, Rebekah.
It was fun and heartwarming to watch your family work together. ❤ I love fresh food from a garden, but for some weird reason, everything makes me itch like crazy when the foliage touches me this year. 😢
When you pick it and eat it fresh, leave the shucks on chop off the big end microwave for 3 minutes per ear and when you take it out grab the tussle end and pull the shucks off and it brings every silk off❤
Megan, I pressure can at 10 lbs. for 20 minutes, then turn canner off and slide off burner and leave for about 15 minutes to cool. Beans perfect. I do hotpack with boiling water, though. I think I must pack my jars a little tighter than yours, too. Love your family and the videos. You keep it real😆 Maggie was precious when she talked directly to the camera about her perfect carrots. Thank you for all the great videos. They bring back so many precious memories of farm life.
Hey Megan
Those berries look like cobblers to me. Hope you have the easy 123 recipe. If not I will send it to you. Such hard working people. Love you guys. ❤
I always grew Illini extra sweet corn and blue lake bush beans. So yummy, here in indiana. When I picked my beans, I pretty much stripped them, because the more I picked, the more they grew.my grandkids and kids all remember sitting on the porch swing , breaking the beans.
Ever since the webcajun/bayou gardener passed way there has been a huge void in that type programming. I have found that your channel has helped to fill that void. Great job. The lack of rain has plagued everyone this year. I’m in central Alabama and we are hurting for rain really bad. Anyway, I enjoy you channel.
Love conversations while picking and putting up food. Also, I vote to get another freezer. 😂 I’ve not ever seen someone have to many. One for chicken, one for other meat, one for veggies, one for corn. Hahaha! I really love putting up food. I get excited about it.
I found the more mature (older ) the berry's get the bigger the seeds are - afteral, the bushes goal in life, like all creatures and things ( including us ) is to propagate it'self - survival of the species - berry's are so luscious snd tempting to all creatures that they get eaten, carried off into new places and deposited - reminds me of an ancient song, still sung today - Does a bar shit in the woods - oh lord , ya know he does 😊
Merrit corn yellow the silk came off so easy ever make corn silk tea!
Snapping beans is the original Snapchat... Love the channel, enjoy !!!
My husband's parents used to freeze corn in the husk. I tried it once and hated it. Tha silk was hard to get off frozen. I shuck my corn and vacuum seal it 6 to a bag. To cook it I put the frozen corn in cold water and as soon as it comes to a boil its done. So fresh❤
Love picking corn and putting in the freezer too ! We put our sweet corn on the cob in food saver bags works great 😀. So enjoy watching your videos. Pray y’all get rain soon🙏
Beautiful bounty. Nothing quite like the satisfaction one gets from gardening, is there?
you got that right
Hi guys! Again another great video! All the work you did during the day was so wonderful to watch, but bless I could just feel the water in the air! So muggy here in se Mo. too, you just melt! Truly love y’all’s attitudes and love for each other. ❤️
We prefer our corn medium, don’t like to accidentally pull one too soon! It really is good to eat right of the stalk mmmmm. Maggie’s
and jacobs gardens are fantastic!!! We call the hairs you pull off the end of the ear silks, and call the top of the stalk, tassels :) God bless you guys!
Aw, too bad the berries are drying up. May you be blessed with rain. I love how Maggie calls you mudder. :) Sounds a lot like a PA Dutch accent I grew up around. 😊 Beautiful canned green beans. Have a wonderful weekend. 💖🌻
My favorite channel on TH-cam ❤ I was wondering if you and Andy would mind doing a video on when to start your vegetables from seed for the spring and summer season and then another one for all the vegetables you start from seed for a fall season harvest. I have learned so much from y’all. I can completely understand if you don’t want to do it. I know y’all are very busy. Thank you so much for showing us your gardening adventures etc etc
LOL 🤣🤣🤣. When you said you just fill your bean jars up with creek water I almost lost it. Hahahaha. That was some serious funny right there. 😅❤
I have my moms pressure canner . Its just like yours . I can my green beans in it every summer. You are correct. Beans are the easiest to can.
The world would be such a better place, if more people were like yall. You work hard for your food, dont expect handouts, and mind your business. People dont have time to get into mischief, when they stay busy, and work for everything they eat. Dont know where yall are, but im here in Western NC. We need some rain bad too. Hope we all get some soon. God bless your sweet family.
We totally agree, we're in the foothills of NC
@@TrueGritAppalachianWays I'm in Wilkes county..
Ha I keep looking at those pickles on the counter. I can't wait till you try them 🙂💐
I’ve got them canned up so I’m going to give them a couple weeks and give them a try!
I used to live in California for 58 years. I absolutely loved driving through sweet corn fields at bloom with my windows down because it smelled amazing. I live in Indiana now and the farmers mostly grow dent corn. I was very excited about the bloom, but, they don’t have any smell at all 😢