Homestead Q&A | Answering Our Most Asked Questions | May 1, 2024
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- Today we are going through our most asked questions for the month of April.
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In 2007, my husband went and bought a Kabota tractor, and I was mad because I wanted a new car, well after seeing what that tractor could do, I am so grateful for that darn thing. So I Still have my 2003 expedition, and I'm OK with that.❤
Glad to see the growth and views your channel is getting. You have been doing this awhile and well deserved! Thanks for hanging in there. I enjoy the videos!
Thank you so much!
Hello I’m 80 yrsold and I grew up in the country and I love your life style keep on keeping on
I am 79 years old and am not able to farm, but I do have a raised bed garden. There’s just something about spring that makes me want to turn dirt and plant something.
I have figured out why I love you guys so much, it’s because you don’t go into politics and Andy always finds an upside to any problem. Nothing seems to get him down.
With the great attitude that y’all have you should live a long life.
God has really blessed y’all.
thank you so much!
I love the porch talk it’s like hanging with you neighbors
I love your videos. Your babies running around barefoot takes me way back to my childhood and I love it. Yall are awesome.
Good morning from Northern California. You Two are a Hod send. God Bless our Veterans and a great coffee company. Thank You both for sharing your life with us. I just worked my garden 🪴 this morning. Have a blessed, beautiful day. ❤️🙏🪴🧑🏽🌾
You guys are awesome I could listen to you all day
Your so right. It so much reminds me of when I was military and would get to come home. Travel many hours to get here, so tired and come through the door, give everyone hugs and your wanting nothing more than to go to BED !!! Lol but nope I’d have around 4-5 hours left of talking ! 😮. As a young man that first night was dreadful but now I miss them so much !!!
These porch talks reminds me of them great times with family
This was a nice chat. Felt like I was right there with you, sipping lemonade 😋
9:37 “Something to waste your money on” isn’t that what we get husbands for?! 😂🤣
haha
I want more than anything to have a queen like Meagan to give my heart to and grow old with
I turn my sweet pickles, jam, and pickled beets upside down. No problems ever. I’m 75 years old for god sakes and not dead yet!!
Loved this video. It was like we were sitting around the patio table with you guys! Life's a garden, Dig It!
When you love what you do, it's not work, right!? 🙂
exactly
I was taught that waterbath canned foods went upside down because the pressure was absent during the waterbath process. Despite the USDA...I always have and always will do it that way. Wouldn't want the spirit of my dear momma to give me a brain duster!!😂
I love your videos. I can watch them all day long. I have several families I watch and I enjoy it and I thank you. ❤️
Jersey cows got the best milk in my opinion
If we listened to the USDA we wouldn’t be canning anything. Most of them probably never filled a jar. I think about how the older people canned and didn’t go by all those restrictions and lived a long and healthy life.
Megan is a treasure and a great doctor.
Not bad looking either
My mother ALWAYS turned her jars upside down “to seal better”. Beans, tomatoes, jams and jellies… everything. I do sometimes just cause I feel like she’s watching😂😂 (she’s been gone a long time)
God bless you
yes, tell us about the implements and tractors- we farm with Oliver tractors -have one of each now and they all earn their keep.
Y'all are adorable! So down to earth. Reminds me of growing up on a tobacco farm here in central NC. My nephew now has the farm and turned it into a cattle farm. Y'all would get along great!
Oh yes, these days there’s so much nonsense that can get ur license in trouble, so definitely protect it. And sadly today, it seems there’s always a trouble maker to go after it, if it benefits them.
Just wanted to let you know what a pleasure you are to watch. We are elderly and have lived in south Texas all our lives. I love your country life and your refreshing way of bringing your message. You are hard working young folks and set a great example for others. God Bless you all!
I have never cared for TV. I had a friend that did not own a TV and someone ask him why, he said, "I don't have that much time to waste.
Hoss’s product’s are the best for they are 40 miles from my place I would not have no other product
Just started watching your videos and I absolutely love you guys. Meagan, I am right there with you about your horses. We have two horses that do an awful lot of standing around. My horse is 32 now and she will be here until the day she dies. I live in Arizona (in the desert) and don't have the benefit of a pasture. We have the land but it would take way to much water for a pasture. Keep your "heart horse" and don't let anyone tell you different. Keep it true and honest just the way you and Andy are doing.
I watch your videos. Everyday I grew up gardening and canning
Hardest working family on you tube. Proud to watch your family. Love the videos.
thank you
Good morning y’all ! Thank you for q&a! Megan, I have also turned my jelly upside for 5 min then back up to seal them . I have done that my whole life and NEVER had any trouble from my jelly or jams.My momma thought me that too- 😊the usda says it is a danger of deadly bacteria growing in your jars . And that the high heat of processing is supposed to make the seal stronger but I will continue to stick with the method my momma taught me.😊 love those azaleas! I went right to Amazon about your hoecake pan and they aren’t available on there anymore 😫 I was one that asked about that pan lol. I will keep on praying for yall and the new experiences you will be going through with your channel. God bless yall!
I find ya guys are the real deal..Homesteaders .,
I grew up in a family of cooks my grandmother who was born in 1900 cooked all the time homemade meals. My mom was a cook. They both had restaurants both very hard-working women. We did a lot by hand. We didn’t buy too much from the stores and then as we got older and had kids I think I stepped away from a lot of that I still cook, but I stopped gardening back and now I reconnected with gardening about four years ago and I came across y’all and I just Love y’all because it reminds me of the way we grew up and I am addicted to a lot of my veggies that instead of going to the store, I can grow my own from garlic potatoes to carrots to bring beans so cabbages and I’m doing good and I am watching y’all. I feel like you’ll give me a lot of inspiration…
God Bless ya 🙏🏽 🌱🌱
thank you so much!
If you don't grind your own coffee, you need to. Coffee oxidizes easily, which degrades the freshness. Grinding your own protects the bean from oxidation until you grind it.
Love your channel! I'm a coffee lover too. My husband is a disabled vet, so I'm going to check out that coffee!!! Thanks for sharing! God bless y'all!
Supper was so done with love so gkad puppy ate you all the best homevsteaders live prayers praying over your family horses pull up roots and grass horse will eat your grass like this lol
Puppy love you 4
We love you too lol
God loves you 🙏🏻❤️
The children are so sweet cows love you all Andy meagan are great parents that’s right as meshing says lol so sweet candy is precious she knows every move that’s made I pray for you never made butter but I try raw milk growing up it was goat milk I love goats 🐐 they play with you I am afraid 😱 of cattle 🐄 car poor lol 😂 you all so cute 🥰 I got one it’s old but like new. John Deer you talk tractor it better be John Deer 🦌 🐄🚜you Doze and never Close lol 😂 tv is waste time I do not watch it is very disturbing not good just pray 🙏🏻 I am hooked on watching you all I listen but that doesn’t mean I answer it lol 😂 I watch u all good wholesome bless your day be safe love ❤️
Andy and Megan, you folks are so real. I so enjoy watching your channel.
Thank you so much!
Some people don't realize how much work there is to gardens AND chickens never mind having cows and horses on top of it way too much work sunrise to sunset
♥️✝️🇺🇸 Much love from the great state of Texas ♥️ So refreshing to see & hear wholesome sane people !
Love you guys! I’ve learned so much from watching all of your videos. Really enjoyed watching the question and answer session. I don’t comment much but I’m cheering you on everyday. I recently moved from S west Florida to Eastern Tn and have started my first garden at the age of 53. I’ve always enjoyed working in the yard but the garden is next level.
Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge with all of us.
Just found your videos this week and I LOVE to listen to you guys! I do listen to a lot of political podcasts but they do my soul and spirit no good. Listening to your videos makes me realize there are a lot of like minded people in the world. It’s too bad I can’t seem to find them in person!
Good show y’all. Doers get er done. Jus sayin. Team work make life better for all. Starts At ROOTS.
We love y'all
@Megan, spread used coffee coffee grounds around your azaleas.
When you are handy you can and do have more vehicles and equipment around. Often some are backups, some are continual projects, and some are parts. The farming lifestyle tends to create handy skills even if you didn't start out handy since necessity puts those skills in your hands.
exactly
I agree. On a farm, you learn to keep a lot of things bc you might be able to use those parts and pieces for other things.
My Mom used to come home from store with new shoes all the time, Dad would say Ruth why do you buy so many shoes and she would say well they were so cheap I could not pass them up as I am saving money with them being so cheap and Dad said well look at the money you would save if you never bought em, well she still brought shoes home anyway.....Just loved to collect em I reckon.....
Long time subscriber and so happy to see the channel growing in leaps and bounds.Never could understand what the hold up was,with such great content.
Appreciate you folks and all your hard work. ❤🙏🙋🙂
I used to work for my grandfather back in 70s picking rocks out of the fields the way he used to make ditches in the fields was one rock on one side one rock on the other side one rock on top and we did miles it feels like that picking rocks into the little truck take him to the ditch that's how he grained all his fields he didn't buy pipe or tile he just used rocks and then on top of those rocks you threw all your old cardboard and plastic and stuff over top of the rocks and then buried it that's how he grained all his hay fields it was hard work and I tell you I was a teenager and that man was way older than me and he could outwork me no problem always remember him because he always had a drip of sweat hanging off his nose and he ate grapefruits like an orange peeled them Yucky I love grapefruit but not that way could never stand the bitter taste of the skin missed that old man even though he was pretty cheap with his money LOL
Never heard of turn jars upside down before my mum came to watch she never turned anything upside down but that sounds like a really good idea naturally things would feel better if it's turned upside down it only makes sense I'm going to start doing that I don't like losing food if you turn upside down there's no way it's not going to seal
We've been doing it for as long as I can remember. It always served us well
Love love your videos,, I enjoy seeing Jacob and Maggie playing,, that’s the way I grew up, barefoot and happy. ❤❤
I love our Kabota. I'm teaching my 6 year old how to drive it. It is a little work horse.
My horses are also pasture ornaments one is 26 the other 24. Like you, mine will die here
Got to teach them early. God bless y'all
I could listen to you guys all day long.
Good morning from Oregon, right you’re not planting for the bugs to eat…it would be awful to watch all your hard work be destroyed, we do our best not to use chemicals but sometimes you gotta do what ya gotta do😊 have a good day
Horses are just sure enjoyment... they always produce a smile on my face even on bad day.. besides they smell fantastic.. LOL to a horse person... you have a awesome channel.. keep it up..
Andy talk to Greg at Hoss tools about a drip system for garden around the house , he is a master his talent is amazing , he will help , enjoy & have fun !
I just Love you guys remind me of family. Picture is me& my grandson I'm hung on my Folgers, Maxwell house coffee but I love it's Supports veterans.i live about a half mile from a Kubota dealer they're great little tractors,my Grandpa always went by Farmers Alamnic & the moon
He had 80 acres some land he rented but always had a huge garden which I worked in I miss them times.im 53and a grandpa now I'd love to have a little homestead.i really enjoy you all's videos & I wish you the very best God Bless 🙏
I just think that you too are a great American family. I really enjoy seeing your kids helping you on the farm. Keep on making the videos. God bless you all.
You talked about planting by the signs....years ago the farmers almanac told me to plant my peas so I did and just out of curiosity I waited two weeks and did it again... weather didn't change....first row 100% germination very healthy....second planting wasn't worth keeping. Not sure if it was even 30% germination so yes it makes a big difference
wow!
Hey I miss your videos keep them coming
You're right about farmers having a lot of vehicles and that's the best place to look for old antiques if they ever want to get rid of them kind of funny my uncle used to travel all over Alberta and Canada collecting an old wagon wheels he had hundreds of those on his farm I don't know what he did with them all when they moved into the city 1 farm when we used to be kids there would be down in this old road and when he got into the bush he had old sheds all through the Bush and there was old antique fenders leaning up against the trees and in the windows of the sheds there was wood ornaments and then inside the shed he had antique carnage shed I tell you boy those antiques would have been worth a lot of money the fenders that were linked up against the trees you could shoot those suckers with a rifle there's no way that a rifle bullet would ever go through them they were a quarter inch steel on them now that's a heavy car older is the better but I always say
If you really want to understand how many vehicles you have just add up the tires. Trucks , tractors , trailers , equipment , lol. 😂 Mention some day what it adds up to . I only count pnumatic tires and it over 40. Lol
i know thats right!
I do watch your videos almost daily, once I discovered you back in January. I have also posted to other TH-camr about you, hoping to get them interested. Two of are one from up in Cherokee county, Celebrating Appalachian, and another is a home steamer out of Oklahoma, Arms Family Homestead. If and when you have time check them out!
thank you, we watch them on occasion
Oh yes, do a tractor implement video that's fun to see what and how people use their stuff and how they augment things to work for them. Farmers alway MacGyver stuff.
Love watching your videos your family is down to earth people no fancy farming equipment My family was a farming family in the day I remember the tractor had clog wheels if that’s the right word had a team of horses pigs and two milking cows glad I found you guys reminder of my childhood now live in southern Ontario Canada 🇨🇦 the farm was in Saskatchewan Canada
Just found you. Appreciate you. I'm in VA, too, but up in Shenandoah area. Agree on spraying. Had to spray blueberry bushes for first time ever this season. Generations before me always bought them from store anyway and only God knows what they were sprayed with.
For years my husband and I have planted by hand.
I would totally watch a video tour of your farm implements--even if it lasted two days. 😂 Seriously, though, I think that stuff is really interesting and educational.
Have you thought about teaching Jacob and Maggie how to work on a vehicle by fixing up the truck? Maybe waiting a couple years to actually do it so they'll be a little older and more likely to grasp the information you'll be giving them.
Just asking your opinion, but do you think it would be possible to get around the "not giving medical advice" rule by always stating this is what I do and this is how it works for me? You wouldn't be offering any advice to anyone, you would simply be sharing another aspect of your life. I for one, and I'm probably not alone, would love to learn all the wisdom you have about natural medicine and home remedies. I sure do wish there was a way around the giving medical advice rule because most of us viewers would love to learn more about living off the land and would never think of blaming y'all if something didn't work for us. But I do realize there are people out there who look for any way to blame others and extort them for money, so you must be careful.
Yes I'm hoping once Jacob is a littler older we can get some of these old trucks going again
It would be hard for me to give just one reason why I enjoy watching your videos. I love everything about them. You folks are just awesome people trying to raise your family the best way possible and more people need to learn to do more with less. P.S I really enjoy your cooking videos Megan.
Thank you so much
Great Q and A y'all. Have a great day!
I plant 5 100' rows of potatos annually. Takes about 10 min. Per day to walk through with thumb and forefinger to smash tater bugs. No chemicals!
that's awesome, we have 6 130ft rows up the road that I was talking about and working away from the farm everyday and everything else we have going on we simply don't have time to go walk it everyday. somedays it may be 3-4 days between each visit, and there's at least 10-15 bugs on each plant, now these potatoes here at the house we have, have not had a single bug on them this year. but the patch up the road can literally get eat down to nothing but stems between visits
Hello watch yall all the time love your work ethics I am from va just above you guys we garden do canning cooking but we are retired keep up the good work love the way you are risen your kids
Watching from Ireland. It has been the wettest spring on record. Cold too. Has been tough. Upside down jars also works for me too by the way
The Ol joke is Hubby came home and house was clean so he said well internet must have been down cause you cleaned the house again.....That is part way true cause I am always on you tube it seems, I never watch a TV.....
In the summer here we're not allowed to use sprinklers only on certain days and certain time of days can you every area here has a different day to water I just watered my hand because I have hoses out there at in the morning and in the evening when the sun's not hit in the plants or anything I water I know you're not supposed to water in the evening because that brings out slugs but the slugs comes out I will deal with them
Good morning yall! I really enjoy watching your video's and so jealous I'm not on the farm I grew up on. Nothing like living on a farm with animal's that give you food. Except for pig's. My dad had one years ago that was a pet. It had to go everywhere dad went. But, ww do love some bacon. Anyhow, I'm not able to do a lot of what yall do except for having a garden. I find it therapy and I love to watch it grow. I grow not only my garden but all my flower's. People stop by and tell me how much they admire my garden and flower beds. So, I have no questions at the moment except I'm fixing to check out your recipes. You cook like country folk cook!! Have a Blessed Day!!
Yes on the implement video
Y'all feel like home, appreciate ya
Thanks!
Thank you!
@@TrueGritAppalachianWays I'm getting ready to retire from the navy and I'm not going to lie...I do miss farm life/homesteading....my wife and I are excited for the next chapter and we just want to thank your family for being awesome rolemodels. Besides, you both said nobody needed to have to donate any money, but out of thanks, 10 is a thankyou.
Hello from up here in northeastern NY state. Looking forward to be able to get my garden started up here in the north..
Gardening is a healthy addition.. best to you both..
Thanks for taking the time to do this Q&A. 🙏
I love canning late at night when the house is still. I plan it that way
it is very nice
I really enjoy your videos keep them coming
Hoss tools , made in USA amazing product, the two of you are just remarkable, easy to understand , follow & watch , stay safe & enjoy !
I love this channel you are such good people and there's not too many of them out there except for farmers always seems like farmers are better people nicer kids as long as you keep them out of the school systems and all the drugs and alcohol keep them to their morals where they have respect for their parents and elders you don't see that anymore yeah I was a bad boy at school but not to my parents or my grandparents I'd like the kids nowadays they only respect theirselves in the cities anyway I believe you're better off to home school your kids
Congratulations
Great video Megan and Andy, always enjoy watching and seeing what you two are up too. Stay safe and keep up the great works around there. Fred.
Shop him to me I spoil him more lol 😂 I love animals what ever I got a cat she is rotten I love her I love these folks amen I hate chemicals I am afraid it but true
I mix flour water spray great grape vines beans and bugs leave it a long fry make it smooth it works 😢
Love, love, love you two! You are the core of what makes our country great! I was wondering, in a previous video Megan showed a small "grocery store" haul mostly snacks because you grow 80-90% of your food. Do you buy staples like flour, sugar, rice, etc in bulk & store in a cellar?
yes we have a bunch stored in a small room in our house and salt too
@@TrueGritAppalachianWays 💕
I’ve been watching on the tv and realized I wasn’t subscribed and wanted to jump on and say how much I love your family and channel! I’m anticipating my garden producing so I was just searching garden videos lol and came across y’all’s channel and have been watching non stop! I fell in love with Appalachia through Tipper Pressleys channel celebrating Appalachia and just love the ways and traditions! I’m from Texas and just moved back to Texas from the coast in Mississippi.. got two youngins and a husband and started gardening and canning last year and fell slap in love! Thank you for all your hard work and information! I’ll be trying a ton of stuff you’ve taught me just in the past couple days!! Sorry for the long post! Just love you guys so much! ❤
thank you
Will be joining your lifestyle soon. We are currently selling pretty much everything, including our cars. We'll be buying property and creating a little ranch. Too old to farm...65..
I figure everybody around here have 4 or 5 vehicles me and the wife have 5 vehicles and 2 tractors the only implements I've got with paint on them is a brush hog and a potato plow we had to replace
Enjoyed sitting down with you in the Q and A video! Hope your week is going good!😊
Love y'all's videos,
I was counting and I have 3 tractors and I think 15 implements. They do tend to multiply fast. I just like old rusty tractors. If I was a wealthy man I have 50 probably.
Just love watching your channel. Please keep on sharing your ideas. 😘
if I can something, I always turn mine upside down keep the heat on the seal till they cool off
Sure enjoy your attitude .
You guys are so sweet!
Good morning from East TN...love your videos!!
Yes do a video on the implement 's that you have , interesting story , thank you .