Thank you for the simplicity of your videos. I recently unsubscribed from a channel I once loved but now gives me a bad headache as it has turned into the mega church on tv of homesteading. I so so appreciate you not wanting me to buy stuff and pay fees and not bombarding me with how busy your day is with lots of loud noises and visuals that jump all over. Sigh. You are keeping it simple and calm and real. I wish more people would just appreciate regular family life without needing pyrotechnics to stay interested. God bless you! ❤️🙏
I adore your family and the dynamics there in. I grew up on a working farm and every time I see Ben and Buggie and she trotting along side you is a memory she will have forever. I miss my Dad and the times and the farm. God bless ya'll for many many more years. Wish the boys ( the older ones at least) would be more open to sharing their journey.
We get the same looks at the apple orchard! We purchased over 400 pounds of apples this year. Applesauce, pie filling, and just to eat! We also like to feed some to the chickens and turkeys. It's a fall family tradition!
Apples were not my favorite fruit until I found out that I can make apple crisp with canned apples and I now have 2 grandsons that love homemade apple sauce. It takes a lot of apples to make apple sauce for hungry little boys.
Meg’s wrap is beautiful. I’m sure she made it herself. Those apples look delicious! I don’t live but an hour away from Hendersonville and I would love to go get some apples!
Every time I see your boys it amazes me how much they have grown up. I remember before Buggy was born how small they were...now they are almost grown men.
Another great part of fall in your drive shots. The haze of the summer humidity is out of the sky and you get that bright blue sky. I remember as a kid filling a pickup truck bed with apples.
Ben/Meg it is the best time of the year those fresh apple smells permeating the house. I’ve gotten looks & comments too because I’m a bit older but my daughter, DIL’s, sons & SIL are all involved in the processing of these apples. Basically Mom goes & makes the purchase/pickup and we have a weekend to do all of these apples can, freeze, you name it and we do it for one another together. We have a good time laughing, telling stories, singing, and just being together. It’s as sweet as apple pie! 🥧 it’s what I call “the good life”
Ben,Meg,the children are just growing up so fast wow.I love the way Lillyana runs with the brothers and most of the time they they enjoy it. I had 9 brothers and I'm the youngest of 12. She will learn so much from her brothers it will be wonderful. Y'all stay safe
12:00 I love seeing one of you older sons (sorry I don't know his name) helping in the kitchen. Have you ever considered letting him cook the entire meal, if he's willing to do so? ❤ My youngest son, who is grown now and has been cooking professionally for many years, started out by helping me in the kitchen as a young child. It builds confidence. 🙂
I started mine cooking at 3 years old, they're all adults now and all good cooks. My son is the most experimental cook. I rarely bought snacks, the kids cooked their own. My youngest daughter always made cookies for her friends as birthday gifts, greatly appreciated by all.
A few years ago I worked for a commercial orchard driving flatbed truck during harvest season here in Northern New York which is a large Apple producing region. We would drive empty trucks to the orchard and drop it off where the crew was picking. There would be a truck filled and waiting with bins of apples. That would get driven back to the packing house and dropped off. Hop back into an empty truck waiting there and head back to the orchard. Over and over all day, 8 to 10 hours per day. I have no idea how many hundreds of thousands of bushels of apples I drove that year. Almost every day, I would be out there in the orchard shortly after sunrise, and grab an apple fresh from a tree for breakfast. Nothing better than that!
What I admire about Meg is her meals are always homemade especially her breads…….I would have probably made big pizzas with those ingredients just to have a meal faster but Meg goes to the detailed efforts of pinwheels. I’ve been making noodles and freezing them…soup season is here. Take green tomatoes and mix with those apples for a great pie filling…there’s recipes for it…I do without a certain recipe as my Mother in Law use to do. I had a seven foot round table and we’d put a sheet on it and stretch our strudel dough across the whole thing then roll carefully brush with egg n milk sprinkle with cinnamon sugar and oh my green tomato apple strudel was sooooo good. My grn littles love dehydrated apples with cinnamon sugar on them…..I leave the skins on for extra nutrition….bet your family would love them…. Now you have me wanting to get apples….lol…I use to can 175 quarts of Lodi applesauce, 50:quarts of apple butter and 20 apple pies…..miss those days…..🥺
I remember when you finished your shawl Meg. I’ve always admired the talent it takes to create such beautiful things. I’ve also used your pinwheel recipe. I used pulled pork, provolone and grilled onions too. Such a great idea, perfect for packed lunches.
Apples ohhh how much I ate when I was a child. My Grandpa was a grocery inspector (Hungary) and everybody gave him apples. But the best way to eat it is making "Witches cream" it is so nice you can not stop eating it. The recipe is 1 baked apple take out the flesh mix 1 small spoon of sugar and 1 egg white. Beat it with the mixer until fluffy. Cool it in the fridge than gubble it up😊. Of course for you need to multiply by 7. 🎉🎉🎉🍏 best to use green apple because of the tartness but if your apple is tart I would definetaly try this recipe. Bon apetite👌🍏💖💗
I love this time as well. I've been to our favorite orchard already this year as well. I've of course made applesauce. I made and apple/cranberry crisp this past week and it was really good. I was eating one of my apples while I watched this video. I still have a few more I need to do something with. My grandma used to make applesauce and add red hots to it. Gave it a pretty pink color and I loved the flavor. I'm thinking about doing that with the rest.
I love Autumn and I love going to an orchard to get apples and all the things they have available at this time of year!! Those amazing rolls really looked great and I’m sure Meg will be mustering up some fabulous delicious ness with all those beautiful apples💜!
Love it! Ben says H-applely. We've had an Orchard out here that started in 1944 on leased land. There was a man who found an apple tree growing in pretty much the worst conditions on a mountain side. He took some cuttings and brought them home. He grafted them. And now we have what is called Champagne apples. (At least that's my best recollection of the history) They were nearing the lease of the land and looked for land and the best place to grow apples. They settled on WI. Took them a few years with their transplants and grafting. Now, they still bring Albuquerque NM their Champagne apples that they all grew to love. I got a 1/2 bushel for $45 a couple of weeks ago. Going to get 1/2 bushel of Honeycrisp this weekend. My intention is to make apple butter. I'm so excited to hear you say that's what you are making! My hope is to save the peels and cores to make some apple jelly. Is that also one of your plans? Please bring us that video. My 9-5 (really it's 7-3:30) takes just about everything from me. So, my hopes are for the weekends. BTW my family came over a couple of weeks ago to make fire cider. Looking forward to making your fire cider chicken. Dear family please take care and stay blessed. M
Granddads is the best farm!! We usually go every year. It’s a bit farther drive for us ( 5 hours). We generally go in September. We load up like y’all. It’s a trip we look forward to every year. I haven’t tried the ever crisp yet. My husband loves the cookies in the bakery. I usually do an apple slushy.
I miss cooking for more than two! 😔 And when you have to cook for just the two of you, and now elderly, and having to watch fat, sodium, wheat,etc. It's just not so much fun!!!! I am living vicariously in the past through you!😂
Goodness & here I am loading you up on more apple products🤣 We got 9 bushels for the two of us. The workers at the orchard definitely thought we were crazy as they were helping us load up boxes😬
You guys are the beautiful people. I so enjoy watching your videos. Love megs cooki g, you working in the garden, very informative. The kids are great, they pitch in with the work. Take care, best always to you....
I love fall & apple time in no time at all your house will smell amazing from cooking the apples & baking too please share some of your favorite recipes with us Meg ❤
💚 Beautiful sweater/shawl, Meg! Yummy apple time 🍎🍏. The donuts look yummy too. I recently went on a couple local farm tours here on the Central Coast of California, one is called 'Fruitilicious'. They have some great tasting apples! I haven't tried 'Ever Crisp' before, but like Honey Crisp. 💚
We live in Portland Oregon and my grandma used to go up to Hood River to buy apples from The orchards. The man that she bought apples from would give her the windfalls free. Those were the days when we had telephone books and her and my grandfather would sit and wrap apples and Redbox them. What a memory of her little Toyota station so heavy with apples that it almost touched the tires even with the air shocks ❤
Beeing an Orchard owners with over 2500 apples treesfrom a small town in Quebec, Canada, you would be surprise how many people buy in bulk for cooking and preserving, especially in these past years with the economy more and more people are cooking from scratch as well. I cant agreed more with you that apples are really one of the best fruit especially at this time of the year when they are fresh, I can eat 10 a day and dont even realize it!
May not be a big deal to anyone else,but the music y’all choose is less stressful than some other homesteaders background music. Thank you for being less stressful. Not everyone is into bass.
I love that y’all got tickled over the tooth mark on sisters apple, she is just adorable. It warms my heart to see you boys, I love that their have a wide range of interests and seem to pursue new ones. Meg did you use a bread recipe for the chicken pin wheels, I would love to see a separate video of you sharing your recipes sometime. You have a lot to do and understand that that may not be possible. I really enjoy yalls content! 🧡🧡🧡
Excellent place to go for apples. When Katie and I lived in NC in 2021/22, we were just up the road from them. Great area. We never did try the evercrisp. Will have to make a trip out there to get some (not as many as you did, though)
I have been eyeing those pinwheels every time you make them and now I plan to make some next week as they would also be so easy to freeze and warm up later. I also love the crisp apples and just gpt some as well and am interested to see what Meg does with them
I'd love to see more of Meg's wrap! It gives me Such ideas for making my own! Such a good idea for around and over the shoulder! Such lovely patterns/rows/ stitches!!
So love you guys! I hope all is super good for you all there. I’d love to see you guys every month, but I’m no longer at Azure. Performance issue on my end, but such a great job. I’ll definitely have to come out and visit you guys though at some point. You’ll have to let me know where you guys are at again, because out on the routes, I never really knew where I was for the most part. You know as far as where at in the states I was delivering to. So you’ll have to let me know. But it was such a pleasure and surprise to meet you guys in person. Way cool! Super cool. Be blessed in all things there. And always great to see your labor of love and love for the Lord.
Hello Ben and Meg from our working farm in New Hampshire. Yes, 🍁🍁🍂🍂 fall is my favorite time of year. My neighbor and I were all set to go apple picking, when I was rushed into surgery, where I spent 17 days during October. Watching you buying those yummy 🍎 apple cider donuts reminds me that my system will no longer tolerate that much fat anymore, however, I plan to be inventive! What a fun day for you both to bring home this harvest! I just celebrated my first week home in recouperation. Your video made my day ~ Diane.
My Mum always took us to the Apple Orchard at this time of year, we would cut out the core ,fill with PB and top with Raisins yum! Enjoy🎉. JO JO IN VT 💞
The Squatch! Cool, apples! We can get them from our orchard. Evercrisp apples, I'll have to try them. We love our apple season as well! I wanted to start making cider this year but I haven't built a cider press yet! Yum, that chicken looked delicious! Wow, chicken pinwheels! Big smiles on the cheese! Happy family after dinner! Thanks for this video Hollar family!
A large family can put away a lot of groceries. And even more snacks. Apples are one of the best snacks to have. So many things can be made from them, besides apple pie filling & applebutter. It won't be long and all the apples will be gone for another year.
I’m stopping to get apples at my favorite orchard tomorrow. We moved to another state this spring and I am at my daughters home in the state we moved from. A trip without stopping to get apples would just be wrong. I grew up near two large apple orchards. We always picked and bought at least three bushels for eating. My brothers and I picked up apples that had dropped on the ground to earn a bit of cash. They were used to make cider. We were paid about a quarter per bushel. I don’t think kids would do that today. That was in the mid 70’s.
Each time I watch your videos ! Something reminds me of my early life ! It was an annual thing that me and my 2 brothers and 4 sisters mom and dad to head up to a orchard or produce stand in Hillsville or Galax area and pick apples for the fall and winter along with a large bag of cabbage my mom would turn into stuffed peppers and sour kraut and of course hot chow chow for Dad and regular for Mom and us kiddos ! Those trips along the Blue Ridge parkway and picnics with a bucket of KFC still seem fresh in my mind ! Those kids are so lucky to have parents who do what you are doing and they will always remember the good time y'all spend like this ! I remember Friday night fires and fudge strip cookies with marshmallows toasted (hint hint) lol ! Have a good in ! 😊
I recently found out that avocados will keep very well in the crisper drawer with the lemons. The lemons help keep them from going bad. I've tried it and it works very well. We too went to get apples at an orchard. K put up some for Apple pie, froze some in slices and I still ha e some left. Nancy from nebraska
Hey Folks, You are right. Nothing can compare to fresh apples that taste great. I use Macs for sauce and Fujis for everything else...the orchards here in Maine had a great season with lots of rain. The gardens didn't do as well but our flash freezing of zucchini and beans and butternut squash should get us thru till mid February. If you planted in ground veggies most didn't survive the high water levels. We use buckets and got a better yield than we thought we would...mid October and fringe lawn & woodline still soggy out back...we have an underground spring that kept the grass green and the deer and turkeys super happy...got my bread pans out and making Apple Bread in the morning...Cheers from Maine.
The apple chat made me laugh...going to the store for our family of seven, I get those questions. "Oh, do you have big baking plans?" No, I'm literally just buying a week's worth of bananas for our family. LOL!
Oh my GOODNESS!! We LOVE grandads apple orchard AND their apple cider donuts! We take a week every year, go camping in the mountains and buy apples to eat and can on the way home. It's a tradition. However, I've never tried the ever crisps. We love gold rush, but they are hard to find.
Fun trip to the apple orchard! The scenery was gorgeous. Meg, your wrap is stunning! This might be an odd question, but I’d love to know how you like the style of your refrigerator. I have an older side by side that I really like. Both my adult children have the same style as yours and I thought that is what I would want when it comes time to replace my current one. But it seems like there isn’t much space in the French door style. I’d love to hear from someone who really uses their fridge a lot like you do.
In uk i go to a friend's small orchard & collect apples by the feed sack full for us & for chickens & pigs they love them . I make cider vinegar by the bucket load too . Cant beet them & sad when they are gone but great to look forward to 😊. Love your volunteer patch the best way to grow things 😊
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Meg needs a cooking & canning channel... I don't think I ever saw anything she was cooking that didn't look good.😅
Most definitely
Thank you for the simplicity of your videos. I recently unsubscribed from a channel I once loved but now gives me a bad headache as it has turned into the mega church on tv of homesteading. I so so appreciate you not wanting me to buy stuff and pay fees and not bombarding me with how busy your day is with lots of loud noises and visuals that jump all over. Sigh. You are keeping it simple and calm and real. I wish more people would just appreciate regular family life without needing pyrotechnics to stay interested. God bless you! ❤️🙏
This is my favorite channel ❤❤❤❤
I agree, keeping it real !!!
I enjoyed learning about new foods, recipes, and skills.
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I did too
I adore your family and the dynamics there in. I grew up on a working farm and every time I see Ben and Buggie and she trotting along side you is a memory she will have forever. I miss my Dad and the times and the farm. God bless ya'll for many many more years. Wish the boys ( the older ones at least) would be more open to sharing their journey.
What a beautiful shawl Meg - and a great colour on you too!
Aren’t you SO glad you had that girl child!
She is SUCH a fun time waiting to happen!
Meg you are just too talented. The cooking, the computer work, teaching the kids, and then you have time to create that BEAUTIFUL shawl. Good Mom!
It’s always lovely to hear Megs laughter, and to see everyone together. Big hello from Australia. 👏🏻🇦🇺🦘
Love how pea widdlin is not afraid to get her feet dirty or do the work of her brothers. She is just so adorable. Love your whole family❤❤❤
We get the same looks at the apple orchard! We purchased over 400 pounds of apples this year. Applesauce, pie filling, and just to eat! We also like to feed some to the chickens and turkeys. It's a fall family tradition!
That's a LOT of apples. 🍎 🍎 🍎 😅
I get it! I did 2 bushels myself for just 2 people and am wondering if I need to do a couple more.
@@faithrada We have a large family.
Who cares Money goes to the Farmer and the Produce is supporting a Family. Circle of Life.
Apples were not my favorite fruit until I found out that I can make apple crisp with canned apples and I now have 2 grandsons that love homemade apple sauce. It takes a lot of apples to make apple sauce for hungry little boys.
The boys are so talented. Y'all are doing it right- all of your children are amazing!
I would love a mini concert from the boys, or even just their music in the background! ❤
PLEASE put together and offer a book of Meg’s great recipes. Call it ‘Meg-nificent Cooking.’ Your dinners look fantastic.
Meg’s wrap is beautiful. I’m sure she made it herself. Those apples look delicious! I don’t live but an hour away from Hendersonville and I would love to go get some apples!
Skytop orchard has an amazing selection.
Every time I see your boys it amazes me how much they have grown up. I remember before Buggy was born how small they were...now they are almost grown men.
Meg, your shawl is beautiful.
do you ever stop to think that every member of the family has more than a handful of super-high quality individuals to be around all the time?
Another great part of fall in your drive shots. The haze of the summer humidity is out of the sky and you get that bright blue sky. I remember as a kid filling a pickup truck bed with apples.
Such a sweet family 😃
Meg you are giving me lots of easy meal ideas. Never thought of using mustard.
Ben/Meg it is the best time of the year those fresh apple smells permeating the house. I’ve gotten looks & comments too because I’m a bit older but my daughter, DIL’s, sons & SIL are all involved in the processing of these apples. Basically Mom goes & makes the purchase/pickup and we have a weekend to do all of these apples can, freeze, you name it and we do it for one another together. We have a good time laughing, telling stories, singing, and just being together. It’s as sweet as apple pie! 🥧 it’s what I call “the good life”
Swooning over the ruana, Meg. Gorgeous!! So glad the kids have inherited your love of music 🎶 🎶🎶🙏🕊
Ben,Meg,the children are just growing up so fast wow.I love the way Lillyana runs with the brothers and most of the time they they enjoy it. I had 9 brothers and I'm the youngest of 12. She will learn so much from her brothers it will be wonderful. Y'all stay safe
12:00 I love seeing one of you older sons (sorry I don't know his name) helping in the kitchen. Have you ever considered letting him cook the entire meal, if he's willing to do so? ❤ My youngest son, who is grown now and has been cooking professionally for many years, started out by helping me in the kitchen as a young child. It builds confidence. 🙂
I started mine cooking at 3 years old, they're all adults now and all good cooks. My son is the most experimental cook. I rarely bought snacks, the kids cooked their own. My youngest daughter always made cookies for her friends as birthday gifts, greatly appreciated by all.
A few years ago I worked for a commercial orchard driving flatbed truck during harvest season here in Northern New York which is a large Apple producing region. We would drive empty trucks to the orchard and drop it off where the crew was picking. There would be a truck filled and waiting with bins of apples. That would get driven back to the packing house and dropped off. Hop back into an empty truck waiting there and head back to the orchard. Over and over all day, 8 to 10 hours per day. I have no idea how many hundreds of thousands of bushels of apples I drove that year. Almost every day, I would be out there in the orchard shortly after sunrise, and grab an apple fresh from a tree for breakfast. Nothing better than that!
You all make us smile. Thanks for letting us visit
Awesome vlog; thanks for sharing! Blessings to everyone 🤗💕🇨🇦
What I admire about Meg is her meals are always homemade especially her breads…….I would have probably made big pizzas with those ingredients just to have a meal faster but Meg goes to the detailed efforts of pinwheels.
I’ve been making noodles and freezing them…soup season is here.
Take green tomatoes and mix with those apples for a great pie filling…there’s recipes for it…I do without a certain recipe as my Mother in Law use to do.
I had a seven foot round table and we’d put a sheet on it and stretch our strudel dough across the whole thing then roll carefully brush with egg n milk sprinkle with cinnamon sugar and oh my green tomato apple strudel was sooooo good.
My grn littles love dehydrated apples with cinnamon sugar on them…..I leave the skins on for extra nutrition….bet your family would love them….
Now you have me wanting to get apples….lol…I use to can 175 quarts of Lodi applesauce, 50:quarts of apple butter and 20 apple pies…..miss those days…..🥺
I remember when you finished your shawl Meg. I’ve always admired the talent it takes to create such beautiful things. I’ve also used your pinwheel recipe. I used pulled pork, provolone and grilled onions too. Such a great idea, perfect for packed lunches.
Did she give a recipe for the dough? I've been looking but can't find it.
Gorgeous scenery!!!
Apples ohhh how much I ate when I was a child. My Grandpa was a grocery inspector (Hungary) and everybody gave him apples. But the best way to eat it is making "Witches cream" it is so nice you can not stop eating it. The recipe is 1 baked apple take out the flesh mix 1 small spoon of sugar and 1 egg white. Beat it with the mixer until fluffy. Cool it in the fridge than gubble it up😊. Of course for you need to multiply by 7. 🎉🎉🎉🍏 best to use green apple because of the tartness but if your apple is tart I would definetaly try this recipe. Bon apetite👌🍏💖💗
5 hour HAPPY FAMILY MEMORIES! - Time well spent.
I love this time as well. I've been to our favorite orchard already this year as well. I've of course made applesauce. I made and apple/cranberry crisp this past week and it was really good. I was eating one of my apples while I watched this video. I still have a few more I need to do something with. My grandma used to make applesauce and add red hots to it. Gave it a pretty pink color and I loved the flavor. I'm thinking about doing that with the rest.
Occasionally add raspberry to ours...
I love Autumn and I love going to an orchard to get apples and all the things they have available at this time of year!! Those amazing rolls really looked great and I’m sure Meg will be mustering up some fabulous delicious ness with all those beautiful apples💜!
Love it! Ben says H-applely. We've had an Orchard out here that started in 1944 on leased land. There was a man who found an apple tree growing in pretty much the worst conditions on a mountain side. He took some cuttings and brought them home. He grafted them. And now we have what is called Champagne apples. (At least that's my best recollection of the history) They were nearing the lease of the land and looked for land and the best place to grow apples. They settled on WI. Took them a few years with their transplants and grafting. Now, they still bring Albuquerque NM their Champagne apples that they all grew to love. I got a 1/2 bushel for $45 a couple of weeks ago. Going to get 1/2 bushel of Honeycrisp this weekend. My intention is to make apple butter. I'm so excited to hear you say that's what you are making! My hope is to save the peels and cores to make some apple jelly. Is that also one of your plans? Please bring us that video. My 9-5 (really it's 7-3:30) takes just about everything from me. So, my hopes are for the weekends. BTW my family came over a couple of weeks ago to make fire cider. Looking forward to making your fire cider chicken. Dear family please take care and stay blessed. M
The food looks great! you got a lot of apples! Your shawl is BEAUTIFUL!
Granddads is the best farm!! We usually go every year. It’s a bit farther drive for us ( 5 hours). We generally go in September. We load up like y’all. It’s a trip we look forward to every year. I haven’t tried the ever crisp yet. My husband loves the cookies in the bakery. I usually do an apple slushy.
❤❤❤🍏🍏🍎🍎🍞🥯🥞 yea, apple season! Meg "snappy!" Apples, you guys have my mouth watering 😂
I know the feeling, I have 30 acres of apple trees and even after 15 years of working in the orchard apple season still my favorite.
I miss cooking for more than two! 😔
And when you have to cook for just the two of you, and now elderly, and having to watch fat, sodium, wheat,etc. It's just not so much fun!!!!
I am living vicariously in the past through you!😂
Goodness & here I am loading you up on more apple products🤣 We got 9 bushels for the two of us. The workers at the orchard definitely thought we were crazy as they were helping us load up boxes😬
But it’s a good kind of crazy 😂
You guys are the beautiful people. I so enjoy watching your videos. Love megs cooki g, you working in the garden, very informative. The kids are great, they pitch in with the work. Take care, best always to you....
I was watching you make those pinwheels thinking chopped apples and cranberries would make them sweet and savory . Give a little fall twist to them.
Holy molly Meg!that shawl! I am not Matt but a crocheter , who is envious of your stitches! What a shawl! Great job!
What a fun day. Meg those rolls look way beyond good. Would love to hear the boys play music together.
Love your knitted shawl…….wonderful to have an abundance of apples
Every time I watch you guys I want to eat, I don't know whyyy?!
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GOOD AFTERNOON!
I'm always so excited to see your newest videos
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Ohhh I hope grandads still has those. I’m going on Saturday. My favorite place for local apples
I love fall & apple time in no time at all your house will smell amazing from cooking the apples & baking too please share some of your favorite recipes with us Meg ❤
Beautiful wrap Meg! I’m sure you made it!
Honeycrisp is really good too. I can't imagine anything being better than a honey crisp apple 😊
Honey crisp is what we always bought when we lived in Michigan.
I'd Love to see Meg w/ her own cooking channel. ❤
Thank you for sharing your Fall trip and the delicious food. Blessings
Glad you got your apples before they were gone. Now on to some good eats!
Meg needs to put out a cookbook ❤
Omg what a fun day. Apples are the best. And those rolls look way beyond good. Would love to hear the boys playing together.
💚 Beautiful sweater/shawl, Meg! Yummy apple time 🍎🍏. The donuts look yummy too. I recently went on a couple local farm tours here on the Central Coast of California, one is called 'Fruitilicious'. They have some great tasting apples! I haven't tried 'Ever Crisp' before, but like Honey Crisp. 💚
We live in Portland Oregon and my grandma used to go up to Hood River to buy apples from The orchards. The man that she bought apples from would give her the windfalls free. Those were the days when we had telephone books and her and my grandfather would sit and wrap apples and Redbox them. What a memory of her little Toyota station so heavy with apples that it almost touched the tires even with the air shocks ❤
Beeing an Orchard owners with over 2500 apples treesfrom a small town in Quebec, Canada, you would be surprise how many people buy in bulk for cooking and preserving, especially in these past years with the economy more and more people are cooking from scratch as well. I cant agreed more with you that apples are really one of the best fruit especially at this time of the year when they are fresh, I can eat 10 a day and dont even realize it!
May not be a big deal to anyone else,but the music y’all choose is less stressful than some other homesteaders background music.
Thank you for being less stressful.
Not everyone is into bass.
Like you’ve read my mind. I was wondering about these chicken pinwheels for about a week now thinking, “ I have to see how Meg makes them”
Well, you know you are on the right track with cooking when the kids have a huge smile looking at the amount of cheese.
That was pretty funny.
Very cute Dinner Bell Ringer! :)
We went to our apple orchard last week and got all We needed as well as 21 pounds of acorn squash so we get funny looks as well. Blessings to all.
I love that y’all got tickled over the tooth mark on sisters apple, she is just adorable. It warms my heart to see you boys, I love that their have a wide range of interests and seem to pursue new ones. Meg did you use a bread recipe for the chicken pin wheels, I would love to see a separate video of you sharing your recipes sometime. You have a lot to do and understand that that may not be possible. I really enjoy yalls content! 🧡🧡🧡
Thanks for another great video!
Excellent place to go for apples. When Katie and I lived in NC in 2021/22, we were just up the road from them. Great area. We never did try the evercrisp. Will have to make a trip out there to get some (not as many as you did, though)
Meg, Thank you! That recipe is something we would try! Here, Illinois we have Honey Crisp apples, they have to be related!
I love watching all of you back on the road! Seems like old times.😁
We've been waiting for Evercrisp apples too! We always get a bunch when we go picking - definitely worth the wait.
I have been eyeing those pinwheels every time you make them and now I plan to make some next week as they would also be so easy to freeze and warm up later. I also love the crisp apples and just gpt some as well and am interested to see what Meg does with them
I'm surprised you did not bring some seedling apple trees home with you.
I'd love to see more of Meg's wrap! It gives me Such ideas for making my own! Such a good idea for around and over the shoulder! Such lovely patterns/rows/ stitches!!
Last weekend I went and picked 50lbs of Pink Ladys. Yesterday I canned applesauce and apple scrap jelly. Nothing better than fresh 🍎 🍎
Funny as I was watching your video I was cooking baked apples on the instant pot. Luv apple season. 🌻🍎🍏🌻
So love you guys! I hope all is super good for you all there. I’d love to see you guys every month, but I’m no longer at Azure. Performance issue on my end, but such a great job. I’ll definitely have to come out and visit you guys though at some point. You’ll have to let me know where you guys are at again, because out on the routes, I never really knew where I was for the most part. You know as far as where at in the states I was delivering to. So you’ll have to let me know. But it was such a pleasure and surprise to meet you guys in person. Way cool! Super cool. Be blessed in all things there. And always great to see your labor of love and love for the Lord.
Hello Ben and Meg from our working farm in New Hampshire. Yes, 🍁🍁🍂🍂 fall is my favorite time of year. My neighbor and I were all set to go apple picking, when I was rushed into surgery, where I spent 17 days during October. Watching you buying those yummy 🍎 apple cider donuts reminds me that my system will no longer tolerate that much fat anymore, however, I plan to be inventive! What a fun day for you both to bring home this harvest! I just celebrated my first week home in recouperation. Your video made my day ~ Diane.
My Mum always took us to the Apple Orchard at this time of year, we would cut out the core ,fill with PB and top with Raisins yum!
Enjoy🎉.
JO JO IN VT 💞
Meg my mouth waters every time I watch you cook, 🤤 yummy can’t wait for your cook book
Meg, your shawl is stunning! I knit as well and your skill level is amazing!
The Squatch! Cool, apples! We can get them from our orchard. Evercrisp apples, I'll have to try them. We love our apple season as well! I wanted to start making cider this year but I haven't built a cider press yet! Yum, that chicken looked delicious! Wow, chicken pinwheels! Big smiles on the cheese! Happy family after dinner! Thanks for this video Hollar family!
Hand pans are so cool. I saw a street performer using one, and had a headset with a mic so he could beat box at the same time. Wild!
A large family can put away a lot of groceries. And even more snacks. Apples are one of the best snacks to have. So many things can be made from them, besides apple pie filling & applebutter. It won't be long and all the apples will be gone for another year.
Did Meg knit that lovely shawl she was wrapped with on your trip? It’s absolutely gorgeous!
I’m stopping to get apples at my favorite orchard tomorrow. We moved to another state this spring and I am at my daughters home in the state we moved from. A trip without stopping to get apples would just be wrong.
I grew up near two large apple orchards. We always picked and bought at least three bushels for eating. My brothers and I picked up apples that had dropped on the ground to earn a bit of cash. They were used to make cider. We were paid about a quarter per bushel. I don’t think kids would do that today. That was in the mid 70’s.
Each time I watch your videos ! Something reminds me of my early life ! It was an annual thing that me and my 2 brothers and 4 sisters mom and dad to head up to a orchard or produce stand in Hillsville or Galax area and pick apples for the fall and winter along with a large bag of cabbage my mom would turn into stuffed peppers and sour kraut and of course hot chow chow for Dad and regular for Mom and us kiddos ! Those trips along the Blue Ridge parkway and picnics with a bucket of KFC still seem fresh in my mind ! Those kids are so lucky to have parents who do what you are doing and they will always remember the good time y'all spend like this ! I remember Friday night fires and fudge strip cookies with marshmallows toasted (hint hint) lol ! Have a good in ! 😊
The diesel rumble of Sasquatch! Lol glad it’s up running! Sometimes you just don’t wanna let it go! We don’t blame you.
WE WANT A COOKBOOK! WE WANT A COOK BOOK! WE WANT A COOKBOOK! 🍽🍽🍽🍽🍽
Sweet tango is another sweet tart apple we found this year
I recently found out that avocados will keep very well in the crisper drawer with the lemons. The lemons help keep them from going bad. I've tried it and it works very well. We too went to get apples at an orchard. K put up some for Apple pie, froze some in slices and I still ha e some left. Nancy from nebraska
An interesting idea! Will try!
Hi, Ben and Meg! Grandad’s is my family’s favorite apple orchard. Their apples are GREAT!!
Hey Folks, You are right. Nothing can compare to fresh apples that taste great. I use Macs for sauce and Fujis for everything else...the orchards here in Maine had a great season with lots of rain. The gardens didn't do as well but our flash freezing of zucchini and beans and butternut squash should get us thru till mid February. If you planted in ground veggies most didn't survive the high water levels. We use buckets and got a better yield than we thought we would...mid October and fringe lawn & woodline still soggy out back...we have an underground spring that kept the grass green and the deer and turkeys super happy...got my bread pans out and making Apple Bread
in the morning...Cheers from Maine.
The ever crisp are my favorite.
Wonderful Meg, you make some beautiful food. You have great idea. I love all those apples. Well done guys once again.👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼🥰🥰🥰🥰
"What is this master?" Love the humor!!
🎉🎉🎉happy for another video. Just love yall
The apple chat made me laugh...going to the store for our family of seven, I get those questions. "Oh, do you have big baking plans?" No, I'm literally just buying a week's worth of bananas for our family. LOL!
Oh my GOODNESS!! We LOVE grandads apple orchard AND their apple cider donuts! We take a week every year, go camping in the mountains and buy apples to eat and can on the way home. It's a tradition. However, I've never tried the ever crisps. We love gold rush, but they are hard to find.
Yummie those chicken pinwheels looked delicious!! 😋😋😋😋
Fun trip to the apple orchard! The scenery was gorgeous. Meg, your wrap is stunning!
This might be an odd question, but I’d love to know how you like the style of your refrigerator. I have an older side by side that I really like. Both my adult children have the same style as yours and I thought that is what I would want when it comes time to replace my current one. But it seems like there isn’t much space in the French door style. I’d love to hear from someone who really uses their fridge a lot like you do.
In uk i go to a friend's small orchard & collect apples by the feed sack full for us & for chickens & pigs they love them . I make cider vinegar by the bucket load too . Cant beet them & sad when they are gone but great to look forward to 😊. Love your volunteer patch the best way to grow things 😊
Also love the pan drums👍