Yes my mother and I when I was a child pickles chutney preserves fruit etc storing veg and fruit also in cool places or in sand preserving eggs drying apples!
@@marleneclough3173 my favorites were doing the peaches and tomato jelly! Regretfully ive lost ma’s recipe for the tomato jelly. I remember she used a small box of raspberry jello in it.
Your garden is bountiful. All the hard work the two of you did to prep the garden, plant the garden, de-bug the garden has paid you back and more! What you are doing now is very impressive. You work on the homestead alongside your husband and then the house and now this! You are a blessed young woman and an inspiration to the rest of us. You are proof of living a good life in Christ and I thank you for sharing (also extra work). Thank you so very much. This winter you will reap what you sowed in the best possible ways!
I've been putting up tomatoes as they come on. So far catsup, 3 kinds of chili sauce, stewed tomatoes, Vegall style mix, V 8 juice and tomato juice. Still lots to go as they keep coming.
I used tomatoes from garden, onions, celery, beets, garlic, green peppers and carrots. Cooked til real tender and ran through my trust Squeezo. 14 pints Lots of different directions on line. Pressure canned it.
I would have liked to have seen the finished product from the freeze dryer, and how you stored the product afterwards! I’m not familiar w a freeze dryer. Love your channel! Very inspiring. Ty.
I am 68 and I love your idea of just preserving a smaller amount each day. You have inspired me to do the same. I really enjoy watching your harvesting clips and the beautiful blessing of a fully loaded pantry with all those beautiful colors. My grandmother canned chicken and beef and it was wonderful with her homemade Amish noodles. Thank you both for teaching and sharing so much with us as you go about harvesting and preserving! P.S. Thank you for the video on canning raw chicken.
I'm making Dilly Beans and pickled Pepperoncini. If you wanted to eat sugar by the spoonful, it's not anyone else's concern. No need to justify what, when, or how you eat. I use Pomona's pectin but the full sugar pectin recipes are great too and look beautiful! You're doing Awesome!
I did Guacamole in our freeze dryer and my girls came over for lunch and they had no idea until I told them. I thought it was wonderful I think your pico de gallo would be great.
This is the time of year that many of us Californians head to the coast to pick up fresh caught tuna. Friday, my three girls came home and we canned and canned. We were so glad and felt accomplished at all the jars gleaming on the counter. They headed home with their jars and I will split mine with my parents. Can't wait for the first open-face Monterrey Jack cheese and tuna melt for dinner this fall. Yum!
"Every day something". I plant my spring garden that way, as I am handicapped and I cannot plant a lot at one time. It really works! By the time spring is over I have usually filled the entire garden. I start out with cold hardy plants and by late spring I am planting melons, okra, etc. DH and I always have loads of produce to eat
Me too! I was hurt in a car accident over 20 years ago it took some getting used to. But of course I found with my pain clinic, a few treatments that made me more "me" again and my pain dropped lower and I was finally feeling better. Oopsy found out I had cancer. Pfft...back to the beginning again but im cancer free as of now and its almost 3 years now and yes the cure is horrible and I'm still quite weak. Aka I work a few minutes i sit a few or go lay in my hammock. I have big nice cushion on my chair but I use my gardens as physical therapy. Trying to do it all at once would probably do me in lol But I have had many meals and I have been slowly putting the harvest in the freezer. One tiny batch at a time. Now when the tomatoes start coming in strong I may have to ask for more help but I'm going to try the small batches for sure.
Amen! Me too! I am 72 and I am thankful that I have the health to do my "garden", "putting by", and sharing with others. A little is a lot when God is in it!!! 💕🌻🐛
It is nice to see other seniors growing and preserving food. I'm 65 years old, I had a heart attack last Oct but I still managed to get a garden in and preserve some tomatoes this year. I'm very worried about the things I see and hope this time next year things will get back to normal.
This is probably my favourite video ever! What an amazing challenge! I totally agree that consistency in canning is the way to go! I get so tired when I do giant projects but when I do smaller things regularly it is so much more sustainable for me! Thanks for sharing!
My garden is slowly getting there, but not big enough for this challenge. Except, when my San Marzano tomatoes start to ripen... omg. Took a closer look yesterday and couldn't believe what's fruiting on each vine! That is, whatever withstood the windstorm we had.
@@joanies6778 Hi, have you tried Spiced Peaches? They are a wonderful gift and are great on vanilla ice cream. I think I used a Ball recipe. It was a long time ago...
That is amazing and so true. Sometimes you make it look too easy LOL thank you for the encouragement. 😊 making every day count take care and God bless❤️
I'm going through and watching all your older videos. I love to watch your canning videos, it gives me ideas of what I want to can this spring. Thank you so much for all of your wonderful videos!! ❤❤
I've had that canning book for years and love it have made many things from it I've been canning for over 48 years God Bless you for what your doing with your canning
As I was watching this and waiting for my coffee to perk, I reminded myself “Hey, you have a bag of purple hull peas to shell”… so, out they came and I’m shelling peas while watching the rest of your video. That challenge is a good one to undertake. I waste a lot of my homegrown produce because I feel the amount is too small to do anything with. We’ve only been on our property since May, so I have several patches of hand-dug garden spots…BUT, I have managed to grow a BUNCH of sunflowers, a small square of corn, a dab each of crowder peas and purple hills peas, a small potato patch, a few hills of Sugar Baby watermelons, some bush beans and a load of pumpkins… And it’s not even a “real” garden this year.. I can’t wait to actually get some ground broken..
Hello again to Kevins grandmothers yellow bowl. I have my moms 3 Pyrex bowls. The yellow one was used for large batches of cookie dough or potatoe salad when I was growing up. Nice memories. :-)
We'd love to see a review of the freeze dried Pico.Everything looked so yummy. I am doing a little bit as I can not everyday. Last year I did preserve alot in a short period of time. This year I am still waiting for my tomatoes and peppers to be ready.
I love it. The taste test was awesome. The way most people at home do. How many of us have tasted something then gave it a stir. If it’s for your family I say go for it. Thanks for being you. Blessings to you and your family.
Every time I can my produce, I wish I could tell my mother ,thanks for teaching me. I want to get a freeze dryer someday. Hope soon. Thanks Sarah, enjoy your videos so much..betty
It always amazes me how shocked people are about the “sausage making” process of homemade foods. I don’t think most people realize how much sugar or high fructose corn syrup is in store bought jams and jellies. It was fun to watch you preserving all your yummy home grown goodies.
Just a thought for those interested, another quick way to slip skins on tomatoes....core it and put on a tray, freeze overnight and thaw, those skins slip right off with a little “pinch”! It’s a time saver if you have the freezer space. Then those tomato skins can be dehydrated or I suppose freeze dried and made into tomato powder. Happy preserving everyone and God Bless 😍
We did that the year I had to go to my parents on August. Told hubby, rinse and toss in a big plastic bag in freezer. We canned then in the fall when I got home
I just did this when our tomatoes were coming in so fast. I froze three bags and the other day I took them out and canned 10 pints of salsa. I have to admit I like making salsa with fresh tomatoes better but these would be great for sauce or juice.
I do the freezing step when I do tomatoes partly because I find peeling them to be fiddly, but more so because even up here in Ontario Canada it gets to hot in the summer. I freeze everything prepped that I can through the summer even for jams my Strawberries were picked last month from a pyo near my grandparents old house, most of 12 quarts prepped between jam and strawberry lemonade concentrate. Just this week it's sitting around 105* all week hot and humid, gross 🥵
My husband has diabetes and his specialist said having home made jelly is not a problem for his numbers he would have to eat the whole contents of the jar to cause concerns. Enjoy life! Eat responsible and home canning is a great thing. Thank you Sarah. Love your Chanel
I love that shirt! You look amazing! Absolutely love to watch your channel. I always learn and am entertained throughout. I have been canning everyday and love to listen and learn while I pick, wash, chop, and drop in my jars. The garden is waning but the work never seems to end. God is good
Amen! Very encouraging and challenging video! I am 72 and I am blessed to have a small garden. I also "put by" the extras no matter how small. Also support our local homegrown growers... win! win!👍💕🌻🐛
i love this months content!! yes! .. i was taught how to make jelly without the packet just fresh fruit n sugar she had a old pillow case that was sooo tread bare you could read through it takes longer but i was amazed !
My fig tree is just now beginning to provide ripe fruit. Mom taught me to make fig preserves 60 years ago. Each year I make preserves for my kids and grandchildren. Of course I put some up for me also. Blessings.
That dehydrator gets me ridiculously excited! I love seeing what you're using it for this time...every time! Do you compost your food waste (peels etc.) or does it mostly go to the animals? Finally- look at how hard your family works-physically works! People need to back off commenting on some dang sugar. You don't need to explain why you eat what you eat!
I use sugar. Not that fake substitutes which are really bad. I hate those yucky tasting things like Munk fruit, Stevia etc. So I use sugar. Don't like it? Don't eat at my house. And yes, I am a canner for the last 42 years. Last year I canned over 1200 jars of all different types of foods. This year I don't have to do quite that much. But still have canned my 200 pounds of potatoes we harvested. In qts. Just canned my first harvest of green beans in sweet and sour broth. And 50 pounds of hatch Chile's that I got a real good deal on. Still have apples for applesauce to do. And all my berries for pie filling and jams. From the freezer. Not to mention all my shallots that I ground up in the food processor and dried in my food dryers. Got a half of a gal of dried shallots. Still have red onions and parsley and..........
@@loritanner4478 I have a grandchild who has an autoimmune disorder and her body can’t tolerate sugar or grains of any kind. For people who can’t consume sugar monk fruit sweetener and Stevia are a blessing! We don’t use aspartame or saccharine sweeteners because they are bad for you but Stevia and monk fruit sweetener aren’t harmful and for people who can’t have sugar including diabetics they are great to have.
Shirley Smith agreed. There’s no need to villianize anyone for their choices. We’re all trying to do what works best for us with all different parameters. I can’t eat sugar either and am having a hard time finding information on canning with monk fruit.
August is push month for us, filling in the blank spots on our canning shelves. We're down to the last item; 4 batches of salsa. Woo-Hoo! We prepped and cut up all the produce and will continue canning tomorrow. Love and prayers sent your way. God bless your family.
I'm on track so far! I hope it counts to do 2 batches of something so I can do something else a day here and there. For example, I made 2 batches of jam on Wed, and then goofed off at sewing group on Thurs.
I've checked out nearly all the Ball books from my library and the one you show is by far my favorite. Years ago you suggested it and I purchased it from thriftbooks. So glad I did. I've used so many recipes from it and write my notes inside and everything lol
I always make jelly. Sure there’s a lot of sugar, but we only use a little on toast or muffins. Life is too short not to enjoy a little sweetness! ❤️🍇🍓🍒🍎🍑
I feel the same. People will make comments on jams and jellies yet they will drink soda, eat desserts, etc because they’re not seeing the sugar in it. One teaspoon of jam probably equals one teaspoon of sugar. Lots less than a pastry or cinnamon roll for breakfast. I say enjoy your jam with a smile and an ahhhhhh. 👩🌾💛👍
I was shocked at how much sugar was in jelly/jam the first time I made it. I have tried to reduce it back some and it just does not set up right. We came the conclusion it just was not worth cutting it out. Like the "A Piecemaker" said. You only eat a little bit of it at a time anyways.
I am not part of a challenge but I have found myself loving processing smaller amounts, everyday. I don't feel quite so overwhelmed. It's working for now.
I love y’all so much! We have a small starter homestead down the road from y’all in Mountain View and I look to your videos for advise on different things around the farm. Y’all have been so helpful! Thank you!
Thanks for sharing with us Sarah, you did a great job with your video and canning. Thank you Lord for the great harvest and bless these folks. Fred.🙏🏻🙏🏻👍👍👏🏻👏🏻👋👋
I loved this type of video! This is the way I can so I don’t get overloaded with huge quantities to do at once. We are in the process of moving so I haven’t been able to can anything. Can’t wait for next year!
I canned most of my 51yrs of marriage & there is nothing prettier than shelves full of things one preserves I'd love to see a picture of ur finished product. Happy canning
Have you ever made chow chow? I know with all you have coming in now yours could be awesome! If you look around you can find tons of different ways to make it for your taste. I love it on the side with green beans.
Some food each day does add up! I've been canning some haskap (honneyberry) jam, fireweed & dandelion jelly & lots of dehydrating so far. Freezing some stuff too. The greenhouse & garden is just starting to ripen. I ❤ your Tshirts!
I have that chopper and had no problem paying full price. In fact, I'm thinking about getting another to have 'just in case'. I love that thing. I love the small and the bigger dice plates. Things cook more evenly and just look nicer. I'm glad you're enjoying it.
I lost 90% of pur garden...animals got in to it and went to town eating every thing. I managed to save some. Great challenge...ill take part next year after our garden revamp.
We have had the same issue i bought fencing and posts and my hubby made a nice gate and so far on year 2 and no more bunnies raiding my veg. In winter I've seen a couple deer prints inside the fence and we had to repair the spot it broke through but so far(knocking on wood)no deer inside during season. The chicken wire fence is 4 foot tall the posts are 6 foot. I wrapped and strung fishing line around the top of the posts and the deer hit that nearly invisible line and freak out. My grand kiddos have also given me those tiny dollar store wind chimes and I put them on the lines. The tinkle tinkle of the chimes also seems to be a deterrent
Try peppermint every so often around the perimeter of your garden. This year I planted bushy marigold with each tomato pot on my sunny driveway. No squirrel bites in the tomatoes so far.
I love this challenge. Everyday canning in small batches is a game changer. I've canned rotel, ketchup, chow chow, peas, potatoes (the smaller ones), diced tomatoes and bread-n-butter pickles. Looking forward to next week's video and canning session. You're truly an inspiration!!🥀
I don't like to can so much when it is still hot. I have air but don't like making it work harder. I wash, core, and freeze my tomatoes for sauces and such for canning in the fall. That is also when I can things like pork and beans, meats, and many of my jellies. I can green beans in season, freeze corn then. Before hunting season I can any extra meat and especially venison in my freezer. I corn some venison too. Most fruit I can in season and also pie filling then. I make pits and peels jelly then too.
Good going, love the idea. This year I didn't get anything done as for my husbands heart surgery and many set backs but in past years I have done like you have done today. It sure does help. Next year I surely will get more done I pray. Soon to be 75 and still loving all the things you have shared. I missed some of the videos so I need to go watch the rest. God bless.....keep up the good work!
I laughed a bit when I saw you putting on gloves... I thought: "how many times have I burnt my eyeballs off?"... then the answer came: "--too many times!"
I save my carcasses and skins for a year in the freezer and I use my nestco roaster and make huge batches in winter when most of my canning is done. I always save my onion tops and skins to add to it also for more flavor. Makes awesome bone broth!
Sarah, I love this challenge, but probably can’t meet the “every day” timeline. So unofficially I am going to be trying to do every weekend. I have some tomatoes in the freezer because we were running out of things to make fresh, I may try canning those. I’d love to see you guys pull out some of that dried pico de gallo and try it! I was waiting to see how it looked. I would like to have a freeze drier myself but my gardening and preserving volume probably doesn’t warrant that.
I can't preserve every day but I have been doing my best to can or preserve 1 type of produce for each day of the challenge. The other day I canned Salisbury steaks, meatballs and chicken soup. A few days before that I canned green beans and carrots. Our harvest is small and only just starting, but I can or preserve what I can when I can. This challenge just gave me the incentive to do more 😀
So far this week I did one canner full of green beans, dried a BUNCH of basil and foraged for "heal-all" and the last of this year's yarrow and started more tinctures.
I really appreciate all you do. I work too much to also run a homestead but I am less than 15 years away from retirement. I am paying off all my debt so when I do retire I can relax. I am looking forward to the day I can do more of what you do. I grew up on a dairy and we had fields for gardens, we raised our own meat too. Freezed, canned and dehydrated all summer long. We didn't have a chicken plucker though. What I would have given for that tool back then. In the hot afternoons in the shade (still hot) sitting and plucking chickens by hand was not fun. We raised about a hundred a year. Luv your channel. I did have my husband build me shelving in the basement for food storage. We still live in the home I bought when a single mother of 2 girls and I have no kitchen space. So I was just downstairs organizing the shelves. Its funny doing that kind of thing gives me more fulfillment than working 60 hours a week. Anyway happy preserving.
Thank you for tasting, and then using the spoon to stir the what's in the bowl. Although I don't do that when I'm cooking for others, I do when I'm just cooking up a meal at home - but I have some in my life who think it's 'disgusting'...like I want to grab another spoon every time I taste something? Please!
Love my chopper. I also have a FD, and I broke down and purchased a food processor with an adjustable slicing blade and a dicing disc. It does entire cucumbers, carrots, peppers or zucchini for trays in a snap. Nice little diced pcs. It was a good purchase. I also really like the adjustable slicing. Mushrooms, potatoes, and beet chips are a few things I slice. It allows for all kinds of FD stuff. You might like one.
Same, but with zucchini. I’ve made: zucchini relish, jam, chocolate and regular zucchini bread, and tonight zucchini fritters. My tomatoes are producing much yet so I’ll go to the farmers market and get some. Then it’s zucchini salsa, whew.
I’m not able to do this challenge every day but I am inspired to start canning for the month. I just made some homemade salsa and canned 5 pints today. Is it wrong that I love canning?
I wish I had the energy to preserve something every day. Health challenges prevent that. I do use garden produce everyday though and try to preserve food every other day. It does add up.
Allison Hartley I don’t care if she uses full sugar in her jelly and jam. I just think the lower sugar freezer jams taste so much better, like fresh fruit with a little bit of sugar! I use Sure Jell For Lower Sugar Recipes and follow their freezer jam recipes.
What an inspiration you are to all the people who watch. Your preserving is my favorite part of the videos, I could watch you all day, this is important stuff. Hi to your family and all the viewers.
I remember my mother boiling all her jars and lids we always had a basement full of canning goodies for the winter! My mother has passed now but very fond memories your harvest looked beautiful
Oh, Sarah! This old lady is so envious of that freeze drier!! Maybe one day.....After my one bathroom has been renovated, just maybe I'll have enough money saved for a small one. For now, I'm also preserving every day. Here in North Florida, growing zone 8b gives us the opportunity for pretty much year 'round growing, and every day there is always something that can be canned, frozen, preserved or dehydrated. Today I'll be preparing peppers for the dehydrator and making tomato sauce. Our tomato growing season is done here, but I have about 12 more gallon bags of cored tomatoes in the freezer. I do it this way so I can process them when I have the time to do it right. Since harvesting, I've harvested and processed six 30' rows of sweet corn, processed and canned or frozen green beans (still picking these heat tolerant Jade variety!!), dehydrating bell and poblano peppers - these are still producing, so I'm processing them about every 3 or 4 days - and planning my Fall garden. And don't get me started on the meats, berry and fruit foraging, and this year, olive curing! We are so blessed to do these things!
The way people had done prior to grocery stores. I am inspired.
Yes my mother and I when I was a child pickles chutney preserves fruit etc storing veg and fruit also in cool places or in sand preserving eggs drying apples!
@@marleneclough3173 my favorites were doing the peaches and tomato jelly! Regretfully ive lost ma’s recipe for the tomato jelly. I remember she used a small box of raspberry jello in it.
The guys are awesome! Best crunchy cauliflower recipe ever! I prefer mine not water canned and just put it directly into the fridge.
Your garden is bountiful. All the hard work the two of you did to prep the garden, plant the garden, de-bug the garden has paid you back and more! What you are doing now is very impressive. You work on the homestead alongside your husband and then the house and now this! You are a blessed young woman and an inspiration to the rest of us. You are proof of living a good life in Christ and I thank you for sharing (also extra work). Thank you so very much. This winter you will reap what you sowed in the best possible ways!
I've been putting up tomatoes as they come on. So far catsup, 3 kinds of chili sauce, stewed tomatoes, Vegall style mix, V 8 juice and tomato juice. Still lots to go as they keep coming.
Wow! Congratulations!
lets here more about the v8 juice!
I used tomatoes from garden, onions, celery, beets, garlic, green peppers and carrots. Cooked til real tender and ran through my trust Squeezo. 14 pints Lots of different directions on line. Pressure canned it.
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Karen, can you make some SWEET green tomatoes pickles? I love them from my childhood (89) would help my Mother every year.😷
Sarah is the berries, talented, articulate, and hard working!
I would have liked to have seen the finished product from the freeze dryer, and how you stored the product afterwards! I’m not familiar w a freeze dryer. Love your channel! Very inspiring. Ty.
Hello Becky..
How are you doing today?
They show the freeze drying and storage of it on another video. You might look it up. It’s a great invention!
Highly expensive.
I am 68 and I love your idea of just preserving a smaller amount each day. You have inspired me to do the same. I really enjoy watching your harvesting clips and the beautiful blessing of a fully loaded pantry with all those beautiful colors. My grandmother canned chicken and beef and it was wonderful with her homemade Amish noodles. Thank you both for teaching and sharing so much with us as you go about harvesting and preserving!
P.S. Thank you for the video on canning raw chicken.
I'm making Dilly Beans and pickled Pepperoncini. If you wanted to eat sugar by the spoonful, it's not anyone else's concern. No need to justify what, when, or how you eat. I use Pomona's pectin but the full sugar pectin recipes are great too and look beautiful! You're doing Awesome!
Amen to that!!
@@deanlollar8241 I second that! ❤️
Thanks, I was worried you'd not post on TH-cam. Amazing what a little every day looks like. Thanks again.
I did Guacamole in our freeze dryer and my girls came over for lunch and they had no idea until I told them. I thought it was wonderful I think your pico de gallo would be great.
Wow! We plan on getting a freeze dryer in a couple of weeks, so I'm looking for ideas. Guacamole! I never would've thought about it.
This is the time of year that many of us Californians head to the coast to pick up fresh caught tuna. Friday, my three girls came home and we canned and canned. We were so glad and felt accomplished at all the jars gleaming on the counter. They headed home with their jars and I will split mine with my parents. Can't wait for the first open-face Monterrey Jack cheese and tuna melt for dinner this fall. Yum!
"Every day something". I plant my spring garden that way, as I am handicapped and I cannot plant a lot at one time. It really works! By the time spring is over I have usually filled the entire garden. I start out with cold hardy plants and by late spring I am planting melons, okra, etc. DH and I always have loads of produce to eat
Me too! I was hurt in a car accident over 20 years ago it took some getting used to.
But of course I found with my pain clinic, a few treatments that made me more "me" again and my pain dropped lower and I was finally feeling better. Oopsy found out I had cancer. Pfft...back to the beginning again but im cancer free as of now and its almost 3 years now and yes the cure is horrible and I'm still quite weak. Aka I work a few minutes i sit a few or go lay in my hammock. I have big nice cushion on my chair but I use my gardens as physical therapy. Trying to do it all at once would probably do me in lol
But I have had many meals and I have been slowly putting the harvest in the freezer. One tiny batch at a time.
Now when the tomatoes start coming in strong I may have to ask for more help but I'm going to try the small batches for sure.
Amen! Me too! I am 72 and I am thankful that I have the health to do my "garden", "putting by", and sharing with others. A little is a lot when God is in it!!! 💕🌻🐛
@@marking-time-gardens Yes it is! Whenever God gives me a larger harvest than I can use I take it to the food pantry!
It is nice to see other seniors growing and preserving food. I'm 65 years old, I had a heart attack last Oct but I still managed to get a garden in and preserve some tomatoes this year. I'm very worried about the things I see and hope this time next year things will get back to normal.
This is probably my favourite video ever! What an amazing challenge! I totally agree that consistency in canning is the way to go! I get so tired when I do giant projects but when I do smaller things regularly it is so much more sustainable for me!
Thanks for sharing!
You two are two of the hardest working young people I have ever seen ♥️♥️
My garden is slowly getting there, but not big enough for this challenge. Except, when my San Marzano tomatoes start to ripen... omg. Took a closer look yesterday and couldn't believe what's fruiting on each vine! That is, whatever withstood the windstorm we had.
Yes my garden also too,
You can can purchased veggies. Especially when on sale.
@@kimcritchfield5796 ok thank for your recommendations
@@kimcritchfield5796 Good point. Next weekend I get a big box of peaches! Can't wait to can them.
@@joanies6778 Hi, have you tried Spiced Peaches? They are a wonderful gift and are great on vanilla ice cream. I think I used a Ball recipe. It was a long time ago...
I really enjoy watching you, I’m 62 years old have been canning a real long time, but I’ve sure learned some shortcuts. Thank you so much
That is amazing and so true. Sometimes you make it look too easy LOL thank you for the encouragement.
😊 making every day count take care and God bless❤️
I'm going through and watching all your older videos. I love to watch your canning videos, it gives me ideas of what I want to can this spring. Thank you so much for all of your wonderful videos!! ❤❤
I am following along on this challenge and so far have completed something every day.
I've had that canning book for years and love it have made many things from it I've been canning for over 48 years God Bless you for what your doing with your canning
Your bone broth looks AMAZING! Well done!!
Excellent Sarah. You would do my Mom and Grandma proud re: canning and preserving. ❤️
As I was watching this and waiting for my coffee to perk, I reminded myself “Hey, you have a bag of purple hull peas to shell”… so, out they came and I’m shelling peas while watching the rest of your video. That challenge is a good one to undertake. I waste a lot of my homegrown produce because I feel the amount is too small to do anything with. We’ve only been on our property since May, so I have several patches of hand-dug garden spots…BUT, I have managed to grow a BUNCH of sunflowers, a small square of corn, a dab each of crowder peas and purple hills peas, a small potato patch, a few hills of Sugar Baby watermelons, some bush beans and a load of pumpkins… And it’s not even a “real” garden this year.. I can’t wait to actually get some ground broken..
I often watch TH-cam while snapping my greenbeans. Which i have to go pick the dew had the plants covered this morning and I had to wait for it to dry
Hello again to Kevins grandmothers yellow bowl. I have my moms 3 Pyrex bowls. The yellow one was used for large batches of cookie dough or potatoe salad when I was growing up. Nice memories. :-)
We'd love to see a review of the freeze dried Pico.Everything looked so yummy. I am doing a little bit as I can not everyday. Last year I did preserve alot in a short period of time. This year I am still waiting for my tomatoes and peppers to be ready.
I’d also like to see the pico review.
Yes please do a follow up on the FD pico de gallo.
Way to go! Everything looks awesome! Please show video of reconstituting the pico. I am intrigued on how it reconstitutes.
I love it. The taste test was awesome. The way most people at home do. How many of us have tasted something then gave it a stir. If it’s for your family I say go for it. Thanks for being you. Blessings to you and your family.
Every time I can my produce, I wish I could tell my mother ,thanks for teaching me.
I want to get a freeze dryer someday. Hope soon.
Thanks Sarah, enjoy your videos so much..betty
Hello Betty...
How are you doing today?
You and Kevin are such a Blessing, Thanks for sharing your life with me!!
Yep, every little bit counts. I have a container garden and I say that all the time. Nicely done.
It always amazes me how shocked people are about the “sausage making” process of homemade foods. I don’t think most people realize how much sugar or high fructose corn syrup is in store bought jams and jellies.
It was fun to watch you preserving all your yummy home grown goodies.
Just a thought for those interested, another quick way to slip skins on tomatoes....core it and put on a tray, freeze overnight and thaw, those skins slip right off with a little “pinch”! It’s a time saver if you have the freezer space. Then those tomato skins can be dehydrated or I suppose freeze dried and made into tomato powder.
Happy preserving everyone and God Bless 😍
What a good idea. Waste not. Want not.
We did that the year I had to go to my parents on August.
Told hubby, rinse and toss in a big plastic bag in freezer.
We canned then in the fall when I got home
I just did this when our tomatoes were coming in so fast. I froze three bags and the other day I took them out and canned 10 pints of salsa. I have to admit I like making salsa with fresh tomatoes better but these would be great for sauce or juice.
I do the freezing step when I do tomatoes partly because I find peeling them to be fiddly, but more so because even up here in Ontario Canada it gets to hot in the summer. I freeze everything prepped that I can through the summer even for jams my Strawberries were picked last month from a pyo near my grandparents old house, most of 12 quarts prepped between jam and strawberry lemonade concentrate. Just this week it's sitting around 105* all week hot and humid, gross 🥵
My husband has diabetes and his specialist said having home made jelly is not a problem for his numbers he would have to eat the whole contents of the jar to cause concerns. Enjoy life! Eat responsible and home canning is a great thing. Thank you Sarah. Love your Chanel
I love that shirt! You look amazing! Absolutely love to watch your channel. I always learn and am entertained throughout. I have been canning everyday and love to listen and learn while I pick, wash, chop, and drop in my jars. The garden is waning but the work never seems to end. God is good
Amen! Very encouraging and challenging video! I am 72 and I am blessed to have a small garden. I also "put by" the extras no matter how small. Also support our local homegrown growers... win! win!👍💕🌻🐛
Hey there , Sarah, what a fantastic idea you have for canning and preserving all those foods .
Can't wait to see what you are teaching us , thank you.
When you reconstitute that pico de gallo, please make a video of it so we can see it....You are motivating us! Blessings!~
I love this idea. Gives people who have small amounts courage to still can. Looking forward to seeing what you come out with in the end
I have been doing the challenge also. I found how much easier it is doing some everyday. God's blessing to you and yours
i love this months content!! yes! .. i was taught how to make jelly without the packet just fresh fruit n sugar she had a old pillow case that was sooo tread bare you could read through it takes longer but i was amazed !
That is the way I make my Jams , Fruit and Sugar . 😊
My fig tree is just now beginning to provide ripe fruit. Mom taught me to make fig preserves 60 years ago. Each year I make preserves for my kids and grandchildren. Of course I put some up for me also. Blessings.
That dehydrator gets me ridiculously excited! I love seeing what you're using it for this time...every time!
Do you compost your food waste (peels etc.) or does it mostly go to the animals?
Finally- look at how hard your family works-physically works! People need to back off commenting on some dang sugar. You don't need to explain why you eat what you eat!
I watched another video of theirs and you should see how excited the pigs get when they see the scrap bucket coming lol.
I use sugar. Not that fake substitutes which are really bad. I hate those yucky tasting things like Munk fruit, Stevia etc. So I use sugar. Don't like it? Don't eat at my house. And yes, I am a canner for the last 42 years. Last year I canned over 1200 jars of all different types of foods. This year I don't have to do quite that much. But still have canned my 200 pounds of potatoes we harvested. In qts. Just canned my first harvest of green beans in sweet and sour broth. And 50 pounds of hatch Chile's that I got a real good deal on. Still have apples for applesauce to do. And all my berries for pie filling and jams. From the freezer. Not to mention all my shallots that I ground up in the food processor and dried in my food dryers. Got a half of a gal of dried shallots. Still have red onions and parsley and..........
@@loritanner4478 I have a grandchild who has an autoimmune disorder and her body can’t tolerate sugar or grains of any kind. For people who can’t consume sugar monk fruit sweetener and Stevia are a blessing! We don’t use aspartame or saccharine sweeteners because they are bad for you but Stevia and monk fruit sweetener aren’t harmful and for people who can’t have sugar including diabetics they are great to have.
Shirley Smith agreed. There’s no need to villianize anyone for their choices. We’re all trying to do what works best for us with all different parameters. I can’t eat sugar either and am having a hard time finding information on canning with monk fruit.
I was wondering if the pigs eat the hot pepper tops! :D
August is push month for us, filling in the blank spots on our canning shelves. We're down to the last item; 4 batches of salsa. Woo-Hoo! We prepped and cut up all the produce and will continue canning tomorrow. Love and prayers sent your way. God bless your family.
Thank you for the challenge. I have been putting something up everyday so far.
Good job Sarah. You are looking fabby dabby as a result of your new way of eating. Cheers to a lovely lady.
I'm on track so far! I hope it counts to do 2 batches of something so I can do something else a day here and there. For example, I made 2 batches of jam on Wed, and then goofed off at sewing group on Thurs.
Beautiful video, Beautiful plan, Beautiful educator!!! Sarah, you are a gem that I anxiously hunt for when I open You Tube. Thank you...
I've checked out nearly all the Ball books from my library and the one you show is by far my favorite. Years ago you suggested it and I purchased it from thriftbooks. So glad I did. I've used so many recipes from it and write my notes inside and everything lol
Your family is going to have the most wonderful freeze dried vegetable soup mixes.
I always make jelly. Sure there’s a lot of sugar, but we only use a little on toast or muffins. Life is too short not to enjoy a little sweetness! ❤️🍇🍓🍒🍎🍑
Exactly!
I feel the same. People will make comments on jams and jellies yet they will drink soda, eat desserts, etc because they’re not seeing the sugar in it. One teaspoon of jam probably equals one teaspoon of sugar. Lots less than a pastry or cinnamon roll for breakfast. I say enjoy your jam with a smile and an ahhhhhh. 👩🌾💛👍
I was shocked at how much sugar was in jelly/jam the first time I made it. I have tried to reduce it back some and it just does not set up right. We came the conclusion it just was not worth cutting it out. Like the "A Piecemaker" said. You only eat a little bit of it at a time anyways.
@@patrickyork2975 thank you 🍓
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That's a lot of food you processed. And that doesn't count all that you ate fresh! Congratulations, Sarah :)
You were definitely up to the challenge. I enjoyed you and Kevin making this video. Thanks for sharing. God Bless. xxoo
Great idea. It is for sure a great way to get stuff done and not get too overwhelmed.
Amazing what you’ve put up in 5 days in just basically spare time. Very impressed!
Hallo Sarah, you should believe in envy, lot of people envy you and your family for what you present , God bless you.
I am not part of a challenge but I have found myself loving processing smaller amounts, everyday. I don't feel quite so overwhelmed. It's working for now.
You guys are so sweet. I love that you share your life with us. I learn so much.
Hello dee..
How are you doing today?
I love y’all so much! We have a small starter homestead down the road from y’all in Mountain View and I look to your videos for advise on different things around the farm. Y’all have been so helpful! Thank you!
Thanks for sharing with us Sarah, you did a great job with your video and canning. Thank you Lord for the great harvest and bless these folks. Fred.🙏🏻🙏🏻👍👍👏🏻👏🏻👋👋
I loved this type of video! This is the way I can so I don’t get overloaded with huge quantities to do at once. We are in the process of moving so I haven’t been able to can anything. Can’t wait for next year!
I canned most of my 51yrs of marriage & there is nothing prettier than shelves full of things one preserves I'd love to see a picture of ur finished product. Happy canning
Froze peaches today
I've been trying to do the challenge too. It's awesome seeing what you have done.
Thank you!
I think All your viewers would love to see your preserve closet when you're done! A tour maybe? It's looking pretty good.
Have you ever made chow chow? I know with all you have coming in now yours could be awesome! If you look around you can find tons of different ways to make it for your taste. I love it on the side with green beans.
I’d love to know how to make chow chow. Is it fermented? Can you share the recipe?
I would love to see how to make chow chow too!
My mom used to make the best Chow Chow. One day my wife will make some too!
Fruits of your labor. Loved to watch you Sara. Thank you so much for sharing. 💐
Some food each day does add up! I've been canning some haskap (honneyberry) jam, fireweed & dandelion jelly & lots of dehydrating so far. Freezing some stuff too. The greenhouse & garden is just starting to ripen. I ❤ your Tshirts!
I have that chopper and had no problem paying full price. In fact, I'm thinking about getting another to have 'just in case'. I love that thing. I love the small and the bigger dice plates. Things cook more evenly and just look nicer. I'm glad you're enjoying it.
Oh my goodness!!! You genuinely are an inspiration!
I lost 90% of pur garden...animals got in to it and went to town eating every thing. I managed to save some. Great challenge...ill take part next year after our garden revamp.
We have had the same issue i bought fencing and posts and my hubby made a nice gate and so far on year 2 and no more bunnies raiding my veg. In winter I've seen a couple deer prints inside the fence and we had to repair the spot it broke through but so far(knocking on wood)no deer inside during season.
The chicken wire fence is 4 foot tall the posts are 6 foot. I wrapped and strung fishing line around the top of the posts and the deer hit that nearly invisible line and freak out.
My grand kiddos have also given me those tiny dollar store wind chimes and I put them on the lines. The tinkle tinkle of the chimes also seems to be a deterrent
Try peppermint every so often around the perimeter of your garden.
This year I planted bushy marigold with each tomato pot on my sunny driveway. No squirrel bites in the tomatoes so far.
I love this challenge. Everyday canning in small batches is a game changer. I've canned rotel, ketchup, chow chow, peas, potatoes (the smaller ones), diced tomatoes and bread-n-butter pickles. Looking forward to next week's video and canning session. You're truly an inspiration!!🥀
I don't like to can so much when it is still hot. I have air but don't like making it work harder. I wash, core, and freeze my tomatoes for sauces and such for canning in the fall. That is also when I can things like pork and beans, meats, and many of my jellies. I can green beans in season, freeze corn then. Before hunting season I can any extra meat and especially venison in my freezer. I corn some venison too. Most fruit I can in season and also pie filling then. I make pits and peels jelly then too.
Good going, love the idea. This year I didn't get anything done as for my husbands heart surgery and many set backs but in past years I have done like you have done today. It sure does help.
Next year I surely will get more done I pray. Soon to be 75 and still loving all the things you have shared.
I missed some of the videos so I need to go watch the rest.
God bless.....keep up the good work!
Hello Mary..
How are you doing today
I use zukes for my relish. Lor knows, I have an abundance of them with all this rain.
taught my granddaughter how to can cabbage this morning, time to teach the next generations too
I laughed a bit when I saw you putting on gloves... I thought: "how many times have I burnt my eyeballs off?"... then the answer came: "--too many times!"
Right!?!? 🤣 I’m literally sitting here with a burning eyeball from making pico and rubbing it😆
I save my carcasses and skins for a year in the freezer and I use my nestco roaster and make huge batches in winter when most of my canning is done. I always save my onion tops and skins to add to it also for more flavor. Makes awesome bone broth!
Same !!!! I also save carrot peelings , celery tops and bottoms , garlic tops and skins ! I save all the veggie tops and skins for broth too :)
@@amandaforeman2626 yes I save them all! If I have enough I will make just a veggie broth! Save my snapped pieces of green beans to!
Sarah, I love this challenge, but probably can’t meet the “every day” timeline. So unofficially I am going to be trying to do every weekend. I have some tomatoes in the freezer because we were running out of things to make fresh, I may try canning those.
I’d love to see you guys pull out some of that dried pico de gallo and try it! I was waiting to see how it looked. I would like to have a freeze drier myself but my gardening and preserving volume probably doesn’t warrant that.
Every weekend is more attendance for me too.
I can't preserve every day but I have been doing my best to can or preserve 1 type of produce for each day of the challenge. The other day I canned Salisbury steaks, meatballs and chicken soup. A few days before that I canned green beans and carrots. Our harvest is small and only just starting, but I can or preserve what I can when I can. This challenge just gave me the incentive to do more 😀
So far this week I did one canner full of green beans, dried a BUNCH of basil and foraged for "heal-all" and the last of this year's yarrow and started more tinctures.
I love the little messages about the lord on your shirts they are awesome. God Bless you guy's.
Thank you!
I really appreciate all you do. I work too much to also run a homestead but I am less than 15 years away from retirement. I am paying off all my debt so when I do retire I can relax. I am looking forward to the day I can do more of what you do. I grew up on a dairy and we had fields for gardens, we raised our own meat too. Freezed, canned and dehydrated all summer long. We didn't have a chicken plucker though. What I would have given for that tool back then. In the hot afternoons in the shade (still hot) sitting and plucking chickens by hand was not fun. We raised about a hundred a year. Luv your channel. I did have my husband build me shelving in the basement for food storage. We still live in the home I bought when a single mother of 2 girls and I have no kitchen space. So I was just downstairs organizing the shelves. Its funny doing that kind of thing gives me more fulfillment than working 60 hours a week. Anyway happy preserving.
Thank you for tasting, and then using the spoon to stir the what's in the bowl. Although I don't do that when I'm cooking for others, I do when I'm just cooking up a meal at home - but I have some in my life who think it's 'disgusting'...like I want to grab another spoon every time I taste something? Please!
Not sanitary! Gross!
Love my chopper. I also have a FD, and I broke down and purchased a food processor with an adjustable slicing blade and a dicing disc. It does entire cucumbers, carrots, peppers or zucchini for trays in a snap. Nice little diced pcs. It was a good purchase. I also really like the adjustable slicing. Mushrooms, potatoes, and beet chips are a few things I slice. It allows for all kinds of FD stuff. You might like one.
I have the same canner that you are using, I have been dehydrating shredded zucchini for zucchini bread this winter.
Never thought of drying shredded zucchini. Since I hate freezing it. It gets so watery when it defrosts. Thanks for the idea!
@@loritanner4478 you are welcome I grate it put it in a colander to get extra water off then dehydrate. It dehydrates really fast.
Man,,,that’s quite a lot of preserves,,,,it will be delish in the winter,,,,hard work but so worth it,,win that challenge
I’m up to my eyeballs in tomatoes. 🙄. I’m so ready to move on to something else. Come on green beans!
Same, but with zucchini. I’ve made: zucchini relish, jam, chocolate and regular zucchini bread, and tonight zucchini fritters. My tomatoes are producing much yet so I’ll go to the farmers market and get some. Then it’s zucchini salsa, whew.
That's fantastic Sara! Learned how to dehydrate cucumber slices for cucumber chips! Next is fresh basil!
I’m not able to do this challenge every day but I am inspired to start canning for the month. I just made some homemade salsa and canned 5 pints today. Is it wrong that I love canning?
I wish I had the energy to preserve something every day. Health challenges prevent that. I do use garden produce everyday though and try to preserve food every other day. It does add up.
Can we see what the freeze dried product looks like when it’s finished processing? Also how you bag and seal it. Just curious 🤗
With freeze drying the food looks about the same after dried.
Jessica on Three rivers homestead is amazing and so are you. Thanks for sharing!!’
People should mind their own business and not have an opinion about whether you have sugar in your jelly. If you don’t want sugar, don’t eat jelly.
Right on!
Allison Hartley I don’t care if she uses full sugar in her jelly and jam. I just think the lower sugar freezer jams taste so much better, like fresh fruit with a little bit of sugar! I use Sure Jell For Lower Sugar Recipes and follow their freezer jam recipes.
I agree and with your lifestyle you can an afford a little sweet.
Thank you, Sarah! I’m inspired. I’m now headed to my kitchen to see what I can preserve.
good luck with instagram, i will not follow you there.
Just WOW! That is so AWESOME. Thanks for Sharing. Take Care and God Bless.
Beautiful, just Beautiful!!!! God bless you as well, sis!! I love your shirts!!! Maranatha!!!!
Love watching while I am preserving carrots!
Today I am dehydrating diced bell peppers & drying lemon thyme & rosemary. Yes, every bit helps. 👍🏽
What an inspiration you are to all the people who watch. Your preserving is my favorite part of the videos, I could watch you all day, this is important stuff. Hi to your family and all the viewers.
I remember my mother boiling all her jars and lids we always had a basement full of canning goodies for the winter! My mother has passed now but very fond memories your harvest looked beautiful
Oh, Sarah! This old lady is so envious of that freeze drier!! Maybe one day.....After my one bathroom has been renovated, just maybe I'll have enough money saved for a small one. For now, I'm also preserving every day. Here in North Florida, growing zone 8b gives us the opportunity for pretty much year 'round growing, and every day there is always something that can be canned, frozen, preserved or dehydrated. Today I'll be preparing peppers for the dehydrator and making tomato sauce. Our tomato growing season is done here, but I have about 12 more gallon bags of cored tomatoes in the freezer. I do it this way so I can process them when I have the time to do it right. Since harvesting, I've harvested and processed six 30' rows of sweet corn, processed and canned or frozen green beans (still picking these heat tolerant Jade variety!!), dehydrating bell and poblano peppers - these are still producing, so I'm processing them about every 3 or 4 days - and planning my Fall garden. And don't get me started on the meats, berry and fruit foraging, and this year, olive curing! We are so blessed to do these things!
Hi, I just love love love you guys! I would have loved to see how the Pico turned out. Blessings to you all. Thanks for all you do! Roxie
AWESOME video and results! Inspirational! Loved watching! Can't wait for next Saturday! I NEED to get busy!