So interest in to compare this early farm to what you have today. Yet the pigs and chickens are still so well cared for regardless. That cider looks good!
I was commenting about making cider on one of your videos a few weeks ago. This just popped up today. Your parents were sure having fun Al. I can't believe how much Olivia has grown! And a lot of farm progress in 1 year.
What a lovely effort by all the family reaping and helping with the cider making.....Your Mum is a smart looking lady Al and her hubby is cool......Great video!
good evening Al Gina and Olivia nice to see you guys working today together the 🐷 🐷 pigs are really being fed good their having a bit of everything, hi Mr. Biggs. Awesome video today that 🍎 apple cider sure looks 😋 tasty,another wonderful day on the homestead 🏡🍎🍎🍎🍎👍👍👍👍👍😘😘😘😘😘till tomorrow same time same place God bless bye 👋 enjoy your evening together as a family..
Well that settles it then. We gotta have a cider mill. Apple juice and hard cider for us and a winter's worth of squeezins for the chickens to go with all the other goodies we'll be growing to feed em.
Gardening with the whole family, now that is awesome !! Hello mom and dad, your son is a credit to you guys !! Great to see the apple press working, it works really well considering it's age !! If you lot had that much fun make the apple juice, wait until the cider is ready and the real fun begins !! Thanks for sharing
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Ahh.....it's my 6:00am wake up from Lumnah Acres here in Sydney. (Summer Time which just changed on the weekend....it's 5:00am in Winter time) Thanks for the wake up Al.
It's a tomato horn worm. They will destroy tomato plants in no time. For your tomato plants that still have green fruit, instead of chopping them, pull the whole plant up. Hang them upside down in your cellar or basement and the fruit will continue to ripen. Thanks for sharing a great family harvest day!
How about making a little hard cider just for the adults, Al. My Grandfather used to make hard cider for the family and would give pints to friends as Christmas gifts. Nothing like fall in old New England.
It is a Tomato Hornworm. I found this. "To keep hornworms away from your tomato plants next year, try interplanting dill or basil; marigolds are also an excellent companion plant and keep many pests away." Wow, 5 gallons of cider from one sink full of apples. Imagine how much cider you could make if you used all your apples. You might think about trying to make some money selling apple cider. I am guessing it would be much more difficult to sell hard apple cider. But you could sell regular apple cider. Your step-father seemed to like the apple cider. Is it good? He mentioned red apples, but I only saw yellow apples.
I loved this video. I love family activities. My grandchildren are coming this Saturday for a sleep over and bake off! LOL We just bake and freeze cookies, zucchini bread, pumpkin bread, etc., for the holidays. I love this time of year! Thanks for sharing! Your mom is like me...a proud momma! LOL Blessings to all, Lisa
yes the roots are to be left in the ground when the plant is ready to be removed cut them off instead of pulling them out. The roots also give space for next years roots to grow into and provide food for next plants. And besides its messy with shaking them roots all over, don't do it!You can also keep the left over mature beans and corn as seed for next year.
Fun video as usual. R S got it correct below. That's a tomato horn worm. "Nasty creatures"! Kinda unusual to see one this late in Fall tho. Kill that pest. A worm that size can strip a tomato plant to the stem in no time. FYI//heads up, you'll have MORE of them next year. SO, when you put your tomato starts out next Spring, go out after dark with an LED flashlight and hunt 'em down. Some of their 'stripes' will flash back like 'neon' to make 'em easy to spot. Forget about wasting your time looking for them in daylight. You can literally put your hand on them and not spot 'em. ps......put some yeast and a bit of BROWN sugar in some of that cider and make it 'hard'. EXCELLENT 'adult beverage' for winter time 'doldrums'....LOL.
When I saw the crusher and press when you you were ckeaning out rhe shed I thought what fun it would be for all. I did some this and last year and used the mash after on my blueberry patch, wow what a crop of berries I had last spring. Nice family good times thanks for sharing.
My Grandma used to take her trusty fiskers and she'd cut those green tomato horn worms right in. Two then she'd laugh anticipating watching the hens chasing each other around with them.
Great to see you using that apple press. Our climate seems to be in sync. We are doing fall harvest and the weather seems the same. Greetings from Andreas on Off Grid Sweden
Great Video guys! It was nice to see your mom and dad Al as they both seem like really nice people. I'm gathering your Dad is the one who schooled you in the world of carpentry. I'm sure their not perfect, but no one is and I consider it a blessing that you still have them with you. Very enjoyable to watch and hope you include them in the future. Take care!
I know it's an older video but I love thus one. Reminds me of my child hood. Cider, Apple butter, Apple pies form the sour apples, preserves. We made all sorts of stuff. Thanks for sharing this one.
the worm was a tomato hornworm. You should have put it in a jar, it will turn into a cyrsalis soon, pretty cool to watch. So now what are you going to do with 5 gal of cider? If you have jugs to put it in, you can boil it and save it in jugs.
We love fried green tomatoes. Just wash them, slice them about half an inch thick. mix flower with a little corn meal, add salt & pepper and fry. They are much sweeter than you would think.
Just watching some old videos today. I saw you fed the animals the green tomatoes. Years ago we used to wrap each in a piece of newspaper and store them in a drawer in a cool dark place and check from time to time until they ripened. You will have tomatoes well into the fall depending on how many green tomatoes you have. Love your videos!!
Your parents seen very kind happy amazing people. I am wondering why you didn't eat the green pepers or tomatoes left on the plants. They are good green to and if you would have put the tomato plant upside down in the ogok or basement they would have ripened on the plant. Ps tomatoes and potatoes are nightshade plants mabey its better not to give them to livestock next year. Kind regards rose. Loved the Apple cider pressing well it's still juice for now it needs to ferment to make cider. But that was 1 sink full are you planning on making more this year since you can have 20 of those 5 gallon buckets full with all the apples you get. And you could add sugar to make even more cider or vinegar with the scraps.
Put the cider straight from the press in small platic bottles, leave a Little air for expansion and put it in the freezer. I use square bottles to maximize space
Tomato horn worms ick!!! I’m trying chop and drop their year, apparently dropping non diseased plants in place helps feed and protect the soil all winter.
Spread the apple pulp over the garden area and cover with leaves and grass to overwinter. You'll have good healthy soil come planting time next spring.
Put your green tomatoes in a paper grocery bag in a cool dry place and they will ripen gradually a few at a time. You will have delicious tomatoes into January or even later.
While it is a good idea to leave old roots in the ground for compost and soil structure, I heard that with out a green plant with a root in the ground the microbs die off in about two weeks. Best to plant winter rye which will survive under the snow and keep the soil food web alive till you plant next spring.
Hope you fermented the apple juice with yeast to make alcoholic cider. We used to do that with our windfall apples. Great for celebrating at Christmas xx
Tomato horn worm, pupates to a luna moth. Don't feed to pigs. Tomatoes are from the nightshade family, the fruit is edible, the vegetation is toxic. Same with potatoes. I think you're running the grinder backwards. The feed chute sends the apples to the far side of the grinder, you are grinding and pulling the apples back. The outlet chute then throws the pulp to the short side of the press hoppers. Run it the opposite way, the apples will pull into the grinder in the same direction of travel that the hopper feeds. The pulp will then come out the bottom chute and throw towards the wide side of the hopper. The outlet chute is not centered over the hoppers for this reason. It allows some "fling" room. You'll have less of the grindings feeding into the forward hopper (the one you're pressing) this way. That was quite a bucket of juice. Was that only from the one tree?
91419☮ UA-cam lists this video a year old. I don't remember seeing it until now. Also it was nice to see the lady that had you cooking a meal once a week as a young man...
Your son is extremely talented & more than qualified in so many skills. You raised a wonderful man.
Wonderful to see the family having so much fun whilst working. I agree with Kathy, Olivia is a very blessed girl.
The apple press is awesome. A nice harvest day on the farm. ♥️👍
Just watched this again, today. What a blast from the past, but fun to see everyone working together and having fun with the harvest!
Those are the most happy, active, excited pigs I've ever seen! :)
So interest in to compare this early farm to what you have today. Yet the pigs and chickens are still so well cared for regardless. That cider looks good!
Oh my goodness! I bet that apple juice was amazing. Looks like fun with the family.
Nice seeing your parents Al hope you make another Video with them soon.
That cider came out dark! That’s awesome. I bet it’s delish! Glad you got some time with your parents Al they’re too cute ❤️.
I was commenting about making cider on one of your videos a few weeks ago. This just popped up today. Your parents were sure having fun Al. I can't believe how much Olivia has grown! And a lot of farm progress in 1 year.
What a happy video!
Nice to see your guests, too
What a lovely effort by all the family reaping and helping with the cider making.....Your Mum is a smart looking lady Al and her hubby is cool......Great video!
good evening Al Gina and Olivia nice to see you guys working today together the 🐷 🐷 pigs are really being fed good their having a bit of everything, hi Mr. Biggs. Awesome video today that 🍎 apple cider sure looks 😋 tasty,another wonderful day on the homestead 🏡🍎🍎🍎🍎👍👍👍👍👍😘😘😘😘😘till tomorrow same time same place God bless bye 👋 enjoy your evening together as a family..
What a great cider press! A bit jealous ...😉
Proud Momma!
Watching the older stuff...Olivia was so young!!!!
You're making some wonderful memories with Olivia.
Well that settles it then. We gotta have a cider mill. Apple juice and hard cider for us and a winter's worth of squeezins for the chickens to go with all the other goodies we'll be growing to feed em.
Awesome video
My goodness, what a beautiful life y’all get to lead.
Hey Grandma and Grandpa Lumnah!
I like your arch over your garden bed with the cattle panels. Very cool.
Thanks, it is great for trellis plants up
Having a good old time making cider on the homestead !!!! Great video 👍 your parents are great 🙏
Gardening with the whole family, now that is awesome !! Hello mom and dad, your son is a credit to you guys !! Great to see the apple press working, it works really well considering it's age !! If you lot had that much fun make the apple juice, wait until the cider is ready and the real fun begins !! Thanks for sharing
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That is a lot of apple juice. Looks absolutely wonderful, what a beautiful color. Thanks for sharing.
Love this video so warming... Keep up the family bonding 🙏🏽
Nice to see ALL the Family getting stuck in. :-)
Ahh.....it's my 6:00am wake up from Lumnah Acres here in Sydney. (Summer Time which just changed on the weekend....it's 5:00am in Winter time) Thanks for the wake up Al.
It's a tomato horn worm. They will destroy tomato plants in no time.
For your tomato plants that still have green fruit, instead of chopping them, pull the whole plant up. Hang them upside down in your cellar or basement and the fruit will continue to ripen.
Thanks for sharing a great family harvest day!
Down here in GA the best thing for green tomatoes is sliced dusted in flour and deep fried.
Or make into chutney
Looks like a very productive and fun day! Thanks for sharing.
This video was such a treat! I bet Olivia is quite happy to have the G-rents visit.
chop and drop can also help your soil for next year too..looks like everybody had a great time! thanks for the video!
How about making a little hard cider just for the adults, Al. My Grandfather used to make hard cider for the family and would give pints to friends as Christmas gifts. Nothing like fall in old New England.
It is a Tomato Hornworm. I found this. "To keep hornworms away from your tomato plants next year, try interplanting dill or basil; marigolds are also an excellent companion plant and keep many pests away."
Wow, 5 gallons of cider from one sink full of apples. Imagine how much cider you could make if you used all your apples. You might think about trying to make some money selling apple cider. I am guessing it would be much more difficult to sell hard apple cider. But you could sell regular apple cider.
Your step-father seemed to like the apple cider. Is it good? He mentioned red apples, but I only saw yellow apples.
I loved this video. I love family activities. My grandchildren are coming this Saturday for a sleep over and bake off! LOL We just bake and freeze cookies, zucchini bread, pumpkin bread, etc., for the holidays. I love this time of year! Thanks for sharing! Your mom is like me...a proud momma! LOL
Blessings to all, Lisa
yes the roots are to be left in the ground when the plant is ready to be removed cut them off instead of pulling them out. The roots also give space for next years roots to grow into and provide food for next plants. And besides its messy with shaking them roots all over, don't do it!You can also keep the left over mature beans and corn as seed for next year.
Fun video as usual. R S got it correct below. That's a tomato horn worm. "Nasty creatures"! Kinda unusual to see one this late in Fall tho. Kill that pest. A worm that size can strip a tomato plant to the stem in no time. FYI//heads up, you'll have MORE of them next year. SO, when you put your tomato starts out next Spring, go out after dark with an LED flashlight and hunt 'em down. Some of their 'stripes' will flash back like 'neon' to make 'em easy to spot. Forget about wasting your time looking for them in daylight. You can literally put your hand on them and not spot 'em. ps......put some yeast and a bit of BROWN sugar in some of that cider and make it 'hard'. EXCELLENT 'adult beverage' for winter time 'doldrums'....LOL.
SO beautiful to see family outside together. Thank you for so much beauty and inspiration! Blessed :)
When I saw the crusher and press when you you were ckeaning out rhe shed I thought what fun it would be for all. I did some this and last year and used the mash after on my blueberry patch, wow what a crop of berries I had last spring. Nice family good times thanks for sharing.
Oh boy apple cider press! brings back memories. My family had one just like that one.
Olivia is a Giant now in 2019. The goats and pigs eat the apples now. Gina has the most fun operating equipment.
Jenna love you so much you are so funny Al you are a very lucky man you have a smoken wife and a cutie pie of a daughter love y'all muches
They are lovely! Great family day!
My Grandma used to take her trusty fiskers and she'd cut those green tomato horn worms right in. Two then she'd laugh anticipating watching the hens chasing each other around with them.
Great to see you using that apple press. Our climate seems to be in sync. We are doing fall harvest and the weather seems the same. Greetings from Andreas on Off Grid Sweden
It sure does! Our last frost date in the spring is May 23rd what is yours?
Green fried tomatoes yum, yum!!! bonus seed for corn.
Awesome! Home grown decorations. 🌽
Great Video guys! It was nice to see your mom and dad Al as they both seem like really nice people.
I'm gathering your Dad is the one who schooled you in the world of carpentry. I'm sure their not perfect, but no one is and I consider it a blessing that you still have them with you. Very enjoyable to watch and hope you include them in the future. Take care!
I know it's an older video but I love thus one. Reminds me of my child hood. Cider, Apple butter, Apple pies form the sour apples, preserves. We made all sorts of stuff. Thanks for sharing this one.
We call those " horn worms" . They can sure devour a tomato plant. I love your channel. I wish I lived down the road from you. Blessings...
Your cider looks wonderful! YUM!
One of the best so far more of the pigs please.
the worm was a tomato hornworm. You should have put it in a jar, it will turn into a cyrsalis soon, pretty cool to watch. So now what are you going to do with 5 gal of cider? If you have jugs to put it in, you can boil it and save it in jugs.
Thats a good idea!
Loved seeing the family working together you guys are great God bless
We love fried green tomatoes. Just wash them, slice them about half an inch thick. mix flower with a little corn meal, add salt & pepper and fry. They are much sweeter than you would think.
Just watching some old videos today. I saw you fed the animals the green tomatoes. Years ago we used to wrap each in a piece of newspaper and store them in a drawer in a cool dark place and check from time to time until they ripened. You will have tomatoes well into the fall depending on how many green tomatoes you have. Love your videos!!
Also enjoyed seeing your parents helping harvest and making cider.
Your parents seen very kind happy amazing people.
I am wondering why you didn't eat the green pepers or tomatoes left on the plants. They are good green to and if you would have put the tomato plant upside down in the ogok or basement they would have ripened on the plant.
Ps tomatoes and potatoes are nightshade plants mabey its better not to give them to livestock next year.
Kind regards rose. Loved the Apple cider pressing well it's still juice for now it needs to ferment to make cider. But that was 1 sink full are you planning on making more this year since you can have 20 of those 5 gallon buckets full with all the apples you get. And you could add sugar to make even more cider or vinegar with the scraps.
Great video, it is a tomato hornworm.
And very creepy. You have to squish them. Yuck!
What a great family activity, my mouth was watering just thinking about the wonderful cider.
It turns into a beautiful moth. I pick them off my tomatoes and put them on the wild grape vines.
Good to see your parents Al
your apple trees are amazing. Great family video Al! Clear to see all your planning before this year has worked out very well! Congratulations!
Looking GOOD put a motor on that thing. DUH Cider looks real tasty and has good color. And a fun time was had by all.
Put the cider straight from the press in small platic bottles, leave a Little air for expansion and put it in the freezer. I use square bottles to maximize space
Great video. I bet that cider is awesome. Well done. Thank you for sharing.
Great video!!! Looks like you guys had a nice memory making productive family day. Btw that is a tomato horn worm 🐛
Those green tomatoes are very good sliced and fried
Wonderful videos! So enjoy your way of life.😊👏
Tomato horn worms ick!!!
I’m trying chop and drop their year, apparently dropping non diseased plants in place helps feed and protect the soil all winter.
Yummy, fresh apple cider!!! How I miss going to a nearby orchard owned by a classmate’s family in upstate NY!
Tomato Horn Worm. Great chicken or duck treat.
It is either a tomato or Tabaco horn worm. Both do the same thing but they look a little different
Spread the apple pulp over the garden area and cover with leaves and grass to overwinter. You'll have good healthy soil come planting time next spring.
I think this is your best video
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What an exciting day. Harvesting all the gardens and running your cider press. So, how many potatoes did you end up getting?
Boy those are some happy pigs
Tomato horn. We had them on the tomato plants my dad used to grow and he would give them to us to play with 🙈 I was like 5 years old 😂
Wow I’ve been watching a long time but never seen this one
You have a really nice family brother
We had ONE horn worm. It taught us alot. It EATS SO MUCH WATCH IT CUTE
Harvest is best when its a family affair!
Tomato hornworm aka chicken treat
Bring things like this back please.
Put your green tomatoes in a paper grocery bag in a cool dry place and they will ripen gradually a few at a time. You will have delicious tomatoes into January or even later.
Thanks! Fingers crossed!
In Canada we call them Hornworms or Tomato Hornworms.
This was great, I miss having seasons.
I think I would miss the seasons too.
I go through the garden with my lawn mower on mulch and just chop up all of the stems and then till it under in the fall.
While it is a good idea to leave old roots in the ground for compost and soil structure, I heard that with out a green plant with a root in the ground the microbs die off in about two weeks. Best to plant winter rye which will survive under the snow and keep the soil food web alive till you plant next spring.
Hello grandma and grandpa Lumnah! Greetings from The Netherlands! :)
Hope you fermented the apple juice with yeast to make alcoholic cider. We used to do that with our windfall apples. Great for celebrating at Christmas xx
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Thanks!
I can smell the apples over here
Nice Press
that is a tomato horn worm if you see a horn worm with white eggs on its back them are wasp eggs and they will kill the worm when the eggs hatch
Applause applause! again the auto cc picks up the sound of the Apple grinder as applause and i agree! Lol
Tomato horn worm, pupates to a luna moth. Don't feed to pigs. Tomatoes are from the nightshade family, the fruit is edible, the vegetation is toxic. Same with potatoes.
I think you're running the grinder backwards. The feed chute sends the apples to the far side of the grinder, you are grinding and pulling the apples back. The outlet chute then throws the pulp to the short side of the press hoppers. Run it the opposite way, the apples will pull into the grinder in the same direction of travel that the hopper feeds. The pulp will then come out the bottom chute and throw towards the wide side of the hopper. The outlet chute is not centered over the hoppers for this reason. It allows some "fling" room. You'll have less of the grindings feeding into the forward hopper (the one you're pressing) this way. That was quite a bucket of juice. Was that only from the one tree?
David -- I think they had already fed three-quarters of the apples from that tree to the pigs. Those trees are loaded with apples.
91419☮
UA-cam lists this video a year old.
I don't remember seeing it until now.
Also it was nice to see the lady that had you cooking a meal once a week as a young man...
This popped up on my feed. I'm new to your channel so I loved seeing this older video and seeing your parents. Will they be back this fall?
Man, that cider looks delish ....... I can almost smell/taste it from here ~8^)