First Huge Garden Harvest of the Year | Making Hay While the Sun Shines!
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Hi friend, Today is an exciting day on the farm. We're harvesting our first large harvest of the year, and I'm thrilled about it, especially because the garden has had a slow start this year. We'll also process everything and start working through a ton of honey. I hope you enjoy coming along with me.
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I love the way you actually "pet" your plants, just like you do with your animals. It just shows what a caring and mothering personality you have. Your family, which includes your root, feathered, fur and human members, are so very lucky and blessed to have you!
Can we just all take a moment and admire how beautiful Chelsea is and how we’d all LOVE to have her hair!!! ❤️
Absolutely love when you share so much of your farm with us. Really enjoy seeing it.
Your first huge garden harvest of the year and making hay while the sun shines is truly impressive! You bring such dedication and joy to your gardening, turning hard work into fruitful rewards and moments of satisfaction. And I am a floating village life from Vietnam.
So many nice herbs to harvest & freeze dry. Glad to hear the honey was ‘saved’. Your processing is interesting to view. Thank You for sharing🌻🦋
Hey I'm not much of a talker so don't comment on videos much but I just wanted to say that when I watch your videos it makes my day seeing how much you care for your plants animals and family is amazing and fills my ❤ with happiness 😊😊 thank you for being you 💜
Your little mountain ranch is so lovely. Every part of it is really quite beautiful. Thank you for sharing your lives with us. ❤️
Yeah!! A post from Chelsea!
Kale powder is a great thing to add to soups, stews and sauces, or smoothies. You can make a wedding soup with it too yum. So excited to see the harvesting season start. All the hard work paying off. Enjoy your channel sooo much. I also love old cook books
I have a garden washing table outside! It is the best thing ever! Totally 😊 We made it out of pallets, a second hand sink and facet.
Jess off RR has a Love of all things Basil, she has it everywhere and makes a Basil Tea she enjoys everyday .
Oh my goodness, what lovely lettuces, kale, herbs, so much more. That heat in your area is extremely unusual isn't it? So glad to hear about the Bees Honey surviving all the stuff. Imagine the cost retail if you bought that much honey, and even more special, it is from your very own Bee Hives. RAW and Healthy!😊
Lovely to see the hayfield. It’s a wonderful feeling when the hay is in ready for winter: Happy, satisfying and oh so thankful.
We also infuse chive flowers every year for salad dressing and with mint for the base of bbq lamb dressing. I think I’ve mentioned before about cutting back French tarragon and placing it in white vinegar to infuse for a quick flavoured hollandaise or bearnaise sauce. I plonk it into quart jars, stalks ‘n all. It’s the most used infused vinegar we use in our kitchen because having found a way to make the sauces without taking so much time and fiddling around with so many pots and bowls to wash up just before serving up, it’s a kitchen/meal game changer. Not sure if Russian tarragon works as well as French. If you can get French and take cuttings to grow over summer in good sized pots, you could store the pots in your root cellar (cut back to third or more of its size) to go dormant over winter and bring back out in spring. Some of mine survive the winter in ground (UK). I think it’s acclimated. But I always take cuttings and put a couple of pots into the shed just in case our winter gets half as cold as yours. 💚
I always look forward to your videos. I learn something new with every one. Thank you so much for all of your hard work; I'm not sure how you get it all done, I do appreciate it. Your newsletter, blog, cookbook, videos; etc. etc. are very special to me. Your Green Stalk with the flowers is beautiful. Lee
Oh….thanks for filming the cows, they have such sweet faces. I am fortunate that my neighbor has horses and he lets me feed them carrots and apples a few times a week.
Was thinking of you when I did it!💕
Such a nice morning with you🤗 Love you showed how to deal with honey in this stage! Thank You!!!💛
I just love your videos. Your thankfulness, and greatness is so refreshing.
all the recipes come from My Mom and our dairy farm unless stated otherwise
In the summer we would have family and friends come over for a Bar-be-cue which included Barbecue meat from animals we raised and butcherer ourselves. The old fashion Ice Cream cranks (at least 2) with old towels for one of the kids to set on and several people to turn the crank. After my Mom died I took her Brown recipe box and any other special recipes and saved them to my Recipe files. I also took her favorite recipes from all her Farm Journal cookbooks and put in my file. Along with a Family Recipe book I made years ago of each of my brothers(3) and sisters (2) and mine and made it for each of my brothers & sisters and their children and my Mom for Christmas presents. I am so glad I did because both my parents are dead and my oldest sister and 2 of my brothers. Now my 3 teen grandchildren will have those recipes.
Recipe for: Butter Pecan Ice Cream From the Kitchen of: Esther Alderson
Ingredients: 1/2 cup sugar
1 envelope Knox gelatin
1 Tbsp. cornstarch
4 cups milk
3 beaten eggs
Ingredients: 1 Tbsp. vanilla
1/3 cup butter (cut up)
2 cups whipping cream
1 cup packed brown sugar
3/4 cup chopped toasted pecans
Recipe instructions: Combine sugars, gelatin and cornstarch in large pan. Stir in half of milk. Cook till mixture thickens. Stir one cup of mixture into eggs yolks. Return to pan, cook 2 minutes. Stir in butter and whipped whipping cream and pecans. Cool and freeze.
Chocolate Ice Cream makes 1 gallon From the Kitchen of: Esther Alderson
Ingredients: 2 cups sugar
1/4 cup flour
1/2 tsp. salt
4 squares (1 oz. each) chocolate, cut up
Ingredients: 4 cups milk
4 eggs, beaten
2 cups (1 pint) heavy cream
2 cups Half & Half
2 Tbsp. Vanilla
Recipe instructions: Combine sugar, flour, salt and chocolate pieces. Gradually stir in milk. Cook and stir over low heat until thickened and chocolate has melted. Add a small amount of hot mixture to eggs and mix well. Return to hot mixture. Cook and stir 1 minute. Remove form heat and chill.
Add heavy cream, half & half and vanilla to custard. Turn into 1 gallon freezer can. Freeze as directed with your freezer.
Four-Three Ice Cream Makes 1 gallon From the Kitchen of: Esther Alderson
Ingredients: 3 cups heavy cream
3 cups milk
3 cups sugar
3 cups pureed ripe strawberries
Juice of 1/2 of a lemon
1/2 tsp. salt
Recipe instructions: Combine heavy cream, milk, sugar, and salt. Turn into a 1 gallon freezer can and churn-freeze 10 minutes.
Mix lemon juice with pureed strawberries.
Open freezer can and add pureed strawberries. close container and continue freezing as directed with your freezer.
Fresh Strawberry Ice Cream Makes: 1 gallon From the Kitchen of: Esther Alderson
Prepare Vanilla Ice Cream without adding vanilla. Freeze until mixture starts to thicken. Open freezer and stir in 1 1/2 cups fresh crushed lightly sweetened strawberries. Continue freezing until hard.
Fresh Peach Ice Cream: Prepare Vanilla Ice Cream using 1 Tbsp. vanilla and 2 tsp. almond extract. Freeze until mixture starts to thicken. Open freezer and stir in 1 1/2 cups fresh crushed lightly sweetened peaches. Continue freezing till hard.
Fresh Strawberry Ice Cream - woodland paper (1990's) From the Kitchen of: Esther Alderson
Ingredients: 4 cups Half & Half
4 cups pureed fresh strawberries (or frozen strawberries, thawed)
1 cup sugar
1 tbsp. vanilla extract
Ingredients: 2 eggs
1 cup sugar
1/4 tsp. salt
3 cups whipping cream
Recipe instructions: Combine pureed fresh strawberries, half & half, 1 cup sugar, and vanilla; cover and refrigerate.
Beat eggs 2 minutes on high speed in a mixing bowl, Add 1 cup sugar and the salt to the eggs and beat for an additional 2 minutes, Stir in whipping cream. Transfer to saucepan and cook over medium heat until mixture begins to simmer, stirring constantly. Remove from heat. Cover and refrigerate 2 hours. Thoroughly combine chilled strawberries and custard mixture using wire whisk. freeze according to manufacturers directions. All the recipes come from My Mom and our dairy farm unless stated otherwise
In the summer we would have family and friends come over for a Bar-be-cue which included Barbecue meat from animals we raised and butcherer ourselves. The old fashion Ice Cream cranks (at least 2) with old towel for one of the kids to set on and several people to turn the crank. After my Mom died I took her Brown recipe box and any other special recipes and saved them to my Recipe files. I also took her favorite recipes from all her Farm Journal cookbooks and put in my file. Along with a Family Recipe book I made years ago of each of my brothers(3) and sisters (2) and mine and made it for each of my brothers & sisters and their children and my Mom for Christmas presents. I am so glad I did because both my parents are dead and my oldest sister and 2 of my brothers. Now my 3 teen grandchildren will have those recipes.
Wow! Thank you so much for all those recipes and especially the stories that came with them.♥️
What a wonderful legacy to have. Digitizibg them is such a great idea, could self publish on line, esp as so many are looking back to real recipes from real people.
Great tip on not cutting the hay too short!
❤️ “Honey is just like a Labrador Retriever “!
Chelsea I just. Grew now eating Alfa Alfa sprouts in a jar so yummy and green compared to brought never grown them so excited to eat them with omelet’s and sandwiches over next week then I’ll do more seeds love how u talk to your pets they have feelings just like us
Really a lovely video from haying to harvesting to preserving and capturing honey. Thanks so much.
I’m reminded how much I enjoy your quick introduction!
Thank you for sharing your 1st big harvest enjoyed your garden and livestock.
Awww that was beautiful. I love all those vegetables and that delicious honey.❤😍
Chelsea, I first found you last fall during a pantry tour. So cool to see you get started on the next year's harvest and processing!
Thank you so much I am learning heaps from you. I love your teaching style explaining ‘why’ as you go along. Your tips earlier in the year about growing cosmos has led to my small garden in the U.K. absolutely brimming over with gorgeous colour. And . . . . next year I am going to grow vegetables for the very first time. 💙
I love how you love on your animals. ☺
Wow! Just wow! Produce and honey and hay. You guys are amazing. 💕💕💕
Chelsea you are a very lucky lady. A beautiful farm and a wonderful husband .
100% true!
Wow that tractor Dan got is a beast! Happy 4th of July to all in the lower 48! God bless you all and many prayers 🙏🏻 Nurse Judi in AZ and E Minister 🙏🏻 ❤️ ✨️ 🙏🏻
I can't imagine needing long sleeves and overalls on today! We are burning up in NW Georgia and East Tennessee! 90's...ugh!!!
Chelsea you going to busy busy. Make time for your naps. The hay looks high quality. God bless
You can take the liquid when finish vacuums Ealing and give to your plants or chickens very nutritional
Thousand head kale is similar to that kale! So tender even when the leaves get large. We get the seeds from Baker Creek.
We mow a couple of acres sometimes three with scythes… yeah it takes much longer… then we rake into wind rows…. Most of our land is way to steep for a tractor and mower etc.
One of my absolutely favorite meals is wilted greens topped with vinegar (I have a friend who makes vinegar shrubs), a little sweet fruit like pieces of orange or strawberry, a little crunchy nut like slivered almonds and then a nummy crunchy bread spread with a goat cheese like Boursin. Absolute heaven!
I know you guys celebrate Canada 🍁 day July 1st…so happy Canada 🇨🇦 day to you.. thank you for sharing
Cool plant stand!
Thai basil is so aromatic and beautiful. It’s actually the main secret of my fried rice recipe. I put loads in the pan frying process as well as some extra fresh at the end 😇
This was a great video today. They are always good/great but this one was packed full of info and stuff and watching so much get done. Thank you for taking the time to video so much.
Nice to see a perspective of the property from the hay field. Everything looks so green!😍🇨🇦
Can you please do a video sharing the recipe for your Kale bake? I am always trying to figure out what to do with all the kale.
I spent so many hrs on the field mowing..180 of growing land..pickles..corn..beans all kinds of thing ..mom would can any thing that's not redhorse or nailed down..18 kids
Your mama was a super hero!!
Your breakfast looked very yummy! Thanks for another great video! ❤
The Forjars sealer will also seal mylar bags too! It's amazing!
Hi Chelsea , thank you for taking us a long love it!
In awe always as I watch you and Dan do what you do. Incredible teamwork, and beautiful family farm! From one Canadian to another! Happy late Canada Day!
Your breakfast looked good. It reminded me of the poke salad and eggs my mother used to cook.
OMG! OMG!! I am the one who has been asking and asking to purchase some of your Abundance Kale! How exciting! I found your channel because we share the same hardiness zone ❄️
I am learning so much from you and your video’s-Thank You for sharing.
You are so welcome!
Hi Chelsea. I too have walking onions I really like them. They are mild onion taste. I put in soups. I made pesto recently it was a little pungent but I added a few drop of lime juice and that was a game changer. Enjoy
We have had no rain in my area of East Tennessee in over 4 weeks. Today, our high temperature was 98 degrees and a heat index of 110. Needless to say, we need rain.
Happy 4th of July Chelsea! Thank you for always sharing your videos and for always inspiring all of us! You are a blessing! His bless you and your family ! 🧚🏻🧚🏻🧚🏻❤️
My goodness, your hay looks fantastic! Our hay (timothy/brome) isn't as full and luscious, but it's over 6' tall. Letting our 100# shepherd run in it is an adventure, he gets lost like he's in a corn maze and can't find his way out. Can't wait for ours to be mowed.
Yum yum that garden haul. So excited you have your own hay back again this year. Lovely to see the prep of the haul too. Oh so glad you were able to save the honey. Bad mean wasps :( hugs
I bet you honey is amazing! I’m loving the high tunnel.😊
I didn’t realize that wasps would attack bees. How sad! I’m happy that your honey is still good. I’m so glad if found your channel. ❤
Wonderful hayfield, cattle, gardens & harvest. Glad that Dan got a new mower! Blessings to everyone 🤗🇨🇦
Please tell me we'll get some content of you driving the tractor! - Your Sausage & Kale Bake sounds lovely!
Using shade cloth will help prevent some bolting
Your greenstalk looks amazing 🎉 I just ordered my 2nd greenstalk. I got the new blue color. So excited! Also thank you for the tip about how to dead head the petunias. I have grown them for years and never knew to take that green part off just below the bloom! I love your videos!!
Honey is so pretty.. large labrador retreiver...😂😂❤❤
You are right it is very sticky and will make everything sticky. Your honey is a beautiful light color tho. Enjoy it. God Bless!
Chelsea will you please show more footage of how you are processing the honey in another video?
Those blades can be sharpened for a long time. Cheaper to learn to sharpen than replacing whole mower.
I also have not seen cabbage moths, did you know they find brasicas when heat stress makes them give off strong scent. this cooler spring/early summer and wet making my garden very different looking, bush beans, peppers, and tomatoes far behind normal but potatoes asparagus kale are huge already. My potatoes plants are bigger now then they got all last year lol.
I love your channel I learn so much from you and you are full of knowledge, I really like how you saved your honey just awesome!! God Bless
We do an Italian sausage kale potatoes soup. Soooo yummy!!!!
Thank you for showing us how to use the vacuum sealer! I have purchased one and haven’t used it yet. Also was hoping to see you using your honing tool-have one and again, have never used it. Thank you Chelsea for taking us along to do your “chores!”
Love the sound of haying
I got the salanova from Johnny’s this year my absolute favorite. I didn’t know garden lettuce could keep so well in the refrigerator
Right?!
That was a nice bounty of greens. Very nice. The honey will taste amazing. So sorry to hear about your bees. Have a great week and weekend.
Nice to see Dan cutting your hay. Looks like a nice crop. Love your Foodsaver by four jars. Can you get that in Canada.
Thank you Chelsea! 😘
I'm first to comment..Hi friend you are so wonderful..love your videos
♥️♥️ Thank you.
Nice
I would really love to my hands on some of your kale seeds…please 🥰🙏.
You made me miss haying. It’s been years (actually decades). I always enjoyed it. My job was always raking. Loved it. 😊the honey fascinates me. I’ve never known anyone who keeps bees. Will you get more bees?
It's hotter than Hades here in Georgia...have lost quite a bit due to the heat...weird gardening season
Thank you
Chelsea save the water from the bag sealer from 4 jars and put them on. Petunias etc
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Thank you for sharing. I love your content. Blessings
So good to see you Chelsea. The cows look so happy and healthy. Honey is so beautiful. Imagine that color for your hair... hmmm
I use swiss chard a lot of times for cabbage rolls if the leaves are on the large side, and I was thinking those leaves from your abundance kale would probably work too. I have never seen that type of kale before and must try to get some seeds for myself.
I'd love to hear more about extraction of honey if you do it next year. What kind of equipment etc. Thanks for all your videos.
Great harvest! I love garden kale. Last year I had so much but didn’t have much room to put it in the freezer. So, I decided to can it. I use the canned kale for when I make Zuppa Toscana. A pint is the perfect amount for a big pot of that soup.
Great idea!
That hay is looking great and the heat and dry weather is right on time. I really like that new lightweight wheelbarrow, much easier to bring stuff back to the house.
Sad about your bees but the honey and wax is wonderful.
Just curious about the name of one of your plants. It sounds like you said Dark Bore but is it Doukhobor? I'm in BC so that's what I think of but the pronunciation is a bit different.
Very nice new vac sealer, they have such good products!
One of my fave foods is freeze dried chives - so many uses for it!
Would love to have some of that kale.You have an amazing harvest ❤
Excellent video!😊
Hi, I was just thinking you just need a kitchen for doing your produce (lol). Your gardens are beautiful and so are your cows.
I do not cover my peppers when we get into the 50s at night in upstate NY and they are fine and they are also outside.
I started my first ever little garden this year and cabbage worms decimated my one little broccoli plant. I found a hone remedy of putting orange peel in water over night and then add a coupke tsp of dish soap and that seems to have gotten rid if them in the first application. Spray once a week and after rain i think it said. Not sure if my broccoli will come back.
Enjoyed the video 😊
Thai basil tastes like licorice
You can bale after only one day of drying? Wow! I remember we had to wait sometimes a week sometimes a little more.
No we bale on day 3.
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Right. You mow, then rake then bale. I remember when we mowed, then raked, then raked again & maybe even a third time before it was dry enough to bale. There was cow hay & horse hay & we didn't want a barn fire so it needed to be very dry. I think it's great that you can bale after just the one day of drying on day 3.
Bein very allergic i try to stay away from bees.
So that was really cool seeing how you do the honey.
Could you use that kale in cabbage roles
Could I have your recipe for your angel cake please