Good memories for me when I was watching you and your daughter canning your beans. It bought back the times I was teaching my daughter and now my grandkids to cook. Precious memories.
Biscuit is such a happy boy, he has been handled with loving care and it shows in his attitude. Frolicking in the new area, shows how young he still is.
Wow, Sister’s language development has grown rapidly since Christmas. She is using complete sentences and asking for more new vocabulary words. (Referring to names of beans). Syntax, syntax, syntax 🎉. I’m a long time teacher, now retired , and still am amazed at how speech develops. It’s amazing! ❤😊
Once again I grabbed my phone to comment. I usually watch y’all on the TV. I can beans to have them ready. I post my canning on my Facebook page and alway get “ you can just buy them…” home canned beans are best and you are right… I hate going to the store. Love all your videos. ( in Kings Mtn Nc).
it's fun watching her, (Buggy) grow right before my eyes. She is so adorable and sassy. I love that beautiful head of hair she's got. Yes, you are so right about working the night shift messes you up. What is worse is that swing shift stuff some of these companies put their employees through. It is really harmful to one's health to work like that, one week it's days another it's nights, and flip-flopping like that is bad for your body/heart, etc.
I guess you can say that I work second shift in a sense. 1pm to 9:30pm. It drives me up a wall some days. I gotta start getting ready around noon to leave by 12:30p. Luckily, I work for a local school division so it's not as bad as working for lets say, a Target. I have a set schedule with benefits and the full 9.
You have such a beautiful family. I so enjoy watching Buggy help you and hear her talk. She has never talked baby talk. And the food! Oh my! Love to watch you cook and sit as a family to eat your meal after thanking the Provider. It was such a beautiful day to watch you perform the chores of the day! Bless your family!
Back in the days my family in the mountains used to give the cows leaves to eat cutting some branches from the trees thus saving some parts of land to have hay growing. At the same time that helped prune the trees to prevent too much heavy snow. Cows enjoyed fresh leaves. Little helper is learning many useful skills:)))
Meg, that's great that you're going to can some beans so that they'll be more readily available for quick meals. The wind chimes sound nice. Ben, I think it's a good idea to use your cow to improve your pastures. Great idea for her to work up the area next to the driveway to get it ready for seeding. Biscuit sure got a lot bigger! Nice job moving the cows. It was fun to hear the guinea hog piglets chomping away at the leftover cow hay. Good idea to use the hay as mulch on the garden beds. Millie sure likes to supervise. Dinner of meatballs, corn/collards, and brown rice looks great Meg! Thanks for this Hollar family!
I seeded all of my paddocks with wasted bermuda hay from my goats. Pooped on, peed on, spread it out. It went from bare dirt to thick grass in one full year.
Move your chickens to that area after the cows. We had a couple of areas that we’ve never been able to grow grass on. We started rotational grazing with our pastures chickens last year (can’t free range due to strays & neighbor’s dogs). We heavily grazed those areas to the to point that what little was there was either eaten or scratched up by the chickens. We also scattered their feed instead of using a feeder. The next time we put them on those areas, we let them lightly graze it before moving them. Those areas have quite a bit of grass growing now & look so much better now. You guys are doing an amazing job! Your property looks so good now. I love following your progress. God bless!
@@wheaties1435 I'm in the process of moving towards a more greenish lifestyle and when I try to explain, I get looked at like I have three heads. So now, I try to explain then I go with the, I want to.
My son did his school science project one year on mulch. He measured the temperature of the soil with and without mulch. The temperature was significantly higher without the mulch. It was amazing. Then he interviewed a master gardener, about the importance of mulch at the Botanic Garden, which is a city park in Fort Worth. A simple science project. But it really explains why it is so important.
@@codyrussow170 -Not usually. The soil needs the calcium in the lime, not a stabilizer like phosphorus. Try the lime first, then if needed use phosphorus.
My cousin Lynn and I use to make up little songs… Beans beans they’re good for your heart The more you eat em the more you fart The more you fart the better you feel So eat your beans at every meal! 😆😆😆 We were raised in New Orleans where it’s traditional to have red (kidney) beans & rice on Mondays to clear out all the alcohol from the weekend lol. Usually seasoned with ham hocks, but I prefer sausage, and the holy trinity…. Onions, bell peppers and celery. Salt & pepper and don’t forget the cruet filled with Tabasco peppers & vinegar usually sitting in the center of the table and cornbread made in a cast iron skillet. Potato salad on the side… Oh yeah!! Super fantastic on Lundi Gras (the Monday before Fat Tuesday/Mardi Gras Day) which is February 20th this year 💜💛💚… Mardi Gras Day is the 21st ending promptly at 2am for Ash Wednesday. ✌🏻
Love seeing Buggy helping. I'm not an expert canner by a long shot, but I think you overfilled those beans. That is what I did the first time I canned them. Even after soaking they absorb a lot of liquid. I find a generous 1/2 cup dry for pints & a generous cup dry for quarts leaves plenty of water for them to finish cooking in the canner. I also soak them in a pot, but I measure them going into the pot so I know that will take 10 pints. I then am able to divide them by eye later into the jars and add boiling water. . There is always water covering them so they don't dry out no matter how many are on the shelf. I often do some beans when I'm doing meat since it's the same time and pressure and I want to be as energy efficient as possible. I remember those days of juggling kids and canning and cooking, it's not easy and you do a great job. Have you ever tried Tattlers? There is a learning curve, but it's nice to not have to buy lids all the time.
i do that...its the best way to live getting up and moving with the sun and birds and sleeping in the winter. 9 hours a night in winter...5-6 in the summer and fall. i love going by the circadian rhythms gardening is a long term game...its the best way! good work today Ben and Meg...mmmm meatballs!
I'm so proud of you guys, how well u basically city-slickers, are doing with all these animals, esp. pigs and cows. Congrats ! I hope it's encouraging to remember that the more you do holistically planned grazing (the rotational grazing that Joel Salatin does I think, and Greg Judy has a very helpful channel on the ins and outs and every-day applications and learning curve of doing it). Basically it's the every-day moves, and revisiting ground based on grass plant recovery, NOT time. Anyways, as you probably know, Joel's farm used to have no grass, and now is really pumping it out ! More, faster, earlier, later, basically exponentially ( I'm sure there's some limit, winter is winter, for one ! ). Greg Judy definitely speaks about the broom sedge, If I remember right , is basically doing what u plan to do, BUT often doesn't even seed tho I think. As Alan Savory showed when developing all this, the seed bank is there, just "make the soil healthy and they will come " ( and the weeds preferred ecology is gone, so, they die out). This works way better than one expects. But hey, if u can seed, I'm not knocking it !
Us night and overnight workers rock! Keep the faith :) And great vid! Feels great to get even small tasks accomplished. Takes so much off our mental plates. Blessings Hollar Fam!
I worked nights back when I was in Nursing. I still struggle even though it's been about 10 years. I was a night owl as a kid though. My hubby is a morning person. He thinks talking at 4:30AM is normal😴
I haven't bought canned beans in years.. I can season them as I like and there are NO additives. Thats why I don't buy bread either (when you leave a store bought loaf in your camping gear for 6 months and its not moldy what is it doing to your body!). Your family is living the lifestyle I would have loved when I was your age. Meg did you know you can process your beans using the no soak method (everything is at room temp including the the pressure canner. saves on counter space (Soaking)(1 cup of rinsed dry beans for quarts and 1/2 cup for pints) the processing time is the same. ... check out Whippoorwill Holler
It's So worth the extra step for a few reasons. Just because I can do it without soaking does not mean I should is what my functional medicine doctor said. I soak. If you too a side by side. I did and really track how I feel, the flavor .... It's a wise decision to soak.
Here in Homer Alaska from August to October we have light just about all day. I really enjoyed that before officially moving here. I was probably the only one outside working in the yard at 2am
As you get older, you will rely on a tractor or other equipment much more and still get enough physical exercise. Your rotation practices are growing soil each year and you will love having water lines in. We put ours in a few years ago and its so much better! Next we run electricity to the goat shed. What a game changer that will be! These things save so much time and effort you can do other things and still grow your food!
I can my beans as well. Simply because I know what's in them hahaha and it's cheaper 🙃 I learned to pressure can from Starry Hilders youtube channel. She doesn't even presoak, so even quicker. And as of lately, I have been cooking instant ones (haha) in my instants pot. 30 minutes of cooking. Not bad 🫠😇 My husband and love sure do love you all. It's our "tv" while we eat supper. Great job btw. 👏 Cheers and blessings ♥️🙏 Jenn, from East Coast Canada 🇨🇦
I know you have probably done this already but if you put garlic or herbs in with your beans as they soak they have the best taste to them! I usually put a little salt and garlic and then pure it off and put hot water on them and can them.
I worked nights for 22 yrs so, Ben, I know what you are talking about!! I was forced into retirement at 67 and now at 70 I am still feeling it- I can read into the early hrs(2 or3am) and force myself to turn the lite off but don’t want to open my eyes before 9! I wonder if it gets better….🤪🤷🏼♀️
One of the best things about pressure canning dried beans is you can do them when it's cold and you want to boost the inside temps and not in the heat and pressure of harvest...ready eat meals that serve as heat and food...great time for dried beans..in the summer and fall I actually pressure can and water bath on the driveway and not heat up the house...doing double duty doing dried beans in the winter...perfect timing
Work smarter, not harder, Ben! Don't worry about using the tractor. It's an invaluable tool and saves the body from strain and injury. You are plenty active! I need to try canning beans!!
I think I'd use that tractor all the time. That's what they're for....to use. Yes, you need to pick your good days when to use it but I've seen you do things that the tractor would be MY best friend! You guys are amazing people!
You have a huge resource of fallen leaves in your woods, they are great on the garden as mulch and don't have grass seed all throughout. You could make a big bag out of a cheap tarp, you and the boys could rake up enough to cover your beds in a few hours. I used thin sticks criss-crossed on the beds to stop the leaves blowing away in all but the worst winds.
I LOVE having my canned beans on the shelf. The first time I made refried beans out of them, they were so amazing! Also so easy to make chili, which we eat a lot!
I agree on going to the store!! I have a Food lion about 2 blocks from my house, but I live on a busy main street in Fayetteville, NC, super close to a huge military base, and just to ride to the store is hazardous, and dealing with the car and store foot traffic and low inventory options. I'm not well trained in meal planning, and I like to plan the day of, but having supplies on hand would make it easier and more time efficient for daily life. Y'all are on to the right track on how to feed your family, and I hope that society will one day migrate towards less fast food and disposable packaging, and more towards family values by putting dinner in a more family oriented setting!! I used to work nights while I lived in Las Vegas for almost a decade in my 20s!! It is still challenging to regulate my circadian rhythm in my 40s. I will be expecting my first born to arrive on April 27th, a daughter, and I hope she will help me regulate my daily routine, and prioritize my days better, geared more towards building my amazing family! Thank you for being such an inspiration to me and my future husband and child, and showing us how love and hard work is worth it all!!! We love y'all dearly!!
Hello Miss Buggy,your Hair is so Pretty 🤗. My Friend swears by having canning jar Beans for when Her and Her Husband get in late from work,She cans All kinds too! That should help out with the Grass growing 👍. Normally we would have January thaw then head right back into harsh Winter We went from -25 and -26 ° To 40 ° all week with Rain tonight, definitely not Vermont Winters🥴. At least your Spring prep will be mostly done 🌞. JO JO IN VT 💞💨❄️☃️
I assume you are new here so welcome! We have been moving a flock around the property in a chickshaw for about 4 years now. We are currently using that flock for garden bed prep and compost making!
Ben, Everyone says don't use hay in your garden but I use my rabbit manure in my garden. There is lots of hay in it and I have weeds but not grass. The weeds are not coming from the hay.
And Meg, the real reason is that they taste much better when you can them at home! I learned that this year and the next Azure order was YUGE! But now we're eating more beans and the shelves are full, win, win!
I do this method as well, but I use cold canner, cold beans, cold water. 90 minutes pressure for quarts. They turn out great, and homemade refried beans are so simple using these! I'd love to find a recipe for the OLD 1980s real food frijoles from Taco Bueno. They were delish.
Working 2nd shift does have it's challenges. You've inspired me to start doing video's on my channel again. I don't have a camera so I use my phone. It works... Butchering in 10 days. Man it's sneaking up on me. Lots to prep before it gets here. Just moved the pigs over the weekend to a fresh paddock. Probably will move them once more before butchering. Which works out cuz they'll be closer to the kettles. Take care and God bless. Oh and tell Meg my wife made a batch of sourdough jelly sticky buns this weekend and they were awesome 👍
Funny that you brought up sleeping with the daylight cycle. I was just posting about that idea as well. Cheaper on electricity is a huge bonus to the idea. Meg, thanks for the bean canning info, I really need to do it as well. Been craving chili, but don't want to buy canned beans with so much dried here, lol. I'll get on it too👍🤗
I can dig your sleep issue. I used to work at a chemical plant years ago that had variable shifts. One week on evenings, one week on days then one week on graveyard shift. Went from that to submarine duty. That was 18-hour days. 6 hrs. training, 6 hrs. off and 6 hrs. on duty. Then I got a medical discharge due to an injury and wound up in NY working at a printing plant. First 6 years was graveyard shift. Never recovered from it. Just learn to live with it.
Midnight shift hurts in so many ways .I know I've worked the majority of the last 12 years doing it and I was 50 when I started it...its a young young person lifestyle..I work 4 12s and sleep most of the 3 days I'm off
I worked a lot of nights and yes it messes with your circadian rhythm. So glad to see longer days. Now if we can get a little warmer weather. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
I worked nights for many years. Went to working day shift in 2013.. 10 years ago. I still get sleepy between noon & 2:00 pm. It is very easy for me to flip my sleep hours & be up most of if not the entire night. I have to make myself go to bed by 11 pm so I sleep at night & get up at 6 - 7 am depending what time I have to be at work and feed animals before I leave.
Hello Hollar Homestead, I had a thought regarding your cows and grass situation... .. is it possible to perhaps chat to your neighbours about either leasing or adjusting land from them? This would tidy up their land whilst giving your family more options. Even close by land. Lorraine Australia
🙋hi from Scotland hi lovly family ,we are the same here in Scotland it not getting dark untill 17 30 the nights are sure getting lighter and not having day light till 0.8 15 roll on the summer I grow all my fruit and veggies but we can't sow any seed till later on unless we have heated greenhouses I do start a lot of them off in my house out last frost date is the first week in June so I can't wait your farm is amazing you all have worked so hard even wee sister dose her bit good luck with your grass seed take care stay safe Anne from Scotland ❄️❄️
Hi you guys!! I was looking little lily her hair is beautiful she growing she is a smart little whip!! She is starting to come into her own little look!! She's absolutely gorgeous!! You are doing a great job emulating her moma!! Thats great!!
Where I live the people used to have hog pens. Just building made of wood cracks floor boards. They fed slop or scrapes and corn some chop but the pens were small keeping them just gaining weight for slaughter. They was big
I do the same with beans...they're less expensive dried and keep forever but I don't always know the day before that I'll want beans, so I can some up for those days. I do the no-soak method from Rachel at That 1870's Homestead.
i had a friend show me how to can dried beans. put 1 1/3 cup dried beans in jar. fill up with water and voila they fill the jar after canning. crazy i know but it works
Meg, if you know around early afternoon that you need beans for dinner, try cooking them in an Instant Pot, then simmer them on the stove for 2-3 hours with the spices you want in them. I agree you need some canned beans ready-to-go, but the Instant Pot method will do in a pinch.
💖Good work outside but one note Ben. You are able to leave something for another day but, I cannot imagine Meg not making a meal!!! Just saying. You both work so hard and it seems like following the sun would make so much sense. Be looking forward to your next video about what is next to do during this false Spring. Take care! Stay safe!
Learned from no tlil pros that, initially, the soil will need deep disturbance with steel in the event compaction is present. Somewhat more than the tiller. When the cover is established better water infiltration should begin. This will solve some of the mud issues.
You can always put the piggy’s on the yard after the cow! I go to the store multiple times a week and I love it but if I didn’t have to go idk I would be mad 😂 I do enjoy my at home delivery
Good memories for me when I was watching you and your daughter canning your beans. It bought back the times I was teaching my daughter and now my grandkids to cook. Precious memories.
Your little girl has a Shirley Temple look with that curly Blond hair. She is so adorable.❤❤❤❤
Living with the sun is why all those old folks had ten to twelve kids too 😁
Biscuit is such a happy boy, he has been handled with loving care and it shows in his attitude. Frolicking in the new area, shows how young he still is.
Wow, Sister’s language development has grown rapidly since Christmas. She is using complete sentences and asking for more new vocabulary words. (Referring to names of beans). Syntax, syntax, syntax 🎉. I’m a long time teacher, now retired , and still am amazed at how speech develops. It’s amazing! ❤😊
Once again I grabbed my phone to comment. I usually watch y’all on the TV. I can beans to have them ready. I post my canning on my Facebook page and alway get “ you can just buy them…” home canned beans are best and you are right… I hate going to the store. Love all your videos. ( in Kings Mtn Nc).
it's fun watching her, (Buggy) grow right before my eyes. She is so adorable and sassy. I love that beautiful head of hair she's got. Yes, you are so right about working the night shift messes you up. What is worse is that swing shift stuff some of these companies put their employees through. It is really harmful to one's health to work like that, one week it's days another it's nights, and flip-flopping like that is bad for your body/heart, etc.
She is so cute ☺️
I guess you can say that I work second shift in a sense. 1pm to 9:30pm. It drives me up a wall some days. I gotta start getting ready around noon to leave by 12:30p. Luckily, I work for a local school division so it's not as bad as working for lets say, a Target. I have a set schedule with benefits and the full 9.
My boyfriend's shift are like that. One week days, next night... I truly don't know how he does it.
I just love watching those itty bitty Buggie hands helping Momma can! So cute!
I am sure with those growing boys that no food goes to waste. I am ready for Spring planting as well. Hard to restrain myself.
You have such a beautiful family. I so enjoy watching Buggy help you and hear her talk. She has never talked baby talk. And the food! Oh my! Love to watch you cook and sit as a family to eat your meal after thanking the Provider. It was such a beautiful day to watch you perform the chores of the day! Bless your family!
Back in the days my family in the mountains used to give the cows leaves to eat cutting some branches from the trees thus saving some parts of land to have hay growing. At the same time that helped prune the trees to prevent too much heavy snow. Cows enjoyed fresh leaves. Little helper is learning many useful skills:)))
Great vlog; thanks for sharing all your wisdom, both of you! Your cattle are so calm so that’s a great life for them! Blessings to your family 🤗💜🇨🇦
Meg, that's great that you're going to can some beans so that they'll be more readily available for quick meals. The wind chimes sound nice. Ben, I think it's a good idea to use your cow to improve your pastures. Great idea for her to work up the area next to the driveway to get it ready for seeding. Biscuit sure got a lot bigger! Nice job moving the cows. It was fun to hear the guinea hog piglets chomping away at the leftover cow hay. Good idea to use the hay as mulch on the garden beds. Millie sure likes to supervise. Dinner of meatballs, corn/collards, and brown rice looks great Meg! Thanks for this Hollar family!
Buggie helping her mom is so sweet. Those cows were very happy and those meatballs looked delicious. Meg you make me so hungry with your food.
I seeded all of my paddocks with wasted bermuda hay from my goats. Pooped on, peed on, spread it out. It went from bare dirt to thick grass in one full year.
Move your chickens to that area after the cows. We had a couple of areas that we’ve never been able to grow grass on. We started rotational grazing with our pastures chickens last year (can’t free range due to strays & neighbor’s dogs). We heavily grazed those areas to the to point that what little was there was either eaten or scratched up by the chickens. We also scattered their feed instead of using a feeder. The next time we put them on those areas, we let them lightly graze it before moving them. Those areas have quite a bit of grass growing now & look so much better now.
You guys are doing an amazing job! Your property looks so good now. I love following your progress.
God bless!
I love your homemade hay ring, you two are so frugal.❤❤❤❤
“Cow Wash” Workin’ At The Cow Washer” 🐄🧼🚿 Just came to mind when you said you had to hose her down. Blessings. 🌞🌱❤️
Ben and Meg, you guys hit the milk cow lottery with Daisy! What a sweet cow! I don’t think I have ever seen her kick in one of your videos.
Just a man walking his cows 😆 Love it!!!
🙋🏼♀️🕊. So sweet watches Lillie help mummy with those precious little hands .. 💕🕊💕🕊💕🕊💕🕊blessings to you all 💕🕊💕🕊
Aww! Buggie seems to have had a little growth spurt! She's so adorable! Great job on the beans, little one!
LOVE, Love Love the sound of the WINDCHIME - I Have a COLLECTION!
I hate that question of "Why don't you just go to the store?" and then when you go to explain, their eyes just glaze over.
Stick to “because I don’t want to…?” 😂
I feel ya Meg! I just hate going to the store for anything.
@@wheaties1435 I'm in the process of moving towards a more greenish lifestyle and when I try to explain, I get looked at like I have three heads. So now, I try to explain then I go with the, I want to.
Yeah, calling Meg lazy…um no!
Right!? 😂
I loved watching little Buggy help you with the beans! You are building such good memories and teaching her along the way. 🥰
My son did his school science project one year on mulch. He measured the temperature of the soil with and without mulch. The temperature was significantly higher without the mulch. It was amazing. Then he interviewed a master gardener, about the importance of mulch at the Botanic Garden, which is a city park in Fort Worth.
A simple science project. But it really explains why it is so important.
My grandfather farmed all his life he said that when you have broom sage the soil needs lime.
Absolutely! You can seed all you want but until you bring that ph up, it isn't going to work.
Mine said the same thing.
Thank you! That's helpful!👍🏼
Actually phosphorus
@@codyrussow170 -Not usually. The soil needs the calcium in the lime, not a stabilizer like phosphorus. Try the lime first, then if needed use phosphorus.
My cousin Lynn and I use to make up little songs…
Beans beans they’re good for your heart
The more you eat em the more you fart
The more you fart the better you feel
So eat your beans at every meal!
😆😆😆
We were raised in New Orleans where it’s traditional to have red (kidney) beans & rice on Mondays to clear out all the alcohol from the weekend lol. Usually seasoned with ham hocks, but I prefer sausage, and the holy trinity…. Onions, bell peppers and celery. Salt & pepper and don’t forget the cruet filled with Tabasco peppers & vinegar usually sitting in the center of the table and cornbread made in a cast iron skillet. Potato salad on the side… Oh yeah!! Super fantastic on Lundi Gras (the Monday before Fat Tuesday/Mardi Gras Day) which is February 20th this year 💜💛💚… Mardi Gras Day is the 21st ending promptly at 2am for Ash Wednesday. ✌🏻
You have no problem filling each day! Another great vlog. Thank you. 💕💕🌻🌻
Those cows looked happier weather or not there was any grass. 👍🤗❤
Love seeing Buggy helping. I'm not an expert canner by a long shot, but I think you overfilled those beans. That is what I did the first time I canned them. Even after soaking they absorb a lot of liquid. I find a generous 1/2 cup dry for pints & a generous cup dry for quarts leaves plenty of water for them to finish cooking in the canner. I also soak them in a pot, but I measure them going into the pot so I know that will take 10 pints. I then am able to divide them by eye later into the jars and add boiling water. .
There is always water covering them so they don't dry out no matter how many are on the shelf. I often do some beans when I'm doing meat since it's the same time and pressure and I want to be as energy efficient as possible. I remember those days of juggling kids and canning and cooking, it's not easy and you do a great job. Have you ever tried Tattlers? There is a learning curve, but it's nice to not have to buy lids all the time.
i do that...its the best way to live getting up and moving with the sun and birds and sleeping in the winter. 9 hours a night in winter...5-6 in the summer and fall. i love going by the circadian rhythms
gardening is a long term game...its the best way! good work today Ben and Meg...mmmm meatballs!
I don't like having to go to the store either Meg and you are always busy doing something all the time
I'm so proud of you guys, how well u basically city-slickers, are doing with all these animals, esp. pigs and cows. Congrats ! I hope it's encouraging to remember that the more you do holistically planned grazing (the rotational grazing that Joel Salatin does I think, and Greg Judy has a very helpful channel on the ins and outs and every-day applications and learning curve of doing it). Basically it's the every-day moves, and revisiting ground based on grass plant recovery, NOT time.
Anyways, as you probably know, Joel's farm used to have no grass, and now is really pumping it out ! More, faster, earlier, later, basically exponentially ( I'm sure there's some limit, winter is winter, for one ! ).
Greg Judy definitely speaks about the broom sedge, If I remember right , is basically doing what u plan to do, BUT often doesn't even seed tho I think. As Alan Savory showed when developing all this, the seed bank is there, just "make the soil healthy and they will come " ( and the weeds preferred ecology is gone, so, they die out). This works way better than one expects. But hey, if u can seed, I'm not knocking it !
Us night and overnight workers rock! Keep the faith :) And great vid! Feels great to get even small tasks accomplished. Takes so much off our mental plates. Blessings Hollar Fam!
I have lived all my life in farm country in upstate NY......you have got the happiest cows and pigs I've ever seen❤️
Love seeing all your animals.Buggy is such a good helper
I worked nights back when I was in Nursing. I still struggle even though it's been about 10 years. I was a night owl as a kid though. My hubby is a morning person. He thinks talking at 4:30AM is normal😴
I haven't bought canned beans in years.. I can season them as I like and there are NO additives. Thats why I don't buy bread either (when you leave a store bought loaf in your camping gear for 6 months and its not moldy what is it doing to your body!). Your family is living the lifestyle I would have loved when I was your age.
Meg did you know you can process your beans using the no soak method (everything is at room temp including the the pressure canner. saves on counter space (Soaking)(1 cup of rinsed dry beans for quarts and 1/2 cup for pints) the processing time is the same. ... check out Whippoorwill Holler
LOVE whippoorwill holler!!!
I love Whippoorwill Holler, too. However, presoaking beans is actually healthier.
It's So worth the extra step for a few reasons. Just because I can do it without soaking does not mean I should is what my functional medicine doctor said. I soak. If you too a side by side. I did and really track how I feel, the flavor .... It's a wise decision to soak.
Always happy when Tuesday rolls around.
I work graveyard shift and can't wait til the day I have a normal sleep schedule again. Hopefully soon 😌
Another great vid Hollar fam. Thank you.
Here in Homer Alaska from August to October we have light just about all day. I really enjoyed that before officially moving here. I was probably the only one outside working in the yard at 2am
As you get older, you will rely on a tractor or other equipment much more and still get enough physical exercise. Your rotation practices are growing soil each year and you will love having water lines in. We put ours in a few years ago and its so much better! Next we run electricity to the goat shed. What a game changer that will be! These things save so much time and effort you can do other things and still grow your food!
Awesome thanks enjoy much love and blessings ❤️😊
I can my beans as well. Simply because I know what's in them hahaha and it's cheaper 🙃 I learned to pressure can from Starry Hilders youtube channel. She doesn't even presoak, so even quicker. And as of lately, I have been cooking instant ones (haha) in my instants pot. 30 minutes of cooking. Not bad 🫠😇
My husband and love sure do love you all. It's our "tv" while we eat supper. Great job btw. 👏
Cheers and blessings ♥️🙏
Jenn, from East Coast Canada 🇨🇦
I know you have probably done this already but if you put garlic or herbs in with your beans as they soak they have the best taste to them! I usually put a little salt and garlic and then pure it off and put hot water on them and can them.
Meg your cooking & food preservation skills are amazing! I watch just to see what you are cooking!❤
I worked nights for 22 yrs so, Ben, I know what you are talking about!! I was forced into retirement at 67 and now at 70 I am still feeling it- I can read into the early hrs(2 or3am) and force myself to turn the lite off but don’t want to open my eyes before 9!
I wonder if it gets better….🤪🤷🏼♀️
Yes it gets better , but it takes years to set a day pattern after working night shift for years.
It's so amazing how you can move the cows like dogs. Buggie knows how to can 😂. Great video always😊
Thanks you all. That little dearly helping out with the beans. Thanks for the share, Meg.
One of the best things about pressure canning dried beans is you can do them when it's cold and you want to boost the inside temps and not in the heat and pressure of harvest...ready eat meals that serve as heat and food...great time for dried beans..in the summer and fall I actually pressure can and water bath on the driveway and not heat up the house...doing double duty doing dried beans in the winter...perfect timing
Hi..... Meg and Ben nice to see you love watching your videos homestead Beautiful good job keep it up 👋 bye 👋 bye 👋 bye 👋 👕🐔🐓🐣🐥🐈🐄🐖🌱🌺🌹🌻🌼🌸🌷🏡🎥👍👍👍
When you said something about depending too much on the tractor my husband said that is what you got it for!
Work smarter, not harder, Ben! Don't worry about using the tractor. It's an invaluable tool and saves the body from strain and injury. You are plenty active! I need to try canning beans!!
My Granny and Papa in NC went to bed by the sun and got up by the sun. 😊
I think I'd use that tractor all the time. That's what they're for....to use. Yes, you need to pick your good days when to use it but I've seen you do things that the tractor would be MY best friend! You guys are amazing people!
You have a huge resource of fallen leaves in your woods, they are great on the garden as mulch and don't have grass seed all throughout. You could make a big bag out of a cheap tarp, you and the boys could rake up enough to cover your beds in a few hours. I used thin sticks criss-crossed on the beds to stop the leaves blowing away in all but the worst winds.
I LOVE having my canned beans on the shelf. The first time I made refried beans out of them, they were so amazing! Also so easy to make chili, which we eat a lot!
Bale grazing then over seeding after has worked great so far for us in less quality grazing areas!
So enjoy watching you guys grow!
Meg you are so far from lazy - in my eyes you are a wonder woman ❤️x
Enjoyed you all today…..😊😊
Being a night owl meant that the night shift was perfect for me. Good thing God made us all different so we can cover all the necessary shifts.
Meg I canned dried beans last winter and love the flavors. I did chick peas also. I enjoy a good homemade hummus. Thanks for sharing 👍
I agree on going to the store!! I have a Food lion about 2 blocks from my house, but I live on a busy main street in Fayetteville, NC, super close to a huge military base, and just to ride to the store is hazardous, and dealing with the car and store foot traffic and low inventory options. I'm not well trained in meal planning, and I like to plan the day of, but having supplies on hand would make it easier and more time efficient for daily life. Y'all are on to the right track on how to feed your family, and I hope that society will one day migrate towards less fast food and disposable packaging, and more towards family values by putting dinner in a more family oriented setting!!
I used to work nights while I lived in Las Vegas for almost a decade in my 20s!! It is still challenging to regulate my circadian rhythm in my 40s. I will be expecting my first born to arrive on April 27th, a daughter, and I hope she will help me regulate my daily routine, and prioritize my days better, geared more towards building my amazing family! Thank you for being such an inspiration to me and my future husband and child, and showing us how love and hard work is worth it all!!! We love y'all dearly!!
Hello Miss Buggy,your Hair is so Pretty 🤗.
My Friend swears by having canning jar Beans for when Her and Her Husband get in late from work,She cans All kinds too!
That should help out with the Grass growing 👍.
Normally we would have January thaw then head right back into harsh Winter
We went from -25 and -26 °
To 40 ° all week with Rain tonight, definitely not Vermont Winters🥴.
At least your Spring prep will be mostly done 🌞.
JO JO IN VT 💞💨❄️☃️
False Spring brings hope when we need it most on the farm. When we feel like we can't take the winter anymore it says....hold on your almost there
Have you considered a chickshaw to run behind the cows? It did amazing improvements to the grass for Jason & Justin. More work but so worth it.
I assume you are new here so welcome! We have been moving a flock around the property in a chickshaw for about 4 years now. We are currently using that flock for garden bed prep and compost making!
@Ben Hollar Definitely not new. Been watching since the start. You don't show that on video as part of the chores. Love love your channel btw.
Ben, Everyone says don't use hay in your garden but I use my rabbit manure in my garden. There is lots of hay in it and I have weeds but not grass. The weeds are not coming from the hay.
Happy Cows You got there.
And Meg, the real reason is that they taste much better when you can them at home! I learned that this year and the next Azure order was YUGE! But now we're eating more beans and the shelves are full, win, win!
I do this method as well, but I use cold canner, cold beans, cold water. 90 minutes pressure for quarts. They turn out great, and homemade refried beans are so simple using these! I'd love to find a recipe for the OLD 1980s real food frijoles from Taco Bueno. They were delish.
The meatballs looked delish. Love Buggy helping, she's beautiful.
"Good morning beautiful people. Well..." you say as I'm watching at 7pm. lol
you guys did amazing video today love the cows dinner sounds delicious
The cows had 'hay' for dinner ... I don't think that's anywhere near delicious. Are you trying to say the family's dinner?
Working 2nd shift does have it's challenges. You've inspired me to start doing video's on my channel again. I don't have a camera so I use my phone. It works... Butchering in 10 days. Man it's sneaking up on me. Lots to prep before it gets here. Just moved the pigs over the weekend to a fresh paddock. Probably will move them once more before butchering. Which works out cuz they'll be closer to the kettles. Take care and God bless. Oh and tell Meg my wife made a batch of sourdough jelly sticky buns this weekend and they were awesome 👍
Funny that you brought up sleeping with the daylight cycle. I was just posting about that idea as well. Cheaper on electricity is a huge bonus to the idea.
Meg, thanks for the bean canning info, I really need to do it as well. Been craving chili, but don't want to buy canned beans with so much dried here, lol. I'll get on it too👍🤗
Good luck on your cow moving process
I can dig your sleep issue. I used to work at a chemical plant years ago that had variable shifts. One week on evenings, one week on days then one week on graveyard shift. Went from that to submarine duty. That was 18-hour days. 6 hrs. training, 6 hrs. off and 6 hrs. on duty. Then I got a medical discharge due to an injury and wound up in NY working at a printing plant. First 6 years was graveyard shift. Never recovered from it. Just learn to live with it.
Midnight shift hurts in so many ways .I know I've worked the majority of the last 12 years doing it and I was 50 when I started it...its a young young person lifestyle..I work 4 12s and sleep most of the 3 days I'm off
After you soak beans overnight, you can cook them very quickly in a pressure cooker. I do it all the time. They come out soft and delicious!
I worked a lot of nights and yes it messes with your circadian rhythm. So glad to see longer days. Now if we can get a little warmer weather. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Good music selections!
I worked nights for many years. Went to working day shift in 2013.. 10 years ago. I still get sleepy between noon & 2:00 pm. It is very easy for me to flip my sleep hours & be up most of if not the entire night. I have to make myself go to bed by 11 pm so I sleep at night & get up at 6 - 7 am depending what time I have to be at work and feed animals before I leave.
Hello Hollar Homestead, I had a thought regarding your cows and grass situation...
.. is it possible to perhaps chat to your neighbours about either leasing or adjusting land from them? This would tidy up their land whilst giving your family more options. Even close by land. Lorraine Australia
I think they said the one neighbor sprays.
I love to see happy cows running around like puppies.
🙋hi from Scotland hi lovly family ,we are the same here in Scotland it not getting dark untill 17 30 the nights are sure getting lighter and not having day light till 0.8 15 roll on the summer I grow all my fruit and veggies but we can't sow any seed till later on unless we have heated greenhouses I do start a lot of them off in my house out last frost date is the first week in June so I can't wait your farm is amazing you all have worked so hard even wee sister dose her bit good luck with your grass seed take care stay safe Anne from Scotland ❄️❄️
Hi you guys!! I was looking little lily her hair is beautiful she growing she is a smart little whip!! She is starting to come into her own little look!! She's absolutely gorgeous!! You are doing a great job emulating her moma!! Thats great!!
Meg, I am with you. I cook by daylight too and we have had dinner late the last week! LOL.
Where I live the people used to have hog pens. Just building made of wood cracks floor boards. They fed slop or scrapes and corn some chop but the pens were small keeping them just gaining weight for slaughter. They was big
I worked 2nd & 3rd shift for years and loved it because I have a circadian rhythm disorder that fit it perfect I kind of miss it.
I do the same with beans...they're less expensive dried and keep forever but I don't always know the day before that I'll want beans, so I can some up for those days. I do the no-soak method from Rachel at That 1870's Homestead.
i had a friend show me how to can dried beans. put 1 1/3 cup dried beans in jar. fill up with water and voila they fill the jar after canning. crazy i know but it works
I had a grass problem similar. Had to get a truck load of sand , some soda , seed, and straw . Took it a while but my back yard is full of grass now
Smart planning on rotation and improving the def clay soil you guys have...prep and feed it and let it rest for later
Meg, if you know around early afternoon that you need beans for dinner, try cooking them in an Instant Pot, then simmer them on the stove for 2-3 hours with the spices you want in them. I agree you need some canned beans ready-to-go, but the Instant Pot method will do in a pinch.
The part about depending on the tracker too much also helps with your longevity.
💖Good work outside but one note Ben. You are able to leave something for another day but, I cannot imagine Meg not making a meal!!! Just saying. You both work so hard and it seems like following the sun would make so much sense. Be looking forward to your next video about what is next to do during this false Spring. Take care! Stay safe!
Learned from no tlil pros that, initially, the soil will need deep disturbance with steel in the event compaction is present. Somewhat more than the tiller. When the cover is established better water infiltration should begin. This will solve some of the mud issues.
The cows are so cute😊
You can always put the piggy’s on the yard after the cow! I go to the store multiple times a week and I love it but if I didn’t have to go idk I would be mad 😂 I do enjoy my at home delivery