How much food did we grow in 2023?
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- Опубліковано 25 чер 2024
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This week we're calculating the total calories, protein, fat and carbs from our 2023 community garden harvest! This is why we love growing staple crops.
3:25 Narrator: “they did not, in fact, figure out how to put the link in the video” 😂
Glad to see you up and about again Jordan! Thanks for another inspiring video guys.
Thank you!
Thank you guys for doing this channel. I love gardening, cooking and preserving food but sometimes I get a little tired and discouraged because it can be a lot of work. I can just come to your channel and watch a couple of videos and it is so encouraging and energizing. So again thank you, your content is extremely helpful and informative, and somehow peaceful and relaxing at the same time.🙂
We're so glad to hear that! But sorry that your garden has been discouraging lately. Maybe try growing some of these staple crops since they're so hands-off that you pretty much just have to plant and harvest :)
This nerdy data is great!
For us who strive to produce food that substantially feeds us through the year, these details of area and quantities, plus nutritional values, are essential information.
But I am stunned that you only used 15 lbs of potatoes!! You could eat those in 2 weeks. And they truly are a crop you could live on, if all else failed. Minimal preparation required, endless recipes, great value humble spuds.
My parents use the potatoes more often than us so they brought home a lot more. The flour corn plus dry beans combo is a really filling and relatively easy to prepare staple too 🙂
I live for your content, and I'm here for maximizing harvests while minimizing time. My two favorite crops for this style of gardening are black-eyed peas and sweet potatoes. Both are so prolific and very low maintenance
So glad you're enjoying it! And yea those are two excellent staples to grow. Unfortunately we're too far North for either to really thrive, but Silvan's dad has been growing black-eyed peas down in North Carolina for a long time and they always do so well in that heat
I love this channel so much, its always so wonderful to see everything you both make
So glad to hear that! 🙂
Bunch'a weirdos not weighing their harvest😂 Love your humor.
I highly appreciate your videos! Happy gardening!
You guys are such an inspiration and a lesson to us all--foragers, gardeners, homesteaders, and backyard enthusiasts alike. Great video!
Show us the spreadsheets! I love a good spreadsheet almost as much as I love a good pumpkin. Excited for Ethan's channel. Such beautiful music.
What a great pianist!
The piano was a nice surprise at the end. My baby and I enjoyed it!
I keep coming back to watch your videos and always share your channel with my family, keep making these videos they are soooo nspirational. You guys encourege me to grow plants!
So glad that you’re enjoying them! And thanks for sharing with your fam 🙂
As a teenager your videos really inspire me! Keep it up and I love watching all the content. ❤
You're a beautiful couple with such lovely values, very inspiring! Love from the UK 🇬🇧
Thank you! ❤️
Beautiful, peaceful music…..
Fellow data nerd here: yeah I do the same thing, everything harvested is weighted and kept in a spreadsheet. 2 months is impressive! I've only managed to grow 17 days worth of calories so far (a lot fewer calorie dense staples and more fresh stuff). Greetings from Germany 👋
Your year in review is amazing! What an awesome growing season, cannot wait to see the numbers for this year, especially with all your chickpeas :)
What a fine bit of calculation
I enjoyed your fact giving very much. Your corn and beans looked like gems in those jars. The squash was just beautiful. You will be so pleased to have your memories on video when you are older. Have fun in your garden. I will be pulling my carrots from the hot bed tomorrow. Time to freeze dry some and pickle some. A friend gave me some thumbelina carrot seeds to plant next. All goodness and sunshine to you.
My wife and I are working towards something like this. Keep up the amazing work yall 💜💙💜💙💜
This is very inspiring
You guys are truly amazing, I strive to be like you guys love your channel!
Lovely work as always
3:20 into the it, I just laughed and said to myself "I love these guys!"
Both of you are amazing and I love watching your videos 🥰
Love from QLD Australia 😊
Aw thank you, glad you’re enjoying watching 😊
This was a very interesting and informative video. I’ve only done a house garden, but my life is changing and we are going to buy farm property in Florida. So I will be growing some staple crops. Until your video, I really did not realize how easy they are to grow.
You guys are insanely inspiring!!!! And your videos are so nice and relaxing
Excited to see the chickpea abundance! My favorite bean
Amazing information! I enjoyed hearing about the three sisters method, it’s my first year growing pumpkin and squash.
I really appreciate your videos. Thanks.
3:25 this is so funny because they never ended up putting there 😂
Damnit I forgot! 😂😂😂 maybe I’ll see if I can figure it out after posting?
@@HomegrownHandgathered you can also put it at the end it think
@@user-pd5ze6fy1k Okay I think I got it on there now at 3:25. Thanks for catching that haha
@@HomegrownHandgatherednot there yet,😊
@@HomegrownHandgathered It shows up now, thankfully
Could you do a video of how you manage a plot in a community garden? The tasks and varieties for success. For instance, how do you ensure even water/irrigation when you are not there as often as a backyard garden?
How are you doing Jordan? I pray that you are doing well. Glad to see you up and back at your video making happiness.
I’m doing great, thanks for asking. Pretty much feel back to normal
As always, thanks for encouraging people to grow food! You all inspired me to volunteer with the future farmers of America program at the middle school next to my home with next to no yard! I even attempted planting a three sisters garden, but missed the window for corn here in zone 9B. Thanks for your awesome content!!
That’s awesome, thanks for volunteering! And hopefully next year you can get your Three Sisters garden going. It’s our favorite part of the garden
Very cool and fun to watch
your production level is so impressive!! I love it!
Thank you!
Your videos and especially this one brings me joy and hope for next growing season, because so far this year only brings tears. I can only hope for a prolonged summer autumn to atleast harvest sometime of my staples... First year of doing three sisters garden and my slugs and deer + a cold spring have ravaged most of it, and to late to replant🥲.
Oh I’m sorry to hear that. That’s always frustrating. Hopefully you have a better season next year!
Can't wait to hear the calorie/days of food breakdown for your foraging and hunting
This channel brings me joy and peace.
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Thank you for sharing. Would love to see the stats as visuals as you talk about them.
Great video guys! Wonderful to see what you did! Thanks
Lovely
Love you ❤guys. So inspiring, hard working, amazing 😊
Thank you! 🙂
You inspired us to plant three sisters beds at our community garden plots.
The corn is going strong, everything else is struggling in the heat, and due to lack of watering.
I hope to get an automatic watering system in place by next year.
Cool! Hopefully the beans and squash get find their footing soon. The corn’s roots can get as deep as 6 feet into the soil at maturity so as it gets deeper it can start to pull deep water that can help the beans and squash.
Legends! Loved the data :) thank you!
I always enjoy your videos!♥️👍
Wow. Very interesting to hear all of the data.
Lindos! Quando crescer quero ser como vocês!
Aw, gracias! :)
The calories in winter squash can be quite variable because the dry matter content can vary from about 5%-30% can calories from about 20-100 kcal/100g, often higher in calories than potatoes. And that doesn't even include the seeds, which are typically around 400-600kcal/100g when dry (also delicious, high in fat protein and so much more). The usda nutrition facts for winter squash are for bland watery mass produced squash. The highest calorie squash from the hundreds of tables I've looked at from researchgate and pubmed tend to be sweet dry storage heirlooms such as siminole pumpkins, buttercup squash and some specialty varieties of common squash bred to be smaller and sweeter. I also often test dry matter myself, and i find a lot of variation. I think your calorie estimate for winter squash could have been only half of what it actually was.
Could provide the variety of corn used to make tortillas and baking goods? I would like to do the same.
We mostly grow Wapsie Valley and Hopi Blue, but the very colorful one you see in part of this video is another great short-season flour corn called Painted Mountain
@@HomegrownHandgathered thank you
Im a bog fan of dan gibson who does nature sounds and instrumental. Usic so I really enjoy the musi. On your channel and loom forward to the channel the artist will begin too
Jordan you are looking well!!
Thank you!
Can you make flat breads with flour corn?
You can make piki bread which is a traditional Hopi bread, but it's pretty different from what most people call flatbread
amazing work yall
Thanks!
@@HomegrownHandgathered truly inspiring
Happy to see you both doing a great job together ❤️❤️ keep up the great work yinz 2. I live in Indiana Pa. And this year is my 1st time of growing red potatoes. When do I harvest them???
Thank you! If you want fully mature storage quality potatoes, just wait until the plant dies all the way back and then dig them up, but if you want to pull up some tender “new potatoes” you can pull them after they flower
@@HomegrownHandgathered ok. Thank you I appreciate your help.
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You always need a data nerd in the group. They are usually the ones that like to figure out splitting the bill too 😅
Love seeing what you grow and how you utilize it! What is your fav squash? I’m growing new variety this year. Would love to know what types you grow
We mostly grow an heirloom variety from Silvan’s mom’s garden and we don’t know if it has a name, but Waltham butternut squash is a great winter squash that has a similar flavor
love your channel...very relaxing....How's Moo?
She’s great! Glad you’re enjoying the videos 🙂
Do you guys do anything with your squash seeds? I bet you could press some squash/pumpkin seed oil, if you don't want to mess with shelling them.
We usually just roast them with salt and spices, but it would be cool to try pressing them for oil at some point! We want to grow a bunch of sunflowers for oil when we have more space
@@HomegrownHandgathered I made tofu with my pumpkinseeds following Mary's Test Kitchen instructions, but without shelling the pumpkin seeds. I had about 4 c that made about 200g of tofu, so not very time or resource efficient, but it was so fun as a one-off. I thought of you guys when I was making it!
Hi im from New Zealand, could u do possibly metric measurements as well please ❤
What state y'all in? Amazing stuff
Thanks! We’re in Western PA
Let's not forget about all the beta carotene in those lovely orange-fleshed winter squashes.
Totally! 🙂 I also have a spreadsheet with estimated micronutrients like vitamins and minerals. Thought that was a little much for the video though 😂
What types of dried beans do you grow?
Mostly Cherokee black beans, Good Mother Stallard soup beans, Potawatomi Lima beans and Myles chickpeas
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How many corn plants did you plant? And spacing
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About 200 total and we space them around 10-12 inches in row and 2 feet between the rows.
OK, a data nerd, I'm hooked!! 😄
This year,, could you try and do some Nightshades grafted onto potato stalks? I'm thinking various tomatoes and bell or hot peppers, eggplants, ground cherries...it would be a fun experiment and probably a great video!
Sounds like an interesting experiment, but we already have the gardens planted for this year. Maybe next year!
Did you happen to figure in how much money it saved you? Lol just curious