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We are in NH, retired and in our 70’s. Our agreement was always, “ you keep me warm, I’ll keep you fed”. He works hard getting wood in while I am in the kitchen canning. Enjoyed your video, thanks!
That’s so cute!
I love your food preservation videos, Jessica. You always show that it isn't necessary to can 50 jars of something in a day, a few jars on the shelf is better than nothing and always useful.♥️
Indeed. That was one of the canning lessons that I needed most. Today I canned peppers, pear butter, pickles, green tomato slices. I think we are going to enjoy the variety of food too. My family is much smaller but we are well on our way to self sufficiency. Feels good.
When your husband smiles, I see him in all the smiles of your boys! Especially the older they get. You and Adam are such a sweet couple! 😍
I was just thinking the same thing.
Jessica you are by far the best teacher teaching me different things to grow and what all can be used for. You are amazing
Oh my heart! ❤ The two of you on the tractor is too sweet! What a beautiful family you're blessed with.
Ohhh Jessica...I really do love your videos and look forward to them each week but this one really touched my heart and brought back so many wonderful memories, especially the very end with you and Adam on the tractor together. My husband took me on many tractor rides when we were young. We had such a good time then. Thank you so much!!!❤
Adam, your knight in shining armor complete with sword!! Thank you, Miss Jessica, for another terrific teaching video!!
What a great surprise to find a free plum tree fruiting! As always, thank you for another great video. A while back, you and Adam mentioned that a challenge first generation homesteaders face is not having knowledge passed down from previous generations. I’m thankful that, as a (future) first generation homesteader, I can learn from excellent teachers like you and get a few steps ahead.
Agreed!
Ah Adam, you're the bomb for help picking the fruit for Jessica so she doesn't poison ivy.
wow sista you are the first you tuber who has actually grown a loofah to show us well done
The wild plums make good jelly and I've also made wine from them. Years ago, they were used in the shelterbelts to prevent wind erosion so they're plentiful here. We also have wild grapes, chokecherries, blueberries and buffalo berries. So fun to forage what grows wild.
Where are you if you don’t mind saying?
@@lindarichey4689 Southeastern North Dakota
The farm I grew up on (central Mississippi) had dozens of wild plum trees in the pasture. They were about the size of a nickel but the taste was out of this world. The commercial plums you buy in the store just aren't the same. We also had wild dewberries, apple trees, pears and figs. Loads of canning but in winter they were a great treat.
Jessica you have such a talent with everything you do. I have to commend you on your no frills video's. You get right to the point of whatever the video topic is. One thing that is so annoying are the homestead video's that have a 2-3 minute intro that you have to watch before you get to the topic.....only to have to wait another 15 minutes because the content creator decides to talk about a bunch of mumbo jumbo prior to the real reason people clicked on the video in the first place. So thank you for being real and teaching in one of the most professional ways I have encountered on you tube.
I'm cracking up at Adam with the sword hahaha!!! It looks so fun!
JESSICA! Love my midweek visit with you! Great way to get over the hump! Thank you so much! Starting our winter prep too! Have a great day my sweet friend! Again, thank you! You continue to encourage and love in us in the midst of your busy days! You are loved and appreciated so much! Have a great day!❤😊
You amaze me with your energy and skills! What a blessing to have a mom and wife like you. Not wasting any of God's gifts! Thank you for all that you share with us!
The jelly is such a beautiful color. I wanted to tell you i made tomato jam yesterday, it is awesome and my recipe is now called “Adam’s Tomato Jam” i love learning and you are a great teacher. Who says you can’t teach an old lady dog new tricks. ♥️
I’m exhausted just watching you. Thank you for sharing this important information that can benefit our families.
Thank you for sharing these wonderful canning ideas and seed saving. Looking forward to Sunday's video as well. I love the way you and Adam "embarrass" yourselves in front of the kids. My parents were the same way. Sweet memories. Hope you and family have a great week.
I love how your kids get involved with it
Seeing your little one on the tractor with dad sent me back to my childhood memories. My (adopted) grandparents had the 60 acres next to my parents 40 acres They kind of had what is now called a homestead but they were my sitters while my Mom worked. I used to ride the tractor go over and help milk the cow and helped in both gardens ours and theirs. Thanks for the memories.
Oh my stars watching Adam with the kids makes me smile!
Awww a romantic tractor ride!! You guys are the cutest 😊
❤That tractor ride at the end...Aw. Thanks for the video. Love you guys. *Hugs*
I heard the flowers of the wild plum smell like heaven and ever since I've been wanting one for my yard! Lucky you finding one in yours!!! I love watching your videos, they are so educational!!
They smell amazing. It's one of the reasons I noticed the tree this year.
Wonderful video!! I sent your UA-cam short on bone broth to my daughter who has my 8 month old granddaughter. I picked some of the pears off that tree between the Pa turnpike and a township road last night. I’m sure I was a sight to behold with my picking pole basket and plastic shopping bag walking down the roadside !😂😂 There’s an apple tree too that I’m going to check tonight to gauge the ripeness of the apples. I hate to see any of the fruit go to waste although there’s always plenty of deer that enjoy the fruit as well. Your dogs were so precious in their interaction with each other!!❤️❤️And I tell my kids all of the time that the reason we had them was so we can embarrass them later in life!😂😂
I have not seen those type plums in years. They are so good! What a wonderful find!
The beauty of flowers certainly helps digestion and always provides a calming landscape to enjoy. Sometimes we forget to stop and smell the flowers…thanks for the reminder. Surprise wild plum is such a bonus. Thanks for yet another amazing video. Have a great week.
Nothing embarrassing about Mom and Dad showing affection for each other in holsome ways like tractor rides together.😉
I want to thank you whole heartedly for your videos and your challenge in August! We have a small, humble backyard garden, about 25ft by 10 ft and an apple tree and my mom has a peach tree and her best friend has a pear tree (of which I was allowed to pick all I wanted from their trees,). It seemed that I would harvest and then you would post a video of exactly what I have harvested! It was amazing! God put me where I needed to be for sure! Anyway, I was able to make 6 peach cobblers (froze 3 and gave 2 away and the family had one for dessert), peach salsa (which my husband and son LOVE), peach butter, peach jelly, pear butter, pear jelly, shredded zucchini that I froze, pickled cucumbers and pickled peppers! I’m in Idaho and our garden is still producing peppers, zucchini and tomatoes. We don’t have a freeze dryer, which I would love, but our garden doesn’t produce enough to warrant that expense, but one can dream! Anyway, I just wanted to say a huge thank you for helping me make the most out of our little garden!
I have been following you on instagram for so long but came across your channel just now after you got your son the car of his life. It brought tears in my eyes, I have two kids of mine they are so young atm but making them happy is like the bestest feeling ever. I am not too sure if you accept gifts but I love your girls and I would love to send them some knitting/girly stuff (not sure if one of your daughter still stitches etc) would love to make them happy. Please do let me know thank you
Loved all the seed saving! Today I put away dried nasturtium, dill, and coleus seeds. Soon I'll have a bunch more flower seeds. It's fun!!
I love that your husband got the sword out to make you a pathway! Lol It made me think of the benefits of getting my husband a sword! 😂❤
Wild plums usually have enough pectin in them to set without any added pectin. But you can experiment with your new found “treasure”. I also make a plum jam after I make jelly with the skins & pulp. Plums are a double blessing that way.
Thank you as always. I really love how you show people ways to help it all be less overwhelming. Have a blessed week.
There is just something about you, Jessica, that made me feel like going for it and I canned my first things ever.. Apple and plum butter
She is truly an inspiration.
Hi Jessica I have been watching for a while now, I enjoy your videos of homeschooling and your garnering/canning/cooking.. keep them coming please.
The plum jelly turned out such a pretty color ❤
Adam and his sword were priceless. My late husband loved doing anything around the house with fun tools. I would have to say a sword tops the list of fun tools. God bless you and your wonderful family family Jessica. Wee you Sunday after church 🥰
Just spreading the tomatoe seeds on a paper towel and let them dry there also works, I write the name of the tomatoe on the paper and just pick the number of seeds I want to sow from the paper and sow it just as any other seed. I still have seeds saved this way 4-5 years ago that still germinate just as quickly as the ones I buy.
Oh my! Wild sand plums! Such a treat. I would've picked a lot more, love the jelly it makes.
We had those plums on our property when I was growing up. We called them cherry plums. For the first time this year I discovered that my local grocery store had them. Along with Italian or prune plums which we also had when I was growing up. It pains me to have to pay money for things that were free. ❤❤❤
Jessica, I love that you mentioned one of Adam's favorite food and made sure to make some. Most men want to do the heavy lifting and also have their wife (I am only speaking of male/female) manage the inside household). You both are doing what is needed to sustain your household and especially during the winter. I grew up in Michigan, and I know about those brutal winters.
After watching your pear video, I canned pears and made pear butter!!! So good 😋! This morning I made apple butter. I kinda got on a roll with the pears and kept going. I also canned peaches but forgot to do peach butter because my mind was on pears 🍐🍐🍐🤭! Thank you for the fruit butter tips.
IT is always nice getting a surprise tree that produces food! We also ended up with two of the wild plum trees that produced for the first time this year. We had bought two peach trees that sadly died off in year 3 but we left them out there. TO our surprise those two trees were plum stock that the peach branch had been grafted onto! I have two gallons of them in the freezer all deseeded and ready for making jam when things calm down here and a bag of seeds to cook to make some jelly! As usual love the no waste! Blessings!
Thank you for showing seed saving. That was inspiring. This is going to be my next venture! I appreciate you! Thanks, Jessica ❤
Ok i am planting those teddy bear sunflowers next year! They look so soft and pretty!
I’m always watching gardening videos in late summer in awe of how beautiful and lush everyone’s gardens are this time of year. Here in North Texas our gardens are all burnt up or at least seriously struggling by now. It takes a superhuman effort to keep them going through 6-8 weeks of over 100 degrees every day and no rain. I can hardly imagine living somewhere that it’s possible to have such a lush summer garden!
Hi Jessica!!!!! Yay, another lovely video! So very excited for it!!! I pray that you and your family are doing great.
Always a blessing to see what you are up to and see all your hardwork. Your Michigan Fan and Friend Araminta ❤❤❤😊😊😊
I wish I had a plum tree in my yard. While I'm not a fan of plums, I'd dry them and make prune juice out of them or maybe just skip the juicing and eat the prunes themselves. I have to drink prune juice almost every day due to sluggish digestion so that would save me money. A bottle of prune juice is nearly $6 now!
I have those plums too. It was a surprise to me when we moved here. They make a delicious jam.
Adding a reasonable amount of ginger to the tomato jam is crazy good
I'm not a huge ginger fan. Don't like it to be overpowering.
Love watching your videos on your life and family. Your voice is so soothing. Your children have a great example of their parents living a good life. I know your so busy make a video when I can fit it in.
The tomato jam looks interesting! I tried the peach salsa recipe you shared last week -- it's amazing! Thank you for sharing all these gems 😊
This was so fun!! I loved the little man driving the tractor…lol I am looking so forward to your tomato seed saving video. I was visiting my sister and she has the most perfect plum tomatoes and I believe they are called Amish paste tomatoes. I have never seen them before and I want to score some seeds from her. Just looking at her tomatoes gave me a rush. I need them in my life. I save flower seeds but never tomato seeds. So excited 😂😂
How awesome to find the plum tree! I am ‘educating’ myself now about seed saving so this info today was helpful, thank you. Keep on embarrassing your children! They’ll appreciate what they saw later. Have a blessed week.
All your videos are excellent, but this one was over the top.
Great family and loving parents. Keep riding that tractor and making memories. Life is good . There's too much sadness going on. Grap all smiles along the way
I have a recipe for pasta that you use cherry tomatoes to make the sauce. My husband and I cannot eat all the cherry tomatoes, so I wash them and toss them in freezer bags. I pull out what I need when we want the pasta with the cherry tomatoes. It is very good.
Great idea!
Here I am on the Appalachian Trail. I had some anxiety tonight, but I knew some Three Rivers Homestead content would put me at ease! Thank you!
I miss wild plum jelly. All of our plums died a few years ago. All of them, wild and domestic. Not sure why. Wild plums are so good.
I love finding fruit trees around to pick from 🤩
Thank you so much for sharing all of this with us. I love the small batch ideas. I grew up canning bushels of whatever item it was. It’s nice to see alternatives. Many blessings to you and your lovely family.
The nice thing about using small jars is you can use any pot to water bath them in that allows for 1-2 inches of coverage over the tops. No need to heat up a gallon or more water in a regulation water bath canner. And small batches are easily handled in this manner.
It's all about balance have a blessed week Jessica and family ❤
Last year when I saved seed from oakleaf lettuce, the green oakleaf had silver/gray seed & the red oakleaf had black seed. This year plants that had green leaves produced black seeds - pretty sure they cross pollinated. But I really like oakleaf lettuce, and the seeds are just for my use and to donate, so I'm not too upset about it.
If I know something has likely cross pollinated I just save the seed for myself. I don't mind it usually. It's fun to see what kind of squash or other plant I end up with.
@@threerivershomestead Exactly! The only change is that, rather than giving away packets labeled "green oakleaf" & "red oakleaf", I'll give away packets labeled "lettuce mix" and throw in a few seeds from other varieties.
That's a very nice sword, Adam. 😂
I love your videos! You are always sharing knowledge and working on something wonderful. Seeing you and your family enjoying life is a bonus. Continued blessings for all of you. 💙
If you don't have paper plates you can use coffee filters. I write the name on the filter just like you would do with a paper plate.
I don’t bother to put the small plums. I simmer the fruit until soft and then use a potato masher to break the skins. I use a nylon paint strainer to press out the plum juice with fine pulp. Thank you for all the wonderful content!
I'll tell you what your babies sure are adorable so much. They learn a lot from you and your husband. They have a wonderful beautiful life!!! I love watching your videos so much. I learn a lot from you. Thank you for taking time out of your life to teach us
I grew Marvel of four seasons lettuce for the first time this year. Such a great lettuce. I saved carrot seeds for the first time this year. I overwintered 3 or 4 carrots. Now I can have carrot farm..lol. I'm saving tomato seeds, green bean seeds, pepper seeds and hopefully LI chesse pumpkin seeds too. Love your videos.
Teamwork makes the dream work. 😅 thanks for the great video today!
Hi there! You make canning look SO easy and fun! How cool about the hidden plum tree. Hope the jam is delish! Wow, I did NOT know the zinnia seeds were on the end of the petals! You have awesome videos. Blessings....
Just wanted to agree with all your other people who say you're the best teacher! You have the voice and knowledge. Thank you so, so much!
Love seeing you and your husband together
I think in Oklahoma we call these sand plum's there so good.We eat them raw, make jelly's and jams. There native.
It seems so obvious but I haven’t tallied seed saving. In my head I know it’s saving money but I never thought to include it in my savings.
Luke at MIgardener just showed how to save lettuce seeds. It was less tedious, and took only 10 minutes. Might be a timesaver for you.❤
Good to know! But sometimes the videos are deceiving - this took less than 10 minutes.
Hi there, really enjoying all of your videos. With reference to your comment that tomato seeds have to be fermented in order to germinate next year, I find that is not strictly true.
I'm sure you are more of a gardening expert than I am, but I just take the seeds out of the tomatoes, wash the gel off of the seeds under the tap and then leave them on a paper towel to dry, and have no problem with them germinating when I plant them out.
The dress is gorgeous on you!
I made my first batch of apple scrap jelly. It’s so pretty.
The two of you sharing a tractor ride was so good to see....love on the home stead!!
Yes I buy the same seed envelopes from Amazon..I save ..as much as I can 🌱
you should dehydrate some of those wild plums! I do it every year and they are like candy
Canning homemade veggie beef ( ground beef) soup today.
Thank you for explanation but I know each of you work hard for each other
I always learn something with your videos.
Thank you for sharing and helping us.!! ❤❤
We have american plums too! We thought they were dogwood as well and accidentally cut down a good bit of them. Thankfully there are still a bunch left. They like to grow by water.
They are a sour plum with lots of natural pectin. We made preserves with no added lemon juice or pectin, just taking it to the gelling point. Is the difference because you made yours a jelly and we did preserves? We followed the Ball recipe for sour plum preserves, but we cut them up in pieces for better texture and we took completely to gelling point and cooked for a minute even though recipe said to take just before gelling. It definitely firmed up. Hopefully not TOO much, lol. It taskted SO good. I think it the thing i am most excited to crack open this winter. I cant wait!
My Nana used to make wild plum jam. It was good. On the tart side, but good.
We found several American plum trees on our property too! I thought they were some sort of wild cherry tree because I never saw any fruit but the flowers smelled like cherries to me and the bark and leaves looked somewhat cherry like. Weve been enjoying the spring blossoms for about 3 years now. About a month ago I noticed birds hanging out near those trees and I love to see what kind of birds are hanging out on the property so I went over to investigate but found the plums instead! We made a jelly from them too.
Y’all are so cute. Very informative. ❤
Good morning Jessica. Another great video. I have been getting a lot of cherry tomatoes and love the idea of making jam!! Thank you again for all you do. Gods blessings 🙏
So excited to see you use cherry tomatoes! I have a lot in my garden this year and wasn't sure how to use them up.
Jessica I use old medicine bottles to save my seeds. They use a small space and store easily.
I just love your videos! Just want to share that I have been tallying all my harvest thus year after you talked about it last season. It's fun to see how much each plant gives! Thank you for adding the comment of seed saving. I will be adding that now too 😊 Such a great way to know how much to plant too!
@3:14 "it really is an antori hanzo sword." In my o'ren voice(sorry I love kill bill)and I know I probably didn't spell his name right.
I especially enjoyed the little peek into your firewood prepping. We live in northeast Ohio, and spend many hours over the summer and early fall taking down dead trees or picking up those that have fallen and getting our firewood taken care of. We do have fuel oil furnaces, but we prefer the warmth of the wood stoves! We also heat the barn/workshop, and we have a small maple syrup operation that utilizes firewood as well. Doing the firewood a little at a time makes the job so much more pleasant. Blessings, Marie
I used Pomona's pectin for the first time yesterday. I loved it. So much easier than using the other. I really like the idea of less sugar.
Absolutely love your videos, to my opinion your the best family takes care of each other! I know you do your best at everything you do! It’s all hard work, and working together!! I’m from Indiana! Absolutely love the end of this video with you and Adam! Until next video! Keep up the Great hard work you do!!
💚 Very cool find of the wild plum tree! I really enjoy saving seeds, had not seen zinnia seed before, so I'll save some of mine, thanks for showing the seed saving. Glad you're all enjoying time together while preparing for winter. 💚
Machetes work well for clearing
They do, but a sword is more fun.
Me too, poison ivy. Best cure for me is a drop of pure peppermint essential oil rubbed into blisters twice daily dries it up. Thank you for all you do Jessica.