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- The garden season is winding down but that doesn't mean we have finished canning food for the long winter ahead. We harvest the tomatillos, peppers, and tomatoes and shut down the high tunnel for the year.
We clear space in the outdoor garden and prep the garlic row with a generous amount of chicken litter. After planting hardneck garlic we head to the woods to look for Yellowfoot Chanterelles. Eric cooks up the wild mushrooms with onions to serve alongside a moose roast.
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That intro though🤣
Sooo cute 🤗
Bo looks like an upstanding individual of society.
He sure does, he even took the time to button up properly
I think it is a side effect of living with outstanding individuals of society.
@@msinaanc] ] ppl
I love the intro! Bo is so cool! He pulled it off. He looked like he was ready to get to work!
Never seen any American couple work that hard! Wish you the nicest crop next year and the followings!
LMFAO barely started the video lol the dog at the beginning lol
I could tell you got a great sense of accomplishment from this one and every time you walk past it I'm sure it will look and feel good too!
lol I swore you had said "I'm working on getting the garlic BREAD prepared" had to listen a few times to pick up "garlic BED" -- in the end the garlic in the BED may end up on bread ;)
Dean Johnson me too!!!! Lol
I did too
Yep, I thought she said "garlic bread" ....silly me!
i always have the closed captioning turned on so i don’t miss anything ☺️
Me too!
Thanks Guys. ...and you two, too , doing all the work and cooking.
We all need "Smell-A-Vision" for the Moose Roast
And taste-a-vision!
I ja e jadtongie and meatballs and they were delish !
No.... I was thinking “ thank goodness there’s no smell-o-vision” when they cleaned out the chicken coop. LOL chicken poop is probably the most rank of all next to pig. Cow and horse manure is perfume compared to chicken haha
Green tomato’s equals my mom’s green tomato chow. To die for!
Green tomatoes
Onions
Brown sugar
Vinegar
Pickling spice.
May add peppers 🫑 celery and a bit of turmeric. Can and lasts well over a year and it’s delicious with/on everything.
It’s not a Simple Living Alaska video if Bandit doesn’t get his paws muddy 😂
Thank you for NEVER mentioning politics on your channel!
living in south florida, every time you guys show your dog near water i literally hold my breath because there is alligators in pretty much every piece of water down here. then i have to remind myself that you guys are living in a very different world than me so the lil pupper will be okay and i can watch peacefully 🤣❤️
More storage for canned goods? Scrap the red sofa, build a storage box (where it used to sit), and put some nice cushions on top.
With some of the green tomatoes, before they ripen, try a meal of fried green tomatoes! They're really good that way.
If you put your green tomatoes in a cardboard box with an apple they will be ripe in a week, lover your videos. Cheers.
That's what I have been doing and its been working amazing
Great tip!!! Thank you Andrew!
Or you could use a banana. They emit auxin, which quickly ripens other fruits and vegetables
@andrew r glad to know that I have a lot of green tomatoes also and in PA tonight they said we could get our first frost👍
Bananas work to ripen too if you can get them up there. Will ripen the tomatoes quickly, just make sure you have them in a paper bag.
ok...If y'all ever do a tee shirt, you need that photo of the dog and your logo... hilarious!!!
I'd fork out for a t-shirt. Great idea!
Ball caps too
Oh dear god. That meal. Having witnessed the harvesting of it all, makes me admire more all the work you do. Plus great videography. Thanks.
Try pickled green tomatoes & fried green tomatoes.
My grandmother used to make piccalilli with green tomatoes.
I have a delicious recipe for green tomato pickles, if you are interested
@Cheri W. I’m very interested ❣️ Thank you 🥰
@@nursecheri62 I'm isterested in that recipe too! *.*
#chowchow required for beans and good as relish as well!
My wifes grandmother has a small woodstove in her greenhouse to extend the tomato season a bit.
Alaska's # 1 dog is so adorable at the beginning. That meal at the end looked sooo good.
Cheers from Arkansas!!!
Gotta yell, "TIMBER!" when you cut those broccoli stalks, Arielle. 😂 We see that Bandit's pond is under construction still... no doubt Bandit's making sure those splash zones are up to code 😉 Oh, and let's not forget that intro! 😂 Bo is a boss pup! 😎
2:18 the proude smile he had on his face holding that pumkin was the same as my partner had holding our newborn son 😂😂😂
Roasting really brings out a more rich flavor of the vegetables.
Use a mesh bag when you are picking you mushroom. The mesh bag lets the spoils drop to the ground from the next year harvest.
I love watching bandit play in the water 😊 beau too. your dogs are 👍🏻 great
You might consider shorter maturity tomatoes.I don't grow anything with maturity over 60-65 days. These varieties work well up here. Sun Gold Hybrid (57 days), Stupice (52), Early Girl hybrid (57), Bush Early Girl (54), 42 Day Tomato (42), Red Robin (55) and Tumbler Hybrid (45). And in full sun, the Stupice will grow outdoors. Good luck next year.
The moose roast ? Perfectly cooked. A meal fit for a King !
Great job to Eric and Ariel for all you do. I love your enthusiasm and knowledge. I'm "older" than you both by a lot of years and enjoy seeing younger ones learning these skills. You make it look easy but I know you are working very hard at not just living a sustainable life but by sharing your experiences with all of us. We all want you to know we are impressed and encouraged by your work. Thank you so much for sharing your life with all of us strangers. Keep up the good work and take care of one another and may God bless you both.
Hi, I am from Sweden. We have the same mushrooms here. We call them trattkantatreller. I just wanted to say that you have to tear them in half, because there is often eggs inside the stem. At least here in Sweden :-).
0:04 “sir you’re sure your not dog?”
“No, I’m pawsitive that I’m not”
why the heck do i end up liking every vid u guys make , i think this channel is one of my top 3 youtube channels that i discovered this year keep it up .
Yes! I had been waiting for an update on Bandit's project :D
Now that's a serious dinner! Beautiful mushrooms wirh the fresh garlic and onions, and the moose looks very lean. My kind of meal.
Bo is so handsome! Thanks for the big smile and giggle. Give him a hug from me.♥️
My thoughts about tomatoes:
1) Use bigger starter plants next year instead of seed.
2) Add a small wood stove in high tunnel for the early season and cold nights.
3) When you add house addition, include a small room for starting plants with access to heat and lots of sunshine.
4) Were your high tunnel tomates on the south side for max sun? If not, move them there next year. Alternatively, add roll-up sides so the tomatoes have more access to fresh air and direct sun during the day.
5) Once the fruit has set, trim back the leaves so the fruit has more access to sun.
I am positive you guys know what you are doing. Just some ideas.
Thanks again for your awesome videos!
PPS Do you guys like goose, duck, grouse? Wondering, since I haven't seen you hunt for or talk about them.
Homemade soy sauce made with mushrooms!
Just made 1.3 gallons! Many different recepies on line. I have tried several different ones. You can use all kinds of edible mushrooms. I use spieces, garlic, jalapenos etc.
Its stores for a looong time in bottle or jars! 👍
Best regards, Susanne (Norway)
I just assumed that your first frost already came… We had our first frost two weeks ago! I am in northern Saskatchewan Canada your garden is still quite beautiful compared to my greenhouse LOL looking forward to all those awesome winter videos coming up!
I'm guessing their frost was likely around the same time as yours. Ariel said it was early September in the beginning of the film. There must be a week or two delay between filming, editing and posting.
Katherine Miess you’re right! I commented at the very beginning of that video… I Watched the whole vid and then realized my mistake… Fall came early this year! Trees have all turned fall colors. It’s beautiful but my goodness it happen fast!
Bandit and that mud pond cracks me up every time!! Makes my day 😂 thank you
I always have mixed emotions about the garden in the fall, sad to see it go but happy that it’s gone !
DUDE! It usually takes about a month before I am planning for next year! By the time snow hits the ground, It's all I can think about!
I’m still in the glad it’s gone honeymoon phase, for 2020 😂.
You look great Bo, love you too.
But mommy Arielle Is just fantastic so is daddy Eric. So much work and good food! I guess that’s were all their energy comes from… love also your chickens and roosters accompanying the music of your work, and I mean of your work, it’s.very special!!! Completely rural as you plant all that garlic…. What a team 👍👍👍🙏🙏🙏😘
'who let the dog out?'... Good one 🤣 guys.
I'm in the Cariboo BC Canada.. our tomatoes didn't ripen either... green tomato chutney though!
We live in Michigan, for 30+ years I’ve dug up my tomato plants and hung them upside down in the garage to finish ripening and they taste great.
Just started the video so I'm not sure what you do with them but pickled green tomatoes are amazing! We do ours with garlic and jalapenos and it's a great way to use them at the end of the season.
• a small handful of fresh dill, chopped
• 8 garlic cloves, sliced
• 2-4 jalapenos (depending on desired heat)
• finely chopped onion
• 2 bay leaves
• about 20 black peppercorns
• 2 pounds green tomatoes
• 2 3/4 cups of water
. 1 1/4 cup white vinegar
• 1/4 cup kosher salt
• 1 tablespoon sugar
• 2 quart size mason jars, sterilized
These are technically "quickles" but we have canned them and they keep great!
This meat looks sooooo good!!!
When you put the 🍄 in plastic, my 🇩🇪 rule came out to NEVER put mushroom in plastic. Sorry, I am not criticizing, I just wanted to share my knowledge .
two pigs would love all plants from the gardens and thea would give you some great backen and hams.
Can pigs take that kind of fierce cold?
Bandits pond is coming along, you’ll be swimming next year 😂 hard to believe gardening season is nearly over. Enjoy the fruits of your labor all winter long.
The 67 people that don't like this probably live in New York City
Fermented green tomatoes with pickling spice a hot pepper and garlic. You will love it 😊 and salt of course
I hope they read your suggestion because that seems like something they’d really like.
Mark Whitley thank you 😊. It is one of my favorites.
YUM! i WOULD LOVE THAT RECIPE!
SOUNDS DELICIOUS ❣️🥰
love them green tomatoes fried!
You guys have the best fed chickens I've ever seen!
When you go to the store again pick up a bag of apples and put them in with the tomatoes they will ripen faster.
My tomatoes didn’t ripen on the vine this year either. Today I’m making/canning green tomato mincemeat. Yum.
Please don't put picked mushrooms in a plastic bag, try and place them in a wicker basket so the spores can spread as you carry them around the forest.
Fabric will work too, just anything that will allow the spores to spread as you go. Then you’ll get more
A mesh bag is what is recommended by leading mycologists.
In most cases once the cap spreads and the ribs show the spore's drop in a day or two.
That's what I was thinking. Good job to them on the mushroom hunt, tho.
Mushrooms need a gas exchange, depending on the mushrooms I prefer mesh or a basket for harvesting and store in a paper bag in cool temperatures. Love the channel.
Hi, I've been watching your videos since you moved to Alaska. You can put a large barrel in the ground and you can store cabbage, kohlrabi, carrots and much more there over the winter. This is how I used to store my vegetables over the winter.
They say everything's bigger in Texas but I think it's Alaska
Reader's Digest published a tale back in the early 80s which informed that if you take the entire coast line of the State of Alaska... when the tide comes in to high-tide, enough real estate has been covered by water to equal the entire State of Texas. THAT is how BIG Alaska is. Divide Alaska in two and Texas becomes the third largest State. Alaska is 1/5 of the entire lower-48. Big country!
My Pap and Granny always told us to carry our wild mushrooms in a mesh bag so the spores can drop in the area that you found them in. The spores will spread all through the woods that brings more bounty next year.
I love watching Eric cook! He's pretty impressive - for a guy, lol
O never knew there was so much to having a healthy garden.
I really enjoy watching all that you do in order to have such a over the top garden.
Is it coffee time yet?
Let's go fishing.
you have awesome raised beds. I only like large cloves for roasting. Marino is a nice hardneck variety that can be almost as large as Music, at least in my garden (zone 4b). Please be careful with the straw dust in the chickweed barn...”Farmer’s Lung” Helped to kill my farmer uncle.
You know you can pickle green tomatoes, they do it in East Europe....for winter.
They are great to eat...salt garlic water dry dill ....alternate with carrots as well
Have you guys thought about adding on a little to the tiny house? Just enough for a little inside storage or even like a grow/storage space
We’ve had 2 nights of frost in PA, no tunnel just plastic. Nice garlic bed!
The intro melted my heart😍❤️Love you guys❤️❤️❤️✨
This is an excellent video in so many ways (those mushrooms!!!), but Bo totally stole the show. 😂 Good boy!!!
When you guys cook a meal it's like gourmet dinners. Not like the outback most would think. Awesomeness in two peoples.
A tip for your unripe tomatoes! harvest the tomato branch with the tomatoes on and hang them in strings from the roof or in a window. that gives the tomatoes more taste and they won't get in your way that much
I think a long 12 inch deep board across those floor joists would create some storage for jars. Maybe even 2 for deep storage!
You all should definitely try canning some green tomato relish! I am in zone 6 where tomatoes generally thrive, but the caterpillars eating all of our ripe tomatoes this season meant I needed to pick them all when they were green so we at least got something, and I am SO glad, because I used them to make green tomato relish (found the recipe on Allrecipes), and it is our new favorite!
We call it chow-chow. My mother used to make tons of it every year. Everyone loved her cow-chow with beans and biscuits.
wifemamateacher i just tried a recipe for zucchini relish, but substituted in shredded green tomatoes for the zucchini! It was delicious! I also highly recommend relish! I’ll be making/canning mincemeat tomorrow for my great grandpa too.
Try carrying your fresh picked mushies in a net instead of a plastic bag, that way the spores can release and you'll get even more mushrooms in the coming years! Love those chanterelles, my faves.
OMG Eric and Arielle I love the shelf in your cabin, the coloured vegetables look so beautiful, like a work of art!
Bo is a Star!!!! Your dogs are wonderful
Team Bo here. He rocks the flannel 💖
No matter where you are that's a good meal
love your videos and your dog custom make laugh, blessing to all of you.
PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE... can i come for dinner? Eric you are a class A chef!
Nature's Bounty, gotta love harvest time! Another great job of editing btw. I love your videos.
Every homesteader I watch, from all across the US has spoken of later than normal summer temps and earlier frosts. That solar minimum effect is no joke! And this is just year one. Everyone better start paying attention because it's going to drastically affect the way we grow our food and how much food is available.
Well Done U 2 Enjoy the Harvest , you worked Hard this year and deserve Living Large this winter .. Take care Stay very Well.
We are in Pennsylvania...finding chicken of the woods and today we found shrimp of the woods..
your husband IS A LUCKY MAN
Nothing better than fried green tomatoes!!
Another excellent video. I live in an apartment and y’all have me canning all small batch lol. Cowboy candy, dill pickles, red cabbage and beet slaw, green cabbage and bokchoi slaw, radish pickles, sweet kimchi daikon and zucchini, spicy Napa cabbage kimchi. Soon I will be making small batch summer sausage and other smoked and dried meats. Thanks for the incentive haven’t done this in decades lol.
How about building a storage couch - a storage box below with all your couch pillows on the top - for more canned goods storage.
Watching 3:30 in the morning here in Philippines 🇵🇭 . I learned a lot from you guys godbless
You all make me so hungry I thank both of you very much for your videos CK
Use the green tomatoes for green tomato pickles😀
Seems like you could extend the growing season of the tomatoes inside the greenhouse as long as it is sealed up to keep the frost out. I was picking tomatoes on the vine in November one year in Michigan and they were just covered with a sheet of plastic.
Have you ever dehydrated your vegatables? That would save on the jars and lids, and possibly the storage. Eric is so handy I am surprised that he hasn't thought of adding on a pantry off of the kitchen.
I so enjoy your videos. You two are such hard workers! Stay safe!
A pantry would be great, also an area where they could dry most the herbs 🌿. Would love a garden like yours!! Not too sure about Alaska tbough.
You two are so incredibly industrious + productive
You should try green tomato ketchup here is the recipe
GREEN TOMATO KETCHUP
4 c. ground onion
4 c. ground green tomatoes
6 sweet red peppers, ground
12 green bell peppers, ground
4 c. ground cabbage
6 c. sugar
2 tbsp. mustard seed
4 c. vinegar
1/2 c. salt
1 tbsp. celery seed
1 1/2 tsp. turmeric
2 c. water
Grind vegetables using blender or coarse blade of grinder. Sprinkle with 1/2 cup salt. Let stand overnight. Rinse and drain. Combine with remaining ingredients. Heat to boiling. Simmer 3 minutes. Place in sterile jars and seal. About 8 pints.
this channel brings me so much peace wow
THANK YOU
Today in Wisconsin I also picked tomatoes to ripen inside, and mushroom finds included elm oysters and Grifola Frondosa (hen of the woods). Love this time of year, but there is always so much to do! Thanks for the garlic planting video. I'm going to try planting some in my garden the fall. You are good inspiration. Watching this was a good break, now I'm off to preserve my pepper bounty...
i love your videos... greetings from the Philippines...God Speed...
I just pickled 100’s of jalapeños, Hungarian banana peppers and bell peppers. Would anyone want to share recipes so there can be variety of flavour for preservation? Cheers and love from Canada 🇨🇦
We did:
Peppers
1/2 cup white pickling vinegar
1/2 cup Apple cider vinegar
1 cup water
3 tbsp White sugar (want to try brown)
1 tbsp kosher salt
3-5 garlic cloves
Boil until sugar and salt dissolved
Pour over peppers and then water bath
That sounds super yummy, thank you for sharing!
Love your videos no matter what season it is. Thank you both!
Try some fried green tomatoes, they're delicious. Great video.
I totally enjoy your channel. We live in Michigan, and also try to grow, forage, repurpose and reuse as much as possible.
Woo hoo two in a week
Looks like you two have a blast together and dinner smells delicious.
Aawww That was so cute adore your dog's Ariel and Eric. Didn't expect that sooo cute. The nasturtiums look beautiful. Your Chicken's look so happy and healthy. Love Capsicum's green, red, yellow put on a flame, blacken outer skin, put in cling wrap or plastic bag, wait, peel black skin off yummy. Capsicum in Australia = Peppers in Alaska I think. I'm so sad for you both that your tomatoes didn't ripen. But making that salsa was a brilliant idea, that's what I Adore about you both you waste nothing. Since your last video, you are both looking Amazing, 10 years younger, so your teenager's. This video like every one I have watched is just so good for my/our soul's, But I know how hard you both work. We Appreciate this wonderful Channel. Hug's from Australia xx