Lisa have you ever thought about leasing out a part of your land to an organic cattleman to put some of his cows on your pasture. We do that here and in return we get free beef. 🥩
You might look into getting a small generator for your meat freezer. Some of them have the ability to be set up so that if your power goes out, after a certain number of seconds, the generator kicks on. It’s a really great back up.
I live in Missouri too, and I am SO thankful for the abundance of options for raw dairy and local meats and produce! I feel like we live in a hotspot for this lifestyle and eating traditionally. Thanks for making these videos!
I would love to know if living this way (organic, raw and homemade) was a transition, or were you raised that way? What were some of the obstacles if any in the beginning? Was your husband on board from the start, or did it take some coaxing? I really admire your lifestyle choices. It sounds like you've gone back in time with clean, simplistic living.
Hi there, I’m not Lisa obviously and you asked a while ago, but I just felt like answering 🙃 For my husband and I it’s definitely been a process. We started just eating mostly packaged stuff like progreso soup, premade pasta sauce and frozen dinners and now we eat about 50% from our farm and are adding more and more. I think the process started with learning to cook from scratch or even just semi homemade. And then we joined a local CSA for our vegetables in the summer, then we got a deep freezer and started buying 1/2 or whole butchered animals because it was a lot cheaper that way. I also started buying extra produce in bulk from the CSA and learned to can. Then we got chickens in the suburbs and I started growing more vegetables to add to our CSA. From there we got a farm and now we raise and butcher our own meat and I have a big garden and raise most of our vegetables but I still supplement a bit in the winter. It’s a long learning process and you just add a bit at a time. My husband didn’t take any coaxing because it was so much cheaper than especially packaged food and we lost weight and felt better. A year after you asked this, just curious, how’s your journey going?
@@moregardening5014 Thank You for sharing your experience. We are taking baby steps. We started growing a few things from seed. It was successful and gave us courage and pride. I've definitely been cooking more, but I still keep quick frozen foods on those days when I'm just not feeling like cooking.
I agree that one year is the magic time span for frozen meat, however, I have kept it frozen for up to two years with no problem. I have also had great luck with canning some of the meat when I felt it might be in the freezer too long. Great way to store extra meat without the worry of freezer burn. Also, made for some quick meals!
Could you do a "what we ate in a day/week"? It would be really nice to see one of those videos with someone who isn't promoting some sort of eating disorder. As a mother I need all the inspiration I can get with meals and I'd also be interested in seeing what you are eating to stay so slim but healthy (ie portion sizes etc) as a busy mom on a budget. Any other content on UA-cam has just been way out of my budget or simply too time consuming to make, so I'd appreciate your spin on it.
As a mother I understand why you're always looking for the cheapest, best deal and seeking to be a good steward by spending wisely. As a farmer's daughter (who has done both the national, commercial sales to Aldi etc and the paddock to plate model), I wince, knowing just how much work goes in and how little profit comes back.
Elise Hewitt I agree 100%. We raise organic pasture raised hogs and sell them for $5/lb plus processing, which worked out to about $9/lb all in. By the time we calculated everything including allllll the mileage of driving to town every day to pick up the organic grocer's veggie trim....we made a whopping $500 profit on having raised 4 hogs all summer. So much time spent. It is delicious meat but it certainly is NOT a money maker. Probably 1-2 hours per day for 4 months, plus a good 4 full days around slaughter time. Especially when you make the effort and cost of buying/providing organic feed for them. People wince at the price, and I wince at the thought of so much time spent for basically zero profit. Eat good food but respect it and above all, don't complain when things cost a lot! It is the true cost of raising food.
I should add, I am in Canada and everything is way more expensive here. A 20kg bag of organic feed costs about $50 and 4 hogs will eat that in a day or two as they near slaughter time. And gas is $1.50/ litre, which is about $6/gallon.....so these costs all make the cost of food more expensive here.
Exactly. We're in Australia. Moving back to the farm has opened my eyes to what is going on behind the shelf prices. Its frustrating to have to pay extra for milk that is local an bio-dynamic than the generic-label organic milk from the bug supermarket. But at least i know who gets the money and how they are improving the land with it. But with a growing family, I know this means we have to make sacrifices elsewhere. I prefer to buy affordable organic, but I do know that most store-bought organic items are just complying with organic regulations, they aren't farming sustainably, let alone regenerating the soils. Often they get their prices low because they are big mass-produced operations that still have the bad practices of industrial agriculture, but at least they don't use nasty chemicals! But their ground is often bare, they use other "bio-fertilisers" and chemicals to get their produce to grow. The cost of a red organic capsicum (maybe called bell pepper elsewhere), for instance, is so much more expensive because most of them will be discarded due to rot, sunburn and insects damage, and they simply gross less per acre than a regular farm. It goes without saying, I would love to see thousands more Lisa's around here who are willing to change the way they shop and go out of their way to meet collection points in pursuit of local, fresh food.
@@E.R.Hewitt I totally agree Elise. I live in Australia and it is truly expensive and hard to source really good organic produce for a whole family. I would love companies to set up collection points for consumers to collect local fresh organic food.
Realizing how spoiled I was growing up on a semi rural suburb on the east coast where there are farmers markets and farm stands everywhere. I live in a city now, which I love, but man, city co op prices are not rural farmstand prices 😩
Finding your local Weston Price chapter is very helpful, they usually have lots of connections with local sources. Bulk natural foods is another good place for seasonal fruit etc Azure Rumiano grass fed butter is a very good price as well. Costco has the best prices on organic frozen fruits and veggies hands down.
You have a great channel Sutherland so much good information. I don’t buy crap things from the stores . I look for organic and gluten free even though it costs more. Your health is your new wealth.
Literally been looking for a youtuber like you for so long. Love this style of living and want to get it started now while I am younger and single! You are awesome thanks!
Great advice. I've been eating locally sourced meat, dairy, and veggies for a few years now and it makes such a difference. Grocery store shopping doesn't' really compare. And the food actually ends up being more cost effective for our budget in the long run.
Let me just clarify that I am a city girl with parents that grew up in the country and did exactly what you are doing so I should know better....I am totally fascinated by your videos and learn so much. I am currently trying to figure out how I can incorporate elements of what you do in my city life.,lol lol lol. Thank you for the amazing content. I always look forward to your posts so please never stop :)!
I have found that grocery store meats are not the same as Farm raised high-quality meats. If you can find an Amish butcher and or local Farmers to buy your meats from you will immediately notice the change in quality. the way in which an animal is Fed and process makes a huge difference in the quality. We are blessed to have farmers 40 minutes away from our home. I love how you feed your family
Seriously such a great video. Thank you so much for sharing all the info especially the links to help those of us who are new to all natural, locally grown, from scratch cooking.
We use a lot of local sources for milk, beef. We have our own eggs, meat chickens & turkeys for that meat supply. We love our amish community for honey, flours & other baking supplies. For our produce, we just found Misfits Market. They ship organic "ugly" produce right to our door. 34.50 for 20 lbs of organic nongmo produce! Awesome deal until our garden produces more. First time we used it I had a code for 25% off. Don't think they are shipping that far to you yet. More like Pennsylvania/Ohio area & neighboring states but they are expanding pretty quickly.
Thank you for very useful information. We have moved to Tennessee a year now, and I am still trying to get a good meat source, you have helped me a lot. On the prowl now 😂💖🙏
First of all I want to thank you for everything you do to be able to share with us all. I have been a midwife for 40+ years and I know from experience and watching others in my practice how much work it is to raise a family on a farm, feeding them whole foods and homeschooling as well. I was wondering if you have ever shared exactly how you store all the bulk food your purchase for a year, like 30 bags of green beans, gallons of honey, 16 chickens, sids of beef and whole pork. I looked but did not see anything about detail storage. Thanks again,
Very timely and helpful video for me. We are about to uproot from Wisconsin where we've been for over 30 years and where I have long ago developed a source for all my beef, pork, and poultry and to move to Ohio where we're starting from scratch. Thank you!
Native Ohioan here! Jaclyn, I don't think you should have too much trouble finding local sources for all the things she talks about in this video in Ohio. We have a huge Amish population throughout the state, I recommend checking out their grocery stores and farms, where you can often buy in bulk and get a whole range of produce and animal products. Ohio has a pretty developed web of CSA's, Farmers markets, natural food stores/co-ops, and small local farms to source things from. Local butcher shops are still pretty common as well. Localharvest.org and realmilk.org should turn up a decent amount of options for you, regardless of where you're moving to in the state. Good luck!
I wish we could chat...I'm kinda home bound and heve wanted really easy craft to do!! Would love making candles for friends and family and oelf. I've always wanted just a cool cotton gauge dress to make but i do not have sew machine. I can cook....I'm a good cooker ajust not a baker!!! But the candles are calling my namel. And lovely lime soap. Oranges and cocoa would spell heavenly
We farm here in WI. Maybe, I miss understood the price. We sell 1/4 side of beef for $ 732.00 for a mixed quarter(boxed & ready for pick-up). It's 100% certified grass fed black Angus beef. We also have "natural" specialty meats; beef sticks, beef bacon, hot dogs, brats, jerky etc)...
Thanks for the MO resources and other links! I'm saving up to buy bulk chicken from Fed From The Farm, while trying to convince my husband we need an extra freezer 😁
I have no idea how I didn’t know you lived in MO! We just moved out of Kansas City to Smithville and are totally interest in doing this. In using the searches I saw that there is a farmers market in the old downtown square which is two blocks from our Victorian. Hoping to secure some sources as it sounds like they hold this every Saturday. Thank you for the info on all of this!!
You figure a 42% loss from the original hanging weight with beef. That should give you approximately how many pounds you ended up with. I order all of my grains through Azure Standard. Their prices for gluten free grains are amazing. I do run a Southern Oregon drop. Tip: Do not go to the store after Lisa has been there. :)
This video was SO helpful! Thanks for all the info, I’m looking forward to sourcing more local products in the future. And lucky we live so close and I can use all of these sources! 😊 Hope you’re feeling well my dear!
Squash, potatoes, onions, store well in just a basement or garage. You need to grow storage varieties for them to store very long. And they all have different storage times, butternut squash is great for up to a year but potat ales start to get soft after about 6 months for me.
This is my plan for our family once we buy a house. I can't buy in bulk while living in an apartment. I recently found an "egg dealer" and am so happy. I hate store eggs. Kiddo is lactose intolerant so we are buying pasteurized goat milk as it has a milder flavor than raw, which she wouldn't drink. Autism is funny like that. She said it was sour! I think I'll buy some raw to make kefir and yogurt since it can be flavored with fruit.
We began to source our of our own grass-fed beef and organic non-GMO chickens about 4-years ago after being diagnosed with Autoimmune Hashimoto's. I had been growing a lot of our vegetables and fruits but held off on the meat due to overall costs. I am fortunate to live in the largest agricultural county in Michigan and I am surrounded by farms and farmers. We also go out and pick ( and then freeze it) local grown, organic strawberries and blueberries. Do you have a back-up generator in case of loss of power? That is an issue when you buy $700.00 worth of meat!! We plan for a year on our frozen meat as well though we have eaten our friends 2017 deer meat (in 2019) and it was absolutely fine - deer meat shot and frozen within 24/48 hours with no transportation time. Eating clean has been a game-changer for my husband and I. Eggs here in SW Michigan are around $2.50-$4.00 a dozen right from the farmer. Farmers Market and CSA's are also an option for those who might now live in farm country.
Azure shipped me cheese with four tiny TINY ice packs even tho I ordered 9lbs of raw cheese. So good luck 💁♀️ Also, read the product info. If it’s heated above about 110 it’s not really raw, it’s just not pasteurized. For instance, organic valley heats their ‘raw cheddar’ to like 151 degrees.
Let's say all the meat would last a year and we are rounding it down just a bit to $1200 for a year of meat. That's 100 month and 25 a week. If you are eating 3 meals a day at home and almost never eat out, it's WELL worth it. Love this idea and when my husband and I finally get our big family, we will definitely be doing this
HI lisa, I may have missed it, but Im curious about where you get your maple syrup? I live on the west coast and have to purchase it from costco or pay out of the ear for it online. Do you have any great resources for it? I had a friend once mention to me about growing her own trees. Not sure that would work here in Wa! Also, alot of people over here are really getting into getting their own beehives and sourcing their own honey. Ever thought of that? Thank you for all your wonderful tips and advice! I love seeing all the updates on your homestead and house. We are doing the same thing as you! Bought 10 acre farm and fixing it up. :)
Lisa - I love your channel. So inspirational! Have you ever done a video on what's in your pantry? I'm very curious...trying to become more self sufficient...💗MN
I know you do regular fried eggs for breakfast commonly, but can you do some more egg recipes, since you go through them so often. It would be awesome to see. Eggs are one of the most accessible organic/free range produce available.
Also this might be a weird question but how many freezers do you have to store all of this? And do you know the sizes? And would you recommend a stand-up freezer or a chest freezer?
Great tips. For me, it's not practical to buy large amounts of anything, as I'm single. Thankfully, we have an Amish store that offers good selections, and we have an Aldi.
I love Aldi also for the frozen veggies and fruit. But have you ever considered preserving the veggies and fruits? Here locally I have a few huge farms not to far away and they sell in season veggies and fruits by the bushel and thats when I buy and either can or blanch and freeze for the winter.
When I was growing up my dad always got a half pig some times whole it depends on how big and half cow I went with them to pick it up we had to package it ourselves to put in freezer
Love love love your videos. Can anyone please tell me, is the "instant pot" the same thing as what we call a "pressure cooker" here in Australia? Thanks!!
A locavore chain of sources would say that Organic local is best, then conventional local, then organic imported/shipped, then conventional/shipped. Where frozen fits in there I don't know. But really it's up to you to decide if you are die-hard organic only, or just trying your best. I couldn't afford organic produce only if I wanted out of season stuff. And we have a commercial non organic strawberry farm 5 mins up the road from us and I am not missing out on those strawberries 😂.
Have you checked out fronteir co-op? We have a group around here that puts together a huge order every month to save the shipping cost. I get spices, supplements, essential oils, and lots of other organic and natural things. I wish we could purchase raw milk in my state. Sadly we can't. But Im about 2 hrs from the border so I can cross over into the next state to get raw milk
I am finding local places to source food from; does this seem like too much to spend on grassfed, grass finished, non GMO beef - $10.62/# for chuck roast, $7.50/# ground beef, same for round steak? I am not use to spending like this. ALDI organic ground beef sells for less. Free range ground pork is $6.25/#. Does it cost more because it's a smaller operation? We live in a very rural, economically depressed area. I didn't expect to see prices like this. Do I keep searching?
Great video thank you! So when you say you stock up on the squash and pumpkins and potatoes in the winter and keep them in a cool dry place, how exactly do you store them? In a big tote container in say the basement? I usually keep my potatoes and such out in our pantry and i feel like they rot pretty fast. Any tips would be greatly appreciated :) Thank you!
Honey never spoils. I've had honey for 10 years that was still good. I had to put it in hot water first. Also, they found honey that was 1000s of years old that was still good. Honey is God's sweetener.
Great video! My family raises pigs for our personal use and we sell what we don't want to keep. A half a hog will get you roughly 100lbs of meat. A bit less if you get more bacon, sausage, smoked hams etc as you lose a bit more volume in the smoking process :)
Can you tell how far that Amish family where you get your Honey from is from Springfield MO? The cheapest I found was $40 a gallon, and it’s not local it’s from California I would like local honey
Love this! I wish I had the income to feed my family this fabulous, fresh food! Just the way God intended for us to enjoy. It’s so inspiring for me to watch your videos and how you feed your family a real whole food diet. You’re such an inspiration! I can’t afford to cook and eat like this with my family of 6, but I do try to make the best choices I can with the food available to me. I just love all videos you put out. Especially about food, cooking, and food sources! You’ve taught me so much about raw milk, and opened my eyes! Thanks for these awesome videos!
Hi Aracely, Yes, I do have a tutorial for the apron. It can be found in my new DIY book "Simple Farmhouse Life". You can find it on Amazon or in any bookstore. Once you purchase the book, you can head to this page: www.farmhouseonboone.com/book and then you will have access to a video tutorial for how to make the apron.
Farmhouse on Boone thanks! I ended up buying your book and seeing it in there! I made one and added some rows of pockets for egg collecting for a friend! It turned out really good!
TFS I have a order for peppercorns,fennel seed and mesquite powder from iherb.com so I can order on the first, I get salt from someone that is a vendor at our Farmers market
$700 wow that’s an expensive half, maybe look for a Mennonite/Amish family that has grass fed, they tend to charge way less than a traditional farmer that knows the value of grass fed. We pay about $700 for the whole cow.
Woah.. I just paid $700 for a quarter and I live in the midwest. It was hard to get a gauge on what it should cost.. I will have to shop around a bit more on the next one.
Lisa have you ever thought about leasing out a part of your land to an organic cattleman to put some of his cows on your pasture. We do that here and in return we get free beef. 🥩
What a great idea
You might look into getting a small generator for your meat freezer. Some of them have the ability to be set up so that if your power goes out, after a certain number of seconds, the generator kicks on. It’s a really great back up.
That is a great idea!
I live in Missouri too, and I am SO thankful for the abundance of options for raw dairy and local meats and produce! I feel like we live in a hotspot for this lifestyle and eating traditionally. Thanks for making these videos!
And I love using Azure for that cheese too! Delicious! And so affordable.
I would love to know if living this way (organic, raw and homemade) was a transition, or were you raised that way? What were some of the obstacles if any in the beginning? Was your husband on board from the start, or did it take some coaxing? I really admire your lifestyle choices. It sounds like you've gone back in time with clean, simplistic living.
Hi there, I’m not Lisa obviously and you asked a while ago, but I just felt like answering 🙃 For my husband and I it’s definitely been a process. We started just eating mostly packaged stuff like progreso soup, premade pasta sauce and frozen dinners and now we eat about 50% from our farm and are adding more and more. I think the process started with learning to cook from scratch or even just semi homemade. And then we joined a local CSA for our vegetables in the summer, then we got a deep freezer and started buying 1/2 or whole butchered animals because it was a lot cheaper that way. I also started buying extra produce in bulk from the CSA and learned to can. Then we got chickens in the suburbs and I started growing more vegetables to add to our CSA. From there we got a farm and now we raise and butcher our own meat and I have a big garden and raise most of our vegetables but I still supplement a bit in the winter. It’s a long learning process and you just add a bit at a time. My husband didn’t take any coaxing because it was so much cheaper than especially packaged food and we lost weight and felt better.
A year after you asked this, just curious, how’s your journey going?
@@moregardening5014 Thank You for sharing your experience. We are taking baby steps. We started growing a few things from seed. It was successful and gave us courage and pride. I've definitely been cooking more, but I still keep quick frozen foods on those days when I'm just not feeling like cooking.
Have you ever thought of putting together a cookbook on how to incorporate your cooking ideas with homestead
Yes! It is on my to do list for sure!
I agree that one year is the magic time span for frozen meat, however, I have kept it frozen for up to two years with no problem. I have also had great luck with canning some of the meat when I felt it might be in the freezer too long. Great way to store extra meat without the worry of freezer burn. Also, made for some quick meals!
Could you do a "what we ate in a day/week"? It would be really nice to see one of those videos with someone who isn't promoting some sort of eating disorder. As a mother I need all the inspiration I can get with meals and I'd also be interested in seeing what you are eating to stay so slim but healthy (ie portion sizes etc) as a busy mom on a budget. Any other content on UA-cam has just been way out of my budget or simply too time consuming to make, so I'd appreciate your spin on it.
I knew to do more of those!
As a mother I understand why you're always looking for the cheapest, best deal and seeking to be a good steward by spending wisely. As a farmer's daughter (who has done both the national, commercial sales to Aldi etc and the paddock to plate model), I wince, knowing just how much work goes in and how little profit comes back.
Elise Hewitt I agree 100%. We raise organic pasture raised hogs and sell them for $5/lb plus processing, which worked out to about $9/lb all in. By the time we calculated everything including allllll the mileage of driving to town every day to pick up the organic grocer's veggie trim....we made a whopping $500 profit on having raised 4 hogs all summer.
So much time spent. It is delicious meat but it certainly is NOT a money maker. Probably 1-2 hours per day for 4 months, plus a good 4 full days around slaughter time. Especially when you make the effort and cost of buying/providing organic feed for them. People wince at the price, and I wince at the thought of so much time spent for basically zero profit. Eat good food but respect it and above all, don't complain when things cost a lot! It is the true cost of raising food.
I should add, I am in Canada and everything is way more expensive here. A 20kg bag of organic feed costs about $50 and 4 hogs will eat that in a day or two as they near slaughter time. And gas is $1.50/ litre, which is about $6/gallon.....so these costs all make the cost of food more expensive here.
Exactly. We're in Australia. Moving back to the farm has opened my eyes to what is going on behind the shelf prices.
Its frustrating to have to pay extra for milk that is local an bio-dynamic than the generic-label organic milk from the bug supermarket. But at least i know who gets the money and how they are improving the land with it. But with a growing family, I know this means we have to make sacrifices elsewhere.
I prefer to buy affordable organic, but I do know that most store-bought organic items are just complying with organic regulations, they aren't farming sustainably, let alone regenerating the soils. Often they get their prices low because they are big mass-produced operations that still have the bad practices of industrial agriculture, but at least they don't use nasty chemicals!
But their ground is often bare, they use other "bio-fertilisers" and chemicals to get their produce to grow. The cost of a red organic capsicum (maybe called bell pepper elsewhere), for instance, is so much more expensive because most of them will be discarded due to rot, sunburn and insects damage, and they simply gross less per acre than a regular farm.
It goes without saying, I would love to see thousands more Lisa's around here who are willing to change the way they shop and go out of their way to meet collection points in pursuit of local, fresh food.
@@E.R.Hewitt I totally agree Elise. I live in Australia and it is truly expensive and hard to source really good organic produce for a whole family. I would love companies to set up collection points for consumers to collect local fresh organic food.
Realizing how spoiled I was growing up on a semi rural suburb on the east coast where there are farmers markets and farm stands everywhere. I live in a city now, which I love, but man, city co op prices are not rural farmstand prices 😩
Oh boy! I'm watching this as I am eating a donut! Lol but I fully agree with the video. Thanks for sharing. ♡
I love the apron!!! Super cute!
I’d love to see more of your meals!
Who in their right minds would thumbs down this video??? This is an amazing source of information!!!
Vegans maybe?
Excellent video! Thank you for sharing your sources, Lisa! It is greatly appreciated. 😊
Great information, even a year later. Thank you!
Finding your local Weston Price chapter is very helpful, they usually have lots of connections with local sources. Bulk natural foods is another good place for seasonal fruit etc Azure Rumiano grass fed butter is a very good price as well. Costco has the best prices on organic frozen fruits and veggies hands down.
You have a great channel Sutherland so much good information. I don’t buy crap things from the stores . I look for organic and gluten free even though it costs more. Your health is your new wealth.
Literally been looking for a youtuber like you for so long. Love this style of living and want to get it started now while I am younger and single! You are awesome thanks!
This video is pure gold, thank you!
Seriously needed help in this area, thanks for the tips!! I'll be revisiting over and over.
Wow. Can I come and live with you? All that lovely fresh food!
I didn't realize you were so close to me. How cool. I'm blessed Northwest Arkansas is so full of local farmers!!
thank you so much for sharing this video! It helped me so much since I just started going local and buying everything locally sourced.
Great advice. I've been eating locally sourced meat, dairy, and veggies for a few years now and it makes such a difference. Grocery store shopping doesn't' really compare. And the food actually ends up being more cost effective for our budget in the long run.
Let me just clarify that I am a city girl with parents that grew up in the country and did exactly what you are doing so I should know better....I am totally fascinated by your videos and learn so much. I am currently trying to figure out how I can incorporate elements of what you do in my city life.,lol lol lol. Thank you for the amazing content. I always look forward to your posts so please never stop :)!
Love you plate decor!
Found your channel via farmhouse vernacular, truly enjoying it.
I have found that grocery store meats are not the same as Farm raised high-quality meats. If you can find an Amish butcher and or local Farmers to buy your meats from you will immediately notice the change in quality. the way in which an animal is Fed and process makes a huge difference in the quality. We are blessed to have farmers 40 minutes away from our home. I love how you feed your family
Seriously such a great video. Thank you so much for sharing all the info especially the links to help those of us who are new to all natural, locally grown, from scratch cooking.
We use a lot of local sources for milk, beef. We have our own eggs, meat chickens & turkeys for that meat supply. We love our amish community for honey, flours & other baking supplies. For our produce, we just found Misfits Market. They ship organic "ugly" produce right to our door. 34.50 for 20 lbs of organic nongmo produce! Awesome deal until our garden produces more. First time we used it I had a code for 25% off. Don't think they are shipping that far to you yet. More like Pennsylvania/Ohio area & neighboring states but they are expanding pretty quickly.
Thank you for very useful information. We have moved to Tennessee a year now, and I am still trying to get a good meat source, you have helped me a lot. On the prowl now 😂💖🙏
OMG such a informative video. Love you for doing this. Thank you thank you.🙏🏼😊
Absolute valuable video! Thanks for posting!
We love their raw/grass-fed Monterey Jack cheese, it's so creamy and melts lovely!
Thank you for your willingness to share; this information is so timely!
First of all I want to thank you for everything you do to be able to share with us all. I have been a midwife for 40+ years and I know from experience and watching others in my practice how much work it is to raise a family on a farm, feeding them whole foods and homeschooling as well. I was wondering if you have ever shared exactly how you store all the bulk food your purchase for a year, like 30 bags of green beans, gallons of honey, 16 chickens, sids of beef and whole pork. I looked but did not see anything about detail storage.
Thanks again,
Very timely and helpful video for me. We are about to uproot from Wisconsin where we've been for over 30 years and where I have long ago developed a source for all my beef, pork, and poultry and to move to Ohio where we're starting from scratch. Thank you!
Native Ohioan here! Jaclyn, I don't think you should have too much trouble finding local sources for all the things she talks about in this video in Ohio. We have a huge Amish population throughout the state, I recommend checking out their grocery stores and farms, where you can often buy in bulk and get a whole range of produce and animal products. Ohio has a pretty developed web of CSA's, Farmers markets, natural food stores/co-ops, and small local farms to source things from. Local butcher shops are still pretty common as well. Localharvest.org and realmilk.org should turn up a decent amount of options for you, regardless of where you're moving to in the state. Good luck!
@@yarnellka Thank you. That's encouraging.
I wish we could chat...I'm kinda home bound and heve wanted really easy craft to do!! Would love making candles for friends and family and oelf. I've always wanted just a cool cotton gauge dress to make but i do not have sew machine. I can cook....I'm a good cooker ajust not a baker!!! But the candles are calling my namel. And lovely lime soap. Oranges and cocoa would spell heavenly
Such a great channel! Love to watch it and I also subscribed
We farm here in WI. Maybe, I miss understood the price. We sell 1/4 side of beef for $ 732.00 for a mixed quarter(boxed & ready for pick-up). It's 100% certified grass fed black Angus beef. We also have "natural" specialty meats; beef sticks, beef bacon, hot dogs, brats, jerky etc)...
Cozy Acres Farm yup thats what she said she splits half with sister and spends about $700
I meant to say thank you so much for the information.
Is there a Costco near you? Their organic frozen veggies and fruit are SUCH good quality and so cheap.
Super informative, thanks Lisa!
Fascinating and educational. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for the MO resources and other links! I'm saving up to buy bulk chicken from Fed From The Farm, while trying to convince my husband we need an extra freezer 😁
Thank you, Lisa. Super helpful information. Learned something new today. :)
I loved this video! So full of information. Would love to see a prenatal/pregnancy video!
I have no idea how I didn’t know you lived in MO! We just moved out of Kansas City to Smithville and are totally interest in doing this. In using the searches I saw that there is a farmers market in the old downtown square which is two blocks from our Victorian. Hoping to secure some sources as it sounds like they hold this every Saturday. Thank you for the info on all of this!!
You figure a 42% loss from the original hanging weight with beef. That should give you approximately how many pounds you ended up with.
I order all of my grains through Azure Standard. Their prices for gluten free grains are amazing. I do run a Southern Oregon drop.
Tip: Do not go to the store after Lisa has been there. :)
Thanks for the heads up on GF grains, I have Celiac and have trouble finding reliable sources.
Oh, happy to help. Anytime! @@Jan-cr2lg
Very helpful video, Lisa!❤❤❤👍👍👍😊😊😊
This is so helpful thank you for sharing. Have a blessed day
Very helpful!! Thanks for this awesome video!
This video was SO helpful! Thanks for all the info, I’m looking forward to sourcing more local products in the future. And lucky we live so close and I can use all of these sources! 😊 Hope you’re feeling well my dear!
Thanks Maggie! So glad to help!
Do you have a root cellar where you store the squash, potatoes, onions, etc over the winter? If not, where/how do you store them?
Yes I wondered if a fridge is too cold for storage of uncut pumpkins and squash. Or if that is a silly question of me to ask.
Squash, potatoes, onions, store well in just a basement or garage. You need to grow storage varieties for them to store very long. And they all have different storage times, butternut squash is great for up to a year but potat ales start to get soft after about 6 months for me.
This is my plan for our family once we buy a house. I can't buy in bulk while living in an apartment. I recently found an "egg dealer" and am so happy. I hate store eggs. Kiddo is lactose intolerant so we are buying pasteurized goat milk as it has a milder flavor than raw, which she wouldn't drink. Autism is funny like that. She said it was sour! I think I'll buy some raw to make kefir and yogurt since it can be flavored with fruit.
Great sourcing tips. We love the Amish groceries about an hour from us. Totally worth the drive! 🤗
We began to source our of our own grass-fed beef and organic non-GMO chickens about 4-years ago after being diagnosed with Autoimmune Hashimoto's. I had been growing a lot of our vegetables and fruits but held off on the meat due to overall costs. I am fortunate to live in the largest agricultural county in Michigan and I am surrounded by farms and farmers. We also go out and pick ( and then freeze it) local grown, organic strawberries and blueberries. Do you have a back-up generator in case of loss of power? That is an issue when you buy $700.00 worth of meat!! We plan for a year on our frozen meat as well though we have eaten our friends 2017 deer meat (in 2019) and it was absolutely fine - deer meat shot and frozen within 24/48 hours with no transportation time. Eating clean has been a game-changer for my husband and I. Eggs here in SW Michigan are around $2.50-$4.00 a dozen right from the farmer. Farmers Market and CSA's are also an option for those who might now live in farm country.
Azure shipped me cheese with four tiny TINY ice packs even tho I ordered 9lbs of raw cheese. So good luck 💁♀️
Also, read the product info. If it’s heated above about 110 it’s not really raw, it’s just not pasteurized. For instance, organic valley heats their ‘raw cheddar’ to like 151 degrees.
Let's say all the meat would last a year and we are rounding it down just a bit to $1200 for a year of meat. That's 100 month and 25 a week. If you are eating 3 meals a day at home and almost never eat out, it's WELL worth it. Love this idea and when my husband and I finally get our big family, we will definitely be doing this
HI lisa, I may have missed it, but Im curious about where you get your maple syrup? I live on the west coast and have to purchase it from costco or pay out of the ear for it online. Do you have any great resources for it? I had a friend once mention to me about growing her own trees. Not sure that would work here in Wa! Also, alot of people over here are really getting into getting their own beehives and sourcing their own honey. Ever thought of that? Thank you for all your wonderful tips and advice! I love seeing all the updates on your homestead and house. We are doing the same thing as you! Bought 10 acre farm and fixing it up. :)
Thank you so much for making this video!!!!☺️
Our Aldi was just remodeled & ALDI HAS ORGANIC FROZEN BROCCOLI, SPINACH, GREEN BEANS & MIXED VEGGIES NOW!!! PRAISE THE FATHER!!!
Soo, what does your fridge/freezers set up look like? I'd like to stock up too yet I don't know what type of freezers I would need. thanks in advance!
Thank you so much Lisa!! I'm very near St.Louis, thank you for the resources!!
Lisa - I love your channel. So inspirational! Have you ever done a video on what's in your pantry? I'm very curious...trying to become more self sufficient...💗MN
Do y’all do any kind of snacks? My kids are such big smackers and I’m trying to get away from processed foods.
All throughout my last pregnancy, I could eat Indian food anytime!
Very thorough. Thank you!
I know you do regular fried eggs for breakfast commonly, but can you do some more egg recipes, since you go through them so often. It would be awesome to see. Eggs are one of the most accessible organic/free range produce available.
Where and how to do you store all of this? How many freezers do you have? Fridges for the milk and cream
Also this might be a weird question but how many freezers do you have to store all of this? And do you know the sizes? And would you recommend a stand-up freezer or a chest freezer?
Stand up freezers are generally less efficient for power use but more convenient for sorting (easy to 'lose' stuff at the bottom of a chest freezer)
Great tips. For me, it's not practical to buy large amounts of anything, as I'm single. Thankfully, we have an Amish store that offers good selections, and we have an Aldi.
I love Aldi also for the frozen veggies and fruit.
But have you ever considered preserving the veggies and fruits?
Here locally I have a few huge farms not to far away and they sell in season veggies and fruits by the bushel and thats when I buy and either can or blanch and freeze for the winter.
Thank you so much for sharing that you use instacart. It makes me feel less quilts that I use it sometimes and I have 4 kiddos too. :)
When I was growing up my dad always got a half pig some times whole it depends on how big and half cow I went with them to pick it up we had to package it ourselves to put in freezer
We love soup too.So nourishing.
I would love your granola bar recipe please🥰
It is awesome, I use her recipe .
Love love love your videos. Can anyone please tell me, is the "instant pot" the same thing as what we call a "pressure cooker" here in Australia? Thanks!!
Thanks for the tips🌈
Re: Farmers' market - are they organic? We have a stand up the road, but they use pesticides. Or is fresh, local worth buying and not concerning?
A locavore chain of sources would say that Organic local is best, then conventional local, then organic imported/shipped, then conventional/shipped. Where frozen fits in there I don't know. But really it's up to you to decide if you are die-hard organic only, or just trying your best. I couldn't afford organic produce only if I wanted out of season stuff. And we have a commercial non organic strawberry farm 5 mins up the road from us and I am not missing out on those strawberries 😂.
Have you checked out fronteir co-op? We have a group around here that puts together a huge order every month to save the shipping cost. I get spices, supplements, essential oils, and lots of other organic and natural things. I wish we could purchase raw milk in my state. Sadly we can't. But Im about 2 hrs from the border so I can cross over into the next state to get raw milk
I haven't, but I will have to check it out!
You're so awesome
I am finding local places to source food from; does this seem like too much to spend on grassfed, grass finished, non GMO beef - $10.62/# for chuck roast, $7.50/# ground beef, same for round steak? I am not use to spending like this. ALDI organic ground beef sells for less. Free range ground pork is $6.25/#. Does it cost more because it's a smaller operation? We live in a very rural, economically depressed area. I didn't expect to see prices like this. Do I keep searching?
Thanks for the info. Do you make your own butter?
Great video thank you! So when you say you stock up on the squash and pumpkins and potatoes in the winter and keep them in a cool dry place, how exactly do you store them? In a big tote container in say the basement? I usually keep my potatoes and such out in our pantry and i feel like they rot pretty fast. Any tips would be greatly appreciated :) Thank you!
Yes! We do store them in a basement. Or if you have an extra refrigerator, that is a great place also.
Honey never spoils. I've had honey for 10 years that was still good. I had to put it in hot water first. Also, they found honey that was 1000s of years old that was still good. Honey is God's sweetener.
Love this video. We try to do the same, or raise our own. You’re doing a great job!
Very interesting!
Great video! My family raises pigs for our personal use and we sell what we don't want to keep. A half a hog will get you roughly 100lbs of meat. A bit less if you get more bacon, sausage, smoked hams etc as you lose a bit more volume in the smoking process :)
do you have to then pasteurize the raw milk, cheese, and cream?
Can you tell how far that Amish family where you get your Honey from is from Springfield MO? The cheapest I found was $40 a gallon, and it’s not local it’s from California I would like local honey
Love this! I wish I had the income to feed my family this fabulous, fresh food! Just the way God intended for us to enjoy. It’s so inspiring for me to watch your videos and how you feed your family a real whole food diet. You’re such an inspiration! I can’t afford to cook and eat like this with my family of 6, but I do try to make the best choices I can with the food available to me. I just love all videos you put out. Especially about food, cooking, and food sources! You’ve taught me so much about raw milk, and opened my eyes! Thanks for these awesome videos!
You're doing a great job!
It's actually cheaper to buy a grass fed organic quarter of a cow in Australia ($600) than to buy MSA grade beef at the butcher. I need a big freezer!
Our Aldis has frozen organic broccoli and spinach
Check again...ours just added frozen organic greens beans & mixed veggies too ♡♡♡
Did you make the beige colored apron in the intro for this video? If so, is there a pattern somewhere for it?
Hi Aracely,
Yes, I do have a tutorial for the apron. It can be found in my new DIY book "Simple Farmhouse Life". You can find it on Amazon or in any bookstore. Once you purchase the book, you can head to this page: www.farmhouseonboone.com/book and then you will have access to a video tutorial for how to make the apron.
Farmhouse on Boone thanks! I ended up buying your book and seeing it in there! I made one and added some rows of pockets for egg collecting for a friend! It turned out really good!
Are you located in mo?
Wow! We paid our local farmer as much for half a hog (before butcher) as you paid total.
Cant get raw dairy here in Mississippi I wish we could
TFS I have a order for peppercorns,fennel seed and mesquite powder from iherb.com so I can order on the first, I get salt from someone that is a vendor at our Farmers market
can't you get your cream from the milk if they are out of cream?
$700 wow that’s an expensive half, maybe look for a Mennonite/Amish family that has grass fed, they tend to charge way less than a traditional farmer that knows the value of grass fed. We pay about $700 for the whole cow.
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She said she and her sister EACH paid 700 for a half.
Veggies are cheaper✌
Yeah I thought that was expensive too. I'm in Australia and a quarter is usually $600 Australian. Usually stuff is 2-4 X more expensive here. 😂
Woah.. I just paid $700 for a quarter and I live in the midwest. It was hard to get a gauge on what it should cost.. I will have to shop around a bit more on the next one.