Alaskan Gardening Adventures: 20 Hours of Sunlight, Incredible Growth, and Record Rainfall.
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- Опубліковано 27 сер 2024
- July in Alaska, record breaking rain fall, 20 hours of sun, massive plants. What’s not to live. Oh and we finally got our flowers out and planted the elderberry bushes. So much going on.
Welcome to Modern Homestead Alaska. We are located in South Central Alaska near the town of Wasilla. Living in Alaska and building our dream of “modern Homesteading” through the wilds of winter and the long summer days. We started building our Modern Homestead in 2021. We have since completed the upper levels of our home. Built a 16x16 foot chicken coop that dreams are made of. Our chicken ladies live in luxury as they view the beautiful lake from large windows inside the beautiful coop. We raise our own poultry, hunt for our food. We are avid fisherman And woman. We also built an amazing and beautiful wood shed. We have great big garden planes for the future. Join us as we dream big dreams and live everyday working hard to accomplish them.
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Beautiful! Life is just busting out all over!!!
Thank you it’s so green snd beautiful
Love the way the whole family works together
Thank you I love it too
Getting loads planted , it will look amazing when it all grows in
Thank you. It’s been a crazy balance of I’m going to loose it or plant it.
@@modernhomesteadalaska I hear ya ! I just throw it in and cross my fingers lol
Jessica, everything is looking so fantastic! And Aaron’s remark, priceless,,😂❤. I so enjoy your videos! Thanks so much!
Lol that guy just loves me he is so funny.
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So funny, your husband. What are making " whatever in my wife's head" I died laughing
Lol I laughed when I edited it. Because I’m like I need this planted turn around trees gone. Now I need to incision the full picture. He is so funny!
That garden looks awesome!
Thank you so much.
Look at how beautifully all you hard work has paid off! It’s wonderful!
It’s so my wild to See how it’s coming along thank you
@@modernhomesteadalaska Great job friend!
Everything looks beautiful 🎉❤
Thank you so much
Your garden looks great!! I had a tiller years ago and it saved my back. You will be busy, it was good therapy for me. You have a great vision and Aaron enjoys doing anything that makes you happy. A great team.
Thank yon so much. He is good at bring it alive fir me
Great video about your Alaska garden! Thanks for sharing all your projects on your beautiful homestead. I always look forward to the next episode!
Thank you so much fir being so kind
Thanks Jessica, Unfortunately plants don't wait for us!! My peppers have flowers and i have 4 tiny tomatoes too.... 🤣
I love it! I want them to just grow.
Goodorning Jess, beautyful garden
Good morning friend! Thank you
Your garden looks beautiful!!
Thank you that’s so kind.
Woohoo can't beat the price of that tiller! And that's a big serious tiller! Mine is like it's little brother 😅 Garden is looking great ma'am! It's been a much wetter year for us to up in AK. Take care and God bless!
Thank you friend. Great purchase for sure!
What a difference in the weather from Anchorage to Wasilla. We have only seen the sun a few days this month. Rain every day. My garden is doing just OK. Usually, this time of the year, I've already harvested a few things. The only thing i have gotten out of the garden is Bocchoy and lettuce. I have a lot of flowering and broccoli starting.a a few raspberries and strawberries, but I'm only getting enough to pic one off here and there. Oh ya, my herbs are doing great. I got my first Nestershim flowers this week
I just got back into town. I will send out that video camera to you this week. I haven't forgotten
You are amazing! It’s so wild that amount of rain. I see sun in the forecast. So we will hope for that.
Your garden looks amazing
Thank you so much!
ALWAYS enjoy your videos Jessica 💗 "" Arran what you doing "" answers whatevers in my wife's head !!! Absolutely hilarious 🤣🤣 just love the two of you together 💘💘💘 Love from the UK x
Lol he totally kills me! I never talked about cutting down trees. Lol he is so extra. I adore him
Thanks for sharing. Everything looking great around your Homestead. Can’t wait to see harvest time.
Thank you friend.
Looking really good, Jessica!! What happy moments seeing all the growth. ❤😊
Yeah thank you so very much!
Great looking garden 🪴 your doing great
Thank you I’m honestly shocked by it.
@@modernhomesteadalaska I’m here in Alaska, actually Willow just down the road, I’m on a lake and fixing to be off grid right here, I say that because I take care of my mother and have alone for many years, so my garden hasn’t thrived the way it could if i didn’t have to be by moms side all the time, you guys keep me Grounded as I’m really getting beat up and down lol, I love your channel
Your garden looks fabulous!!! Good job and In Alaska! Give yourself a Pat on the back and if you can’t reach have Aaron do it. You deserve it!!!
Lol he is good fir a high reach.
Weed wacking, then adding more cardboard ontop walkways( to smother) and straw also works well ( and helps with the mud too)
Yeah I went through all the ideas. I use lots of cardboard in my garden. It’s just rained so much I thought ok cover crop and when I get my wood chips I’ll do cardboard and wood chips next. Hope others read your comments it’s great!
You and Aaron right reminded me so much of my husband and I especially hate when Aaron said whatever’s in my wife’s head my husband used to say why do your projects cause me so much work I have osteoarthritis and can’t do it by myself he had three disc bone to bone in his back and he couldn’t do much more than I could I love flowers and outside in heat when he gets off work he wants to come lay down on the couch and recover from the day so you can imagine I don’t have near what you do but I’m so thankful that he worked that works he did when he should’ve been in bed with his back and he wouldn’t listen to the doctor any work work work anyway
Lol Aaron honestly loves to see my dreams come true. He is so good about that. It’s quite a blessing to have a man who loves to make his wife happy. Thank you for sharing friend!
You can soak the Lupine overnight, and make Lupine hummus 😊
Nice that’s Interesting
Growing up we always used clover as a cover crop. The plus is pollinators love it and you get a bonus of very good honey.
Yes it’s very popular option. If I find a layout I don’t want to change clover would be the perfect choice.
The garden looks great!
Thank you friend
Your garden looks awesome. And now I understand how much work takes. My pak choy and spinach bolts so fast I have to harvest a lot at once 😊
Happy gardening 🧑🏻🌾
It’s an amazing experience. But hard fought for
I just love and enjoy watching your videos. The garden and flowers are so beautiful!! I anxiously await each video. Have a great week Jessica.
Thank you so much friend I do truly appreciate you.
Hi Jessica and sweet family! Your garden looks great. Nice roto tiller, a rear tube is easier to use than front tube tiller. I had a snapper frontline tiller for years, that was before the rear tine ones came out.
I go to my grandmother’s to get elderberries from her bushes.
Lupine flowers are beautiful, just a sea of purple.
Look how far you both have come. It feels good looking around and seeing the labors of your hard work. I hope you all have a blessed week!
Thank you. I had not even thought the tiller was on the back until you said it. That’s so true now that I realize it.
The lupine is one of my favorites for sure.
Thank you friend we work hard but just want to be out fishing!
Lupin is in the legume family. You soak overnight then boil for an hour then use in recipes stews, salads, burgers and ground up into hummus. Can also be made into flour for cakes and pancakes.
Nice thank you so much
Thank you for the video, both your garden and orchard look great! I especially loved the end clip :)
Thank you so much! I appreciate that
I am 21 hours late on this one. 5 great grand babies getting all my attention. The garden is gorgeous.love seeing all you all are doing on the homestead. Be blessed you all.
Many blessing to you my friend thank you
Your garden is looking great! So nice to get a tiller for it also. The elderberry section is so nice. I have one elderberry plant that is smaller than yours, but it was a cutting with a few tiny leaves. However, it has rained quite a bit since I got it the first part of June. Now it is really coming along. Yes, it loves the rain. We are about to have several hot days here in Oklahoma, so I will be watering my little baby. Love your flower pots, so pretty! God bless you all.
Oh I love it! I hope they take off! I love elderberry syrup!
Next year take a bucket ,wet news paper lay in the walkways. Then cover with the straw. It works great, the news paper rots. Or paper bags.
Great idea thank you
awesome job, things look great , well done Thank you for sharing your day
Thank you for always watching!
@@modernhomesteadalaska Oh lady the pleasure is all mine,❤
FIREWOOD lol i hear saw I think HEAT
The garden is coming along even with all the rain. The grounds around you driveway are starting to look so nice as well. It's a slow process to build a homestead, but your moving right along.
Thank you so much it’s lots of work and time but worth it for sure
Love all what you all have accomplished.
Thank you that’s so kind
I've tried to grow elderberries in my garden with zero success yet they grow wild here all over the place near water and ditches - they like a lot of water! I only recently learned that lupin flour (comes up a lot in keto world) is actually made from the lupin seeds if I remember correctly. If I wanted some though I'd order it from amazon just like I get my organic dried elderberries for making syrup lol... some things just aren't worth the effort! Your garden is looking amazing and all that extra light along with the rain is working wonders! ❤
So great! I’m now super interested in the flour.
Rose hips makes good things for your skin
Agree thank you
Lupin "flour" is a good substitute for grain flour. It is usually mixed with almond flour or coconut flour for keto or gluten free cooking.
That’s wild I need to now check it out
Not the same. Lupine flower is toxic.
@@heatherhepler9736 ... not the same as what? I have a bag of Lupin flour in my pantry that is a keto diet substitute for traditional grain-derived flour. I've used it with almond flour, but it's too earthy tasting on its own.
Such helpful garden men you have. 😊
Lol yea he is something else
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Please send some rain to South Texas
Oh man let me bottle it up it needs to share the wealth
Your garden looks great. Good luck with the elderberry bushes👍. You were one busy lady today. Good for you. Take care✌️🇺🇸❤️
Thank you so much friend! ❤️🥰🇺🇸
I think our straw is just more " viable" this year due to unusual amount of rain ( in northeast) we had almost 5 inches in one day! Very rare.
It’s so beyond crazy the amount of rain I had very little growth last year and now this years bails are even sprouting
@@modernhomesteadalaska mine too! 🤣🤣
I have missed you ! Second eye surgery and watching videos don’t mix! But I have everything saved and I am on a binge!!
Garden looks great. What is the cover crop that you are putting in the beds? I do not envy you with picking all the grass out of the tomatoes. Until we visit again.
❤ Momma G
Oh now I got this it’s all making since now! I missed you!!
Will the berry bushes bring the bears 🐻 closer to your home ? The garden looks beautiful ! 🌸🙏🌸
No the berries are from a neighbor and there are so many wild ones else wear. Doesn’t mean we can’t get a bear they just have not had any around my land in over 20 years.
That’s good news ! But your so welcoming you better be careful lol 🌸🍓🫐🍓🌸
lol rosehip gives you itchy butt, lol famous kiltcher words lol I believe it was Charlotte that said that while collecting rosehip 😅
Lol
I hear your chickens in the background and I recognized one of them just laid an egg that’s the sound they make. What kind of chickens do you have? What breed. I am a new chicken owner. My chickens are 16 weeks and I am anxiously waiting for eggs and I have one rooster who has a Rhode Island red. I have a gold laced wyndotte, a black sex link, an Easter Egger, an olive Egger, an americana , a buff orpington, and a cream leg bar.
We have some Orpington and some others but mostly we just got a run from a local guy of just egg laying chickens. I do not honestly know much about the breeds. I just make sure they are winter hearty for Alaska. Thank you so much for watching
I did not know elderberry were shallow rooted
Yeah they just spread out
I love how kodie is built like lol I'm 6ft tall she looks to at least that?? but video might make look wrong
She is very tall like her dad 5 foot 10 and beautiful thank you
Per Google, these are just a few things lupin is good for: Digestive Health. Extremely high in dietary fibre, Lupine beans keep food and waste moving through the body thus preventing constipation and keeping the colon healthy. ...
High in Protein. Proteins are the main building blocks of the body used to make muscles, tendons, organs and skin. ...
Diabetes.
Thank you so much for that! Love it!
well chicken food or compost?? bolted stuff
Both
Did you have a garden in Arizona?
No only my 2nd year ever of gardening that’s why I went to collage to learn as much as I could. Both Aaron and I grew up in homes with large gardens.
You dont grow peppers,onion, and garlik
What exactly does bolting mean? You said it was the plant getting too much sunshine, however you then said you only had two days of sunshine in the past two weeks. Im so confused, can you explain? And why would you plant veggies like that where you have the midnight sun.
Great questions, bolting is where instead of it producing a head of broccoli it flowers and produces seed instead. Even though it rains everyday. Even as we speak, the light is out. The sun is out. We plant them because if we can work with them in time to cover them we can grow beautiful cold weather crops here. I’m just going to have to work in the rain to keep that from happening. Hope that helps.
Ok I have to ask because they may be gone all day working or in school , but I see you have several grown kids and I’ve seen videos of your sons splitting wood but to me as a viewer all I see if you and your husband the only ones working and working in the house and the kids aren’t shown much helping y’all, just curious if it’s because their off working or at school , anyway I live tge videos very informative
Sort of. They are given chores, like go do …….. and if we are not making a video I don’t record them, cleaning trash, loading fires, doing laundry, taking care of animals. You name it. They also don’t like to be recorded very often, and we have a rule if one person says don’t record me please, we just shut it off. But we wouldn’t have this place without them. I wish they would record more you wouldn’t believe the things they go do and see without us. The pictures alone are breath taking.
@@modernhomesteadalaska awesome and yes the landscape is gorgeous