Harvesting Honey, Freeze Dried Herbs | Lovely July Garden Tour
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- Опубліковано 26 вер 2024
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Hi friend, today was a busy day. I prepared all the herbs we freeze-dried together a few days ago, processed some honey frames I harvested from my hives and went on a lovely garden tour. I hope you enjoy coming along with me.
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Your varied interests, mental clarity, drive, and non-stop energy are unbelievable. You are a gem 💎.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge and happiness.
My mum taught me to break a Cauliflower leaf off and turn it over the top of the flower head to stop the sun damage and protect the white of the cauliflower. Her dad taught her and he grew acres of food for his family during the depression. ❤
Love the honey! I have a local honey company come and put 4 or 5 hives on my property. They do all the work and maintenance and then pay me with 2 cases of processed honey for use of my property. So I get the honey and the benefits of the bees pollinating my garden without any of the work. Win win for me.
God and nature,along with you has blessed you with a beautiful garden.
Your gardens looks very appealing too the eye
I am always fascinated on how you turned something into many kind of dishes. They are so mouth watering 🤤
I love your vlogs but seeing your honey straining system has to be one of the most entertaining vlogs!
Freeze dry all that celery and then next year you can take the year off and plant more beans or whatever you need more of.
My husband giggles when I hand pollinate. I sit there pulling squash bugs and hand pollinating since we have a lot of pests and not a lot of pollinators. But I finally got my first zucchini
Haha. Everyone in my family laughs at me for doing this. I just killed 6 Japanese beetles off a nearby flower so they don't make their way over to my veggie garden
Our parents shared a cabin in the Caribou on Canim Lake with another family and we would go there every summer. The two things I loved the most were being able to see all the stars (because we can't down here on the lower mainland) and the thunderstorms. I loved watching the storm coming across the lake and we would run out to swim in in the pouring rain with the thunder rolling and lightning flashing. How unsafe we were but we had so much fun. Every time I watch you outside I am reminded of my childhood and all those summers in the Caribou. I know you are further north (we went in from 100 mile house or sometimes via Lone Bute) but I can smell the dry air and feel the rain coming. Love your channel so much.
Nice memories!
Thank you! I’ve been out that way and it is wild and so beautiful!
Good morning Chelsea from New Hampshire. We are presently lamenting over the days and days of rain. We have only cut 900 bales ( out of 7,000 bales ). Worst year in the last 25, but that's farming for you. I hear what you are saying about the work that goes into honey and other farm endeavors. Over the years I have set some of my passions aside. One of them is laying hens. As much as I enjoy them, we currently buy organic eggs delivered to our door for $4.00/doz. It helps to support a younger farm start in the next town. We also buy organic pork and chicken from them. That frees me up to pursue my art classes and try new things. I also support another farm who provides us with honey. And so this practice allows us a break if we want it. As a whole, our farm community is mostly sustainable when we work together. ~ Diane
OMG the honey was my favorite part but I loved watching you show us all your thriving garden(s)!
This year has been rough on all of our gardens, with late frosts, and here scorching heat, and very little rain. But I too am keeping the faith that mother nature will come through and give me a full pantry. It may be later this year, but I am hopeful.
Wow, the herbs and garlic, really reduces down a lot!
Thank you Chelsea for sharing your garden with me. It brings me back to a time when I was able to enjoy gardening in space as big and beautiful! I get a feeling like I’m there walking through a friend’s garden talking shop about gardening, preserving & cooking. I hope you and your family are doing well. Hugs, Doc🫶🏻
Beautiful honey processing - thoroughly enjoyed it and learned a lot💗💛💚 I absolutely love all your videos, always so informative and your personality adds a lot to the filming💯❤
I take the leftover wax once taken honey off and put it in crockpot on warm for a few hours making sure it’s all melted then turn it off. The wax solidifies on top of useable baking honey. Just a way to get even more out of your stuff. Love all the videos!
Same! I forgot to mention that.
@@LittleMountainRanch I know I’m late to the party but I would love to see your hives! 😀
I love what you have built .....you are an inspiration, I have enjoyed this video...I love seeing the weekly growths...the joy you have on your face watching your fruits of your labour...
Gosh, that was a wonderful video, Chelsea. Thank you so much. ❤️
You are so welcome!
I love the wild profusion of plants in your greenhouse--it looks so lush and bountiful.
I just found this channel a couple weeks ago. I love it!😊❤😊
What a lovely, lovely garden you have. I think you are exactly right to be positive about it. Thanks for the beautiful video.
I didn't realize you had so many cherry trees. Don't leave the high tunnel wild, you'll get disease. Just wait, all the tomatoes will be ripe the same week of August.
Beautiful garden tour and honey harvest! God sure is great in providing all we need, when we put forth the work.
I just harvested all my hard neck garlic. That's here in Northern Illinois. I leave one garlic scape to know when they're done, the scape will go straight up and I harvest before it flowers.
I thank you for sharing your knowledge with all of us. God bless!
garden looks really nice!
Great to see you! Thanks for sharing your day with us! Love the channel! I enjoyed seeing your honey extraction!😊
Liquid Gold!!
Thanks so much! 😊
Beautiful garden! Oh, i love sourwood honey, and orange blossom!
Beautiful garden update💞. Thank you for the lesson in harvesting honey. So account what God has provided for us. Blessings for everyone's gardens 🙏❤️
If you roast the radishes it tastes like cauliflower. WOW your garden looks great.
Your knowledge astounds me! I don't grow my own or do any canning but I learn so much from you and use it in other ways. Many thanks from Edinburgh Scotland!
Loved getting a tour of your gardens!! And boy, did that honey look deelish.
Your videos are always so entertaining and lovely! Thank you so much for making them! ❤
You are so welcome! Thank you!
Oh my goodness! That Honey!!!! I was completely zoned in watching the process of using the spatula! What an incredible sight. I’m so happy watching your time in the garden and processing in the kitchen. Every bit of the work you do I watch and live vicariously through you. Haha I see a back surgeon Friday and I’m praying he may help me. Then, I can get back to working on my land. Thank you so much for sharing your daily events and work on Little Mountain Ranch ❤
Dein Mann ist ein Tausendsasser😊😅💪wie mein Mann😅😂....es ist so toll und beruhigend das so vieles selbst repariert oder gebaut werden kann und man sich dadurch sehr viel Geld erspart 🙏🙏🤩
...ein Glück das Euer kleines Häuschen noch so eine tolle Bausubstanz hat 😊.
...ich freue mich schon auf das fertige Ergebnis 😊❤
Lg.Manu 🙋♀️🇦🇹
I don’t know how you keep up with such large bountiful gardens! I love the tours!
Beautiful garden ❤. It is so sweet how you talk about being grateful for so many things. What a nice life❤ Good video- thanks.
Just love it when u have a vidio out ,
Thank u so enjoyed it
You are always such a jewel to watch! Love seeing the fruits your labours flourish! Very encouraging! Thank you!
You are so welcome!
Everything looks so lovely, and you are so knowledgeable with how to best get things to work out -- smart lady!!!
I agree!
Always so much content - greatly appreciated. Learning lots from you. Thanks!
A friend has this pot that spins her honey borads and goes to the bottom of the 🍯🇨🇦🐝
I think that’s what the extractor is used for Centrifuges spinner
I believe that is called a drum extractor....there are 2 frame...4 frame and I think 6 frame extractors.
Your joy in your garden makes me smile. Very peaceful 😊.
I get honey from a local bee keeper. It is the best honey I’ve ever tasted. It’s $20 per pint but it’s worth it.
I’ve started my own indoor garden. I have a west facing apartment that gets a lot of natural light but also have a grow light. My cherry tomato plants and peppers and Microgreens are doing very well. But I am having the hardest time with simple lettuce. I planted gem lettuce and a classic spring lettuce mid May and they stopped growing once they got to about 3 inches. I’m trying again using different soil. In seeing your video and how amazing your lettuce looks I’m wondering if I’m missing something.
I find lettuce doesn’t like to grow in small containers. Try increasing you container size and using a gentle organic fertilizer once there’s 4 sets of leaves. Good luck!
Soo sweet!
I love watching you walk through your garden. It's so lush, something I will never achieve in my garden in California, no matter how much I water, and because you love your garden so much. I love my garden, too, but it's because it tries so hard under not so great conditions.
I think when you get old and tired and worn out you may quit some of the stuff you’re doing now but I don’t think you’ll quit it all unless you just get to the point that you physically can’t do it. But then I could still see you sitting on the porch snapping beans. Enjoy the fruits of your labor.
Am i only one going 'Welcome to the Jungle, welcome to the Jungle/ Watch it bring you to your shannnnnnnnnn knees!'? ? 😂
'Hop' is the singular form. For example 'hop vines'. Such as you wouldn't say "these are my carrots plants". But you would go pick your carrots and your hops. Sorry we are hop farmers, so I thought I would clarify.
Sweet !
I pulled my onions today chopped up have 4 medium tray to put in the Harvest Right Freeze Drier. I didn't prefreeze.
How do you choose what will do best in the high tunnel & what will do best outdoors?
I really love hearing you talk about your garden & how it makes you feel. It reminds me of my mom & I do so miss her & hearing her talk about her plants & how they are doing. She would love the wildness of your forest garden. She loved that part of her garden, the part where the shrubs were up against the trees & flowers.
You are welcome!
Enjoyed the video very much. The honey looked fantastic!!
You can cut and freeze the celery, that's what I do, its good in soups, stews anything !!
Hold out hope. If you can believe it, I had REPLANT zucchini and yellow squash! We shall see. I feel the same, I’m very fortunate that I can afford to buy what we need but I’d rather not.
Pulled strawberries, sweet cherries and lemon slices from the freeze dryer yesterday. Tomatoes, garlic scapes and onion too going in tonight! 😊
It’s so fun to see at what different stages of growth we are in our gardens. Canada is massive, different zones, micro climates etc.. my cabbages are no where near as big but my zucchini are much further along here in Ottawa.
It really really makes me happy that you are happy with how your garden looks. You really brought it up to speed and seem mostly ok, with the yet-to-be, and
ain't-happenin parts too! I adore these walks with you, to be "there" for you reactions, and I'm having my own reactions too!
I'm sorry, you replied to me, but I've forgotten; when is (classical music /no pressure😂/ and) mist season?
Thank You So Much!
From Laural in Connecticut
Elderberries are pretty resilient I wouldn’t get rid of it just wait till next season and see if it sends up shoots . Oh my ! Me & my husband love radishes, sliced up with lemon juice and salt. They are so good . My husband will have a beer when he eats his radishes & he says it taste so good together.
Have you ever roasted radishes like turnips ? It’s a game changer
We can as much as possible if i don't hand it over to other canning people. But onion, cauliflower, green tomatoes, bell peppers, zucchini, pickles, and radish, red pepper, and pickles it up yum with canning crunch it's a must to keep it a crunch but kids fight over the mix jars.
High Tunnel. "Welcome to the jungle. We got fun and games. Tomatoes growin' off the hook, but the peppers they got some game. oh the jungle, welcome to the jungle - - - ah ah ah ah, we we we we got some surprise beans. Oh the jungle, welcome to the jungle. Sha na na na na na - beans beans beans beans. LOL.
Garden looks beautiful and the care and love that you put into it shows. Thank you for sharing.
Your garden is beautiful. Honey looks amazing. Really interesting.
Thanks for sharing! ❤ from Ontario!
I just found your channel and I love it! You are an inspiration!
Your purple lettuce is gorgeous!
Your garden is beautiful!
Such a nice garden my friend 😊
You can make celery salt if you have to much celery. Is so nice to use in the kitchen, on meat etc.
At least you can still plant some green beans anywhere that isn't producing well or even when you harvest garlic beds will have room
I love to watch your channel and see your food preservation. The freeze drying amazes me at the beauty of the color it keeps. Those were so green.
So cool I just love watching these video on the homesteading and such we are having a dry spell here that has Farmers in bit of a worry but it look good on your end love that honey parts of the video :-)
Fried green tomatoes are good also.
My garden in Connersville Indiana about the same time in growth especially last two weeks with all the rain, I’m 5’ tall tomatoes are 4’ your place is so beautiful wish I could see it with you, so calming, my garden is my oasis, makes me smile I feel the same way, between me and the seed, I watched the miracle of growth! Get excited for your videos I feel at home! God bless!!
Thank you so much for sharing all of this useful information :)
Radishes washed, quartered drizzled with olive oil and lightly salted and roasted tastes completely different. It loses it's pungency.
That honey looks delicious!
I’m a big believer in companion planting for bug control. Radishes are really great for controlling squash beetles for cucurbit family. If you plant them and let them got to seed the smell confuses the beetles. Marigold are great with beans and thyme is good with cole crops.
Does the thyme have to be planted directly or can it be nearby? 10+-'
Thanks for that information!
@@SallyGreimes it should probably be right in close. It’s a perennial though so if you don’t want to keep moving it you could put it in pots and mulch them if your winters are to hard for it to survive in pots.
We purchased a Roo apron - Thx for posting!!!
I love your excitement as you walk through your garden. Everything looks so beautiful
The Garden is Looking Happy 🌱..My garden is Good Not Great ..but I have plenty of Tomatoes..Zucchini been struggling because of Vine Borers…but I’m gonna keep trying ..
I was wondering if you take the celery leaves and dehydrate them and make celery salt, yum!
So very awesome Chelsea. I loved when you got excited. It made me happy. Garden is amazing. Thank you so much for the tour. My garden became overgrown with a very intrusive vine. So I live through yours! XO
I store my OA in a mason jar and vacuum seal😊
Hello! I feel the same way about my garden! I love watching the magic of growing things, plant or animal. Love that apron/basket ❤️ see you next time!
🤔🤔 been a beekeeper for over 2 decades….if not using my extractor, then I scrape the wax off the frame first………then scrape the honey into another container.
Great video😊
Wonderful tour; thanks for taking us along! I love when plants grow where they want also & look wild! My little Seabuckthorn are 3 years old & quite small yet but I did plant them where the lawn used to grow in my front yard. The town deer have nibbled them some, too! You’re doing so fantastic at all you do! That honey looks so delicious! Blessings to all 🤗💗 from Alberta.
Garden looks wonderful!!! Just remember that things grow super fast up here! I have a feeling things will surprise. Your tomatoes look better than mine at the moment, but I planted late too. Just a reminder that marigolds contain pyrethrin - a natural deterrent to insects (same as Chrysanthemum's). Might I suggest that the marigolds could be planted all down the center of your brassica rows to help with cabbage moth deterrent. I do find that they have to be well advanced to be effective but for late maturing brassica's i have noticed a difference. I found the honey extraction very interesting. Good video Chelsea.
I have some honey from Spain that crystallised I don’t like the texture so I turned it into a creamed honey just 20 minutes beating in my kitchen aid
Lol, at first I thought you were harvesting your cow.
Such a beautiful garden. Hope you picked the cauliflower.
Sister have you tried radishes roasted with olive oil and maybe garlic. It taste totally different! 😊❤😮
I Would love to buy a jar of your honey, but they say to buy honey in your geographical area, to help with your allergies!
Enjoyed very much
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Chelsea, you should have worn your kangaroo Apron....then you could have harvested as you did your tour. ❤ the garden looks amazing!!
Hi friend! Do you make your own handmade soap? All those herbs look delightful!😊
Sugar and Salt are two foods that you typically don’t use oxygen absorbers with as it causes them to clump (turn into a brick). Are you adding them because of the herbs/scapes?
I love a really good thunder storm. Your garden is beautiful. You dont have any rhubarb? Maybe i missed it.
I researched salt. And after yrs of using the pink salt I’m not using it anymore. It has a lot of lead in it. You can see whats in the different salts in a list so you don’t have to look at each individual one. 😮😮😮