Wow, homesteading looks so exciting, rewarding and also so much work. I’d love to live like this. Right now it’s not a possibility so I’m making the most of my urban backyard garden. I’ve really enjoyed watching everything grow and documenting the growth in my videos. I Love to film the bunnies and birds in action. I’m learning so much from you and other UA-camrs. I hope we can learn more from each other! Happy growing!
Dear Carl, Yes, up and running indeed! Love the hog weed with dinner!!! Can't wait 'til I can go out and forage a main dinner item. That will be a proud day, no doubt! Loving you new place and how it's shapping up. Keep up the good work! Best, Alex - NetZero Homestead
You have plenty to keep you busy! I've never tried it, but you can crack eggs and freeze them, using them for scrambled eggs or in baking. An internet search will give you directions. Might be a way to save some while waterglassing others. Good luck!
Great tips for the tomatoes and getting them to become new plants and the hogweed for the roast dinner ! Amazing how many eggs you are getting I can imagine you are getting egged out now lol will be interested in how the lime experiment goes ! We have a house of 4 about ages with your family it is a lot of food consumption so be good to see all your tips ! Hope you had a good weekend and enjoyed your roast Carl thanks for uploading
Really enjoying coming along for your journey. We made cheese for the very first time this weekend and I took your advice from a previous video and made caramel from the whey… absolutely delicious and I’ve never seen anyone else recommend that before so thank you!
@@SelfSufficientHub we were really pleased with it for a first attempt. I’d like to work on the consistency to get it a bit smoother next time but we enjoyed it with some sourdough crackers for lunch yesterday 🙂
That was so interesting! I had no idea I could get more tomatoes from the pinchings. Great bread. And I'm looking forward to seeing your egg preserving. I just got 6 chickens, they're 6 weeks off laying yet, but they're so cute! Question: how do we get them to eat our kitchen scraps? So far they're not interested. 🤷♀️
Well, as I cook a roast dinner right now, things like potato peelings I cook in the oven while it’s on anyway - they are far less likely to eat them raw… Also, ours have layers pellets as their primary diet, if they were getting corn then they are more likely to fill up on that I suppose, but our feed costs are pretty near zero as they love the trimmings and leftovers from the kitchen (that we don’t use ourselves obviously)
Awesome variety in all the different aspects here. Interested in the tomatoes and the hogweed. Do you worry about potential poisoning from local authorities/public? How do you deal with this now that you're more suburbia orientated? Also, I see the scruffy hair has come back for an appearance. Peer pressure wins out
No I’m not worried about spraying on the verges, it’s just not something that’s done where I forage, the verges are all maintained by the farmers that own the corresponding fields and just cut back with machinery when the hedges are cut. Hogweed is a different plant to giant hogweed- you should watch the identification video in the description mate - giant hogweed contains a very dangerous sap.
I like it as a regular side dish with roast dinners and also things with a cheese sauce, I’ve made cauliflower cheese with hogweed and that’s perfect. The florets that I harvested here are great but my favourite part of the plant are the leaf stems before they open, lightly fried in butter. Delicious
The beetroot will be the sparrows they like the leaves Be careful getting plants from the side of the road my neighbour got clubroot from plants he got from beside the road, he now can’t grow any brassicas in his garden
Wow, homesteading looks so exciting, rewarding and also so much work. I’d love to live like this. Right now it’s not a possibility so I’m making the most of my urban backyard garden. I’ve really enjoyed watching everything grow and documenting the growth in my videos. I Love to film the bunnies and birds in action. I’m learning so much from you and other UA-camrs. I hope we can learn more from each other! Happy growing!
Thanks 🙏 😊
Dear Carl, Yes, up and running indeed! Love the hog weed with dinner!!! Can't wait 'til I can go out and forage a main dinner item. That will be a proud day, no doubt! Loving you new place and how it's shapping up. Keep up the good work!
Best, Alex - NetZero Homestead
Thanks Alex
You have plenty to keep you busy! I've never tried it, but you can crack eggs and freeze them, using them for scrambled eggs or in baking. An internet search will give you directions. Might be a way to save some while waterglassing others. Good luck!
Thanks 👍
We do use that method 😊👍
Hog weed hunting tomorrow it is, loads by us and never even thought about it 👍👍👍
You absolutely must!! 👍
Great tips for the tomatoes and getting them to become new plants and the hogweed for the roast dinner ! Amazing how many eggs you are getting I can imagine you are getting egged out now lol will be interested in how the lime experiment goes ! We have a house of 4 about ages with your family it is a lot of food consumption so be good to see all your tips ! Hope you had a good weekend and enjoyed your roast Carl thanks for uploading
Thanks John, really appreciate that 😊👍
Really enjoying coming along for your journey. We made cheese for the very first time this weekend and I took your advice from a previous video and made caramel from the whey… absolutely delicious and I’ve never seen anyone else recommend that before so thank you!
That’s superb work!!!!! 👌😊❤️
How was the cheese?
@@SelfSufficientHub we were really pleased with it for a first attempt. I’d like to work on the consistency to get it a bit smoother next time but we enjoyed it with some sourdough crackers for lunch yesterday 🙂
Great stuff Carl. Interested to see how you go with waterglassing your eggs as it’s on our to do list at some stage. 👍
It’s something I’ve wanted to try for some time but never had to before. Now I think it’s the only way we will avoid buying eggs in the winter 👌
@@SelfSufficientHub likewise. We have four chooks who are laying like champions but as we head into winter it might be worth a little experiment. 😉
That was so interesting! I had no idea I could get more tomatoes from the pinchings.
Great bread. And I'm looking forward to seeing your egg preserving.
I just got 6 chickens, they're 6 weeks off laying yet, but they're so cute! Question: how do we get them to eat our kitchen scraps? So far they're not interested. 🤷♀️
Well, as I cook a roast dinner right now, things like potato peelings I cook in the oven while it’s on anyway - they are far less likely to eat them raw…
Also, ours have layers pellets as their primary diet, if they were getting corn then they are more likely to fill up on that I suppose, but our feed costs are pretty near zero as they love the trimmings and leftovers from the kitchen (that we don’t use ourselves obviously)
@@SelfSufficientHub ah, well layer pellets is all they want, I suppose that'll have to do. Thanks Carl.
@@melissaphillis7247 I haven’t heard of chickens not wanting the scraps though, maybe yours will come round in time 🤔
Awesome variety in all the different aspects here. Interested in the tomatoes and the hogweed. Do you worry about potential poisoning from local authorities/public? How do you deal with this now that you're more suburbia orientated?
Also, I see the scruffy hair has come back for an appearance. Peer pressure wins out
Also, is common hogweed aka giant hogweed?
No I’m not worried about spraying on the verges, it’s just not something that’s done where I forage, the verges are all maintained by the farmers that own the corresponding fields and just cut back with machinery when the hedges are cut.
Hogweed is a different plant to giant hogweed- you should watch the identification video in the description mate - giant hogweed contains a very dangerous sap.
Just found your channel and subscribed, what part of the south are you in
Hi Lewis, I’m on the Dorset/Somerset Border
Very inspiring! I've not tried common hogweed yet. How did you serve yours - any dishes you think it goes particularly well with?
I like it as a regular side dish with roast dinners and also things with a cheese sauce, I’ve made cauliflower cheese with hogweed and that’s perfect.
The florets that I harvested here are great but my favourite part of the plant are the leaf stems before they open, lightly fried in butter. Delicious
The beetroot will be the sparrows they like the leaves
Be careful getting plants from the side of the road my neighbour got clubroot from plants he got from beside the road, he now can’t grow any brassicas in his garden
Thanks for that- I haven’t seen any sparrows in our garden