Want to preserve up the recipes you see in the video, I'd love to teach and show you how, make sure you sign up here for my FREE home food preservation series going on now!! melissaknorris.com/food-preservation-video-series/
Barbara Carbone home canned foods only need to be kept cold after opening the jar. Fermented foods while fermenting need to be at room temp. Gramma had fermented pickles, eggs, and sausages on the counter in her store all the time. They stayed there all day & all night. She just put the lid back on after taking out what she wanted. None of these were near a hot stove though.
Fermented foods go to cold storage after they've fermented for long term storage but canned foods are absolutely shelf stable... that's the whole point of canning them 😊
I keep my canning rings on a long bungee cord. Small rings on one side and large on the other. Just use the hooks to hang it up and they ready use when needed. Works wonderful.
it would be awesome to buy your recipe book if you would do one when you use the homestead grown and preserved produce. Also if you could do the preserve recipe book!
Very helpful for people who think they can't keep food for a year without a basement or root cellar or a hundred freezers. You take away all the excuses, and you gave me some great ideas! I converted some closets into food shelves. They work great.
Can’t wait for this Melissa!! Your podcasts kept me going when I was working a really tough job a few years back, now I run my own edible landscape design company!! Can’t wait xx
@Grow Your Groceries Oh, I'm so happy to hear that. And how awesome you now have your own edible landscape design company, high five! You should shoot me an email at melissa@melissaknorris.com as that sounds like a fascinating story.
Melissa K. Norris - Modern Homesteading I did pickles years ago. I want to try some things like beans & jelly or jams. I don’t have a garden anymore as I am disables & unable to do all the work that is involved.
Nice food storage. I like the fact that you grow your own food and can it for your food storage. We all need to garden, to grow our own food, even if we do not have much room. You can grow a lot of food in small areas. Please people, grow your own food, store food, work on your fitness, work on being prepared.
Yes!! Yes, yes, yes. Thank you for posting this. I've always been hesitant to preserve food before because I've never known what it could/would/should look like. This is very helpful, thank you!!
@Sara Fatyukhin I'm so glad it gave you some ideas and if you're not signed up yet for the free home food preservation series, I think you'll find it really helpful with step-by-step tutorials and some of my recipes melissaknorris.com/food-preservation-video-series/
Love your videos and I have both of your cookbooks. I have canned for 40 years. I am new to fermenting and dehydrating. Can't wait to see what you have to share with us!!
thoroughly enjoyed watching this. Your husband is so lucky to have you mastering all these food stores! WOW! Im a full time Nomad living in a 34' fifth wheel, traveling the country right now. Ii have to be very creative on storing canned goods (jars) Love to see all your diversity of canned stuff from your farm/ranch. I'll be settling in the SOuther Missouri area in about a year and will begin building something very similar. Thanks for sharing!!! Do you have a twin sister BTW? :-)
Melissa K. Norris - Modern Homesteading. thanks for the response Melissa, I figured, you’re a one-of-kind lady! Yes, looking forward to the upcoming adventure. Enjoy yore channel, and made a hybrid batch of you red bell pepper jam this week. (Red bell peppers, pineapple, sweet onions, ginger, honey, dash of apple cider vinegar, and dash of corn starch.) turned out great! 👌👍😀
I am learning to garden and can at a late age I am 71 and started 3 years ago on a small scale. Picked up pressure canning recently and my first garden was last year. I have a dehydrator but have never used it. There are only two of us but we try to avoid buying processed foods. I need to learn to can enough to get me through to the next garden season. Looking forward to more of your videos.
Just discovered your channel. New Sub. Love seeing other pantry ideas. Another alternative is under beds. We live in Florida & our house is on a slab; no basement, crawl space, garage or root cellar. I recently bought a bed frame from Amazon (Walmart also carries) that is 14" high & only requires a mattress. I'm eventually going to replace the beds in other 2 rooms. We recently moved so will be building raised beds in back yard for garden next spring. I'm mainly storing for hurricane season or "Zombie Apocalypse". Irma caught us totally unprepared a couple of years ago. No electricity for 5-1/2 days. Lost everything in fridge & freezer with no way to cook. Lesson learned! This won't happen again. Thank you so much for sharing. Looking forward to some of your canning videos. God bless ❤ Bev
Like your cabinet. Some mayonnaise, and mustard jar lids fit regular mouth jars. They can be used to keep jars clean inside while on the shelf, and in the refrigerator. I put large paper bags, or cardboard on my jars to help keep them clean. My grandmother used cloth.
I am from the PNW too (Yakima).. Just a couple of tips.. Produce boxes are the perfect size to store quart jars.. and stack wonderfully.. my empties I stack up to 8-10 high.. Nothing over 5 high of filled product.. Have you considered freezing egg scrambles?... 2 eggs cracked and scrambled, then frozen, rewrapped in wax paper, and stored in 1gl freezer bags (3 dozen each) That way we can buy 15 dozen at a time when they go on sale post Easter for as little as 75 cents a dozen, and a full freezer works cheaper too
Howdy from across the Cascades @KevinRehberg I do freeze some of my eggs (we have chickens so I usually only freeze some the end of summer before they go into molting for the fall as they produce almost year round). I haven't frozen them scrambled though, I usually break one egg into a silicone muffin cup, freeze, then pop out and put in a big bag to use in baking. Thanks for the tip
@@MelissaKNorris if I can pick your brain.. I am making some kraut and using a waterbath method for sealing them in jars after the fermentation process... Do you know if it is dangerous to vacuum seal a jar pre water bath??..I know the reasoning behind the spacing is to allow for air to escape as the product expands and creates a vacuuum when it cools but with a vacuum already in place it only reduces the amount of vacuum pressure as the product expands until it gets to neutral pressure or greater.. I can't see any dangers myself but the GF is afraid the jar might explode.. was wondering if you had any insight
@@kevinrehberg8758 I hope you don't mind me giving a suggestion~ There is an excellent article you may want to explore about this subject. You can find it at (one word) make sauerkraut dot com (forward slash) storing-sauerkraut. Best regards.
@@vallis1469 thank you for the lead... A WELL informed canner is a successful one..Although my specific question wasn't directly answered, I did learn a couple more tools of the craft...
Thanks for taking us on a tour of your pantry, it's really interesting to see preserving and food storage in action. I've never made enough of anything to store for longer than 6 months but it's definitely something I'd like to move more towards doing. Thanks again :)
I built a similar cabinet. I keep my herbs and seasonings in it. I just got done with my asparagus. I grow my own, and the ditches are full of it where I live.
You could possibly look at adding a storage drawer under your trailer. The underside usually stays cool, not sure how much cooler. Something to possibly look into.
I love your pantry space! I have the same layout in my home! Been wanting to tear out those cupboards and build something similar to what you have, can’t wait to show this to my partner and crack the whip on this project. We tweaked the cabinetry between the kitchen and living room space so the view is open and unobstructed. Lost some storage but for us it was worth it for creating a bar space for eating and entertaining.
Hi Rebecca so glad it inspired a project... I've been known to show my husband online project ideas too, lol I've been tempted to take out the upper cabinets, but I do like the storage there so haven't yet. Happy revamping the cupboard space!
My biggest crops I can are green beans, applesauce and loads of Jan from blueberries, elderberries, raspberries and strawberries. I use an insulated horse stall in my barn to store most of my canned goods. I freeze most of my meat, rabbit, chicken and any I buy from the store. Running out of room though, a good problem!
You’ve gotta try canned zucchini “pineapple”! It’s so yummy and uses cans of pineapple juice! Homemade “pineapple” upside down cakes, Hawaiian pizza, you can even make fruit breads with it! I LOVE my canned “pineapple”
Thank you for sharing! I’d love info on what you dehydrate and what form you dehydrate the different foods in. Such as zoodles. I guess I could use ideas.
New to your channel and this was so inspiring! My husband and I will be starting our first garden this fall and can't wait to see a pantry like this ❤️
Greetings from UK! I am going to try to preserve some of my food from my allotment this year. Lots of useful ideas. I need to learn how to store my raspberries and redcurrants without using too much sugar! Thanks.
Beautiful food in those jars! I just ordered some replacement parts for my canner so I hope to can something this year. It's been a few years since I have done much other than jelly or tomatoes. I hope we can up our production of produce next year. Your videos are so encouraging and informative. I love how you have made so much storage in limited space. We will eventually downsize and it's good to know how much food you can store by being creative.
For people without fruit trees you can regularly check for free produce through local classified ads. I found apricots and plums. We picked about 30 lbs of each for free. The homeowners acted like we were doing them a favor! When we had a small home orchard I had the hardest time finding someone to share the 150 lbs of pie cherries I got from one tree (thanks UA-cam for videos on how to prune cherry trees to get a higher yield). NO one wanted them. I would have been very happy if someone had taken a lot of them. I ended up with a zillion quart bags of cherries in the freezer because I wasn't about to waste them. You can probably find used canning equipment, food dehydrators and freezers in the classified ads, too.
Hi... This is my first time here. This is great. I had no idea u could can and preserve in our own kitchen. I thought it was too warm. This is such a game changer for me. And I love your vintage screen door!! Thanks much.
New sub as 5 min ago. Love the generational beans being pass down through your ohana, sooo awesome!!, I also love the vintage pantry with screen door, coolness to infinity and beyond, wify loved it too, your hubby knocked this out of the park. What an inspireing video.
Thank you for such a wonderful tour of your pantry! I am learning so much! My husband and I are in the process of selling our 'modern', over-sized (too big of a mortgage) home. Two of our four children no longer live at home, and our other two children just graduated from high-school (virtually). We have a contract on an older home with some acreage, situated next to a large national forest. It has been our dream to homestead for many years, and we are finally able to take these first steps towards making our dream come true. We are excited to begin this wonderful journey and learn from your expert experience. I just discovered your podcast yesterday, which led me to your you-tube videos! I look forward to watching and listening to all your videos and podcasts as we prepare for a new way of life.
I love this, Melissa. I've never dehydrated foods before so I don't know how to rehydrate them or what to do with them. I'd love to learn more about how to use dehydrated items.
I’ve been canning for years now and have done some dehydration. But never enough for feed my family through an entire year (except a few years I canned enough green beans for one qt per week for the winter). I would love to do that, but have a garden that hasn’t been very productive the last few years. I have purchased produce from farmers markets to preserve other products and make jams. But I make WAY more jams than we use! Things have changed since we became empty nesters, but we’d like to grow enough in the future to provide for our grown children and their families. When we downsize house, we’d like to upsize property so we can have a larger garden and start an orchard. I do buy peaches from the traveling Peach Truck which stops in my area twice a year with heirloom peaches from Georgia. Thank you for all your ideas like the condiments and smoked canned salmon! I need to do better with USING the dried tomatoes and jams and other dehydrated items! Are your cherry trees sweet or pie? Wondering what I should be looking for when I someday start an orchard.
Hi @JenBear I have quite a bit of jam and fruit butters left from last year so I won't put as much up either this year. My cherries are bing, so a sweet cherry.
First time watching you.... Love your home canned pantry! Someone gave me 2 five gallon buckets of pears last year. I made pear preserves, canned slices and halves, and my favorite: pear pickles!! I love pear pickles over field peas and butter beans and snaps (green beans).
South Texas here - I have made a lot of salsa but can’t keep up with my family’s salsa consumption. I’ll have to grow more tomatoes and peppers next year. A year’s worth of salsa for us would probably fill your secondary pantry!
wow! how do you possibly remember what those jars have in them. me, i would label each one...memory not so good...lol🤗 would love to see how you make 'em. you must have culinary background...love the pantry. real life WONDER WOMAN of food storage!✌💖
I grew up with a huge pear tree in our yard and my mother made pear butter and also what she called pear honey, which was a pear jam with pineapple in it..
Wow so inspirational! I’ve got to get busy to catch up to you. Subbed and loved. Thanks to you and others on the same journey of prepared dried and healthy living I’ve learned so much in just two years. I’m so grateful for y’all taking time to teach and share♥️♥️🙏💜💜
I am so excited I came across your channel, I am starting to put my feelers out there for canning, dehydrating, pickling etc. I am so excited to learn more. thank you for sharing.
Just found you this morning ,,,I subscribed , I enjoy you , I'm 64 in Kentucky lived the homestead life now I've slowed down shop at Kroger and local Mennonite families for things I need , I will enjoy watching your journey this winter as I snuggle in ,,,,,
Enjoy having you share your "stores" of canned foods. Covet the cache!!!! Your such a rare gem Melissa, hard to find good women who are so dialed in on homesteading. Best to you and your family. -vicarious inspirations~
Thanks for linking to your dehydrator. I've been looking for a cost effective option. I can't justify paying for the excalibur right now. Thanks and many blessings in the next harvest.
Thank you for a very inspirational video! It was fantastic particularly because I learned for the first time that it's possible to make pasta at home and dehydrate it for later use, plus I'd never heard of dehydrated kale or pear butter ...... I could go on but this video was horizon broadening for me. Thank you for all the time and effort you put into making this great video.
Was watching a storage video and yours popped up. I have a lot of what you are canning; ready to go. Thought you might be someone I would like to follow. Then you said "Store Grown" and got tickled. If you can't laugh at yourself, life is not fun. I just subbed and clicked the bell. See you soon. Going now to look at your garden. Then out to my garden for more tomatoes to can, whole this year.
I make jams and jellies to sell at local farmer's market. Would love to have your red pepper jelly recipe and your candied jalapenos. Just processed first batch of chicken with canner. Can't wait to do more. Oh, and, am having lots of fun with my Excaliber dehydrator that I bought with some of my jelly money last year.
Hi @StephanieCorporandy the red pepper jelly recipe I use is here melissaknorris.com/red-pepper-garlic-jelly-and-bonus-holiday-processed-replacement-guide/ and this is really similar to the recipe we used that a friend gave to us www.justapinch.com/recipes/snack/other-snack/tropical-cowboy-candy.html
Oh what a great idea, exp for people that love the country look. But yes to take a book case and put a screen door on it, let's air circulate, gives pretexted from light, won't fall out in earthquake and decrotive and cute..
Loved the video - very inspiring! Could you please show us your recipe to make the pasta, dehydrate and store it for long term storage. New to your channel (today!) and new to dehydrating. Thanks in advance.
@Tiffany Krievans I do have a homemade pasta series inside the Pioneering Today Academy but not up on UA-cam or my website. I also have a Home Food Preservation series that's totally free (the first day's videos are on dehydrating and still up) you can snag them here melissaknorris.com/food-preservation-video-series/
can you do a video on canning with tattler lids? i am very interested - and intimidated by them. I got my first set and would really like to see someone use them.....
We’re in the PNW as well, ALSO in a manufactured home, lol. We’re Trying to grow and store as much food as possible. We changed our windowless office into our walk in rotating prepper pantry. Hoping to get livestock this upcoming year. Thanks for showing us your storage! So nice to see likeminded individuals out there! Everyone else thinks we are weird. Also- HOW do you can tasty green beans? I’ve never had tasty canned green beans. ☹️
For the green beans, definitely use some salt, I've tried no salt and adding it at time of eating and they're NEVER as good, but if you're already using salt, I honestly think it's our heirloom bean. They have an almost buttery taste that I've never experienced with other varieties.
You just don’t know how much I enjoy your videos and your podcast. I know this is not easy for you to put these videos out. But I just want you to know how much I appreciate them and I hope you always continue to do it. Is there anyway that the public can get the October beans? The way you described them literally made my mouth water and I wanted to go in the kitchen and cook me up a Insta pot full of them.
@Reta Strong I don't have much extra on the October beans as I save enough for our seed bean and eating and offer them to Pioneering Today Academy members first, but that being said, shoot me an email :)
Just ran across your channel, I am learning to can this year with my grandmother as my guide, We are currently building our off the grid home and trying to raise as much as our own food as possible. Love the tour hope my storage looks like this some day. Thanks for sharing I will be watching for more videos.
Want to preserve up the recipes you see in the video, I'd love to teach and show you how, make sure you sign up here for my FREE home food preservation series going on now!! melissaknorris.com/food-preservation-video-series/
Melissa K. Norris i tried to access this live but it wouldn't load.
You can really keep canned n fermented foods in the kitchen?? That's great. I've always read canned/fermented foods need to be cold.
Barbara Carbone home canned foods only need to be kept cold after opening the jar. Fermented foods while fermenting need to be at room temp. Gramma had fermented pickles, eggs, and sausages on the counter in her store all the time. They stayed there all day & all night. She just put the lid back on after taking out what she wanted. None of these were near a hot stove though.
Fermented foods go to cold storage after they've fermented for long term storage but canned foods are absolutely shelf stable... that's the whole point of canning them 😊
@@edieboudreau9637 any memories of Grandma doing that w pickled garlic? I'm intrigued😁
I love this screen door idea. Having just gone through Hurricane Michael and losing 2 freezers full of food . Canning is the way to go.
I keep my canning rings on a long bungee cord. Small rings on one side and large on the other. Just use the hooks to hang it up and they ready use when needed. Works wonderful.
Ok this is genius.
Would love to hear how you use each of the sauces and products (like what meals you make with them).
it would be awesome to buy your recipe book if you would do one when you use the homestead grown and preserved produce. Also if you could do the preserve recipe book!
Hola
Yes please! There are so many interesting recipes I’d like to try, but am always hesitant as to whether we’d really use the product 🤔
This is what real food storage looks like 😍
Very helpful for people who think they can't keep food for a year without a basement or root cellar or a hundred freezers. You take away all the excuses, and you gave me some great ideas! I converted some closets into food shelves. They work great.
Can’t wait for this Melissa!! Your podcasts kept me going when I was working a really tough job a few years back, now I run my own edible landscape design company!! Can’t wait xx
@Grow Your Groceries Oh, I'm so happy to hear that. And how awesome you now have your own edible landscape design company, high five! You should shoot me an email at melissa@melissaknorris.com as that sounds like a fascinating story.
Oh wow I would love to! 💗
Melissa: The most costly expense I have is FOOD. I enjoy cooking GOOD food- Really got some great ideas from this vid. Blown away !
I know, food prices are crazy. I'm so grateful we're able to raise and put up as much as we do.
I love that kitchen pantry!
Thank you! Do you can or do home food preservation?
Melissa K. Norris - Modern Homesteading I did pickles years ago. I want to try some things like beans & jelly or jams. I don’t have a garden anymore as I am disables & unable to do all the work that is involved.
Nice food storage. I like the fact that you grow your own food and can it for your food storage. We all need to garden, to grow our own food, even if we do not have much room. You can grow a lot of food in small areas. Please people, grow your own food, store food, work on your fitness, work on being prepared.
Yes!! Yes, yes, yes. Thank you for posting this. I've always been hesitant to preserve food before because I've never known what it could/would/should look like. This is very helpful, thank you!!
@Sara Fatyukhin I'm so glad it gave you some ideas and if you're not signed up yet for the free home food preservation series, I think you'll find it really helpful with step-by-step tutorials and some of my recipes melissaknorris.com/food-preservation-video-series/
Love your videos and I have both of your cookbooks. I have canned for 40 years. I am new to fermenting and dehydrating. Can't wait to see what you have to share with us!!
Thank you for getting the books @Rhonda Henderson!
Your pantry is gorgeous! I'd love to know more about the dehydrated homemade pasta. I just found you and can't wait to watch more.
I loved this! I also didn't realize you lived in a mobile home. That makes me feel like this is something I could do too! Thanks Melissa!
@BrittanyBetros so glad you enjoyed it and yes, you can do a lot even in a smaller space like ours :)
Please do a jamming series! I'd love to replicate your recipes. They sounds unique and delish!
@Gabrielle Pitts did you see the free jam & jelly e-book I have here? melissaknorris.com/free-homemade-jam-jelly-e-book/
Love it! Rhubarb Butter is delicious too, for those who are fans of it.
You're one busy lady. Oh my!!
thoroughly enjoyed watching this. Your husband is so lucky to have you mastering all these food stores! WOW! Im a full time Nomad living in a 34' fifth wheel, traveling the country right now. Ii have to be very creative on storing canned goods (jars) Love to see all your diversity of canned stuff from your farm/ranch. I'll be settling in the SOuther Missouri area in about a year and will begin building something very similar. Thanks for sharing!!! Do you have a twin sister BTW? :-)
Thanks Dave and no on the twin, but hope you enjoy your time in the Missouri area!
Melissa K. Norris - Modern Homesteading. thanks for the response Melissa, I figured, you’re a one-of-kind lady! Yes, looking forward to the upcoming adventure. Enjoy yore channel, and made a hybrid batch of you red bell pepper jam this week. (Red bell peppers, pineapple, sweet onions, ginger, honey, dash of apple cider vinegar, and dash of corn starch.) turned out great! 👌👍😀
I am learning to garden and can at a late age I am 71 and started 3 years ago on a small scale. Picked up pressure canning recently and my first garden was last year. I have a dehydrator but have never used it. There are only two of us but we try to avoid buying processed foods. I need to learn to can enough to get me through to the next garden season. Looking forward to more of your videos.
Holy cow!!!! I just started following you--what an inspiration. Spectacular! Thanks for sharing!
Just discovered your channel. New Sub. Love seeing other pantry ideas. Another alternative is under beds. We live in Florida & our house is on a slab; no basement, crawl space, garage or root cellar. I recently bought a bed frame from Amazon (Walmart also carries) that is 14" high & only requires a mattress. I'm eventually going to replace the beds in other 2 rooms. We recently moved so will be building raised beds in back yard for garden next spring. I'm mainly storing for hurricane season or "Zombie Apocalypse". Irma caught us totally unprepared a couple of years ago. No electricity for 5-1/2 days. Lost everything in fridge & freezer with no way to cook. Lesson learned! This won't happen again. Thank you so much for sharing. Looking forward to some of your canning videos. God bless ❤ Bev
I hope in a future video you share the recipe and how to do the mustard and pickle relish sounds delicious 😋
I would also like to hear about smoked salmon. I didn't know that you can store fish in this way.
All of your canned goods sound delicious! All of the sauces and spicy jams, thanks for the inspiration.
Like your cabinet. Some mayonnaise, and mustard jar lids fit regular mouth jars. They can be used to keep jars clean inside while on the shelf, and in the refrigerator. I put large paper bags, or cardboard on my jars to help keep them clean. My grandmother used cloth.
I am from the PNW too (Yakima).. Just a couple of tips.. Produce boxes are the perfect size to store quart jars.. and stack wonderfully.. my empties I stack up to 8-10 high.. Nothing over 5 high of filled product.. Have you considered freezing egg scrambles?... 2 eggs cracked and scrambled, then frozen, rewrapped in wax paper, and stored in 1gl freezer bags (3 dozen each) That way we can buy 15 dozen at a time when they go on sale post Easter for as little as 75 cents a dozen, and a full freezer works cheaper too
Howdy from across the Cascades @KevinRehberg I do freeze some of my eggs (we have chickens so I usually only freeze some the end of summer before they go into molting for the fall as they produce almost year round). I haven't frozen them scrambled though, I usually break one egg into a silicone muffin cup, freeze, then pop out and put in a big bag to use in baking. Thanks for the tip
@@MelissaKNorris if I can pick your brain.. I am making some kraut and using a waterbath method for sealing them in jars after the fermentation process... Do you know if it is dangerous to vacuum seal a jar pre water bath??..I know the reasoning behind the spacing is to allow for air to escape as the product expands and creates a vacuuum when it cools but with a vacuum already in place it only reduces the amount of vacuum pressure as the product expands until it gets to neutral pressure or greater.. I can't see any dangers myself but the GF is afraid the jar might explode.. was wondering if you had any insight
@@kevinrehberg8758 I hope you don't mind me giving a suggestion~ There is an excellent article you may want to explore about this subject. You can find it at (one word) make sauerkraut dot com (forward slash) storing-sauerkraut. Best regards.
@@vallis1469 thank you for the lead... A WELL informed canner is a successful one..Although my specific question wasn't directly answered, I did learn a couple more tools of the craft...
Thanks for taking us on a tour of your pantry, it's really interesting to see preserving and food storage in action. I've never made enough of anything to store for longer than 6 months but it's definitely something I'd like to move more towards doing. Thanks again :)
I built a similar cabinet. I keep my herbs and seasonings in it.
I just got done with my asparagus. I grow my own, and the ditches are full of it where I live.
I’m so inspired to get back to my canning!
You could possibly look at adding a storage drawer under your trailer. The underside usually stays cool, not sure how much cooler. Something to possibly look into.
Your one very organised lady luv ya work
I love your pantry space! I have the same layout in my home! Been wanting to tear out those cupboards and build something similar to what you have, can’t wait to show this to my partner and crack the whip on this project. We tweaked the cabinetry between the kitchen and living room space so the view is open and unobstructed. Lost some storage but for us it was worth it for creating a bar space for eating and entertaining.
Hi Rebecca so glad it inspired a project... I've been known to show my husband online project ideas too, lol I've been tempted to take out the upper cabinets, but I do like the storage there so haven't yet. Happy revamping the cupboard space!
My biggest crops I can are green beans, applesauce and loads of Jan from blueberries, elderberries, raspberries and strawberries. I use an insulated horse stall in my barn to store most of my canned goods. I freeze most of my meat, rabbit, chicken and any I buy from the store. Running out of room though, a good problem!
Never thought of dehydrating zoodles! Brilliant. Harvesting zucchini now here in Tasmania, so will try it in the next few days.
You’ve gotta try canned zucchini “pineapple”! It’s so yummy and uses cans of pineapple juice! Homemade “pineapple” upside down cakes, Hawaiian pizza, you can even make fruit breads with it! I LOVE my canned “pineapple”
Thank you for sharing! I’d love info on what you dehydrate and what form you dehydrate the different foods in. Such as zoodles. I guess I could use ideas.
I dehydrate mushrooms, cherries, onions, carrots, paste tomatoes. And herbs. And the list goes on.
Outstanding video... so impressed!!!!! I feel like a dolt now... at least I found your channel ! Your husband got a CATCH !
So glad you found the channel! And I love helping other people learn how to do this, because I"m all about good food, lol
You did a great job on the pantry door. Awesome food storage.
Beautiful pantry! Thank you for sharing!
Enjoyed this video, seeing what other homestead ladies have in there pantry is fun and interesting, God Bless,xoxoxo.
Love your videos. New to your channel. Well spoken and great editing. Love the pantry.
New to your channel and this was so inspiring! My husband and I will be starting our first garden this fall and can't wait to see a pantry like this ❤️
Thank you so much Your one Beautiful Lady. God bless you all. Life is Good Amen Thank you, Jesus.
Greetings from UK! I am going to try to preserve some of my food from my allotment this year. Lots of useful ideas. I need to learn how to store my raspberries and redcurrants without using too much sugar! Thanks.
Screen door pantry - Too Cool!
Beautiful food in those jars! I just ordered some replacement parts for my canner so I hope to can something this year. It's been a few years since I have done much other than jelly or tomatoes. I hope we can up our production of produce next year. Your videos are so encouraging and informative. I love how you have made so much storage in limited space. We will eventually downsize and it's good to know how much food you can store by being creative.
Thank you @Holcomb Homestead and yay for new parts to get that canner up and going!
For people without fruit trees you can regularly check for free produce through local classified ads. I found apricots and plums. We picked about 30 lbs of each for free. The homeowners acted like we were doing them a favor!
When we had a small home orchard I had the hardest time finding someone to share the 150 lbs of pie cherries I got from one tree (thanks UA-cam for videos on how to prune cherry trees to get a higher yield). NO one wanted them. I would have been very happy if someone had taken a lot of them. I ended up with a zillion quart bags of cherries in the freezer because I wasn't about to waste them.
You can probably find used canning equipment, food dehydrators and freezers in the classified ads, too.
Sorry no on took you up on your offer... I would have loved cherries! Next time you could donate to the local food pantry. Good luck
What a great problem to have!
Hi... This is my first time here. This is great. I had no idea u could can and preserve in our own kitchen. I thought it was too warm. This is such a game changer for me. And I love your vintage screen door!! Thanks much.
You have an amazing organizational memory, I would have to label everything haha. Great food system!
New sub as 5 min ago. Love the generational beans being pass down through your ohana, sooo awesome!!, I also love the vintage pantry with screen door, coolness to infinity and beyond, wify loved it too, your hubby knocked this out of the park. What an inspireing video.
LOVE the screen door on the kitchen pantry!
Beautiful pantry, awesome variety.
Hi Colleen.
Thank you for such a wonderful tour of your pantry! I am learning so much! My husband and I are in the process of selling our 'modern', over-sized (too big of a mortgage) home. Two of our four children no longer live at home, and our other two children just graduated from high-school (virtually). We have a contract on an older home with some acreage, situated next to a large national forest. It has been our dream to homestead for many years, and we are finally able to take these first steps towards making our dream come true. We are excited to begin this wonderful journey and learn from your expert experience. I just discovered your podcast yesterday, which led me to your you-tube videos! I look forward to watching and listening to all your videos and podcasts as we prepare for a new way of life.
Hi Melanie.
I love this idea with the screened door cupboard. Very handy. Thank you for sharing your bounty and great ideas.
Hi Valli.
I love to can because it is good in cold months.My mother always canned.
I love this, Melissa. I've never dehydrated foods before so I don't know how to rehydrate them or what to do with them. I'd love to learn more about how to use dehydrated items.
Hi Keri.
I’ve been canning for years now and have done some dehydration. But never enough for feed my family through an entire year (except a few years I canned enough green beans for one qt per week for the winter). I would love to do that, but have a garden that hasn’t been very productive the last few years. I have purchased produce from farmers markets to preserve other products and make jams. But I make WAY more jams than we use! Things have changed since we became empty nesters, but we’d like to grow enough in the future to provide for our grown children and their families.
When we downsize house, we’d like to upsize property so we can have a larger garden and start an orchard.
I do buy peaches from the traveling Peach Truck which stops in my area twice a year with heirloom peaches from Georgia.
Thank you for all your ideas like the condiments and smoked canned salmon!
I need to do better with USING the dried tomatoes and jams and other dehydrated items!
Are your cherry trees sweet or pie? Wondering what I should be looking for when I someday start an orchard.
Hi @JenBear I have quite a bit of jam and fruit butters left from last year so I won't put as much up either this year. My cherries are bing, so a sweet cherry.
Thank you for your reply! I’ll look into sweet cherries then.
Hi Melissa! Fellow Washington girl! (South sound raised) so happy to find your channel! Thanks for doing what you do!
Beautiful Video !
First time watching you.... Love your home canned pantry! Someone gave me 2 five gallon buckets of pears last year. I made pear preserves, canned slices and halves, and my favorite: pear pickles!! I love pear pickles over field peas and butter beans and snaps (green beans).
Very well done! Thank you. You got my wheels turning haha
Your pantry is so beautiful and the screen door is fantastic! It fits perfectly
South Texas here - I have made a lot of salsa but can’t keep up with my family’s salsa consumption. I’ll have to grow more tomatoes and peppers next year. A year’s worth of salsa for us would probably fill your secondary pantry!
My word, I LOVE That screen door!
Love love love
I would be a garden slave for you 🥰🥰🥰
wow! how do you possibly remember what those jars have in them. me, i would label each one...memory not so good...lol🤗 would love to see how you make 'em. you must have culinary background...love the pantry. real life WONDER WOMAN of food storage!✌💖
I grew up with a huge pear tree in our yard and my mother made pear butter and also what she called pear honey, which was a pear jam with pineapple in it..
@Susie Gray that sounds delicious!
Wow so inspirational! I’ve got to get busy to catch up to you. Subbed and loved. Thanks to you and others on the same journey of prepared dried and healthy living I’ve learned so much in just two years. I’m so grateful for y’all taking time to teach and share♥️♥️🙏💜💜
I am so excited I came across your channel, I am starting to put my feelers out there for canning, dehydrating, pickling etc. I am so excited to learn more. thank you for sharing.
Hey @Heidi Larkin so pleased to meet you. I just got my free pressure canning video series up here melissa-norris.mykajabi.com/pressurecanning
I love your podcasts and videos!!
This is a dream pantry 😍
Just found you this morning ,,,I subscribed , I enjoy you , I'm 64 in Kentucky lived the homestead life now I've slowed down shop at Kroger and local Mennonite families for things I need , I will enjoy watching your journey this winter as I snuggle in ,,,,,
Where in Kentucky are you? Would love to know where the Mennonite families are and do the same!
Enjoy having you share your "stores" of canned foods. Covet the cache!!!! Your such a rare gem Melissa, hard to find good women who are so dialed in on homesteading. Best to you and your family.
-vicarious inspirations~
I just love your channel Melissa....Scott from Tacoma
Thanks for linking to your dehydrator. I've been looking for a cost effective option. I can't justify paying for the excalibur right now. Thanks and many blessings in the next harvest.
Wow so many tasty goodies I learned a lot! Host is so gorgeous too 😳
What a great idea for your kitchen pantry! I love the screen door idea.
Hi Sharon.
Dehydrated zuchini noodles..great idea
Thank you for a very inspirational video! It was fantastic particularly because I learned for the first time that it's possible to make pasta at home and dehydrate it for later use, plus I'd never heard of dehydrated kale or pear butter ...... I could go on but this video was horizon broadening for me. Thank you for all the time and effort you put into making this great video.
So glad to hear it brought you some new ideas!
Hi, Can you show a tutorial on canning bread and butter pickles please? They are my family's favorite. Thank you.
Gorgeous
I completely missed the part about food storage .
I see that Weck jar!
Was watching a storage video and yours popped up. I have a lot of what you are canning; ready to go. Thought you might be someone I would like to follow. Then you said "Store Grown" and got tickled. If you can't laugh at yourself, life is not fun. I just subbed and clicked the bell. See you soon. Going now to look at your garden. Then out to my garden for more tomatoes to can, whole this year.
@Joey Hardin so nice to meet you and the ability to laugh at oneself is mighty good thing ;)
I make jams and jellies to sell at local farmer's market. Would love to have your red pepper jelly recipe and your candied jalapenos.
Just processed first batch of chicken with canner. Can't wait to do more. Oh, and, am having lots of fun with my Excaliber dehydrator that I bought with some of my jelly money last year.
Hi @StephanieCorporandy the red pepper jelly recipe I use is here melissaknorris.com/red-pepper-garlic-jelly-and-bonus-holiday-processed-replacement-guide/ and this is really similar to the recipe we used that a friend gave to us www.justapinch.com/recipes/snack/other-snack/tropical-cowboy-candy.html
Oh what a great idea, exp for people that love the country look. But yes to take a book case and put a screen door on it, let's air circulate, gives pretexted from light, won't fall out in earthquake and decrotive and cute..
Loved the video - very inspiring! Could you please show us your recipe to make the pasta, dehydrate and store it for long term storage. New to your channel (today!) and new to dehydrating. Thanks in advance.
@Tiffany Krievans I do have a homemade pasta series inside the Pioneering Today Academy but not up on UA-cam or my website. I also have a Home Food Preservation series that's totally free (the first day's videos are on dehydrating and still up) you can snag them here melissaknorris.com/food-preservation-video-series/
Hi Melissa, New subscriber. Love to can, dehydrate & look forward to watching & learning new tips from you!
Hi @CharleneCole so nice to meet you and thank you for subscribing :)
I love your pantry! You're so organized!!
Loved this !!! Thanks Melissa!
can you do a video on canning with tattler lids? i am very interested - and intimidated by them. I got my first set and would really like to see someone use them.....
Wow...I'm just so impressed at your variety!
Hi Pam.
Enjoyed your video thanks
Yellow pepper mustard sauce?!?! Oooooh,
New today! Very interesting and informing.
We’re in the PNW as well, ALSO in a manufactured home, lol. We’re Trying to grow and store as much food as possible. We changed our windowless office into our walk in rotating prepper pantry.
Hoping to get livestock this upcoming year.
Thanks for showing us your storage! So nice to see likeminded individuals out there! Everyone else thinks we are weird.
Also- HOW do you can tasty green beans? I’ve never had tasty canned green beans. ☹️
For the green beans, definitely use some salt, I've tried no salt and adding it at time of eating and they're NEVER as good, but if you're already using salt, I honestly think it's our heirloom bean. They have an almost buttery taste that I've never experienced with other varieties.
The way you describe your family beans is so cool. What a legacy. Do you sell your beans?
You just don’t know how much I enjoy your videos and your podcast. I know this is not easy for you to put these videos out. But I just want you to know how much I appreciate them and I hope you always continue to do it. Is there anyway that the public can get the October beans? The way you described them literally made my mouth water and I wanted to go in the kitchen and cook me up a Insta pot full of them.
@Reta Strong I don't have much extra on the October beans as I save enough for our seed bean and eating and offer them to Pioneering Today Academy members first, but that being said, shoot me an email :)
Just ran across your channel, I am learning to can this year with my grandmother as my guide, We are currently building our off the grid home and trying to raise as much as our own food as possible. Love the tour hope my storage looks like this some day. Thanks for sharing I will be watching for more videos.
You have a wonderful pantry a little of everything, that’s great. I need to can some carrots , white northern beans and tomato juice .
Hi Deborah.
I thoroughly enjoyed your video! Your pantry is amazing!