Given the rising food prices I won’t be surprised if UA-cam videos like these don’t start to take off in popularity. We love our garden and fresh veggies for sure!
Absolutely LOVED, let me say it again... LOVED this episode! I think I'm going to have to build a prep table like that for our garden, too! Now, since I don't know too much about corn, I'd watch an episode, a part 2 so to speak, about corn and other goodies to save. So-Cal isn't farm country, but we've defied the law of physics and grown LOTS of veggies this year! We just harvested the potatoes! WOOHOO! Thanks again Andrew! Steve
I always put zucchini & spinach in my pasta sauces. I make big batches that have italian sausage, veggies, ground beef, basil pesto, lots if spices, veggies etc then freeze it in quart sz containers. You can use it for lasagna, any pasta dish, Italian Wedding Soup throw it into some browned ground beef for sloppy joes & add a little bit of tomato paste to thicken it up, etc..makes for quick meals. We also use it on homemade pizzas for sauce. You can make lots of pizza dough then freeze it in ziplocks for quick pizzas too.
Fingers crossed I get a bumper crop of squash and zucchini to freeze this year. Trying hard to keep the squash bugs away! I am going to try the food saver. I have one and never thought of trying to store them that way. Thanks!
Andrew, as much as you guys like preserving your garden, try freezing some shredded squash/zucchini. It’s great for adding to casseroles and soups for extra nutrition AND it practically disintegrates in case you’re propping up a soup or casserole but don’t necessarily want chunks of squash! A food processor shreds squash super fast but I use a hand shredder with a crank that works fast, too. And if you get a hankering for zucchini bread, you have the zucchini ready to go!
When we freeze Bell peppers, we slice and/or dice them. We then spread them on cookie sheets, single layer, and then put the cookie sheets with the peppers in the freezer for 45 minutes or so. Then we put the “crusty” peppers in freezer bags and store in the freezer. We can then take small quantities of peppers when needed. Doing the peppers this way we don’t end up with a frozen block of peppers.
Ever try using the slicer to remove the kernel off the cob before freezing. Might be a way to put up more corn and save some room. You probably prefer on the cob, as do I but if you have more than you can store it would be a good way to still have it. Really good in soups an stews.
I like take the early squash and zucchini and grilling it on the grill. Coat them with some olive oil or what ever oil u like and coat them with your favorite seasoning. Mmmmmm good
With a corn to bean and squash, the Indians used to call the three sisters and all over the world it was pretty common to plant them that way you plant your corn first as it gets taller you plant your beans and once you’re being start growing up the corn stalks can you plant your squash and they fix the soil for each other and acorns provide trellis for the beans so they can get above the squash course but Beebalm and doing it that way for thousands of years
Great video Andrew. I'm going to save this one and watch it again so I keep learning more and more about this thank you so much for showing these videos, very much appreciated. I can't wait for the canning videos.
Andrew you should get Tiffany to come up with a digital cookbook of all her simple but awesome recipes. I would definitely buy one. And I want to let you know that the pineapple boats y’all made last week were a huge hit with the friends I made it for today thank you
I know you’re probably looking. But I’ve been holding off on building a deck because of the price of the decking boards. The 5/4 16ft pressure treated decks boards got up to $32. I just checked today and they are down to $14 so I think I’m pulling the trigger on that.
Omfg I'm just going to clone your entire life. You made me aware of the Blackstone months ago. I hate grills but love griddles. I just got my 36" 4 burner pitboss this week. I am getting some acreage and I am planning a shop house. I had not considered a processing room but this is an amazing idea. The kind of table and sink good for processing is excessive for a kitchen. It's brilliant having food prep and storage in the same space!
Wow, loved this video, two of my favorite things to do freezing and canning...I have always had a food saver but never lasted as long as yours did...going to check out the one from amazon...thanks Andrew
I think it's the shade also. Many folks forget a lot of vegetables started out in and around forests and though they may do ok in full or near full sun, especially in Northern climes where the sun is not so harsh, most species benefit from a shady break. I have never seen nor used one of those safety dillyboppers that come with mandolins that are worth the space they take up in a drawer.
Hi Andrew great video. I never knew you could freeze fresh vegetables right from the garden, great idea. It's just me here but I will do that later in the season. Nice to have on hand. Take care. 🌞🇨🇦
Just found you today. Watched only a few scenes from pickled okra and whatever camera snake toy that was yesterday lol. First thing I noticed was your organizational skills. I crave that level of efficiency. (Cleaned a family hoard house recently) I’m in love w the processing room! Subscribed ✌️
Welcome aboard! Sadly after building our house over the last 13 months, I consider my shop a disaster. More needed organization coming soon as my OCD is freaking out LOL.
This was a good video Andrew. Just sitting here waiting to start my 11 hour Drive time and it was awesome watching you bag to your garden vegetable. Your garden is turning out very well this year. I used to help my wife & my mother-in-law do those things but me & knives & sharp objects we don't get along. They always seem to get the best of me & my wife would freak out every time I got cut so she told me no more cutting for me. So I said that's cool cuz I was tired of getting cut myself. I have had so many bad luck with knives it's not funny including stabbing myself while working on the truck 🚛 and had to go to the hospital. My wife said that is it for you & knives I don't want to see a knife in your hand for now on. Again good video buddy thank you for sharing.
One option to do if you want fresh vegetables, especially if you’re doing it for nutrition and throw on salads and eat raw is to ferment it. In nature we eat fermented foods because often vegetables are starting to ferment on their own. In today’s world if a vegetable gets a little soft we throw it away and buy another one but in nature we would have eaten them when they were soft and partially fermented. Fermented vegetables is the best probiotic you can get. You can spend $700 a week from some super magic doctor guy but you cannot beat fermented vegetables for probiotics and it’s really easy to do. You stick them in a mason jar with salt water covering them by about an inch you can put a rock or you can buy lids with little springs on them and you put it up in your cupboard or out of the sun for seven days and then you just stick it in your refrigerator and eat it kind of like you would pickled vegetables or relish but you still have all the enzymes and benefits of a fresh vegetable and they last about six months and then the fermenting process they grow something like 17 billion strains of anabiotic‘s and in their natural an altered form. It’s incredibly healthy food and it’s really easy just to throw a couple tablespoons on a salad but in survival situation like if the stores are out of food which seems to be a potential reality now you could do this in the fall and get fresh vegetables with the benefits from them for several months. Another awesome thing I’ve learned to do was sprouting. A lot of sprouts you can just grow in a mason jar with a screen lid and you just keep them out of the sun and it takes four or five days. You soak them overnight and then you rinse them three times a day and also you’ve got a jar full of sprouts which are about the best vegetable base vitamins you can get and sprout some cells are between five and 50 times as nutrient dense as adult vegetables plus when you’re eating grains or seeds that’s the way you’re supposed to eat them that releases all of the natural pesticides and toxins that the plants create or what we call inflammatory‘s which is the root of almost all disease. The nice thing about the sprouts is you can grow your own vegetables 365 days a year and you don’t need sun, everything you need is inside of that seed but the seed is highly toxic which is what keeps animals from eating them in nature but about half of my vegetables I grow in a mason jar on my counter and ate two meals a day and one of them is a salad with usually tuna on it and different fresh uncooked vegetables and fermented vegetables and you can throw sprouts on a sandwich or just on top of a steak or whatever you want they’re really easy to eat and unbelievably nutritious. But that’s the way we’re supposed to eat grains and beans, that’s what releases all of the toxins and natural pesticides from the grain/seed. This used to be tradition until a couple hundred years ago when they started processing flour and making it incredibly toxic to us. The pickled beans sounds pretty awesome. I like to put them in when I ferment things and I like to make a mix of fermented vegetables with garlic and onions and carrots and beans and a little corn which I don’t normally eat. Fermenting also has an added benefit where the probiotics get rid of about 70% of the carbs in the vegetables it also aids in digestion which is great for losing weight and incredible for your immune system. The sprouting also takes about 60 to 80% of the carbs out of the grain and your final product is about UA-cam 15 to 50 times the amount you would get if you were to use processed flour which means it’s about 5% of the carbs you would get from regular processed bread because there’s a ton of fiber in it and fiber carbs don’t really count because your body doesn’t process those types of carbs for the most part so bread made from sprouted grain yes almost healthy for you to our normal bread is pretty much nutrient void at this point and full of toxins. Until they started processing flour in the late 1800s that was pretty much the standard for thousands of years, they actually talk about it in the Bible which is why they call it Ezekiel bread a lot of the times because there’s a grain bread recipe in the Bible and that’s how it says you’re supposed to make bread from the sprouted grains which makes sense now that we have the science to explain the part about the toxins and the naturally occurring pesticides in those grains. It’s all pretty interesting. It would be awesome to have garden and all those fresh vegetables like that but I’m kind of stuck in town now so I do the sprouts and we’ve got a few things growing in buckets. Lol.
@@TKCL I hit it from a different angle. I hit it from a health perspective more than a gardening perspective. Because of my health issues for the last 10 months I’ve pretty much been obsessed with health and nutrition learning how the body works and I probably put over 2000 hours in to study on it. Your average MD family doctor has about two hours of study into nutrition and knows almost nothing they learn what 70 year old books tell them which is in many instances just wrong but for whatever reason they don’t update them, probably because eating that way helps sell pharmaceuticals. Lol. But learning nutrition and health never started out to be a survival or prepping thing but when you learn exactly what your body needs it changes your thoughts on survival food. Storing rice and beans is kind of useless there garbage food that have almost no nutritional value enter full of toxins and they’ll fill your stomach but they’re not going to nourish you. But things like learning to process animals and catch animals, weather hunting and fishing and all that is something you enjoy doing or not is something that could save your life someday. I like fishing and I love shooting but I’m not huge on hunting and I definitely don’t enjoy processing animals but I learned how to apply have to do what I can. But learning what your body needs can tell you what you’re going to need in the survival situation when things are scarce. A lot of people are going to go to the store and load up on chips and flour to make bread or rice and beans and those foods might keep you alive for a little while but they’re horrible options. Rice and beans store easily so it sort of makes sense if that’s part of your normal diet and it’s comfort food but nutritionally it’s garbage. Being able to grow sprouts learning what wild plants to eat. Start mowing your lawn and it will probably grow a bunch of dandelion greens which are one of the most healthy vegetables you can eat and they taste horrible but if you’re starving and have to nourish yourself munch on dandelion greens just wash them first if there are dogs that live around there. 😂 Also when you’re storing food. You can go by the most expensive steaks you want but most of them are going to be grain fed which means they’re gonna come from sick animals so you’re gonna have horrible fat ratios almost no vitamins and have about 80% less nutrients in them which means you have to eat five times as much. If you’re going to get grass fed beef it’s five times as nutritious so 1 pound of hamburger will feed you for an entire week as far as the necessary meat goes. If you’re gonna buy regular hamburger I need 5 pounds of that a week to meet your nutritional needs. Hamburger is a better option especially with grass fed because the animals are usually a little more lean and optimally you want between the 20 and 30% fat ratio, our bodies don’t process lean meat well yet doctors and nutritionist tell you eat chicken breast without the skin blah blah blah cut the fat off your meat blah blah blah. They have no clue what they’re talking about when you eat lean proteins your liver turns it into sugar it’s more fattening and it’s far less nutritious because most vitamins are fat soluble and most of the nutrients are in the fat so if you could get 20 to 30% fat grass fed ground beef, that’s about as nutritious as you’re gonna get come other than that canned tuna will last three years and is incredibly healthy and if you get a chunk light tuna it’s got much lower mercury in it and it’s from smaller fish, that well cut Alaskan salmon and oysters and grass fed beef are the healthiest foods you can get and a lot of people don’t like it but organ meat, kidneys hearts especially liver is exponentially more nutritious. Grass fed beef is about five times as nutritious as your standard beef raised on grains, organ meat is about five times nutritious as the regular muscle Meats. These are amazing survival foods, vegetables are pretty easy you can get dandelions almost anywhere if they’re in season but for survival things you can buy things like spirulina and wheatgrass powder that will store for years and have a lot of vitamins and nutrients and minerals in them things like flaxseed and Chia seed or pretty healthy and can add a lot and these things are very lightweight and very small and easy to kerri if you have to move and easy to store. So now that stores are empty growing our own food becomes pretty critical. I’ve been trying to get corn on the cob for three weeks now and they never have it which is ridiculous especially in this season in America, corn should be $.20 an ear and there should be huge piles of it at every Walmart but for whatever reason our government decided to destroy a bunch of crops and leave us without food. Lol. So figuring out nutrient density and the types of vitamins what our bodies need and waste reduce that ourselves becomes critical. You’ve got land and a big garden so you’ve got a lot of that covered the stores are empty you’re going to have something to eat you’re going to fish or hunt and you’ve got tons of vegetables but somebody living in the city in an apartment doesn’t have that option so things like sprouting are very expensive you can buy enough seeds for a couple years and just store them in your cabinets and they’re incredibly easy to grow and you have a great supply of vegetables without having to worry about whether or a bug infestation or any of that. Nutrition is actually pretty easy if you know what you’re doing. When you talk to Army Rangers and people have been through survival training they don’t even care about food they’re more worried about the type of knife you have and what tools you have available and paracoord because food grows everywhere most of the year it may not taste good but they’re going to survive being able to hunt and trap and forage is what’s going to save you when the stores are all closed. If you can go at yourself then that’s even better and if you can store it yourself that’s awesome but we need to consider that electricity isn’t guaranteed either so freezing is great but once the power goes off you lose all that pretty quick so being able to sprout or dehydrating or canning food can be a lifesaver. Everybody says you can just get solar or use a generator but when you live in a world where people‘s children are starving running your generator means you’re probably gonna have somebody with guns show up at your house and take your food. Having solar panels where people can see them or lights on at night it’s kind of an advertisement that you probably have some thing other people don’t and when the power goes off for two or three days that’s not a big deal when it’s been off for a month people have to feed their kids then the rules change and your generator and solar panels might not be worth all that much. So knowing alternatives and covering yourself is a good idea and understanding nutrition and how to live healthy if these things are rationed is that much more useful. I started learning all this stuff from health perspective to fix my health and just understand why following the doctor‘s advice to a T wasn’t helping me any and what I ended up finding out was our medical system is as corrupt as anything else controlled by our government and most doctors don’t really know what they’re doing they know how to treat symptoms but they don’t know how to cure people with nutrition and I think that’s pretty sad but it’s a reality and most of what they tell us as hell food is kind of garbage food and we learn it because the science is funded by the people who sell the crap to us and they’ll call anything they sell super food if they think will believe it and we usually do. :/ but learning what your body needs and how to treat symptoms by eating properly and learning what those nutrients are and different kind of foods to get them from can become pretty critical when food supplies aren’t readily available anymore.
You know I’m kind of a science nerd and just over study everything is sort of a hobby so I obsessed on nutrition for a while and it’s actually help me out a ton. I was taking too high blood pressure medication I was sick all the time and I figured out how to fix it because what my doctors was telling me wasn’t working. And a lot of the nutrition stuff led to understanding how to preserve and prepare foods. Grains aren’t horrible for you but the way they grow them they’re filled with pesticides which come from the plants not even what they put on them to keep bugs away but a lot of them also absorb herbicides and plants produce natural pesticides and the way we process a lot of them are incredibly toxic things like to see oils and process flour or not just garbage food they’re highly toxic and shouldn’t even be sold the way they’re processed and just getting rid of drain and processed sugars eliminate most inflammation which is the root of about 90+ percent of what we call disease. Learning how to grow food in a healthy way will get you anywhere from 80 to 95% more nutrients in your food. Going and buying ammonia based fertilizers just grows sugary fiber that’s mineral and vitamin void which means it’s not gonna have the enzymes in it which means most of your vegetables you’re going to buy from Walmart or even a farmers market drown on factory farms are garbage they’re marketable but they’re not healthy. If you buy something from an Amish farm it’s gonna be at least five times maybe up to his high is 50 times more nutrient dense and she learn to grow your own food and use plants as nitrogen fixtures instead of buying nitrogen ammonia best fertilizer the plants are growing together like that are going to have much more to offer you nutritionally and composting including your animal processing scraps is the best way to make soil. If you process a deer keep all of that blood in the guts and the bones and start composting that. Do you want to compost that separate from your vegetables and food scraps but still pile it up and threw a bunch of leaves and sticks on it and turn it over every now and again and give the bugs and worms and all that time to work on it and when that becomes dirt again or compost you can mix that with your other compost. Animal blood and bones are full of minerals and nutrients and when you’re done with your garden don’t throw that stuff away the stocks in the leaves, everything organic should go back into a compost heap and you can’t buy better fertilizer or soil than that. In factory farming they take the animal stuff that’s left over like the blood and they mix it with water and they spread out over fields just to get rid of it because technically it’s biohazardous if you don’t treat it properly which is just throwing it on the ground and letting it dry out and letting bugs eat it up and where they spray it everything grows incredibly well and it sounds gross but it’s amazing fertilizer and soil supplements and that’s just the way people live to 150 years ago, we’ve just stop doing all this now farmers harvest and he threw a bunch of round up and kill everything so they can strip the field and plant two or three crops a year and they’ve been doing it for 60 or 70 years and their soil is garbage and has no minerals or nutrients left in it and the plants they grow are garbage food so even if it’s grown organically without pesticides most of the time it’s still grown in barren ground and is still garbage food. You do your own composting so when you’re growing your beans and zucchini you’re eating way more nutrients than people buying it from the store, even from most health food stores. In a survival situation that’s critical because you don’t have enough food to sit around and munch on snacks all day or pig out you’re going to be rationing food and having three or four of your beans is going to satisfy your nutrition need for a few hours having 20 beans from the store isn’t even going to be close so in a survival situation that’s pretty critical and just from day-to-day eating it just makes sense to be eating healthy food when you have the option. So in studying all this I learned about how to grow food and how to prepare it. Like we just boil beans to death which is a pretty toxic way of eating them if you soak them overnight and then throw them in a bowl or mason jar or they can stay damp and put a damp cloth over it and rinse them two or three times a day they’ll sprout at that point most of the toxins and natural pesticides come out of them and technically they turn into a plant at that point and become much more nutritious and far less toxic and it also cuts about 60 to 80% of the carbs which makes it way less fattening and taste about the same depending on how long you let it grow if you let it grow for poor five days it becomes more like bean sprouts with a little bit of being stuck to the bottom of it which is even more nutritious but it’s not quite the same it’s more like bean sprouts instead of the bean itself but if you’re going to make chili or something like that soak the beans overnight and sprout them for two or three days as soon as a little plant starts coming out it’s become active and live again and it’s purged all the toxins and you can throw that in the chili and it’s going to be the same as the beans but without all the toxins or better yet eat it raw and then you get all the enzymes and vitamins that you don’t lose when you cook things. But learning all this stuff for health translates to the survival side of it and a lot of it isn’t just the way it’s grown or the quality of the vegetables but also how it’s processed. If you sprout wheat and make wheat grass it’s incredibly nutritious you buy flour from the store they basically made wheat kernels into poison and it taste really good because it’s almost all sugar but it’s also full of toxins and it’s horrible for you if you sprout your grain and use whole grain that sprouted to make your bread it’s way less fattening and it gets rid of all the toxins and it doesn’t cause a bunch of inflammation and inflammation is the root of most of what we call disease and it makes a huge difference. As far as understanding the nutrients go if you have to ration food or you’re trying to decide what to grab Winter‘s little or nothing available knowing what’s going to nourish you becomes critically important.
That was interesting. Though I do wonder, why do your vegetables look so unblemished in bug city Florida, when mine up here in NE Ohio look full of insect abuse. I wonder how long it took you to wash/cut/pack all those veggies.
Do you have a 'trick' for keeping bugs from eating your squash & zucchini? They get to mine before the plant even produces and takes them down to the ground. P.S. love all your videos!
really enjoyed this video. seeing other peoples thoughts and nuanced approaches to preserving food makes you reassess your processes. what a great looking garden brother. we cant wakt for ours to take off. it has been slow in central il. also, what kind of earbuds are you currently using? need a new set
I've been running Tozo t10s and T12s from Amazon. They both have their pluses and minuses. I'd probably recommend the T12s, especially for the price and how long they last on a charge.
Given the rising food prices I won’t be surprised if UA-cam videos like these don’t start to take off in popularity. We love our garden and fresh veggies for sure!
Love my fresh veggies too!
Love the processing room. That is incredible.
Thank you. We use it often.
Native Americans like to plant "three sisters" corn,beans,squash.
I've always heard that
Absolutely LOVED, let me say it again... LOVED this episode! I think I'm going to have to build a prep table like that for our garden, too! Now, since I don't know too much about corn, I'd watch an episode, a part 2 so to speak, about corn and other goodies to save. So-Cal isn't farm country, but we've defied the law of physics and grown LOTS of veggies this year! We just harvested the potatoes! WOOHOO! Thanks again Andrew! Steve
Glad you enjoyed it, more videos coming.
Excellent tip on double sealing the freezer bags. I will start that method.
I always put zucchini & spinach in my pasta sauces. I make big batches that have italian sausage, veggies, ground beef, basil pesto, lots if spices, veggies etc then freeze it in quart sz containers. You can use it for lasagna, any pasta dish, Italian Wedding Soup throw it into some browned ground beef for sloppy joes & add a little bit of tomato paste to thicken it up, etc..makes for quick meals.
We also use it on homemade pizzas for sauce. You can make lots of pizza dough then freeze it in ziplocks for quick pizzas too.
That sounds awesome!
The garden is amazing for you guys. You save a lot of money growing your own food. 🤠
Yes we do!
We pre-wrap unfrozen meat in commercial plastic wrap before sucking it down, works marvelously, never get blood or juices up into the sealing area.
Hi, Andrew! Those are beautiful squash and zucchini. You have a convenient processing room. I don’t blanch either. I will see you on the livestream.
Don't forget no livestream tonight, we had previous commitments. Catch up with you next weekend.
@@TKCL duh!!! I forgot.
You know who likes videos like this best, LOL
Of course!
Andrew, another great video, It doesn’t seam like Sunday with a live stream but I’ll survive I guess. Have a great weekend.
Sorry about that, we try not to miss them often.
Fingers crossed I get a bumper crop of squash and zucchini to freeze this year. Trying hard to keep the squash bugs away! I am going to try the food saver. I have one and never thought of trying to store them that way. Thanks!
Squash bugs get bad here starting late June.
Hello from Siesta Key Florida
Hello
What great tips for freezing vegetables. Your graden is growing liek crazy. Wow!
Yes it is!
Awesome video Andrew, thank you
Thank you for watching
Hi Andrew 😊 It's amazing how much food you harvest from your raised beds. How are your melons and berries doing? Take care.❤️
Berries are done for the season, cantaloupes are small but looking really good.
Very interesting method thanks for the information see you guys this evening:)
No live stream today, we had plans this weekend. Catch up with next weekend
Thank you for the information. It looks like we are gonna have to feed ourselves in the near future, the way things are going. God bless.
Yep I'm afraid so, we have been paying off debt, expanding our food supply and adding animals to the farm.
Amazing the bounty from such a small plot...:-)
It is amazing with what it can provide.
Andrew, as much as you guys like preserving your garden, try freezing some shredded squash/zucchini. It’s great for adding to casseroles and soups for extra nutrition AND it practically disintegrates in case you’re propping up a soup or casserole but don’t necessarily want chunks of squash! A food processor shreds squash super fast but I use a hand shredder with a crank that works fast, too. And if you get a hankering for zucchini bread, you have the zucchini ready to go!
Good idea
When we freeze Bell peppers, we slice and/or dice them. We then spread them on cookie sheets, single layer, and then put the cookie sheets with the peppers in the freezer for 45 minutes or so. Then we put the “crusty” peppers in freezer bags and store in the freezer. We can then take small quantities of peppers when needed. Doing the peppers this way we don’t end up with a frozen block of peppers.
Good tip!
Uncle Tim approved.
Ever try using the slicer to remove the kernel off the cob before freezing. Might be a way to put up more corn and save some room. You probably prefer on the cob, as do I but if you have more than you can store it would be a good way to still have it. Really good in soups an stews.
Never thought about it, but I do prefer it on the cob.
Andrew, we always started our frozen green beans in cold water and let both warm up together. They stay firmer that way!
Good tip
I like take the early squash and zucchini and grilling it on the grill. Coat them with some olive oil or what ever oil u like and coat them with your favorite seasoning. Mmmmmm good
I like doing that too
With a corn to bean and squash, the Indians used to call the three sisters and all over the world it was pretty common to plant them that way you plant your corn first as it gets taller you plant your beans and once you’re being start growing up the corn stalks can you plant your squash and they fix the soil for each other and acorns provide trellis for the beans so they can get above the squash course but Beebalm and doing it that way for thousands of years
Great video Andrew. I'm going to save this one and watch it again so I keep learning more and more about this thank you so much for showing these videos, very much appreciated. I can't wait for the canning videos.
Thank you for watching
Nice work! And your garden is doing great! Thanks for sharing your method of preserving those things.
Thank you for watching
Andrew you should get Tiffany to come up with a digital cookbook of all her simple but awesome recipes. I would definitely buy one. And I want to let you know that the pineapple boats y’all made last week were a huge hit with the friends I made it for today thank you
Awesome, very happy to hear that! We will be working on the cooking portion a little later this year.
Andrew your garden looks great. Looks like you need a larger garden cart to pull your picked veggies🙏
No kidding
I love me some zucchini bread 🍞 yum
Every time I hear you say bush beans, all I hear in my mind is “Roll that beautiful bean footage “. 🤦🏼♂️😂😂.
🤣🤣🤣
I know you’re probably looking. But I’ve been holding off on building a deck because of the price of the decking boards. The 5/4 16ft pressure treated decks boards got up to $32. I just checked today and they are down to $14 so I think I’m pulling the trigger on that.
I'm getting ready myself
Omfg I'm just going to clone your entire life. You made me aware of the Blackstone months ago. I hate grills but love griddles. I just got my 36" 4 burner pitboss this week. I am getting some acreage and I am planning a shop house. I had not considered a processing room but this is an amazing idea. The kind of table and sink good for processing is excessive for a kitchen. It's brilliant having food prep and storage in the same space!
Thank you very much, glad you are enjoying the content.
Enjoyed your video
Glad you did.
Wow, loved this video, two of my favorite things to do freezing and canning...I have always had a food saver but never lasted as long as yours did...going to check out the one from amazon...thanks Andrew
Thank you for watching! I had a cheap model before and hated it.
I think it's the shade also. Many folks forget a lot of vegetables started out in and around forests and though they may do ok in full or near full sun, especially in Northern climes where the sun is not so harsh, most species benefit from a shady break. I have never seen nor used one of those safety dillyboppers that come with mandolins that are worth the space they take up in a drawer.
Lol
Time to check out the storm shelter you built. Stay safe.
Working on it today
We have been watching you all since you built the shelter. You did a great job on your home.
Thank you
Missed livestream …. Pleas post in community tab when you plan to skip livestream
I am getting ready to do that now, sadly very few people have access to the community tab.
Hi Andrew great video. I never knew you could freeze fresh vegetables right from the garden, great idea. It's just me here but I will do that later in the season. Nice to have on hand. Take care. 🌞🇨🇦
Thank you for watching
I noticed you shoutout to Arms' Family Homestead. Awesome!!!!
Daniel is a great guy, he did that for us last year.
@@TKCL I remember. That's how I started following you. I am glad that I did.
I love me some banana peppers!
And tomatoes :)
Me too!
Great video, thanks Andrew for sharing!
Thank you for watching
Just found you today. Watched only a few scenes from pickled okra and whatever camera snake toy that was yesterday lol. First thing I noticed was your organizational skills. I crave that level of efficiency. (Cleaned a family hoard house recently) I’m in love w the processing room! Subscribed ✌️
Welcome aboard! Sadly after building our house over the last 13 months, I consider my shop a disaster. More needed organization coming soon as my OCD is freaking out LOL.
Really enjoyed the video. Thanks.
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Hey Andrew do you have a video or can you do a video of how you build your raised beds
Start with this one, there are several on the channel of my building it ua-cam.com/video/U3LKYHkXt4k/v-deo.html
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This was a good video Andrew. Just sitting here waiting to start my 11 hour Drive time and it was awesome watching you bag to your garden vegetable. Your garden is turning out very well this year. I used to help my wife & my mother-in-law do those things but me & knives & sharp objects we don't get along. They always seem to get the best of me & my wife would freak out every time I got cut so she told me no more cutting for me. So I said that's cool cuz I was tired of getting cut myself. I have had so many bad luck with knives it's not funny including stabbing myself while working on the truck 🚛 and had to go to the hospital. My wife said that is it for you & knives I don't want to see a knife in your hand for now on. Again good video buddy thank you for sharing.
Thank you for watching, stay clear of those knives!
You should wear a "cut proof" glove.
One option to do if you want fresh vegetables, especially if you’re doing it for nutrition and throw on salads and eat raw is to ferment it. In nature we eat fermented foods because often vegetables are starting to ferment on their own. In today’s world if a vegetable gets a little soft we throw it away and buy another one but in nature we would have eaten them when they were soft and partially fermented. Fermented vegetables is the best probiotic you can get. You can spend $700 a week from some super magic doctor guy but you cannot beat fermented vegetables for probiotics and it’s really easy to do. You stick them in a mason jar with salt water covering them by about an inch you can put a rock or you can buy lids with little springs on them and you put it up in your cupboard or out of the sun for seven days and then you just stick it in your refrigerator and eat it kind of like you would pickled vegetables or relish but you still have all the enzymes and benefits of a fresh vegetable and they last about six months and then the fermenting process they grow something like 17 billion strains of anabiotic‘s and in their natural an altered form. It’s incredibly healthy food and it’s really easy just to throw a couple tablespoons on a salad but in survival situation like if the stores are out of food which seems to be a potential reality now you could do this in the fall and get fresh vegetables with the benefits from them for several months. Another awesome thing I’ve learned to do was sprouting. A lot of sprouts you can just grow in a mason jar with a screen lid and you just keep them out of the sun and it takes four or five days. You soak them overnight and then you rinse them three times a day and also you’ve got a jar full of sprouts which are about the best vegetable base vitamins you can get and sprout some cells are between five and 50 times as nutrient dense as adult vegetables plus when you’re eating grains or seeds that’s the way you’re supposed to eat them that releases all of the natural pesticides and toxins that the plants create or what we call inflammatory‘s which is the root of almost all disease. The nice thing about the sprouts is you can grow your own vegetables 365 days a year and you don’t need sun, everything you need is inside of that seed but the seed is highly toxic which is what keeps animals from eating them in nature but about half of my vegetables I grow in a mason jar on my counter and ate two meals a day and one of them is a salad with usually tuna on it and different fresh uncooked vegetables and fermented vegetables and you can throw sprouts on a sandwich or just on top of a steak or whatever you want they’re really easy to eat and unbelievably nutritious. But that’s the way we’re supposed to eat grains and beans, that’s what releases all of the toxins and natural pesticides from the grain/seed. This used to be tradition until a couple hundred years ago when they started processing flour and making it incredibly toxic to us.
The pickled beans sounds pretty awesome. I like to put them in when I ferment things and I like to make a mix of fermented vegetables with garlic and onions and carrots and beans and a little corn which I don’t normally eat. Fermenting also has an added benefit where the probiotics get rid of about 70% of the carbs in the vegetables it also aids in digestion which is great for losing weight and incredible for your immune system. The sprouting also takes about 60 to 80% of the carbs out of the grain and your final product is about UA-cam 15 to 50 times the amount you would get if you were to use processed flour which means it’s about 5% of the carbs you would get from regular processed bread because there’s a ton of fiber in it and fiber carbs don’t really count because your body doesn’t process those types of carbs for the most part so bread made from sprouted grain yes almost healthy for you to our normal bread is pretty much nutrient void at this point and full of toxins. Until they started processing flour in the late 1800s that was pretty much the standard for thousands of years, they actually talk about it in the Bible which is why they call it Ezekiel bread a lot of the times because there’s a grain bread recipe in the Bible and that’s how it says you’re supposed to make bread from the sprouted grains which makes sense now that we have the science to explain the part about the toxins and the naturally occurring pesticides in those grains. It’s all pretty interesting. It would be awesome to have garden and all those fresh vegetables like that but I’m kind of stuck in town now so I do the sprouts and we’ve got a few things growing in buckets. Lol.
Wow, where do you get all this information? I thought I researched a lot.
@@TKCL I hit it from a different angle. I hit it from a health perspective more than a gardening perspective.
Because of my health issues for the last 10 months I’ve pretty much been obsessed with health and nutrition learning how the body works and I probably put over 2000 hours in to study on it. Your average MD family doctor has about two hours of study into nutrition and knows almost nothing they learn what 70 year old books tell them which is in many instances just wrong but for whatever reason they don’t update them, probably because eating that way helps sell pharmaceuticals. Lol.
But learning nutrition and health never started out to be a survival or prepping thing but when you learn exactly what your body needs it changes your thoughts on survival food. Storing rice and beans is kind of useless there garbage food that have almost no nutritional value enter full of toxins and they’ll fill your stomach but they’re not going to nourish you.
But things like learning to process animals and catch animals, weather hunting and fishing and all that is something you enjoy doing or not is something that could save your life someday. I like fishing and I love shooting but I’m not huge on hunting and I definitely don’t enjoy processing animals but I learned how to apply have to do what I can. But learning what your body needs can tell you what you’re going to need in the survival situation when things are scarce. A lot of people are going to go to the store and load up on chips and flour to make bread or rice and beans and those foods might keep you alive for a little while but they’re horrible options. Rice and beans store easily so it sort of makes sense if that’s part of your normal diet and it’s comfort food but nutritionally it’s garbage. Being able to grow sprouts learning what wild plants to eat. Start mowing your lawn and it will probably grow a bunch of dandelion greens which are one of the most healthy vegetables you can eat and they taste horrible but if you’re starving and have to nourish yourself munch on dandelion greens just wash them first if there are dogs that live around there. 😂
Also when you’re storing food. You can go by the most expensive steaks you want but most of them are going to be grain fed which means they’re gonna come from sick animals so you’re gonna have horrible fat ratios almost no vitamins and have about 80% less nutrients in them which means you have to eat five times as much. If you’re going to get grass fed beef it’s five times as nutritious so 1 pound of hamburger will feed you for an entire week as far as the necessary meat goes. If you’re gonna buy regular hamburger I need 5 pounds of that a week to meet your nutritional needs. Hamburger is a better option especially with grass fed because the animals are usually a little more lean and optimally you want between the 20 and 30% fat ratio, our bodies don’t process lean meat well yet doctors and nutritionist tell you eat chicken breast without the skin blah blah blah cut the fat off your meat blah blah blah. They have no clue what they’re talking about when you eat lean proteins your liver turns it into sugar it’s more fattening and it’s far less nutritious because most vitamins are fat soluble and most of the nutrients are in the fat so if you could get 20 to 30% fat grass fed ground beef, that’s about as nutritious as you’re gonna get come other than that canned tuna will last three years and is incredibly healthy and if you get a chunk light tuna it’s got much lower mercury in it and it’s from smaller fish, that well cut Alaskan salmon and oysters and grass fed beef are the healthiest foods you can get and a lot of people don’t like it but organ meat, kidneys hearts especially liver is exponentially more nutritious. Grass fed beef is about five times as nutritious as your standard beef raised on grains, organ meat is about five times nutritious as the regular muscle Meats. These are amazing survival foods, vegetables are pretty easy you can get dandelions almost anywhere if they’re in season but for survival things you can buy things like spirulina and wheatgrass powder that will store for years and have a lot of vitamins and nutrients and minerals in them things like flaxseed and Chia seed or pretty healthy and can add a lot and these things are very lightweight and very small and easy to kerri if you have to move and easy to store. So now that stores are empty growing our own food becomes pretty critical. I’ve been trying to get corn on the cob for three weeks now and they never have it which is ridiculous especially in this season in America, corn should be $.20 an ear and there should be huge piles of it at every Walmart but for whatever reason our government decided to destroy a bunch of crops and leave us without food. Lol.
So figuring out nutrient density and the types of vitamins what our bodies need and waste reduce that ourselves becomes critical. You’ve got land and a big garden so you’ve got a lot of that covered the stores are empty you’re going to have something to eat you’re going to fish or hunt and you’ve got tons of vegetables but somebody living in the city in an apartment doesn’t have that option so things like sprouting are very expensive you can buy enough seeds for a couple years and just store them in your cabinets and they’re incredibly easy to grow and you have a great supply of vegetables without having to worry about whether or a bug infestation or any of that.
Nutrition is actually pretty easy if you know what you’re doing. When you talk to Army Rangers and people have been through survival training they don’t even care about food they’re more worried about the type of knife you have and what tools you have available and paracoord because food grows everywhere most of the year it may not taste good but they’re going to survive being able to hunt and trap and forage is what’s going to save you when the stores are all closed. If you can go at yourself then that’s even better and if you can store it yourself that’s awesome but we need to consider that electricity isn’t guaranteed either so freezing is great but once the power goes off you lose all that pretty quick so being able to sprout or dehydrating or canning food can be a lifesaver. Everybody says you can just get solar or use a generator but when you live in a world where people‘s children are starving running your generator means you’re probably gonna have somebody with guns show up at your house and take your food. Having solar panels where people can see them or lights on at night it’s kind of an advertisement that you probably have some thing other people don’t and when the power goes off for two or three days that’s not a big deal when it’s been off for a month people have to feed their kids then the rules change and your generator and solar panels might not be worth all that much. So knowing alternatives and covering yourself is a good idea and understanding nutrition and how to live healthy if these things are rationed is that much more useful.
I started learning all this stuff from health perspective to fix my health and just understand why following the doctor‘s advice to a T wasn’t helping me any and what I ended up finding out was our medical system is as corrupt as anything else controlled by our government and most doctors don’t really know what they’re doing they know how to treat symptoms but they don’t know how to cure people with nutrition and I think that’s pretty sad but it’s a reality and most of what they tell us as hell food is kind of garbage food and we learn it because the science is funded by the people who sell the crap to us and they’ll call anything they sell super food if they think will believe it and we usually do. :/ but learning what your body needs and how to treat symptoms by eating properly and learning what those nutrients are and different kind of foods to get them from can become pretty critical when food supplies aren’t readily available anymore.
You know I’m kind of a science nerd and just over study everything is sort of a hobby so I obsessed on nutrition for a while and it’s actually help me out a ton. I was taking too high blood pressure medication I was sick all the time and I figured out how to fix it because what my doctors was telling me wasn’t working. And a lot of the nutrition stuff led to understanding how to preserve and prepare foods. Grains aren’t horrible for you but the way they grow them they’re filled with pesticides which come from the plants not even what they put on them to keep bugs away but a lot of them also absorb herbicides and plants produce natural pesticides and the way we process a lot of them are incredibly toxic things like to see oils and process flour or not just garbage food they’re highly toxic and shouldn’t even be sold the way they’re processed and just getting rid of drain and processed sugars eliminate most inflammation which is the root of about 90+ percent of what we call disease. Learning how to grow food in a healthy way will get you anywhere from 80 to 95% more nutrients in your food. Going and buying ammonia based fertilizers just grows sugary fiber that’s mineral and vitamin void which means it’s not gonna have the enzymes in it which means most of your vegetables you’re going to buy from Walmart or even a farmers market drown on factory farms are garbage they’re marketable but they’re not healthy. If you buy something from an Amish farm it’s gonna be at least five times maybe up to his high is 50 times more nutrient dense and she learn to grow your own food and use plants as nitrogen fixtures instead of buying nitrogen ammonia best fertilizer the plants are growing together like that are going to have much more to offer you nutritionally and composting including your animal processing scraps is the best way to make soil. If you process a deer keep all of that blood in the guts and the bones and start composting that. Do you want to compost that separate from your vegetables and food scraps but still pile it up and threw a bunch of leaves and sticks on it and turn it over every now and again and give the bugs and worms and all that time to work on it and when that becomes dirt again or compost you can mix that with your other compost.
Animal blood and bones are full of minerals and nutrients and when you’re done with your garden don’t throw that stuff away the stocks in the leaves, everything organic should go back into a compost heap and you can’t buy better fertilizer or soil than that. In factory farming they take the animal stuff that’s left over like the blood and they mix it with water and they spread out over fields just to get rid of it because technically it’s biohazardous if you don’t treat it properly which is just throwing it on the ground and letting it dry out and letting bugs eat it up and where they spray it everything grows incredibly well and it sounds gross but it’s amazing fertilizer and soil supplements and that’s just the way people live to 150 years ago, we’ve just stop doing all this now farmers harvest and he threw a bunch of round up and kill everything so they can strip the field and plant two or three crops a year and they’ve been doing it for 60 or 70 years and their soil is garbage and has no minerals or nutrients left in it and the plants they grow are garbage food so even if it’s grown organically without pesticides most of the time it’s still grown in barren ground and is still garbage food. You do your own composting so when you’re growing your beans and zucchini you’re eating way more nutrients than people buying it from the store, even from most health food stores. In a survival situation that’s critical because you don’t have enough food to sit around and munch on snacks all day or pig out you’re going to be rationing food and having three or four of your beans is going to satisfy your nutrition need for a few hours having 20 beans from the store isn’t even going to be close so in a survival situation that’s pretty critical and just from day-to-day eating it just makes sense to be eating healthy food when you have the option.
So in studying all this I learned about how to grow food and how to prepare it. Like we just boil beans to death which is a pretty toxic way of eating them if you soak them overnight and then throw them in a bowl or mason jar or they can stay damp and put a damp cloth over it and rinse them two or three times a day they’ll sprout at that point most of the toxins and natural pesticides come out of them and technically they turn into a plant at that point and become much more nutritious and far less toxic and it also cuts about 60 to 80% of the carbs which makes it way less fattening and taste about the same depending on how long you let it grow if you let it grow for poor five days it becomes more like bean sprouts with a little bit of being stuck to the bottom of it which is even more nutritious but it’s not quite the same it’s more like bean sprouts instead of the bean itself but if you’re going to make chili or something like that soak the beans overnight and sprout them for two or three days as soon as a little plant starts coming out it’s become active and live again and it’s purged all the toxins and you can throw that in the chili and it’s going to be the same as the beans but without all the toxins or better yet eat it raw and then you get all the enzymes and vitamins that you don’t lose when you cook things. But learning all this stuff for health translates to the survival side of it and a lot of it isn’t just the way it’s grown or the quality of the vegetables but also how it’s processed. If you sprout wheat and make wheat grass it’s incredibly nutritious you buy flour from the store they basically made wheat kernels into poison and it taste really good because it’s almost all sugar but it’s also full of toxins and it’s horrible for you if you sprout your grain and use whole grain that sprouted to make your bread it’s way less fattening and it gets rid of all the toxins and it doesn’t cause a bunch of inflammation and inflammation is the root of most of what we call disease and it makes a huge difference. As far as understanding the nutrients go if you have to ration food or you’re trying to decide what to grab Winter‘s little or nothing available knowing what’s going to nourish you becomes critically important.
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Sorry you lost some veggies. Looks like you need to move that cattle panel up or add another one on you corn
I am making the panel adjustable.
That was interesting. Though I do wonder, why do your vegetables look so unblemished in bug city Florida, when mine up here in NE Ohio look full of insect abuse. I wonder how long it took you to wash/cut/pack all those veggies.
We plant early to avoid the bugs, in another few weeks they come out like crazy. Almost impossible to grown the rest of the summer.
Good afternoon. Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't corn and beans in the arms per farmers almanac? Or calendar?
Not sure 🤷
Andrew, have you tried zucchini noodles instead of pasta noodles?
Sure have ua-cam.com/video/fzJ3aPd-zsk/v-deo.html
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Do you have a 'trick' for keeping bugs from eating your squash & zucchini? They get to mine before the plant even produces and takes them down to the ground.
P.S. love all your videos!
Plant early is the only thing that works for me. Squash bugs start showing up soon as the summer heat arrives.
really enjoyed this video. seeing other peoples thoughts and nuanced approaches to preserving food makes you reassess your processes. what a great looking garden brother. we cant wakt for ours to take off. it has been slow in central il. also, what kind of earbuds are you currently using? need a new set
I've been running Tozo t10s and T12s from Amazon. They both have their pluses and minuses. I'd probably recommend the T12s, especially for the price and how long they last on a charge.
@@TKCL just received the earbuds yesterday and man are they nice. thanks for the heads up. God bless y'all
They really are for no more than they cost. If you got the T12s they have amazing range too.
@@TKCL I did get the t-12 and you are correct
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Looking for some fishing spots in the cooks hammock area along the steinhatchee river you know any
Not unless you have a canoe or kayak. Upper section of river is narrow and has only a couple of rough dirt ramps.
@@TKCL thinks for the feed back I might look into buying a old town saranac canoe
That's what we have, it's good for the money.
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go back to amazon and get yourself some cutting gloves.
Andrew, be CAREFUL with that mandolin. I have been using one for forty years professionally, and my butthole still puckers every time. Get a cut glove