Love Zak's tender heart ❤ He apologizes to the chickens! ❤ "Like stretch marks on a human" Great analogy!! I love the way the chickens' "voices" change when they're being fed! 🥰 Very cute pumpkins!! You could make a beautiful cornucopia with all of your harvest!! Gorgeous tree!
I just love Zack, he apologized to the chicken for the tomato falling on its head. The life of Sweet Zack ( and of course Kristi is sweet too) 🤔😁🍅🍄🍏🐣🌲🌻
I love how proud Kristi is of her homegrown pumpkin porch display and the majestic tree! Also, where did your overalls come from? They look cute AND comfy!
It all looks great! A tip to growing onions (which you probably already know, but just in case) is to really throw a heavy nitrogen fertilizer to them while the greens are growing. Once the bulbs start to swell, stop with the fertilizer and give them lots of water. You got this!
This was such a sweet video. I loved watching Zack puttering around. He has a soothing voice and way about him. He should definitely do this more. I also loved the stretch mark analogy too, very sweet.
One of my fav videos yall have done! The random commentary was hilarious and so wholesome. I also loved feeling like was just a friend hanging out in the garden. Can't wait to see more!
Watching your videos just brings so much peace! I think it’s because we’re all meant to be connected this way to the earth but we don’t all get to do this 🥺
With onions, I like to chop a ton of them up at the same time and pop them in a freezer bag. Then whenever I'm cooking and need onions, they're prechopped and super convenient. Acre Homestead did some great preserving videos this summer with tomatoes, onions, and potatoes that would be worth the watch for some new ideas.
Definitely make homemade tomatoes soup with the tomatoes and onions. It will freeze or can well and be perfect with grilled cheese sammiches over the winter. Grate your potatoes and freeze them with some onions for homemade hashbrowns.
If those are warty pumpkins a man once told me, the longer you leave them on there the more warty they will get! I'm gonna do a patch next year too! I usually leave them to rot on a hay bail through the winter and then come summer I have pumpkins growing! It's been a fun way to grow them 🧡
"if these have holes, so help me god, i will do nothing about it but be quite infuriated" 🤣kristiiii, i feel that in my soul. i love you and your little family! i aspire to be able to do what you are with your homestead. thank you both so much for creating such wonderful content ❤
I just wanted to say I love watching your videos (especially these types that are just you guys going about your day on the homestead). I’m in a very tumultuous time in my life and watching brings me a lot of peace ❤
I'm sure others have mentioned it, but it's soooo easy to can tomatoes! The most labor intensive part is peeling them. Otherwise, you just plop them into sanitized jars and do a hot bath. Freezing them will absolutely WRECK the texture! You can also make a huge batch of sauce with all of them and then can the sauce with hot bath canning. ❤
We did grow bags for potatoes and they did great! So easy to just dump the bags in a wagon or wheel barrow and pluck the potatos out! Then the dirt goes right back in
Home canning is the best way to preserve tomatoes that I can think of. Since you have Onions, why not make homemade Salsa? You would just need a couple Jalepenos. And if I'm not mistaken, it's water bath canned, so it's easier than pressure canning. You can cut your potatoes and blanch them for a few minutes and freeze them for french fries (turn our great in the air fryer). Other than that, Pressure can them. I have had success pressure canning gold potatoes, and it looked like much of yours were gold. Good luck!
Seeing your last harvest makes my heart swell. I miss my grandparents' old farm so bad, especially at this time of year. My grandma use to keep her green tomatoes in the cold cellar. She would wrap them in newspaper and put it in the windowsill to ripen.
Spaghetti sauce (I can it, but you could also freeze it) is honestly one of my very favorites. I like to make it in the slow cooker for easy and we LOVE using it all year. I also love Zach’s calm cool collected vibe, complemented Kristi swearing at the pumpkin vines (and all the pumpkin joy too ). Great video.
Love love love! We just finished our first year at our new home in the Midwest and a squirrel planted us some front yard pumpkins! And they were the mini ones!
I thought I was subscribed to you guys, turns out I was only following your Instagram. Now I have heaps of video's to binge - yay! You guys are inspiring me so much for what I want to do with my garden. Thank you ❤️
Love y'all's channel. For tomatoes this year we made italian stewed tomatoes. They were paraboiled, dropped in ice water, peeled, chopped. We put in freezer bags with chopped basil and rosemary. I have actually already used most of them making tomato sauce for pasta and tomato soup with grilled cheese. Very tasty! Due to my chunks adversion they went under the immersion blender too. 😅
I grew potatoes with my mom for the first time. 2-4 plants were in bags and rest of the 20 or so in a patch of garden. We had buckets of rain all summer, but somehow, by the grace of all who is mighty, lol, we had about 60lbs worth! Red and yellows... some grew to be almost 2lbs each! Total freaks. We planted with corn on a slight hill and I guess it worked. We have very clay-y soil up North. Other veggies though, not so great 😅
A farm here near Olympia grows "Huckleberry Gold" potatoes and they are the BEST thing ever. I'll have to look up the name of the farm, they have a booth at the farmers market. Every type of potato they grow is divine!! They even stand out in stews. If I were going potatoes I would ask them for their secret.
👋🏻 On farmhouseonboone channel she learned how to freeze dry eggs & I Think tomatoes 🍅. Give her channel a try. ZACK you’re doing great. You guys are so sweet & I’m excited to see how you’re going to prepare for your next harvest. ❤
I only got 5 pumpkins out of our patch this year. The watermelons did lousy, I’ll have to find a better short day variety for next year. But if you want productivity.. delacata squash. I’m telling you.. mine went ham! For your onions, I’d add more compost as well as feed with an organic fertilizer multiple times in the growing season, they are really heavy feeders. For reference, I’m also north of Seattle 😊
Zack, You are getting more and more comfortable with videoing. Keep up the great work. You can can potatoes if you want to keep them for winter stews or soups. Blessings!
I make a tomato based hot sauce along with salsa and pasta/pizza sauce with tomato’s. We also do a lot of whole and crushed tomatoes as well along with paste! For onions I chop and dehydrate and use in place of fresh onions. I’m going to try to dehydrate potatoes this year. I wish I had a freeze dryer. You can make basically “instant” mashed potatoes that way.
Zac, you can feed the chickens any extra eggs. They can use that to refuel their bodies from the laying process. The calcium in their shells is good for them as well.
Guys the pumpkin porch yehhhh . Zack has no idea how relaxing his voice is it reminds me of the midnight caller a tv program years ago. Plus your dungarees are so cute I need them Take care xx x
So strange, my chickens are obsessed with tomatos! Also, the pumpkin is likely a sweetie pie. And the acorn squash you gotta wait until the stem is hard and dark that's when they are ready pick 😊
We usually buy plants for our garden, which can make it even more expensive. For us it's mainly to grow tomatoes so we can put up enough marinara sauce for the year. Home grown tomatoes are much less acidic and are the only kind I can eat (due to a bladder condition.) We will use the boiling water method to remove the skins. Then cook them down in a large pot on the stove for several hours. After that we puree them in our blender and it's good to go. Sometimes we go ahead and make the sauce by adding a can of tomato paste, a little sugar and seasonings. Then it is ready to eat! We have had amazing years where we are giving away produce, then every once in a while we have a terrible year. That's when we buy from the farmer's market to make our sauce!
Zacks voice is so perfect for this kind of content! ✋ RawbeautyKristy transplant and I did my first ever garden this year. Your videos and shorts are amazing! 😍
Not sure if someone else has commented this but when harvesting potatoes, you want the visible stems to wither away and then harvest! We got much bigger potatoes that way 😊
i believe the cute orange round pumpkin is a sugar pumpkin! those are the pie variety~ i have a recipe that’s so good, my aunt was considering opening a restaurant for it! it’s a butternut squash mascarpone gnocchi fried in butter and sage. i’m sure you can substitute gourd with your harvest! i used foodwishes recipe, however i made it using leftover butternut squash soup and that’s the key. this was next level, gourmet shietttt! make good squash soup, use foodwishes mascarpone gnocchi recipe, and prepare to cry a little.
My Mom just made something similar to a tomato bisque with heavy cream, chicken and potatoes….and it was…AMAZING! Just thought I’d throw that out there if you guys wanted to try your own version out! 😅
Tomato slice on bread with mayo or butter Sauce Salsa! Tomato soup/freeze some Cottage cheese, tomato, cucumber salad-i like mine with smoked salmon and some seasonings. I eat alot of Tomato i use it as a garnish! Add it to soups... anything really. Margherita pizza!
I love videos like these from y’all. But as soon as Zach said “green tomatoes” I thought of FRIED GREEN TOMATOES! && for the other veggies, beef Stu! Especially beings it’s Fall && starting to get chilly. Thanks for sharing!
Get some good bread (bagels are also delicious with this) and toast it then spread on some cream cheese, slice some tomatoes and red onions fresh cracked black pepper, sea salt and then drizzle on some good olive oil and balsamic vinegar. 👌
I loved this! So relaxing. I want to homestead with my husband one day. We just bought our first property and I can’t wait to have own pumpkin patch! And the acorn squash was my favorite too Kristi 😊❤️
Can tons of pasta sauce and salsa! I really want a freeze dryer but they're expensive so im stuck with just a dehydrator for now. Have you guys heard of water glassing eggs? I have a bunch saved up!
Lol @“you too can grow $3 worth of potatoes”😂 that was me last year
Love Zak's tender heart ❤ He apologizes to the chickens! ❤ "Like stretch marks on a human" Great analogy!! I love the way the chickens' "voices" change when they're being fed! 🥰 Very cute pumpkins!! You could make a beautiful cornucopia with all of your harvest!! Gorgeous tree!
Thank you for the kind words 💚💚💚
I just love Zack, he apologized to the chicken for the tomato falling on its head. The life of Sweet Zack ( and of course Kristi is sweet too) 🤔😁🍅🍄🍏🐣🌲🌻
I love how proud Kristi is of her homegrown pumpkin porch display and the majestic tree! Also, where did your overalls come from? They look cute AND comfy!
after you pull everything out of your garden, let your chickens graze in there. They will clean everything up and fertilize it too!
Been living these uploads yaa’ll.. thank you for sharing these parts of your day!
Glad you like them! More to come! 🙏🏻💚💚
I love how comfortable Zack has got on camera! Loving the regular uploads! Enjoying all the videos Kristi! 🤍🤍🤍🤍
“So help me god, I’ll do nothing about it but I’ll be quite infuriated” is the mission statement of my Life 😂❤
It all looks great! A tip to growing onions (which you probably already know, but just in case) is to really throw a heavy nitrogen fertilizer to them while the greens are growing. Once the bulbs start to swell, stop with the fertilizer and give them lots of water. You got this!
Thanks for the tip! We definitely under fertilized this year. The whole garden could’ve used more 💚💚
This was such a sweet video. I loved watching Zack puttering around. He has a soothing voice and way about him. He should definitely do this more. I also loved the stretch mark analogy too, very sweet.
One of my fav videos yall have done! The random commentary was hilarious and so wholesome. I also loved feeling like was just a friend hanging out in the garden. Can't wait to see more!
"Is that a potato? No, it's a rock..." 😅
I legit smiled the entire video.
Watching your videos just brings so much peace! I think it’s because we’re all meant to be connected this way to the earth but we don’t all get to do this 🥺
You two are just, as you put it, DARLING. 😍 Such a sweet, wholesome video.
Sooo satisfying to watch! Even if it wasn't your best harvest. And the pumpkins?! So frkn cute! 🎃🧡
With onions, I like to chop a ton of them up at the same time and pop them in a freezer bag. Then whenever I'm cooking and need onions, they're prechopped and super convenient. Acre Homestead did some great preserving videos this summer with tomatoes, onions, and potatoes that would be worth the watch for some new ideas.
The pumpkins look great on the porch!
The commitment to his and hers overalls really warms my heart. Practical and cute as hell
This video was the cutest and hilarious. Talk about great life choices, your move to the woods makes me so envious lol
Definitely make homemade tomatoes soup with the tomatoes and onions. It will freeze or can well and be perfect with grilled cheese sammiches over the winter. Grate your potatoes and freeze them with some onions for homemade hashbrowns.
If those are warty pumpkins a man once told me, the longer you leave them on there the more warty they will get! I'm gonna do a patch next year too! I usually leave them to rot on a hay bail through the winter and then come summer I have pumpkins growing! It's been a fun way to grow them 🧡
That’s awesome! None of the ones we composted grew. I guess we composted them too well lol
You all are awesome. Love seeing how the homestead and home changed since you all moved in! 😊
When peeling tomatoes, save skin and dehydrate then grind into powder. Pickled onions are so good.
Well, those are the cutest pumpkins I've ever seen! Just as cute as the two of you!
Oh thank you!
"if these have holes, so help me god, i will do nothing about it but be quite infuriated" 🤣kristiiii, i feel that in my soul. i love you and your little family! i aspire to be able to do what you are with your homestead. thank you both so much for creating such wonderful content ❤
I just wanted to say I love watching your videos (especially these types that are just you guys going about your day on the homestead). I’m in a very tumultuous time in my life and watching brings me a lot of peace ❤
I'm sure others have mentioned it, but it's soooo easy to can tomatoes! The most labor intensive part is peeling them. Otherwise, you just plop them into sanitized jars and do a hot bath. Freezing them will absolutely WRECK the texture! You can also make a huge batch of sauce with all of them and then can the sauce with hot bath canning. ❤
We did grow bags for potatoes and they did great! So easy to just dump the bags in a wagon or wheel barrow and pluck the potatos out! Then the dirt goes right back in
Home canning is the best way to preserve tomatoes that I can think of. Since you have Onions, why not make homemade Salsa? You would just need a couple Jalepenos. And if I'm not mistaken, it's water bath canned, so it's easier than pressure canning. You can cut your potatoes and blanch them for a few minutes and freeze them for french fries (turn our great in the air fryer). Other than that, Pressure can them. I have had success pressure canning gold potatoes, and it looked like much of yours were gold. Good luck!
Seeing your last harvest makes my heart swell. I miss my grandparents' old farm so bad, especially at this time of year. My grandma use to keep her green tomatoes in the cold cellar. She would wrap them in newspaper and put it in the windowsill to ripen.
Spaghetti sauce (I can it, but you could also freeze it) is honestly one of my very favorites. I like to make it in the slow cooker for easy and we LOVE using it all year.
I also love Zach’s calm cool collected vibe, complemented Kristi swearing at the pumpkin vines (and all the pumpkin joy too ). Great video.
Love love love! We just finished our first year at our new home in the Midwest and a squirrel planted us some front yard pumpkins! And they were the mini ones!
You guys are really living the life you dreamed of and for that I am SO proud of you. You both earned it. I’m so happy for you guys! ❤
🤣🤣 @ the intro, you both are awesome
💚💚 thank you !!
I thought I was subscribed to you guys, turns out I was only following your Instagram.
Now I have heaps of video's to binge - yay!
You guys are inspiring me so much for what I want to do with my garden. Thank you ❤️
Love y'all's channel. For tomatoes this year we made italian stewed tomatoes. They were paraboiled, dropped in ice water, peeled, chopped. We put in freezer bags with chopped basil and rosemary. I have actually already used most of them making tomato sauce for pasta and tomato soup with grilled cheese. Very tasty! Due to my chunks adversion they went under the immersion blender too. 😅
I love the explanation of the tomato stretch marks
I grew potatoes with my mom for the first time. 2-4 plants were in bags and rest of the 20 or so in a patch of garden. We had buckets of rain all summer, but somehow, by the grace of all who is mighty, lol, we had about 60lbs worth! Red and yellows... some grew to be almost 2lbs each! Total freaks. We planted with corn on a slight hill and I guess it worked. We have very clay-y soil up North. Other veggies though, not so great 😅
Zack's getting better with the videos. Don't take it too personally mate, even our chickens always spill their water 🤭 Thanks for sharing this Kristi💓
Tomato and chilli jam is a great preserve to make for your extra toms 😊
I loooovvvveee the gardening/plant content. ❤❤
Didn't know why tomato skins crack! Learned something new today. :D
Glad I could help lol 💚💚
The pumpkins are adorable ❤️
Aww the broody chicken just wants to be a mama!!! 🥺❤
A farm here near Olympia grows "Huckleberry Gold" potatoes and they are the BEST thing ever. I'll have to look up the name of the farm, they have a booth at the farmers market. Every type of potato they grow is divine!! They even stand out in stews. If I were going potatoes I would ask them for their secret.
This channel is my cozy content.
Thanks for tuning in 💚💚
So adorable I loved watching this ❤
👋🏻 On farmhouseonboone channel she learned how to freeze dry eggs & I Think tomatoes 🍅. Give her channel a try. ZACK you’re doing great. You guys are so sweet & I’m excited to see how you’re going to prepare for your next harvest. ❤
The part where the chickens spilled the water is so relatable lmao I just filled up my ladies water for the third time today like REALLY
"That's a freaking rock. GOSH!" 😂
Salsa!! I had one year full of tomatoes and used most of them for salsa because it freezes well! You can also add onions to it :)
I only got 5 pumpkins out of our patch this year. The watermelons did lousy, I’ll have to find a better short day variety for next year. But if you want productivity.. delacata squash. I’m telling you.. mine went ham! For your onions, I’d add more compost as well as feed with an organic fertilizer multiple times in the growing season, they are really heavy feeders. For reference, I’m also north of Seattle 😊
Love you guys!!
Zack content is my favorite
Zack, You are getting more and more comfortable with videoing. Keep up the great work. You can can potatoes if you want to keep them for winter stews or soups. Blessings!
You are living the life! Even though sometimes I know you go thru stuff, believe me here in Chicago south side is rough over here.. peace
I make a tomato based hot sauce along with salsa and pasta/pizza sauce with tomato’s. We also do a lot of whole and crushed tomatoes as well along with paste! For onions I chop and dehydrate and use in place of fresh onions.
I’m going to try to dehydrate potatoes this year. I wish I had a freeze dryer. You can make basically “instant” mashed potatoes that way.
Zac, you can feed the chickens any extra eggs. They can use that to refuel their bodies from the laying process. The calcium in their shells is good for them as well.
I think he took the potatoes personally 😂 I love you guys ❤️
Guys the pumpkin porch yehhhh . Zack has no idea how relaxing his voice is it reminds me of the midnight caller a tv program years ago.
Plus your dungarees are so cute I need them
Take care xx x
Aww kristi you looked so cute and proud of your pumpkins 😊
So strange, my chickens are obsessed with tomatos! Also, the pumpkin is likely a sweetie pie. And the acorn squash you gotta wait until the stem is hard and dark that's when they are ready pick 😊
We usually buy plants for our garden, which can make it even more expensive. For us it's mainly to grow tomatoes so we can put up enough marinara sauce for the year. Home grown tomatoes are much less acidic and are the only kind I can eat (due to a bladder condition.) We will use the boiling water method to remove the skins. Then cook them down in a large pot on the stove for several hours. After that we puree them in our blender and it's good to go. Sometimes we go ahead and make the sauce by adding a can of tomato paste, a little sugar and seasonings. Then it is ready to eat!
We have had amazing years where we are giving away produce, then every once in a while we have a terrible year. That's when we buy from the farmer's market to make our sauce!
Pumpkins are so pokey!
Zacks voice is so perfect for this kind of content! ✋ RawbeautyKristy transplant and I did my first ever garden this year. Your videos and shorts are amazing! 😍
Not sure if someone else has commented this but when harvesting potatoes, you want the visible stems to wither away and then harvest! We got much bigger potatoes that way 😊
i believe the cute orange round pumpkin is a sugar pumpkin! those are the pie variety~
i have a recipe that’s so good, my aunt was considering opening a restaurant for it! it’s a butternut squash mascarpone gnocchi fried in butter and sage. i’m sure you can substitute gourd with your harvest! i used foodwishes recipe, however i made it using leftover butternut squash soup and that’s the key. this was next level, gourmet shietttt!
make good squash soup, use foodwishes mascarpone gnocchi recipe, and prepare to cry a little.
Oooh I think you’re correct about the pie pumpkin. We did plant some but all of our tags and seedlings got mixed up
Kristi going from adoring the pumpkins to furious about slugs and pokies was hilarious
Look up green tomato chutney or green tomato relish, delicious way to use green tomatoes!
Great harvest ❤
Pickled onions… so good
My Mom just made something similar to a tomato bisque with heavy cream, chicken and potatoes….and it was…AMAZING! Just thought I’d throw that out there if you guys wanted to try your own version out! 😅
You could always try making gnocchi with the potatos. Or tomato soup frozen in deli containers for easy meals.
Tomato stretch marks 😅 love it.
It's a great harvest
THAT TREE!!!! 😍😍😍😍
you could try pickling your onions!!! they are so good
IT WILL BE BETTER NEXT YEAR I ABSOLUTELY LOVE YOUR GARDEN CONTENT 😊
Tomato slice on bread with mayo or butter
Sauce
Salsa!
Tomato soup/freeze some
Cottage cheese, tomato, cucumber salad-i like mine with smoked salmon and some seasonings.
I eat alot of Tomato i use it as a garnish! Add it to soups... anything really.
Margherita pizza!
I love videos like these from y’all. But as soon as Zach said “green tomatoes” I thought of FRIED GREEN TOMATOES! && for the other veggies, beef Stu! Especially beings it’s Fall && starting to get chilly. Thanks for sharing!
Wait until you give them leftover pumpkins 🎃 They’ll be happy chickens! That is a gorgeous tree 🌳
You can can and make stewed tomatoes, Tomato sauce, salsa, spaghetti sauce. So much fun to can.
Love this type of videos, make more pls
Fried green tomatoes! So delicious!
THOSE PUMPKINS ARE SO DARLING
In addition to tomato sauce, I like to make tomato chutney, tomato jam, sun dried tomatoes, and ketchup with our tomatoes.
Get some good bread (bagels are also delicious with this) and toast it then spread on some cream cheese, slice some tomatoes and red onions fresh cracked black pepper, sea salt and then drizzle on some good olive oil and balsamic vinegar. 👌
For harvesting potatoes, use a pitchfork and lift upp the whole plant, dig deep. 🥔
I loved this! So relaxing. I want to homestead with my husband one day. We just bought our first property and I can’t wait to have own pumpkin patch! And the acorn squash was my favorite too Kristi 😊❤️
Congratulations on the property! 🙏🏻🙏🏻
@@sweetlifeofzackkristi9574 😍 thank you!
You could make tomato paste or a spice mixture or soup with the tomatos or you perserve them in oil
I like to chop my onions and freeze them. You can throw them straight into your pan to sauté
Can tons of pasta sauce and salsa! I really want a freeze dryer but they're expensive so im stuck with just a dehydrator for now. Have you guys heard of water glassing eggs? I have a bunch saved up!
I've never had much luck with growing potatoes in ground. I get a way better harvest when I use potato grow bags.
Are y’all going to show how you store/freeze your harvest…….I think that would be neat to watch.
🎃🍁🎃🍁🎃
Fried green tomatoes are amazing
Kristi you are hilarious!!!
Can you do a video on the preserving process? And a video for recipes? 🙂
We accidently grew pumpkins😂 we made soup and threw the insides on our compost,now we have 5 pumpkins😂
Little baby ACURNNN! ❤❤
Salsa along with the tomato sauce or a seasoned marinara. Maybe homemade ketchup?