You guys are now included my morning routine. Starting the day watching your videos gives me so much inspiration and hope. Love watching this beautiful family and their journey. 💝
My family has a dedicated chicken freezer, too! When we use up chickens, I store the carcasses in the freezer until I can make bone broth, and I like to keep some frozen broth in there, too, when I don’t have time (or lids) to can it. We also have 2 kune kune females and an American Guinea Hog female that we are raising for meat. They are all so sweet...just like dogs that can’t jump on you! They play well with our chickens, dogs, cats, and they even like to be around our cow! Love all the shows and God Bless!
Bear grease is the most useful and best for cooking and piecrust , unsurpassed for so many uses like waterproofing your boots and saddles , oiling many things . It doesn't need refrigeration and never goes rancid , amazing stuff !
This was GREAT! You were enjoying yourselves, MUCH more relaxed and less stuffy. Loved this one. Jam packed with info too. SO impressed with your knowledge Carolyn
I really want to thank you, Carolyn for sharing the fermented vegetables. I have done red tomatoes and green tomatoes. Green tomatoes are the absolute bomb!
The Scottish used to turn the whey into a wine by adding a little lemon juice and some sugar and yeast it's very delicious it's called a Blaand wine you can find recipes on the internet!
I remember my grandmother used to give my sister and me a chicken foot to chew on, it was really good. Did you know during the depression 54% of the people were farmers or gardeners, today that number has gone down to 2%. Sure hope people are stocking up or there is going to be a serious problem, especially the city folk.
During the Depression, the Government approached the problems of the Country's Finances with a multitude of good Programs. The CCC, WPA, USDA Extension Service, Small Farm Development, Public Art & Science Programs, Development of Federal & State Parks for We the People, Schools, Libraries, Municipal Buildings and Public Municipal Utilities.
Susan makes a great point. “We the people “ not only benefited during the depression from the pay that those programs provided, but the workers gained skills and the self esteem that comes from being productive. We are still benefiting from the programs by having some beautiful public buildings and park facilities. Unfortunately today’s government leaders only know how to print more worthless currency to throw at a problem. Just handing out free money doesn’t build up people and it doesn’t build up long term resources for the whole country. We need leadership that knows something about building something worthwhile from the ground up. We need people who have built business’s to join government when they get near retirement. Otherwise we are going to become a nation of starving people with their hands out expecting big brother to take care of us as if we were children. And worst of all is that we are becoming helpless, like children who can’t think for ourselves. We are afraid to even question authority or popular ideas that don’t have reality or facts to back them. If a celebrity or someone who face we recognize says the sky is green with purple dots, God help anyone who asks “Is it really? Kind of looks blue with white clouds to me.” That poor brave person will be blocked from speaking on any public forum for life and loose most of their friends and may even be disowned by family. Some people may even loose their freedom and independence. I know that for a fact because some church leaders tried to make me a “ward of the state for voicing the crazy idea that I wanted to build some raised bed vegetable gardens and a coop for 6 chickens in my urban fenced backyard. They questioned why I would want to have the work and expense of that when either the church or the government would take care of me in my old age. The last straw was when I said that I thought most of my health problems were caused by a diet high in processed foods, I wanted to choose my own home grown food and I wanted to be more self reliant just in case things changed and the church and government were not in the same position to take care of every disabled widow. Maybe I could even grow extra for my friends or neighbors. They actually thought I had lost my mind, and tried to have the government force me out of my home and into a locked assisted living facility. Fortunately all of my doctors have back yard chickens and gardens so they wrote letters for me saying that I was both mentally and physically competent to live alone and that it would be a very healthy idea for me to take up some hobbies like gardening and maybe even raise a few chickens, that it would probably provide more structure to my day to have the routine of feeding the chickens every morning. So if you don’t think our society has gotten too controlling yet, think again. After the last 2 years, I would give anything to be younger and healthy enough to move off grid as far away from people as I could get.
Yes, schmaltz/shmalz is rendered chicken or goose fat (kosher poultry fat) - in German (where the word comes from) we also use it for lard (since pork fat has a similar lower melting point than beef/mutton fat), but for obvious reasons the German word for lard never made it into Yiddish and then never into English 😉 I just wanted to mention that I love watching all your pantry chats - love the Q&As, but the chit chat most of all.
Another way I use whey all the time is to soak my oats and other grains before cooking them. The grains are much more digestible. I just keep a half gallon jar in my fridge to use. It lasts a very long time!!
To Megan, who asked about planting garlic in a rental. I grew garlic in containers last year and I’ll do it again this year. I planted 20 cloves from 4 seed heads in 40 gal “commander” bins (black & yellow), then harvested 18 heads this summer. I wrapped a moving blanket around the exterior with bungee cord and covered with dry grass clippings & dry ornamental grass trimmings to insulate/mulch. It worked really well, but you need a lot of bins and soil to make a decent harvest. I’ve already used most of it. Some thoughts: you could trying bottom filling with mulch to reduce the amount of soil you need to buy. There’s usually plastic bins/kiddie pools available for cheap on FB market. And if that fails I think cardboard boxes can work for 1 season. Winter sowing in milk jugs has worked well for me, rather than buying seed starting racks/lights. Also, finding a used/cheap rotating compost bin has really cut down on the soil I have to buy. You can compost/vermicompost in pretty small spaces without mess. Another tip for renters: look for a CSA, milk share, or egg farm and buy local. It’ll help you learn how to use/preserve seasonally in bulk and develop those skills while you’re not able to grow a lot.
Thank you guys so much for all the great information and I absolutely appreciate you both sharing everything with us! You are such a beautiful blessing and can never thank you enough! Congratulations on all of your accomplishments so far! God bless you both and you beautiful family!!!!
Hello Josh & Carolyn. Now that you have more animals on your homestead through the winter, can you show us which winter watering methods you are using? I'm curious what you have found to keep it from freezing, if any?
As I look out to mostly tree Topps the loggers left all over, with weeds over 6 ft tall growing in them, it's good to hear "take heart." I'm on disability, so everything is super slow going. I will say people say the summer garden I had was a miracle considering it was just logged and needs top soil and more compost.
You can ways put onions in pantyhose legs...plop one in, tie a knot, add another, tie a knot, fill the legs and hang. To use, just cut off below the bottom knot. Folks don't wear them much anymore, but ask friends for old panty hose they no longer wear or that have a bad run.
That’s interesting about bears and pigs having lard. They are related, I believe. I just discovered you last week and I’m really enjoying your great info and watching your interaction!!
I would love a good gluten free bread recipe. I buy cheap knee high nylons from the Dollar store and store my onions in them with knots between to keep the onions from touching each other, then hang in my barn. I love how friendly your pigs are.
Cannot wait to see more on the "extreme" composting. Nothing better than using everything on the homestead! Love the kune kunes! I did not know they came in different colors.I have only seen the dark brown (or is it black?) ones that are solid color.
nine weeks on our new homestead. all the intrastructure needed. no garden orchatd zip.... will be fun. it's not our first place so thankful we won't be learning as we go. EXCEPT... NEW ZONE VERY DIFFERENT! SO STILL plenty of learning
What a fun video! I would love to see more videos about the animals/animal care, if possible. Maybe a “daily chore” tour, how to milk, or a barn setup one? Keep up the good work, guys!
So glad to see you both on a regular schedule again!!! I learn so much about a lot of things!! What meat chicken breed would you chose for total sustainably on the Farm? I know you get broilers from the hatchery now.
Use some of that cabbage to make egg rolls and store them in the freezer. A really nice midday snack or quick lunch. And littles can put them in the microwave all by themselves. Just a suggestion.
I make a fantastic bone broth in the pressure cooker. I cook my chicken in the pressure cooker first, for 45 minutes. Then I remove all the meat & put everything else back in the water, add 1/4 cup apple cider vinegar, & let it sit for 15 mins. Then I pressure cook that for 2 hours. After that is done, I cut up & mash the bones as small as I can, add veggie scraps, & pressure cook for 1 more hour. Once the pressure is on, I bring it down as low as possible, so it's not cooking at a super high temperature ... just enough to keep pressure. Should not be much different than cooking with pressure in an insta-pot. Mine always gels.
Good job! I tried using my pressure canner for making bone broth after I seen it used on another channel. Where I live I use 15 pounds pressure for canning and so I did the same for the bone broth. I was having alot of trouble controlling the pressure during the cook for some reason (going too high)- I was thinking that the fat was heating differently and hotter, but I don't know. Anyway, not long after it blew the safety out of the pressure canner and I had super hot, fatty water spewing all over my kitchen and fresh made bread...I turned the heat off and moved the bread but had to watch while the canner depressurized spewing this liquid all over the kitchen. One plus of this was the kitchen got a much needed cleaning. All this said, maybe I should have cooked it at 5 pounds pressure and then when jarred did the 15 pounds, as Carolyn suggested...I never thought of that till now. But to be honest, I don't think I will be trying it - I will just use my slow cooker and stove top or the oven set at a low temp. The replacement parts for the canner were hard to source and the mess was something else.
@@karooblue7634I understand your point but we grew up with animals as pets & always knew that they would end up as food. It was just a fact of life on the farm. When animals are handled & tame they are much more safe for everyone to be around.
@@karooblue7634 they covered that in the chat. Handling the livestock keeps everyone calm and safe. A calm animal is a delicious animal stress is not tasty
Hi, arlene here from the Philippines. I wonder how do you spend your Sundays? Aside from teaching your children on becoming responsible citizens through your smart at amazing parenting style, do you bring them to church? If so, what church you belong?
Question: With your refrigerator bread, why do you use yeast and not use a sourdough starter? Can you use a sourdough starter/have you tried that before? If you are doing a gluten free 5 minute bread, try using Einkorn the most ancient of wheats, it has really low/different gluten content and many people are able to tolerate einkorn. That might be helpful for your audience. Celiac's can't tolerate any gluten, but check it out!
How do you triage your projects? We are on year two, and often find we get things started enough to function but not actually done and then end up leaving it to put out fires somewhere else.
For the onions you can buy on-line these plastic bags that come in 5lbs or 10lbs. Also you can reuse them. Just clean them with soap and water. To store them. Also on root and refuge they have kunekune pigs too but theres are white with curly hair but yours are black or brown and I didn't notice any curly hair. Are they a different off shot of kunekune?
Sorry, I sent an email earlier but this is probably a better place to ask my question about lacto-fermenting. I follow your "rules". Rule #3 says add starter or double salt. Do you always double your salt since you do not usually add a starter? Sometimes my ferments are a little too salty so just wondering. Thanks in advance. Love your kune kunes and all you do. Trying to get started on cheese making :).
This sounds weird, but I've soaked infected appendages (fingers, toes) in cold whey. Not only does it provide immediate pain relief, but it always kills the infection. I've cleaned my floor with it when I had a huge amount of it.
Will you please do a video of the duck processing?!?! I need to downsize my males from spring hatch and have never done ducks. we have done lots of meat birds for years just rather unsure on the ducks....
I understand the whole thing about having animals for food but how do you not just cry your eyes out after actually petting them? I couldn’t do it 😭 on the other hand I rendered lard for the first time from a slab I purchased at the farmers market. I didn’t get as much as I expected.
My question is off topic, but I really don’t know where else to ask this question. I’m new to all of this and still have to work with my glass cooktop and that means I can’t use my big pressure canner to it’s full capacity. I watch you use a plug in cooktop every once in while and would like to know the brand of it. I looked those things up and nothing heavy duty enough comes up. Could you please help me and let me know what the brand is? P.S. if you mentioned it in your videos before, I apologize. I’ve watched a lot of your videos but not all of them yet, each has so much information and I love them!
I don't know what size pressure canner you have, but I have a model 910 all-american canner and it works great on my smoothtop electric stove. I was worried to but saw another channel doing it, so I gave it a try and it's fine.
I don't HAVE a cow yet, but when I do.. I would want to try be soaking my grains in the whey. However.. will they still sprout once soaked? They currently attract fungus gnats from the fermenting of the water they are soaked in. Would the whey make that worse?
Would you be willing to share your Kimchi recipe. Can’t seem to get that right. Enjoy your content. I also am an Idahoan have lived here all my life. Sounds like it’s really raining hard in your area. God bless.
I did not know you could compost proteins/animal meat. I thought it was only vegetable waste, papers and organic matter like leaves, grass clippings etc.
You guys are now included my morning routine. Starting the day watching your videos gives me so much inspiration and hope. Love watching this beautiful family and their journey. 💝
Emily, I do the same. 6am! Such an inspiration.
Same! They’ve inspired my belief that I have what it takes to live my life the way I want to
The curious black sheep with the hay filled head was so cute! It was interested in it’s morning lessons.
Those are the friendliest pigs I've ever seen. Love this morning video in the barn. Blessings to all stay safe and healthy :)
Yes they are ... But they are not pets. They will be slaughtered soon.
I absolutely love seeing you guys first thing in the morning. What a great way to start the day!
I appreciate this informative, uplifting, wholesome channel. God bless your beautiful family!
My family has a dedicated chicken freezer, too! When we use up chickens, I store the carcasses in the freezer until I can make bone broth, and I like to keep some frozen broth in there, too, when I don’t have time (or lids) to can it. We also have 2 kune kune females and an American Guinea Hog female that we are raising for meat. They are all so sweet...just like dogs that can’t jump on you! They play well with our chickens, dogs, cats, and they even like to be around our cow! Love all the shows and God Bless!
Bear grease is the most useful and best for cooking and piecrust , unsurpassed for so many uses like waterproofing your boots and saddles , oiling many things . It doesn't need refrigeration and never goes rancid , amazing stuff !
I will be on the lookout for that extreme compost video! That's an area I really need to focus on!
I LOVE the rain!!! So peaceful in the background!!
This was GREAT! You were enjoying yourselves, MUCH more relaxed and less stuffy. Loved this one. Jam packed with info too. SO impressed with your knowledge Carolyn
Your pigs are adorable! I think I smiled (and giggled a lot) through your whole video!
I really want to thank you, Carolyn for sharing the fermented vegetables. I have done red tomatoes and green tomatoes. Green tomatoes are the absolute bomb!
Your kindness shows just in the way you are to your animals.. love your inner spirit... love your lifestyle...
" seek ye the old paths" 😁
The Scottish used to turn the whey into a wine by adding a little lemon juice and some sugar and yeast it's very delicious it's called a Blaand wine you can find recipes on the internet!
I remember my grandmother used to give my sister and me a chicken foot to chew on, it was really good. Did you know during the depression 54% of the people were farmers or gardeners, today that number has gone down to 2%. Sure hope people are stocking up or there is going to be a serious problem, especially the city folk.
During the Depression, the Government approached the problems of the Country's Finances with a multitude of good Programs. The CCC, WPA, USDA Extension Service, Small Farm Development, Public Art & Science Programs, Development of Federal & State Parks for We the People, Schools, Libraries, Municipal Buildings and Public Municipal Utilities.
Susan makes a great point. “We the people “ not only benefited during the depression from the pay that those programs provided, but the workers gained skills and the self esteem that comes from being productive. We are still benefiting from the programs by having some beautiful public buildings and park facilities.
Unfortunately today’s government leaders only know how to print more worthless currency to throw at a problem. Just handing out free money doesn’t build up people and it doesn’t build up long term resources for the whole country. We need leadership that knows something about building something worthwhile from the ground up. We need people who have built business’s to join government when they get near retirement. Otherwise we are going to become a nation of starving people with their hands out expecting big brother to take care of us as if we were children. And worst of all is that we are becoming helpless, like children who can’t think for ourselves. We are afraid to even question authority or popular ideas that don’t have reality or facts to back them. If a celebrity or someone who face we recognize says the sky is green with purple dots, God help anyone who asks “Is it really? Kind of looks blue with white clouds to me.” That poor brave person will be blocked from speaking on any public forum for life and loose most of their friends and may even be disowned by family. Some people may even loose their freedom and independence. I know that for a fact because some church leaders tried to make me a “ward of the state for voicing the crazy idea that I wanted to build some raised bed vegetable gardens and a coop for 6 chickens in my urban fenced backyard. They questioned why I would want to have the work and expense of that when either the church or the government would take care of me in my old age. The last straw was when I said that I thought most of my health problems were caused by a diet high in processed foods, I wanted to choose my own home grown food and I wanted to be more self reliant just in case things changed and the church and government were not in the same position to take care of every disabled widow. Maybe I could even grow extra for my friends or neighbors. They actually thought I had lost my mind, and tried to have the government force me out of my home and into a locked assisted living facility. Fortunately all of my doctors have back yard chickens and gardens so they wrote letters for me saying that I was both mentally and physically competent to live alone and that it would be a very healthy idea for me to take up some hobbies like gardening and maybe even raise a few chickens, that it would probably provide more structure to my day to have the routine of feeding the chickens every morning.
So if you don’t think our society has gotten too controlling yet, think again. After the last 2 years, I would give anything to be younger and healthy enough to move off grid as far away from people as I could get.
Yes, schmaltz/shmalz is rendered chicken or goose fat (kosher poultry fat) - in German (where the word comes from) we also use it for lard (since pork fat has a similar lower melting point than beef/mutton fat), but for obvious reasons the German word for lard never made it into Yiddish and then never into English 😉
I just wanted to mention that I love watching all your pantry chats - love the Q&As, but the chit chat most of all.
Another way I use whey all the time is to soak my oats and other grains before cooking them. The grains are much more digestible. I just keep a half gallon jar in my fridge to use. It lasts a very long time!!
I really enjoyed this Q&A; thank you for all the great content!
To Megan, who asked about planting garlic in a rental. I grew garlic in containers last year and I’ll do it again this year. I planted 20 cloves from 4 seed heads in 40 gal “commander” bins (black & yellow), then harvested 18 heads this summer. I wrapped a moving blanket around the exterior with bungee cord and covered with dry grass clippings & dry ornamental grass trimmings to insulate/mulch. It worked really well, but you need a lot of bins and soil to make a decent harvest. I’ve already used most of it.
Some thoughts: you could trying bottom filling with mulch to reduce the amount of soil you need to buy. There’s usually plastic bins/kiddie pools available for cheap on FB market. And if that fails I think cardboard boxes can work for 1 season. Winter sowing in milk jugs has worked well for me, rather than buying seed starting racks/lights. Also, finding a used/cheap rotating compost bin has really cut down on the soil I have to buy. You can compost/vermicompost in pretty small spaces without mess.
Another tip for renters: look for a CSA, milk share, or egg farm and buy local. It’ll help you learn how to use/preserve seasonally in bulk and develop those skills while you’re not able to grow a lot.
Whey: pancakes;
Also, Norwegians evaporate it into a special caramel like cheese.
Thank you guys so much for all the great information and I absolutely appreciate you both sharing everything with us! You are such a beautiful blessing and can never thank you enough! Congratulations on all of your accomplishments so far! God bless you both and you beautiful family!!!!
Hello Josh & Carolyn. Now that you have more animals on your homestead through the winter, can you show us which winter watering methods you are using? I'm curious what you have found to keep it from freezing, if any?
Awwew the pigs are loving the attention!
Always love seeing you around the farm. 💚🌞
I LOVE your location for this chat!
Thank you for sharing all the great information.
As I look out to mostly tree Topps the loggers left all over, with weeds over 6 ft tall growing in them, it's good to hear "take heart." I'm on disability, so everything is super slow going.
I will say people say the summer garden I had was a miracle considering it was just logged and needs top soil and more compost.
Our chickens LOVE the whey mixed in their feed!! They go crazy over it.
You can ways put onions in pantyhose legs...plop one in, tie a knot, add another, tie a knot, fill the legs and hang. To use, just cut off below the bottom knot. Folks don't wear them much anymore, but ask friends for old panty hose they no longer wear or that have a bad run.
That's a great idea!
That’s interesting about bears and pigs having lard. They are related, I believe. I just discovered you last week and I’m really enjoying your great info and watching your interaction!!
Hello beautiful people. Thx for sharing for keeping me company.
Yes, green stalks is the bomb! Love em.
Blessings, julie
your pig is so cute changes sides to get more loves was like Josh is busy i will go over here LOL
I would love a good gluten free bread recipe. I buy cheap knee high nylons from the Dollar store and store my onions in them with knots between to keep the onions from touching each other, then hang in my barn. I love how friendly your pigs are.
Cannot wait to see more on the "extreme" composting. Nothing better than using everything on the homestead! Love the kune kunes! I did not know they came in different colors.I have only seen the dark brown (or is it black?) ones that are solid color.
Whey is a really good foliar spray for fruit trees.
Stefan from the permaculture orchard has a video on it
nine weeks on our new homestead. all the intrastructure needed. no garden orchatd zip.... will be fun. it's not our first place so thankful we won't be learning as we go. EXCEPT... NEW ZONE VERY DIFFERENT! SO STILL plenty of learning
To whoever asked about using a pressure canner to make bone broth- I have an all American canner and I use it to make bone broth. It does gel. Fyi.
Will you share how you do all your cabbage? I love cabbage and would love to try something new. Compost sounds like a great idea.
What a fun video! I would love to see more videos about the animals/animal care, if possible. Maybe a “daily chore” tour, how to milk, or a barn setup one? Keep up the good work, guys!
So glad to see you both on a regular schedule again!!! I learn so much about a lot of things!! What meat chicken breed would you chose for total sustainably on the Farm? I know you get broilers from the hatchery now.
Good morning and have a beautiful day!! Love your videos!!
Wish you best of luck with your long term goals
Use some of that cabbage to make egg rolls and store them in the freezer. A really nice midday snack or quick lunch. And littles can put them in the microwave all by themselves. Just a suggestion.
I make a fantastic bone broth in the pressure cooker. I cook my chicken in the pressure cooker first, for 45 minutes. Then I remove all the meat & put everything else back in the water, add 1/4 cup apple cider vinegar, & let it sit for 15 mins. Then I pressure cook that for 2 hours. After that is done, I cut up & mash the bones as small as I can, add veggie scraps, & pressure cook for 1 more hour. Once the pressure is on, I bring it down as low as possible, so it's not cooking at a super high temperature ... just enough to keep pressure. Should not be much different than cooking with pressure in an insta-pot. Mine always gels.
Loved it. You guys are great.
I enjoy seeing y’all and listening to your knowledge. I’m curious. Have y’all eaten bear, and how did y’all prepare it? Thank you so much!
Good job! I tried using my pressure canner for making bone broth after I seen it used on another channel. Where I live I use 15 pounds pressure for canning and so I did the same for the bone broth. I was having alot of trouble controlling the pressure during the cook for some reason (going too high)- I was thinking that the fat was heating differently and hotter, but I don't know. Anyway, not long after it blew the safety out of the pressure canner and I had super hot, fatty water spewing all over my kitchen and fresh made bread...I turned the heat off and moved the bread but had to watch while the canner depressurized spewing this liquid all over the kitchen. One plus of this was the kitchen got a much needed cleaning. All this said, maybe I should have cooked it at 5 pounds pressure and then when jarred did the 15 pounds, as Carolyn suggested...I never thought of that till now. But to be honest, I don't think I will be trying it - I will just use my slow cooker and stove top or the oven set at a low temp. The replacement parts for the canner were hard to source and the mess was something else.
Thanks for that info! Sorry about your troubles but thanks for saving me that terrible mess 😁
@@calamitysue1274 No worries. Again, maybe if I had done at 5 pounds pressure it would have been fine...Dunno.
Can't wait to see your gluten free bread video when its ready!
You both work so hard..I will come take care of your animals while you go on vacation.
I see some very spoiled pigs. What a happy crew.
Do you use the feathers after chicken harvest? If so how? Clean them? Dry them? Thank you.
Lard flavor depends up what you feed your pig's, feed them natural vs. Commercial feeds, improves flavor.
Another great informative video! Your pigs are hilarious btw!
They are not pets. They are there to breed and to have their litter slaughterd for dinner. I dont agree with "handeling" your food source like pets.
@@karooblue7634I understand your point but we grew up with animals as pets & always knew that they would end up as food. It was just a fact of life on the farm. When animals are handled & tame they are much more safe for everyone to be around.
Love your animals. Love your videos.
There so sweet knue knue pigs mine is knue knue and julianna mix he stays inside lol best pet ever he is 3 years old
My husband makes Gjetost with the leftover whey. Sweet as jelly on toast!
Aw those little pigs are adorable. Super interesting chat
They are not pets ... They will be slaughtered for the table. Not sure why they pet them ....
@@karooblue7634 they covered that in the chat. Handling the livestock keeps everyone calm and safe. A calm animal is a delicious animal stress is not tasty
@@karooblue7634 Those are their new breeding pigs, not feeders
I did your broth and it's wonderful. Thank you
LOL i love the sheep standing in line like they are actively listening to the pantry chat LOL 🐑🐑🐑🐑
Hi, arlene here from the Philippines. I wonder how do you spend your Sundays? Aside from teaching your children on becoming responsible citizens through your smart at amazing parenting style, do you bring them to church? If so, what church you belong?
Question: With your refrigerator bread, why do you use yeast and not use a sourdough starter? Can you use a sourdough starter/have you tried that before?
If you are doing a gluten free 5 minute bread, try using Einkorn the most ancient of wheats, it has really low/different gluten content and many people are able to tolerate einkorn. That might be helpful for your audience. Celiac's can't tolerate any gluten, but check it out!
Good looking pigs.
That was so much fun. I never add starter to my ferment. I have better results with out it.
Not sure if you have tried it, but I found that a little celery seed in the krout, is really good.
Thank you.- Melanie
I love how she pronounces “melk”.
How do you triage your projects? We are on year two, and often find we get things started enough to function but not actually done and then end up leaving it to put out fires somewhere else.
For the onions you can buy on-line these plastic bags that come in 5lbs or 10lbs. Also you can reuse them. Just clean them with soap and water. To store them. Also on root and refuge they have kunekune pigs too but theres are white with curly hair but yours are black or brown and I didn't notice any curly hair. Are they a different off shot of kunekune?
Sorry, I sent an email earlier but this is probably a better place to ask my question about lacto-fermenting. I follow your "rules". Rule #3 says add starter or double salt. Do you always double your salt since you do not usually add a starter? Sometimes my ferments are a little too salty so just wondering. Thanks in advance. Love your kune kunes and all you do. Trying to get started on cheese making :).
Do you guys ever consider getting some bees for your own honey and pollination purposes?
Please please do videos when you butcher the turkeys and ducks. I am wanting to do this, but I have no clue!
This sounds weird, but I've soaked infected appendages (fingers, toes) in cold whey. Not only does it provide immediate pain relief, but it always kills the infection. I've cleaned my floor with it when I had a huge amount of it.
Did you videotape chicken cutting? I would love to see that again and even the turkeys 😁
Ready for the kimchi recipe
Good Morning!
Will you please do a video of the duck processing?!?! I need to downsize my males from spring hatch and have never done ducks. we have done lots of meat birds for years just rather unsure on the ducks....
This was great, love the pigs! Not sure if you realize the music at the intro and outro is too loud to hear you talking though.
You two are so cute!
I understand the whole thing about having animals for food but how do you not just cry your eyes out after actually petting them? I couldn’t do it 😭 on the other hand I rendered lard for the first time from a slab I purchased at the farmers market. I didn’t get as much as I expected.
I think the rooster has voiced his opinion on chicken butchering @28:40
Tell us more about raising your pigs what kind are they what do you feed them how do you keep them😅
My question is off topic, but I really don’t know where else to ask this question. I’m new to all of this and still have to work with my glass cooktop and that means I can’t use my big pressure canner to it’s full capacity. I watch you use a plug in cooktop every once in while and would like to know the brand of it. I looked those things up and nothing heavy duty enough comes up. Could you please help me and let me know what the brand is?
P.S. if you mentioned it in your videos before, I apologize. I’ve watched a lot of your videos but not all of them yet, each has so much information and I love them!
I don't know what size pressure canner you have, but I have a model 910 all-american canner and it works great on my smoothtop electric stove. I was worried to but saw another channel doing it, so I gave it a try and it's fine.
I have a lot of extra kefir grains .I have been eating them .Are they high in protein?
Great chat! Where would I find Coonie pigs to purchase? I am Lancaster county, PA.
How did you set up your area indoors for your kune kunes?
can you make clabber from pasteurized milk?
I don't HAVE a cow yet, but when I do.. I would want to try be soaking my grains in the whey. However.. will they still sprout once soaked? They currently attract fungus gnats from the fermenting of the water they are soaked in. Would the whey make that worse?
How do you care for your pigs to keep them from getting swine flu?
Would you be willing to share your Kimchi recipe. Can’t seem to get that right. Enjoy your content. I also am an Idahoan have lived here all my life. Sounds like it’s really raining hard in your area. God bless.
You guys set up if the power goes out for a long time !?
Can u make more cultured buttermilk from a mix of powdered buttermilk and walter?
Can I use wood ash in compost??
What is “offal” (sp?) from chicken processing that you are composting?
All the inedible parts... "guts"....
I did not know you could compost proteins/animal meat. I thought it was only vegetable waste, papers and organic matter like leaves, grass clippings etc.
I thought the piggies look more like Idaho pasture pigs then Kune Kunes.
Good morning
hahaha, you guys forgot to tell the rooster to be quiet
Love the pigs. They must taste fabulous with all the loving TLC they receive.
After you render fat how do you store it
Do you can your rendered lard
Oh I compost my chicken and my pig manure