“Drink water from the spring where horses drink. The horse will never drink bad water. Lay your bed where the cat sleeps. Eat the fruit that has been touched by a worm. Boldly pick the mushroom on which the insects sit. Plant the tree where the mole digs. Build your house where the snake sits to warm itself. Dig your fountain where the birds hide from heat. Go to sleep and wake up at the same time with the birds - you will reap all of the days golden grains. Eat more green - you will have strong legs and a resistant heart, like the beings of the forest. Swim often and you will feel on earth like the fish in the water. Look at the sky as often as possible and your thoughts will become light and clear. Be quiet a lot, speak little - and silence will come in your heart, and your spirit will be calm and full of peace.” Saint Seraphim of Sarov
I'm continually blessed by you, Jess! After a long hot,sweaty shift at work, I came home to take sanctuary in my garden, sit down with an ice coffee, and listen to this girl who is rooted in her love of the beauty and abundance that God has blessed her with! Your humor, candor, and practicality continue to bring joy to me! I'm going to try the recipe too...but I'm going to keep my eye out for stow aways!😄
Omg when you squeezed your fists like 3 times at the end of the video because you were so excited about what you made! That made my heart so happy haha!
When my husband and I were first married we had to go away over lunchtime, so I made my husband a sandwich for the road. I ran to the garden and grabbed some lettuce and quickly rinsed them off. I looked the leaves over quickly but not thoroughly. My husband was happily munching on his sandwich and suddenly stopped eating and pulled something out of his mouth. It was a slug. He said it didn't taste bad but he thought the ham was awfully gristley and chewy. I was mortified for about 3 seconds but then I thought it was hilarious. I still do. Good thing he has a good sense of humour and is forgiving.
Right and I become a complete ass if at Walmart and use bathroom and see a nasty woman try to walk out without washing hands yep I call her out and tell her get back in and wash her damn hands. Hubby says I embarrass him 🤷♀️
I love Roots and Refuge, and this has to be my favorite video so far. Sure, I love anything pickled, but you covering the concept of real food is super important. Thanks and happy gardening :)
Another suggestion for "Real food comes Dirty" is the chalkboard! Great video Jess, you have quickly become one of my favorite UA-camr channels and a big inspiration. Thank you for the great content, blessings to you and your family! As a NYC resident your videos have been a huge escape for me during this COVID time!
I love old cook books and have a ton of them. I find them in thrift stores. I am in the process of reading The Complete Book of Pickles and Relishes. There are a ton of recipes.....18 recipes for Dill Pickles alone and 64 recipes for relishes and so much more. I will be reading this one for awhile.
Omg me too! Especially old canning cookbooks. They did things so much differently back then. There are things I want to make from them that nobody but me would want to eat lol. I find it fascinating tho.
I absolutely love how Sweet Mia is SOOOOOO supportive of everything you do 🥰 its the "Are you so impressed?" "I am." "I knew you would be." that just melted my heart completely. He has so much gentle confidence in you. I just love you guys together so much.
I love these kind of videos where you show how you like to use your harvest. It shows me the end goal of all that loving work and reminds me why I want to grow my own food in the first place.
I was waiting to see if you were going to make a video on it. After reading a couple comments about people not wanting to eat bugs on your post of you soaking the cauliflower. Blows my mind how much people don’t know about how food grows.
I still soak store bought veggies.. LOL I feel better eating the dirt and bugs from the garden than the random stuff you could possibly have on store bought food.
Don’t even tell people about the process packaged meat goes through lol! Washed with chlorine or ammonia to get the E. coli off of the flesh (from the saws that cut through the hides caked with feces)
@@queenizzy01 That is one main important fact why I eat a whole food, plant based diet. I cannot have animals where I live to raise even if I wanted to.
I was away for a 2 week deployment and the bugs enjoyed my garden. All my cucs gone, and the grasshoppers moved in. I haven't been able to use anything on them yet due to the constant rain. Your garden inspires me! My little raised bed garden doesn't compare to your beautiful and bountiful garden. #goals!
Good morning from Maryland! Jess and Miah: you are both such an inspiration to me. What a blessing you are to me. You remind me so very much of myself when I was young and raising our 5 children. I grew everything that we ate, made all our clothing, rugs, curtains, blankets, etc. For me it was just what we did! There was no homesteading movement. Lol Hubby and I are both pastors and teachers. There nothing better than tending to God’s garden and His children. Such a blessing for the two of you to share with your children! We recently bought a log cabin and several acres of good Maryland ground. Devotions are finished, My large garden is growing abundantly and my chickens are laying profusely. I’m currently knitting hubby a blanket, relaxing while watching my favorite UA-cam channel: Roots and Refuge. Ever hear of them. 😆 May God’s blessings continue to shine on your family, friends, neighbors and fans! Rhonda
Oh yum! That's a favorite of mine! I have to wait for my mouth to heal up better as all hot stuff about makes me faint right now but its gonna be better some day and I want to ferment some of these.
Haha. My daughter,14yrs. has always done the same thing with a blanket. Everyday she comes out wrapped in her favorite soft blanket. Hot or cold. Glad to know she’s not a big weirdo. Lol
Yum! I love pickled veggies, especially cauliflower. I can't wait until my garden starts coming in. It can be hard for this Northerner watching you get crops so early.
I love that you keep your eggs on the counter too! That was the one thing that I still feel weird about a year later... leaving my eggs on the counter! :)
@@janehutchinson9860 here in the uk most people don't put their eggs in the fridge as they don't need it if just washed and shells in tact, but our eggs are nearly all brown like Jess has there. not white like i understand you get from a us store, my understanding is in the us the way they commercially clean the eggs makes the shells thinner.
@@joannelambert2635 Here in the US the store bought eggs are pasteurized, so they have to be refrigerated afterwards. The eggs are usually white because most poultry farms use the white leghorn breed (good layers and don't require as much food as heavy breeds). White leghorns lay white eggs. Some use brown egglayers like sexlinks or Rhode Island Reds. Those are usually marketed as organic cage free even though the color of the eggs are dependent on the breed of chicken. Personally, I prefer to raise my own chickens and have a variety of colored eggs without the pasteurization and added chemicals.
Hey thanks for being real. You are a real master gardener. I'm going to keep watching. Thank you for posting all the videos you have your super. Oh and thank you
Looks yummy - love pickled stuff. I will have to try this. I had a dog that loved carrots and potato peelings. A favorite dish of ours is a Hobo dish. We take whatever types of fresh veggies and put in (cauliflower, broccoli, potatoes, carrots, asparagus, onions, garlic, turnips, zucchini, cabbage, etc) and add kielbasa or sausage with butter and some olive oil. You just can’t go wrong with homegrown veggies.
When I married my husband who is Hispanic he introduced me too pickled carrots with peppers and now they make my mouth water just looking at them. So. Good!! I need to try and pickle them myself.
the part where she says hey Miah-- I grew this!. I have said that so many times to my hubby that he now makes fun of me for it and beats me to saying it when we eat our garden food. Thank you Jess for the inspiration and motivation to grow food. It's been amazing, and I've got the bug now. Sending you love and positivity!
Jess, you are such a Sweety. I love your love for your family & garden. It's such a joy to watch your videos. And yes, I've thought that very same thing when I go into the grocery stores---"what the heck did they put into this crop to make it so big and with no blemish!" Cant wait to try that pickled veggie recipe. Thank you. God bless you & your family.😊🙏💕
Your point with Organic vegetables at the grocery store is so true! I was pursuing a biology degree and we learned "organic" food is a myth as something can be sprayed/added to the food after the harvest and have it still be considered organic, and its mainly advertised as such for the price tag. Growing your own food is the only true way to know what is happening to it during the process. Thank you so much for everything you share with us! I would like to have a small farm of my own someday and this is very inspirational and motivating for me :)
My dad is a farmer in ND. I was complaining about having a bug on my produce. He said, "would you rather be eating beautiful chemical laden produce or chemical free produce that you have to pick a bug or two off of?"
Just found your channel a couple weeks ago and absolutely love your content and it has inspired me so much. Haven’t planted a garden in years and during this time I wanted to find a nice healthy hobby. I have such a beautiful garden right now and really learned so much from you. Keep posting I love your content so much. ❤️
Ok I had to stop everything and find this video right now. I just soaked my first cabbage and if you hadn’t done this video I would’ve fainted when I saw something slither out. I wouldn’t have even soaked the thing. Oh my word! You saved my gardening career!!!!! And a fainting spell.
I always recommend parents of young children plant potatoes. You can plant store bought, so it's nothing fancy, but I always thought harvesting them was like digging for treasure! My daughter used to love being asked to go dig potatoes for dinner. She got very good at plunging her hands into the garden and pulling out treasures. Then packing the dirt back for the next "dig".
In 1973 I got my favorite cookbook as a wedding present. It is called The Cattle Country Cook Book, Basic Recipes from East of the Cascades by Nancy Strope. I am still using it! As far as I know it is still in print. God bless you and your family. I love your videos.
Aren't those old cookbooks great? I taught myself to cook using the Farm Journal's Country Cookbook (1959). It had all the basic things, and a section on cooking for fifty people, lol. Now I'm going to try to find the one you mentioned - sounds like it's right up my alley!
Love the excitement you have for food that you have grown yourself...😁 I resemble that excitement, you are just a few weeks ahead of me in the garden... Thanks for sharing your pickled veggie recipe! I'm for sure going to try it if my cauliflower makes it! 😍
Kentucky zone 6 b get yourself a low tunnel you can grow brassica all winter that way you can be eatting your own veg while putitng your summer things out
My neighbor freaked out when her husband's garden had tons of veggies. She had no idea what to do. Helped her make pickles and different types of salsa. Tasty fun! I moved to an apartment and have up my garden. I miss it. I saw your garden towers! I ordered 4! Peppers, tomatoes, assorted Chinese veggies. Love them!
No-pahl-EE-toe....LOVE, LOVE, LOVE your pronunciation...& your up-front honesty that it is the Arkansan version. Will have to make a batch of those pickles...they look yummy
I grew cauliflower for the first time this spring and was delighted how sweet the ribs and stems were. My heads were small, so keeping the leaves and stems really helped it be worth it. I also had no caterpillar and very little other damage, which I think is because my cabbage was harvested early.
Bear is precious! Dogs roll in smelly things because they are trying to mark it with their scent. If a dog does not like the scent of something they will roll in it trying to make it smell like them. My girl used to always do it anytime she saw a cigarette butt on our walks. ❤️🐾
Jess, I love that you're talking about bugs and organic gardening!! I've squashed off and washed a lot of caterpillars off of my kale in the last week. I'm definitely adjusting to organic garden harvests! Even if the produce doesn't have bugs on it, just the act of looking for bugs on leaves with holes in them can put me off if I think about it too much. But you're right...it tastes so much better and I much more appreciate now how much preservatives and insecticides must be applied to grocery store produce (even organic produce). I'd rather deal with bugs than preservatives and insecticides. Once again, my garden teaches me so much! Thanks for talking about this. I feel much better :)
Jess for slugs & snails put a container or saucer of beer out in your garden ( where ever they are) I have done this for years & have never had a problem here in sub-tropical Brisbane Australia, Jess I totally agree when it comes to supermarket perfect food- Thank Goodness we are lucky enough to grow & eat our own produce that is not sprayed or treated with terrible things, Unfortunately I cannot grow cauliflower so I do have to buy from my organic store. Loved this video. Cheers Denise - Australia- YOU ARE THE REASON I GROW FOOD because of your motivation. !!!!!!!!
Perfect timing! I was just dealing with this last night...still new to gardening and was excited to harvest some collard and turnip greens yesterday morning. Had them soaking for hours, rinsed through colander 3 times and STILL found a baby slug when I was chopping them up to put in the pot. I ate the cooked greens slowly but since I put chopped garlic and crushed red pepper in the greens when they were cooking, I wouldn’t be able to tell if I was eating a critter that still managed to hang on and I had to find a way to be ok with that because now I know the work and care that goes into gardening and harvesting - no waste! But next time I will soak in salt water...that’s a great idea!!
7:52 the Spock bust next to the sink really geeked me out XD Once upon a sprig of store bought basil on my table for a couple days and when I finally needed it, all the leaves were gone and there was a big happy caterpillar in the box. We didn't have basil but we had a good laugh about it. I get a lot of weird looks when I talk about bugs on my veggies. I've really found it to be endearing that my veggies have dirt and insects on them when I collect them because I know my garden is organic and I'm supporting the ecosystem around me. It's no big deal for me cause I just wash it when I bring it home (and tbh if there's a bug or two left in there, what I don't know can't hurt me!). So people can judge all they want but at the end of the day my dirty, buggy veggies nourish me and my family all the same.
I love eating that stuff... i usually buy it from the grocery store but I think I'll make my own this year since I'm doing my own gardening. ... I cant wait! Thank you!!!!!
A friend of mine who is Hungarian makes something similar at the end of the season. He uses a base of shredded cabbage and add sliced cukes, shredded carrots ,onions, cauliflower even green tomatoes, vinegar, salt, pepper, sugar and toss it and taste. Leave it overnight to marinate. Next day, he jars the veg and seal the jars quickly in a boiling bath as per usual. It is delicious pickled salad to clean up your garden!!
I love how your joy comes through to us in your vids. Definitely going to have to try this recipe. Thanks for sharing. Blessings. Let us know how they turned out!
Always love your videos 😍 I live in the UK so it’s fascinating watching someone grow in a different (yet temperate) climate. Your stuff grows SO fast, and so big! Those onions look massive to me! Loving your work 🥰🌱
Nothing like growing and preparing your own food. Thank you for taking about REAL food and it’s blemishes. I work at a farm gate that deals mainly in oversized and undersized and unwanted produce because it’s not deemed perfect enough for market sale. The amount of good food thrown away because of its look is just so heartbreaking. Your message will reach many, thank you 🙌🏼 xx Cathi xx
It is so great to hear someone talk about the adjustment to cosmetically perfect food, to organic food! It has been 18 months for me and some things I struggle with more than others.
You stated it perfectly, every time I look at the vegetables in the market I wonder what are they putting on this stuff because every home gardener knows that it is not natural.
I've never put wood ash on my plants but I have put it on a bed of cannas and I can tell you it really works. No more slugs! I always saved some wood ash from the fireplace in the winter for this
I’m so new to all this and so far from a homesteader 😂😂 but my kajari melon seeds came in the mail today and I haven’t been this excited about something in a while. Thank you I look forward to your videos daily
Great harvest. I had beautiful cauliflower in October of last year and then the rain came and ruined the heads I wish I would of just harvested them earlier.
“Drink water from the spring where horses drink. The horse will never drink bad water.
Lay your bed where the cat sleeps.
Eat the fruit that has been touched by a worm.
Boldly pick the mushroom on which the insects sit.
Plant the tree where the mole digs.
Build your house where the snake sits to warm itself.
Dig your fountain where the birds hide from heat.
Go to sleep and wake up at the same time with the birds - you will reap all of the days golden grains.
Eat more green - you will have strong legs and a resistant heart, like the beings of the forest.
Swim often and you will feel on earth like the fish in the water.
Look at the sky as often as possible and your thoughts will become light and clear.
Be quiet a lot, speak little - and silence will come in your heart, and your spirit will be calm and full of peace.”
Saint Seraphim of Sarov
harbor71 so beautiful, thank you for sharing
Love this!
Beautiful!!
Beautiful! 👍🏻❤️
great advice poem! But as for the snakes--no! lol they are cold blooded and maybe it is better to live up the hill from where they like to stay
I'm continually blessed by you, Jess! After a long hot,sweaty shift at work, I came home to take sanctuary in my garden, sit down with an ice coffee, and listen to this girl who is rooted in her love of the beauty and abundance that God has blessed her with! Your humor, candor, and practicality continue to bring joy to me! I'm going to try the recipe too...but I'm going to keep my eye out for stow aways!😄
Omg when you squeezed your fists like 3 times at the end of the video because you were so excited about what you made! That made my heart so happy haha!
AGREE!!!
Real food comes dirty! That is a T-shirt for sure! lol
I second that!
I'd buy one.
Yesssss!! Love it!
Me too!!
Yes. N I'll buy one.. ♥
When my husband and I were first married we had to go away over lunchtime, so I made my husband a sandwich for the road. I ran to the garden and grabbed some lettuce and quickly rinsed them off. I looked the leaves over quickly but not thoroughly. My husband was happily munching on his sandwich and suddenly stopped eating and pulled something out of his mouth. It was a slug. He said it didn't taste bad but he thought the ham was awfully gristley and chewy. I was mortified for about 3 seconds but then I thought it was hilarious. I still do. Good thing he has a good sense of humour and is forgiving.
“If the bugs don’t wanna eat it, i don’t wanna eat it.” Preach, Jess!!!!!!!!
It grosses me out more thinking of all the people that have handled the food in the grocery store, than having bugs on my food from the garden.
Me too!
If you ever worked in Produce you would never want to buy it again
Prairie Plantgirl I genuinely gag when I see produce with fingernail indentions 🤢 fingernails have so many germs, no thanks!
Right and I become a complete ass if at Walmart and use bathroom and see a nasty woman try to walk out without washing hands yep I call her out and tell her get back in and wash her damn hands. Hubby says I embarrass him 🤷♀️
YEEEEESSSSS!!!
I love Roots and Refuge, and this has to be my favorite video so far. Sure, I love anything pickled, but you covering the concept of real food is super important. Thanks and happy gardening :)
Research "Pickled Green Beans. We love with good meat.
I pulled more than I need... I think I got a bit carrot away 😆
Another suggestion for "Real food comes Dirty" is the chalkboard! Great video Jess, you have quickly become one of my favorite UA-camr channels and a big inspiration. Thank you for the great content, blessings to you and your family! As a NYC resident your videos have been a huge escape for me during this COVID time!
9:44 I laughed outloud. “ nobody wants to eat slugs, I mean, I just can’t talk for everybody...l don’t want to eat slugs”.
Golden 💚💚💚
“I don’t know if you’ll find this in the commissary..” spoken like a veteran ❤️
As always, Thanks for sharing!
I caught that too. Even an ex-military wife catches a few golden nuggets.
It will eternally be a commissary for us! 😉
Thank u for ur service jess husband
Garden grocery run. I. LOVE. THAT!
Honestly I'm loving all the kitchen content. You could put up a video of your favorite way to make toast and i would watch it.😂
Hahah right?!?!
Me too Noelle!!!
LOL, true....
I love old cook books and have a ton of them. I find them in thrift stores. I am in the process of reading The Complete Book of Pickles and Relishes. There are a ton of recipes.....18 recipes for Dill Pickles alone and 64 recipes for relishes and so much more. I will be reading this one for awhile.
Omg me too! Especially old canning cookbooks. They did things so much differently back then. There are things I want to make from them that nobody but me would want to eat lol. I find it fascinating tho.
I love the cookbooks from church groups, school clubs, etc. And old cookbooks with handwritten notes!!!
Dawn Shafto Cover I have all my grandma’s old church cookbooks and I refer to them often. I enjoy it as well
I say the same thing to my husband when I use our yields "BABE I GREW THIS" "THAT DELICIOUS THING YOU'RE EATING. YEAH I GREW THAT"
❤🤣
I do as well! Every single time, I opened a jar that I have canned or pull something from the freezer...I say, this came from my garden ❤️
Me too!
I announce to my family every single thing that I grew at pretty much every meal. 😋
Mackenzie Holtog that would also be me 🙋🏻♀️ every single day 😋
I absolutely love how Sweet Mia is SOOOOOO supportive of everything you do 🥰 its the "Are you so impressed?" "I am." "I knew you would be." that just melted my heart completely. He has so much gentle confidence in you. I just love you guys together so much.
I have always used coffee grounds and smashed eggshells around the bed edges to keep slugs and snails away. Definitely need it this year.
I love these kind of videos where you show how you like to use your harvest. It shows me the end goal of all that loving work and reminds me why I want to grow my own food in the first place.
I was waiting to see if you were going to make a video on it. After reading a couple comments about people not wanting to eat bugs on your post of you soaking the cauliflower. Blows my mind how much people don’t know about how food grows.
Right?! Same here!
I love that awkward hands “yay!” gesture in the end, haha! I totally felt that
I ALWAYS WANT TO SEE THE GARDEN! Even with regular garden tours, it's one of the highlights of my day 💚🌱🌿
Very true, just shows you how many chemicals that was used for the produce in the big stores. Nothing like home grown.
I LOVE your sweet spirit, Jess, and how you are always lifting up those around you.
I still soak store bought veggies.. LOL I feel better eating the dirt and bugs from the garden than the random stuff you could possibly have on store bought food.
lol
Don’t even tell people about the process packaged meat goes through lol! Washed with chlorine or ammonia to get the E. coli off of the flesh (from the saws that cut through the hides caked with feces)
@@queenizzy01 That is one main important fact why I eat a whole food, plant based diet. I cannot have animals where I live to raise even if I wanted to.
What do you use to wash your produce?😊
I was away for a 2 week deployment and the bugs enjoyed my garden. All my cucs gone, and the grasshoppers moved in. I haven't been able to use anything on them yet due to the constant rain. Your garden inspires me! My little raised bed garden doesn't compare to your beautiful and bountiful garden. #goals!
Good morning from Maryland! Jess and Miah: you are both such an inspiration to me. What a blessing you are to me. You remind me so very much of myself when I was young and raising our 5 children. I grew everything that we ate, made all our clothing, rugs, curtains, blankets, etc. For me it was just what we did! There was no homesteading movement. Lol Hubby and I are both pastors and teachers. There nothing better than tending to God’s garden and His children. Such a blessing for the two of you to share with your children! We recently bought a log cabin and several acres of good Maryland ground. Devotions are finished, My large garden is growing abundantly and my chickens are laying profusely. I’m currently knitting hubby a blanket, relaxing while watching my favorite UA-cam channel: Roots and Refuge. Ever hear of them. 😆 May God’s blessings continue to shine on your family, friends, neighbors and fans!
Rhonda
Awhhh you are adorable! You were so excited in the end of the video. I love seeing people happy and giddy.
Y’all are just beautiful people. God bless. Im planting potatoes and some other things for the first time this year. Here’s to a good harvest. 💜
I really like how you still get excited about the things you grow and make with them.
Oh my goodness, Jeremiah's Spock cookie jar is awesome! Thank you for the recipe and pest tips, Jessica!
I just made a half gallon of Mexican pickled carrots with jalapenos and onions. It is so good!!! I might try adding cauliflower next time.
Oh yum! That's a favorite of mine! I have to wait for my mouth to heal up better as all hot stuff about makes me faint right now but its gonna be better some day and I want to ferment some of these.
Yum! Do you have a recipe link to share?
Try that it’s delicious 😋
Haha. My daughter,14yrs. has always done the same thing with a blanket. Everyday she comes out wrapped in her favorite soft blanket. Hot or cold. Glad to know she’s not a big weirdo. Lol
mine does it too. still at 19. i think they prefer to be called weirdos now though...
As an adult I still do this sometimes 😂
Yum! I love pickled veggies, especially cauliflower. I can't wait until my garden starts coming in. It can be hard for this Northerner watching you get crops so early.
I love that you keep your eggs on the counter too! That was the one thing that I still feel weird about a year later... leaving my eggs on the counter! :)
Eggs on the counter is so picturesque too.
They don’t need refrigeration?
@@janehutchinson9860 here in the uk most people don't put their eggs in the fridge as they don't need it if just washed and shells in tact, but our eggs are nearly all brown like Jess has there. not white like i understand you get from a us store, my understanding is in the us the way they commercially clean the eggs makes the shells thinner.
@@joannelambert2635 Here in the US the store bought eggs are pasteurized, so they have to be refrigerated afterwards. The eggs are usually white because most poultry farms use the white leghorn breed (good layers and don't require as much food as heavy breeds). White leghorns lay white eggs. Some use brown egglayers like sexlinks or Rhode Island Reds. Those are usually marketed as organic cage free even though the color of the eggs are dependent on the breed of chicken. Personally, I prefer to raise my own chickens and have a variety of colored eggs without the pasteurization and added chemicals.
Hey thanks for being real. You are a real master gardener. I'm going to keep watching. Thank you for posting all the videos you have your super. Oh and thank you
I’m so glad I found your channel. I started vlogging my garden because of your channel. Thank you so much for sharing your garden.
Also loved the time lapse with you and your son chatting over. Sweet style.
Your excitement is adorable and so heartwarming!!
Thank you Jess. For making life better.
Looks yummy - love pickled stuff. I will have to try this.
I had a dog that loved carrots and potato peelings.
A favorite dish of ours is a Hobo dish. We take whatever types of fresh veggies and put in (cauliflower, broccoli, potatoes, carrots, asparagus, onions, garlic, turnips, zucchini, cabbage, etc) and add kielbasa or sausage with butter and some olive oil. You just can’t go wrong with homegrown veggies.
When I married my husband who is Hispanic he introduced me too pickled carrots with peppers and now they make my mouth water just looking at them. So. Good!! I need to try and pickle them myself.
the part where she says hey Miah-- I grew this!. I have said that so many times to my hubby that he now makes fun of me for it and beats me to saying it when we eat our garden food.
Thank you Jess for the inspiration and motivation to grow food. It's been amazing, and I've got the bug now. Sending you love and positivity!
I ❤️ seeing how you prepare the veggies from your garden. Thank you
You’re excitement is so adorable. So happy for you!
Jess, you are such a Sweety. I love your love for your family & garden. It's such a joy to watch your videos. And yes, I've thought that very same thing when I go into the grocery stores---"what the heck did they put into this crop to make it so big and with no blemish!"
Cant wait to try that pickled veggie recipe. Thank you. God bless you & your family.😊🙏💕
Besides the gardening and animal stuff you share, I treasure you sharing your family. This is how I Imajin a husband and wife should treat each other.
This military spouse loves that Mia mentioned the commissary!! In Italy the commissary is our link to the US. We will be headed back soon.
FUNky Moose Blessings 🦋
I’m in Italy too!
@@molli9230 Yay! We've been here 5 years...time to head home. I hope you have the chance to travel soon!
You're excitement and pride is adorable!!! Well done Jess!
Your point with Organic vegetables at the grocery store is so true! I was pursuing a biology degree and we learned "organic" food is a myth as something can be sprayed/added to the food after the harvest and have it still be considered organic, and its mainly advertised as such for the price tag. Growing your own food is the only true way to know what is happening to it during the process. Thank you so much for everything you share with us! I would like to have a small farm of my own someday and this is very inspirational and motivating for me :)
My dad is a farmer in ND. I was complaining about having a bug on my produce. He said, "would you rather be eating beautiful chemical laden produce or chemical free produce that you have to pick a bug or two off of?"
I just have to say that you are such a JOY and wonderful to watch! Your videos always lighten my day! ❤️
“Real Food Comes Dirty” sounds great for a tshirt!
Matthew Ingram ha! Great minds think alike!
Love it!
Just found your channel a couple weeks ago and absolutely love your content and it has inspired me so much. Haven’t planted a garden in years and during this time I wanted to find a nice healthy hobby. I have such a beautiful garden right now and really learned so much from you. Keep posting I love your content so much. ❤️
Ok I had to stop everything and find this video right now. I just soaked my first cabbage and if you hadn’t done this video I would’ve fainted when I saw something slither out. I wouldn’t have even soaked the thing. Oh my word! You saved my gardening career!!!!! And a fainting spell.
So So excited to have you with me daily in my garden as well as me in yours! Love you Jess and your sweet family!❤️ 😊 🙏 😇 🙋♀️ ☀️
Its the best feeling in the world when you cook food you grew. I used to make my family take pictures of me with my vegetables!!
I'm so happy that your so happy!🤗
“Underground food, such a mystery!” Another chapter title.
Love that as well!!
I also like “where did I put that beet?”
I always recommend parents of young children plant potatoes. You can plant store bought, so it's nothing fancy, but I always thought harvesting them was like digging for treasure! My daughter used to love being asked to go dig potatoes for dinner. She got very good at plunging her hands into the garden and pulling out treasures. Then packing the dirt back for the next "dig".
I love how you are soooo excited at the end of the video and you are lacking for words so you did 2 thumbs up !!! 👍👍🤗👩🏽🌾
So fun to see a harvest! and now I am starving for pickled veggies!
In 1973 I got my favorite cookbook as a wedding present. It is called The Cattle Country Cook Book, Basic Recipes from East of the Cascades by Nancy Strope. I am still using it! As far as I know it is still in print. God bless you and your family. I love your videos.
Aren't those old cookbooks great? I taught myself to cook using the Farm Journal's Country Cookbook (1959). It had all the basic things, and a section on cooking for fifty people, lol. Now I'm going to try to find the one you mentioned - sounds like it's right up my alley!
Tha looks so good. Thanks for sharing the dates when you planted. It's so helpful.
Love the excitement you have for food that you have grown yourself...😁 I resemble that excitement, you are just a few weeks ahead of me in the garden...
Thanks for sharing your pickled veggie recipe! I'm for sure going to try it if my cauliflower makes it! 😍
Wow, that looks amazing!!! Can't wait to start getting food from our garden! Here(Michigan) mine is just seedlings for now!
Was out planting beans and tomatoes and cucumbers etc this past week. Mother nature been giving us Michigan folks a hard time this year! Lol
Kentucky zone 6 b get yourself a low tunnel you can grow brassica all winter that way you can be eatting your own veg while putitng your summer things out
My neighbor freaked out when her husband's garden had tons of veggies. She had no idea what to do. Helped her make pickles and different types of salsa. Tasty fun!
I moved to an apartment and have up my garden. I miss it. I saw your garden towers! I ordered 4! Peppers, tomatoes, assorted Chinese veggies. Love them!
No-pahl-EE-toe....LOVE, LOVE, LOVE your pronunciation...& your up-front honesty that it is the Arkansan version. Will have to make a batch of those pickles...they look yummy
The color of those carrots!!!!!! Gorgeous!
Bear promised himself he'd never eat another carrot after disappointing the kids.
Super cute🐕
Bear is alwyse with her like my dog remy. I love anmnials i cant weight for my garden to get. Going
I grew cauliflower for the first time this spring and was delighted how sweet the ribs and stems were. My heads were small, so keeping the leaves and stems really helped it be worth it. I also had no caterpillar and very little other damage, which I think is because my cabbage was harvested early.
I think I saw your Spock cookie jar on your countertop. Live long and prosper.
I cannot believe I missed seeing this! Wonderful timing for this to come up.
The sound of that onion getting harvested was one of the most satisfying sounds EVER! ❤️🧅
Bear is precious! Dogs roll in smelly things because they are trying to mark it with their scent. If a dog does not like the scent of something they will roll in it trying to make it smell like them. My girl used to always do it anytime she saw a cigarette butt on our walks. ❤️🐾
Jess, I love that you're talking about bugs and organic gardening!! I've squashed off and washed a lot of caterpillars off of my kale in the last week. I'm definitely adjusting to organic garden harvests! Even if the produce doesn't have bugs on it, just the act of looking for bugs on leaves with holes in them can put me off if I think about it too much. But you're right...it tastes so much better and I much more appreciate now how much preservatives and insecticides must be applied to grocery store produce (even organic produce). I'd rather deal with bugs than preservatives and insecticides. Once again, my garden teaches me so much! Thanks for talking about this. I feel much better :)
Jess for slugs & snails put a container or saucer of beer out in your garden ( where ever they are) I have done this for years & have never had a problem here in sub-tropical Brisbane Australia, Jess I totally agree when it comes to supermarket perfect food- Thank Goodness we are lucky enough to grow & eat our own produce that is not sprayed or treated with terrible things, Unfortunately I cannot grow cauliflower so I do have to buy from my organic store. Loved this video. Cheers Denise - Australia- YOU ARE THE REASON I GROW FOOD because of your motivation. !!!!!!!!
I always enjoy the few times I watch your videos. Thanks for sharing.
You were speaking directly to my heart when you said I’d be eating them out of the jar at the fridge 😍
One of the cutest videos ever. It’s obvious how much you love your pickles 😂
My teenager boy is just the same with his blanket. Haha!
That looks amazing 💚 so colorful..and pure goodness 💚🌱💚
Perfect timing! I was just dealing with this last night...still new to gardening and was excited to harvest some collard and turnip greens yesterday morning. Had them soaking for hours, rinsed through colander 3 times and STILL found a baby slug when I was chopping them up to put in the pot. I ate the cooked greens slowly but since I put chopped garlic and crushed red pepper in the greens when they were cooking, I wouldn’t be able to tell if I was eating a critter that still managed to hang on and I had to find a way to be ok with that because now I know the work and care that goes into gardening and harvesting - no waste! But next time I will soak in salt water...that’s a great idea!!
7:52 the Spock bust next to the sink really geeked me out XD
Once upon a sprig of store bought basil on my table for a couple days and when I finally needed it, all the leaves were gone and there was a big happy caterpillar in the box. We didn't have basil but we had a good laugh about it. I get a lot of weird looks when I talk about bugs on my veggies. I've really found it to be endearing that my veggies have dirt and insects on them when I collect them because I know my garden is organic and I'm supporting the ecosystem around me. It's no big deal for me cause I just wash it when I bring it home (and tbh if there's a bug or two left in there, what I don't know can't hurt me!). So people can judge all they want but at the end of the day my dirty, buggy veggies nourish me and my family all the same.
Crushed egg shells around the base of the plants helps as well
That's a great way to think about things Jess! (the bugs being on your veggies = your veggies are healthy)
Our dogs love carrots, even the tops! I agree, real food! I have to hide that part from my kids though! 😉 Thanks for sharing!
I love eating that stuff... i usually buy it from the grocery store but I think I'll make my own this year since I'm doing my own gardening. ...
I cant wait! Thank you!!!!!
This looks absolutely beautiful I am going to get this cookbook I think hubby will love this. Thanks Jess
My Neighbor Sandi gave me a jar of quick pickles and onions a couple years ago. So good. Those jars are beautiful Jess
A friend of mine who is Hungarian makes something similar at the end of the season. He uses a base of shredded cabbage and add sliced cukes, shredded carrots ,onions, cauliflower
even green tomatoes, vinegar, salt, pepper, sugar and toss it and taste. Leave it overnight to marinate. Next day, he jars the veg and seal the jars quickly in a boiling bath as per usual. It is delicious pickled salad to clean up your garden!!
I love how your joy comes through to us in your vids. Definitely going to have to try this recipe. Thanks for sharing. Blessings. Let us know how they turned out!
Always love your videos 😍 I live in the UK so it’s fascinating watching someone grow in a different (yet temperate) climate. Your stuff grows SO fast, and so big! Those onions look massive to me! Loving your work 🥰🌱
Great video! I love grocery shopping in my back yard!
Nothing like growing and preparing your own food. Thank you for taking about REAL food and it’s blemishes. I work at a farm gate that deals mainly in oversized and undersized and unwanted produce because it’s not deemed perfect enough for market sale. The amount of good food thrown away because of its look is just so heartbreaking. Your message will reach many, thank you 🙌🏼 xx Cathi xx
It is so great to hear someone talk about the adjustment to cosmetically perfect food, to organic food! It has been 18 months for me and some things I struggle with more than others.
You stated it perfectly, every time I look at the vegetables in the market I wonder what are they putting on this stuff because every home gardener knows that it is not natural.
Looks delicious!
I've never put wood ash on my plants but I have put it on a bed of cannas and I can tell you it really works. No more slugs! I always saved some wood ash from the fireplace in the winter for this
I’m so new to all this and so far from a homesteader 😂😂 but my kajari melon seeds came in the mail today and I haven’t been this excited about something in a while. Thank you I look forward to your videos daily
Great harvest. I had beautiful cauliflower in October of last year and then the rain came and ruined the heads I wish I would of just harvested them earlier.