In Russia, we build summer kitchens outdoors - it's easy and pleasant to work there. To prevent tomatoes from cracking, they need to be watered only early in the morning. For good preservation of carrots and beets - they need to be collected after the cold snap below +10 Celsius and stored in a cool place in a box with sand. This way you can easily preserve them until next spring.
My wife and I really appreciate and enjoy your videos. We know it takes a lot of time and effort to produce and upload. Please know that what you share really makes a positive difference for so many! Best wishes for your family 🎉
You need an outdoor canning kitchen. Processing my harvest outside was so satisfying. All you really need is a sink and a propane stove(s) and plenty of tables. It keeps that connection to the garden while you work.
One thing I've noticed about this channel is that they make this stuff look really easy because they have a lot of skills. I grew up basically doing all of this stuff with my parents and watching this channel makes me want to do all of it again despite kind of hating all of the work when I was kid. Avoiding the pests, fungus, and managing periods of drought or too much rain is a huge challenge. These guys are real professionals.
If you scroll through our videos and also the previous live videos we have done you will find quite a few that talk about how we got started and how we made it work.😊
I picked a ton of strawberries this year at a local farm. I crushed them and measured them into ziplock bags so each bag was ready for 1 batch of jam. Last weekend I made two batches of jam and it was so easy with half the work done! I also tried out my steam canner for the first time. It was amazing! Much better than my water bath canner. When we’re getting low on jam I’ll make another couple batches. I have enough berries frozen for 6 total batches.
Good harvest. Nice onions! I grow quite a few dried beans and when I have a harvest like that, I don't always pull off the vines. I will lay the plant out on a bed sheet and wait until the whole thing is dry - bed sheet is important to catch the beans that explode out of pods. Once dry, i pull the sides together to form a bag and then i beat it on the floor, walk over it, beat it some more until the beans are shelled. Sometimes, I will stop and pick out the big pieces of chaff to make it easier to get the beans out of the shells that have fallen off the plant. I continue beating and all the beans fall out of the pods - there will be some chaff in the bottom but pouring it in front of a fan on hi deals with that (may take a couple times).. I have done this too when i have picked the beans - saves shelling. Just another option for ya to deal with the dry bean harvest. Office looks nice! For some reason, I thought it was further from the house though..lol. Good video.
Codi...Migardener just did a great video re his apple trees that were not producing the way he wanted. He got some advise from an apple farmer and the apples were abundant this year. Your garden harvest looks amazing. I Always look forward to your videos. Thank you.
If you have onions or peppers that are getting old you can dice them and freeze them for quick add-ins for things like hash in the morning, just double bag because onions smell. I do this and it saves time and money. Love your videos.
Your tomatoes produce so well! I’d love to know what kind you plant. Also, is there anything you do that you think maximizes your harvest that others may not think of? Love learning from you guys!
You folks do an amazing job. I like your approach of not making more work for yourself in peak season. I do the same. I freeze my canning tomatoes and my jelly and jam fruits until I feel like messing with them. I have found that I love using my instant pot Max for canning small batch pints of items, like greenbeans and okra, that come in every day. It's become part of my routine: eat supper, feed the dog, clean up the dishes, stir the vinegars, set up the coffee maker, wash and can 4 pints of beans in the Max, whipe down the sink and countertops...turn on the dishwasher and out the lights. It just has a lovely flow to it. Also, it's good to know I am not the only one struggling with onions from seed! I just don't know what it could possibly be! I plant someone else's onion slips I get 2lb onions... my spindly little shoots give me shotglass sized onions. 😂 the struggle is real!
Make an Outdoor Kitchen. Maybe even wood fired. I live part time in Sonora Mexico and follow a few Mexican channels who do 90% of their cooking outdoors with wood.
I start my onions last week of January indoors. Weather dependent I like to get them in the ground mid April. Been blessed with huge onions and bountiful harvest.
I feel like you when it comes to canning. It's so overwhelming. I saw a creater who froze her tomatoes and processed them later and it looked SO much easier. I love the idea of growing essentials and specialty foods you can't buy. It's a fun thing. Not a survival things for me. Homesteading is incredibly small scale for us. Herbs, tomatoes, beans, and greens. 💜
Hi every one I though I was the only one who does this I have a small plot of which I grow most all veggies and later can as much as possible enjoyed your Vidio thanks for showing regards to all from South Africa
thank you for another very helpful and amazing video. Even though I live in zone 10a SW Florida I have been learning so much about harvesting and preserving methods. I started my little urban homestead garden in 2021. My style of gardening alines with Michelle's. I love herb gardening and have been growing herbs for over a decade, long before vegetable gardening. I love to go the easiest route of preserving. And I would much rather be outside in my garden then in my kitchen but I do love to cook simple meals. Thank you both for your wealth of knowledge. You are blessed to be a blessing to others. Thank you for sharing your faith in another video. I am also a Christian that prefers to show my faith through the way I live instead of telling you. It was evident to me that after the first two videos I watched that the Lord was the center of your lives. May God continue to bless your family with good health, wisdom and knowledge and your homestead with an abundant harvest. ❤ Happy Harvesting
Love how harvesting isn't just a one-person doing the Mahi; the whole Whanau gets involved in one way or another. Such a blessing and a life I wanna strive for when my whanau gets out of the city. Ka Pai!
I like to can dried beans later in the season as I need in order to have jars on the shelf ready to go. Keeps the work out of the busy season but also allows for the ease of having jars of beans on the shelf so I don't have to think about the whole soaking and cooking for hours process.
If there is one thing that have grown at your place is your soil,its so rich this year which makes everything seem so easy and the harvest so big ,im doing everything in my power to follow your footsteps so that i can have such good soil. Its not easy to harvest such large quantities of tomatoes from 10 tomato plants ! Im so so super proud of you both. Im rooting for you all the way from south africa
I like to use giant mesh bags to dry beans, dill and other herbs, you can hang them out of the rain, makes it easier to deal with harvesting and later preserving into glass jars when it’s dry and it keeps the critters out.
I'm with you on finding simple ways to preserve. Harvest season is already busy enough. I will cook in double or triple batches during the year... chili for example, I'll make enough to eat for 1-2 meals plus canning 4-8 quarts. The electric 4 quart canner has made pressure canning nice for small batches.
Your video came up in my feed today- I'm impressed with your harvest! I've been growing and preserving for 50 odd years, and there's always more to learn! Lots has changed over those years... I often freeze my tomatoes and small fruit like blackberries and grapes. During winter I'll make large meals, eat some, and preserve a few jars. I've always dried my onions and garlic by braiding the greens together, and hanging them up to dry. I just cut one as I need it. My beans stay dried until I want to cook a large batch during winter. I'll preserve a few jars, and make a meal. I really like that you point out alternatives to canning. I'm hoping to pick up more ideas from you as I binge watch your videos... Thanks for taking the time to make them! Aroha ❤ from Aotearoa (NZ)
One of our pear trees produced for the first time this year as well. Most pears ripen better when you pick them green and then let them ripen on the counter. I have had to do that because although there were about 2 dozen pears on our tree, we only got 13 good ones. Something(I assume birds) were eating them and I had no choice but to pick them green before we lost them all. I ate the first ripe one this morning and it was amazing.
It’s nice to watch you guys, I’m planning to move with my family to the village and do the same as you i miss nature and crops, greetings from Poland, you’re doing a great job
How do you know when they're ripe? We have a bunch that look like bosc pears (darker brown), I just don't know when to pull them and how to ripen them.
That was a great video! As someone who has no experience growing food but wants to have a homestead, I really appreciate you taking the time to explain how to simplify routines and make it doable with a family, as well as going in depth of how to harvest and cure stuff. Would love more videos helping a new person learn how to harvest and cure and do things in depth like you did in this video. God bless you guys and your family!
@@lianabrown329 I've felt like a failure all season for not being on top of picking green beans and all the canning but as a fairly new food grower I can barely stay on top of all the garden chores. My house hasn't been clean since April! This video was exactly the information I needed to hear to stop and recalibrate lol.
Donna here! I just clicked on your channel! I am absolutely amazed at the beautiful tomatoes as well as everything else that you grew! What state do you live in? I'm from Colorado and I have never gotten the results from my tomatoes or anything else for that matter! Please give me some clues as to how in the world you get such great rewards!
We don't can our dried beans, either. At least not during Autumn. But since Winter is so much slower, and the pressure canner heats the kitchen up quite nicely, I will run a few batches through to have some ready to go for quick meals in the warmer months. I especially like to have pinto beans cooked and on the shelf for quick refried beans when making chicken burritos.
I buy raspberries because I live in the Caribbean. I like to make a runny jam type product, to use for my homemade yogurt. 😂 I do this with a lot of fruit I find on sale.
Thank you! I dont feel so alone now that I have found someone who gets overwhelmed too! I am on my own too, surrounded by people who dont begin to understand what I am doing! My favourite tip that someone else shared is to grow butternut, delicatta etc and just store them right and you have found more several months😃
I grew black eyed peas for the first time this summer and I’m thrilled with the harvest I’ve gotten so far. I’ve never cooked anything with black eyed peas but I have about three or four pounds to work with over the winter months! I look forward to seeing you shell all your beans. I’m very curious to know how much you end up getting. I can’t believe it’s getting cold up there already. It’s still in the upper 90’s here in Texas.
Pears ripen from the inside out when on the tree but outside in when picked. I pick one and see how long it takes to ripen on the counter. One year I waited until the pears were yellowish on the tree but they were all rotten inside. Another year, I forgot to check them. In three days possums ate all of them.
My onions were ready extremely early... But they didn't cure very well as it was rainy and humid, and not especially warm. The green took so long to dry. The ones I grew from seed were later and dried better. I guess you don't have many slugs and snails? They would adore hiding out under that dried leaf mulch. I had to replant beans 4 times and still have a low yield. I had a ridiculous amount of pears last year, none this year - 2 weeks frost at the exact wrong time. I hope for better luck next year. But my squash are awesome! :-)
Love your videos! Love how you preserve. When you homeschool everything hits all at once in August/September and it is totally overwhelming. We are having a heat wave in the 100* and I can barely keep up with watering the garden. 🫠
Old timers Braided-like wrap around their green onion tops so the whole onion could be drying/curing/storing then hung them in long bunches about a dozen or so.
I have a tip for you for your fruit trees that I learned from a Japanese Gardner that owns a very well-known Farm in California spray your fruit trees twice a year with copper my peaches got Leaf curl and I did what you told me and I never had another problem with any of my fruit trees good luck you guys are a very inspiring family😊
It's thanks to watching your videos from the last year and a half that we've doubled our produce this year. I've even experimented with lots of new things to grow. Some have been a success and some... Not so much. But there is always next year. This year I grew 8 Amish paste tomatoes from seed and my plants have climbed to over 8 feet tall and are loaded. I've been coring, cutting and freezing them until I'm ready to make sauce. Your advice about preserving is spot on and so helpful because of harvesting season being at the same time that we are cutting all our second cut hay. Trying to get both done was so stressful in the past. I always look so forward to your videos each week. Thanks as always
You and Cody are wise beyond your years. As parents, you are giving your children the greatest gift. Time, knowledge, and experience. No amount of money can provide all of that. Your videos are full of amazing content. When you speak about your health issues, you elighten others. I always grew chocolate mint and other mints just because they smelled nice and were pretty. I had no idea about turning the leaves into tea. Yes, you can teach an old dog new tricks. Thank you for sharing your life with us!
I love your style. I am growing in a very simular way. My favorite veggies are the ones who dont need to be canned or blanched or chopped and frozen to be preserved. That is true sustainability
So pleased about your new office…I had wondered about it since you first mentioned it. I am pleased you’re so blessed by abundant harvest! We also have had abundant harvests of kale, tomatoes, squashes, beans and apples…I’m probably forgetting something 😊 It was quite doubtful in early summer if much would grow here in the U.K. because of bizarre weather, but the Lord blessed our efforts and we’re flourishing too ❤
your tomatoes look so wonderful 🍅🍅🍅 I love your dedication to homesteading but what I love most about this channel is your self-awareness and efforts in self-care 👑 in my opinion, you guys are the best homesteading channel, and I genuinely believe you will be at 1 million subs in max 2 years🤞
I got the lids at my local Amish store and they just feel so much more! They are thicker and the band is wider and thicker. It is like comparing a smart car to a Cadillac Escalade. I don’t think I will ever go back to the ball lids again
Just found your channel and find this way of living so fascinating, it's how I'd live if I had the land (or try to). Love how down to earth and honest you both are too
Just found your channel and I’m hooked! I’ve never tried growing blackberry beans, and I’ve never even heard of tiger eye beans! I love learning what others grow and how they preserve it. Thank you for sharing you homestead and family! 🙌🏻
I just started on my own homestead (Off Grid Eden) and you guys are most of my influence!🤣🙈 I watch your channel on binge for hours, repeating videos until I know them off by heart and then waiting for the next one. You inspire me to do it my way, use what I have, and mostly enjoy every day.
Something that may save time on the onions might be a slatted table, stick the onions in stems through the gaps, then when theyre ready to be cut, you could use a hedge trimmer along the bottom and cut all the stems at once
Love your videos! I also really like to process tomatoes. Tell Michelle I will bring my wonderful electric Weston food mill and I can be there in about an hour and a half and we'll get those tomatoes done quick!
Yall are fairly awesome. I hope someone tells yall that every day. Thank yall so much for your videos. My garden just didn't do well this year at all. Some things here and there, but Bunches of every type of vegetable and herb just ...died, got a disease of fungus or eaten by bugs. It was ...more discouraging than I like to admit. Watching yalls videos helps keep some hope alive in me somewhere. (I'm still.procrastinating on a fall and winter garden... 🤷♀️. We'll see, I guess.) Again, thank you for all the time and work you put in. I appreciate yall bunches
If it's any consolation mine struggled too. I live in West Africa so I can plant all year. I planted 20 peanuts and harvested 7. My first two batches of carrots failed, the third is looking better. Tomatoes, bananas, spring onions and ginger did well so for now I'm going to focus on what's happy to grow for me.
Beautiful harvest! This year I was exited to have a small harvest of onions because was the first time it really grew! They are small but in the south it's short day onions. I wish I can find vidalia to grow but I didn't. Blessings!
Wonderful Wonderful Wonderful‼Beautiful harvest, 💛 look forward to the shelling of the beans-those three varieties look really good! Love seeing the family working together in the garden and on the porch~~What a Wonderful Life You Have‼💚💛💜
Who's filming while you two are harvesting? Good job. That was cute. Cody waves at his reflection in the window. I absolutely love Harvest Day. God bless you all and many prayers 🙏🏻 Nurse Judi in Scottsdale and E Minister 🙏🏻 ❤️
I have enjoyed watching your videos so much. My parents raised an almost 1/2 acre garden and I have been gardening and preserving the harvest (or helped) for much of my life. I am still learning and trying new techniques that I have gleaned from watching your channel. I appreciate the time you are taking to educate others!
i love how abundant your harvest is!!! also i'm smiling, because i'm the other way: enjoy the canning, prepping, fermenting on my kitchen outside, but i'm not very good at the growing...
I am in your camp, I like to preserve in a minimal way and cook fresh as I need it. Thanks for sharing how you preserve your carrots. I haven't seen anyone else do it that way. I am going to do that this year. Love your channel ❤
3:52 why i didn't see much of those method where you braid your onions together and hanged them somewhere in m your storage? Just curious, same goes with garlic....it just look aesthetic 😅
I have storage space issues so even though I love canning, if it’s shelf stable without canning I’ll leave it and only can what needs it to be preserved. ❤Grateful for all!
When our raspberries are in season, a family favourite is angle food cake with a light glaze and greasy raspberries. I also recommend raspberry lemonade and raspberry sherbet.
Yea office!!! 🙌🏼 I’m happy for you and the extra space. We enjoyed growing black beans. I’d like to grow the red kidney too. Just told my husband we need to get onion starts from Berlin seed! Those are amazing!! 🧅
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In Russia, we build summer kitchens outdoors - it's easy and pleasant to work there. To prevent tomatoes from cracking, they need to be watered only early in the morning. For good preservation of carrots and beets - they need to be collected after the cold snap below +10 Celsius and stored in a cool place in a box with sand. This way you can easily preserve them until next spring.
My wife and I really appreciate and enjoy your videos. We know it takes a lot of time and effort to produce and upload. Please know that what you share really makes a positive difference for so many! Best wishes for your family 🎉
Appreciate that, thank you!
I echo those statements. You channel is VERY helpful.
Thank you!
I totally agree with this statement!!!❤❤🙏
I agree to agree to agree to agree lol
Can you please place the names of where you get your big onions seeds or whatever you used to get the big onions.
@@morethanfarmers
As older person It just makes me happy to see young couples homesteading
You need an outdoor canning kitchen. Processing my harvest outside was so satisfying. All you really need is a sink and a propane stove(s) and plenty of tables. It keeps that connection to the garden while you work.
I have a propane stove OUTSIDE. It's great!
Love this!
Literally what I was coming here to suggest! ❤😂
One thing I've noticed about this channel is that they make this stuff look really easy because they have a lot of skills. I grew up basically doing all of this stuff with my parents and watching this channel makes me want to do all of it again despite kind of hating all of the work when I was kid.
Avoiding the pests, fungus, and managing periods of drought or too much rain is a huge challenge.
These guys are real professionals.
Little Mountain Ranch says to plant rhubarb and comfrey below your apple trees. It's supposed to help tremendously. It's worth a try.
It will because they have deep taproots.
I would love to see a video of you guys just talking about how you started and what made you to start
There's a a video about that!!!
If you scroll through our videos and also the previous live videos we have done you will find quite a few that talk about how we got started and how we made it work.😊
I picked a ton of strawberries this year at a local farm. I crushed them and measured them into ziplock bags so each bag was ready for 1 batch of jam. Last weekend I made two batches of jam and it was so easy with half the work done! I also tried out my steam canner for the first time. It was amazing! Much better than my water bath canner. When we’re getting low on jam I’ll make another couple batches. I have enough berries frozen for 6 total batches.
That’s great!😊
Your little camera man does a great job capturing mom & dad! 👏🏽👍🏽🌞
Love your videos. 84 years old and courtyard gardening.
Thank you!😊 That’s awesome!
You get such an amazing yield. It's very impressive the way you store everything in such an organized and professional manner. Such an inspiration 💪
Thanks so much!😊
Good harvest. Nice onions! I grow quite a few dried beans and when I have a harvest like that, I don't always pull off the vines. I will lay the plant out on a bed sheet and wait until the whole thing is dry - bed sheet is important to catch the beans that explode out of pods. Once dry, i pull the sides together to form a bag and then i beat it on the floor, walk over it, beat it some more until the beans are shelled. Sometimes, I will stop and pick out the big pieces of chaff to make it easier to get the beans out of the shells that have fallen off the plant. I continue beating and all the beans fall out of the pods - there will be some chaff in the bottom but pouring it in front of a fan on hi deals with that (may take a couple times).. I have done this too when i have picked the beans - saves shelling. Just another option for ya to deal with the dry bean harvest. Office looks nice! For some reason, I thought it was further from the house though..lol. Good video.
Thanks for the tips!
Codi...Migardener just did a great video re his apple trees that were not producing the way he wanted. He got some advise from an apple farmer and the apples were abundant this year. Your garden harvest looks amazing. I Always look forward to your videos. Thank you.
I just watched the video and was going to suggest it.
Good to know. Thank you!
If you have onions or peppers that are getting old you can dice them and freeze them for quick add-ins for things like hash in the morning, just double bag because onions smell. I do this and it saves time and money. Love your videos.
Great idea!
Your tomatoes produce so well! I’d love to know what kind you plant. Also, is there anything you do that you think maximizes your harvest that others may not think of? Love learning from you guys!
You folks do an amazing job. I like your approach of not making more work for yourself in peak season. I do the same. I freeze my canning tomatoes and my jelly and jam fruits until I feel like messing with them. I have found that I love using my instant pot Max for canning small batch pints of items, like greenbeans and okra, that come in every day. It's become part of my routine: eat supper, feed the dog, clean up the dishes, stir the vinegars, set up the coffee maker, wash and can 4 pints of beans in the Max, whipe down the sink and countertops...turn on the dishwasher and out the lights. It just has a lovely flow to it. Also, it's good to know I am not the only one struggling with onions from seed! I just don't know what it could possibly be! I plant someone else's onion slips I get 2lb onions... my spindly little shoots give me shotglass sized onions. 😂 the struggle is real!
Sounds like a great routine!😊
Make an Outdoor Kitchen.
Maybe even wood fired. I live part time in Sonora Mexico and follow a few Mexican channels who do 90% of their cooking outdoors with wood.
Can you name the channels?
Wow! Amazing tomato haul! We're just getting our seedlings started here in Australia. This makes me excited about what's to come!
I start my onions last week of January indoors. Weather dependent I like to get them in the ground mid April. Been blessed with huge onions and bountiful harvest.
I feel like you when it comes to canning. It's so overwhelming. I saw a creater who froze her tomatoes and processed them later and it looked SO much easier. I love the idea of growing essentials and specialty foods you can't buy. It's a fun thing. Not a survival things for me. Homesteading is incredibly small scale for us. Herbs, tomatoes, beans, and greens. 💜
I grow white cannellini beans and Cherokee trail of tears black beans. So good to have on the shelf
Hi every one I though I was the only one who does this I have a small plot of which I grow most all veggies and later can as much as possible enjoyed your Vidio thanks for showing regards to all from South Africa
I live in the most southern part of Ohio right on the WVA and Kentucky border we are still in drought here. Your garden looks awesome!
That’s too bad!😕 Thank you.😊
thank you for another very helpful and amazing video. Even though I live in zone 10a SW Florida I have been learning so much about harvesting and preserving methods. I started my little urban homestead garden in 2021. My style of gardening alines with Michelle's. I love herb gardening and have been growing herbs for over a decade, long before vegetable gardening. I love to go the easiest route of preserving. And I would much rather be outside in my garden then in my kitchen but I do love to cook simple meals. Thank you both for your wealth of knowledge. You are blessed to be a blessing to others. Thank you for sharing your faith in another video. I am also a Christian that prefers to show my faith through the way I live instead of telling you. It was evident to me that after the first two videos I watched that the Lord was the center of your lives. May God continue to bless your family with good health, wisdom and knowledge and your homestead with an abundant harvest. ❤ Happy Harvesting
That’s wonderful! Thank you so much for the kind words.😊
Do you have on your channel somewhere and overview of your garden. Like a map of your beds and what’s planted where?
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Here is a full garden tour we did this spring.😊
The onions are beautiful! The beans are cool to see grown. Our backyard fruit trees produced so many pears for the first time!
That’s awesome!😊
Love how harvesting isn't just a one-person doing the Mahi; the whole Whanau gets involved in one way or another. Such a blessing and a life I wanna strive for when my whanau gets out of the city.
Ka Pai!
Migardener recently did a video about Apple trees. An old farmer taught him a lot. He was having similar issues like you guys.
You do amazing work on your videos. The editing and presentations are most enjoyable. Thank you.
Appreciate it!😊
I like to can dried beans later in the season as I need in order to have jars on the shelf ready to go. Keeps the work out of the busy season but also allows for the ease of having jars of beans on the shelf so I don't have to think about the whole soaking and cooking for hours process.
If there is one thing that have grown at your place is your soil,its so rich this year which makes everything seem so easy and the harvest so big ,im doing everything in my power to follow your footsteps so that i can have such good soil.
Its not easy to harvest such large quantities of tomatoes from 10 tomato plants !
Im so so super proud of you both.
Im rooting for you all the way from south africa
Thank you so much! Good luck to you! You can do it!😊
I like to use giant mesh bags to dry beans, dill and other herbs, you can hang them out of the rain, makes it easier to deal with harvesting and later preserving into glass jars when it’s dry and it keeps the critters out.
I'm with you on finding simple ways to preserve. Harvest season is already busy enough. I will cook in double or triple batches during the year... chili for example, I'll make enough to eat for 1-2 meals plus canning 4-8 quarts. The electric 4 quart canner has made pressure canning nice for small batches.
Your video came up in my feed today- I'm impressed with your harvest! I've been growing and preserving for 50 odd years, and there's always more to learn! Lots has changed over those years... I often freeze my tomatoes and small fruit like blackberries and grapes. During winter I'll make large meals, eat some, and preserve a few jars. I've always dried my onions and garlic by braiding the greens together, and hanging them up to dry. I just cut one as I need it.
My beans stay dried until I want to cook a large batch during winter. I'll preserve a few jars, and make a meal.
I really like that you point out alternatives to canning. I'm hoping to pick up more ideas from you as I binge watch your videos... Thanks for taking the time to make them! Aroha ❤ from Aotearoa (NZ)
Welcome! Glad to have you here!😊
One of our pear trees produced for the first time this year as well. Most pears ripen better when you pick them green and then let them ripen on the counter. I have had to do that because although there were about 2 dozen pears on our tree, we only got 13 good ones. Something(I assume birds) were eating them and I had no choice but to pick them green before we lost them all. I ate the first ripe one this morning and it was amazing.
In Australia our pick harvest in Christmas, it's an insanely hectic time. Thank you for the tips!
You’re welcome!😊
It’s nice to watch you guys, I’m planning to move with my family to the village and do the same as you i miss nature and crops, greetings from Poland, you’re doing a great job
You guys are some great, good natured people. I enjoy watching your show & will continue to do so. 👍👍👍👍
Thank you!😊
Pears mostly ripen off tree. We had our biggest harvest this year. Now for apples and figs!
How do you know when they're ripe? We have a bunch that look like bosc pears (darker brown), I just don't know when to pull them and how to ripen them.
Your tips are practical and really make gardening feel achievable for anyone!
That was a great video! As someone who has no experience growing food but wants to have a homestead, I really appreciate you taking the time to explain how to simplify routines and make it doable with a family, as well as going in depth of how to harvest and cure stuff. Would love more videos helping a new person learn how to harvest and cure and do things in depth like you did in this video. God bless you guys and your family!
Thank you! Glad it was helpful!😊
@@lianabrown329 I've felt like a failure all season for not being on top of picking green beans and all the canning but as a fairly new food grower I can barely stay on top of all the garden chores. My house hasn't been clean since April! This video was exactly the information I needed to hear to stop and recalibrate lol.
Donna here! I just clicked on your channel! I am absolutely amazed at the beautiful tomatoes as well as everything else that you grew! What state do you live in? I'm from Colorado and I have never gotten the results from my tomatoes or anything else for that matter! Please give me some clues as to how in the world you get such great rewards!
Hi Donna, welcome here!😊 We are from Ohio. You will find in our videos a lot of advice and strategies to growing a successful garden!
We don't can our dried beans, either. At least not during Autumn. But since Winter is so much slower, and the pressure canner heats the kitchen up quite nicely, I will run a few batches through to have some ready to go for quick meals in the warmer months. I especially like to have pinto beans cooked and on the shelf for quick refried beans when making chicken burritos.
I buy raspberries because I live in the Caribbean. I like to make a runny jam type product, to use for my homemade yogurt. 😂 I do this with a lot of fruit I find on sale.
Thank you! I dont feel so alone now that I have found someone who gets overwhelmed too! I am on my own too, surrounded by people who dont begin to understand what I am doing!
My favourite tip that someone else shared is to grow butternut, delicatta etc and just store them right and you have found more several months😃
I grew black eyed peas for the first time this summer and I’m thrilled with the harvest I’ve gotten so far. I’ve never cooked anything with black eyed peas but I have about three or four pounds to work with over the winter months! I look forward to seeing you shell all your beans. I’m very curious to know how much you end up getting. I can’t believe it’s getting cold up there already. It’s still in the upper 90’s here in Texas.
That’s awesome!😊 And it is back to the 90’s this week. Ohio weather is crazy!😅
Hi, I've just found you guys on UA-cam, I'm loving your videos, trying to watch at least 2 a day when I have the time.
From Australia xo
Welcome here!😊
Pears ripen from the inside out when on the tree but outside in when picked. I pick one and see how long it takes to ripen on the counter. One year I waited until the pears were yellowish on the tree but they were all rotten inside. Another year, I forgot to check them. In three days possums ate all of them.
My onions were ready extremely early... But they didn't cure very well as it was rainy and humid, and not especially warm. The green took so long to dry. The ones I grew from seed were later and dried better.
I guess you don't have many slugs and snails? They would adore hiding out under that dried leaf mulch. I had to replant beans 4 times and still have a low yield.
I had a ridiculous amount of pears last year, none this year - 2 weeks frost at the exact wrong time.
I hope for better luck next year.
But my squash are awesome! :-)
Love your videos! Love how you preserve. When you homeschool everything hits all at once in August/September and it is totally overwhelming. We are having a heat wave in the 100* and I can barely keep up with watering the garden. 🫠
Thank you! Good luck to you in this busy season!
Old timers Braided-like wrap around their green onion tops so the whole onion could be drying/curing/storing then hung them in long bunches about a dozen or so.
I would have to build a ramp for the porch for all that wonderful wheelbarrow use. My goodness!
I have a tip for you for your fruit trees that I learned from a Japanese Gardner that owns a very well-known Farm in California spray your fruit trees twice a year with copper my peaches got Leaf curl and I did what you told me and I never had another problem with any of my fruit trees good luck you guys are a very inspiring family😊
Thanks for the tip😊
I did two rows each of the red kidney and the tigers eye. Rows were 25’ long. While they are awesome, harvesting did take forever it seemed.
I love that you are in your garden bare foot. Oh how I miss being able to do that. So jelly
Thank you for the inspiration! I have a 300sqf garden and I do my best 😅
That’s great!😊
I wonder if you can make onion powder out of the dried tops.
Good stuff. Hell in these days its amazing to see man and woman working together for a great purpose. Thanks you guys.
Sometimes it's just a pleasure to rewatch your videos❤❤❤🕊️
It's thanks to watching your videos from the last year and a half that we've doubled our produce this year. I've even experimented with lots of new things to grow. Some have been a success and some... Not so much. But there is always next year. This year I grew 8 Amish paste tomatoes from seed and my plants have climbed to over 8 feet tall and are loaded. I've been coring, cutting and freezing them until I'm ready to make sauce. Your advice about preserving is spot on and so helpful because of harvesting season being at the same time that we are cutting all our second cut hay. Trying to get both done was so stressful in the past.
I always look so forward to your videos each week. Thanks as always
That’s awesome! Keep it up!😊
You and Cody are wise beyond your years. As parents, you are giving your children the greatest gift. Time, knowledge, and experience. No amount of money can provide all of that.
Your videos are full of amazing content. When you speak about your health issues, you elighten others. I always grew chocolate mint and other mints just because they smelled nice and were pretty. I had no idea about turning the leaves into tea. Yes, you can teach an old dog new tricks.
Thank you for sharing your life with us!
So kind, thank you so much! Glad we could help!☺️
You are so organized Michelle and I LOVE IT 🥰 😊💐💖
Thank you!😊
I love your style. I am growing in a very simular way. My favorite veggies are the ones who dont need to be canned or blanched or chopped and frozen to be preserved. That is true sustainability
God is so good to us,you guys have a good harvest. Have a bless week.
Thank you, you too!😊
So pleased about your new office…I had wondered about it since you first mentioned it. I am pleased you’re so blessed by abundant harvest! We also have had abundant harvests of kale, tomatoes, squashes, beans and apples…I’m probably forgetting something 😊 It was quite doubtful in early summer if much would grow here in the U.K. because of bizarre weather, but the Lord blessed our efforts and we’re flourishing too ❤
That’s awesome!😊
Love the kitty. My Polish is the supervisor of everything I do and my old boy Nero always tells me when it's time to come in for the day
We use 2 big roasters to do tomatoes goes faster and not so hot in the kitchen. You can also do them on your porch but remember to stir them.
Children helping us a wonderful thing. They will learn without even noticing. Such a great video. Love and thanks from Central Oklahoma
Absolutely! Thank you!😊
"Not only is it helpful, but your channel has also made me fall in love with gardening more than ever!"
Glad to hear it!😊
your tomatoes look so wonderful 🍅🍅🍅
I love your dedication to homesteading but what I love most about this channel is your self-awareness and efforts in self-care 👑
in my opinion, you guys are the best homesteading channel, and I genuinely believe you will be at 1 million subs in max 2 years🤞
So kind, thank you so much!☺️
I got the lids at my local Amish store and they just feel so much more! They are thicker and the band is wider and thicker. It is like comparing a smart car to a Cadillac Escalade. I don’t think I will ever go back to the ball lids again
Awesome!😊
Just found your channel and find this way of living so fascinating, it's how I'd live if I had the land (or try to). Love how down to earth and honest you both are too
Welcome here!😊
Just found your channel and I’m hooked! I’ve never tried growing blackberry beans, and I’ve never even heard of tiger eye beans! I love learning what others grow and how they preserve it. Thank you for sharing you homestead and family! 🙌🏻
Welcome, glad you’re here!😊
I just started on my own homestead (Off Grid Eden) and you guys are most of my influence!🤣🙈 I watch your channel on binge for hours, repeating videos until I know them off by heart and then waiting for the next one. You inspire me to do it my way, use what I have, and mostly enjoy every day.
Glad you have been enjoying the videos!☺️
Something that may save time on the onions might be a slatted table, stick the onions in stems through the gaps, then when theyre ready to be cut, you could use a hedge trimmer along the bottom and cut all the stems at once
Love your videos! I also really like to process tomatoes. Tell Michelle I will bring my wonderful electric Weston food mill and I can be there in about an hour and a half and we'll get those tomatoes done quick!
Yall are fairly awesome. I hope someone tells yall that every day. Thank yall so much for your videos.
My garden just didn't do well this year at all. Some things here and there, but Bunches of every type of vegetable and herb just ...died, got a disease of fungus or eaten by bugs. It was ...more discouraging than I like to admit. Watching yalls videos helps keep some hope alive in me somewhere. (I'm still.procrastinating on a fall and winter garden... 🤷♀️. We'll see, I guess.) Again, thank you for all the time and work you put in. I appreciate yall bunches
So sorry to hear that! Hope it gets better for you!!
If it's any consolation mine struggled too. I live in West Africa so I can plant all year. I planted 20 peanuts and harvested 7. My first two batches of carrots failed, the third is looking better. Tomatoes, bananas, spring onions and ginger did well so for now I'm going to focus on what's happy to grow for me.
I just found you young ins recently and noticed your in my state, Mansfield. So much experience in food and kids, nice!
Awesome! Welcome to the channel!😊
Beautiful harvest! This year I was exited to have a small harvest of onions because was the first time it really grew! They are small but in the south it's short day onions. I wish I can find vidalia to grow but I didn't. Blessings!
You grow vegetables so well, they look so nice ❤
I think that you have the right idea of using cold storage instead of canning when it’s possible!
You guys are just crazy.You are one of the best gardeners on UA-cam.I really like you.
Thanks!😄
Wonderful Wonderful Wonderful‼Beautiful harvest, 💛 look forward to the shelling of the beans-those three varieties look really good! Love seeing the family working together in the garden and on the porch~~What a Wonderful Life You Have‼💚💛💜
Who's filming while you two are harvesting? Good job. That was cute. Cody waves at his reflection in the window. I absolutely love Harvest Day. God bless you all and many prayers 🙏🏻 Nurse Judi in Scottsdale and E Minister 🙏🏻 ❤️
Our oldest son helps with the filming sometimes. Thank you so much!😊
I have enjoyed watching your videos so much. My parents raised an almost 1/2 acre garden and I have been gardening and preserving the harvest (or helped) for much of my life. I am still learning and trying new techniques that I have gleaned from watching your channel. I appreciate the time you are taking to educate others!
That’s awesome! Keep it up!😊
I love this video! It gets me so excited for next year’s planting!
i love how abundant your harvest is!!! also i'm smiling, because i'm the other way: enjoy the canning, prepping, fermenting on my kitchen outside, but i'm not very good at the growing...
Time for an outdoor kitchen set up!!! I loved having a stove in my garage for the summer months!!! love your channel God Bless!!!
Thank you!😊
I am in your camp, I like to preserve in a minimal way and cook fresh as I need it. Thanks for sharing how you preserve your carrots. I haven't seen anyone else do it that way. I am going to do that this year. Love your channel ❤
Wonderful harvest! I’m envious of those gorgeous onions👏
3:52 why i didn't see much of those method where you braid your onions together and hanged them somewhere in m your storage? Just curious, same goes with garlic....it just look aesthetic 😅
I have been freezing and canning since June. Can't wait for a freeze!
I have storage space issues so even though I love canning, if it’s shelf stable without canning I’ll leave it and only can what needs it to be preserved. ❤Grateful for all!
Thank you for sharing your bountiful harvest!!! Congratulations ❤
When our raspberries are in season, a family favourite is angle food cake with a light glaze and greasy raspberries. I also recommend raspberry lemonade and raspberry sherbet.
Yum!
What an amazing harvest!! Those tomatoes are beautiful! 😍 Also curious what variety you planted. I had a terrible tomato year in central IL.
We grow Sun Gold, Carolina Gold, Amish Paste, and Celebrity Plus. Hope it goes better for you next year!!
Yea office!!! 🙌🏼 I’m happy for you and the extra space. We enjoyed growing black beans. I’d like to grow the red kidney too. Just told my husband we need to get onion starts from Berlin seed! Those are amazing!! 🧅
Enjoyed watching the channel!
We have grown Tiger's Eye beans. They are nice to look at AND they taste great - real smooth.
Enjoyed watching your family working together ❤