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Thank you very much!

Hannah! Thanks for the comment. So nice to “see” you!! By God’s grace, we have gotten a Lot of rain since I did this video. The yard is green again and the fields are recovering. Please come see us when you are up this way again!

I replied to this but it must not have posted. Sorry! I store the rest of my potatoes in boxes or paper bags in a dark closet in the middle of the house. Ideally, you want a dark, dry, cool place. We don’t have a cellar or basement or even central air so we don’t have anything even close to that!😂However, I have stored potatoes successfully every year by just putting them in that closet and they last fine for months. I can’t really take them through the winter when I harvest in June though so I have grown a fall crop some years to take through the winter and I plant to do that this year too. That closet stays cool all winter because we don’t have central heat.😂Hope your canning goes great!!

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@@PoplarSpringFarm What‘s so funny. Please do Tell me, i want to be able to Laugh too. But this Video just makes me sad.

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My recipe actually says 1hr and 35 minutes. I just double checked the description and it’s correct. You are right though, 35 minutes would be far too short a time!

@@PoplarSpringFarm Oh my goodness I can’t read. You are absolutely correct - it does say one hour and 35 minutes. I apologize. Yikes need to get new glasses. Just want everyone to be safe.

Definitely better safe than sorry! ☺️

You should definitely give it a try. It really hits the spot when you’ve been out working in the heat!

Yes. The nice thing is we have a bee tree not real far away so we have lots of pollinators.

I can make a video next spring when I get them going, but I can’t tell you what I do. I punched holes in a dishwashing tub and placed soil in the bottom, then small sweet potatoes left over from last year’s harvest, then more dirt. You just keep it moist and warm and give it time. You may not be able to use sweet potatoes from the store like you used to be able to. Even the organic ones are treated with radiation to prevent sprouting and they will just rot. Best to save some of your own harvest and use that.

@@PoplarSpringFarm Trying to figure out how yours are so bushy. My sprouts look like long vines. I have another one that just sprouted that has been in water since Feb!! I'm going to put it in a pot since I'm not sure if I have enough time before frost to get anything from it.

Starting them in dirt rather than water makes the sprouts big. I have never had sprouts like this before so this is Definitely the way to go! If you have enough from your harvest, save some to use and I can even tell you in person what I did next spring when you are ready to start new plants again. Or, I will probably do a video.

I get what you are dealing with in terms of the hard clay. We have an old tobacco farm that was farmed to death and then abandoned. We’re in zone 7 and we don’t have wind like you do all the time. I could see the wind being a bit of a pain. Since we have hard clay, I don’t grow anything in the native dirt. I have spent years making my own dirt and I’ll explain how. I cannot tell you how highly I recommend doing this. First, I keep chickens in a pen (in the video that’s where the corn and tomatoes are growing) all winter. I deep bed them like Crazy with an absolute Ton of leaves that we rake up and hay from the barn (make sure you are using unsprayed hay). All winter the chickens work that deep bedding. If I want to speed them up, or if they need a little help because it’s gotten matted down in an area, I’ll take the pitchfork and make piles for them to pull down. The soil the chickens make is incredible! We haul that dirt out, once the chickens are put back on pasture and make our beds (or add to existing beds). The higher they get, the better! The second thing that builds soil well is adding deep grass clippings. I mulch the paths and the beds (just be careful if they are really hot not to put them up against your plants because you will burn them). Earthworms Love grass clippings and they help them turn into dirt, good dirt full of worms. This also adds to the soil in the beds. Every few years, I take a shovel and take off all the dirt that’s in the paths that used to be grass clippings but has rotted down. All that gets added to the beds too, helping to make them higher with good soil. You get the picture. It does take some time to build up the dirt like this but every year is better. The yield from plants growing in this kind of soil is fantastic! About the corn: we usually plant about one inch deep and four inches apart. Then we thin to around a foot apart or so. We hill it (that would definitely be helpful to you with all the wind) and if we have enough grass clippings, we mulch it. Hope this helps. I think I have a short that might be helpful. I’ll see if I can link it for you. Happy growing!

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@@PoplarSpringFarm Wow thank you for the super comprehensive reply and for taking the time. I am missing the animals on my farm, they are definitely an indispensable part of any farm, so the immediate next step for me is getting rabbits and chicken. In the meantime I will look to source some aged chicken manure to add to my compost piles. Re clippings - problem with zone 9 is that everything dries out super fast, so any "greens" don't stay green or moist for long... Water is scarce too so regularly dousing compost piles isn't much of an option.

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Yes, they are super easy to can. We live in the South and do not have central AC or cold storage so everything is hot here. I have to can about half our harvest because in the heat, I can’t keep 260 pounds in good shape until we eat them. I should do a potato canning video sometime to show how to do it.

Even better, you should grow your own!😃

Aw, good for you! It’s worth it to grow whatever food you can!

Yes, ma’am. 7 cups of dried beans for 7 jars. They will swell to more than 7 cups which is why I measure before I soak them.

They are the largest mixing bowls that Walmart sells. They don’t have a size on them but probably around a gallon and a half.

Wow, I’m sorry! That can definitely be devastating and super frustrating! We dealt with ground hogs for a while and it was hard. Fortunately, my husband took out a lot and we trapped the rest. Hope you find a solution that works for you.

No, they have to be pressure canned.

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Thank you. It’s cool you live out there. I love their stuff too! If I can’t grow it or raise it, I usually get it from Azure.

Greetings from Athena, Oregon.

Yes, the pork does make its own juice and I canned that up separately. I can the pork in water because we don’t always use it with the broth. Sometimes we do, but lots of times we actually use it for sandwiches and mix it with mayonnaise and mustard, salt and pepper. If you want to can pork in the broth and that’s how you always like to eat it, then I would definitely do that.

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Wow, that’s big cans of ketchup! Not sure if I could find that here. Our town is small, but I can see if Walmart has organic ketchup in big cans. So far, organic Aldi ketchup has been the best price. I make a lot of stuff, but ketchup I buy.

These bowls are so great! They are huge and I love them! I have three. Bought them at Walmart last summer. They were $15. each and I have no idea what size they are. Maybe two gallon? Makes my regular mixing bowl seem small.

Yup! Absolutely! I use blackstrap to keep my iron levels up so blackstrap molasses is what I always have on hand. Really good stuff, but regular molasses will be fine in the beans.

I buy high quality, organic beans. Always done it this way and I have never had any issues.

Thank you. I agree, having canned meat etc on the shelf for fast meals is soooo convenient!

Meat cans for an hour and 30 minutes so it should be fine to add bacon to the beans. That would definitely be a great addition! I think the bean juice would thicken fine in the oven. I would just try it and see.

About how much bacon do you think per jar?

Great job getting away from store canned food. It’s more work to do your own but so worth it! These canned beans are actually Healthy, which is so nice.

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Have you ever been in the fields where food processors reap the food? They only use the highest quality vegetables. As a teen, I helped my family pick leftover vegetables that were rejected as not appropriate for frozen corn. We froze a large upright freezer full of corn that was delicious from the rejects. We bought it all for one dollar.

Good idea. Thank you!😊

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Yes! Years of never using sprays etc, only hand picking bugs, means we have very, very few bad bugs. Many people think it cannot be done….but it can! When people are used to spraying and then stop, their first year is going to be the worst, but with consistent work of hand picking, the bad bugs will get fewer every year and the good bugs will multiply!

I don’t know for sure but I would think it might be from running the canner out of water. I will make a full length video with more info soon. I’ve had a lot of people ask about the beans so I do plan to make a video showing the exactness of what I do. This was just a quickie here.