Greetings, Rachel. I thank you for the best tutorial I've seen on fermented tomatoes. You're the first person showing just how to serve up the finished product. At long last, I'll ferment some cherry tomatoes. The health benefits of fermented foods are winning. Cheers!!

Thank you. Very good. I have heard that honey that is recovered in this fashion is often referred to as "baker's honey" for obvious reasons.

Hi there can I have the recipe for the Worcestershire sauce thanks

Some fantastic tips. Thank you for sharing.

I hope the garlic comes good. 🧄🧄🧄🧄🧄

I planted my garlic in April and will harvest in November. Used cloves from last years harvest.

I’m going to have to search up this garlic growing off thingo in the group. I’m growing garlic for the first time this year so I am clueless on how well or not they are going. I have 2 varieties - 1. ‘Free bulbs Kate gave me’ and 2. ‘Free bulbs my husband brought home’. They seem to be going good but I’m starting to worry that I really need to know the next step 😂

I hope your elephant garlic do well and they sure look like they are. They will actually outperform all the others, I bet. That is all I grow here on the East Coast of Canada and have huge success with it. When I plant late this fall, I will be doubling my garlic patch for next years harvest. You're re-planted garlic should be fine that the dog messed up. Rust spots on the garlic leaves could be a sign that the soil is not draining very well or you have clay type of soil, combined with wet weather will do this. If you water at night this will create humidity and also cause rust spots. Folicur fungicide will treat and eliminate the rust.

I'm looking forward to planting garlic this year... I've been watching to see how yours turned out. I'm sorry to see you've got this challenge - you'll figure it out though, I have confidence in you 💚

Oh no 😓 what a shame.. hopefully you still get a decent harvest 🙏❤️

My beautiful baby girl dug up my garlic too at pretty much the same stage. I was taking some mega deep breaths to keep my sht together. Just made me get my act together to put up a fence sooner. Unfortunately for you a kelpie can easily jump most fences and bloody smart so they'll find a way.

We haven't ever had to deal with rust either, thankfully, and I dont know too much about it. I'm sorry that this is happening to your garlic. I would love to hear any updates as the season progresses. I hope you are still able to save the bulbs. I'm off to check my garlic now. 😬😬

I am definitely going to check my garlic this morning. Hopefully your treatment works!

I absolutely love mine!!!! I leave mine go the full time. You don’t need to push very hard to get it down.❤❤

This year we are experiencing an issue with our garlic that we haven't had before... rust 😞 Being something we haven't dealt with before, we would love any advice from others that have dealt with it in practice. My research online returns completely different advice on things like whether we can still store our own bulbs for next year. And how long we need to keep alliums out of this area of the garden. I have also been lamenting on what I did wrong. Did we bring this in with new cloves planted (especially the shop ones) or by composting onion purchased from shops or feeding a bit more heavily this year???? But I have now spoken and seen some other gardens where others are also seeing this on their garlic this year. So perhaps we have just been lucky until now and it is the conditions. Which will never be helped by our shady garden. The garlic is continuing to grow and fill out, so we should get a crop.... but what to do moving forward now????

We'll always be alright. Keep at it. Much love 😊

is there a link to a recipe, or written in the description somewhere but I can't see it? I'd love to give these a try as my girls are giving me lots of eggs right now. Thanks Rachel I hope I have enough plums to try the sauce this summer

Thank you. So good to see something real and raw. Our place has been a huge work in process with many mistakes, so I have always been hesitant on sharing what we do. Though I am going to a sourdough workshop in a few weeks so looking forward to that!

Ooooooh, Weck-Gläser. I think, that's the best system, because you only need to change (after several uses) are the rubber rings. And they are German - as a German I have to love that

Oh and another thing you mentioned was about preserving food. For years I’ve made the same preserve, such as bread a butter pickles. They will be your prized preserve and yet one batch, every now and then, will just not turn out right. You’ll think, do I throw it out? Or can I use is some other way? I hate throwing food out, particularly something that you have spent alot of time making. One year I made a batch of B&B pickles and they were mushy. It was because I used apple cucumbers and I pealed them. However, I strain off the brine, blend up the cucumbers and turn them into gherkin dip. The recipes that I’ve used have been old family recipes that have been made for generations. However, I now also use recipes from the Ball book.

I absolutely loved this!!! I totally agree with all of your tips. I often say to newbies, start small, don’t go too big too fast. I also believe that we all make many mistakes growing food, but perseverance is our best friend. For example, I’ve always struggled growing carrots, yet I keep trying and trying and I know that eventually I’m going to grow some awesome carrots. You’ll have years where you can grow a perfect crop of zucchini for example. Then you’ll have a year where your zucchini are a big fail. But, it’s not a fail as you just keep growing it again.

Thank you so much, found the tips extremely helpful...

Those little jug-jars for your extracts are ADORABLE! Would you mind sharing where to get them?!😊

Absolutely wonderful, thanks for sharing! I hope the bees were okay from the storm!

Great video. I'm on a 700sqm suburban block in Perth, WA. Right now I'm trying to grow most of the vegetables and fruit we consume, would love chooks but don't have the spsce. A lot of it i have done as a backyard orchard culture/food forest style because of the space limitations, so I plant stuff closer than the normal recommendations and keep things pruned to a desired size. One of the main challenges here is the seasons, our spring and summer is extremely hot, windy and dry. Most of my time is consumed by watering because of this. This ties into the tip of observe your property. First thing I did was establish a 4 seasons sun map so I understood the light mapping of the land. This allowed me to plant things that will cast shade where I need it for afternoon shade to create a good microclimate. Over my vegie patch I built a patio structure without a roof so I can put up a 30% shade cloth, this is the only way to reliably grow vegetables through the many heat waves we get. Great tips especially the sit back for at least a year and just study and observe the land you're on.

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This was a great video, thanks so much I totally enjoyed all your tips and knowledge.

Gosh what a mess they made. You’ve done well with that land considering. The bush blocks are tricky with the gums for growing too so in a way the storm was a blessing. Less competition for your plants at least.

great advice with just sitting back and taking the time to analysis the property i’ve changed some many things over time because i’ve been way to keen

Thanks again. Im a newby and ive made mistakes too.😊 love your natural way of communicating your homesteading with us all. Always a pleasure to watch. 😊

I loved your bonus tip and it is oh so true. Our block is exactly the same as yours and our black summer bushfire meant we lost about 50-60 trees on our block. We employed earth moving equipment which cost us more than a small car to create levels in our lower land so that we could finally grow some grass along the levels and mow it to keep a better fire break between us and the forest. I always find when I am in the lower paddock working that what i need is always back up that steep incline. Finally after living here for almost 8 years and having bursitis now in my leg and hip we have invested in a 4 wheel vehicle that i can drive all over our property and fill the tip tray with all of the tools i think I might need….usually always forget something and have to come back up but at least now there’s a vehicle to make that task just a little bit easier. Thanks for the tips and great work fixing up the insurance stuffs ups…we sooooo get it :)

Great tips and we learn as we go a lot of the time. For me it'ts all new again having moved to Wonthaggi.

love your content. Great info.

I think if you're planning on this being your forever home, it's important to have a really solid list of all the things you might want to do one day: I might want a few sheep, I might want to grow mushrooms, I might want to distil our own rose oil, I might want a granny flat for that family member who needs a bit more independent space while still living with us. You don't need to do all these things now, but it's important to plan where all these things will be placed on your property so you don't accidentally plant your orchard in the only place where a granny flat can drain to the same septic tank.

American recipes are a risk for any metric country, too. As well as having a different size "tablespoon" just because.

Thank you so much for sharing.😊 i love how you turned many challenges into positives. Its nice to hear about your challenges and feel like we are in ot together and im not facing challenges alone 😊😅

Life is a learning experience and you will make more mistakes than have successes. When my life starts to become stressful and nothing is going to plan I just remind myself that there are literally hundreds of millions of people who have a worse life than mine so my life is not actually as bad as I think. I am a little jealous of your lifestyle but you have worked hard to get where you are, so you should be very proud of your resilience and adaptability.

Didn’t get to the live but thank you for the 5 tips really appreciate the content you guys put up x

Great tips and lovely to see your face!

Looks like i got my timing wrong from WA 😂

Fantastic tips. I especially loved the one about not needing to do " it all" and id add that its ok to have a try at something and realise it doesn't fit your family or even circumstances can change and youre unable to continue doing something you love because the scaffolding you once had is not there anymore. I loved seeing you in front of the camera too. Thank you for sharing these gems lovely ❤❤

G'day Rachel. Really good video as always. Loved your first tip as I believe that homesteading has no size requirements. People may need to do things on a smaller scale, but most people can absolutely work with what they have and live a happy and productive lifestyle. You've had some dramas there, but it looks great now and that has been one very nice supply of firewood. Oh and what you said about netting an orchard... I'm so glad I netted my orchard. Doesn't stop the fruit fly, but it's kept the birds out. Take care. Daz.