Love cucumbers so much! What do you make with them? Thanks for watching 🤗 -Ash

@@strand-farm we just eat cucumbers with salt. cut into lettuce + tomatoes + lettuce leaves + sunflower oil or mayonnaise or sour cream. also, for the winter, cucumbers are salted and canned

Thank you :) Nature is very cool -Ash

@@strand-farm It looks like you both are doing very well. Must be due to your proximity to it!

@@shellywebb529 it was! We received it that way and thought nothing of it until down the line, lol! Good observation:) stay blessed - james

Thank you! From, USA

@r.guerreiro140 this is Comfrey (bocking #4). Bless you

@@strand-farm Thank you God bless you too

@@ck117 most welcome. all the best to you and your homestead.. ii'm curious to find out if they enjoy it ass much ass my Appalachian Jungle Fowl - James

Totally agree! We are hoping to train some vines to make it easier for us to pick. The Grapes on our land now are wild & haven't been stewarded by anyone except nature itself :) -Ash

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I'm Jelly of those grapes that are way up there! - James

My face did the same thing! - James

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I reckon gardening can give one a strange sense of humor lol Nature can get pretty wild :)

Nope :) She's a pro

I'm not the best estimator.. somewhere between 15-20? She was way up there 🙃 -Ash

Cats getting high!

James measured the tree lol & he said the tree section was 15 ft but from the driveway ground, closer to 20. That Doki is a wild kitty. Love her

Thank you! It's really catchy 🐈

Thanks for watching!

@@donachaolarcain great observation. Glad you enjoyed the show! Have a blessed weekend :) - james

Heck yeah! We love our garden critters :D -Ash

@@Ltech-ludditetechnologies thankfully for stopping by :)

Thanks for your encouragement. As James would say, "We need all the help we can get" lol Have a great day -Ash

@strand-farm we, too, lived in small homesteading, it's a lot of work! I've been following you two. You guys have done marvelous work on your place! I wish we can meet one day!

I would agree with the hard work component. After 3 years at it, we are starting to see the fruits of our labor literally haha! Thank you so much -Ash

Great question! We use a Harvest Right freezer dryer. I will say there is an initial upfront cost of the appliance itself but with regular use, you should get your money back pretty quick. We can freezedry 5 dozen eggs in one batch which takes approx 24 hours depending on eggs size, etc. Have a blessed day :) -Ash

Just being a carrot is a big deal to us. Enough to make chicken fried rice!!! Thanks for telling us about reality, cheers - James

Bc KZbin isn't my friend lol

Thank you, they sure are 🤗

Thank you 🫶

Thank you kindly. It's taken quite a few wheelbarrows of compost to turn the heavy clay into a more nutrient rich growing medium. Three years of work so hoping for a good harvest. We shall see! -Ash

Thank you! The blueberries seem to be getting established quite well. -Ash

My thoughts exactly 🤗

Thank you! Her collar isn't tight at all, she is just a floofy girl :)

She sure is, thank you 🫶

Thanks for your kind words 🤩

Great question & I was wondering the same. Seems like an obvious place to notice haha Unfortunately, some of our ticks are teeny tiny. So tiny that sometimes we have to take a photo and zoom in to see what it is. Although we do regular tick checks.. sometimes they still latch on. Thank goodness we have plantain on our side :) -Ash

I was wearing a long sleeve all day and it was next to a mole, lol, thought it was a piece of dust for a moment. - james

@@strand-farm i’ve had a lot of run-in’s with ticks till I moved way north they tended to get me on my sides up into my armpit areas, upper chest and the soft spot behind the knees

@@strand-farm hikers will wear women’s nylons for the first layer that protects the bottom half anyways

@@brianjones866pretty wild 😜.

Thank you 🤗