Awesome! I hope it works well for you. 😊

Hi! 👋🏻The cranberry vinegar is good for salad dressings, marinades, and quick pickling. It's the same as any other vinegar, it just adds the cranberry flavor. Thanks so much Manda! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Thank you! Homemade juices are great for cocktails or mocktails!! I like the unsweetened kind, so I can sweeten it as needed. The unsweetened cranberry juice I made doesn't need much sugar if I add OJ or another sweet juice to it. Happy Holidays!!! ❤️

Awww Happy Christmas to you and your family! That sounds like a very nice time. 🎄 Haha, at first I was like "oooo what's lavender chicken soup!?" 😆🤪 Those lavender chickens have been such a pain. I'm not sure if it's the breed or just a coincidence that they are both dysfunctional. 🐓 Pumpkins and their seeds are so good for goats!! I wish ours ate them. They don't eat any "treats," other than manufactured goat treats. High maintenance animals!! 👑 The tiny rakes are so great everywhere. I use them in the chicken coop/run, goat pen, and garden. We put up another camera too that faces the coop so we can keep an extra eye out for predators. Take care Manda!!! ❤️

Hi Manda! 👋🏻 The chickens love melons, the only thing left were the rinds. 🍉 Be careful washing those choppers, ours is so dangerous and sharp. But it really makes meal prep quicker. The yellow bendy things. 🍌😆 We go through a lot of them here, I wish I could grow yellow bendy things. 👀 I will look up yogurt bread and try and make it this week. 🍞 Thanks so much Manda Moo!! I hope you're staying warm. It got down to 19°F | -7°C last night here. BRRR 🥶

Great to hear!

Haha, I didn't even notice that! 🍉🐓 Chickens automatically scratch to forage for food, they do it all over the yard too. 😁 We're going to be cleaning their coop today! 🧹

@@TheBourneHomestead I have never seen a chicken to that lol she did not want that leaf on her snack! 😂😂

For the most part we like it! We're going to be filming a video today, I'll share an update on it. 😁

beautiful thanks so much!!!!

Yeah I’m familiar with raw packed, I hadn’t used this electric canner before and I wasn’t sure if I wanted to do it that way. It may have worked out better if I had. I will do it that way next time I use the electric canner to can beef. Thanks!!

Awesome, I just found their channel, thank you! We always used to watch them on TV, and I was so excited when her cookbook came out. Thanks so much! ❤️

@@TheBourneHomestead Yes, I watched them also and I adore Eve! ❤❤

I'm excited to find their channel, thanks again!!

Hey Manda!! 👋🏻 The garlic peeler does work well with the older garlic cloves. Really makes peeling them go much faster! 😁 Sounds like you need more sugar and/or butter added to your veggies. 😆 Just kidding, I can understand not liking some things. But you always do a great job growing everything, and you give so much away which is I'm sure appreciated by the people who receive them. ❤️ To can meat, or any low-acid food, you do need a pressure canner. That's really great that you were able to stock up on chicken, we do the same thing when meat goes on sale. But it for sure takes up room in the freezer! The sour-dough continues to be a wild ride. I was able to bake a little bit with it, but I can't keep the sour-dough going for some reason and need to keep restarting it. I really hope to get better at it! Thanks so much!! 🤗

I don't wash them until I'm storing them in the fridge. They can sit on the counter for a while with the bloom / cuticle, but we go through a lot of eggs and it's easier when they're all ready to go, especially during busy mornings.

I love the color of the cranberries too!! ❤️ Adding the lemon juice to the cranberry jalapeno jam got it to firm up much quicker, I'm glad you mentioned that. 🍋 I like it when there's enough left over to try right away too, it's always the best fresh out of the pot. 😋 I try not to waste anything but definitely could do better with using everything we grow, like turning scraps into vinegars, or drying tomato skins to make tomato powder... someday I'll get there!! 😁 I have to research more about growing cranberries. I would like to grow our own! I always thought that they needed a bog to grow in, and we are not set up for that, but there maybe other ways. Thank you so much Manda Moo!!! I show the garlic peeler in next Sunday's video. 🤗

@TheBourneHomestead I have just bought two "honey berry " bushes. I hope I can get them to grow OK. They look delicious. You will have to get Steve out with a shovel to dig a big hole and put some pond liner in it then fill it back in with compost and leaves from the woods, that will make I nice bog.. 😁🐊🐸🐄🐄🐄

Oooooo what's honey berry!?! Please share a video about them. Are you planting them at home or a the big garden? Hahaha, I'm going to look into growing cranberries and see if there are ways to do it. 😆🐊

@TheBourneHomestead they look like elongated blueberries but I believe they taste like honey. I will send you a photo on messenger of the lable,, Yes. Please please please have a go with cranberry 🙏 💕 🐄🐄🐄

That's so interesting!! I've only tried roasted pumpkin seeds, and the Lady Godiva ones are my favorite as they have no outer shell. I don't think I ate any of the seeds from that giant pumpkin we grew a few years back, but I can imagine why those wouldn't be great to eat. So it's usually just the CT field pumpkin seeds or smaller like sugar pies that we eat. Maybe I'll try the seeds from the butternnut and honey nut squash we grew this year. 😊

​@TheBourneHomestead those are both pepo varieties

​lady Godiva, carving pumpkins and feild pumpkins are cucurbita pepo, so I don't think that any other squash would have better tasting seeds. Acorn, spaghetti squash and delecata are also cucurbita pepo

​@@TheBourneHomesteadsorry you probably already knew this

@@phillippinter7518 They are both pepo, but the lady godiva seeds do not have a shell, that's why I mentioned them separately. 😊 Crookneck pumpkins or moschata squash, like butternut, generally aren't eaten for their seeds, but I would like to try them. I have grown "state fair winner" pumpkins (maxima) and have not eaten those seeds as they seem they would be woody and difficult to roast. 😁

Awesome!! Glad you're here. 😊

Thanks! Glad you like it! 😁🎶

Haha, hi!!! 🤣 I was mad at myself. I panicked and stared at it and by the time I got the courage to do something about it, it was gone. 🫣 Steve was building something and couldn’t get over fast enough. My hope is the garlic and shallots are enough of a deterrent for it. I didn’t notice it came back or pushed anything up… yet. I don’t think goats can have marigolds, I’ll have to look it up. But the chickens probably could have!! Thanks Manda, take care!! ❤️

That does work well! We put hardware cloth under a few of our other deeper raised beds and we don’t have pests from underground. These in ground beds are difficult to add it. But I will for sure be adding it to the beds that we plan on growing sweet potatoes and other root vegetables in. Thanks!!! 😊

Thank you very much! Yes I have. We get a large number of unsubscribed return views on our videos, so we need more engagement from viewers, subscribing, getting comments, likes and shares in order for YT to push more. But it's okay, we have the best little community here! ❤️ 😊

Thanks so much!! I really appreciate that. ❤️

Hey Manda Moo!! I've never made tomato paste before. I would love to make some at some point. I imagine it's slightly time-consuming and tedious. That's why I haven't done it yet. But it's on the list of things I would like to learn how to do! ❤️🤗

Even tinned paste was once fresh :)

Depending on the seedlings, I separate and pot up seedlings. I really like the 55mm peat pellets! It's easy to separate and pot up if needed. 😊

Yeah we live it so far. But I will look into that one next time. Thanks!!

Haha thanks Manda! ❤️🤗

Thanks! We did this again this year, slightly differently, but it all works out. Good luck!! 😊

Yeah the plastic isn't necessary. Many of those boxes don't have the plastic anymore but some do. The boxes have kept my jars in really good condition every year. 😁

Thanks so much! 😊 The soil usually has earthworms in it which keeps it nice, they break down the hardwood mulch I top the beds with, but the mole ate them all. 🫣

Oh no, I hope you’re able to get ahold of them to get a replacement.

Thanks!

I prefer the seeds taken out because it makes the sauces more versatile. I can use the unseasoned sauce for many different things, like soup. But if I'm in a rush, or dont have time, leaving the seeds in the sauce doesn't change the taste. 😁

I like freezing tomatoes too. It's nice when I have more time in the kitchen to make different recipes. I've always blanched the beans before freezing. They keep for a while in the freezer and the texture is always good. I will have to try just putting them in without and see how they are. Thanks! 😊

Awesome!! We use these all the time. I hope you like them!