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Thank you for sharing your journey. Love seeing how you grow and learn. Did you know the strawberry tops are also nutritious and delicious?

Since you save so much money just by living more simply you don't feed those big bad corporations as much as the libs who complain about them do. Your carbon footprint is a hair compared to people that say "we gotta do something!" and I love it

Crazy to see how much work truly goes into feeding your family!

What is that music playing when you were doing the strawberries?

Wow, you are living in paradise, the green view, beautiful flowers, water, fresh air, healthy food and tranquility! Truly, this is true happiness. I wish I were with you and shared all the work with you. I truly want to help you for free. I want to live in nature because I truly adore nature! Do you want me to help you?

Is there a price breakdown of how much the shed cost to build?

do you have a video on your first year of homesteading? would be helpful to know how much you've evolved since then.

do you spray anything for pests?

What a beautiful family all working..helping!!! so much love!!!!!

Fresh raw milk is something you and your Family should try, because it's way different than what they sell in the store, just try it and see.

Yes, if a person is serious about self-sufficiency, the amount of work involved, as well as the investment in tools and machinery, is much greater than some people imagine. This is why so many people don't stick with it for long, often giving up in the second or third year. The way self-sufficiency is portrayed online is quite different from the real experience and some people are caught off guard to battle in on a daily basis, always something new comes up, new problem occures you never thought of and so on and so on. Not to put anyone off, you can do it but you gotta be ready on everything just to succeed and has cash for it too.

I can not get over how fantastic this video is. We installed a big greenhouse for my Mum, it was her lifelong dream. However, it is tiny compared to yours😂. And installing wasn't as harmonious as what I can see from your footage (it was pure frustration 😂) Showing there are always better ways, even if the challenge is bigger, yours was huge, like the tunnel. Your children are already handier than me 😂 beautiful family❤

Yep, in a society, we just exploit brown people for cheaper farm labor for food, or yellow people for material production, or black people for elements... there is no escaping it.

Do you FD the sweet potatoes without cooking to use them in the future? For an example: to have them for a dish in the future where you will bake them? I’m new to this and I’m trying to learn. Thank you.

You Channel are interesting

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There are many many ways to grow crops with much less space and effort. A little bit of research can change your life

You have so much equipment ) i'm renting a greenhouse in Ukraine and growing vegs, last year was a lesson in how not to do it lol. there were so many diseases & pests i couldnt keep up. We have extreme temperatures here, exacerbated by the greenhouse being so good at being a greenhouse ). its going well so far this year, paprika, aubergines, cucumbers, zucchini of different varieties. Cucumbers were diseased and attacked by spider mites, red spiders like a plague. Using bicarbonate of soda with olive oil and spraying on the diseased areas to hopefully get rid of the red spiders & their larvae. Fresh food here is horrendously expensive, even for me with income from a pension. Hopefully i'll be able to give plenty of food way at the volunteer centre again. Planting red kidney beans, butter beans next week, straight into the soil, because its hot enough, last year they were abundant. Water is scarce, we put down a well to supplement the town water. Electricity is off/on as you may be aware from the news, becuase the ruzzians destroy our utility system. As an ex Electrical Engineer, i havnt tried growing food before beyong tomatoes in an open garden. Wonderful experieince, hard work, but worth it to see plants fruiting. Nature is the boss! Pests were a problem last year too, so the toads that live in the greenhouse are very welcome, ditto ants, wasps, and when its their time the praying mantis are huge & eat tons of insects...

Isn't it extremely inefficient to be feeding food to animals to then eat the animals? Like the amount of water and food wasted is quite a lot.

I did the same thing I use my freezer for a whole month I did not buy one thing I live by myself I just repurchased my needs it can be done from Terry in PA

I love watching this in Three Rivers homestead

Growing vegetables is much harder and way less healthier than just raising cattle for meat and milk. For example even kale that is touted as a superfood, can cause goiter and other thyroid problems not only on humans but on herbivores such as goat and sheep. Plants have many toxins and arent nearly as healthy as red meat. Is it a coincidence that the whole medical mafia with big pharma and the nutritionists paid by them will try convincing you of the exact opposite? Hmmm... I wonder why that would be... Of course, not everyone has the space for raising cattle, but in terms of self-sufficiency, it only takes a couple hours a day of work. If you have trained dogs to help you out, it is even easier.

The tomato suckers will also root.

You can also put a 1 cup to 1 1/2 cups in a quart jar and some sugar. Add boiling water. Wipe rims and put lids. Can in water bath canner. Let sit at least 3 weeks. Strain out berries and you have juice.

You can also put a 1 cup to 1 1/2 cups in a quart jar and some sugar. Add boiling water. Wipe rims and put lids. Can in water bath canner. Let sit at least 3 weeks. Strain out berries and you have juice.

Watching a video is not the same as being there, but I noticed in one clip time stamp 6:35 you tighten the lid (in my opinion) too much. Again its hard to tell on video. Love the taste test on sweet potatoes.

never seen bigger sweet potatoes before...blessings

“They taste like nothing”. 😂 As a mom I can totally relate to how painfully honest kids can be.😂

make a video about How to Canned things

Lovely people ✨an idea about the landscaping around the house: one simple way to make it both very natural and interesting is to use logs and rocks. It's the most ornamental thing you can think of and creates a tiny mystery forest thing even if it's just a few square yards (or 20-30 sqf). You sont believe how effective of an illusion it creates...! The magic happens if the logs have stuff like moss and mushrooms growing on them and the rocks look spectacular when the rain or sunlight hits them. It looks both natural and luxurious, really interesting combo. The problem is of course there will be lots of life in this space so maybe having it right by the house isnt a good idea 🤔but it's so, so inspiring... It would look amazing with like an elder growing there. That space would be great for perennial stuff. Both pollinator plants and strawberries and maybe you can grow mushrooms as well! Standing mushroom with mycel plugs on the shadow side 👍 oh, and if this idea was too woo woo for you: the concept of rotting logs can be transferred to small garden beds! I know you garden on a much larger scale BUT if you have wood to spare you could make small beds and on the north side you implant mushroom mycelium 👍 and anywhere you put down wood chips for mulch - either in paths or by bushes and stuff - you can blend mycelium with it. Nd if you dont eat lots of mushroom yourselves then freeze dry them and/or grow really expensive kinds you can sell 👍

Food self sufficiency is piss easy compared to making your clothes , knifes and forks , making bricks etc personally i would dump the animals as i found they ate more than produced and were generally bad for wildlife and enviroment . Self sufficiency is not just about food . Its being input neutral . ie no plastic .

Just eat 90% meat. Growing plants aka agriculture is humanity's biggest mistake ever.

This is my dream. I don't think I'll ever reach that dream bc my husband likes to go to the grocery store every day or every other day 😅

Would be very interested in the list of books you read that helped you learn about the ins and outs of canning! Have you blogged this book list before?

I know this video is 3 years old but a tip for not having the jars fall off the shelves is when assembling those style of shelving units, just install the shelves upside down, the bottom edging creates a natural "lip" so jars wont slip off.

Do you store your freeze dried foods long term in the jars? I purchased a freeze drier in November and I’m so excited to try all the garden goodies.

just supplement with subsidized cheap grain.

It’s not hard it’s called life. The ants n animals work for food not money. N it’s not hard at all. It’s easy to plant food. For those that like everything given to them they r not meant to last

YOUR INSPIRING, THANK YOU

I love how honest your kids were during the taste tests! They gave great feedback!

Hi i’m from belgium love your videos sorry for my english i think those sweet potatoes will go verry wel in salades like croûtons 😊or on soups love and bless

Thats a massive miracle! God is good!!!

Those really tall asparagus is female you can remove those unless your selling seeds but they produce nothing only the males produce the asparagus we eat

I love sweet potato chips

Thanks, I really appreciate when you explain things in depth and why you do certain things and your reasoning behind it.

I am in awe of all that you get done in a day and also amazed that you move so calmly and purposefully while still accomplishing so much!

Love the boxwoods! We have some as well. They are the easiest for maintenance of all our shrubs. They'll look lovely! Can't wait to see the final look of your landscaping! I was super excited to teach myself canning a couple of years ago. Bought a water bath canner and a couple of books I saw you recommend. When I started reading, I realized my glass top stove was not the most ideal, mostly because I don't have a big enough element for the canner. So, I had to put that idea aside for the time being until we possibly get something like your old one for outdoors or when we move to our land where I can get a more suitable stove. I have had to freeze my jams and other recipes for now. I'll be looking at your sweet potato chips recipe to see if I can adapt it. I haven't been very successful growing sweet potatoes, partly probably because of our climate where we live in Canada. I buy organic sweet potatoes often though and use them in recipes. Looking forward to get a freeze dryer in the future when we have space after we move to our land, so for the time being I dehydrate certain things and my youngest has been pestering me to make chips. Thank you for all that you share. Blessings!

i quit at "grow chickens for meat" fucking murderers. GO VEGAN