Do You Dig It? || Fall Garden Bed Prep

[@strawberries1411]

Meg is an amazing woman, wife and mother.. feeding so many busy hungry bodies 3 meals a day is no small tasks...done with a smile and in very limited time.. well done🌹

[@archaprice3372]

The love between Ben and Meg radiates through the screen, such a stark difference than in the beginning vlogs. God is blessing you and your marriage, and family!

[@milliway2010]

And in a limited space! You're an amazing creative cook Meg and now I want some fritters! Isn't wonderful to have so many fresh ingredients...the garden is hard work but so worth it. I froze the last of our peaches today for winter smoothies...and started 6 more qts of sour dill pickles fermenting. I love this time of year when there is such abundance...it feels so luxurious.

[@suziediva]

Buggy is the cutest... I've always noticed her bare feet running outdoors without a care in the world. Remember her sitting in a knee deep potato hole you had dug up excitedly pulling potoes. If there is a nature child... that is her... & she is a darling. What a fun childhood you are giving her💕💕

[@Brenda-qm4sy]

I agree

[@kindheartmcgee1271]

Ben I watch you with Buggie and it reminds me of my Dad. I am 68 yrs young and I remember being out with my Dad ( raised on a farm) . I will always remember the size of his fingers and trying to hold two and couldn't. She will remember her time with you always. Bless you and Meg for making this work for ya'll. Love to you all.

[@lanyrogers5707]

I kept saying, "Ben, where is Buggy?" Then I loved the way Meg was looking around while you were talking and finally asked where's the baby. You are all so pleasant to watch.

[@kellygreen8255]

Me too!

[@gypsyrhodescovers]

Same here! 😄

[@kristenlandis9741]

Same. Thinking " he lost the baby "

[@loriy7532]

Hi there , You have magic hands in the kitchen Meg , you are already busy tending your large family and then all that kitchen madness putting up all kinds of future food stuffs. Bravo... and God Bless you and the family..Amen

[@annmcintosh4524]

I am waiting to see Ben build a big ole farm table for the family. When you do, please do a tutorial for we wannabes! Your building skill, Megs cooking skill, your beautiful family!

[@gaylewatkins4685]

@Ann McIntosh Ben building a wooden family dinner table would make an awesome video. Great suggestion.🥰🥰

[@AfterTheRains]

Meg, with all the canning, freezing, dehydrating, home cooking etc., I think you turn every five dollars into fifty dollars in the kitchen.

[@whitestone4401]

The memories you are making as a family are priceless. Thanks for letting us come along.

[@sarameitner6770]

Buggy the Nature Child...LOVE Meg's description of how she would be...

[@kathleenengland2548]

I love the way you both work together. Boys are a lot of help also.

[@PegsGarden]

Beautiful family, I have been following your journey all the way from California and never comment, but I a have to say you both are such amazing parents, God bless you all💞

[@br8714]

What wife wants flowers when you have a beet bouquet. Super cute moment.

[@elizabethbazeley190]

I just re-watched the video when you announced Buggy was born.... I cried (again).... You were totally right when you said "she's going to give us a run for our money" and oh girl she definitely has so far! Love from Australia 🦘

[@janhatchett7834]

I love watching how happy your family is working together!

[@charlottebeavers4396]

I love watching how much your family has growing in so many ways, Thank you for sharing your family's life journey.

[@55dennie]

Thank you for another great video. I always look forward to the next one. I just wanted to tell you how much you both warm my heart. I am 67 years old and live on a small homestead. I lost my Kristi a few years ago. I love watching you two working together. I love seeing the way Meg looks at you sometimes. My Kristi used to look at me like that. Brings so many great memories. Thank you for that!

[@blueangelsfan4072]

135,000+ Subscribers !! Look at you guys and gals go🎉🌼🥳🍀🦋🕊♻️

[@bonniebell1104]

You guys always make me laugh. Even when you are just weeding, mowing or cooking. Yes, Meg can pull a meal out of thin air and it's a hit. Good on ya!

[@shamancarmichael5305]

I love these quick day-in-the-life kinda vlogs. It's like a comforting zoom call to check in with friends about their day! Sorry the wood chipper is down, Ben, hope the replacement belt won't take too long!

[@heatherread6058]

Meg you have such a beautiful happy smiling face that you always put a smile on mine. Ben, love how you have made the clay beds so friable as I know how hard it can be to dig otherwise. Love from South Australia 🇦🇺 ❤️

[@suesmith5033]

Never would've thought to make fritters. Now my mind is going. Perfect for a single person. Thanks Meg! I learn something new ir you make me think in a different way about something every video. Thank you!

[@naomivanzyl4275]

Buggy is just to cute to be true!!!! Love you all

[@nancyseery2213]

Meg does such a great job of cooking what you grow and using up left overs! y'all work so good as a family, just keep on growing!

[@milliway2010]

Meg's setting a high bar for future daughters-in-law. 😊

[@StoneKathryn]

Wow, rooster pot pie and broth. That's a lot of peppers! The stuffed ones look delicious and then you're dehydrating a bunch! Nice, getting some Fall garden boxes ready! I liked the Dad joke Meg made, "some people dig that". The beds look great. Got beets and leeks. Then you and Meg planted beets. Wow, leek, corn, and chicken fritters! Those look amazing. Thanks for this Hollars.

[@cynthiabolick3892]

Tks for video...love that baby and kids go free outside ...that is how we grew up...but in hollaring range if Mama called..lol...much love from Lenoir NC

[@graciegolden2290]

Meg, what you do just blows my mind. Would that I could be 35 again and happy in the kitchen. Used to be. Though, I never did any mixes as you do. You all are just the best. Thanks all the time for your shares. Love you all.

[@dugel3]

A hint for popping lightly rooted plugs out of plug trays is to use a crochet hook. You can push it in next to the plant then pull the whole plug out, or you can push it up through the bottom hole to dislodge the plug. We literally transplanted hundreds of thousands of plugs in our greenhouses and it was a cheap and easy aide for tender plugs. You should teach the boys to run the camera. It would be fun to see a video from each one and have them film what they find interesting. Corbin seems very playful and energetic, Brett seems to be the comedian, Jack seems to be a mechanical thinker and Tyler seems a bit camera shy. And when Buggy gets a little bigger, she will take over the show lol!

[@christineculli1136]

I love seeing your whole family together at dinner time. It’s such a rare sight. Thank you

[@gypsyrhodescovers]

I wish y'all had a beautiful farm table with matching chairs. I always wanted one for my family and never got one. You guys always make my day!🤗

[@TheHollarHomestead]

That would be pretty, but it’s not the table that makes the meal or the time together. 😉

[@rkthing55]

@@TheHollarHomestead I am certain Ben could make one during the wintertime if they really want it.

[@pinkythechihuahua3156]

Meg, did you use an egg and (flour) as a binding for your fritters? Also, your lufa, are you going to use them in your soap? How do you process them? I like watching your day to day life. It takes me away from my life, currently going through a flood in my kitchen and a remodel where people don't show up and don't know how to do what they are supposed to do. BEN, WE NEED YOU!!

[@loraineleuschke4186]

Your fall garden is going to sigh with joy when planted in those loamy beds.

[@greenbankreptiles]

You folks are amazing..you work so hard in many ways. wish I had a bit of sted fastness, look how you two are now( Meg and Ben) . hats off to all of you. Love and respect

[@SewFrancine6120]

Meg, your an amazing strong,brilliant and creative woman with a huge capacity to love. Free your hands, put one of your strong handsome sons to work helping you chop. Having knife skills helps as they need to cook for themselves. ☮️❣️💟❣️✝️

[@scottbaker3659]

Oh look.. Meg made a funny... and that ol red clay dirt has sure changed a lot in the last few years.. its now brown and looking nice

[@KayakingCalifornia]

I'd like to see Ben and Meg switch chores for a month.... and see howwell Ben holds up to the enormous amount of work Megan does.

[@Zeke-yv3nw]

Nice to see all your hard work paying off now!

[@blueangelsfan4072]

Fellow Subscribers, just a reminder. Commercials that we let play through give more rewards to the channel. 🥳😉🍀🕊♻️

[@Brenda-qm4sy]

I try to always let them run.

[@barbarabell3366]

God bless you and your family. You work so hard with the garden and animal. All the canning and preserving of foo, it’s amazing. Beautiful family.🥰🥰

[@katiedavis9159]

I love seeing you two working together... relationship goals. I love it when my hubs and I are able to work together too❤❤❤

[@louisedavidson7775]

When asked where my children were I would answer that I gave them a box of matches and a sharp knife and sent them to play in the street.;) Sometimes it would take people a moment or two for it to sink in.

[@maryhysong]

"Barbarian child..... eatings squirrels alive..." Oh my ROTFLMAO

[@gaylewatkins4685]

Your garden is now the most beautiful homestead garden on YT. The soil building has really paid off and the plants are gorgeous. Love your family friendly channel ♥️♥️

[@nettyhughes6680]

I love that u guys are uploading often as u can. Ur my favourite people to watch.

[@jillw892]

I feel buggies soul. I'm with her I was 5 years old out wandered around my own not too but LOL she's at home her brother's got her y'all have a wonderful family ❣️💯

[@PrayereeFarm]

Praise God for families like yours...real grass roots down to earth..God fearing..hard working...fun loving realness..you truly inspire ..you share...you laugh...you make mistakes and still laugh and just fix it...Ben and Meg. ..realness is a gift that keeps on giving and both you guys do that so well....I've watched for a long time...it just blesses my heart...if the world had more families like yours...it would be such a better place....blessings and may God bless and keep you always...from 2 veterans to your home ...KEEP SOLDIERING ON!!!!!

[@oldvillagefarm1348]

Meg you always inspire me to get back into the kitchen to make and preserve some food! Thanks!

[@SuesSecretGarden3]

Buggy is so darn cute 😆 You guys don't fool around you get the job done 😊

[@sallyboothe911]

Ben, I’d like to say congratulations on doing some awesome soil building. I remember y’all’s first garden, grown completely in red clay dirt. But… you didn’t give up and it’s just amazing to see that beautiful soil when you flip a bed. If it’s possible could you put a link to the amendments you’ve been using. They are doing an amazing job building up the dirt to beautiful soil. I’d like to get some to use next spring. Health has put hopes of a fall garden on hold for another year…. Unless I have volunteers offer to help, which would be great. Blessings from Mississippi

[@tpaw6908]

We remark how happy you always are. God bless . Buggy is a cutie

[@cheyenne9118]

Just want you to know she'll appreciate your videos y'all are my kind of people have looked at a lot of Homestead videos but I think yours is the best have watched y'all from the start. Have a good day hope everything goes well for you and will continue watching wish you would show more because I don't like watching other Homestead videos have tried several probably about 10 different ones but I think y'all are the best don't try to act like you are so high class like a lot of them do.

[@rkthing55]

I wholeheartedly agree! I too had several channels which I watched until they got full of themselves. Boom…unscribed! Love the steady flow of videos during the week. Get such a kick when 3pm rolls each weekday. And also fun to read all the comments.

[@marciasanderson562]

As I watched Meg in the kitchen I had a flashback about how hard my Mom and my Grandmother had to work to prepare and preserve food for their family. Your family is carrying on that tradition! Bless you both for working so hard.

[@dorisgreenberg2811]

Love those four tine spade forks for loosening weeds! Loving you guys again.

[@barbaramix1683]

I love how you guys understand Buggy. She is such a free spirit. The more you go with organics the more loamy your soil will get. The organic material will attract beneficial bacteria and fungi. Soon your plants and trees will be so healthy that you will have almost no pest and disease. Your harvest will also increase and your weed will almost disappear. God bless your family and your crops.

[@blindaedwards9528]

Buggy...free ranging!

[@lorettavaughn3440]

you are both such an inspiration

[@beckiepatrick6900]

I just love watching you guys every day. You’re joyful people. It’s contagious. Thanks 😊

[@BirdYoumans]

You two are amazing. Energy. At 77 I envy you! All my life I took two stairs at a time when climbing stairs. But I fear those days are gone. Been a good life tho! All that to say this, cherish every moment with those kids, as I see you do, because you will be looking after grand kids before you know it lol! Love you guys! Oh, what? Buggie is two? You cannot be serious!

[@radhikam2401]

Buggy has good brothers. So heartwarming to see.

[@aleshiasterland460]

I watch your video every time you post. Love your content and family. Buggy is a running. Sweet little girl. Blessings Helen Montana

[@sheliajones8238]

Love y'all's video God bless you all hope you have a good one can't wait till the next one

[@trinapellegrino621]

🙋🏼‍♀️🕊. Lillie is going to be a woodland enchanted child, 💕🕊 I imagine you building her.a teepee,, and letting the climbing flower or beans , lined with some pine needles . She will take her doll and books in there. You can use some of the skinny trees 🌳 I had a place under the trees like that in our country home, growing up 🕊I still have it as my peace place for meditation in my memory 🕊and I’m in my 70 s. Love you folks 💕🕊💕🕊blessings 🕊💕

[@betsyoman7173]

I have learned something. I never would have thought of starting beets indoors. This is interesting. And it reminds me of the first time I planted beets, many years ago. They were up out of the ground a couple of inches. Daddy was mowing the lawn and our first child was probably about 4. I said, "I'm going inside for a minute and when I come out, I'm going to have son help me pull weeds." When I came back those nasty little redish weeds that were all in a row, were all pulled!

[@tommielourogers4327]

Buggy is getting SO Pretty!!! Of course just look at her parents. She has no choice but to be a beautiful little girl.

[@sandraewers178]

The flowers really make a nice touch when there is so much lush green plants growing.

[@ardenpeters4386]

100 here!!!! not normal but here we are 3-4 weeks of this ... and pressure canning peas. I'm learning!!! @71! finally doing what I always wanted to do. two canners running!

[@pattiripley7599]

Buggy’s graduated to big chair. Awesome! Enjoy the beets

[@rosasalas1437]

Love how you throw things together ❤️ your great mom.

[@CarnivoreStork]

Ben, you’ve got to buy 5 at once! 🤣

[@idahohoosier8989]

I bought one of those spayers last year. Love that you can keep the soil moist without disturbing the seeds or little starts. I saw Sarah with it on Living Traditions and she said it was a game changer so I bought one. Blessings, julie

[@sandratorchia4803]

You have become family with your vlogs. Blessings to your family.

[@kalaipaa]

Buggy the Bohemian!! 😆

[@dianecharles881]

After the news today, we all need to be staying in the kitchen like you Meg ! Come winter we are all going to wish we had preserved food! It’s not a scare , I think it may be a reality!

[@gwh20man]

Meg you can make a meal out of anything you are amazing and so is your entire family!

[@amyb5339]

Your collective description of Buggy (why oh why did you ever give her the name Liliana Faith?😁) made me apoplectic with giggling. I would say that the live squirrel in her teeth really put the icing on that cake, but squirrel icing sounds atrocious!) And. I realized. I have a fall garden to plant and this vlog is causing "empty bed guilt". Time to git 'er done. Thanks for the shove out the door! Nothin' but love. Fertilizer hack from David the good is a pickle barrel with a lid that mosquitos can't penetrate, LOTS of weeds, and water to cover said weeds, and something to weigh them down and keep them under the water. I used a nursery stock pot. Let them rot and decompose anaerobically for 3 weeks then take one part of Dave's fetid swamp water to two parts plain water and VOILA! Instant free fertilizer. The smell dissipates in about a day, but is initially "impressive".

[@adorabledeplorable3885]

Meg you can put anything together and make it turn out Awesome

[@lunachic03dh]

Meg - what don’t you do!!! You are AMAZING!!

[@rkthing55]

Love it at 7:50. ‘’…our little animal child”. “ …. Naked, covered in mud,eating live squirrels “

[@debbielamb2432]

My sister froze up all our peppers last year in freezer bags and then just grabbed a handful when cooking it was having fresh😍👍

[@alicegilbert4186]

I love how the whole family helps out.

[@christiscamelotgardens47]

I would love to see a holler Homestead cookbook at some point! Meg I know you don't really measure a lot and you cook a lot like I do but I could just see a cookbook with a - of this a pinch of that a little bit of that kind of narrative in ithey've in it like real people actually cook sometimes and I think it would be beautiful and hilarious at the same time

[@kmcquack8989]

Meg, I would love to see a video where you talk about where you learned to cook. What your first favorite dishes were. Where you got your skills from. What age you were when you started. What your process is. Your skills are extraordinary.

[@rkthing55]

I remember one video long, long ago when they were still in CA she addressed some of your questions.

[@faithrada]

It's so great to see that all the work you've been putting into the garden beds is really paying off. Each year will get easier and easier.

[@loraineleuschke4186]

Dang ole batteries!😂

[@bettyjorodgers8552]

Awesome. So impressive. Thank you. Blessings

[@greghill254]

Leek/Corn/Chicken fritters.... WOW!! Never would have thought of that one! Bet they were tasty!

[@justinhunter3330]

Man I have enjoyed the past few months with y’all being on a schedule. I come home and like alright I have Hollar homestead on for tonight. It’s great. Plus Meg great job editing.

[@katherineb6102]

Love "dad jokes" especially when mom makes them 🤣🤣

[@angelacross2216]

I love weeding , hard to stop myself from weeding everywhere I go. If you don’t let them go to seed you eventually have barely any left.

[@angelasheppard7197]

Love your dining table. We are limited on space and that looks great. If we need to, its easy to put away.

[@camicri4263]

I was wondering where my Buggie is.... she is so lucky to have such loving brothers! Great to see you all! The food looked great, Meg! I don't know if I would have the energy and will to be all day , every daybin the kitchen like you?! 🤗🤗💗💜💗🤗🤗

[@kellygreen8255]

Y’all amaze me! The gardens are looking fabulous!

[@jerrybrady9103]

Thanks for bringing us along 👏🙏💯

[@user-justbeingme]

Millie would love those chicken scraps, such a pretty kitty.

[@territn8871]

Meg, you remind me of how my mom always said my Mamaw (dad's mother) was. She said Mamaw would go to the kitchen and cook a feast with what looked like nothing to start with, and her meal was delicious! Sadly I never knew that Mamaw as she passed when I was about Buggie's age, but she must have been an awesome cook like you are!! In my opinion, you are a great cook as you never use a cookbook. A good cook never looks at a recipe, she knows what goes into a dish/ meal to make it delicious from experience!! Hope your fall beets gives you a big crop! I never had luck with beets. My father-in-law said it was because I didn't plant them on dirt mounded up like potato hill. He said they needed to be hilled up like potatoes to produce a good crop. I wonder if anyone does that with success?

[@opalvalentine3330]

Hey guys just wanted to let you know that you guys are simply amazing love you all

[@terrilepine9065]

I love these quick day-in-the-life kinda vlogs

[@joanneganon7157]

Hi Meg,My Mum had 7 mouths to feed,She was like you always dreaming up things to feed us. It was a good day coming Home from school smelling Her Giant pot of Stuffed Peppers mm mm 🐦. She made a Red sauce and put them in that too cook all Day! Your Soil Work has really paid off Ben 🙌. No bumper crops for us unfortunately 😳. I hope your crop does well! JO JO IN VT 😆💕

[@ladonnanation5958]

Parents and children WITH each other daily, consistently, not allowing the BS of ..it all penetrate our families. Hindsight on my part. Thank you for sharing your life with us.

[@christinalemarr]

You are one of my favorite channels 🥰 And I’m intrigued about the pepper powder! Sounds amazing.

[@paperchaser9565]

Buggy is a beautiful bundle of joy! Great planting…good luck on getting the belt. Meg, your so creative