Epic 50-Day Harvest Challenge | Feeding Your Family from the Garden

Epic 50-Day Harvest Challenge | Feeding Your Family from the Garden
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Byther Farm is a small organic homestead, being designed and managed using permaculture practices. We aim for self-sufficiency in fruit and vegetables for increased self reliance and better resilience to the modern world. I recognise that we are unlikely to be truly self sufficient, but do the best we can. I share our home with my loving husband, Mr J and our cat, Monty.
We are a fifty-something couple who live on a smallholding in Carmarthenshire, Wales. We are going green and creating a gentler, cleaner and more healthy life for our family.
Having had a highly successful smallholding in Monmouthshire, we hope to recreate the abundance at our new home. There will be a large organic kitchen garden with no dig gardening raised beds and young food forest in which to grown our fruit and vegetables.
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[@MorningsattheAllotment]

How did I not know you had done this. I thought I had seen it all 🤭 So awesome, Liz! Now i know what I‘ll spend my evening watching 👍🏻

[@LizZorab]

Part two, with the last 25 days worth of videos, will be out very soon. I'm mid-edit of it!

[@TheEmdubbleu]

Love this project and the way you present it here! You are so right that the work involved in harvesting pales in comparison to the processing... I admire you for keeping going each day, and giving us a glimpse of the work you do. Awesome that you set up a group for swapping produce too.

[@LizZorab]

Thank you so much!

[@BumblebeeAdventure]

🐝 Thanks for the great video 🌻

[@nrstooge]

Loved the re-watch of this series from your old homestead.

[@autumnwest5854]

Volunteer plants are always stronger than store bought. Theses are the ones I keep seeds from.

[@LizZorab]

Good thinking to keep the seeds from the strongest volunteers!

[@stevendowden2579]

this is great well done liz

[@LizZorab]

Thanks Steven, part 2 of this compilation series will be out very soon!

[@aries5433]

Hey, Liz! I’m watching this video currently and decided to jump on my phone to tell you how much I love this one! Love your challenge and the fact that you are able to achieve it due to your amazing work up to now. Your personality is really shining through on this one! 🥳💕👍🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻😘 I’m in Arizona.

[@LizZorab]

Yay! Thank you! The second part of the series will be out very soon, it's been fun to edit it and I'm happy that it's being enjoyed.

[@trishtaylor3254]

Wow this will be fun …..can’t wait x

[@marykappesser5145]

I can't believe I watched this whole thing in one sitting! How wonderful for you and Mr J to have all this wonderful food going into the winter, it must be a great feeling to know you are food secure. I am jealous of all the runner beans and bush beans you harvested. Rabbits and deer have decimated my beans. I have 1 lone runner bean, trying to live its best life. I have gotten a few a day, I blanch and freeze them, to put together in a bag until I get enough for a meal. But then, there is always next year, right?

[@LizZorab]

Absolutely there's always next year! I was amazed to see how much we had grown back in 2017, I think I will weigh everything again next year to remind me how productive our gardens really can be. I certainly don't grow so many (or any) runner beans now, except for Greek Gigantes beans, because all of our friends grow them and are always happy to donate or swap a few with us. This year I've grown some borlotti, a yellow French bean called Neckergold and the Greek Gigantes and I think that's probably sufficient for the two of us.

[@andyward7805]

Awesome vlog, loved seeing more of your personalty and all of your amazing growing spaces

[@LizZorab]

Thank you so much!!

[@NewMindGarden]

Absolutely amazing♥️♥️♥️♥️

[@LizZorab]

Thank you!

[@tillysshelf]

Your harvesting and preserving is inspirational! Maybe I missed you saying but do you have a double-size freezer or similar? Veg is absolutely abundant right now at a local CSA and it's only taken me about two weeks to fill out the freezer. Sauerkraut, pickled cucumbers, canned tomatoes (failed sadly) and now I don't know where to put things. Monty is gorgeous - at least he gets a lazy day

[@annette27nice]

Wow you’ve done So many videos 👏👏 best get started …

[@AJsGreenThumbLLC]

Fantastic job on this upload Liz! I really enjoyed!

[@LizZorab]

Aw, thank you. The second half of the 50 days will be published soon. It's been great fun to look back at what I was doing in 2017.

[@countrymousesfarmhouse497]

This type of video where people challenge themselves and their versions of self sufficiency etc is my favourite sort. Fantastic job. I must admit to being a little confused by the dates . Haha. Thank you for sharing this beautiful video ❤❤

[@LizZorab]

This video is a compilation of videos that I filmed and published way back in 2017. I thought it would be fun to revisit them and have a look at what I did back then, because I know that many have not seen the older videos.

[@mandytaylor1008]

Hi liz I so love your old videos and your other small holding much more than your new place but I still watch you watever as I enjoy watching you. But it’s been lovely to see your old place again as it seems to be more like a normal garden whereas your new place is more separated into big sections and more like a farm. Do you enjoy it all as much?👍🙋🏻‍♀️

[@LizZorab]

I do enjoy it as much. It is very like our old place was before everything grew so large. I think you'll find in a couple of years that the new places looks very like the old one!

[@tiffcat1100]

Loving this! ❤💜❤️

[@LizZorab]

So pleased! I've really enjoyed looking back at what I grew and harvested in 2017

[@mariajackson7024]

Hi Liz, loving this series, what a wonderful idea, so much looking forward to next week’s episode, save me a space in wales, 5 year plan now only 2 years away, see you soon haha

[@LizZorab]

Sounds great! Do you know which part of Wales you want to live in?

[@chrissiehart22]

The last few days I've been collecting rosehips and crabapples to make jelly with them. My 1st time trying this and learning about pectin and when I don't need to add it lol (not like my BlackBerry jam a few hrs ago 🙈😂😂 needed a chisel) Can't wait as it's out favourite cost ..........FREEEEEE

[@LizZorab]

Oooh nice, I collect rose hips throughout the summer and autumn and store them in the freezer until I have enough to make syrup, jelly or wine. I've just gathered a couple of handfuls of mint to make crabapple and mint jelly!

[@chrissiehart22]

@@LizZorab oh wow Liz that sounds lovely. I've topped and tailed my rosehip and popped in freezer and will prep apples tomorrow and some free pears someone had left out and freeze them all so when I feel up to it I can just have a cooking day. I'm going to save fruit scraps for vinegar. Do you make nasturtium capers. Something I'd like to try but think it will be next year as not many at the moment

[@LizZorab]

Yes I've made them a few times. There's a jar sitting in the fridge from last year - unused, because we've had no meals in which they would be nice LOL

[@northerngirlhobbies]

Awesome! Love this idea and the foraging. 🌱💚 Pretty well have done this all summer. Love the challenge. I’ll tag you in our next video Liz. Hello from Ontario Canada.

[@karab.8621]

Love these videos! Any chance you’re going to do this again this year?

[@LizZorab]

I do a compilation video each year to look at what we've achieved over the year. Or did you mean weighing the harvests?

[@karab.8621]

I mean the 50 days. I think it would be a fun idea to do it with you. Also could you do some of the putting up of the food please.

[@elizabethwood4342]

Hi there, I really enjoyed this video - makes me think about what else I can grow next year! I don’t know if I missed you saying, but what was the name of the tall, deciduous berry plants right at the end of the video? They looked really interesting.

[@LizZorab]

Lycesteria formosa, otherwise known as pheasant berry or Himalayan honeysuckle. The berries can be eaten once black and very soft and taste of caramel.

[@bewoodford2807]

I was loving this video until you mentioned how sweet the little white chickens are and then proceeded to tell us of the one you dispatched. being a vegetarian, I found this quite upsetting. I accept that people love to eat meat but I really don't want it thrown in my face when I am just interested in vegetable and fruit growing. I am sorry if I am speaking out of turn , but just felt so upset. I thought you kept the hens and ducks for eggs, I never realised you killed them for eating. I wouldn't have watched this had i known.

[@LizZorab]

You are not speaking out of turn, it's your viewpoint and so it's valid. Here's my view on this - As a family we eat meat and I would rather eat meat that has been lovingly cared for, that I know what it has eaten and that it's has had a good life. For the same reason, I prefer to purchase other meat from local farmers that I know and have seen how they raise their animals.

[@bewoodford2807]

I understand, and appreciate what you do, i just felt upset as I can't even kill a a slug let alone a much loved and cared for animal. So pleased you weren't offended by comments. I would hate that. Thank you for your understanding :-) x@@LizZorab

[@jecskid8]

I love how you grow and process so much; how do you freeze courgettes though? I'd imagine they'd be difficult to prepare and that they'd come out squishy....how do you cook them too? I hope you don't mind me asking.