Food Of The Future

We’re getting our garlic planted today, ensuring our food for next year’s harvest.
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[@milkandcookyz]

You get my vote for the best transplant to NC ever. We need more transplants like you guys.

[@Greens5511]

I just have to stop this and say, Meg, u r a beautiful soul!!! I wish I had a mom like u!!! I am 60 and I feel like, man I could learn so much watching u cook and bake in that kitchen!! 👍👍💪💪 U r impressive!!!

[@TheHollarHomestead]

Aww thank you!! 🥰

[@faithevrlasting]

Meg is amazing. Ultimate homestead mom.

[@savebees]

What a sweet comment 🥰

[@angelawillis145]

I learned to make sausage gravy watching her video. And that wasn’t even what the video was about! I thought, it just can’t be that easy….and it was!

[@savebees]

@@angelawillis145 I started making bread using her recipe. It turned out great first try

[@hdnmdws]

Ya know what, we are all a bit broken so join the club! I just have to say I’ve noticed the boys look so much bigger at the dinner table in this video, time does seem to be speeding up😳 Love your family and all the encouragement I receive from watching🥰

[@shamancarmichael5305]

I loved how one by one another set of hands came to peel the garlic. ❤ That's a family portrait right there.

[@stknmggs1788]

Why did I get a little tear in my eye during the shots of your hands prepping the garlic. The team work is what makes your family so special!

[@hickoryhillinthebigwoods-r759]

I was thinking the same. I have a homestead and the difference is the Hollars work as a team. It isn't meant to be done alone.

[@jills5939]

You're blessed to be young strong healthy beautiful. My dad said farmers were the richest people on earth, and he was right. His depression days as a farmer were amazing stories. No machines. Pitch forks, shovels, hand saws, work horses, wagons. He'd cut ice blocks from the pond and store them in his barn for summer ice for his milk route. Schiebes Corner was history of the half way overnight stop for farmers traveling to city farmer market. He and his extended family's worked together to prosper with veges, fruit and livestock. He'd say he was born between the kitchen and diningroom, as his mom's memories were always working there. 💕 I enjoy your utube 💕 thankyou.

[@krickette5569]

There is another You tube channel called Working Horses with Jim, that you might enjoy. He uses huge draft horses to do lots of the work around his farm.

[@jills5939]

@@krickette5569 thankyou. I watched Jim's video. Very nice. Fond memories of the smells of sweet green grass, leathers, horses, jerseys. Jim's a good teamster .

[@jacquieanderson6251]

Meg, I tried your bread recipe and now my husband won’t let me buy bread! I make all our bread now. Thank you. I wondered what seed potatoes were - now I know. I’m in my 60’s and still learning. Thank you for your inspiration. Your family is great.

[@stephaniewilson3955]

Seed potatoes are not potato seeds (which are poisonous). They are small potatoes that you plant in the ground once they shoot and the ground is warm enough.

[@teresawilson1850]

And usually the seed potatoes have been treated for disease and insects. From an Idaho gal here.

[@CityWideGardens]

I have been wanting to make bread too based on her easy recipe and instructions and now my daughter is in baking class so im gonna bake with her

[@leeslone3640]

Love you two oh my goodness we need more young people like you two out there in this world today 💕💕💕😘

[@charlenefoster6779]

I agree wholeheartedly!

[@janetwithers7427]

Planted garlic and homemade buns and bread, all in the same day. You guys rock. 🍁💕🍁

[@Userxyz-z2d]

I cant get over how big Buggie is! ❤️She's going to be having adult conversations before you know it (lol). Time flies too fast! Meg I wish I could eat your cooking. It ALWAYS looks Yummie!!

[@bonniedugle1763]

Love that Meg always wears an apron while cooking. Brings back good memories.

[@terresiagregg9326]

Love watching Meg shes always making something good to eat

[@kimcwhite6509]

Love your garden beds and all of the compost! It sure looks better than when you first moved in. That's going to be some beautiful garlic. Buggie is so funny with her friends, the bugs😘

[@camicri4263]

Lol Ben, you are fine! Garlic is never too much! Dinner looked yummy as always! Meg pulls it out of her hat! 🙃😉 Have an amazing weekend!🤗💞🤗

[@belieftransformation]

Thanks for sharing your busy lives! Many blessings to your family 🤗❤️🇨🇦

[@theresadonnelly9299]

I love that you are all involved and living your best. It warms my heart to see a family "Down to Earth"!

[@teresagunther6622]

The cows would love all the standing grass! Piggies would probably love all the yummies from the garden! You guys are amazing!

[@stevenberna2460]

Such a great time in the day when I see a new video pop up. Wish I had neighbors like you. The things you learn just by watching these videos. Can’t wait to see how the green house turns out. Keep the videos coming and send just awesome videos and prayers of health and happiness.

[@thomascdurham9130]

Hi Hollars, let me give you a quicker and neater way to peel and separate garlic gloves. Take any size mason jar that a whole garlic bulb will fit in loosely. Shake mason jar vigourously up and down 30 seconds to a minute. Then have paper bag near. You'll will slowly sift through the peelings and find clean separated cloves and 95% of the peelings contained.

[@kimcwhite6509]

But don't they need to have their paper covering to sprout?

[@kimcwhite6509]

@K Barnes thank you, that's what I thought!

[@ladyinthemountains2527]

They weren't peeling them, just separating the cloves.

[@acornhomestead3575]

That's so inspiring that you plant two rows and go... "Hmmm need a couple more rows". Go get the rototiller and Bob's yer uncle two more rows! I need some of that just-get-at-it juice you have access to Ben! Lol. Buggies vocabulary is really coming along well! Happy weekending

[@janew5351]

I purchased 45 bulbs of garlic. 12 varieties. I separated, had a neighbour rotowtill, tarpedbed, Dug holes for 9 rows of 30 per row. Then got 3 cu ft of fine straw from the farm store and mulched and covered the rows over 2 days. I am a senior lady working by myself and can barely move after 2 days of work. I so so wanted to get a bigger harvest than 65 last year!

[@TheTexasBoys]

Great Job y'all!!!👍🎉🥰. We watched one of your Old Old videos a few days ago...y'all are the cutest couple!!! Keep up the hard work!~Texas Mom

[@TheHollarHomestead]

Aww thanks friend!! ❤️

[@SimplyJanHomestead]

Hello Texas Mom! Blessings!❤

[@bonnielara9723]

That's so cool that your potatoes made fruit. Remember it is a 2-3 year progess when you start from true seeds. So if those seeds are mature, you will get really small tubers the first time. Stick with it, save and replant the little tubers another season or 2.

[@vdemoor9844]

Your right. I laughed but that is a genius tripod.

[@violetsands]

It occurs to me when watching you all sit down to eat, that the act of stopping and praying is also a good way to put aside the frantic working brain, breathe and then with a calm and in the moment brain you can eat and really enjoy your food. Such a simple task to stop thank God and then eat. I guess it is the same with stopping, slowing down and praying before getting into bed - a way to let go of the busy brain and get ready for slow breathing and sleeping. I had stopped praying at set times but i think i will bring it back into my daily life.

[@dragonfly4930]

You are not broken, you are just authentic!! 🤗 I love to watch your videos, keep up the amazing work and content!

[@susieclark1498]

You are all an inspiration...even when things happen and you try not to be grumpy; it's just life and we all need to take it in stride. Thank you for your great vlogs. from San Diego

[@mackenzieboersen]

Often said that time fly's when you are having fun, I think this is the same as when you are happy.

[@rebeccamunoz4596]

Love you guy's🤗 have a great weekend 👍🤗❤✌👋

[@beverlyclayton1244]

Blessings to your dear family!! It’s such a joy to watch you and be your utube friends!!

[@gonzalezpandura]

I love that tri pod

[@gretaknebel8495]

Great garlic patch. I just bought a Kitchen Aid stand mixer so I can hopefully make my own bread.

[@eaccristo]

I need one too.

[@GardenALittle]

Hello from zone 6! I keep telling myself that this year I will get the garlic in and keep missing the window, 2023 is the garlic year, I feel it!

[@mgtmoffat8411]

We were always told that those fruits on a potato plant were poisonous. It is not that many years, a have been here a lot of years, since I realised they were the seeds. I shall be most interested in the sort of potatoes your seed grows. Hollar Homestead variaty. 💕💕🌻🌻

[@brelsfordfamilyhomestead]

That tripod hack is GENIUS! I’m going to look around my homestead for some PVC so I can that for my next video!

[@sandyoklahomatransient8557]

I had absolutely no idea potato plants provided fruit like the ones you showed in this video. I learned something new. Most of the time, I will just harvest the potato, and place the wines in the compost. Y'all are going to have an amazing garlic harvest come spring. Enjoy your weekend!

[@MontsFamilyHomestead]

Ok, That is the best and cheapest make tripod I have seen and will not hurt it to get wet. Thanks for the idea Ben, we will be making up one of those. Love the chicken in the pot. My wife does that sometimes and it is and you say " AMAZING" God Bless and have a wonderful week.

[@hinerangijohnston5223]

Meg & her Sons are INSPIRING lOVE THEM TO BITS / OF COURSE Ben / Budgy .

[@rainspringing]

End of summer is shockingly fast. Always sneaks up on me, and throws me into overdrive. Everything needs planting two weeks ago, stuff should have been put into chilling boxes last month, because half should be coming out of the fridge for planting in a couple weeks not just getting in there, and so on. Inchelium Red garlic so far is our hands down beats them all garlic. Only draw back? Never planted enough. Even if you plant every good seed sized clove from the year before, from the best bulbs. Haha keep finding more ways we want it, and more more more... Especially freshly harvested. It's such an amazing fragrance. I even get scapes most years. I know! From a soft neck! Few do that, so much so that sellers seem to have differing info about this variety. I thought something went wrong the first time, but still made beautiful bulbs np. Some day soon the whole family will be able to have legitimate ponytails! :) Those buns are just gorgeous. If I could ever get the handle on yeast rising outside of summer. End up sticking it to rise on the back porch. Which is a bit nerve wracking. Although, what eats bread dough, and is strong enough to shift two tightly wrapped kitchen towels, besides two legged predators? lol

[@jjo5375]

Meg, it breaks my heart watching you peel egg shells off in its and bits, even though you have an Instant Pot. 'Boil' them in the I.P. for six mins, and let it natural release a couple of minutes, put them in cold water like usual, and the shells will SLIDE RIGHT OFF! I can do a doz eggs in about 5 mins! Give it a try and you'll never go back to stove top boiling them. : ) When I do potato salad, I can put the potatoes in WITH THE EGGS ON TOP, let them both cook together, and in the few minutes it takes for the six mins to be up, I make the dressing for the potato salad. Potato salad ready for the table in about 10 mins! Of course, its better chilled but, still...its ready for the table!

[@ladyinthemountains2527]

The IP has changed my hard boiled egg life forever!!! My fresh eggs come out perfect every time!

[@hillarys.k8518]

Learned something today. I had never seen a potato berry before. Cool!!

[@judywaikiki2450]

I love watching families sit down and pray before a meal. A lot of that has been broken up since I became an Adult so to speak. But it’s good to get back to the basics, prayer is always a great start to everything. God bless n Aloha from the Big island of Hawai’i🌺

[@charmainemrtnz]

The slide from 30 to 60 is sooooooo much faster than the slide from 1 to 30. Live life well while your body can do stuff without PAIN. You folks are awesome!

[@lesliebrown9384]

I enjoy watching yeah channel. Thank you Meg for the tomato pie recipe

[@chaszrainsford]

Shorter amounts of sunlight during the day makes it seem that time is moving faster.

[@danettehaner5383]

I plant and love the Inchelium Red garlic!! I live in the PNW and found this garlic a few years ago. I figured since it was a native variety to my area of Washington I wouldn't have trouble growing it. And I didn't. Growing extra this year for seed.

[@sheliajones8238]

I just love watching your videos God bless you and your family see you in your next video I enjoy them

[@estellaknox9285]

Have a wonderful weekend GOD bless

[@annewade4228]

That is so neat that you got tomato berries. You get the seeds the same way you you get tomato seeds. Each seed in one berry will produce a different variety. You would start the seed inside the same as tomatoes. In order to reproduce a variety you like from the seeds, you would have to plant the potato tubers. I just learned about this and purchased 100 seeds. Seems like a fun experiment

[@TheHilary49]

That’s exactly the garlic I just planted on Monday. Tuesday morning I went out and something had eaten every clove of my garlic. It made me sick in my stomach. That’s the first time I splurged on a wonderful softneck and there’s no time to replant even if I could afford to. There’s always next year. I should have known to put a covering because we’ve only had 11” of rain this year plus it was still 100 on Tuesday so the critters have nothing to eat. 😢.

[@jacquelineiversen5661]

I just bought a big bag of garlic from the grocery and I'm gonna try to plant that. Very very cheap. Hope it works

[@TheHilary49]

@@jacquelineiversen5661 I’m going to my Daughters in Dallas tomorrow and they have a Whole Foods and Trader Joe’s. I’m going to get some organic garlic while I’m there. I’m afraid hardneck is all you can get in a grocery and it really won’t do well in our Texas heat. We are still in the 90’s. They won’t go away until late November. But I’m going to try anyway.

[@DBox137]

WOW! Meg you can do all the Cooking and help with the Planting, Weed Pulling and Teaching, gal you are Thee Best! And Ben Congrats on your Rows And Rows of Garlic.

[@michaelmason2128]

I'm watching this on Sunday. You said in the video about a plumbing emergency. Well this past tuesday my Mom informed me the toilet was clogged. I tried everything all week. Then yesturday I tried something as a last resort. I used my shop vac. It took 2 minutes to clear the clogged toilet. But an hour to clean and santizize the shop vac.

[@allonesame6467]

Blessings Abound! Even when there's a clogged drain! You did it!

[@rose77778888]

I'm so happy that you two got a travel trailer, instead of a divorce. God bless you big time!

[@sharonbrown2352]

Enjoy your weekend!

[@mainemagic4968]

Tried growing garlic in some pots here in South Maine...not very productive due to drought and heat...will try again this winter and see if I can get a couple of bulbs to grow...Cheersfrom Maine.

[@monicalar6680]

LOVE. The tripod extender legs. Work with what you got

[@dugel3]

We used to use wooden bins on my commercial vegetable farm for hauling winter squash and pumpkins. Since I stopped farming a few years ago, I now use the wooden bins like raised beds for my home "garden". They have a pallet on the bottom and are 2 ft high above that. I put wood chips and spent hay in the bottom, topped with a few inches of topsoil. Every year they settle a bit more so I top them with compost and plant into that. I plant my garlic bulbs about every four to six inches apart in one of them. This gives them plenty of room, no wasted space, and I can fit approximately 100 in a bin. And as a bonus, you don't have to bend over to work them. Unbelievable the amount of vegetables I can grow in those bins- tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, herbs, zucchini, etc. They are essentially a tall raised bed system with deep, dark, rich soil. Highly recommend it. And also, it cracked me up when Corbin made a face at the camera before you sat down to eat LOL!

[@peterellis4262]

Regarding potato seeds, may I recommend you look into "Cultivariable" and William Whitson. He's a font of knowledge about potato varieties and breeding.

[@hubertwebb9869]

You should buy buggy her own water bottle so she doesn't drink after everyone. Get her a bottle/cooler with a strap to put over one shoulder. It could be pink and small. I bet she would like it.❤❤❤❤

[@TheHollarHomestead]

She has one. She still drinks everyone else’s 🤣

[@hubertwebb9869]

@@TheHollarHomestead --she''s likke my Grand Daughter. Lol.

[@karenladwig3856]

I wish I had your energy guys!😄🤠🤠❤❤

[@sharonhaas8503]

Wonderful to see all your garlic planted. Loved your dinner of homemade rolls with homegrown chicken served on them. Have a grand weekend. Take care! Stay safe! Will be watching for you on your next video!

[@jbbrown7907]

I worked on a farm where they had been doing twice as much garlic for four years. They harvested a room full ofbgsrlic. They ate turnips instead og potatoes. I learned to love both.

[@SimplyJanHomestead]

Lol 😂 I love that tripod! I planted so much garlic but I feel like I need more! We eat a lot of garlic!

[@mommabecky83]

Y’all soil is starting to get less and less red more and more brown ❤ doing a great job!

[@bettyjorodgers8552]

Love your videos. Thank you. Blessings

[@joannmahaffey5467]

You said Inchillium correctly. Native American name from North Eastern Washington. My problem is spelling not pronunciation. LOL. The potatoes will not come true and they will not be as good as the plant they came from. Hundreds of seeds in each fruit. If you want good potatoes chose the very best cleanest of the tubers you harvested save them in a cool dark place. Don't let them freeze and plant in spring. Meg the chicken on those buns are making me so hungry. Awesome. Have a great weekend

[@edatao2]

Just have to say. Your kids are so cute!!

[@carolynfulton4060]

You’re smart to plant garlic-I heard last week-I believe it was Greg Key who said it-that most of our garlic comes from China and since exports are iffy there could be a shortage next year. I’ve never planted garlic but I understand it doesn’t grow well in my area. Our Feed/Seed store had elephant garlic (which isn’t garlic, but has a mild garlic flavor)cloves so I’m planting mine today-and they’re quite pricey. I checked the price at Hoss Tools and theirs are the same price. I guess if I want them I just have to pay for them. Meg, your rolls look delish. If you’ve shared your recipe, could you please direct us to the video? Y’all take care-God bless!

[@indiefolk101]

i dig your inventions!

[@hinerangijohnston5223]

Those Buns /BreadMeg well Done . xxxxx

[@dianecharles881]

Such a blessed family, have a great weekend!

[@MrZippitydo]

Really happy families break garlic together

[@SamsLifewithaHusky]

That’s a lot of garlic but with as much as you guys cook from scratch I’m sure it will all go to good use 😊

[@katieodonnell2887]

How exciting to see you plant your garlic today as I did the same (and shallots) earlier today 😀

[@tamrahawkes3170]

My grandpa always said you can plant more in a crooked row!

[@joanneganon7157]

I hope you have Bunches of Garlic next Year 🙌. I have an old timers Bread Knife that I no longer use. Can I send it to you? JO JO IN VT 😆💕

[@jackd.ripper7613]

If you think time moves fast now, wait until you realize your kid is about to leave home. Wait until you get to 60; it feels like falling down.

[@alisonshanahan9529]

So true.

[@1stChaCha]

Teamwork makes the dream work!! Love watching you build your world! Just BBQ chicken Sammie's ?? Please and thank you yummy!!😋

[@scwils8285]

Love the tripod!!!

[@indianacryptid6020]

Glad you got ur garlic planted 🙏❤️

[@gonzalezpandura]

Megan want that roll recipe please.

[@SuesSecretGarden3]

Have a great weekend Awesome video always

[@jonhart8875]

The seed out of the potatoes tomato seed pod ars biennial so it takes 2 years to get potatoe tuber's to eat 👍.

[@batpherlangkharkrang7976]

Hi..... Meg and Ben nice to see you love watching your videos great good job 👋 bye 👋 bye 👋 bye 👋 👕🐔🐓🐣🐥🐄🐖🌱🌺🌹🌻🌼🌸🌷🏡🎥👍👍👍

[@susanprice3454]

Oh man! Those buns look fantastic. I am going to have to go back and watch your video of making bread and give it a try.

[@eaccristo]

Ben? Grumpy? Nooo never. 😄 I need to get my garlic in too. Never too much. Have a nice weekend!!

[@brendalongenecker8169]

meg i enjoy watching what you do in the videos and hoping you all have a great weekend

[@pamestep4356]

I am relatively new to your channel and I am hooked. I've been binge watching trying to catch up. I saw that you love hot spicy peppers and you make your own sauces and such. Well have you tried red pepper jelly ? If not then you must. I love it ! Thank you so much for sharing.

[@faithevrlasting]

Im getting ready to plant our Music hardneck garlic. If you want good storage longevity, I think you need to plant hardneck garlic. You dont need to worry so much about cold. Im in SE VA and we dont cover it with much but a bit of fall leaves. No problems w freezing.

[@honeysucklefarm1216]

Awesome…. I’m still waiting for my garlic order to arrive…. It’s time to get it in the ground!! I love you idea don’t mulching heavily over winter!! It’s so hard to get wood chips widen you don’t have a wood chipper! I’ve been on chip drop for 5 years and haven’t gotten anything!

[@paintedpilgrim]

Those potato "berries" will take an age to germinate and grow to set tubers. I'd suggest growing them on in buckets first...

[@chandrasutton4669]

Great garlic bed!!!

[@markjohnson5108]

Looking forward to seeing you get a tiller for your tractor. Then those big boys would run it for you.😁

[@cathydickerson1420]

Please share your bread recipe Meg.

[@lesliebrown9384]

Oh it was great

[@cathywoodard1424]

I have a question about the rack you have your vegetables in. On the wall in your kitchen?? I love it. I have a cupboard but everything rots before I remember it's in there. Out of sight out of mind. Love watching you guys.

[@TheHollarHomestead]

I got it from amazon! It holds like 40 pounds and has been great for keeping everything out where I can see it. I am guilty of out-of-sight too.

[@cathywoodard1424]

@@TheHollarHomestead Thank you.

[@Coastal.Redwood.Homestead]

I’m hoping to plant at least 300 garlic we go through so much and I make garlic fermented in honey. I have been able to grow hard neck garlic in California by putting them in my fridge for 8 weeks and my favorite is Music garlic

[@higheriam]

Gotta love the trip📸

[@jamespuchaty6393]

I had garlic growing last winter into spring transplanted it because it was too small it died and then came back this fall so I've transplanted it back to where it was and it seems to be doing okay. I guess we'll wait and see what happens this winter into next spring.