Garden and Homestead Life | March 2023

[@susan-almosta_farm8823]

"Here Mom, I'll hold your arm" You have the sweetest most attentive kids ever! ❤

[@RyanMercer]

I'm so thankful for our garden this year. I was laid off on my birthday two days ago while my wife and I were having a birthday meal (on vacation). So glad we already had all of our seeds, our year plus of food storage, and the fact that we've made things from scratch our entire marriage.

[@polgara28]

I hope things work out for you, sounds like you did really well preparing. God bless! ❤

[@RyanMercer]

@@polgara28 thanks, they will. I have faith in my Heavenly Father, He'll get my wife and I through this. :)

[@TheSeasonalHomestead]

Sorry to hear that. I will keep you guys in my prayers!

[@RyanMercer]

@@TheSeasonalHomestead thank you! Something better will come along and now I don't have an excuse for not dragging my butt to the temple more often 😂

[@YasuTaniina]

I think I just need to vent because the last few months have been an emotional rollercoaster. My husband was laid off just before Thanksgiving. Weeks after I (after 6 years of searching) got a definitive diagnosis with chronic illness. His job was so soul crushing we were both relieved and felt strangely peaceful. He thought it would be weeks, I had what I now know was a spiritual prompting it would be months. Companies have been interesting, but they're all hiring so...slow..... Just for 1 company it was like a month of interviews, 2 months of paperwork on their end to actually start working. We're not as self sufficient as the seasonal homestead, but we had a fantastic amount of food storage (we're still ok on that end) and our financial savings is only now near it's breaking point. We're thankful that if someone had to loose their job, at least it was us who aren't living pay check to pay check. It's just hard because Christmas and 4 of our 5 birthdays, no income, and we do have a mortgage to pay. I'm so thankful for our ward and our families. They've helped us a lot, and we were blessed to not need to make a storehouse order. It's also just been difficult because I'm used to being more self sufficient and we've really had to rely on others. I should feel relief that it's almost over, but I don't yet, though I did admittedly feel completely at peace going to the temple last week. And on the plus side it's kind of what my husband calls "failing upwards" because all the companies who have been interviewing him have better offers then his old job, and even though he's starting this job because we have to have at least 1 pay check asap, we're actually juggling another offer as well (the first company is aware, its just several months before the other company will hire). So no matter what happens, it should be better for our family in the long run financially and mentally. It's just a waiting game I want to cry to be over.

[@dianekreuzer3854]

I love how patient y’all are with the kids while teaching them life skills.great job!

[@Amy-of7gw]

I just love watching your family work together. Warms my heart, as families should be❤️

[@borzoska81]

Hi, love your videos, learning so much from your experiences😊 Could you possibly do a session on fertilezers and extras that you ad to your soil( perlite I saw)? That would be great, thanks

[@barb5421]

Ok the crackles kept from lard rendering can be fried crispy adding raw cubed potatoes and served as a breakfast. It's so yummy. It's from our Mennonite traditions.

[@barb5421]

I would just drain as much lard from it as possible. Frying it very crispy is the key

[@joannak4640]

The garden is looking fabulous 🥦🥕🥬I sure hope you show us whatever kind of fruit you get this year! You sure are one beautiful pregnant momma ❤️ Thank you

[@beccihayward975]

The sweetest word's I heard right at the end. 'Here Mum I'll hold your arm." ❤❤❤

[@gillgallon9631]

A awesome video ,I always look forward to watching ,full of Great idea`s and i Love how your family always gets involved with all the homestead job`s Thank you for sharing your day, ❤

[@TheSeasonalHomestead]

Thanks!

[@polgara28]

I love your videos so much! It warms my heart every time. Baby's getting closer! Bless you all! ❤

[@samanthafitch952]

Ok I can’t click on to your videos fast enough 😂 when I tell you I live out my dreams through you and your family I’m not joking! If I had a homestead it would be exactly like yours 🙏🏻🙏🏻🥰 not to mention all of you are so calming and peaceful, it is nice to my old chaotic life 🥰 many blessings to all of you!!

[@jeanmuehlfelt7942]

I rendered lard for the first time last Fall. I used a Nesco and let it do all the work. I used a few cracklings in scrambled eggs. Not too bad. I used pint jars for lard torage and put them in a refrig that's close to 32F. I am so thankful the butcher ground the fat for me. It's a family business and he said that his mom would really yell at him if he didn't grind the fat for their lady customers. 😂

[@TheSeasonalHomestead]

😂

[@markscaggs8851]

LOVE THE WAY YOU LOOK AT THINGS, THE WAY I DO! I believe where are more of us out here, most don't speek out

[@heidicha305]

Thank you so much for your wonderful videos. Work on a farmstead is so fulfilling. ❤

[@IrkazDublian]

Your videos are so beautiful and relaxing! Thank you for sharing, blessings to you and your family.

[@margaretthompson6391]

Homesteading Family has an excellent lard video.

[@LittleKi1]

I had dabbled with cover crops in the past with varying success, largely because I didn't understand what would winter kill, what needed to be cut down, etc, when to do that all. I finally got a handle on it this fall and winter. I was just out prepping a bed and cannot believe how much even a single cycle of cover cropping improved the soil.

[@kathleenhughes5149]

From experience I would keep compost bays away from the house as rodents like to get in it. Also adding lime helps activate compost

[@nancyseery2213]

Your are doing such a great job with your children and your garden. God bless you and your family. Keep growing!!

[@denisewalsh9873]

The Lard looks perfect. Shelf stable

[@ioanagherman5952]

You are a hard working family, have a wonderful spring. God bless you guys.

[@dorothyrhodes4657]

You are my favorite channel ❤️. Just love your content. It's so enjoyable to see your garden videos. I watch again and again. So much better than tv

[@TheSeasonalHomestead]

Thanks so much 😊

[@gloriadavidson8599]

ALWAYS enjoy your videos ❤️❤️👏👏👏👏👏

[@mmfaburada95]

Thank you so much your family while those staff that would definitely give good examples for most families in the world. God will bless your family more. Watching from the philippines

[@Nancy-zk9dj]

Major garage envy! Nice work by all 👍

[@sandymyers1182]

We call our lopper’Cindy’

[@OneofTheMostHigh]

🥁 😂

[@TheSeasonalHomestead]

😂 That’s awesome

[@iartistdotme]

Really good video - so much to know and do. Thanks!

[@meme7591]

I would definitely invest in a grinder it'll cook faster and be a lot easier on body

[@superdybonbon]

"It smells like disgusting" -- oh my goodness, I love kids. Totally something my son says to me all the time, only he's 7 so he says "digusting" and it's so funny.

[@ronaldthoms2147]

When planting onions have your husband make a onion planter Half or 3 quarter plywood take some old broom handles an cut to inch or inch an a half screw on bottom to your desired width an length mine are 5 inches apart I put an old wooden adge handle 3 foot tall set on row walk down it leaves holes keep going kids could drop in onions goes really fast an saves back your not getting younger 😊

[@TheSeasonalHomestead]

We have something super similar to this for our Garlic. Maybe we need to adapt an "onion plate" for the bottom that aligns with the onion spacing/depth :)

[@gregbluefinstudios4658]

If Cam has a Blowtorch, burning/blackening the raw inside parts of wood in the compost bin helps to keep the wood from rotting as fast as raw wood. I would only do that if you pick the frame up and move it away from the house.

[@maryshatbands]

Amazing job organizing! It’s so satisfying 🎉

[@patriciahogg5763]

Lovely family support!!! All hands on deck! 👏👏👏

[@tammylewis6296]

Thanks for sharing!

[@6abriela170]

Lovely as always! keep the hard work ♥

[@villagelifestylemountains]

Love your activities ❤

[@hg8247]

Canning questions. Wide mouth vs regular? Which do you prefer? Are the wide mouth worth the extra cost? Also do you reuse your lids? Brand of lids you prefer?

[@ABlueDahlia]

💛💛💛

[@tabathalear422]

I use my kitchen aid meat grinder to grind mine up

[@catracampolieto8989]

I was outside in the garden yesterday. But mother nature decided to snow today. I was turning in aged manure that I added last fall. I noticed I had strawberry runners that escaped their bed. I'll be moving them back into their bed, or expanding the bed. My grandchildren love to eat up all of the strawberries. I've been thinking of trying to make lard. I'll see if I can get some. Have a great day.

[@TheSeasonalHomestead]

Love it! We’ve been working on the same thing with our strawberries😃

[@catracampolieto8989]

I might expand the strawberry bed. Otherwise I won't get any for the freeze dryer. But the grandchildren are worth it. It fills my heart with love when they come over to harvest all their favorite veggies and fruits. My oldest granddaughter said she will finally help me. I said I'd pay her. She liked that idea.

[@melanieedmonson1480]

😂 Let me hold your arm, mom, not the camera.😂 You are so wonderfully pregnant and beautiful. ❤

[@susanfreeman6350]

The garage storage shelving looks great. I must admit, my heart skipped a beat seeing you up on that ladder. I’ve been moving away from hydrogenating shortening in my baking towards using only butter and lard. I bought leaf lard and wasn’t too impressed with that pork flavor in my pie crust. Another great video!

[@faithofamustardseed8198]

I wonder if tallow would work the same way. When I have used tallow in my cooking it hasn’t imparted any beef flavor

[@TheSeasonalHomestead]

Thanks Susan!

[@jessicah2345]

Leaf lard shouldn't really have any pork for in it so perhaps it wasn't rendered correctly or it was just the regular lard

[@happycamper4329]

😀 @15:17

[@maryricketts8526]

Very interesting esp since I don't live anything like your family...city girl. I do have a question though. I realize your videos are about your love of growing everything but do you ever just relax? From your videos you seem to "work" from dawn to dark. Just curious. You do a beautiful job with all that grows.❤

[@TheSeasonalHomestead]

Yes, we do relax. We just don’t show it on video 😊 I do find a lot of joy in working though.

[@m.d.t.8389]

What ounce do you use for your poly weed cloth cover. I just bought 3.2oz but should I have gotten a ticket weed cloth.

[@amirahhamed1405]

Hi, did you guys buy your tractor and accessories or did you borrow/rent one? We bought 22 acres last year and want to work the land but are trying to decide whether we should and how much we should invest in our equipment when we're trying to get started. Thanks for the content, love your channel!

[@TheSeasonalHomestead]

We had a couple of implements that came with the tractor since it was used. All others we have been able to borrow from friends!

[@zoeormsby1343]

I’m super confused about the compost bin so close to the house, first off they are prone to spontaneously catching on fire, 2nd composting smells like hot garbage. I’m not sure the convenience would be worth it to me esp right off my back porch and under a window.

[@katehache]

They catch fire??? 😱😱 Should I not put one next to my chicken run?

[@zoeormsby1343]

@@katehache they certainly can, I don’t know what your chicken run is made of or how, I personally wouldn’t put it near structures, people do, we all have different risk comfort levels.

[@TheSeasonalHomestead]

@@katehache A compost pile catching fire is incredibly rare. And if compost is done right should never happen. I wouldn’t worry about where your compost pile is 😊

[@TheSeasonalHomestead]

When compost is done right things you mention are not an issue.

[@joannak4640]

I would be just as worried about all of the mice and other rodents they attract 😫

[@Rebekah26320]

Will you have a heavy odor with composting site so close to the house.

[@Sangjazmyne]

Hi there!! Where did you get your 4 wheeler golf cart thing😅 sorry I don’t know what it’s called

[@TheSeasonalHomestead]

It's a Joyner brand, and we found it on an online local marketplace. We love it, and it's so much more affordable than all the brand name sporty ones out there!!

[@tamararobinson2069]

The butcher might not of ground it for you but I’ve never seen such meat cleaned fat from a butcher 😃 Your lard is not homogenized (makes it unhealthy!!) all store bought lard is homogenized!! Yours is beautiful👍🏼🤩

[@TheSeasonalHomestead]

We LOOOOOVE the kidney fat from the butcher!! We always make sure to get every bit we can from the butcher. Best part is what we showed on the video is only 1/3 of our fat from this year. Yay!

[@tamararobinson2069]

@@TheSeasonalHomestead AWESOME!!!🐖🐖🐖

[@m.d.t.8389]

Just asking… Will Having compost so close to your house bring mice, raccoons, flies or odors?

[@johnyb9884]

How do you know if someone is a professional pruner? I need someone like tyat

[@johnyb9884]

that

[@MsCaterific]

🤎

[@seikokidrick1658]

What’s your USDA Garden Zone ?

[@TheSeasonalHomestead]

6b

[@abunchofhicks]

Is that a Deutz tractor?

[@TheSeasonalHomestead]

Yes!!

[@abunchofhicks]

@@TheSeasonalHomestead we have 2 old deutz tractors on our farm. Yours looks in good shape. 👍

[@dodgro8342]

right, so a pair of millionaire shareholders are showing us what a wonderful life they have at their million dollar property and how self-sufficient they are.

[@wanderer7610]

Wish I would have spent my time doing this instead of working my ass off for 20 years in the kitchen. Would be much more fulfilling! Then being used to make my owners rich

[@ThatBritishHomestead]

you look so lovely pregnant :)