HOMESTEAD SECRET REMEDY

Join Eve Kilcher as she takes you through a day on the Kilcher Homestead, starting with harvesting fresh cabbage from her organic garden. Eve also gathers carrots and beets, feeding her happy goats along the way. Watch as she transforms her harvest into a delicious batch of homemade sauerkraut, sharing her tips for making this probiotic-rich food at home.
Eve talks about the health benefits of sauerkraut, including its gut-healing properties and natural vitamins. She shares the full recipe, which can also be found in her cookbook, Homestead Kitchen. If you're interested in getting your own copy, check out Homestead Kitchen, and you can even order an autographed edition through the Homer Bookstore at www.homerbooks....
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[@jamesboris1233]

I miss you guys and wish you were still on TV. But it's good to see you on KZbin.

[@jackkeeble9272]

Beautiful garden, thanks so much for sharing. Really appreciate your channel. 👍

[@elguapo42000]

I don't know if it's on purpose or not, but I appreciate the fact that you show a realistic view of your experience on a homestead. I feel like the last frontier show emphasized the ruggedness or drama of a homestead, but you all show a realistic view, with electricity and mobile phones, etc. Makes it much more approachable and entertaining. Thanks!

[@carolinerogers1057]

Always enjoy watching your videos look forward to nxt one

[@alanwilliams2452]

Thank you young lady

[@petehendry4756]

Thanks for bringing us along eve

[@normfromhawaii1173]

I got your cookbook and enjoyed the short stories in it too. I definitely want to eat at your house! With Aloha to you and yours...

[@l5r90]

Hi guy's!!!....Have a good week!!!...Peace and love and popsicles!

[@debbiemiller7342]

Great video Eve, thank you!

[@davidepool5884]

You do an amazing job providing food for your family through your gardens. People can learn a lot from watching how you prepare different food items. You also provide food for the community through your local food bank. I enjoy watching all of your videos, thank you for bringing us along on all your adventures.

[@BradleyFertile]

More shows like this please! Thanks so very much for sharing your story with us!

[@tomgrantham9992]

Good Job. Nice to see you and great recipe. Looking forward to more videos. Thank you for sharing. 👍

[@ashleyfraser2721]

We would love to see more garden videos please ❤❤❤

[@RoseGül-o8q]

Hello Evie I’m watching your videos honey ,❤enjoying. You are a amazing talented, creative mother , well done 🌹🌹🌹🌹♥️♥️♥️♥️

[@robertribbit]

I think I just watched a cooking show. Not in my character usually. You Kilchers quit giving me this wholesome programming. You'll have me watching the cooking network. Love.

[@mariposa224JB]

I ordered your cookbook the last time you did a video talking about making a rhubarb crumble for Eivin! I love how the Homer Bookstore wrapped it in local newspaper and sent it! Love watching your family! Thanks for keeping us updated. 😊

[@kilcher_homestead]

Awesome! Thank you!

[@scottishkat81]

Eve should have her own cooking channel

[@carolynspaulding6322]

Thank you Eve that was so interesting.

[@scoobydooby1471]

Miss you guys and wish you were still on TV. :)

[@alysiachristensen5475]

Love this episode!!!

[@mandamebe2146]

Thanks for showing us!! I'm inspired to try this now! ❤

[@danglaus2248]

Your awesome eve.

[@lenalyles2712]

Until my husband and I retired and downsized, I had my Grandmother's crock that was big and heavy. It was always used for sauerkraut, and had a wooden lid for it. Can't even begin to count the number of times I helped to make it with her.

[@viking7560]

This brought back some sweet memories. My mother and great grandmother used to make sauerkraut in crock jars. We weighed it down with plates and quart canning jars filled with water. We covered the top with cheese cloth held in place with a large rubber band. When we were having kraut for meals Mom would send me to the root cellar with a serving bowl and spoon to scoop some out.

[@welbygleebertram6651]

I make my sauerkraut in quart mason jars and add one (1) teaspoon salt; it turns out good for me! My mom made it the way you make it!

[@ben_makingmusic]

Very helpful - thanks!

[@kentonessman1222]

Your garden is awesome, I love your morning attitude. Your kids are absolutely beautiful and healthy eating from your garden.

[@patriciakeogh5008]

Love watching you and your family. Don’t you have a compost area to throw your waste vegetables, and make new soil?

[@bobbolieu9013]

That is a lot simpler than I thought it would be. I have experience making wine so the principles are similar which helped me to understand. Great instructions Eve

[@valeaton4538]

That was interesting, it's easier than I thought. Thank you for the video.

[@suseyq4559]

Your garden looks so beautiful, even with the slugs.

[@MyJjbob]

Slugs are always a problem in most climates and there’s many many various solutions to stop them and all depends on the individual views tackling the issue, a very popular one with many gardeners is beer traps. They get a small bucket fill it 1/4-1/3 full with the cheapest supermarket beer available and put the buckets several meters approx 10-15 away from the edge of the garden in the corners ( some put a lid on with a hole in the middle to stop any climbing out or too much rain entering or to keep it pet safe) the slugs love beer more than veg crawl in the bucket get drunk and meet their demise, scoop out the dead slugs every 3-4 days ( keep an old slotted spoon for this call it the garden one) and change the beer once a week eventually you vastly reduce the slug population but also your veg is safe in the meantime

[@garysilver718]

Pretty much the same way I do it. I mix the salt & cabbage in a large stainless steel bowl & pack in my crock in layers.you have great kitchen.

[@JoseyWales-ed]

Holy cow. That rotten cabbage blew up when you threw it. That’s crazy! Hope yall count yer blessings. I’m from Kansas and take trip every summer to AK. Have been to Homer, McCarthy Talketna everywhere in between. When y’all pass on and go to heaven I imagine you will end up right back where you are, just without all the other jokers. Take care

[@Micah6-8walk]

You have slugs. I have grasshoppers and those unbelievably destructive roly polies! Annoying is right. Prayers for your bountiful harvest regardless of these pests!

[@suzettelinder9044]

Thank you for sharing your sauerkraut recipe. That was very interesting.

[@lopsidelarry1556]

Have you tried laying down seaweed around the places the slugs seem to favour, I think the salt content in the seaweed may deter them. Plus the weed will rot down and serve as a fertiliser. Hope this helps. Love wacthing how you guys live.

[@robertmcelfresh5972]

Eve can you update and show us the finished product when it's done and thank you for sharing this.

[@mneff69]

Have you tried the beer can trap for slugs? Just bend a beer can with some beer in bottom to attract the slugs. Then they go in and get over the fold in the can and can't crawl back out

[@HootMaRoot]

I feel your pain with the slugs, this year has been the coldest and wettest that I can remember and majority of my brasicas have been decimated by slugs. And my first year of not having my own brasicas to eat for the next 8+ months and not looking forward to how much it will cost me having to buy them

[@l5r90]

The horses don't seem to mind the slugs at all!!!...??..tHEY MUST NOT BE HIGHCLASS HORSES!!?..HEHEHHEHHEHE!!LOL...(pardon me!!....Would you happen to have any grey poopon with this cabbage the horse asking to the other horse!!??!????)

[@l5r90]

Good video!!!...You look great!..

[@robertflint9422]

Nice recipe, never had kraut with carrots and beets before. Do you pickle corn too?

[@evelynrogers7145]

Yes, so annoying when insects destroy our food

[@glendavis9663]

👍👍

[@rmd9032]

Saucers or any shallow container with beer in them will attract slugs and drown them It really works and I use it every year. Also, did u say how long to let the cabbage mixture ferment or did i miss it?

[@JohnCampbell-hc9ik]

❤

[@archersexton1009]

Here in ohio, this yr. We had 6 and a half weeks of not a drop of rain. Garden suffered greatly. Post youre kraut recipe.

[@joellenmeek658]

I have a deep fear of slugs - I know that they can’t hurt me. Spiders, snakes I can take but slugs are the horrible and in WVa, my home state, they grow to 8 or so inches. I will try sauerkraut with red cabbage.

[@theonlywayoutisin1461]

✨🙏🌊💙🌎💙🌊🙏✨

[@texasnurse]

I have trouble with slugs and especially snails. My neighbor's pair of ducks moved to my yard. They've wiped out a lot of the snails. I put everything under insect netting. So my fingers are crossed. Cabbage is a winter crop down here.

[@msobrien12376]

Organic Neem OiL ❤

[@janetparrish3429]

My grandma used to make kraut. It's a process, so how long does it ferment so you can can it? Please show the finished product and how you can. Thanks!

[@jeffryrichardson9105]

Try putting Epson salt around your plants!👍🏽😊❤️🇺🇸

[@vickiehamilton6596]

Howdy from s.e.indiana

[@evelynrogers7145]

Slug and snail bait. Every few weeks. Harmless to animals and pets

[@robmetzger8616]

I saw something that slugs like beer. If you leave a bowl of beer out they're get drunk and drown

[@archersexton1009]

We used cheese cloth n a rubber band.

[@trout20]

you need to acquire some slug recipes

[@Hellp211]

Slugs can we use them for bird food or fish bait

[@RedCatt423]

How long does it take to ferment properly?

[@kelliepineda9822]

are neighbor used roll of copper around garden areas n no issues. and he'd lay scrap pieces or copper pipes around as well they will not cross the copper

[@MrMrbowhunter001]

can you use a plastic 5 gallon buckets they sell wine making kits that use buckets with lids that let it ferment with a water seal

[@kilcher_homestead]

Yes you can

[@WV_Raised1983]

Buy some lava rocks and make a six in ch barrier around your garden and the slugs wont be able to get to them

[@Hellp211]

Did u throw those cabbage over it to horse pin oh no now they got taste for them

[@l5r90]

You can buy slug pellets that keeps them away from the garden!!.....And it's bio and it's not that expensive check it out youll find all kind of stuff naturel....bio....no poisining of your food!!!....very imp!!

[@HootMaRoot]

Slug pellets only work for so long as the rain washes them into the ground, this year was the first year I have had to use the maximum legal limit per acre in the UK and still had major problems with slugs

[@ClydeStoner]

My favorite part was when you used your dirty hands to mix food you and all your family eat just gross black stuff under all your finger nails amazing job

[@respectfullyyours9210]

You must not work in a garden clydestoner, sometimes, even after scrubbing your cuticles, and nails still have stain.

[@ClydeStoner]

I'm a mechanic if I can get grease and oil and paint out from under my nails after working all day she could have used a fingernail file and cleaned her hands before cooking anything. those are not stains from a garden just dirty gross fingers if you pay attention after she was done mixing the cabbage her finger were slightly purple from it, but the dirt under her nails was still there just not as much from it coming out in the food she mixed with her hand

[@coachdesifull]

Have you tried using diatomaceous earth. It works wonders keeping all kinds of bugs away. However, if it rains you will need to reapply. You can also make beer traps. Alternatively, you can grow lavender near your plants because they don't like the smell of lavender 🪻.