How Much Food Does It Really Take To Last An Entire Year?

[@cordyg4306]

I've always been taught by my native ancestors to only count on 1/3 of anything. 1/3 for seed, 1/3 for animal loss, and 1/3 to feed yourself and family. Never apologize for doing what you need to do to feed yourself, & your family.

[@BonnyKate0624]

I really like your recipe for success. Mine, when planning out any project is Time, Money, and Energy X's three, I usually winde up with a little $$ cushion and ahead of schedule. Always pleasantly exhausted. Great rule of thumb. TY for sharing!!

[@cordyg4306]

@vigilantprepper ❤️ Your very welcome.

[@SgtSnausages]

My GrandPappy taught me in the early 1970s the same, only it was 5x. Add another portion dedicated to disease and the final share goes to the weather.

[@jamesgribben7024]

One for the furrow, one for the row. One for the rot and one for the crow

[@jamesgribben7024]

One for the furrow, one for the row. One for the rot, one for crow and one to grow. An old proverb words buzzard/blackbird etc

[@Zinnia-s6f]

Good Morning Danny and Wanda. I want to giggle when someone will ask “What are you going to do with all those potatoes!” (or whatever harvest someone may see from our garden.) My reply is “We are going to eat them and not buy it at the grocery store.” Y’all have a blessed day.

[@dEEmARIE-]

What are people thinking so say such things? Oh my goodness.... Stay blessed

[@smustipher]

A lot of Americans have never experienced hunger. My family was poor and sometimes we couldn't afford dinner, or lived off biscuits and jam. I know what it is like to go without, so I am preparing as best as I can to avoid being without. My sister calls me a "hoarder", but I know where she will be heading if she ends up without food: my place.

[@joycenagy3140]

Remember the days of white bread and milk gravy. Glass of milk if there was enough left. Remember being no food in the house at all at certain times in my life. My kids and spouse question my "overstocking" on occasion. But it's rare if they ask for something that I don't have it on hand, plus a backup or two.

[@chilenejoiner3000]

My parents and Grand parents lived through the Depression and now Hindsight makes their eating habits more understandable. Clear gravy just about gaged me, truth now is grease or fat will keep you alive😃 Chicken feet soup sounds disgusting but how great it is on a cold winter day. Weed foraging was common place, now people look down there noses at (as I call it) free grocery shopping. Americans have had it far to easy for to long. Now if it isn’t prepackaged or microwaveable we in general are at a loss how to prepare food.

[@smustipher]

@@chilenejoiner3000 I ain't too proud to eat chicken feet, turtles or frogs! And yes, I cook from scratch like my grandma (RIP, God rest her lovely soul) did.

[@jessicasarmy8896]

We had a family of 7 children and 2 parents, living from one pay check to the next. My parents rented from our Nana, so blessed really. We were always hungry. As an adult I won’t let my family be hungry if I can help it. I am grateful for all the sharing to learn what I didn’t know before.

[@colleenlouise4521]

since the hippie years, the generation after that cares little about deprivation, having endless supply of anything, what will they do when famine comes?

[@beverlyboyce1041]

As a kid, I never set foot in a grocery store until I was nearly 12 years old. We grew nearly everything. We had family members who had a grain mill. We got 50 lb bags of sugar and flour from them. We had hucksters who came to our farm selling spices, flavorings,cleaning products etc. We raised cattle, pigs and chickens.

[@kathymc234]

That's awesome.

[@shanelewis617]

I have ENVIOUS ADMIRATION for you! I've never felt this way before!😎

[@joanneryan7735]

the only food that we didnt grow was all our green peas, and tuna in the can that was it in my Mamas cupboard . we had our own chicken beef and pork >My Mom bought ham once to twice a year. She also bought cheese once a month .No mixes of any kind. We baked from scratch cooked from scratch. when I got married I was the only young wife that knew how to cook. Lucky me

[@inthekitchen8842]

Were y'all Amish??

[@poodledaddles1091]

I live around the Amish, even their gardens are relatively small in contrast to the size of their families, so they must be supplementing their gardens as well. It’s really not satisfying to share garden produce with folks who have no idea what amount of care goes into the garden. I had a beautiful raspberry crop a few years ago, and delivered a big mounded plate to my neighbor who looked at me like I had a third eye, I ended up giving them to a different neighbor:)

[@musicianswife8596]

I’m 3 years in on the food preservation scene. Currently this is what I know my house goes through in a year: 26 pints of pickles, 26 pints of salsa, 156 pints of diced tomatoes, 18 half pints jelly/jam. I’m growing and canning most of the pickles this year (at 14 pints right now) and should be able to get about 40 pints of diced tomatoes and 12-16 pints of tomatillo salsa. It was really surprising when I realized how much we’re eating in the way of tomato products. When you add in spaghetti sauce, tomato paste, and tomato juice for Bloody Mary’s…. I’m not sure I’ll ever be able to grow enough tomatoes. Next step for me is to figure out how to successfully grow a cabbage so we can have our own kraut and coleslaw canned.

[@kimcritchfield5796]

You should figure out potatoes to make vodka for your Bloody Mary. 😂

[@musicianswife8596]

@@kimcritchfield5796 I should! That’s would be a fun adventure. The Bloody Mary’s are for my husband, when he found out we could possibly grow and can the main ingredient for his favorite drink (alcoholic or not as long as it’s spicy) he got very excited.

[@juliec.5182]

@maruiacancer6Look into coffee enemas and don’t do chemo. People can live a long time with cancer but chemo kills 51% or more. 🙏💕

[@lastdayshomesteading6288]

I've been working on increasing our list of things we haven't bought from a store. So far in the last 3 years we haven't bought corn, greenbeans,peas, eggs, broccoli, tomato soup, black berries, blueberries, pickels, onions,. Yall make a great team. Enjoyed this video yall take care

[@brianayres4566]

Thanks, Wanda and Danny 😊

[@kathymc234]

How wonderful!

[@smas3256]

From 2 acers per person to 9000 feet per person because now we can buy, buy, buy all their processed soil amendments which is exactly what I want to get away from. In my mid 70's. Detoxed from store bought bread. Stabilized my blood sugar with ACV. Had stent put in 17 years ago when symptoms started for heart attach. No damage and found 3 mild blockages. I weaned myself off all Rx 10 yrs. ago and I don't comply with any protocols. I get my cardio doing stairs in home, gardening, weeding, picking veggies in our small back yard garden. City water sucks moose piss. We have a rain barrow. Zone 6b u.s.a. Been saving seeds. Praying to God for what I need because He knows best.

[@beverlymichael5830]

It’s just myself and someone asked why am I growing so much food just for myself. Last year I ran out of potatoes and onions. This year concentrating on more sweet potatoes than regular potatoes. They are kicking it thanks to your Manuel and Mr Mickey’s antenna. They store so much greater for me and I love them. But I laughed when asked why so much food. And I dont even grow enough for an entire year. I will run out but each year growing more.

[@gailoreilly1516]

I am also by myself. I was just filling up another shelf and thought "I don't think I need anymore". Then I see this video. I have also forgotten what I have bought. I got lazy for a while and would just leave my canned goods etc in the bags and take them to my storage room planning on putting them away. Well, what a surprise today when I actually put them up. MY squash and tomatoes are doing great, last year the squash didn't do much at all. I have been collecting each asparagus stalk that comes up and picking every ripe berry I see before the birds, bugs whatever gets them. I have a freezer bag for each of them too. I have enough canning jars now and extra lids. One thing I will try this year is cooking with grape leaves. Never gave them a thought until this year. The pressure I feel is not how many canned goods I have, it's how to use every single thing I have.

[@kathymc234]

Keep up the good work.

[@cropduster8798]

@@gailoreilly1516 Stuffed grape leaves is very popular in this area of the world.

[@kramitdreams]

People have no idea! My aunt says to me you can more food than anyone i know i would be afraid it would waste. I said there is 7 of us. I need 7665 jars just for all of us to open 3 jars only per person a day and we eat more than that 😂😂

[@fourdayhomestead2839]

People are clueless. I can't have less than 1800 jars of fruit, veggies & meat! Add fresh, frozen & dried on top of that...

[@glendabyford8074]

Amen.... We eat three meals a day from our pantry and freezer.. we don't eat out at all.. everything is made right here in this house... People have no clue what they honestly need..

[@mikewilliams7218]

I have pressure canned rattlesnake beans from 2017. They have been kept in a cool closet and they seals have not popped. Think they are still good?

[@lauraIngleswilder74]

You would be surprised just how little you can get by with.

[@halfbubbleoffplumb8480]

We re trying to can as much as possible but are struggling to find room to store them. We re in Florida, so no basement, no cellars, too hot in the garage. We ve put the commercial rolling racks in one bedroom but that's still no where near enough space. Where does everyone store all their food items theyve canned? Looking for suggestions please.

[@glendabyford8074]

@@halfbubbleoffplumb8480 find any space possible under beds, in a room like a old office maybe you don't need.. a hall closet.. think outside the box..

[@pauldavis6242]

Good morning! Great video this morning! I grew up on 40 acres in central Florida , polk co. Lake Hatchenahaw & Lake Kissimmee area. We farmed, grew our beef, pork chickens. We cut hay for ourselves & for other on shares. City folk have no idea what it really takes. It's a tremendous amount of work but wholesome& satisfying. I thank the Lord for the life I shared with my grandma & father. Wish you well & many blessings!

[@pineridgefamilyfarm]

Good Morning from Polk county also!

[@texbex9928]

Lucky, lucky you!!

[@pauldavis6242]

@@pineridgefamilyfarm Good morning😅

[@chloe-pm4ck]

From Orlando, now live in the beautiful mountains of nc.

[@kaneraiser17]

Hello from Polk County also! Blessed that we can grow our own food, raise our own beef and pork

[@Teena-yi9xw]

Excellent video! Also, I love how patient Danny is when Ms. Wanda sometimes interject when he talking. My husband has that same temperament for me. Beautiful love.

[@sengelmohr]

Good Morning Danny & Wanda. Most people that live in the system & out of a box don't realize how much food they would need if they were to make that stuff themselves. Thanks for another great video ❤

[@marysurbanchickengarden]

There was no prepping in my family growing up because there was so many of us and we were so poor, there was no way. My mom made fig preserves, jams and jellies, but the fresh vegetables were eaten as they came off. We didn't have a freezer or a refrigerator so when dad or my older brothers went hunting, we ate on whatever they killed until it was gone or not safe to eat and then fed it to the hogs. Every year my family had a butchering day with a couple other families, usually in late fall. They cured the pork with salt and packed it in a lard can, we also had a lard can for the lard we cooked out over a open fire in a huge cast iron kettle.

[@AlleyCat-1]

An old friend of mine said they had an acre sized garden growing up to last their family (of 5) thru the winter. She didn't mention if that lasts them till next harvest. But they did raise meat & forage. My maternal grandparents had a farm where they raised 11 kid's, livestock & a garden. Oddly enough most of those kid's didn't continue any of it on. Someone mentioned people being clueless as to how much food people need to grow in order to eat all year long. I don't think it's being clueless, because if you were never raised to grow your own food, whether it's year long or just winter, if you've never known anything other then grocery store or fast food, if you've never been educated in school or had an inkling to look into it, because it's not your norm. You just don't thunk about those thing's. I grew up with livestock, had more than I remembered having. Grew up growing a garden, even though my mom didn't really can anything (worked 2 job's), all we knew was if we didn't hoe the weeds, we wouldn't have a harvest. We were clueless of the money it took to feed the animal's or us, because that information wasn't shared with us ... none of our business. I can't give a specific amount of jars we'd need of whatever, but I can tell you that living on 6 acres, doesn't give us enough land to feed the livestock & a garden. I'm working on developing some unconventional area's to create a food source area, but we've had an irrigation situation to contend with that's cut out ability to water. So no garden this yr, won't get enough potatoes to last us a month let alone a yr, hopefully I can find a nearby potato field to glean from. Lack of knowledge isn't cluelessness, unless they're aware & chose to ignore. Most live in a 15 min city. You become more aware when you live 45 minutes away from the store. I still have a LOT to learn, my kid's rely on store's too much (less effort than taking care of a garden.)

[@prmayner]

my family could live on 40 acres, they did it forever. until like you say us grandkids and great great grand kids had electricity.

[@veramcglaughn5663]

I listen to yall talking about what you used to spend a week for groceries. When I was a young wife ( very young at16) my husband was in the military and I spent 100.00 to maybe 150.00 for a month. It was a big learning curve for me because I wasn't used to being the main decision maker for the food. And learning what brands because the brands I was used to buying wasn't available in another state. I proudly consider myself a prepper and can a lot now!!! Much easier to have a working pantry!

[@foodforestfolderol]

I remember my mother freaking out the first time her grocery bill went over $100. We had three loaded carts, monthly groceries a family of 10.

[@celticfiddle7605]

What a sweet couple ! What a treasure they are and a blessing to us to have these videos!

[@nolagirlhomestead]

Great information, timely! Funny, our lives parallel down to family budgets and sharing unexpected big harvests with other families. I hated shelling pallets of beans and peas every summer. My daddy tried lot of things to feed 6 children based on what he learned from his parents. Glory days gone by!

[@Shofar_On_The_Horizon]

Very right! It is so different in those first years of marriage. We always lived paycheck to paycheck. I wish I understood then what I do now about convenience vs. need. I bought so many conveniences thinking they were weekly/daily needs. We hardly ever buy toilet paper. It’s for guests.😂 We have a bidet hose now and there’s lots of leaves outside if we use the composting bucket if we don’t have power to flush the one toilet we have. Poor waste management will kill people far before starvation will. Learning to have babies without diapers, or potty train without pullups is a life skill most of us were never taught is possible without paper/plastic diapers. A lot of the waste products we use nowadays, that we think are essentials, are just convenience products that cost quite a bit of money every month, that we could allocate for better use.

[@mattdavis7256]

People ask me “What are you going to do with all that food” cause I have a sizable backyard garden ( people usually tell me that because they want me to give them all the “extra”) , it’s no where near the size you all do. I tell them “listen, this isn’t enough food to feed one person, for one year.” I loved watching Mr. Danny and the smoker, I loved it when he was talking about a fire ban that was in your all’s area and he said “There’s a fire ban but guys, Danny is going to smoke his bacon!”

[@roniniowa1661]

Danny, at the end of this video, you said you hoped we gained something from the video. I have followed your channel for years, admittedly I am more interested in the infrastructure and the doing. If I watch a video that is like porch time, I fall asleep. Today, I was awake, attentive, and taking notes. Yes, I learned something today. Thank you both.

[@preppernut]

I'm glad that you confirmed my suspicion that we actually need more food as we age. My husband is 81 and has a good appetite and is pretty active still. We have our garden in raised beds, due to a lack of topsoil, and I try to stretch the harvesting season as long as possible. With the money we save, we buy what we can't grow. But if we had to, we could survive on what we grow. We have grain, sugar, salt and dried beans stored for what I call "desperate times", and I have calculated how much we would need to feed half a dozen chickens if we couldn't buy the feed for them. Our climate (it can get down to -22 F) doesn't allow us to garden year round, but this year, we made a small greenhouse closer to our home, and ran a small electric heater in there, and we managed to grow a lot of bedding plants, plus some radishes and onion greens, and a cherry tomato in a pot which gave us the odd ripe tomato back in April. Now you'd think that the cost of electricity wouldn't be worth it, but at the price of a tomato plant in the store, it sure was. I had 30 of them, plus cucumbers, zucchini, squash, peppers, costing us $15 a month (March & April), and for the month of May even less.

[@janpenland3686]

Thanks Danny and Wanda. I'm waiting on the rain to stop so I can get out and work in my little garden. Praising GOD for the rain! My garden sure did need it. I wish I had half the garden that you have. I can produce some of what I eat but nowhere near enough for a year. People just don't realize how much food you need to grow for a family of two. Even eggs, it takes about 150 for a month. 150 X 12 is a LOT of eggs! When my sons were young and it was just the 3 of us we would go through 10# of potatoes per week. Some days we would have potatoes for all 3 meals. As they reached their teens it was closer to 20# per week. We didn't eat a lot of fast food, maybe once every month or two as a special treat. When my current hubby and I got married you should have heard him when I first bought a 50# bag of potatoes. He swore we would never eat that many before they went bad and I was wasting money. LOL Was he surprised when it didn't get us through the month and I had to buy more. Much Love ❤

[@sewhappyla6625]

Growing up we very seldom went to grocery shop. And we learned how much to grow the next year by living on what we grew. If we ran out of white potatoes, we didn’t eat potatoes; if we ran out of onions, we didn’t eat onions.

[@carolynmeadows]

My mother asks me all the time what I am doing with "All" that food I'm growing in my garden (48x60). She has no clue. I tell her..... We eat it!

[@camperjack2620]

My Dad and uncles would grow gardens, and my Grandma and all the aunts would get together and process and can veggies. One of my uncles went fishing on the shore every morning before work. Groceries from the garden being carried around shared between families used to be a commonplace happening.

[@homesteadrevivals]

I was fortunate to have cloth diapers for all our babies. I put out the word, before my baby shower, that I needed cloth diapers, diaper covers, diaper pins, and a diaper pail. I never had to try to squeeze paper diapers into the grocery budget. It was very liberating.

[@joycenagy3140]

Amen. Currently have a good stash of cloth diapers, new pins and rubber pants stashed away for "just in case". Saved a fortune using cloth on all three of our children.

[@amymartin7508]

Thanks to you both. S. AR❤

[@kimberlyjennings1970]

Our 2021 garden was plentiful and I canned and put up lots of food, then 2022 garden was a 95% disaster (everything burned up from drought) so we were eating out of the pantry all winter until we could harvest fresh in 2023. This year’s garden we expanded to a half acre and have been overwhelmed with produce. I’ve been working frantically trying to get it picked an put up and yes we share some with family and our amazing church family and lots of elderly that we share with. I have folks all the time ask what am I gonna do with all that, you should sell it or something. They just don’t get it. God bless and keep you all🙏🏻

[@gailoreilly1516]

I am 68 with multiple physical "structural" issues. I can usually put in about an hour of weeding or planting before I have to quit. I will have plenty of squash and tomatoes. As much as it hurts to do the gardening, I enjoy the fruits of my labor all winter. I won't be giving it away when it sometimes takes me a day to rest up and let the pain subside. I won't let my grown children starve if they can get to my house, but, after trying and trying to convince them to stock up but they don't see the need, I have to quit worrying about them. They are adults, I'm on the downward side of life. Can't do any more.

[@SheilaD7]

@@gailoreilly1516🙏🏻🙏🏻 for you

[@MimsysGarden]

I really enjoyed this style video! Both of you just doing a sit down (not like a livestream) was very educational and charming. 💚

[@anoodono1841]

Agree luvly t hve on in the background listening while doing something -relaxing and informative (greatly)

[@lindachandler2293]

I saw an old picture of a women and her 'year's worth of food' she had entered into the county fair. All the comments were oohs and ahhs about how much it was. I also commented and said this is just the cream of the crop, the pretty things she entered trying to win a ribbon or prize. Another person saw a picture of a tiny, austere old time cabin and said she didn't think it was possible to do the preserving 'everyone' claims old timers used to do; that there wasn't room. I said you're absolutely right. Old timers had root cellars; sometimes more than one. They buried things in hay in hillsides. They had smoke houses for meat and spring houses for cooler things. Barns had corn cribs that were big enough to hold ear corn to feed livestock and make cornmeal, grits and hominy for a year or more. There is absolutely nothing simple about the simple life. I was raised like this. My grandparents and parents thought they should be able to do it easier and better, giving us more luxuries by working outside jobs. Even in the 50's there were radios and tvs telling country people how backwards and deprived we were. They were wrong.

[@gardencat4952]

We have a goal of growing all the vegetables and fruit we eat in a year. I am in Northern New England and a short growing season with cool wet spring and fall weather. The last 2 years we have managed to to get 80% - 90% there. With our short growing season it means a lot of food preservation which takes as much time if not more time than growing all the produce. It is a marathon of hard work from mid June till the end of October. I am happy to do the work and enjoy the results.

[@gailoreilly1516]

I love pressure canning. However, I find myself looking forward to the time that I can give it a rest. Then winter comes....I start canning meat. I live in up state NY, I understand what a short growing season is. Good luck to you.

[@journeywithnichole]

My goodness! That is impressive!

[@gardencat4952]

@@journeywithnichole It took me 12 years of gardening to get to this point.

[@colleenpritchett6914]

As a Canadian in North West British Columbia even though I’m in a “rain forest” I can only grow from May 5 to October 10. So you cram what you can into my city yard. Now I’m taking over the front lawn. My goal is to never have to use my lawn mower again. I figure I’m 2 years away from that. I cant raise enough food but I can certainly supplement my food and I know what’s in what I grow.

[@nj-wx9hd]

The issues you may have with bread and grits is the glyphosate (Roundup) residue in the grains.

[@GeorgiasGarden]

Look in the front of your old canning books. It tells you how much to plant per person for a year. Pre mid 60’s. It was eye opening!!!!

[@coffeepotmommah7291]

I appreciate you putting this video out. People really have zero concept of how much they eat, let alone how much My family eats! 365 Days takes a lot even if it is just 1 meal, 1 person, 1 time a day. I've seen those comments on your videos and lives..."I sure hope you're donating some of all that" or "I hope you're sharing" We had an Aunt like that. Always tryn' to keep you "in line" make sure you know somebody's paying attention to what you're doing. We HATED HER. I was blessed to have good parents that taught me well what to do, and when to keep my nose in my own business Thank you. Sorry they didn't have the same!

[@babsbarbs8082]

Dear Danny and Wanda, You are wonderful teachers full of inspiration and caring. Many sincere thanks!

[@darcusmurray1431]

Now THIS video is what I’m talking about!!!! Thank you both for helping us, your viewers, to get a truly good idea on just what we need to prepare for living as self sustaining as possible. Bless you for sharing!👍🏻🙏🏻🥰

[@darcusmurray1431]

Why have you REPOSTED a comment I made over 2 months ago????????? This comment was made BEFORE Wanda and Danny announced on a Saturday Live chat that they would be OBEYING KZbin by not saying the name JESUS on their videos anymore !!!!!!!!! NOT RIGHT!!! They have made a terrible spiritual mistake!! The Word says: If we deny Jesus before man, He will deny us before the Father. Not me!!!! I will not deny the name above every name: JESUS !!! Wanda and Danny can use the name god/God (don’t know which one they are referring to now), lord/Lord (????), but not use the name JESUS?!!??!! No, not right! Don’t know what has happened to them, but they’re not what I thought they were. If or until they make their denial of JESUS’s name right and they say they will NOT OBEY KZbin, I don’t have anything to watch or listen to from them anymore. Sad, but true. I’m truly concerned about them. I’m praying to Almighty God in the name of JESUS that they will repent for their sin and tell their viewers that they were wrong. I DO believe in forgiveness and second chances, but they must let their viewers know that they have done so. Until then … ?

[@richardt6277]

Trying sweet potatoes this year in containers, there looking great so far. I have the hardest time growing tomatoes here in north Alabama, always get leaf spot bad. I'm going bigger next year, only have an acre but I would rather grow food than grass.

[@DeepSouthHomestead]

Try a good variety of determinate tomatoes and prune the lower leaves off in containers.

[@jennbama]

I'm in central Alabama. My tomatoes are about 8 or 9 ft tall and even though I trimmed the lower 2.5/3 ft I still got some blight. Finally figured out why. Not enough room between them. I didn't have any idea they were going to get this huge! 😂

[@richardt6277]

@@jennbama Mine always start out looking great but eventually they get leaf spot on them, every year. Mr Danny suggested putting them in pots and keep lower leaves pruned, which I do now planting in the ground. I never have problems with blight, mine are about 3 ft apart.

[@ouch65]

Here in Huntsville. Hey Richard, what size containers are you using for your sweet potatoes, and when do you plant your slips? My tomatoes need more space between them too, and I need different varieties so they all don't ripen at the same time.

[@richardt6277]

@@ouch65 I get cattle tubs from a friend of mine that has cattle. It has protein and minerals in it that he gives his cows through the winter. There probably somewhere around 20 gallons I would say. Find someone who raises cows they will usually give them to you.

[@lisav8205]

Hi Danny and Wanda! Good morning from West TX! Danny, your food issues are just like my husband's issues. I grow, cook from scratch, try to purchase meat as local as possible. It's helped his health tremendously. I am nowhere near self reliant with regards to growing our groceries. I shop the same as I always have; sales and different stores to satisfy our needs. I call it the "grocery store gauntlet ". I hate being enslaved like that, but hopefully someday, we can get to where we don't have to shop til we drop. Thanks y'all for sharing. Have a blessed day!

[@gailoreilly1516]

Hello, I wouldn't worry too much about trying to grow everything at some point. The weather can wipe you out no matter how hard you try. I expanded my garden this year then lost most of my blueberry blossoms to a late frost. Mostly what I am doing now is pulling weeds and waiting for the harvest. I'm 68 and the size garden I have is more than I can handle most days.

[@cgg2961]

Just discovered your youtube channel... Very helpful and downhome friendly. Thanks for the wisdom. God bless you mightily !!!

[@DeepSouthHomestead]

Thanks for watching

[@FaithfulAcre376]

Enjoyed your video. I am a single woman in my early 60s and grow most of my own food besides of meat, grains, and dairy. Many people look at my gardens and ask if I sell the food or give food away because they can't believe I can eat it all. Most people don't really consider what it takes to feed themselves for a full year. Many hint at me giving it to them. However, around here whatever does not get eaten is saved for the future in case of crop failures or some of the other issues you mentioned. (Ex. This year the deer jumped the fence and ate off 75% of my crops.) As I look at the growing food shortages, I wonder how long it will be before people will begin to steal food. I worry that I won't be able to safely garden in the future. Almost none of my neighbors garden and my family doesn't get it.

[@kathymc234]

Ànother reason to save your food. I do anticipate food theft. A man down the road stopped and said he'd been picking grapefruits off the back of our tree. And then told my husband he'd seen our chicken coops. Asked if we wanted to sell peeps. Hubs said we don't have peeps. He didn't tell the man it was private property. We had words about that. I reminded him that anyone that comfortable would hop a fence and steal a chicken easily. Now we need to block access to the back of our fence so people don't stroll through there and steal our fruit, chickens and garden veg's.

[@sandyl.2646]

So, so true..family doesn't get it & if it's not in a BOX or can be MICROWAVED.. forget it.

[@lanamulyar6021]

My husband thinks all my gardening is a waste of time ... I've had a garden since before I met him! I grew up with my parents gardening but we are immigrants and he's a 6th generation Oregonian. He's never experienced living in a communist country where the government controlled everything and people starved lest their gardens provided extra sustenance. He's got his head in the sand regarding the world around us and what's happening .. one day he'll thank me? Maybe.😂 I'll just keep on ignoring his nasty remarks and keep on expanding my garden every year!😊

[@maplenook]

8’ fence

[@barbwells5605]

I absolutely love the two of you!! So down to earth, christians and honest. ❤

[@crisservin3106]

I recently had a stroke and hospital asking how I will do things and when asked how feed myself , they did not believe me when I told them how much stored food I had. So many asleep.

[@gardencat4952]

After having 5 surgeries in 18 months I always have homemade heat and eat meals on hand.

[@crisservin3106]

Personal shth , it happens and preparation helps alot

[@toomuch2do470]

Oh please don’t tell people how much food you have stored! I have family members who would rob us blind if they had a chance!

[@helenswanson1403]

When I inventory my pantry I put it in a journal. To figure what I need for a year I fill my pantry based on what we eat. I put up enough of basic items that can use to make different types of foods. My meals are simple and need to taste good.

[@gardencat4952]

I am the same way. My brother describes my cooking as healthy comfort food.

[@scottlogue3871]

Absolutely spot on!! I always plant for a bad growing season and pray for a bumper crop... Always people in need of any extra produce and some possible extra income to recoup growing costs

[@teenadamron7654]

Can you do a show that tells us what you eat for lunch and supper. It was a big help to hear what you eat for breakfast and why you eat the way you do. Thank you!

[@DeepSouthHomestead]

We have those videos.

[@maryschrier651]

Yup! I got $75 a week for "groceries" for a family of 7, which had to cover all those things that Wanda mentioned. I had a large garden and shopped at several thrift grocery stores.

[@serenitysealed485]

Thank you Danny and Wanda. So few know exactly how much food it takes just for one person, much less a family or even more a MAG. Food, water, shelter, weather modification and space being the critical physical issues. You both are treasures. A wealth of knowledge and experience, and even more importantly of faith.

[@YeshuaKingMessiah]

A MAG?

[@serenitysealed485]

@@YeshuaKingMessiah a Mutually Assured Group. Essentially a community of like minded people that will try to overcome the collapse that is coming. Feeling that there is safety in numbers, diverse skill sets, division of labor, groups vary in number., beliefs. Some give God the control, most are gods unto themselves. Danny and Wanda understand that they will do what the can do, but place it in Yahweh’s hands and placing feet to their faith.

[@amymartin7508]

​@serenitysealed485 well said. I didn't need the trade this morning, but nothing goes to waste. Friend pulled up at 845 and we traded. They need the trade and I know that. I can pass what they brought to my mom.. but I have to process it a week out.

[@michellewalls1464]

We have lost most of our apples to squirrel's this year. His days are numbered. Our other apple and pear trees produced nothing, I would say they didn't get pollinated. Going to have to buy them from the farm stand. It's sad, I wanted to store our own. Praying for a harvest next year, God bless you both and your wisdom.

[@countrygirlprepper3764]

Loved your video today! Grew up on a farm, made our own food, then moved to urban for a career, but making every space in my yard a garden space now

[@prairieriverhomestead1535]

Good video Just the other day my aunt stopped over looked at my garden and and said with a “tone” What do you do with all your food? I said , we eat it, and what ever we don’t eat I feed to the animals- you can tell she thinks I’m crazy… 18*4ft(this includes walk paths)100ft rows is my garden size They just don’t get it how much it takes for a years worth

[@marleneppaul]

My favorite juice is pineapple juice. That actually has healing properties. I was told before my gum surgery to drink lots of pineapple juice and I healed quickly.

[@firehorsewoman414]

Wish someone had told me that before mine - healing process was a lot longer than I thought it would be.

[@mandrews1245]

Pineapple is excellent for digestion. Having pineapple with or after your meal will help your stomach and digestive track.

[@reginathompson9350]

We grew up raising fields of tomatoes, potatoes, beans, okra, field core and etc. Everything we ate we grew fields of for a family of 9. Every morning when we got up we knew what we would be eating that day because it was basically the same bland food unless we butchered hogs for meat and lard which was rarely. I was 14 when i learned that there was a city 14 miles from where we lived. Life was so better back then even though we were working the whole summer to provide food to survive till next harvest. I lived the life then and will continue till my last breath.

[@eatingokra]

I've really enjoyed your channel and your wisdom. You both remind me so much of my southern upbringing and the wisdom that my grandparents passed along to me as a little girl growing up in South Carolina. You're so right about how easy it is to become complacent and dependent upon the system; but I think the pandemic was a wake-up call for many of us. I know it was for me! As a result, I have gone back to gardening with the intention of slowly but surely becoming as self-sufficient as possible. It feels good, and there is a sense of peace and deep gratitude that comes from being connected to the land. Thank you for sharing your lives with us, Danny and Wanda.

[@henrib723]

I am fairly new to gardening and appreciate the knowledge you share. I am learning a lot from you that helps me be more self-sufficient. God bless you both.

[@debbies2966]

Love this subject. I agree that the foods we eat affect our health.

[@sadie21962]

Lol. Listening to Danny talk about Irish potatoes. We raised potatoes last year yielded 450-500 pounds. Two people and I've nearly ran out. So this year I've raised even more. I plan to can French fries and more potatoes. People can't figure out how we can eat so many. Many days we have potatoes 3 meals per day. When you work a long hard day you need plenty of carbs to keep going.

[@firehorsewoman414]

Dang I can remember when $100 to spend at the grocery store was a big amount of groceries. We still have three freezers, we use them to cycle around as hunting season comes around so we organize and move things around so we are using the oldest first. I am just learning to can, so freezing is still our #1 storage method. Slowly getting the canning stock up.

[@TheKamakuraGardener]

Good day from Kamakura, Japan 🇯🇵! A most wonderful episode; thanks for the great information. 👍🏾🤩🐶

[@caralyn-ca-5016]

Wanda, That’s the life I live and I’m 70. Sox, car oil, lite bulbs whatever we need comes out of grocery bill! And one thing I can say for sure, God is good !!!

[@texaschopper3091]

The only way I can keep birds off my one cherry tree is to make a pvc hoop x2, keep the tree pruned short and wrap the hoop 2 hoops with bird netting x2 wraps. Birds are mad, but we got the best cherry harvest ever doing this.

[@palominogirl2732]

I'm nodding my head along with you speaking about how you grew up Wanda. We had a garden, didn't raise meat or can meat, but in the 60's, 70's, no one ever considered the grocery store not having food! My mother canned string beans, tomatoes, pickles, and there were bushel baskets of apples and potatoes in the basement. The potatoes we went and picked up - I remember being about four, and just freezing halfway to death picking up potatoes! These days, I raise more food than my parents did. We raise a lot of our meat now and put it up. Now, here in the north, with a hoop house, I can extend the growing season a few months. It's not heated, but having a mini-greenhouse inside the hoops is good. It's 5-degrees today, snowing and blowing, but I have spinach that overwintered, and lettuce. I have a 7,000 sq. ft. garden, but about a third is strawberries - I grow a lot! My strawberries sparkle when eaten, and that's all that's in my freezer or dehydrator. Fruit trees here are hit and miss lately - last year, NY a huge apple growing state, had a frost May 18 that took out a lot of fruit from us private people and the big U-picks, they lost hundred of thousands of dollars. So, we didn't make cider at all. I found some Northern Spy at a fruit stand and bought a case to put up some applesauce. I just thought I'd share how we do some things from a whole other climate zone - number 6.

[@cinbob00]

Thank you please do a part 2 and talk about the chemicals and such at the store .😊

[@crazyabundance3159]

I truly do appreciate these videos! As a mom of three my garden is a quarter of an acre (next year I’ll be expanding it even more) as well as a newly started food forest. It’s so good to hear what it takes to get to this type of goal!

[@redbeardfarms]

Absolutely a sensational video. Knowledge is priceless, and thank you from the bottom of my heart ❤ for doing what you guys do for everyone. God bless

[@kimprindle4819]

Wanda you have the prettiest eyes. Thank you for all the important info. Danny

[@adrieneanders0n998]

Today I stumbled on your channel what a treat. I grow some vegetables and stock up on canned goods i also can and bake. I would like to have some chickhens but I live in the city. I learning to save more money and do more things for myself, which means, I am out of the rat race and I am happier.

[@ht6684]

Good morning. People have no idea how much you need to make it through to the next season. I grew up poor and we had massive gardens and grew most things, not all but a lot. Then it takes a lot of work to put it up for the year as well. Canning, freezing and so forth.

[@tessakai]

Thank you so much for all of your information!!! God bless you both!!!!

[@johntrotter7889]

Lots of great info - thanks! Learning all sorts of info here. Yeah, the bread must be loaded with chemicals. I have a cottage up in northern Ontario, Canada that I stay at for part of July and all of August. I bring my groceries from the states as Canadian food is VERY expensive. I left a loaf of bread up there for an entire year and it was not molded the following year!!! Kind of scary!

[@misst1586]

Wow

[@mandrews1245]

Canadian and US flour used to be very different, but now I'm sure it is processed the same. However, Europe still has flour from ancient seeds and does not allow the chemicals and gmo experiments with their flour. However, some US companies have the packaging which leads you to believe it is Italian flour, but when you read the label, it says, "grown in USA".

[@margaloone7970]

People asked me all the time what are you going to do with all that food. Don’t laugh, I live on a 1/3 of an acre. I just harvested my peas. I had some to eat fresh and I canned 4 pints of peas. People have no idea what it takes to eat.

[@amandaforeman2626]

I live on 1/3 of a acre too! It takes a lot of pea plants to grow some To can ! Congrats on your Harvest ! I’m hoping to grow enough green beans for canning this year ! I grow food anywhere I can :) I have a 2000 sq ft garden , goats and chickens :) I’ve been planting asparagus seed and plants everywhere too :) Lordy is fresh asparagus is so much yummier then the store bought stuff ! I have 9 fruit trees and two Pecan trees :)

[@1-Fitgirl]

Ppl ask me, "why don't you sell it?", "what do you do with all that, eat it?" or " I know ppl that give food away, do you?". I have a backyard garden. People that don't garden or know anything about fresh produce think my garden is a farm! Really! I initially built my garden as a supplement which has drastically reduced my grocery store runs! My husband's friends say, "I know where to go" or "if anything happens, I'm coming to your house". They are in for a rude awakening! Thank you Danny and Ms. Wanda for what you're doing here on YT!

[@mandrews1245]

What are you going to do... shoot them? That is why it is best you reinforce to people you eat all you grow. Don't inform them you do canning or preserves. Don't let them think you have any extra in storage. When the time comes, it will be your decision who you want to share with.... not get raided by the towns people.

[@mywoolmitten]

Over the years, I've enjoyed and appreciated and learned from your videos. This might be one of the best - I sure appreciate your common sense ❤ Thank you

[@cyrusneal7697]

Good morning Danny and Wanda. I canned a bushel and a half of green beans this weekend. Folks always ask why do you can so much or they say I can buy the cheaper in the grocery store. I know White is in my green beans and I can pronounce every word of everything that’s in my green beans. Water beans salt. Some people just don’t understand.

[@coffeepotmommah7291]

Good job! A bushel and a half! How many quarts did you get out of that? One year we canned 182 quarts on a Friday and Saturday! Worked our butts off. They had all come in at the same time. That didn't include the random 7qt canner load leading up to that and those after. Wound up that year with 245qts. Boy that was a good year! They tasted the best of all time too. Did 280qts of tomatoes too. The next year was the start of a several year drought.

[@cyrusneal7697]

@@coffeepotmommah7291 I got 21 quarts and I also canned some half pints for my 78 yr old mom. They are the perfect size for her. This was my second picking. I canned 24 pints before that from small pickings.

[@coffeepotmommah7291]

@@cyrusneal7697 That's awesome. We did succession planting to get that much, but we ate every bit! That's so good to can for her too, proud of ya! We had planted Blue Lake Bush, they really became our favorite.

[@TraciePallett]

Thank you for teaching , Im a widow grandparent raising a grandchild alone and canning, fishing, growing a garden is something we are starting this year as I can no longer work like I use to.

[@shannonelliott9230]

I'd love to hear Torah talk here, but your hard work and earnest experiences make me admire you.

[@robertjamison8781]

Hey Danny and Wanda , I live over in SC , ya'll brought a big ole smile on my face while listening to you describe how I lived on $17.00 a week along with my wife and baby son . Folks are about to get the biggest surprise of their lives . I'm 69 now so I have been putting supplies aside for quite a while , got freezers filled with meats of all kinds , now I have to concentrate of stacking fish away . Thank you so much for the info ya'll provide , hopefully folks will take your advice , ya'll take care .

[@meloydecook7431]

Most people eat a lot of fast food, convenience foods etc. They would need to plant just as much as you plant to sustain them thru the year. I've heard you say multiple times that share with a neighbor and some family. Kudos to you both!! I am impressed by what you do. Thank you for sharing the knowledge you have. God bless 🙏🙏❤️

[@lori-yn4yi]

I always love your information

[@ruthberanek13]

My grandmother taught me to grow more than you need. We share with nature and the animals.

[@debradixon6746]

Thank you for all of this information that I had forgotten. Now I know why my family had all of us kids in the peach trees throwing them in the buckets. And making sure we got every berry on the bush. Not to mention all the peanuts, tomatoes and green beans. I'm now retired and enjoying my garden and my few fruit trees.

[@marialacke9896]

Great video! Indeed, going to the store is frightful and I only go if necessary. I won't buy meat anymore and have sourced most of my meat from farmers but still need to find a pork source which is hard where I live. God Bless and keep these kinds of videos coming, folks need GOOD direction in food security.

[@dipstick5869]

Good morning guy's, realy enjoyed the video. For whatever reason, I've never met a woman that enjoyed the country Lifestyle, or doing anything like gardening or preserving. I've always enjoyed it and Lord willing, I will continue to stay at the plow as long as He allows. 😉

[@robindykeman8404]

ALWAYS GREAT TO SIT AND LISTEN TO YOU BOTH, AMAZING TEACHERS❤

[@countrybushcraft]

This is exactly how I was taught, the budget groceries way, even just b4 covid I could round my buggie at Aldi for less then 100$ and it would last us some stuff a month. Now I hardly get anything for 100$ the last time we went I spent over 200 and it lasted ab 2 weeks. I appreciate this video so much because we just started our homestead off grid journey a year ago and there is so much we are trying to figure out everything especially with what we eat, we are trying to completly eliminate processed food and have been looking in to getting our guts healthy. ❤ We are doing it with our two girls 8 and 4 and man the difference in them is like nothing we could of imagined. They are so much healthier and happier it makes every hard day worth it! God has been so good to us and I'm so thankful for our teachers like yall that we can learn from!

[@monkeymommy778]

Good morning Mr Danny and Ms Wanda. Thanks to your videos and Mr Danny's book we'll be harvesting many sweet potatoes in a few weeks! Thanks for the informative thoughts on how much food people need to have. Have a blessed week!

[@saltwaterinmyveins]

This is a awesome discussion! As a kid we ate a lot from the "river" , shrimp, fish, crabs, venison, etc. We'd catch 50 speckled trout sometimes.

[@franpaterno486]

Watching this video again. Love it still people need to watch this video and the other video you made. Then they may wake up. My husband is it on bord with keeping that much food ahead. Thanks

[@67mysweet]

Ya'll are a blessing to others, and I have learned much from watching your videos! I am a new homesteader, have a small raised garden a just a few things, and got a few chickens. I quit buying meat from stores over a year ago, and get all my beef, and chicken "grass fed" from a local farmer. Breakfast is favorite too! I'm not even close to where ya'll are, but hoping to have more in garden next year! Thank you for sharing your time! Much Blessings!

[@CraftEccentricity]

Great video! I'm growing only micro dwarf tomatoes next year as I'm tired of the blight and tying them up. Doubled up on sweet potatoes this year, and great advice on the orchard. You have to have plenty of fruit trees. Have a great day!

[@PaEMT_FF9]

Pressure canned venison since I bought my first pressure canner in 1990

[@jeanniemacadams7983]

I had to add an "amen" to Wanda's comment near the end of the video of "almost afraid to go to the grocery stores now." I can't have pigs or cattle, but I still have a load of grocery store London Broil & pork loin in the freezer patiently waiting for me to can. I'm thinking that's likely the LAST meat I buy from any grocery store, given the games "they" are playing with odd injections of stuff I have no interest in eating. I'll can what I have, but I believe that ALL of my future purchases will be from local non-jab producers. Yes, it'll cost more. No, it won't contain garbage I can't pronounce or define...

[@jacquisouza5008]

I'm a gardener on a one acre property, that floods severely a few times a year. I made raised round beds out of wire fence and wood mulch. Water comes up and drains without washing away all the soil. Works great. Anyway, people always say when the shtf, I'm coming to your house. I tell them, I'll only survive a month or two longer than you. I can't grow enough to sustain me for long. However, it saves me alot of money off my grocery bill.

[@heidimartin1835]

Shopping has been crazy I had a little bad of food yesterday and it was over $40😮 It always shocks me

[@sandracowan9317]

You two are such wonderful folks. I just love watching your vids. I’ve been on my homestead piece of Gods earth for thirty years and can’t imagine being anywhere else. Growing our own is absolutely essential to our health and lively hood. We’re in our 70’s and my husband stills hold down a full time job on top of us both working our property, livestock and gardens, so absolutely, it takes a lot of food to keep us going for a yr. And I still have to go to the store to basics. My take is, most people are spoiled to instant gratification and rarely if ever think of the health concerns. At our age we have to, but they should start thinking about in their youth. Anyway, thanks Danny and Wanda! I so much enjoy you both! 🌼

[@karenmarcinkiewicz7467]

THANK YOU!!!! I can't eat a boiled egg or fried or I have stomach problems, but I can eat scrambled . . . . I thought it was in my head, an egg is an egg. I have that issue with my blood sugar too. Again I thought it was me, bcuz no one in my family had any issues like that. This has been VERY helpful for me.

[@sadie21962]

Me too. I've tried going gluten free but this hasn't helped. I eat eggs nearly every day. But usually hard boiled or fried. So I'm going to switch and do scrambled and see if this helps. My stomach switched about 8 months ago when my husband and I had the flu. It was the old fashioned flu, nothing more. Yet it totally altered my digestive system. It has been a fight to restore it since.

[@ltkerr4688]

This video update, along with the two videos y'all did back in 2020, has been so helpful in our planning. Thank you for sharing this information with us. Take care.

[@1218kimber]

Your lifestyle,knowledge, and food production is impressive.