Never Ending Harvest

Summer harvest is in full swing, and we are getting things preserved and put away for winter eating. Tomatoes are turning into tomato jam, peppers are turning into hot pepper jelly, and green beans are getting canned as pickled dilly beans and fresh canned green beans. A busy summer day in the kitchen means eating good this winter!
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[@rajinevin7273]

She is such a happy little buggy.... always singing and singing and singing.... LOVE IT!

[@iamkathyo]

Please tell grandma I said "Thank You" for her brief appearance... I understand her being camera shy... Her sitting there and snapping beans reminded me of my mom, that was her favorite job. I appreciate that warm memory...

[@terryhenderson424]

These scenes reminded me of visiting my grandparents in the summer ... if seemed that if folks came to visit, all were were either shelling peas or snapping beans while chatting away.

[@linnaellis212]

I totally get it, this brings me a wonderful memory of my grandmother snapping beans out on the back porch.

[@nancychapin6299]

My great-grandma made tomato preserves, yum! Didn't taste like tomatoes, but sweet jam.

[@teresae7235]

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@debbieluckey8135]

I just love guys and y’all family y’all remind me of my family when I was growing up we y’all had to help around on the garden that my dad planted and I loved it now I can all the time one of my brothers did to but he pasted last yr but I just love doing it

[@5GreenAcres]

As a grandma gardener I have learned that prior to any big rain.....pick your tomatoes that are blushing. Let them ripen in the house. Better than having them split.

[@TXNLaurenMcN]

It always tickles me to hear Meg say "Bye" so cheerfully at the end of the videos (... and now Buggie) after she's been working from sunrise to sunset. Can a woman maybe 30-40 years her senior say "When I grow up, I want to be just like Meg Hollar!"?

[@alanawemple6074]

I literally just told my husband that and I'm 51.

[@kristybishop3286]

Thank you for not going to the dark side. Love that you are keeping your channel a real homesteading channel. So many others have gone more corporate or a look at all I have! Keep up the good works.

[@caryrhea3974]

That's exactly how I feel. I've as topped watching popular channels, some are friends of the Hollars for those same reason. If I wanted to watch their hired hand work...

[@caryrhea3974]

*stopped

[@loritanner4478]

Me too.

[@kristybishop3286]

I’m going to name names here. The 2 that bug me the most are the “ Fit Farmer”, they have become a “ holy roller” ochannel. Not that I care if they are religious but that’s not why I watch homesteading. They seem to always be away from their homestead at talking engagements. And just from the little they do show of their homestead nothings getting done. No weeds should ever be 6 ft tall in a maintained garden. Then there Justin and his family. They spent months clearing a small space for grazing. Over 100 days, only working an hour here and there. Then bring in the hired men to clear a huge area in just 2 days! Well that’s time we’ll never get back. I’m sorry the kids keep getting hurt or sick but man that family sure does talk a lots about all their medical issues. They do so little actually homesteading that even the big greenhouse has almost nothing planted. I don’t begrudge them improving their home but I think they have lost sight of how they got to the point of being able to do all that. It’s because we have kept the financially going. By our likes and views. Now that they have pay to play it’s almost like we have been forgotten…it’s quite sad.

[@kimrafferty7170]

Can I wish Buggy a very happy 3rd Birthday - my goodness how those 3 years have flown and what a beautiful little person Lilyanne is (I hope ive spelt her name right) Sending love to you all xxxxxxx

[@VannaWhiteboard]

I love that Buggy has a song for everything.

[@AZJH8374]

Grandma, I'd love to see you. I've lost both of my Grandma's who I was VERY close to. 😢please 🙏🏻 let them film you. I want to cry 😢

[@roxannahendrix3036]

Your grandmother don't look old enough to be a grandmother. Watching her snap greenbeans reminded me of my grandmother. It is also nice to see everyone working together to make short work of jobs. I also like seeing a husband who isn't afraid to help his wife in the canning process, you two just feel my heart with joy. Love your content.

[@hammathguy3995]

That mess on the backsplash is how you know its good.

[@kathylamb5385]

Just discovered the Hollar Family recently; now I'm a fanatic about all of you and binge-watching every day. I so admire you and your family and the life you have chosen. I grew up on a farm and loved it tremendously; however, you are a fine homesteading crew! I finally tried to bake bread like you do; after 60 years, I can finally bake a loaf of bread and I make killer buttery soft biscuits like my mother did...finally. I cannot get my loaves to brown, even with the broil on high. My family has fallen in love with the bread. Thank you, thank you, Meg!!

[@TobyCatVA]

Welcome to the Hollar fans; glad you found them and the comments section.

[@maryjanew20]

Abbondanza is the Italian word for abundance which is what comes to mind when I see those baskets full of the beautiful produce you’ve grown. I love seeing the whole family helping Meg in the kitchen. It’s a lot of work but it fills the pantry with abbondanza! ☺️

[@debragonser745]

Grandma has to be so proud of watching Meg can all the harvest!

[@mgtmoffat8411]

Things have gone full circle. Meg at Buggy’s age helped Mimi, now Mimi helps Meg . 🌻🌻💕💕

[@spotteddoghomestead9940]

Meg is definitely in her element in the kitchen . Great job .

[@mrs.creeksidemaples2866]

Yes she IS 👩‍🍳

[@PattyPrice-tl7bc]

Theres no stopping Meg

[@shamancarmichael5305]

Always happy to spend a day in Buggy's kitchen! Especially when there's Halla-pene-lows! Good heavens I'm gonna die from the cuteness overload! 😁😍 Glad you had a great visit with your Grandma!

[@deeanderson7358]

Watching you two work together is very beautiful. I have never had that with my spouse. I love watching you bring your kitchen alive over and over again. Great to see your grandma, I bet she is loving it there. Great video. God bless

[@suziferrante2782]

Glad you had a good visit with grandma but you were missed

[@Denise_Thompson]

Meg needs a canning kitchen. Her foods always look amazing ❤

[@barbaracranfield6703]

NO Please, if she does then Dad will take over! Let her be!!! Course we know that won't happen!!

[@catherineoneal1030]

You guys certainly won't have any vampire problems with all that garlic, Dang! LOL Happy days with Grandma, priceless!

[@antonianovoa6416]

Looks like a whole lot of magic happened in that kitchen! GO GIRL!

[@AppalachianRoots]

I LOVE that Mimi made an appearance.

[@savedsole3848]

How cool you have a Gram! She looks young. You are Blessed. Enjoy

[@sandratorchia4803]

All of you work HARD…however, NO ONE WORKS HARDER THAN MEG!

[@ritabaker3113]

Birthday blessings dear Buggy

[@diannemiller4754]

Lol, I'm in the same boat in regards to beans😊 my neighbor is begging people to go pick her beans. She is tired of picking beans. I'll go over when it is cooler this afternoon. Right now, I'm canning peaches 🍑 😋 I may need a vacation when harvest is all in😊

[@carolynrandle5454]

You are sucha great husband and father.ilove watching yall videos.

[@debradixon6746]

Great video! Poor Meg! She is so busy and diligent.

[@ketoqueenyo2431]

Oh yeah! You’re back!🎈

[@carolynrandle5454]

Meg you are a wonderful person.

[@miephoex]

I don’t understand how with so much land and needed improvements Ben and the boys are always in the kitchen with mom.

[@unamcleod3541]

Meg your a super woman your family are so so lucky to have you as their mum what a cook hats off to you. Your hubby too he works hard to produce all that goodness xx

[@unclesanta1782]

I have only recently found your channel but y'all have become my favorite on KZbin. Your videos are very entertaining and educational. Wholesome viewing for all ages! 👍👍👍

[@lavondadye8091]

Such a nice harvest! You're very blessed to have Megs grandmother with you to help and share stories of Meg as a child I'm sure❤

[@sarameitner6770]

I love how Ben says..."I'd really like to try... (insert any preserved food or other here)" - and Meg goes..."Sure, I can do that." You guys SO rock!

[@lindarinke6024]

I bet the bees helped with the great harvest,and Happy Birthday Buggy!! 🍅🫑🥰

[@maryannkom299]

This brings back memories for me, while we didn’t live on a tiny farm like yours, we lived on a large and my father planted a huge vegetable garden. We would sit around the table and snap beans. Sometimes our friends would come over and my mom would enlist their help, paying us all in ice cream. She used our onions and bell peppers to make tomato sauce. Shes just put it all in the blender them dump it into a big pot to reduce. Then into glass jars and canned. They froze our corn, and cucumbers became dill pickles.and that was just the produce we didn’t have for dinner. My dad like to put everything from the garden on the table. One year my mom decided to learn how to can potato’s because we had so many small potatoes that year. She figured they be good in stew and pot roast. But once she took a jar out and made fried potatoes with them and they were so good! Of course there were also plenty in the freezer. Those were good days when I was a kid. My grandparents had a couple of acres, they raised their own beef and had gardens like yours in the North Idaho panhandle. We Loved going there we had our cousins and played with frogs in grandma’s window wells. We raced them. Grandma said it was okay as long as we put them back in the basement window wells. I love to see children raised with all this.

[@sarameitner6770]

Thank you for sharing such wonderful memories!!!

[@islandgardener158]

Just a thought, you haven’t built a deck off the patio doors, you might consider building an outdoor kitchen for prep and preserving. Maybe one wall could be and pantry for canned goods you have made.

[@megmills4798]

Just starting the video so I just want to say I hope you had a great visit with your grandmother glad your grandmother can still be there

[@cherylsmith-bell6509]

Congrats to Meg! What a huge amount of work preserving your beautiful, bountiful harvest. I'm tired just watching you! Those peppers were just beautiful.

[@claudettehernandez3402]

You have been completely blessed with your harvest😊

[@chrisburch8020]

nice that you kept your trailer so your guest will have a place to stay,

[@tracyhamilton1980]

Welcome to Meg's canning channel! I love it. I think i could watch Meg can everyday😊

[@SimplyJanHomestead]

Have you ever tried cutting the tomato suckers off and planting them?

[@marlenabryant5547]

Ben y'all should built Meg a Summer Kitchen. My Great Aunt had one right outside her back door of the house where she did all of her canning. Kept the heat out of the house in the hot Indiana summers of my youth.

[@NotMyNameGrandma-wz9yx]

Hello, Beautiful Hollar Homestead Family: I know a "few" more words than "amazing", but why search my brain for another word when amazing describes you so well? Such energy! Such diverse skills! Do you ever take a break?? Keep up the great work. Please tell your children we appreciate them too. They are beautiful children and your little girl is a doll! Thank you!

[@blindaedwards9528]

Gramma❤❤❤

[@waterlooboy]

More garlic pickling! Please!

[@staceybert1975]

When canning season is over Ben you guys owe Meg spa day.

[@Dranma51]

I love how your kids get so excited about the recipes you put together! My kids would never even try the stuff you’re making today. Shows what raising them on the good food does! Good job! We do love dilly beans though! Wrap them in deli turkey for an awesome snack!

[@lindadenny4923]

Meg and Ben, you have absolutely no idea how much enjoyment you give your viewers !!! I feel confident in saying your combined family values and work ethic displayed in every video is a blessing to watch!!! Thank you for sharing your family with us !!!!

[@lucainthedale]

I love tomato jam! It's the main reason I grow tomatoes these days 🍅

[@keithmccloud4164]

The Hollar family is marked safe from vampires!!🤣

[@JoyceCorbett]

my mom used to pick them green and let them tern red in house to stop the splitting

[@AZJH8374]

Make garlic pucks and freeze them!❤❤❤

[@kuchdilsecreationsbysonali9605]

More of buggy please,adorably singing just a day in my kitchen,and I running took off❤❤❤

[@territn8871]

My goodness, what a harvest!!! You have a bumper crop of beans, peppers, and tomatoes! It's great to see your Grandmother visiting!!! Tomato jam and pepper jelly looks delicious...plus it's pretty in the jars!!

[@jbbrown7907]

I love dilly beans. But I guess everyone loves them.

[@robincivitello4473]

I love watching buggy grow up,I've been watching from the time you started remodeling the trailer and expecting buggy. BYW, she is so cute and smart.

[@terracorr9031]

I think your family, is by far, my absolutely favorite homestead video to watch. Thank you so much for sharing.

[@kathylane5934]

You all are working hard. Lilli ana s hair is so luxurious

[@Ozarkmountainoutback1]

What a treasure that you have a MiMi to help!

[@doityourselflivinggardenin7986]

Gotta love it... yeah, I'm processing 5 different things, but I can do garlic and then dinner with homemade biscuits. 😅. We cannot multitask that well.🥴 Those beans looked overripe. I leave those on the vine to go to seed. Your hot peppers are not hot because you have sweet peppers too close to them. They crossed. Heat shows up in the result of the crossing. Inversely, you could get a hot bell pepper. (I breed peppers.) I made one so hot this year that it stung my eyes to cut it. Yum!🥵 Your tomato harvest is similar to mine... too much rain. It simply will not stop raining! Brassicas are loving it, though. Summer squash is toast. Potatoes are pretty good because that garden drains well. Enjoy the extra farmsteading hands!

[@camerongilbert1247]

The sound of the cicadas is beautiful, feels like summer was years ago in New Zealand. Keep on filming, love you guys.

[@gkiferonhs]

Glad you guys had a great visit with grandma. Have a Wonderful Wednesday!!

[@lauriedunn6198]

Buggy sure keeps track of what you are doing!

[@gaylewatkins4685]

🥰🥰🥰

[@marycountry]

Hi Grandma glad you got to spend time with your grandchild, great grand children. They are awesome!👍🏻😊

[@christinej2358]

No vampires are coming in y’all’s house with all that garlic hanging around! 😂 Y’all have a bountiful garden and will be eating good this winter with all those delicious can goods.

[@jills5939]

Yellow wax beans in white sauce over mashed potatoes with butter, salt, pepper. Yummmm 🕊

[@MLunenborg]

Y'all have the safest house in the whole area. Ain't no Vampire coming that place, gosh!

[@carolynrandle5454]

Missed yall

[@HaroldMalaby]

Amazing multitasking cooking reminds me of my wife's dear mother Loretta. Love your channel and of course the little one always a joy.

[@karenr67]

Such a busy day!!! Hope you get some rest Meg.

[@annuello1]

Green tomato pickles a win for no waste

[@petyshaw3643]

Thank you for inviting us into your kitchen. You get so much done. Blessings

[@Jaynes-Path]

Roasted garlic in a pan with oil then Jared up for freezing or canning is something you will thank yourself for later. Use it on pizza, spread it on a roast, add it to a stew etc. The flavor of the roasted garlic is so much more than plain garlic. You have to try it out. Mimi will have to plan on visiting every year during harvest time to keep the tradition of canning and preserving with not only her granddaughter but her great-granddaughter too. What awesome memories you are creating!

[@jeannamcgregor9967]

I was watching your video at 9pm and suddenly thought "Beans! I harvested green beans and then didn't bring them inside!". I had to run out back and rescue my day's bucket o' beans. At least the raccoons didn't get them first. 😂

[@carriem7832]

Years from now your children will look back on the video and remember how Mimi came and visited and all of you did veggies together…..how nice…..lucky children. Aren’t you freeze drying tomatoes and green beans, even peppers. Makes a great soup mix in a jar comes winter 🥶

[@gailharris8527]

thanks for sneak sharing Mimi with us!

[@LastChanceTinyHouse]

When you don't have enough hot peppers to make something big, you can still make relish. I think it's important to recognize that you both have talents. While your planning and planting the garden and looking after the critters, your better half is looking after the happiness of the reast of the family while planning how to keep you in meals. You both rock.

[@heatherannekennedy9368]

Meg in the high tunnel jungle with an apron full of goodness!!! So perfect! I'm inspired to try tomato jam ... sophisticated ketchup sounds like fun!

[@jrsf222]

You are great at learning your soil and what produces best‼️ Love the good minds.

[@JoHarmon-hg7wz]

Seems everyone is enjoying grandmas visit! She sure went to town on snapping those beans. Busy kitchen, so many wonderful things being made.

[@laruedouglas7972]

You just need to make a summer kitchen. For all the canning you do. Everything looks so delicious 😋.

[@crystalbrooks7875]

Aah, this is awesome! I have seriously stalked y’all, on all your videos, I was about to run out, because I’ve binge watched for a week! I’m caught up now, and you just posted this video! Absolutely love your content and family! I’ve been canning nonstop all summer, y’all are a great inspiration to manyZ, much love and prayers from East Tennessee! 💞

[@flyingpigpreserve8562]

Great to see Yas. Peace from WV

[@plumtreefarm9828]

Tomato jam is also amazing as a glaze for meatloaf and roasts!

[@htgardens6203]

Meg is always busy in that kitchen! She makes everything she cooks look so delicious😊

[@bethsands7665]

Nice garden harvest ! Awesome boots .Those bugs are sure singing ! Yay for the nice bean-snapping' Grandma.Nice team-work chopping the vegetables.Good stuff all around.Awesome work done in one day !! Cute lil' voice Buggy !

[@annaking9213]

Everything looked so good.nice to see your grandma.

[@brendaoneill3473]

Your Grandma must be so very proud of you and the family, enjoy your visit. I love your channel and sweet family. Thank you.

[@villagesteader3552]

It would probably help a lot if the weigh station also had a washing area. ♥️👍🙏🤓

[@deniseharris9363]

Hi Mimi!! Tomato jam looks yummy and so do the peppers!!!! Gosh all of it does!!!

[@linanne-t1s]

as a 60 plus myself..I love to teach..Im an RN who always chooses to share 40 yrs of experience...some appreciate..some think im a know it all...give what you got and the rest will work its self out

[@Creative-Chaos]

I didn’t realize until just now the difference between a red and green bell pepper is simply to time in the sun.

[@TheBanjoman]

All that garlic will keep Vampires away. Visits from grandma's are the best.

[@stephaniewilson3955]

You do more in a day than most folks manage in a week!

[@patriciaherman6499]

Yum hot pepper jelly pair with cream cheese on either a cracker or on grilled crusty bread also marinade on chicken or pork loin. Have to say never had tomato jam sounds interesting. Grandma is a sweetheart so nice she can come visit for a bit. Always enjoy the preserving with the family involved. And if Meg is like the rest of us love to reap our harvest, but can't wait till it's all done. Ben, don't comment to often on the Podcast, but you three are doing a good job, continued success. Blessings to you and your families. 😊🇺🇲