Planting a Year's Supply of Food for a Family of 7

[@bwright5126]

I have so much respect for gardeners, farmers, and the like! I didn’t realize how much work, care, and help is needed in planting. May your family have more than an abundance of over flow in vegetation for all of your hard work..😊

[@mysticdiana4402]

The only problem with your videos....they aren't long enough. Kidding, not kidding :) Always appreciate you sharing your family and gardens, cooking and helpful information. I could watch your videos for hours working as a family Unit. It's a rarity in this day and age. It brings so many memories of growing up on the farm. My parents had a massive garden and I always helped. We would can and preserve and our larder was bursting at the seams for the cold harsh winter ahead. Mom didn't go the store to buy veggies, eggs, dairy or meat, We had our own. So grateful to have grown up to learn the lifestyle. You are teaching your children a very valuable work ethic and hopefully they will adopt a similar lifestyle.

[@auntiepam5649]

I agree.

[@maritessanchez5389]

Bring the children to do gardening is a good example to the generations today to learn how grow own food instead playing games on phones or watching tv and can learn also how healthy to eat the food from hard work, watching from philippines godbless guys

[@bethbeasley7417]

Having large gardens in the past 40years, a half acre, I know the hard work that goes in one. Now being older I use container garden such as laundry baskets ect. I admire your fortitude and dedication

[@craftyShirleyG]

You and your family so impress and amaze me. Gardening is so much work. To have enough that you don't have to buy one single veggie is just awesome

[@greggkunkle8539]

We are looking at moving soon to a small farm soon, that we can have a few heads of cattle and grow our own vegetables/fruits and this video proved that I was severely underestimating the size of a garden we were going to need in my head. Great video. Very helpful

[@ofrecentvintage]

I remember those early blog posts about this journey, both gardening and how it helped your health as well as growing a year's supply of veg for your family. Your yearly updates, refining your numbers and process, helped me so much. So much has changed yet I still refer to that blog page. Thank you so much for sharing! 💚

[@homeplay4476]

It is so great to have the whole family working together. To me, this is life at its best.

[@nancynottage7255]

Even though I don’t have a space to have a vegetable garden, I love watching your videos. Especially like your background music. All the videos bring a smile to my face watching you and your family create all this bounty for your family.

[@suzanne7668]

Oh my I wish I was your neighbor so I could come learn from you in person 😊

[@seanimadavha1051]

My first year of growing for a family of 5, more than 300 hundred onion (red and white), tomato, mustard green, sugar loaf and cabbage, carrots, spinach and beetroot, I'm now harvesting mustard and ij can't wait for the rest, we'll done to you and your family

[@justinfarias8110]

Love your videos! You have inspired my family and I to start our own homestead journey! We started in the spring and are learning as we go best practices. We are doing raised beds in a 900 sq ft fenced off area on our 2.5 acre property. Keep the videos coming!!

[@shermdog6969]

Throw some pumpkin seeds on that large compost pile. They'll probably grow amazing.😊 We always put some in our fresh horse manure pile and it grows huge pumpkins every year.

[@kimberlyearly8918]

Doesn’t the fresh manure burn the plants?

[@iamirene]

Why am I always so excited when I see a notification from this channel? ❤❤❤

[@dianekreuzer3854]

Love watching the entire family get involved with the entire process!

[@chongseitmooi2593]

Lovely. enthusiastic family ❤

[@Thaonguyen-vx]

The vegetable garden is really beautiful, I really like it. you are really good

[@rickthelian2215]

Lots of work with the family but the rewards are more than satisfying knowing you grew your own foods, even some for the animals. See you all at harvest time😁🇦🇺

[@taraelvira8252]

I watch many homesteaders on the ole KZbin (learning as much as I can) and your videos, my dear, are like none other. The forethought, the meticulous placement of each and every plant, the commitment to success is just unmatched. Seriously inspiring. Keep it up, mama and family. I hope you get to kick back a tad bit now that it's all in the ground! 🌼🤍🌻

[@saoirseokeeffe4258]

Im at 4min in. The music/month part previously was the most beautiful and relaxing video I have watched in as long as I can remember. It would be cool if you could make a recap of the year in the exact same way, at the end of the year. It would be so relaxing and amazing. Although your videos are already amazing!

[@hcambo5373]

Nice work my love ❤🎉

[@simplymomcreate1037]

Just found your channel, i love hpw helpful your kids are too.

[@kimberlyearly8918]

I don’t know how you keep up with it all even in your mind as far as starting all the different crops at the correct time without missing something. Do you prune your tomatoes? I planted around 60 tomatoes and I find them to be very high maintenance. One thing is for sure. Your children will definitely know how to provide for themselves when they are grown!

[@TheSeasonalHomestead]

I prune the indeterminate varieties to one leader. However, all of the Roma tomatoes get no pruning, they are a determinate type and don't like being pruned!

[@kimberlyearly8918]

@@TheSeasonalHomestead That’s what I do but I don’t know how you do so many.

[@adamporter1680]

I too had alot of trouble with squash beetles. I learned that if I put up small hoops and frost blanket over the row of plants and bury the edges of the cloth with dirt that prevents nearly 100% of the bugs! Works great

[@ronniebrace2917]

So glad I found your channel! Thanks for sharing your knowledge and experience.

[@gloriadavidson8599]

What a beautiful food garden ❤ So much family hard work gone into it 👏👏👏👏 Such a pleasure to watch things video 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 As always a pleasure to watch Love from the UK x

[@Cindyscrossstitch]

There is something so special about watching your process. To see everyone working together is heart❤warming. I have a small garden that brings me so much joy. I hope your season produces a lot of fruit and vegetables 🌻🥒🫑🍅🥑

[@maryanna2245]

I've been successful as a container gardener in the Bay Area, CA since before pandemic. But, still very inspired by gardeners like you! You truly exudes hope that growing food for your family is more than possible. Love how you share your experiences through your videos. Big kudos to the whole family!

[@patriciathomas1502]

Love watching the hard work and dedication. Amazing to watch all kids doing their jobs! 👍👍

[@dmp1185]

Love your video. Can you include how many of each plant for when you do your garden tour? You mentioned 150-200 tomatoes; stuff like that. It would be so helpful to know how much to plant. Thank you ❤.

[@sgrvtl7183]

Absolutely LOVED the recap. Been watching your channel for two years ( or more!). Love Your Family togetherness and work ethic of helping one another💜🦋Beautiful Family❗️

[@1940sDream]

Great music. Wow that's a big plot. Great job.

[@nancyseery2213]

WOW! Not only long days, but into the night!! I hope all of your hard work makes for a great harvest this year. God bless y'all and keep growing.

[@lindakincaid4530]

we use straw for our strawberries. works really well.

[@quantafitness6088]

Wow, you guys are hard at work! I wish you a few moments, in july when everything is growing well to just stop and enjoy what you have accomplished. ❤

[@irili100]

I am very impressed by the great family you have, systematic work and maximal investment that yields great results. Only one thing stopped me from continuing to watch to comment (I will continue to watch after I write), corn has no pollinators, it gets pollinated by the wind. That is why it is recommended to plant corn in large clumps. If there are many seeds, plant in a long block, if there are few, plant in a square block so that the wind coming from different directions spreads the pollen from the upper end of the plant to the strings of the ears.

[@kimberlyearly8918]

Years ago when we had a much larger garden than we have now we planted corn in long rows. We got over 300 ears of corn. And that was the first garden we ever had. I suppose they pollinated well because no matter which way the wind blew they blew against each other. We had a hail storm that year and it blew our corn over so bad we thought it was lost but it made it! We cut it all off the cob and froze it.

[@TheSeasonalHomestead]

Thank you! It's planted in a block :)

[@RebeccaHough-mz1yo]

The amount of knowledge you have about gardening is incredible. I’m new to all of this - it would be great if you could do a video on like step by step bed preparation. Like. Why are you broadforking instead of using the bcs? What benefit do you get from that roller thing you roll across? At what point did you buy a seeder? You are what Erin benzentyne is to the flower world. You could seriously create a course or write a book. It’s amazingly useful information and so needed. Thank you for your passion. And sharing it.

[@Kennedycruise4589]

Hello Rebecca 👋 How are you doing today?

[@Christian-Mom-of-2]

I love watching you and your family work together! You are blessed! May you have a wonderful and productive growing season 😊

[@mikebarocco8465]

Your videos are SO enjoyable. I could think of a few other adjectives but......mostly just enjoyable. I have seen everyone. I feel like you have made all of your viewers part of your family. Great job! PLEASE keep them coming and keep up the good work. God Bless you, your family, and your homestead.

[@susanfreeman6350]

Beautiful video. Beautiful music. I always get hungry when you mention sweet potatoes! Yum. Your energy and work ethic continue to amaze me.

[@jtuck682]

Beautiful family! You all have a wonderful spirit. It reminds of an account I read where a travel asked a young woman for a drink of water. Well her not only gave him a drink. she volunteered to water the camels also. (Considering a camel can drink up to fifty gallons! So, that was no small task). What I'm saying our spirit is undaunted by the challenge.

[@ChristineKelly1000]

I love how meticulously neat and tidy all of you are.

[@elenaantunes1263]

I'm glad you're taking the camera with you for your road trip. Wishing safe travels!

[@patriciaterry5539]

New subscriber here! I appreciate your honesty!

[@raysouth1952]

Wow. A lot of effort but so rewarding to harvest your own. I’m jealous that ginger works for you. We grow it but it’s always completely tasteless. No idea why.

[@AshleySkiles-d3f]

I love your videos so much!!! I suck up every bit of beauty and knowledge that you share! Thank you so much for the time you take to share this life of yours with us all!

[@kathleenritter4532]

All I can say is WOW! Thank you so much for sharing all of your incredible work. I have the utmost respect for what you are doing. I know tye work that commercial farmers do that have equipment doing a bulk of the work. Seeing you all doing it by hand and never giving up. I hope my children will continue the little bit that we do into something like what you do. What an incredible blessing

[@laurachapman6633]

Wow!!!! You’re all amazing, How wonderful to have the whole family involved. Well done. So inspirational ❤❤❤

[@douglasgatian1401]

Such an education for those kids. My favorite was diggin potatoes with my kids cause thought they struck gold.

[@FarmhouseKitchen-l1t]

I admire you for What you are all doing. I feel the same, I am the happiest with my current lifestyle, where we grow our own food for a whole year, and I don’t need to go to the supermarket 🙏👩‍🌾 Happy gardening and all the best to you 🐝👩‍🌾

[@user-hz7kv6js6l]

Wow, I'm so impressed with your garden and how everyone gets involved. Happy gardening 😊

[@catracampolieto8989]

I absolutely love LI cheese pumpkins. Im growing four times more this year. I grew them because I saw yours. This is my second year growing them. I still have to sow my lemon squash. Your such an inspiration. I added 5 new raised beds and a green stalk. I grow all my starts from seed, so economical. Thank you so much for sharing your garden, recipes and preservation methods. I enjoy all of your videos. I'll even go through and watch your other videos. After four years of gardening, there's always more I am willing to learn. This Grandma wishes she started to garden a long time ago...lol. ❤

[@bradmetcalf5333]

It's so beautiful seeing your whole family out there. not only being together but seeing how the kids understand where it all comes from. I am glad i stumbled upon this channel.

[@gillgallon9631]

I Love watching your channel, ,watching you all working together is amazing, and everyone Loves to do it, Thank you for sharing, i am looking forward to your Graden tour .

[@otrdean]

It's very cool that all hands turn to for the prep and planting

[@WalkingWithNature418]

Thank you for sharing! I always appreciate when you remind us that you've had failures and how long it has taken you to get to this point

[@laurel2453]

Amazingly beautiful video and garden. Your hard work and knowledge are on full display. Well done!

[@pugpreslar711]

Your family inspires me! I buy plants already started at a nursery but SSOOO expensive this year…..Will start from seed next year.

[@andrewhammill6148]

I love you guys' channel. You are so meticulous about how you plant and how you harvest/preserve. I get a kick out of it. I am THE chaotic gardener. And I grow massive quantities of whatever survives. And then I plant more seeds next to that which has failed. And then it's like Revlon - It goes on and on and on and the next person, etc. LOL. as a note: I am 65. I have always tried to grow a garden in whatever situation I have been in.

[@kimberley-A1]

And as much work as this may seem, it is only half the battle. There is harvesting and preserving it for the winter. We only have a quarter acre garden and it alone keeps me busy with planting, maintaining, harvesting and preserving.

[@Kennedycruise4589]

Hello Kimberly 👋 How are you doing today?

[@victoriasfire]

Humility is an attractive trait that I perceive in you. Nice work ladykins!

[@northerngirlhobbies]

Incredible production!

[@joannak4640]

I look so forward to your videos and unfortunately I didn't get notified about this one. Needless to say, I didn't see it uploading until it was already 3 hours old 😞 I am so happy you got what you needed done done! Now we get to watch it grow and become food for your family. This is absolutely my favorite time of the year! Watching you bring in the harvest and preserve it into canned, freeze dried and whatever else you are going to do with it. Your family is amazing and you all should be proud of yourselves ❤️

[@tamararobinson2069]

🤯🤯🤯 You guys just Blow my Mind on your amazing work ethics & knowledge!!!! I Always learn something interesting and new & get so much inspiration & you get my get up & get it done! going!! Thank You!!💚💚💚💚💚💚💚

[@thedrunkmonk8386]

I just did corn for the first time in cell blocks, it went just fine! Popped up in 4 days, planted after a week and they had roots almost 4" long already!

[@gregbluefinstudios4658]

Wonderful! So very pleased the entire family is working towards this great goal.

[@suezqcamacho]

I wish I was able to grow like u guys. Maybe in the next few years I'll become as productive as u!!! Ur an inspiration

[@amysano5424]

Your garden always looks so amazing. ❤

[@clydesdalehomestead3807]

Beautiful video, it was a joy to watch.

[@Flowers4Everyone]

As a family, this is an important opportunity to talk about food supply, monetary implications, food value/nutrition, budgeting (time/money) pros and cons, seasons and the realities with crops and meat animals. My grandparents instilled this in our family, and it has truly been a Godsend. One of my favorites canned for fall/winter is stewed tomatoes🍅

[@rachelgalus]

Your videos are always informative and entertaining. I just love them.

[@melanieedmonson1480]

Sweet pic of you and Noelle planting with the sun going down. ❤ Loved your chicken tee😅

[@sarahschlosser1203]

Love all the information and that the kids are right in there with you.

[@cherylpresleigh6403]

I’m looking forward to your garden tour. May the bless the work of your hands.

[@loulauer5853]

Amazing. Best of luck with this years crops!

[@staceyford6733]

I found 2 volunteer plants in my garden plot: one tomato and one huckleberry.

[@erinwichman5851]

I love this !! Thank you for the inspiration to plants in the future!! BIG HUGS!!

[@williamokeson2154]

You guys are still amazing. Good luck and thanks for the video...

[@rushpinn]

Lovely video 😊 thank you for taking the time to put it together for me to enjoy!

[@damdekmyhomeដំដែកផ្ទះខ្ញុំ]

garden look beautiful

[@kellyhosler2678]

I use a bulb planter where I put paper. It works great.

[@Gabiviolino]

I really like the paper base. Never thought of it ❤

[@emkn1479]

Same! Cardboard takes a little while to soften under mulch and it’s a pain to deal with. I wonder how much a roll of it is…

[@Gabiviolino]

@@emkn1479 When I put cardboard I have tons of slugs living underneath...🤦🏻‍♀️ But I noticed that when I put some kind of paper it breaks down quick so slugs won't live in it. And watching this video it clicked to me. I think it's the same paper used to wrap things?

[@emkn1479]

@@Gabiviolino that’s what I thought but it’s a specific gardening product that’s linked in the description. Maybe it’s thicker?

[@kariwebb5523]

The garden looks great!!

[@jenfa582]

I highly respect your work!

[@gregbalc8300]

Its a very hard work. You are the troopers!

[@akahdm6060]

as usual outstanding, thanks you for sharing

[@stephencameron1709]

Amazing what you do! Great job and video. Val C

[@nualamacken7847]

That was a very informative and helpful video. Thanks.

[@ostermas]

Your plants look so healthy. Do you have a recipe for your soil block mix?

[@Lyniem1989]

great work ♥️ new subscriber

[@RomanticizeReality]

I'll be interested to see the corn turnout! I hear it is a hard one to transplant.

[@reapergrim76]

So cool to see! 😊

[@potagermalo]

Superbe vidéo 😊

[@kaylawalden4599]

I love this! I'd be curious to know how much it costs to produce all this food. Fertilizer, weed paper, compost, soil for starting seeds, etc. I think so many people assume it's "free" to grow your own food, but whew. It adds up.

[@TheSeasonalHomestead]

Yes, it can!

[@tildars]

Awesome family effort ❤

[@ScottyHunter]

Omg, TY for putting the tools you use in the description!!! I had no clue a wheel hoe was a thing, BUT NOW I WANT ONE! The tiny little seeder is adorable, and NOW I WANT ONE TOO! You're also the first person I've seen using weed PAPER... most others I've watched used a mesh/tarpaulin type material or plastic. Do you find the paper to be better in the long run? I assume over time it'll end up composting and being a good carbon addition to the soil, correct?? Now that I think of it, the plastic barriers must be a LOT of work since I assume you'd need to pull them up and replace them every year or so.

[@TheSeasonalHomestead]

Yes, love the paper. I’ve only used it one season but so far it has been fantastic. Only downside is if it’s early in the season and windy and wet the paper easily blows off. Yes, it’s all natural, breaks down, and adds carbon to the soil.

[@cathydavis9259]

Do you re-use your garden fabric or buy new every year? If you re-use it how do you mark it so you know which is for potatoes and which is for peas etc.? Where do you get yours from to keep the cost down?

[@Isabel_fit]

I have never gardened before but would love to. My husband has gardening experience but is always to busy to show me. Where is the first step to start? Local extension center? Figuring out what I like? Plant 1 thing only? I hope to get on your level some day ♥️

[@TheSeasonalHomestead]

Start with one thing! Plant some herbs, they are pretty easy to grow.

[@amilawstudent]

This looks truly amazing. I would be curious what the cost is every year for seeds, starts, weed paper, mulch etc Do you have any idea how many thousands of pounds of food you end up producing? I'm guessing it's way to much work to weigh it. 😅

[@JustTheTwoOfUsHomestead]

Simply amazing! Your gardens are beautiful and how you all work together and so hard is astounding! May God bless you with an abundant harvest 🙏🏻 How long does the weed paper last? And I guess you prefer it over woven weave fabric?

[@TheSeasonalHomestead]

Thanks! The weed paper lasts one season max. This is the first year I've tested weed paper and so far I'm loving it! We use the black plastic ground cover on the garden edges to keep weeds from encroaching. However, we have had problems with the bermuda grass coming through it and forming a thick thatch over a season. Right now I prefer the weed paper because as it breaks down it adds organic matter too and we haven't had the same bermuda grass problem. It's more expensive initially but cheaper than paying my kids to weed, haha!