Picking & Preserving WILD Edibles The 41.36 Provides

[@deloresmiller6468]

When they eat those blackberries cooked up they will never forget it. I’m in my 60s and I still remember picking them and mother would make homemade biscuits and we would put the hot blackberries on the buttered biscuits for breakfast. It is wonderful memories for you all.

[@marilynfdavis891]

A Mother’s perfect life is being home with her kids! So happy you can be with them full time. 💜

[@brendaforbes5448]

that was such a cool thing you did with and for your children you really are makeing menories

[@DREWSLENS]

What a lovely day with the kids!! Thanks for bringin us along 💚

[@rt3box6tx74]

What fun Mel. My mom carried an old broom in the vehicle. She swept the ground to scare away the snakes before she let us pick.

[@karenhernke281]

Your such a great mom and aunty Mel. They will forever remember doing this with them. Hope you had a wonderful Monday! Take Care. Greetings from Wisconsin. Karen

[@terrilepine9065]

That was a totally amazing vlog. Doing things like that with the children is so very important.

[@lindawilson1965]

I really enjoyed this blog. Making memories with the kids is everything! Your such a good mom. Looking forward to your next video. Much ❤ too you all..

[@heatherolan7926]

That was a totally amazing vlog. Doing things like that with the children is so very important. Fantastic job everyone. 🤩😍💯💥

[@nellmarie98]

Love, love the taste of wild blackberries over tame ones.

[@katieshortridge6118]

Gary what a wonderful gift you gave Wyatt on his birthday, your time and attention. He’s lucky to have a uncle like you 💜 Mel, what can I say, you inspire me. Much love from Beaverton Oregon 💜

[@sandys4821]

Beautiful memories with your babies! I always did that with my girls when they were growing up.

[@lindanichols7296]

That was so cool taking the kids to pick blackberries and then preserving them. Every time they eat them they will remember out with Mom picking them. Making beautiful memories with the children is priceless. Great vlog Mel. 💕🇺🇸

[@deborahbarton3340]

Always love wild berries the kids had fun just remember bears like them to have your pew pew with you God bless.

[@RobertsonsBellyAcres]

Awesome!! Y’all are making some amazing memories with the kiddos!!! ❤️

[@itsjavaman]

You are such a great momma bear. This time with your kids makes so much of an impression on how they identify with their lifestyle.

[@glennwerst]

I was born and raised and still live just south of you and when I was a kid I remember my grandfather taking us swimming and he would stop at every blackberry bush on the way and have us pick berries. While we were swimming he would wash the berries in the river and then when we got home my grandmother would make a blackberry cobbler for us. Great memories.

[@marjiebuckner2485]

We had bears n Cubs that we’re always around our big wild patch, hope there are none in your area! Lots of Noise n whistles do help.

[@karenspeer7378]

How fun!!! The Kids were stoked!!! What a sweet thing to do!!! God Bless!! 😊⚘❤

[@margaretfrosst575]

Looks like a yummy learning lesson for the kiddo .

[@paulhoneyman6923]

LOL The eating to bucket ratio is usually 4 or 5 to 1 in the tub. Love seeing the kiddies enjoying making memories like this Mel

[@VeilZuTun]

Blackberries, wild bilberries (European style blueberries), rose hips, hazelnuts, elderberry, mushrooms, as a family we used to pick them all. Magical memories are made from such moments.

[@stellajeffrey647]

Good evening everyone 👋🏻 picking blackberries, now that’s a different vlog. Love apple & blackberry cobbler yum 😋

[@jeanielipskey1272]

I remember picking blackberries, elderberrys, and persimmons with my Aunt and she would can up jelly/jam. How fun for the kids.

[@maryjemison1101]

Love the dogs 🐕 following Along 🐶🐕🐶🐕🐶🐕soooooSweet❤️❤️👍🌟It’s Black Berry picking Time and I love Black Berry pie 🥧

[@sharongraser6579]

The kids remind me of my grandkids when they were younger,every year they would be waiting to pick berries at our house,now they're older teens or middle 20s! 😅👍

[@mommamurphy7123]

Mel I so enjoy watching you with the kids. You are a good mother and are teaching them so much. I am so glad to have you and your family here in arkansas. Keep up the good work. Jane.

[@InTheWilderness1]

Can't beat your own homemade preserves. Love it. Good Job mel. Yum yum🙂

[@RidgeLife]

My ocd would make me equalize those jars. Ha!

[@StruggleandStrive]

Super jelly here here because blackberrie jelly is my favorite! What a great time with the kids. I'm sure they loved the jelly too.

[@cynthiatx]

Awesome! I know those babies worked hard for that homemade blackberry jam!

[@charlotteforrester3118]

Reminded me when I was a little girl and we would go pick blueberries, blackberries, and scuppernong (like grapes). Fond memories. ❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@debrafelix4419]

I enjoyed your video reminds me of my childhood picking berries and the jelly looked delicious be blessed always 🥰🤗🥰🤗🥰🤗

[@SimplySoutherntx]

LOVE mama/babies time and Kitchen time!

[@SimpleLifeReclaimed]

Me too. These are the days well look back on and cry happy tears.

[@SimpleLifeReclaimed]

Me too. These are the days well look back on and cry happy tears.

[@possumrunhomestead]

Quality time with the Kids abounds on the 41.36 ❤️ and your oldest is always so thoughtful looking out for everyone.

[@blacklyon2237]

So amazing, love it, I remember picking blackberries in the summer and making cobbler for dinner for the family, one of my best memeories

[@bonesbigfoot2654]

How exciting to take something wild in to making goodies with it! I remember when I was really young picking blueberries up at my grandparents cabin in northern Minnesota. Your kids will always remember this experience. I could see making blackberry crisp (like apple crisp) also along with so many other goodies! Enjoy!! :-)

[@georgiapeach7832]

Grandma used to send us out with buckets to pick blackberries promising to make us a blackberry cobbler. We would come back our faces stained with all the berries we ate and give her our bucket. She let us help make the cobbler and there was nothing better. Oh the memories. Your children will always remember.

[@Blessings.429]

Yum, hope the kids enjoy..💖💖🇦🇺

[@luv46kdz]

It's amazing how such simple pleasures spark wonderful memories! When I was a kid my parents had a weekend home in the Catskills, in the summer we'd spend weeks up there and my brothers and I would pick blackberries by the ton and mom made jam ❤️ So good and such fun!

[@sharongraser6579]

Jam looks good!Kids will love it!😃

[@elbertajohnson937]

Make some blackberry buckets for them. Coffee can with small rope around neck. That way both hands free

[@louhandte9478]

Your first batch of blackberry jelly turned out better than mine. I keep forgetting to use my glasses when reading directions.

[@outdoorstudios2022]

Hello SLR, Thanks for sharing!!!

[@skeetermalcolm1655]

Great family moment Mel,I hope the jelly tastes good

[@chandrasutton4669]

Looks like you got the jelly handled!!! God job!!!

[@gracelonas2930]

Good job it lets you know what you can and will be able to do when yous are settled in and for the winter kids will love toast and jam for brekfast

[@GreenHorn1Acre]

That’s awesome… I’m sure it’s delicious… black berry is my favorite 😋. 🤙🏼😁👍🏼

[@ireneturner2944]

Hi kiddos, 👋 Thank you guys for the video. I had fun watching yall pick berries.

[@PaffordHomestead]

Kids love picking berries and the jelly looks great Mel❤️

[@phylliswemhaner5906]

Awesome fun day!

[@ruthscott5166]

This brings back such lovely memories of going to my grandmother's farm and picking blackberries along the fence. We're talking about 60 yrs ago :D Oh, and my aunt May's blackberry preserves - yum!

[@SimpleLifeReclaimed]

Happy we could spark a fond memory for you today as we make some of our own.

[@kelligallicchio325]

Waiting next time for berry picking

[@marthajessiejamesartscraft5103]

Good job, looks delicious!

[@SusanLindsey2407suz420]

I bet its really nummy! Good job Mom!

[@elizabethbrooks3790]

Making fond memories. The kids may like it warmed on top of vanilla ice cream, mmmm

[@deborahquigley5064]

I see blackberry cobbler on the table tonight!

[@cepearle7072]

Get some small buckets and tie "belts" on them to tie around the waist. it frees up both hands to pick with. The kids can have a contest as to who picks the most. (Mom included). It's the way I was taught to pick blue berries. So should work the same.

[@estellaknox9285]

Sorry I miss this video it is lovely I would eat more them I picked the kids always could find a great stuff careful GOD BLESS 🙌

[@patriciarussell7487]

So cute! 😸👍

[@eileenfitzpatrick6388]

My father-in-law was Township road commissioner in Illinois and they sprayed the ditches with poison. Also be aware that poison ivy loves to wind it's way up through blackberry and razzberry bushes.

[@deborahcollins9623]

Love it!!

[@genjulie3703]

Have you considered setting up an outdoor canning area? Lots of benefits.

[@evalinawarne1337]

Great fun. If you get lots. You can make for gifts. We cut material . Put it on top of the jar. The screw the rim on it. Tie 🎀 and/or craft flowers with the ribbon. My daughter use to sell them for Thanksgiving and Christmas. Cooking is an excellent way of teaching math skills for them. Thank you for the fond memories. Take a picture of the kiddo's and JAM. JAM is what my daughter named her company JESUS and ME. JAM. Have lots of fun eating the berries. Toast & JAM. Pan cake & .JAM LOVE and PRAYING for each of you. CHOW FROM S.E.MICHIGAN🎀🎀🌟🌞🇺🇸🇺🇸🍉🍓🀄

[@ConnieWhite6798]

I could never get enough to make much with. I ate them on the spot!! God bless and Love from Mississippi.

[@ardenehanson2840]

My friend is from oaklahomaand Arkansas. Watch for snakeson thebranches especially the wild cherry branches! Next time bring loopers with you. You can cut the whole branch off and hold it while the kids pick them off!

[@janiefable]

Love seeing the kids taking part in preserving food! Next yr the girls will be old enough to help with making jelly :) I learned from my grandma and momma....Here in NW Oklahoma it is sandplum season, wonderful tasting jelly and jam!

[@debrahudson5917]

You need to take more buckets with you and have the kids wear gloves. Then have a contest as to who picks the most. Take a large heavy stick with you and thump the ground hard. Most times if there are snakes they slither away. When walking in the woods I always carry a big stick.

[@guybever8935]

Enjoyed the video.

[@brookeburks6268]

Awesome job 😎👍💥💥💥🇺🇸

[@papawsplace]

Proverbs 22:6 Them kids are learning a way to go in life. Put that Jam on some ice cream and them kids will find you a new patch.. LOL😉

[@ginnyharahuc6649]

Awesome job

[@waynedavenport3919]

The jelly looks dishlious. Grape my fav. ❤️

[@estellaknox4488]

Hi everyone 👋 picking berries, I ate more then I picked my mouth was purple it was great my grandmother can a lot,and made jelly on a hot biscuit with butter ,blueberry 🥞 was off the chain have a great day everyone GOD BLESS

[@pattyprice2644]

Looks delicious Mel

[@wergardengals3242]

Jam looked delicious. 🤟🏻

[@joycejohnson7076]

It looks so good! 🤩

[@cstone6267]

Yum 🤤

[@shirleymoore4885]

Love picking berries especially blackberries you can make blackberry jam and homemade blackberry ice cream and bread yum and just make sure to check for ticks Mel wouldn’t want anyone to get Lyme disease from one I just had one under my hair on the back of my neck but have fun enjoying the wilderness👍

[@curtisarnold7339]

Black berry cobbler is the best.

[@ArthurValencia9438]

Thanks!

[@SimpleLifeReclaimed]

Idnk why we are just now being notified about this! THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR GENEROSITY!!! 💚💚💚💚

[@larryparish5984]

Should have made a contest out of the blackberry picking.

[@kentkrieg8747]

Nice job mom.

[@janesecaraway3995]

Sweet memories! From Montgomery al

[@virginiawiedower6151]

Mel it's almost time for Elderberries too. They're good for jelly & make a medicinal syrup. Look them up. There should be lots around your area in Arkansas too.

[@CynBrown]

Awesome haul.

[@cheriekreusel3756]

Oh that jam looks yummy! Take care. peace y'all

[@jenhalliburton6251]

You should put recipe in here...lol. Now I wanna try. Hugs

[@nancygraves8459]

What a great learning adventure.

[@shellevaughan-hoyt4063]

It looks yummy

[@emilyneal7888]

Nice jelly!

[@jamesmcdonald927]

That's awesome but really watch out for snakes around those bushes.

[@linda8is]

What fun!!!! Mel I hope yall are homeschooling, because you would make an excellent teacher for the 4 kiddos....and Roxanne too. I mean this was a whole science lesson...throw in cooking with measurements, and it becomes math. Y'alls videos make me happy.

[@CoreyCynthiaDavis]

That's so Awesome! That will be sooooo Delicious

[@stephenpollock3947]

With finding a copperhead I'd ask rooster to clear a path to the pond

[@jackrobinson6277]

Dont forget to dig out that jack hammer to help get through that rock, and make digging a lot easier.

[@jestherjackson]

MEL, I BET EVERYBODY WANT TO BE YOUR BEST FRIEND. YOU ARE ALAYS SO KIND AND THOUGHTFUL OF OTHER PEOPLE AND ALWAYS IN A HAPPY CONTAGIOUS MOOD. I THINK EVERYONE NEEDS A MEL IN THEIR LIFE. LOVE WATCHING YOU WITH THE CHILDREN. GOD BLESS YALL. MUCH LOVE JANE ESTHER

[@SimpleLifeReclaimed]

Thank you Jane

[@jestherjackson]

Thanks for your reply. I just recently figured out that I could see and read a direct comment made to me. So if you have sent me a comment before, please know I never knew it. I have had a conversation with the bearded carpenter, who I love his channel, and told him about my very very fond memories of visiting the two story hand hun log cabin that my father was born in in 1907, he was number six out of ten children. This was in Alabama which I only moved from 5 years ago to central florida. It was the most awesome log cabin and we loved to go there frequently and romp in the woods and streams like I see your children doing. My grandfather walked with a cane and he would sit on the porch and try to hook the legs of his grandchildren as they would run by. Believe me with ten children there were always plenty of grandchildren running by. I remember outhouses, smoke houses, the well house that you hand cranked the bucket down into the deep that sometimes came back up with Huge spiders or crickets as well as the water, bathing in the kitchen close to the potbelly stove, wash pots out side with scrub boards, butter churns, smoke houses, corn cribs, wood sheds, chicken coops, underground storage sellers/storm shelters with a complete door standing above ground then a small hill behind it that covered the steep stairs leading down into the ground. Oh make me stop. I’m taking a trip to bountiful. Such good good memories. I see your children and I think what a wonderful childhood you and Gary are giving them. All that, is what I think about when I watch your channel. Know you are doing a wonderful priceless thing. I see your faith in God leading you and I know from experience that when you seek His advice and direction you miss a lot of danger and trouble you can’t go wrong, not that sometimes it looks wrong and God leads another way and that’s call faith in God. I love you all so much. Hi to the children. May God bless you all in mighty ways. Love Jane Esther.

[@stevensbirds4455]

Mmmmmm Looks Good.

[@donnaj5791]

YUM, looks like it will be delish!!😊

[@HOODS]

My black raspberry jam turned out to be syrup. Lol I knew I shouldn't had added water. Oh well it's really good syrup.