Growing Groceries for Family and Animals Homestead Garden Tour

We harvest our groceries and we tour ALL of our garden locations!
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[@tobycatVA]

Jason holding Penelope as a baby is adorable! I'm glad Lorraine has gotten comfortable visiting with us, she is a peach. The gardens are all doing so well this season, you should all be proud of the results.

[@johnchaffin5494]

He looks so confused and scared.....that's a good thing😊

[@sandyrees490]

I’ve really enjoyed seeing Loraine on the videos too. It’s so nice when your family joins you.

[@SowtheLand]

Thanks so much

[@bettyferguson2815]

Labor day is when my family always dug potatoes.

[@shirleybird6422]

Cilantro seeds is coriander. Used in cooking too

[@HilltopFarmHomestead]

Love seeing Lorraine so excited about the garden. She's like a kid in a candy shop. lol

[@AZJH8374]

Lorraine, not soft pebbles either. They will get soooo hot with the sun hitting them, you'll be back in boots/tennis shoes 👟

[@nancyseery2213]

I agree, no pebbles! Pebbles are very hard to move if you decide you don't want them. Wood chip will break down all on there own.

[@jdp6ofus]

I ended up just putting down the woven high quality weed block fabric with nothing over it between my big raised bed garden. I don't like the look, but I can walk barefoot even in midday sun in AL on the fabric. I can blow off leaves and debris year round to keep it neat. I found it is better to let the fabric go under the beds a little and then secure it to the inside edges of the bed before filling them with dirt. But where I didn't do that, weeds grow in the gap between the fabric and bed around the beds. At least they are usually easy to pull out and I get plenty of volunteer veggies and flowers and herbs to transplant to other areas. I don't use wood chips or other stuff in the walkways as I can't get a steady supply of it, nor do I have time and energy to put it out by myself if I had enough stuff to put in the walkways. I run our farm full time mostly alone, plus do all the house and kitchen work, gardens, livestock care, etc while my husband works off the farm. No children left at home either to help. Since putting the fabric down, I no longer have snakes in the garden. But there are voles, moles, rats and mice that tunnel under it and in the raised beds that are 6" high. But they don't get in the 12" & 18" beds so I use the drier beds for root crops and actually get a good harvest.

[@Geema2004]

The pigs looked so overwhelmed by the goodies!

[@josephpedone2004]

Anyone remember the TV show “Green Acres” and the pig Oliver? 😊

[@Miguel195211]

Yes

[@laurel7704]

I can still sing the song!

[@revonda5204]

​@laurel7704 yep, that's the place for me ....🎵🎶🎵😊

[@sosoothing_]

That photo of yourself holding your daughter looking at empty raising beds is a masterpiece. It made me feel something. I don't know how to describe it. It's like those artistic photos that hold great stories behind them. A piece of art.

[@cheriekreusel3756]

"How does your garden grow?"......"Very well! Very well indeed!" Nice video you guys! Have a great weekend!

[@whitestone4401]

In that picture, you can almost see Jason’s mind plotting and planning, inventing and dreaming.

[@norastorvik4155]

Your opening photo really is worth a thousand words, or more! I feel blessed by your knowledge and willingness to share, thank you

[@NORMANMORRISON1940]

Pulling grass out weeds out is chicken food yummy weeds😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😛😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋

[@vincentalaimo7527]

Cole Slaw Stuffed cabbage Minestrone Pork Dumplings My top 4

[@mariaallevato6121]

Great job on the garden! That's a lot of cabbage for 3 people. LOL!

[@SowtheLand]

You got that right!

[@cindybonem494]

I love the sound of the cabbage being harvested, crunch, crunch, crunch.

[@gaylewatkins4685]

Cabbage party...Cabbage party..😂🤣😂🤣 Your family has been putting in the work and your hard work is showing. The garden areas are fantastic and growing an abundance of food. Would love to see how Lorraine preserves the harvest for winter meals. Best Wishes and Happy Homesteading. 🤗❣️

[@brokenmeats5928]

I love ALL Sow the Land videos!

[@sandhollowhomestead6972]

Harvesting and then preserving is the final faze of gardening. Look how far you've come this year!

[@nancyseery2213]

I have been watching you on your homestead since before you moved to this property. I think y'all have come along very far and fast in the last two years. God bless y'all, remain patient, learn as you go and most of all---Keep Growing!!!

[@karenzorn773]

Good job Jason looks like high tunnel is working out, love your garden and feeding the pigs, keep on farming.

[@Sharon-Me]

It looks like you have a magical life in North Carolina!!!

[@SowtheLand]

We do

[@evalinawarne1337]

Amazing Garden. It's great to see all 3 of you today. See you tomorrow for FRIDAY SHOPTALK. GOD BLESS YOU SE MICHIGAN 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏

[@ednahartnett7407]

What a beautiful homestead you all have created...Hard work always brings big rewards...so happy for all of you...great success is on the way.

[@suegibson8914]

There is a lady from Australia where I’m from, who lays cardboard, leaves, weeds, manure, wood chips between her garden rows (In ground) beds which you may be interested in. Her channel is Huttons Valley Permaculture, by doing this she just piles the now composted material on to her rows for her next planting. I like this idea as you don’t need to walk or transport anything as it’s right there between your rows & it stops weeds.

[@billyangelapressley]

Your greenhouse vegetables are so beautiful.

[@deniseharris9363]

Cabbage Party just put a smile on my face!!!!

[@deborahryan2654]

You guys have a gorgeous homestead…. and Zeke and Elvira and the littles, are the icing on the cake!!!

[@2ndSprings]

You guys have done a great job with your garden and animals. 🙂

[@NanaTrece9444]

Just a thought about the beet tops - I dehydrate my greens and then grind them and save them in a jar. When I make soup or a smoothie I pour some in. It's a great way to add greens during the time you can't grow greens. For me in South Florida that is during the summer months.

[@Bindy36]

I’ve been waiting so long to see your vegetable gardens. Everything is so beautiful. I love grass between raised beds. It’s less work in the long run and very nice to walk on. So happy for you all. ❤

[@gypsiegyrl4007]

I love the excitement for the garden! All that hard work is paying off. All the different beds look fantastic! The pic of Jason and Penelope is absolutely adorable.

[@byronholmes2496]

Good day to all.

[@silversage03]

Truly special how you've progressed, and that you have everything filmed so you can go back and compare where you started to where you are now. And those piglets! So stinkin' cute!!

[@AZJH8374]

Make kapusta. Slovak cabbage & onions. Fried. The best side. Polish as well, but I'm Slovak. Baba & Dido always made it. Yummy

[@sandhollowhomestead6972]

My adopted mother was Slovak. Her name was Stella Schebesta.

[@hollyporter1193]

Southern style: fry up 1 lb bacon in a pot, leave all grease & bacon ( cut up into pieces)in the pot. Cut up 1 large head of cabbage. Put in 2 handfuls of cabbage in pot, season with salt, pepper, & sugar, stir into bacon , repeat until all cabbage is in pot, stir & simmer until cabbage is soft. Serve over steamed rice. Eat with cornbread, makes a delicious dinner!

[@douglasgatian1401]

Key phase - We'll get there. Well I'll be there

[@bonniedugle1763]

When you plant corn, plant it in blocks instead of rows. It allows the plants to support each other during windy weather.

[@batpherlangkharkrang7976]

Hi.,.. Jason and Loraine thanks you for showing your video homestead bye 👋 bye 👋 bye 👋 bye 👋👍👍👍

[@belieftransformation]

Great to visit with your family, farm & animals! Thanks & blessings 🤗🇨🇦

[@lukeknowles5700]

Very nice, Jason. I'm so glad for you that Lorraine and Penelope are just as enthusiastic as you are about homestead success.

[@marking-time-gardens]

Another great day on Sow the Land! Gardens are looking wonderful! Yes... one day at a time and one season at a time! Blessings on your family and your growing season Kiddos! 🌻🐛Carolyn in Ohio 🌿💚🙏🥰

[@TheMennomilist]

Love that first garden photo of you looking like, "Uhh....yeah forget this, I'm going to N. Carolina!" You have all come a long way and it is wonderful! I can't get over how much Penelope has grown. AHHH. 😭

[@glengillis7775]

Your harzesting and i just planted a week ago. What a difference

[@janwolvin2773]

Everything looks so yummy. Great job a lot of hard work paid off.

[@SowtheLand]

Thanks so much

[@ruthmcbride1778]

It feels like it is easier to weed and see accomplishment when the rows are shorter. I like it. It’s beautiful

[@pamray1906]

Of all the gardens videos I watched your is the most beautiful one and producing one ❤❤❤❤❤❤. Would never know you were once city folks ❤

[@jeffjones9792]

Favorite channel. I've said before, too long solo in a UK smallholding. You have an awsome family, sir. Working together, as you do, you are headed for success every year. God bless you guys. 😊

[@cherihabegger9856]

What an accomplishment! The garden looks so good and the family and animals well fed.

[@user-vl5bj6of2s]

Yea!! Love garden tours.❤❤ you have some amazing plants.😊

[@hummingbirdhillhomestead]

I am so excited for y'all!!!! The gardens look amazing and just think of all of that food you will be putting up this year.

[@Katie-rz9dp]

You can also can coleslaw to enjoy in the winter months! I like to freeze cabbage leaves for future cabbage rolls. So glad to see your efforts are successful.

[@CharlieNagoo]

It is great watching you guys harvesting so much food so early in the season while other homesteaders are still in the process of planting. It is almost like you could give up the grocery store and eat off the homestead.

[@grace17]

You should do another picture like that looking at this garden.

[@southloupriverhomestead4696]

You guys are doing a great job! Thanks for the video!

[@BobbieJeanM]

To me, seeing how you have increased the amount and styles of gardening since moving to this property is amazing! All 3 areas are beautiful and so productive, I could practically taste everything you’re growing! I heard Lorraine say she’s thinking about pebbles for between beds because they’re not pokey like wood chips but my daughter put them between her rose beds and I think they’re hard to walk on because they roll. I like the picturesque ideas of grass or pebbles but they take work and time you may not have for now when there’s so much that needs to be done. An inexpensive, fairly easy to do now and change later is using cardboard with chips on top. Appliance stores often have large boxes that end up in the trash so taking them for mulch is better for you and the environment. The cardboard is heavyweight so one layer is plenty. Also, there’s often a tree service or even the electric company that would be happy to dump wood chips on your property. Another source might be an Amish sawmill or anyone who has a sawmill. Those chips are smaller and without the occasional small branch that slips through without being chipped up. If your mower has a hitch on the back or something to hook or tie onto, you could pull a Gorilla Cart or some other wagon filled with chips between the raised beds and dump or shovel the chips out. My cart has a dump bed which is very helpful for me at 71 and not nearly as strong as I once was! If you want to know an easier way to do something ask an older person, especially old ladies since we’ve never been as strong as men even in our best of times but we usually figure out a way to get things done! 👵🏻😉

[@Tinkergrumpybuns]

Wow, garden is so far ahead of us in New England! Hey, Jason at cog hill farm in Alabama plants daikon radish to break up hard soil…. Feeds to animals and the bees love it when they flower!

[@cathyversteeg3051]

Lorraine you had me laughing guessing what some of the veggies are in the greenhouse. I planted tons of vegetable and flower seeds then totally messed up the labels when I planted them out. And I thought I was being so organized. Good thing I like surprises! 😊

[@jasminaalm]

Your family is in my prayers permanently. Much love.

[@peterrowellranson8649]

❤🎉well let me just start off by saying I feel that you all have come a long way since then a lot bigger and wiser well done love your journey so far ♥️ Pete cape Town south Africa 🇿🇦 ♥️

[@LadysFarm]

❤ loving this season ❤

[@clarencewiles963]

You keep getting bigger than family you’re going to be truck farming before long 😊

[@elsalyall6696]

Good job guys..keep it up from Africa Tanzania 🇹🇿 ❤❤❤

[@killjoyredux8361]

Killin' it team! Look how far you've come!

[@AZJH8374]

I knew your latest was growing groceries. Stupid KZbin said it was baby chicks. I knew l already saw that one. I've seen every vid you've put out since day l. Now I'm going to check & made sure I'm still subscribed. They have yanked that from me before. But l still love KZbin. Lol. &&& your channel ❤❤

[@sgrvtl7183]

I like the way Lorraine has placed the rows in the high tunnel. Really nice layout for your gardens 🌻🦋🌻

[@pleinaire8698]

Your gardens are outstanding, and those cabbages are beautiful!! excellent work, Lorraine and Jason and Penelope!!💕

[@anthonyanderson2880]

Sunlight and rain would account for more progressive heads on the cabbages outside. Each rain drop releases nitrogen, amongst other stuff, when it hits a leaf. The high tunnel offers filtered light. But in saying that, it makes for staggered harvesting which is convenient. The gardens look great, I’m very jealous.

[@cherylbertolini3140]

your gardens look wonderful:) FYI putting down cardboard with no stickers or compostable paper then wood chips make great soil for the gardens in a year or two. I have one more suggestion hill your corn it helps it stand up better.

[@carolynmoody9460]

I really really enjoyed seeing your wife ❤❤❤🕊️

[@ssfoste]

Ha Ha Ha, that picture of you and your daughter, you look so forlorn. I wasn't sure if it was a new beginning or a foreclosure, but thankfully that little lady has grown into a young woman, and you have also pursued your dream. That is all awesome.

[@kekeynovelli3948]

Your crops look so good! Great job.👍🏽

[@garycottreau8442]

Wow you are months ahead of us in Nova Scotia

[@markstevens7838]

I agree (from Vancouver).

[@cindym7234]

All I can say is WOW! INCREDIBLE!

[@TheFamilyFarmstead]

You both have progressively learned and accomplished so much over the past several years. Your gardens are showing how much you have learned. Very impressive.

[@user-ns8ct7ke3k]

So enjoy your family!! ❤❤😊

[@user-yj9pg3dg7s]

I miss cilantro in summer too. So I make cilantro pesto. Yum.

[@ThePenn7]

this is the pig's favorite time of the year!

[@rawilson7768]

Those piglets are so darn cute!

[@ChosenAbundanceFarm]

Everything looks great. You are hard on yourself. Yes, it takes time, money and a ton of hard work!!

[@Nuup3831]

I am growing Serrano, Poblano Jalapeno and Hababero for my Latina friend. I am also trying Chayote for her and I am excited for them because I have never heard of this squash before. I am growing bells , Sweet banana, and lipstick peppers as well.

[@anniefraser2599]

I agree Loraine, rain does better. Thanks very much for showing your garden! It all looks yum! Love the hydrants! Happy Days! 👏😁☀️🥰🤗🙏🏻

[@TheEmbrio]

Snakes don’t get into woodchips but they do love landscape fabric and stones

[@theIAMofME]

That before and after shot of the land...WOW!! You have most definitely improved that land. Look at Penelope grow. That was a sweet picture of her as a tiny thing with you.

[@dpcsharr]

You can boil the turnip greens and the cabbage with bacon grease and boil the water very low. Soooo good! Also, cabbage freezes well to cook later. I like to fry cabbage too. Love it!

[@kathleenebsen2659]

Pickled cabbage slaw to can. Great pantry staple to have on hand.

[@debralarosa353]

Impressive ! You've worked really hard to meet your goal for all the infrastructure and both gals do a fantastic work in all the garden plots.....but my favorite is piggy tv, just love those kids 😂

[@carenmcfarland7034]

So happy to see how far you’ve come in your gardening endeavors!

[@indianacryptid6020]

Housekeeping garden of this Spring 👀👀❤❤🙏🙏

[@michellebogle5428]

I don't like wood chips around my beds either Lorraine. There is a severe weed problem in my neighborhood and those wood chips would get full of weed seeds and grow. So much easier to keep grass and burn out the weeds with a torch. Plus i do like to walk barefoot in my garden 😊. I am so happy for your family to have upgraded your farm. Y'all have done a tremendous job fixing it up. Much lovecto the family and God bless you all ❤.

[@teresagunther6622]

Another great video! Garden and high tunnel look amazing!

[@angelbmann3531]

Love your high tunnel. And the way you planted in it. It’s perfect. And all the rest too.

[@user-bk4on5lt9z]

Pull up the dirt on the side of the corn to give the stalk more stability. If the stalk looks weak again, add more dirt.

[@brinhaerycammel3467]

Barefoot connected to the earth! So important in a healthy lifestyle. Love your property, wish I had taken the same route.

[@TwoDovesBees]

Y’all have a nice garden going on! One of the ways we found that we really enjoy our cabbage is to slice some into strips and then fry it with some bacon, jalapeños, and garlic… so good!!!

[@keithprinn720]

pickle the red cabbage and store in jars absolutely brilliant

[@anitalee3289]

Fried cabbage with bacon bits is amazing. My husband and I LOVE it with pork chops. Yummmm

[@PattyPrice-tl7bc]

Loraine You have the green thumb touch Beautiful gardens

[@adenvet2830]

Hi guys,when your sellery gets a little taller put tubes over them it will get them nice and white and keep them clean and free from dirt.

[@carlagustka325]

Appreciate you guys so much❤

[@mandyc3658]

YOu really should do the Three Sisters gardening. You take 2 rows of corn then plant green beans and pumpkins below the corn. The beans will use the corn for support and then both will shade the pumpkins or squash. It was the best pumpkin and squash that year. It also keeps the weeds out.

[@sporranheid]

Love it! Garden is amazing! Despite my best efforts, here in the UK butterflies always manage to get to my brassicas and the caterpillars get the best of them. Hey ho. I keep trying, Mark

[@jerrybrady9103]

I found your channel from Justin Rhodes and today your's, Hollar Homestead and Justin Rhodes are my favorites. 😊