The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly | Homestead Vlog | May 15, 2024

Today we've got some bad news about the creek garden, it will have to be replanted, we've also got to get our corn hilled, potatoes cultivated and watermelons planted. Tonight we are having a smoked fresh off the farm chicken with smoked cheesy potatoes! Man, talk about good!
How to make Smoked Potatoes:
-Peel and cube enough potatoes to fill an 8x8 glass dish
-Boil potatoes until they are fork tender, but not falling apart
-Place in 8x8 dish
-Add seasoning to taste (garlic powder, onion powder, salt, pepper)
-Add 1 heaping spoonful of mayo and 1 heaping spoonful of sour cream
-Mix
-Add to smoker for 30min-1 hr
-Cover the top of potatoes with shredded cheese
-Place back in the smoker for 30 min-1 hr or until the cheese is melted.
Enjoy!
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[@dlewis895]

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[@ranhbs1]

What a joy to see families working together . You two are loving parents taking the time to be hands-on teaching your kids how to work by enjoying it too.

[@Djh_Tx]

Cry if you want!!! What a beautiful yet functional shelf and it’s priceless because it was straight from the loving and talented hands of your husband. ❤❤

[@TerrieAllred2023]

I love that you guys show us the REAL side of farming, good and bad. Andy could have edited out the part where he had to make adjustments for the potatoes, but he didn't and I truly admire that. My pigs must have gotten scared of the bad storm we had last night and busted through the fence and the hotwire, but my old self repaired it while my husband is at work. They had walked through a couple of rows of corn, but I am so thankful they only damaged three stalks!! Didn't touch the rest of the garden :)

[@TrueGritAppalachianWays]

Oh my gosh!! Yes thank goodness that’s all the damage they did!

[@marymiller2398]

Get you some aluminum foil pie plates. Put a stake in ground tie the plate with a string to the stake. The noise when the wind blows will keep crows away plus they are shiney .

[@Saoirse.n.Murphy]

Yes! We also tie the canning rings to string and hang them on posts. Deer and bear do not bother the tomatoes at all. However, the deer love my neighbors' as they refused the aluminum or tin cups and rings. May look a bit messy, but does the trick!

[@gailwaldrop3753]

Ya'll are very rare indeed, Ya'll are teaching your children not only a way of life but how to survive a d feed themselves and their families. May God bless ya'll.

[@billylee4719]

I am new subscriber from Weatherford, Texas. You had me when you made chow chow. I am 74 years old and remember helping my mother grind green tomatoes when i was about your daughters age. Most people don't even know what chow chow is.

[@marieparks5674]

I had to laugh, when I was still gardening, I would stand there and tell myself that it was so pretty, absolutely nothing like a garden. Love those helpful kids.

[@user-qr6ep1rc4s]

Your correct!Folks that have never had chicken straight from the farm to the table have no idea!

[@johnayers8990]

Yall are my favorite farming you tube channel HANDS DOWN! I feel like I know yall. Lol 😂

[@TrueGritAppalachianWays]

Thank you so much!

[@brendawoods554]

So sorry to hear about your corn, but it's wonderful to see your little family working together in the garden. Love your videos.

[@JohnDenham-fc5xv]

Love to watch Megan cook. More cooking please

[@1CathyHendrix]

That chicken makes me hungry! And the potato's look great. I will definitely give them a try. Would you show us how you make homemade ice cream sometime? Folks all have their own way to do it and I am always looking for different ways and recipes. Hope ya'll are having a great week. Fog and rain up here in Galax. It may not be my favorite weather, but it sure is good for all of the plants.

[@margierenfro4943]

So sorry about the damage the crows did!! Praying that the ribbon works! Love your show!

[@cheryllamb8831]

Great video! I always enjoy & learn so much from y'all. It is a true joy watching your children willingly help & learn sustainability from you. I don't have a tractor (and never will) but it is so interesting to watch Andy explain the things he does to make it work for the crops. The chicken and potatoes look amazing, and homemade ice cream to boot! I'd say you are eating fine 😋. Blessings

[@sandysmith8567]

The little home garden and potato patch look awesome! I'd imagine the crows have moved on and won't circle back. Supper looks so good. Not sure if Jacob and Maggie would like it, but smoked mac n cheese is really yummy, too!

[@donnasaylor2778]

Garden beautiful food yummy good kids so dear to our ❤️ bread making. Cup cakes I love coffee ☕️ be safe

[@melaniemurphy2429]

I came across one of your videos earlier today. After watching a couple of them I knew I was hooked! I love your little family, the animals and garden, and especially the meals. You cook like my family cooked when I was growing up. I am now 59 years old and I remember the first time I had to buy tomato juice from the grocery store. I almost cried lol. All the women in my mom’s family canned everything. I was married with children when I had to start buying canned food from the grocery store. I still miss it today and remember just how wonderful it all tasted. I hope you have great success with your gardens! God Bless 😊

[@Nins-niche67]

You planted the exact 3 varieties I planted last year for watermelons

[@2fish_tacos814]

You ain’t lying about a fresh chicken. You can smell one frying a mile away! Hope to meet y’all one of these days if I’m ever across the mountain in your neck of the woods. Take care y’all

[@fionaworrell4535]

I often put a whole orange or lemon in the cavity of a chicken,just salt n pepper and a bit of herbs on the outside..delicious and so easy!

[@brandygaddy7429]

Yall are such an informative channel! Not only do you show us rookie gardeners how to do things,yall also tell us WHY you do it! Yall don’t know how much that helps! I just love watching yall!

[@subdrvr]

Nice to see you ain’t tractor poor.

[@TrueGritAppalachianWays]

Not at all 😅😅😅

[@terryyounts8220]

Garden looks amazing. Grown to love un's family. Much love from Appalachia Kentucky.

[@rowan2u380]

Ahhh...the life of a farmer! I'm so sorry about that other garden spot! Please replant it...put you a Scarecrow out there with your reflective tape 🤞

[@welchfarmnc]

Life on the farm is great just don’t let the little things get you upset.

[@thickthinhomestead3958]

Never seen an old kubota set up as a cultivator. Thats cool. Plants looks awesone

[@paccur1252]

So glad you sorted the tractor, Andy, before you lost your potatoes.. That dinner sure looks good.. Much love and appreciation from Australia, May The Heavenly Father bless you all and give you a bountiful harvest for your beautiful, loving family

[@johnnysharpe3812]

Megan we sure enjoyed seeing y'all over the weekend and really enjoyed seeing all the gardens in person. The chicken was amazing and we can't thank you enough.

[@TrueGritAppalachianWays]

Thank y’all too! I’m so glad y’all enjoyed it!

[@christurley5624]

You guys parenting is such a breth of fresh air!!

[@harlincolkmire933]

That's so awesome that you're kids are helping you in the garden. It brings back memories of me and my Dad. God bless.

[@olddawgdreaming5715]

Great video folks, the gardens are looking great, Megan needs a good recipe for blackbird pie so her popcorn can grow next round , that's too bad that they cleaned out the corn. Hope the reflective tape works and maybe Jacob could fix you up with a scare crow for the garden across the creek? The watermelon patch and the potato patch really look great , glad you got the cultivator set up just right. That supper sure looked good Megan, thanks for sharing. Stay safe and keep up the fun around there. Fred.

[@gloriabond123]

Your channel is so great and reminds me of Holler Homestead. Between you and Meg I’m getting so many recipes. Thank you

[@user-bb7lo7yn2x]

Good morning from Oregon, sorry to hear about the garden😒 there’s time don’t give up!! I’m praying there is a positive outcome 😊

[@GenevaRoberts-ib6mv]

I love yall so much, and love everything yall do .I learn something new all the time.

[@jeffreyhilbourn209]

Great videos. Thank y’all very much

[@ronhall4199]

It's crow season now. Lol. Mix red pepper and warm water, in a pump sprayer and spray your plants. That will keep the bugs off

[@Betty-in4ve]

We are so GLAD we found you ALL. We dont watch the others we used to since we stumbled across True Grit.

[@terryfolley3136]

I see the crows got your corn. Back in my day, dad soaked field corn in vinegar & broadcasted the kernels throughout the field. It prevented animals/birds picking our corn. Hope this helps

[@barbaranoel6118]

My Aunt and her daughter had big gardens every year and when the ears started forming on the corn they put a drop of mineral oil on the silks and never had corn worms. A lot of work but worth the effort

[@rondove9473]

Good videos about real life farming and helping the children to farm 🤠🤠🤠 TN

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Hello from whitehorse yukon Canada, love your channel.

[@Stupha_Kinpendous]

This is off-topic, but I live in Taiwan, and okra is new-ish here. Last couple of decades it's been increasingly popular. But here's how it's often served in restaurants: The okra is washed and trimmed. It is then chucked in some boiling water to blanch it, but only just barely. When it's still beautifully green, and crisp, only just barely cooked, it's chucked into a colander full of ice water. The okra is then drained and arranged side-by-side on a platter in some pretty way. So at this point you've got just a nice platter of barely-cooked okra. And then you cover it as fancy as you can with very fine streams of mayonnaise. Like on a cake, with a frosting doohickey. And if you want to be REALLY fancy, you sprinkle colorful cookie sprinkles all over the top. It's super-weird. But genuinely good. And it looks very attractive on a plate. Good way to freak out your next pot-luck.

[@TrueGritAppalachianWays]

Interesting idea! Thanks for sharing!

[@mollyt9714]

Like ya'll said it was beautiful.....they don't wanna eat ugly stuff, just the prime pretty stuff😢 I just love ya'lls channel!!!!

[@barbaranoel6118]

So happy you are showing your children a good work ethic. So many kids nowadays don't do anything at home except play on their phones or computers and then they are not prepared when they get out in the real world

[@jameslocke3069]

That holographic tape is great in the breeze! It flashes crazy when the wind blows.

[@Melissa-pt2ik]

I just love watching you work in your garden it brings back memories of my husband and I working in our garden and it brings back the memories of my granddaddy working in his garden and planting his corn fields

[@user-ru3mb1mp6j]

I watch your channel and I love it.

[@renatal1972]

The best meal I have ever had in my life, was a fresh hog and fresh salad when I took my dad to his 50th class reunion in Idaho. Everything was home grown and raised.

[@lesterwicklein717]

Good Morning

[@lindabyrne1645]

Love watching your videos! My daughter and I were talking the other day. And we sing every show. School should have show kids how to garden. That's great, that you're if you're kids out doing it with you. I think that's great.

[@AZJH8374]

New subscriber. I just watched you butchering chickens BY YOURSELF 100 to boot! If I lived closer, I'd have helped you. I'm in Scottsdale AZ though. God bless you all and many prayers 🙏🏻 Nurse Judi in Scottsdale AZ and Eucharistic Minister ☦️ 🙏🏻

[@TrueGritAppalachianWays]

Welcome!

[@debbieridgeway2197]

Ya can't beat them yeller watermelon 😋 I had my first one down there in Florida where my Daddy n law farms em..

[@tylerscales2396]

I just love this family! Just good ol folks! Garden lookin fine!

[@Saoirse.n.Murphy]

Hello! Lost 90 potential heads of garlic up here in the Berkshires, MA. They started sprouting with vigor in mid December as it was unseasonably warm this winter. So, we covered and covered some more w/ too many leaves. They compacted them and they perished. I was crushed! So, next year we will plant closer to Thanksgiving and cover with straw... and remove the cover come February. Gardening is a learning curve. Good luck out there! Peace

[@Florida239]

I had 240 mator plants about ten years ago and they were plumb full of big beautiful mators I was gonna pick and have a mator juicing party the next day. I went to town and came back up the driveway and it looked like 200 crows took off flying out of that mator patch some of em even had whole mators in their mouths flying off! They absolutely destroyed the whole patch and that was the first time I ever had crow trouble in 35 years raising a garden in that very spot! And they ain’t never been back either ! Beats me have a goodn

[@randalljarnigan5897]

You might want to invest in a Air Dancer and a solar panel to put down at the creek garden

[@user-wq9rx6xi5q]

Enjoy every episode takes me back home!!

[@hollyu48]

I am so envious of you beautiful cabbage, I have planted them twice and birds and rabbit took the, I have the in one more time but.. who knows

[@JamesJones-rn1bf]

We all make mistakes have a great day.😀

[@bethmitchell6981]

Don't feel bad about not be expert on growing watermelons. This is our first year to grow watermelons and canteloupe. Ya'll are doing a awesome job. Loving your channel.

[@afdraftsrmandy3176]

True grit! Dang crows.

[@lavondadye8091]

Your garden looks amazing! Love that your kids want to help and I'm sure it won't be long before Miss Maggie wants her own garden spot too❤️

[@stacypotts6341]

I had an ol' boy I used to log with that had some good yellow watermelons his family growed and I asked him to save me some seeds. They stayed off in the glove box of my pick up until the next spring, and they sprouted no problems. The next spring I was cleaning out my truck and found a whole mess of them seeds that fell off in the bottom of the glove box, and they sprouted too. So y'all oughta be all right.

[@marycohen3187]

I'm amazed that you have the skills and energy to raise your children in a wonderful homesome way. You both are great mentors. I love watching you very much. I live in Bay City Mi. I'm 70 but I garden in raised beds, we have 13 hens and tons of eggs. I cook everything from scratch and can everything I plant, and meat,butter,milk, also applebutter, cherry jam (Michigan is known for our cherries and apples, I like canning pineapple when I find it on sale. I really enjoy your KZbin channel. Wish you many blessings.

[@larrysowada9905]

That chicken and smoked potatoes look good, i smoke a lot of foods but have not tried smoked potatoes now that i know the secret of smoking them I'll have to try it. And your potatoes rows look clean and so straight i wish mine looked that good but i don't have as many potatoes plants planted so i do mine by hand , thank you, Larry

[@Jtwes]

The down pressure on those back feet an’t no joke. It will bust some middles out. Nice Job 👍

[@lindasaum9577]

Oh your potatoes look so good. I am trying to grow mine in containers for the first time. I would love to try some of that chicken and potatoes. Looks delicious.

[@selfreliantb2363]

Just found your channel..... one of my new favorites. Ive been gardening for year and never hilled corn. Thanks for the advice. Love how real yall are👍

[@lionelcarriere7898]

Mmmmm,I smoke chickens all the time but I use a wet brine for 24 hours . Then a spice paste rub over night , then in my propane smoker for approximately 6 hours lol. Delicious. I do 2 - 6 pound birds at a time. I just smoked eggs for my smoked pickled eggs.

[@tjake490]

I just discovered your channel, and I truly enjoy watching these Vlog's. Your family's lifestyle is wholesome and admirable. Thank you for sharing a glimpse of your daily life with us!

[@makinchanges272]

Yep that patch looks good, great catch on fixing before chopped up.

[@sandrawyrick]

Those chicken and potatoes looked DELISH!

[@adventuresinmichiganwlisa9852]

Looking good y'all 👍❣️👍

[@karenhunter8969]

You all are great. So sorry to hear about your crops but you are right. Life happens. Accept the good bad and ugly. Thank you for being such an inspiration to everyone

[@shilohfarm7248]

Looks delicious ! Thanks for your recipe. Have a blessed weekend.

[@douglasgatian1401]

One of my new favorite channels! Thanks.

[@jhutto3814]

I don't know what your night time temps are, but I had to replant sweet corn twice. We had so many nights in the 40s in March, when I normally start the garden nothing germinated, and when it did it was real spotty. I finally put out some 8 or 10 inch transplants I'd started in the house in anticipation of weather we had last year. Next 2 smaller plots, I sprouted in the house and planted when it got a couple inches high. Those late spring low temps at night killed me. Even things that were up or transplanted, grew supper slow. I transplanted okra twice after it warmed some more. It likes 60 degree nights at least for transplants. Crazy weather even worse this year than last. Good luck. I love your Kubota outfit. I'm a Kubota freak too. All I've ever owned.

[@lesterhertel2945]

Another very interesting video Thank you 😊 🙏 👍 😀 🙂

[@josephshade2037]

Try placing an owl there.

[@MynewTennesseeHome]

That's a shame, I had crow problems years ago, I cut a bunch of sticks and strung old vhs tape... worked like a charm.

[@tinakarp3996]

Gardens look great! Food looks great! Watching your videos... Great! 😊

[@kennethdurham1022]

Hey guys try those strike green beans . May they really produce and taste so good we really like them God bless

[@vikkibyington3066]

❤garden is looking good! Love seeing the kids anxious to help. Meg, your chicken and potatoes look delicious!! I agree about the ice cream! Enjoy! Love y’all! ❤🙏🏻

[@chriscrusader5412]

Sorry to hear about the lower garden. That really sucks. This channel makes me want to buy a tractor but I have no land to farm lol.

[@deltorres2100]

My good news is that I got some guys to build me some rice bed out of some industrial roofing material that I had. They built me too very big tall ones so not so much bending not bending at all really but I’m not gonna settle until after I harvest my garlic, the place they’re at it’s a wood frame bed that I will move once I harvest the garlic post on your Facebook page

[@elainethompson6427]

Just found your channel. Absolutely love watching

[@ShayEtx]

You always have such awesome sweet corn. I don't remember the name of it? Our ears don't get that big. Great video all around! Thanks for sharing!

[@TrueGritAppalachianWays]

Honey select ☺️

[@kennethmichael5607]

That’s a blessing teaching them kids about gardening wish mine would get interested I’ve got great grandkids and I’m afraid none of them are interested

[@rayclay2]

what a team!!! ready set grow~! 🍗🥔🌽🍉

[@glendabenard3772]

Oh no!!!!!!!! I'm so sorry about your garden. But stay on the right track at planting your own garden. And eating healthy.

[@mikematheny1778]

I use a bottle of hot sauce like Tabasco in a 3 gallon garden sprayer and helps keeps the bugs off the plants

[@bernicephillips4270]

That’s how I like peas too Megan, pick em and eat em as I go past them. :)

[@susanluksetic977]

Great video 😊

[@duncand5148]

Let me tell you. I might be older, but I’m definitely not set in my way. I totally agree with Jacob. Yellow Doll is the best tasting watermelon ever in my opinion. For fifty years I primarily grew black diamonds. I now only grow tailgate seedless ( and the sangria pollinator seed that comes with them), and yellow doll from Hoss Tools. Tailgate seedless, sangria and yellow doll watermelons rule!!!

[@BrendaLee-zs4fg]

Love your video's.....you all work so well together

[@countrylivingwithtashia4169]

Crows have been in our corn bad this year. We have 2 blue healers and a Australian shepherd running lose. They usually keep everything out of the garden.

[@classicrocklover5615]

Dinner looks incredible! I would have never thought to finish the potatoes in the smoker!

[@taketwodevotions1247]

I'm so sorry about your crops! I guess that's why the old timers had scarecrows.

[@elt.214]

Do I see a how to build a scarecrow video in the future? 😂