Time To Take Care Of The People | Homestead Vlog | April 3, 2024

Today we are preparing for Spring gardening and looking forward to planting in the next couple of weeks! Also tonight for supper we are having Salisbury steak, mashed potatoes, homemade biscuits and corn on the cob!
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Salisbury Steak recipe
2lbs ground beef
1/2 cup crushed crackers or bread crumbs
1/4 cup milk
salt, pepper, onion powder, garlic powder, Italian seasoning, paprika to taste
1/4 cup AP flour
Chicken Broth
worcestershire sauce
Combine ground beef, crackers, milk and seasonings. Patty them out, dredge them in flour, brown in frying pan with grease. Remove once golden brown. Add flour to grease, make a roux, add worcestershire sauce. Add in chicken broth until gravy is the consistency of your liking . Add patty's back into gravy, simmer for 15-20 minutes.
Biscuits
2 cups AP flour
1-2 tsp salt
1 heaping tablespoon of baking powder
2 tbsp lard
2-3 tbsp butter
1 cup(ish) of buttermilk
Combine flour, salt and baking powder. Cut in lard and butter. Add buttermilk until you have a workable dough. Cook on 450 for 10-15 minutes until biscuits are golden brown.
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[@debc8402]

I do enjoy your video's you all make ty for sharing your kind family to us that wish we could ;) I enjoy learning from your cooking

[@mrs.americanmade7452]

Meagan you are the sweetest most down to earth person and all the videos are a joy to watch.....

[@TrueGritAppalachianWays]

Thank you so much!

[@territn8871]

Your alls channel is my very favorite to watch!!!!! You all are living like I was raised up. Good country folks and that's the best kind of living! I'm 70 yrs old and I love watching you in the kitchen cooking up good southern meals, Megan!!! You cook exactly like I was taught! You all are a wonderful family and you're raising such blessed and precious children! I'm so happy I recently found your channel, it's such a joy knowing young parents are still raising their family to appreciate where their food comes from and teaches them their southern heritage!!!!

[@TrueGritAppalachianWays]

thank you so much

[@donnahummel5765]

Growing up country style there's nothing like it. God Bless. Your kids are living the dream life. Every kid should live one day getting dirty.

[@TrueGritAppalachianWays]

amen!

[@dorothybentley3808]

That's right

[@Theoriginalurbanbuffalo]

Always so peaceful watching your videos!

[@TrueGritAppalachianWays]

Thank you so much!

[@phyllispitts6656]

Once again, a good looking supper!

[@SmallTownSouthernWife]

❤

[@olddawgdreaming5715]

A great day was had by all. Looking great around there, everyone doing their chores and what they love to do best. Thanks for sharing your day and your fantastic supper. Stay safe and keep up the fun. Fred.

[@user-su5jx5ch4i]

You guys are good people and a beautiful family…you make us feel like family! Thank you for helping us live off the land and teaching us what works!

[@pjnelson414]

Love watching when I can. Beautiful family. I want to give you an easier way to put up your frozen corn on the cob. Take your fresh pick corn. Cut both ends, peel outside layers of husks off, leave at least 3 layers of husk on. Place in bag and freeze. When you cook, take out what you want to cook, run under water to peel off husk and silk, cook. This way keeps the true flavor of your sweet corn fresh. You can even cook the cobs in the husk on your bbq. Hope you try

[@badatti2d]

So relaxing to watch you work around your property like that. I am totally enthralled watching when you show your kids at work and playing - it reminds me of when I played with my brother like that when we were young. Watching mom preparing the meals is the same as watching the kids play, it just makes me feel good and brings back so many memories of my years growing up watching my ma and pa do the family thing...LOL Thank You 💚

[@TrueGritAppalachianWays]

thank you

[@kennethvaughan8195]

Garden looks great, supper looks delicious !! Great vid.

[@tammielawson6543]

Omgoodness another good video. And yes Andy lilacs are gone of my favorite flowers and thank you for bringing me some. I have really enjoyed them. They are beautiful on my kitchen table❤

[@darianroscoe1017]

My mom used to make syrup out of the edible lilacs. I wish I had access to them in Southern California, but alas not where I am. She would put a cup of sugar into a cup of boiling water until sugar is dissolved, add two grates of lemon peel, no more, then put the lilac flower petals in the mix and let it simmer for 15 or 20 minutes (nothing green as greens have an unpleasant taste). Strain it and enjoy it in cold or hot drinks OR (the best part) over some vanilla ice cream. (I saw you pouring out the potato water...I always made potato bread with my potato water after reducing it down a bit if there's too much. Now it's just me, so not much anymore.)

[@jenniferhahn2851]

I recently found your channel and really appreciate how you share the things you are trying in such a clear and down to earth way. I'm up in Minnesota repotting my plants, waiting to get them in the ground and I watch your videos while tending to my plants. I can't wait to get things outside but I am able to learn from your activities and get a glimpse of spring through you! You guys are doing such a wonderful job at life, it is not just educational to watch but it really is enjoyable. You are great people, thank you for sharing your knowledge and experiences, it's so refreshing to have honest and grounded content!

[@marieparks5674]

That big tub would grow potatoes good, I bet. Love seeing those kids, enjoying the farm life, nothing better.

[@TrueGritAppalachianWays]

though about it, I think i might do some sweet potatoes

[@NORMANMORRISON1940]

All I can say is your man is a lucky man because you are the one heck of a woman to do everything that you do

[@TrueGritAppalachianWays]

you got that right!

[@stacypotts6341]

Never understood why some folks would season up their flour to dredge up their chicken, pork chops and country fried steak off in it, then dump it when they're done, then turn around and use fresh flour for their gravy. That's just wasteful to me.

[@adventuresinmichiganwlisa9852]

Awesome dinner👍🤓👍 thanks for sharing ❤

[@mrs.americanmade7452]

Yeah!!!! 37,000 subs and growing

[@hawkrose8403]

Lilacs are one of my MOST FAVORITE flowers.

[@stacypotts6341]

I love to watch deer. Love to eat deer meat. But they are absolute scoundrels when it comes to your garden. And they absolutely love some clover and will try anything to get to it.

[@lindabyrne1645]

Enjoyed watching!

[@MrCorvettegirl2]

Hi Megan Supper looks delicious 🤗😋👍

[@dorothybentley3808]

Supper looks delicious !!!💐🐝💐🐝

[@marilynwitherell186]

Thanks for another great video.

[@lesterhertel2945]

Another very interesting video Thank you

[@melissaedwards8974]

Those biscuits are gold! Yum, yum, yum!

[@welchfarmnc]

That dinner looks so good

[@robinbutler7863]

You all are so so blessed and highly favored, what a beautiful life.

[@860178432]

When you SCOOPED out the chicken broth, my mouth started watering 😂😂

[@ednamyers5760]

Great video but... LOL you sure made me hungry... thanks for sharing the video...

[@destinyandpurpose]

Love your videos, good cooking, good farming, great family!

[@cindym7234]

That looks like a yummy dinner! 😋

[@janetforster2484]

I just love y’all so good ❤️ watching the children grow and chores and the cooking makes me so happy

[@lesterwicklein717]

Great channel thanks!

[@susannmoreno1458]

Lilacs are my favorite and remind me of my mom too. The white ones are pretty also.

[@deltonwatts9726]

Thanks for sharing the video of your beautiful farm and work....Blessings.

[@timmyfields6159]

Make a small dam that the county won’t complain about so you can have a pool of water for our NC droughts .

[@kymburriss4260]

You have a beautiful farm

[@MimsysGarden]

I used my old cracked water trough too! I filled it with cardboard, limbs, some rocks , top soil and topped w compost. I have sage, rosemary, basil, cilantro and oregano and a couple garlic bulbs in it…. They grow fabulously clustered intensively together! I may even add a currant type tomato plant for the summer. 💚

[@luciabriseno4065]

I Love a Good Ole Country Meal 🥘👌🏻👩‍🍳😋

[@grumpyoldman7948]

Meagan, my husband (Grumpy Old Man) is falling in love with your channel. Several times when discussing what we're going to cook for supper, I've told him, "Well I was watching Meagan cook so and so. What do you think about that?" He's always excited. So, tomorrow night we're having Salisbury steak for supper. 🤤

[@TrueGritAppalachianWays]

I hope yall loved it!

[@pentre33]

♥️✝️🇺🇸 Yes sir, those kids are living a good life !

[@Melissa-pt2ik]

I cheat when I make mashed potatoes I use my mixer to make them creamy

[@sherryowens7375]

Lilac is my favorite also. I use the essential oils to calm my anxiety. Those biscuits look awesome!!! Thanks for sharing. 😁

[@rbirkheimer59]

That supper is yummy! You always make the best lookin food. Hubby always has a big smile on his face when he sees what you have made. The size of the biscuits......huge. Everyone loves your family and what you do. You are living art,the old ways will live on. I miss those days. God Bless.Hugs, Rebekah

[@teresahix5658]

I so enjoyed seeing the kids at the creek. That is where I spent a lot of my childhood, on the creek. Also the river fishing with my grandpa. Great place to make memories.❤❤

[@conniejones6618]

Love watching your channel! Thanks for sharing with us! 💖

[@stacypotts6341]

Have you ever made biscuits the old timey way by tossing your lard off in the middle of a bowl of flour and pouring buttermilk off in there and squeezing the lard into the mix? I was done married and had two younguns before I made em by cutting the lard into the flour and then adding the buttermilk. My daddy seen me making em like that one day and thought I was crazy, thought they wouldn't be no good, and no telling what else he thought that he didn't say. So come time to set down for supper I asked what he thought about em, and he said I was such a good cook he couldn't really tell if they was better or worse. So I done up two batches that weekend, one the old timey way the other the new fangled way and had him try both. Well, he said they was just as good but he didn't understand the point of it. But when I told him it saved sticking your hands off in that cold buttermilk, he was all for it. When I was almost two years old he made me scrub my hands and set me on the kitchen table and set the biscuit bowl off in front of me and learnt me to make biscuits. I originally thought he done that cause I was always aggravating him to let me do something, but he done it cause his hands was tore up with arthritis, he was fifty-nine years old when I was born so he started learning me all he could as soon as he could.

[@lizmiller2341]

Thank you for taking us along on your day! I just found your videos they are fun to watch.

[@earlenebrown7181]

What a yummy looking dinner. And a lot of planting left for you guys to do for sure you’re really gonna be busy this summer. Hope everything does good for you.

[@mikeanderson7165]

Yummy yummy I need me some ❤ awesome seeing the kids having fun outside ❤❤❤

[@timmyfields6159]

The heat radiating off the barn causes it to bloom early

[@nitashadow2860]

It looks really good. Hi from lutz Florida USA

[@nannygirl]

Ya"lol are the hardest working people that l have ever seen! God blessyou❤

[@stevewilliams245]

Put you some milk with the water when your cooking your corn on the cob. It makes it taste so much better

[@brendawoods554]

Iilac is one of my favorite flowers, yes those kids are living their best life. Megan, your supper looks delicious.

[@jvin248]

You can shorten that leaky water trough someday: cut half way up all around and then you have a ground-ring plus the bottom section and you'd have two raised bed opportunities.

[@TrueGritAppalachianWays]

good idea

[@GardeningLady]

Love your channel. I live in the suburbs with small yard and use lots of pots so enjoyed seeing you use containers. Have some raised beds too.. Supper looks yummy.

[@glynnbroner4084]

Andy, Put the plug back in the water trough and drill some drain holes in the sides 6-8” up on it. If not , they dry out way too fast due to where the drain hole is. I’m doing the same with three old ones myself Works great !! Glynn

[@luciabriseno4065]

My grandson wld have a Hay Day out there. He Loves to play and Work outside. He lives in the city, loves to help his friends that live in the country with their goats 🐐

[@georgejobin1744]

That how kids are suppose to play not in the house playing video games. I grew up just like that.when I could reach the clutch pedal on the tractor with my foot I was a working on the farm best life ever

[@deltorres2100]

I do enjoy watching ya’s videos 👍🏽👍🏽

[@paccur1252]

The lilac is beautiful.. Great job with the pots and gardening.. Would really love a homecooked meal in your kitchen.. always looks delicious.. Much love and appreciation from Australia God bless you all

[@tuwanharrington919]

Hey y'all, I just wanted to thank you for teaching me an easy way to make gravy. I literally got up and made everything you made for dinner today and the gravy is fantastic, thanks again 🎉

[@TrueGritAppalachianWays]

awesome thank you

[@FromHereOnOutSoap]

I love and enjoy your videos.

[@kareneakers9540]

Love your videos and your food looks so delicious! God bless you

[@misstlc7136]

😂gurlfriend ...I made me some strawberry biscuits this morning. I just made them with sweet milk rather than buttermilk. Cut the strawberries 🍓 up fairly small. Added them in last. Only added one cup so they wouldn't be heavy biscuits. Made a little glaze and boy they was good. I bet your kids would love them. I growed up with my mommy making a little chocolate gravy as a treat 😋 You ever eat that as a kid? I still make it when I go to the beach with my friends. Their kids love when Aunt Tena comes along to cook all week. Lol. I'm happy to cook all week and they cover my part of the beachhouse. 😂 Great deal for me.

[@TrueGritAppalachianWays]

Ohhhh I will have to give that a try!! Sounds delicious!

[@thekentuckian8375]

Mr. I got to say. Meagan is a one in 10,000 to cook like she does. Wants to make sure her family is feed with the most healthy foods. That is unheard of these days. The last woman I seen do that was my mother. My choices are McD, BK, or maybe if I’m lucky KFC. Love watching you guys.

[@timmyfields6159]

I wasn’t smart enough to remember how mommy did it , but she put all her flour and wet ingredients in the wood platter and the hand squeezed them biscuits out and gave them an oven bath. Us 7 kids never complained cause we never went hungry .

[@deltorres2100]

So a friend of mine saw a landscaping company putting trees at the hotel and she went and asked them landscapers. Can I have those Pots or what are you gonna do with those pots And that-man said take them .,so she got about 30 of them gave me about 10 and I don’t have no grass in my backyard so I’ve been growing in those for 4 years now and I do amend the soil And I also used two of them because they’re so big to make my own compost and it works out really great and she called me the other day and said she had a few more so I’m gonna ask her because now that I’ve been rowing and watching y’all, I have learned so many things like to be not disturbed ,like the carrots and the garlic and the potatoes and things like that so I’m going to be using pots for specific plants Ty guys 🌱

[@jaybeaty1706]

Really enjoy your videos, and I look forward to more...

[@joycejones4526]

I can't believe this. I just saw you all in Perry Hill Farm video. I'm from across the mountain in Mt. Carmel TN. I was raised in Hickory Tree and Valley Pike out from Bristol,st the foot of the mountain. I love your channel can't wait to see all your videos. You live like I was raised and oh how I miss that life. I haven't heard anyone talk like me in years. Biscuits,red eye gravy and taters. Love to all of you.

[@elt.214]

I love how you call them Critters. 😂

[@ellymae2006]

Almost 40k subscribers. Yall keep putting out great content. Mic sounds great. Biscuits looks awesome.

[@TrueGritAppalachianWays]

Thank you!

[@jamiejohnston4983]

Just found this channel. Enjoying watching yall do the things yall do!

[@TrueGritAppalachianWays]

Awesome! Thank you!

[@donnacarrier978]

I agree with Andy on the lilac....my Mom had a huge one and I had a neighbor trim it for me and he took it to the ground and it never came back.

[@TrueGritAppalachianWays]

thats not good, mine needs a good trim but im afraid ill kill it if i do

[@sheliahyatt2531]

I love the way yall live onyour farm. It is so goodto have good food to eat and know that you grew it or raise it. That's what we do. I grow my vegetables and I buy my meat from a rancher except chicken. I grow them out.

[@roxannern9393]

Thanks for sharing! You've inspired me to make salisbury steak for dinner tonight. I grind up pork rinds to replace bread crumbs when working with ground meat.

[@toddforhetz]

Fill that water tub with straw berries. Thats what I did a few years ago, and WOW ! It was easy pickin and they filled that thing up ! SOOOO easy to pick ! No bendin over. 🙃

[@Robbinp12]

My son and daughter-in-law have a homestead and grow Cornish Cross chickens. They do grow fast and the meat is delicious!

[@julieoneil1279]

Love the smell of lilacs too but I am allergic unfortunately for me So spring time is a had time for me I spend a lot of time indoors to avoid all the pollen in the air-

[@edwardpotter8342]

Love your Channel love the area id love to live there& live like that reminds me how I grew up on the Pamlico river in eastern N.C. spent alot time with my grandpa he passed away in1994 he had a little land & animals, garden,etc we just in summer had seafood from the river to. My wife passed away 5 years ago me& her always wanted to do what you all are doing I still do my Children are grown just me& my 2 dogs I'd love to live where you all live so if you ever need a old man farm hand let me know would love to move there or come spend some time there.. I've done a lot of what you all are doing so I have experience just have to learn your way Routine.dont want no pay just a little place to lay my head a tiny one room , wood heat, place I can rest& play my guitar in evenings.. God Bless you all 🙏

[@dmartin4295]

Blessed children to live such a wholesome life and have great roll model parents! Love your videos. 🥰

[@deltorres2100]

Get your little girl to paint some flowers on there like some sunflowers or something I’m pretty sure she can bring some charm to the garden

[@mint2bee689]

Another delicious looking meal. Lilacs smell heavenly. Ya'll are living the life...the way I think God intended.

[@duncand5148]

Hey Andy and Meagan. Your birds look awesome. And you only lost the one 🤔. Wow. Valley Farms right? Andy glad to see that you did go ahead and plant crimson clover. That’s spot on man. 👍🏽 I said I was going anti-poultry netting, but I can’t go back. You gave me the confirmation I needed in this video. Actually I think I’m going order me some more. Maybe in the meanwhile someone will come up with a better more durable product. IDK. Maybe I’m just too picky. 😂😂😂

[@TrueGritAppalachianWays]

Yes Valley Farms! and yeah we have a love hate relationship with that dern net haha!

[@dorothybentley3808]

Where I live here in KY we have Mullen growing everywhere. I would like to know from Megan what all can be made from it.besides Mullen the only thing else that grows wild is rocks lol lol.thanks for shot us what all you can pug in pots to grow.ever since I found your channel I love to see you all with new videos. Bug I'm still watching the older videos.love your little family sag hi to everyone.💐🐝💐🐝💐🐝💐🐝

[@TrueGritAppalachianWays]

Thank you!

[@tiktok11150]

I grew some huge carrots in a large water trough like the one you have.

[@deborahrutherford5244]

I purchased your cook book I bet the recipes are down home like we like.

[@TrueGritAppalachianWays]

Thank you so much!

[@WandaGrimmett]

U have a beautiful place and a cute little girl love your vidios😮

[@user-ud7zw2po5g]

Hi that food 🥘 looks delicious in Great Britain we do less milk in our mash thank you 🙏 for your videos love ❤️ your family ❤❤❤ 😘 xx

[@user-pc9nr2mc4r]

How can you go wrong with with hamburger cooked in lard? 😂❤ Flavor town on steroids!

[@claraanderson1305]

That looks yummy! Are you going to make you some lilac jelly sure would go good on some them biscuits ❤

[@chuckcolburn5624]

Have been watching you for a week now and stayed up last night until 4:00am this morning. Was watching the show about your plans for 2024 and I noticed your bacon was really nice, but I have one suggestion, build a small smoke house and smoke the bacon and hams from your hogs. I think you would really like it. I am in Tennessee just north of Knoxville and all I can raise is rocks, so I am going to try a raised bed. At 79 years old I am not too old to learn new techniques. Love your videos.

[@chuckcolburn5624]

After watching some more videos I see that you have a smokehouse.

[@sandrabrown1320]

You could dig a hole the shape of the bottom and drop down some if you don’t like how tall the water trough is.

[@Nins-niche67]

The water trough plant lettuces and radishes and green onions for salads

[@rowan2u380]

Boy, do I miss driving tractor...

[@janabradshaw5475]

I use mine for planting potatoes I have two of those got sweet potatoes in one and I've got regular theaters in the other they work great my taters grow like crazy in them

[@timmyfields6159]

Looks like you got the garden plot broke up real good.