Learn to be more self sufficient on a suburban lot with permaculture methods, frugal living, gardening, food preservation, animal husbandry and easy days. Learn simple homesteading skills to become more self sufficient and escape from the rat race. I emphasize homemaking skills while homeschooling my children. We are working on our suburban homestead while building our off grid cabin in the woods. Tiny house build. Hunting and fishing for self sufficiency. Off grid living while raising kids.
Yup Amanda! It’s been a crazy few years and about to get crazier. I’ve been putting everyone’s pantry vids to a playlist. I still have to film mine. Girl you got it going on like we do! 🎉💚
Totally awesome! You need way more views on the incredibly work you and your family have done! 💚🌱 Sharing out, subbed and hit the thumb. I’m in Ontario and this our plan for our new property.
Nicely done. Personally loving canned peas/beans I never fill them to one inch head space before adding the liquid because I like more juice/liquid still in the jars after they have cooled and absorbed/expanded fully. I hope when you said you let the jars sit overnight in the canner you make it clear to many to have the lid removed..otherwise it may take a crowbar to get it off..as the instruction book implies.
Ditto on all the positive comments! Its cool to see how many trees you have and I am celebrating with you on all the fruit trees that are finally producing! (I just planted 10 trees this spring and hopefully will plant more next spring so I have a ways to go before I get fruit, but my berries are doing pretty well) Thanks again for your garden tours!
Thanks for the inspiration. Ive deliberately not watered my lawn this year so i can do this to my front yard. Still planning it out. I sympathize with you on bindweed. Its the worst weed ever. And its very hard overcome. Seeds can live up to forty years. Ive even tried digging it up but as you are aware....it can grow back with just an inch of root left in the ground. Its really a shame that food plants are not as resilient and persistent. Imagine the amount of food we would have if veggies grew like weeds. :)
I am working towards this and I am continually uping my own garden and food forest to work towards this. Unfortunatly local produce at the farmers market was triple the price of the grocery store. I'm not quite ready to take the plunge. But I love getting ideas from other people and it gives me motivation to keep working towards this!
Love seeing this! I just watched your newer video and I'm so sorry you lost your chickens. I'm a few years behind you on growing (and also in the suburbs).
I am excited to hear more! In my town we have a lot of agriculture around us and have to spray (or bag) many fruits by law, such as cherries, apples, pears and a few others. So we have chosen to not do cherries and to keep our apple and pear trees small so we can bag either the tree or the individual fruit.
Love your yard! It's awesome! I am so sorry you had to get rid of your chickens! That's crazy! I am allowed 4 animals older then a year in my city (including pets). My yard currently looks like a lot of leafy sticks (we just planted a lot of bare roots trees and bushes this spring.) Hopefully my yard will look bounteous like yours in the future.
I was hoping the same and tried it myself. It worked for awhile but found there was oil build up unfortunately. I am going to play woth some recipes and hopefully find one that works.
Hey Amanda, have you considered/tried espalier? I am going to train some of my dwarf apple and pears around some walkway "fence lines" this year to fit in even more fruit bearing trees!! So exciting, cant wait to see your garden in bloom.
Thanks for inspiration. I’m over in Fargo ND, so similar snow that won’t go away. I was wondering when to start, since I’ve past lived in Ohio & CT where the snow is usually gone by now.
Oh wow what a wonderful place to live. I'm not sure when to start for you exactly as I imagine that is much different from.where I am at, I would assume in April at some point. Good luck!
I love it! Here in Atlanta we are warming up. I am doing beefsteak tomatoes and sweet 100’s this year along with cucumbers, squash and bush beans. Cayenne peppers, bell peppers and lettuce. I hope the snow melts and warm weathers happens for y’all soon!
