I will be sharing with you 40 years of homesteading methods. The topics I cover will range from prepping your garden, cleaning up your garden, how to minimize weeds, ways to keep scavenging critters off your property, raising broiler chickens, canning vegetables & fruits, freezing vegetables, fruits and eggs; making homemade dog food (several varieties), making homemade baby food, making salsas & spices and more. My tried, tested and refined methods of homesteading can aid you to benefit you and your family, including the furry ones.
I LOVE LOVE LOVE yolk... and that chicken egg was BEAUTIFUL, that deep golden yolk . I love your channel, we are trying to return to the simpler/ honest way of living. Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us, specially those of us that don't have a whole lot of women folk in their lives... I lost my mom and aunt when I was 18 to a drunk driver, so it means a lot to me. ❤ 🙏
Hi Grace, As you already know, I love your garden and videos/. You have one of the most beautiful and well kept gardens I've ever seen. Thank you for sharing. Was good to see your dad in the background. I was afraid he was sick when you were gone from videoing for a bunch of months! Take care. ♥♥♥
Haha nice eggs, couldn’t help but you noticed you had your back turned to the geese… what gives? You clearly stated to never turn you back to geese and then immediately turn your own back to said geese. To be fair this could be considered an “honest mistake” or shouldn’t be taken in the literal sense but regardless, this is simply poor instruction and demonstration. Feel free to delete the video and message me to discuss improving your work for a re-release. Tit tit.
Hi Grace, It's so good to see you back. Hoping all is well there. Thank you again for always sharing such wonderful information that you've gained over your 40 years gardening! ♥
I like your video very much. It's difficult to hear you speaking in some of the parts of the video because of the music being too loud. Thank you for the tour. I really enjoyed it.
In nature birds scratch the ground hunting for bugs & worms and if given the chance domestic chickens can do the same. Only man can screw up God's perfect plan. 🤗 God bless💖
Anytime you make baby food it must be a thin like running off the spoon before canning. The reason for that the baby food thickens during processing so you want to make sure it cooks evenly all thru the food. I'm assuming that's what your our asking. Then when opening your jar if to thick you can thin it down with your choice of milk or water.
In my video "Preventing Water Siphoning" will show and explain all that. I think you would get more out of that then me explaining it. It is toward the end of the video. Thanks for asking
If you notice I did say I usually use DE but since I did not have any to show you. That also works, but but I did say to put it on the soil. Not on any fruit or vegetables on your plants. Thank you for your comment to make that clear to other
Also, its a non-systemic pesticide, which means it is not absorbed into the plant or through the stem, foliage and flowers. It stays on the surface and just kills certain insects when they crawl on the plant. I only use it when potting my plants if I don't have DE
I love that I found this! I just started my veggie garden on the 1st too! I'm 2 months pregnant and I've been dreaming of being able to grow my own food for so long. My husband and I just got our first home about 4 months ago. So that was good timing 😂 I can't wait for your next video! I feel like this'll be fun to watch along side my garden 🥰
I have been gardening for over 40 yrs and enjoyed every moment. I am so glad to hear that you would like taking up gardening. I have done a few videos on baby food. I use nature for free fertilizer which can become a fun thing to do with young children. Start them young. Check out some of my shorts videos with my 18 month grandson. Never to early to show them where their food comes from. Take Care
Thank you Grace! I've seen a few videos where we're told it's ok if the rings are rusted. I just didn't feel good about that and threw away a whole bunch of rusted rings a couple of weeks ago. And, I see I'm going to start being very meticulous about cleaning jars from now on. I clean them, but I'm really going to be diligent from now on. ♥
No, I don't. Chickens can handle colder weather than what people think. As long as they have a place that's dry and draft free, you're good.In Ohio, it got -15° with wind chill, and they were fine. Again, in the coop, I keep the straw and manure mixed and twice a week lay fresh straw down, which starts the decomposing, which starts the heating process and keeps th warm. Same as the outside shelter.
@@growingwithgracehomestead thank you for explaining this to me. I’m a city girl with a soft heart. I always think animals out in the elements are freezing in the cold & hot in the heat. 🤓
Do you process your puréed vegetables for the same amount of time as you would whole ? I know the USDA says not to pressure can puree (which I think is silly) I assume I would just use the same processing time??
The reason why they say not to is because pureed food becomes thick when canning, which would not heat up in the center to kill bacteria. That's why it is so important to make your baby food thinner (run off a spoon) before processing. Thanks for bringing that to my attention, which I will update that video about that. I will try to get that out by the end of this week again, thank you.
I am beginning to think my jars are siphoning because of my altitude. I'm at 1,200 feet and have to can at 15 lbs 11psi. So I am going to begin to fill the jars a little less and see how it goes. Anyone else at higher altitudes having trouble with siphoning?
Usually siphoning is because it cools down too fast, and the water in the jars cools down more slowly than the canner, and that water was just superheated so they boil out. Try turning your heat down to half or almost off, and then after a few mins turn it off, then let it cool with the lid off, take off the lid and let them chill for a minute.. just let them cool slowly as reasonably possible without leaving them in the overnight.
I'm new to canning. Thank you for spending time on the weight and the jiggle. I'm still learning mine. I was given a mirro 12qt. You've got me thinking maybe I can try meat! 😁
