A Busy Day In The Kitchen & The Garden | Homestead Vlog | June 28, 2024

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Today we are making jam bars and blackberry jelly. I'm also trying to make some sweet gherkin pickles so we will see how those turn out. Also Andy is getting a lot of work done in the garden, we are having more trouble with voles as well as HOT and dry weather. As a licensed pesticide/herbicide professional (due to his business)Andy is also explaining some information on herbicides! We hope you enjoy today’s video!
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@gmansecond4103 3 месяца назад

The young one in the kitchen is such a great helper. She'll be momma's helper for years to come and pass the skill to her children. She is a trooper.

@sharonsunshine2532 3 месяца назад

Yes it's fantastic she in the kitchen helping but a bit to young for boiling sticky jams. A tip of that kettle the wrong way and it could dump right down her front. I love this channel but this scares me. ❤❤🙏😢

@adventuresinmichiganwlisa9852 3 месяца назад

Thanks for sharing 👍🤓👍. All good points on herbicides. Treats from the kitchen look scrumptious 👍❣️

@brendajessup9722 3 месяца назад

Good Morning… I Love starting my Day with you guys. The way you put your Videos together is absolutely incredible. You switch from Megan to Andy & it’s so Wonderful… The inspiration from Megan’s cooking to information that Andy gives us is incredible !!! I’m going to try this Recipe for pickles 😍 Those Jam Bars are Beautiful !!! So delicious looking, gotta try this Recipe 🤩 Thanks for the Hay info, You’re are the Best ...Your energy & care for your Homestead is amazing. Thanks for sharing your knowledge with all of Us !!! Until the next one 😉💞🇺🇸

@joycejones4526 3 месяца назад

I'm really enjoying your videos. I think the teepees are beautiful. I hoping they do great. Your life takes me back to a time when life was so good. I loved working in the garden and working the fields. I appreciate the life you share with us.

@terryyounts8220 3 месяца назад

Andy, definitely farmer legs getting that hay. LOL. Much love from Appalachia Kentucky. Love your family.

@celticfiddle7605 3 месяца назад

Thank you both for taking the time to teach us. So many of us are brand new to growing gardens and raising animals. It is nice that you share your hard earned knowledge.

@gailoreilly1516 3 месяца назад

I really agree with you.

@SherryPetree 3 месяца назад

Amen!

@MERCY174 3 месяца назад

MEGAN AND ANDY, I love watching these videos, I'm not able to do gardening anymore I just had my 5th back surgery, so ty for sharing your gardening and canning with us... GOD BLESS YOU BOTH 🙏

@PaulineLyons 3 месяца назад

Thank you Andy for your information. I learn something every time I watch, jam bars! Enjoy your family so much.

@karriemb4184 3 месяца назад

Thank you for the important information on hay and straw ! I truly appreciate it!!! Love the jam/ jelly !!!

@glendabenard3772 3 месяца назад

Nothing better than canning juice. Blueberry, blackberry, strawberry, grape, and cranberry.

@joejackson3415 3 месяца назад

Oddly I was thinking and remembering old style cowboy biscuits and skill making them ❤.

@josephshade2037 3 месяца назад

Andy, I use red pepper to keep the squirrels out of my bird seed. I also used red pepper around the edges of my sunroom. That keeps the racoons for going under there. The red pepper does not bother birds. Try sprinkling red pepper on the row of sweet potatoes.

@leahworks4242 3 месяца назад

Really enjoying your videos guys! Appreciate your hard work and integrity

@tamisegreen3592 3 месяца назад

Oh Andy when you said do hickey I busted out laughing as that is one of my favorite sayings..

@nancyumberger829 3 месяца назад

Thank you for taking your time to teach us all. I can't wait to make the jelly bars... making them for dessert tonight. You have the sweetest helper making and explaining all about jelly and utensils.

@PoorMansHomesteadCanadaBC1961 3 месяца назад

Yeah I watched that on another RU-vid channel they took the restrictors out of them they said that the government makes them do that so you don't use a lot of city water there's also another one in the top part of it too

@jimmiemeeks9795 3 месяца назад

I appreciate y'all sharing such a wonderful life and story. As we all know there is a lot of bologna own utube y'all r definitely the exception we all know kids tell us how the feel and every time we can tell how much knowledge y'all share with you kids the already know and have so much knowledge u can't fake that awesome job everyone 😊

@jewelmccurley4578 3 месяца назад

Enjoy your channel so much! Always interesting! Love to hear Maggie talk! Love her personality!❤

@leehillard2841 3 месяца назад

Years ago we started using juicy fruit gum for voles. Just break off pieces and carefully put them into their tunnels, they can't digest the gum. It has worked great.

@pamjohnson2783 3 месяца назад

The garden looks super great

@judylynn4807 3 месяца назад

First I want to say how much I enjoy watching your videos and love how y'all live and raise the children. This may sound dumb but I've read where getting rid of voles or moles is to put Dawn detergent in their runs. To me it would be worth a try.

@lamleg1172 3 месяца назад

Lol appreciate you sitting us in the shade. That heat is rough on a short fat man!

@lisabooker6405 3 месяца назад

I can’t remember what channel I was watching and I’ve never tried it myself as I’ve never had voles BUT someone said they used some high frequency sound thing in the ground and it worked wonders. Now don’t hold me to it cause I’m being honest about not knowing for certain 😂but it may be worth a shot. They said they got it at Amazon and it wasn’t expensive. I just thought I’d share in case ya wanted to try. Yall work so hard I hate to see ya lose your sweet taders. Anywho…God bless you all. ~Lisa Ps. That was probably the best explanation of hay/straw I’ve ever heard anyone take time to give. I knew the difference having been around both all my life but I think it’s awesome that you’re willing to help folks. Also, I think that you’re being willing and BRAVE enough lol to speak on herbicides is awesome as well. 💜 I pray no one is hateful and gets sassy with ya!! 😉💜

@adventuresinmichiganwlisa9852 3 месяца назад

The garden is coming along nicely y'all 👏👏. Great job..❣️🫶❣️.

@gloriadavis6202 3 месяца назад

Thank you for teaching how to make blackberry jelly. Have you heard about watermelon rind preserves

@sylviaking314 3 месяца назад

I did learn alot Thank you!!!!

@johnwillenburg1586 2 месяца назад

Love the info

@triskaknee3548 3 месяца назад

Really good folk😊 your friend Trish in Sandiego Ca USA ❤

@LadawnJohnson 3 месяца назад

Wish I would have kept my farmstead. But I love your channel ❤

@kdavis7525 3 месяца назад

Learned a lot from your information on herbicides. Could you talk about pesticides now?

@Nocluehomestead 3 месяца назад

As a hay farmer in Australia… THANK YOU! Love the channel.

@teresahix5658 3 месяца назад

Love this visit. Good information and delicious food. Maggie is so sweet explaining things to us. Love to all ❤❤

@sweettinz2401 3 месяца назад

Get some juicy fruit gum and have the kids chew it a little, then stick it where the voles/ moles are. They like that gum, and they will eat it and die. We did that last year and have not seen one at all this year! Plus we had fun chewing all that gum lol

@valariejones6597 3 месяца назад

Voles run underground. A whirlybird wouldn’t scare it away. They wouldn’t even see it.

@lawsonlawnandfarm8073 3 месяца назад

They say the vibration of it spinning is what would scare it away. I’ve heard that for years but apparently it doesn’t work haha

@TrueGritAppalachianWays 3 месяца назад

Correct, it’s the vibration it’s self under the ground that’s supposed to help

@joejackson3415 3 месяца назад

From the creek 😂, store bought water is expensive 😢. ❤

@marywesley316 3 месяца назад

I’m about to see if I’ve missed a video on that big jug of cucumbers you have on countertop. I’ve got lots of extras, would love to start fermenting some

@TrueGritAppalachianWays 3 месяца назад

No you haven’t I’m experimenting with a sweet gherkin recipe! Finishing them up today, we will see how they turn out!

@JeanniePatton-q7g 3 месяца назад

Need to drop some dumplings in the blackberries

@joejackson3415 3 месяца назад

Never used a 1/2 gallon jar or purchase anything in one. ❤

@barbarapreddy616 3 месяца назад

What about your honeybees? I'm a beekeeping in the piedmont area of N.C.

@mariebishop7598 3 месяца назад

What was it that oldtimes used to use for moles and voles? Castor beans?

@afdraftsrmandy3176 3 месяца назад

Andy, if you had put hay over the peas right after you planted them, would they have come up through the straw?

@TrueGritAppalachianWays 3 месяца назад

maybe, I always like to wait till everything is a few inches tall though just to make sure

@johnwillenburg1586 25 дней назад

I was just asking you about gerkins,like the Bible says ask and you shall receive.

@jerryprewett5294 3 месяца назад

I remember my grandmother putting wax in her jelly I’m not sure why though?

@TrueGritAppalachianWays 3 месяца назад

That’s how they used to seal the old lids ☺️

@DebraMorris-q6r 3 месяца назад

Is was a type of way to seal it w/o lids my grandmother used this method

@laurarowland7926 2 месяца назад

Moma always said to put bublegum in hole

@DavidCales-j2p 2 месяца назад

Do you not use any sure jell in your jelly?

@frankevans9949 3 месяца назад

Clemson university can tell you about herbicides and such....Google it, I always do if I have a question..... After all their agricultural department is immense.....

@clintdouglas5756 3 месяца назад

Thank you for talk on herbicide I use a Grazon and roundup in my faming practices the truth is if we all did the so called organic most of the world would die of starvation

@bryanbarefoot2759 3 месяца назад

Red Hots Cinnamon flavored candy

@lisagrafton2529 Месяц назад

Maybe your camera is telling you that you, too, have been in the extreme heat for too long??

@stacycrowder640 3 месяца назад

Put juicy fruit gum in the whole and it’ll kill it.

@drk218 3 месяца назад

That sweet pickle recipe is BS, Megan. Ridiculous. Almost like a bad joke someone is playing. Find a new one. 👍🏻

@TrueGritAppalachianWays 3 месяца назад

Like I said just trying it ☺️

@GrowWhereYouArePlanted 3 месяца назад

I love the alternating his day-her day style of this vlog.

@pattilemonhouse7911 3 месяца назад

Yeah, that was cool.

@brendajessup9722 3 месяца назад

PS… Watching that Baby Girl helping with the Jelly. She explained details & was So Sweet to inform Us about her Utensils you 2 were using. She has made my Heart Smile 😉😍🥰

@rockycanyonchorin 3 месяца назад

That information on hay was incredibly valuable. I learn soooo much watching your videos. BRAVO. THANK YOU AND GOD BLESS YOUR FAMILY!

@adventuresinmichiganwlisa9852 3 месяца назад

👍😜 herbicides 😜👍,....they get filed in the religion, politics file😁🇺🇸. Great explanation 👍👏🤓👏👍

@robinhatley3167 3 месяца назад

Jack Russell will eliminate the voile and moles!! I can hook u up!!!

@Debbie-bg3mo 3 месяца назад

My husband is not understanding why I know so much about haying, and now straw. Andy is a good teacher.

@pattilemonhouse7911 3 месяца назад

It pleases me to see another homemaker like me with short, clean fingernails. I'm also a fan of all the American dialects. Often imitated, but nothing like the real thing. My real judge of folks I watch is "would I sit down to eat with this person". 😊

@russelltackett4779 3 месяца назад

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@pmartin6759 3 месяца назад

👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ that sweet baby girl helping her mama in the kitchen is so precious❤️

@katrinagarland5219 3 месяца назад

I look forward to tuning into your channel everyday... so glad I found you and your wonderful family! :) P.S. All these chemicals you spoke about CAUSE CANCER in humans... that's why we don't want hay/straw that has been sprayed.

@russelltackett4779 3 месяца назад

Pretty much everything causes cancer in human any more

@lbcustomleather 3 месяца назад

Thank you for the information on herbicides!

@destinyandpurpose 3 месяца назад

Y'all work so hard, most people can't hang with hard work. Thanks for sharing another great video!

@gailoreilly1516 3 месяца назад

Hello! I watched your video about making the tee pees. I had some long wooden stakes left over from another project. Long story short, I had room for one. It is now standing in my garden and the green beans are planted around it. I can't wait to see what happens.

@pattilemonhouse7911 3 месяца назад

Wonderful! 🌱

@douglasmccormick8430 3 месяца назад

Hey this old Florida cracker is back and still trying to get a plate of your food. Especially now that I know you are having venison. Anyway love your channel. I do some cooking for myself and my pug. Cooking is very relaxing to me.😊

@TrueGritAppalachianWays 3 месяца назад

Awesome!!

@karenhunter8969 3 месяца назад

Thank you for guiding and teaching us. Such great patience and commitment. I appreciate it and look forward to your next video

@brendawoods554 3 месяца назад

I just love to hear Maggie's acient when she is giving instructions on cooking,

@Laura95000 3 месяца назад

Just looove your videos! It always feels like I get to stop in for a sweet visit! God Bless each of you!💝

@kenaddis2979 3 месяца назад

A point that might be good to share about hay on a garden is to make sure the hay wasn’t treated with Grazon If it has been it will kill your garden plants . I just learned that this summer . Love you guys and watch you every day. Love to see real people doing real things. Hope to Meet you guys some Day.

@MynewTennesseeHome 3 месяца назад

It has never occurred to me that folks wouldn't know the difference between hay and straw, good for you to clarify. If I have to buy hay, it's for goats so weedy its fine. Real unlikely weedy hay has been sprayed. I battle voles every year, I dig their runs every time I see one trying to convince those deviled to go somewhere else, kind of like fire ants.

@afdraftsrmandy3176 3 месяца назад

The jam bar recipe is so timely for me! Just cleaned out and organized my jam shelf yesterday. Now i know what to do with the excess that is more than a year old. I only gift people with the current year jam. Thank you!

@ArkansasSquaw 3 месяца назад

Love the sound of those jam bars!!! That's a recipe I'm definitely going to try! Thanks so much for the video. Everything looks amazing. ❤

@BrendaLee-zs4fg 3 месяца назад

Love Maggie helping in the kitchen...Glad she had a tie-dyed shirt on, the blackberry juice will give her shirt more color...She is such a good helper.

@elt.214 3 месяца назад

Nice spending the day with you.

@jimharris4740 3 месяца назад

Andy, thank you for the informative information about herbicides and I must say that the people who misuse them the most are home owners who just don't know how to use them

@kathydean9099 3 месяца назад

Andy my farm was hit by Paraquat on 5-27-24 and it killed my garden and grapes and many more things on my farm ..He was fined by the North Carolina AG dept i have many photos of my loss ...and like you said no one wants to talk about it and i am out years of time and thousands of dollars ..he hit my house plants that i sell at the farmers market ..and my pecan trees i sell but i am the bad guy for calling the AG dept ....any thoughts ?

@kathydean9099 3 месяца назад

facebook.com/kathy.dean.1840

@TrueGritAppalachianWays 3 месяца назад

Absolutely not, situations like this are what give the farmers and herbicides a bad name, because IT IS the farmers responsibility to make sure what they’re spraying only hits the target plant, it is a big no no to spray on a windy day or even a hot day because the chemicals can either drift by wind or off gas on a hot day and move from one place to another. Hearing cases like this burns me up because people are so careless sometimes with what they are spraying and it makes it even tougher on us guys that are trying to do the RIGHT thing and be responsible, Paraguat is one that I don’t know much at all about except every time I’m in a class it always comes up and from my understanding it’s a fairly common chemical that gets misused

@lisaa7253 3 месяца назад

I live in NC is there anything I can do about crop drift?

@TrueGritAppalachianWays 3 месяца назад

Yes you can contact the pesticide agent in your area. They are there to help. You should be able to find who to talk to online or contact the main office in Raleigh.

@kathydean9099 3 месяца назад

@@TrueGritAppalachianWays Thank you for the reply its been heartbreaking .

@tommathews3964 2 месяца назад

Ain’t much better than blackberry jelly!! Between the blueberry jam and the jelly, I’m set for the year with what I made. Very good explanation on the herbicides, Andy. There’s a BIG difference between awareness and hysteria! I see “herbicide drift” blamed for all kinds of problems in the garden, most of which have nothing to do with herbicide drift. Here again folks, don’t go crazy, I’m not advocating mass herbicide use, but I will say it gets a lot of unfounded blame.

@confusioncircles 3 месяца назад

Hey Y'all, I learned so much about hay, straw, and herbicide. Thank you for all the Useful information. What do you think about vinegar and epsom salt as a herbacide? 5:08 Thanks again, we never miss a show. Y 5:08 'all have inspired me to get back into gardening.

@marilynwitherell186 3 месяца назад

Glad to hear what you had to say about pesticides.

@sharongarrison8328 3 месяца назад

Do you ever make bread and butter pickles?

@karensullivan9125 3 месяца назад

Do you can your 14 day pickles? Or store at room temp. If you water bath, how long?

@JohnWinsemius 3 месяца назад

Andy... tell it the way it is....... To many key board warriors out there. Set them straight about stuff. I'm 74 and follow you 2 , and you are a true inspiration to these city people making a run to the country that don't know squat, and then start a youtub channel and people think they are the gods gift to homesteading . You and the wife and kids are there real deal, Born and breed into it. I was also grew our own stuff and bartered for other stuff, 2-3 freezers full of meats and canning shelves full. Tell Megan to add some thin sliced onion to those sweet pickles you'll thank me😁

@kingscairn 3 месяца назад

Thats what I heard - grazon passes through the animal , into your compost and gives ya leaf curl on tomatoes etc

@daw253 3 месяца назад

Grateful for all the great information! Bless you!

@PoorMansHomesteadCanadaBC1961 3 месяца назад

I get a kick out of when they call food organic if it was truly organic it would have bug holes in it all kinds of stuff in it wouldn't look as nice and fresh as it does at the store when they say organic if you totally look at organic food and do a lot of research on it they spray The only good food you're getting is when you buy farm fresh not organic

@fionaworrell4535 3 месяца назад

They wouldn't necessarily be full of holes,there are lots of natural products,herbal mixes etc can be used to deter pests, on larger scales most vegetables grown for sale organically are kept under cover of bug nets or hightunnels. Then there's microbes that can be put in soil to stop certain bugs from breeding..and predatory insects can be brought in to manage any problems.

@olddawgdreaming5715 3 месяца назад

Great Job Andy and Megan and of course our favorite Kitchen Helper, she sure is a good one. Thanks for all the great information you all shared with us, I know Jacob was somewhere in the background working on something too. Stay safe and keep up the great videos. Fred.

@ChristanRenee1987 3 месяца назад

Love watching all y’all’s videos, thank you for explaining hay vs straw because I have always wondered that, my local hardware supplies straw that I would use for my chickens and stray cats in the winter. So I reused some of it in my experimental chaos garden plot with tomatoes, corn, potatoes, squash, and cucumbers… so far so good fingers crossed 🤞🏼your friend in SW Va

@MimsysGarden 3 месяца назад

The jam bars is a great idea! Glad you threw that in Meagan! I just gotta figure out ratios on fresh milled flours and which ones will work best! 💚

@francesgannon8990 3 месяца назад

Your process of making pickles and jelly is very interesting to watch. You make it look so easy. Jam bars look good as dessert 😋 Maggie just steals the show standing there stirring and talking about it just telling us with a confident voice. She has so many skills at her young age!! Thanks for the explanation of hay/straw and herbicides. I feel much more informed. I don’t use sprays on my garden, but it’s good to understand the different types of herbicides. The hay spread around all the garden beds looks tedious, yet keeps out your weeds and holds moisture. Beautiful gardens.!! Blackberries looks so good like I could tase them! Thanks again for sharing your lives with us , so inspiring!✝️❤️

@gratefuled762 3 месяца назад

Hey Andy, here’s another subject you probably don’t want to get into but…lol What kind of chemicals do lawn companies like green lawn or Scott spray on peoples lawn? Are they harmful if there’s a garden nearby in your opinion thanks for the videos. 😊

@cheryllamb8831 3 месяца назад

Meagan those jam bars look wonderful! So does the blackberry jelly, will be awesome on a biscuit 😊 I am proud how you are teaching your daughter with hands on learning - she'll remember that way. Andy, thank you for the lesson on hay/straw also about herbicides. I respect your opinion & know you are more knowledgeable than I. Have a blessed day and a safe & happy July 4th! 🎉✨🥳

@Christian-jx3nx 3 месяца назад

Thanks for the hay straw explanation. I totally did not know either. I thought straw was just dried hay. 😊

@TrueGritAppalachianWays 3 месяца назад

Glad it was helpful!

@MarkWYoung-ky4uc 3 месяца назад

Great job y'all and Andy that was an excellent tutorial on the difference between hay and straw. Those bars look absolutely delicious and I bet that homemade jelly is outstanding on a biscuit. I was up that way yesterday evening and saw some tobacco that really needs rain. Y'all have a great weekend and I hope we get some rain at some point.

@deborahrutherford5244 3 месяца назад

I have 2 sturup holes they are great.

@pattilemonhouse7911 3 месяца назад

Thank you for honest talk about herbicides. Some people do get a little shrill on the subject. Just know what you're doing. BTW, the bees are fine, too.

@deborahkimball-billups6405 День назад

What about if it rains on the round up ? Thank you for sharing this information. Its important to know.

@WhatsCooking-tc9uu 3 месяца назад

Love watching your videos.

@mishalea 3 месяца назад

I appreciate the talk about the difference between straw and hay, I was never totally sure, also about herbicides. The jelly and jelly bars look delish! Blackberries are my fave! Love to see Maggie helping and hear her talk, she talks so fast, hee. 😊 God bless y'all and have a terrific holiday week. 🎆🇺🇲❤️

@lisaa7253 3 месяца назад

I’m so glad u explained that bc I had no clue. (Straw and hay)

@triplecreekfarm2007 3 месяца назад

Very well said, Andy. The University of Tennessee presented research about glyphosate in a video here on RU-vid. Much of the fear of glyphosate is due to people spreading false information. We have to remember that opinions are not facts. If I can find the link to U.T.’s video, I’ll email it to you. I appreciate you trying to set the record straight.

@horticultureandhomes 3 месяца назад

animal excrement where the animal consumed hay which was treated with the above chemical(s).

@sherylallred7551 Месяц назад

Megan, I love watching you and Andy. My life has been very different from yours. I have never grown my own food but I learn from you. I would love to send something to you. Where can I find your mailing address? Best wishes to you and your family