Bartering, Growing & Preserving! This is how we will save money! 

That plate you had the burrito, that pattern was the plates I got when I got married in 1979!Praying for you and your family. My new little miracle grandbaby had a procedure yesterday to cut a skin tie in her mouth. She cried, my daughter cried, but the baby is better today. What would we do without prayers and Jesus!

Bartering is great. ( Let’s just hope the government stays out of it!) 😳

I found a gal in our area that I barter my eggs with. I take her several dozen eggs from our flock of 12 and she gives me artesian baked sour dough bread, cookies and scones. It’s awesome!

Prayers for Greg’s mother and family

I love your updates and don’t usually comment. Your family is in my prayers and I thank you for the very realistic and honest video today about our current situation. 🙏

I'm a cook, chef, dish washer my whole life. When the kids were grown n gone I was still making large meals. I have been doing this the twenty years now. Right now I have in my freezer, 1 breakfast bake, 3 or 4 scalloped potatoes, 3 tuna casserole, 1 spaghetti, and a quart bag of italian meatballs I made. I am canning chili beans, garbanzo beans, and baked beans today second batch of chili beans are in now. One can at the store was $1.55 I'll make my own for that price. Thanks from N. E . Wisconsin

We had a storm that came and destroyed our pool. We have been too busy to use it. I said ok Lord, I guess you’re telling me something. And Thankfully we were able to return the pool chemicals we hadn’t opened. We donated that money to someone with a very low income, and now have a spot to put some chickens. Glad my priorities have changed 😎 Still working on husband to understand, he’s coming along. He’s actually helping build me a greenhouse. Something he would have never done in his lifetime.

Your gardens are looking wonderful. Thank you, for the updates on what to get ready to plant. Sometimes it gets away from us. God bless and keep your family. 🌷

Prayers for Greg, his Mom, his Sister and You. Went through that last year with my Mom. She made it to 92. Thanks Jill, for the enocouragement. I added a kiddie pool of green beans to my garden last Saturday- they are doing well. In SW Michigan- dealing with Eastern chipmonks and voles...

I goofed and ended up with 34 tomato plants this year. Just pulled garlic, planted more green beans in that spot, and had 3 extra winter squash plants grow from compost! Canner will be busy, in fact, I just had a bag of onions start to go bad. They're now in quart jars as broth to cook with. Many prayers and blessings for you all. ❤❤

Couple of friends and I barter. My husband has started co-owning the log splitter and cattle trailer with a couple of friends. We frequently share tools and supplies between trusted families. Thanks Jill for the info. I hope all your family members stay well. Remember y'all to Pray, Plan, Prep

The tomato plants I bought from you were the best producers I’ve ever had. Would you do a video on how Greg prepares his soil or point me to a video if you have already done one? These were the best tomatoes I’ve ever had!

I been dehydrating herbs for the last 2 weeks and I got some canning done already. ❤

Praying for Greg's mom & sister, as well as your family. ❤

Tomatoes and onions--thanks for the heads up! My Grandma planted by the moon, so I will do some planting Monday and Tuesday when the moon is in Taurus. I do so appreciate this channel. Property taxes! It is such a disheartening thing to realize that we can never actually 'own' our property. Not while we pay TPTB 'rent'.

Praying for all of you! We have so many plans and so little time! We can’t wait to be able to spend our days working in the garden. I go to work in the heat all day and even though I have several hours of daylight when I get home the heat is just too much!

Even with double fencing around our garden---the cottontails who live in our neighborhood have chewed every single green bean plant down to the stalks! I am so mad I could spit. I think we must create a Raised planter area for the beans. I am doing as much prep as possible, and have for several years---but unlike you, I don't have a true partner in this. He still thinks everything is "just fine". (EYE ROLL)

For all those filling freezers, be sure you have enough canning jars to save your meat in a grid down emergency. I had one freezer go down last year and ended up canning 60 pints of ground meat. We were able to consolidate the other freezers to hold the rest of our meat. It takes LOTS of jars just an FYI.

Great vid! Hat's off to ya... its hard work to do both full time, animals and garden and you have a plus one for the vids. I had already written down a few of the gerbs you mentioned to add them on. Ok, back to watering. Prayers for those you mentioned. Amen

You can easily make tortillas for the price of flour salt and oil

I wish more people would be open to bartering. I live in St.Louis and any time I suggested it, people looked at me like I had 3 heads. I stopped suggesting it Years ago. Maybe people are more open to it in other parts of the country.

I love lemon balm. Your videos are great. Yes, i don't think prices are going to go down anytime soon, I think things are going to get much worse. There are just so many things at once happening, it's crazy. I've amped up my gardens this year, lots of potatoes, sweet potatoes, pumpkins, lots of super foods that I am growing this year. Got more chickens too!

🙏🙏 Prayers for you all.

Praying 🙏🏻 for you and the family. God’s blessings upon you. Thanks for the update.

If you buy regular (not microwave) popcorn, you can plant them. Any kind of corn has to be planted like 100-150 feet (can't remember) away from any other type of corn. I have 3 different types of popcorn and 3 different types of corn. I have blue hopi corn (which I think is what they call a flour corn), hickory king (a dent corn for corn meal and animals) and a sweet bantam corn for eating. All of them can be eaten but won't taste as sweet. For popcorn, I have a bag of yellow kernels (regular) from the store, and a strawberry and a multi colored type. I didn't get much planted this year as to many health issues. I go next week for a neck Doppler scan (ultrasound).

We harvested more from our garden yesterday before rain. We got 82 hundredths and more showers thus afternoon early evening. Yummy breakfast. Add some chopped up tater tots for another layer or homemade hashbrowns to add in.

Your herbs are beautiful! That’s one thing I didn’t grow this year and wish I did. This has been such perfect weather for growing. Remember the last two summers? 🥵

No rain for weeks in my part of Alabama. Dragging hoses, some drip hoses but not enough and I’m sure my water bill will be horrendous. My plants hate, city water but I don’t have a well. Returning to our 105/107 heat index by this weekend. I’ve already got orange pumpkins , winter squash, watermelon that’s almost ready to harvest.

Hey friends we got lot's of rain the past few days and are harvesting lots. Praying for yawl. God bless

Thank you. I make breakfast bites. Basically, the sane ingredients, I put it all together and bake in muffin pans. No tortillas needed. Freeze on a sheet pan and then vacuum seal. My chicks are loving excess shredded zucchini and cucumbers. ❤ Thanks for all you do.

I have a farmer source for canning tomatoes relatively cheap. Lord I almost passed out when I saw she had a bushel of green beans for 75 dollars.. Yikes !

I’m going to get that plant, the Marshmallow. I’ve never heard of them before and they look really interesting.

Your garden looks great Jill! Very nice. I was just going to ask you if you’re still on that bike. It’s wonderful you haven’t lost interest in it. I love riding bikes, but I don’t have an electric one. I haven’t pulled the trigger yet on that one. Michigan is wet and hot too. We had a storm last night and all the plants got a nice drink of water. I’m afraid that’s one thing they won’t allow…no property taxes. I fear that is the way they will drive us out of our homes….if we let them! I’m getting tired of watching them hurt people, and I’m one step away from them bothering me!

Thanks Jill, love your videos. Had such a bumper crop of tomatoes this year that I think I’m not going to plant any for a fall crop and focus on some other crops instead. I appreciate you!!!

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Already started bartering this year. My friend makes sour dough bread and I grew blackberries. We barter berries for bread. Also hubby buys pork when in sale and makes homemade Italian sausage. For the price of pork and casings we save about 50.00 a batch of sausage

Thank you so much for sharing! I was taken off of your sharing so I have missed a few! Back on now!

My peaches r not perfect but still usable for jam. Going try peach and blackberry jam.

I didn’t realize that feverfew looks so much like chamomile

Great video, Lady!

It's all relative. I'm old and have been poor to the point of selling blood and plasma to survive in the early 1980's. Today things are expensive and that's a fact. In the big picture of world economics the U.S. is still in a good position. Anyone who remembers the wage and price freezes under Nixon or worse yet the economy under Carter will realize it's not as bad now as some make it seem.And being poor way back taught me a lot. I retired 2 years ago at 61. Se financially for several lifetimes now.Won't take SSI till I'm 67 (if it's still available).

Jill, I have been staying away from aluminum foil, due to the fact it can leach into food. Noticed you used it to freeze your burritos.

Praying for your family 🙏

prayers for you and yours

We don't really barter with our neighbors, but we do "share". We helped them pick oranges last weekend and took home about a hundred. We share our tomatoes and other produce with them for their citrus. I actually think we come out "ahead" but I have heard no complaints from them. 😀❤

I went out Tuesday and took some cuttings from my current tomato plants to root into fresh potting soil for my fall garden. I have an invasion of what looks like potato bugs all over my tomato plants and they are destroying everything. I have no idea what they actually are but they are winning. 😢 I put up a 60% shade cloth last Sunday, so I’m hopeful that once I pull out my current tomato plants, I can replant my cuttings and the shade cloth will help them make it to fall. Have you ever done cuttings for your fall tomatoes? How did it work out?

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Not sure why but I am infested with white flies, katydids, aphids, mealy bugs, and the ever present grasshoppers. I am done until fall. Hopefully the bugs will die before then.

It's very hard for us fighting army worms ...and trying to feed 3 kids

Order your popcorn online from the Amish Company

Does the farmstead have rain collection infrastructure? I was thinking of those downpours during the storms!

I had no sound.

Thank you very much! Having breakfast burritos in the freezer is a great idea.

Breakfast burritos or more like eight dollars lol

Please keep your food prepping/ stores private. If people know where you live, you may have issues when things get bad😢

Do you have squash vine borers? If so, how do you deal with them?

I never miss an opportunity to put vegetables in my food, burritos, at minimum you should have put some kale spinach and carrots. Truly not a very healthy burrito. We must learn to take every vegetable in our garden and incorporate into any foods that we make and put up!!!

You really need to BE CAREFUL because you are admitting to Illegal bartering! DON'T POST on your channel what you do. you could be in serious trouble. The IRS treats goods and services gained as taxable income. You better check your records because I do believe in Texas it is first degree felony and is punished by imprisonment. IRS 1040 must be summited. For the IRS "Barter Dollars" are treated precisely the same as cash payment.

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