I USED to worry when the politicians messed up. I no longer worry much because my house is full of food, and my home is paid off. Peace of mind is priceless
My daughter finally said, “I need to can more this year” and she’s realizing when you have an abundant year, can enough for two years, in case it’s a bad crop the next year !
I can’t wait to get my grocery store filled! I’ve been thanking God for giving me a much needed helping hand in my high tunnel. With the good Lord helping, I should have a fantastic harvest this year.
I love having my shelves stocked and the garden is started, I have stopped watching the media. I have peace of mind. It’s time we take care of ourselves and stop been controlled.
@@CrazyDazes Wanda, my desire was to be off all my supplements, and get my vitamins and minerals through my food. Buying organic from the U.S.A. now, plus growing my own with care. The Lord is teaching me much, that food is to minister to my blood.
Hiya Wanda. Nice you got another cucumber and those tomatoes look great. Yum your going to grill some of the beans. It's nice to have all that food canned and good to use up some and add new as you go. Nothing better than going to your own groceries store, the garden and filling the shelves. I've been using what I have canned as well. So I've been going to my own grocery store too. You and Danny are going to have some good eating.
Our supper is Ham/beans with cornbread. I baked a ham half last week, poured off the grease before putting my pineapple slices/ juice and brown sugar. I saved the grease and put in fridge took it out of fridge this morning dipped off the fat then put the broth in my pot with beans and small pieces of ham. My beans are much better than they are with just chunks of ham. I thought about it and there is no reason I couldn't dilute down the ham broth and can it just like you do chicken and beef, and it is so tasty to add the beans, potatoes or even green beans.
Looks like you found quite a haul from your grocery store. Love the fresh vegetables, too. I find myself shopping for mostly fresh veg when I go to a regular grocery store. I am impatient for my containers to start producing... I made vegetable soup from my freeze-dried and dehydrated stash. This was the 1st time I have opened any cans. Made veg soup in jar for my daughter and myself.
Love the heatless jalapeno, this year I am planting heatless habanero. Looking forward for my garden producing again. Started canning again this week. Next week I start harvesting chicken, some to can and some to freeze. You and Danny were the ones that got me putting up as much food as I could and with prices so high now I am thankful for that. Thank you so much for all your inspiration. Blessings to you both.
I would love to learn to cook like you do. My adopted mom couldn't cook well & she fixed only what she liked & didn't care what me & adopted dad thought. I refused to eat her fried egg, sausage, pancakes. It was either undercooked or charred. It meant hamburger or hot dogs for me for supper. Spaghetti sauce was from a jar and she watered it down. Hated her cooking. I loved stuff from frozen entrees, canned food ( commercial) or eating out while she was living. Ate peanut butter sandwich for breakfast until I became allergic to it .
When I got married I knew nothing about cooking. I made sure my kids knew how to cook. I learned by myself how to cook. I studied cookbooks. I am not great, but I follow recipes. I learn a lot watching these Homestead cooks make things on RU-vid. You can do it too.
Take something you like to eat and start there. Research several recipes on YT. If you don't like or have the ingredients in one, look at another. Research alternatives to what you don't have. I do a LOT of substitutions. It is OK to leave out some things in a recipe, just not the main ingredients. Make something every couple of days from scratch. It is an art like any other craft. You just gotta get hooked on it and you will enjoy the end results. Keep on cooking.
Wanda, so happy for you and love your grocery store. My "larder" is in our basement, but access is through our basement renter's apartment, so I tell them, "I've got to go grocery shopping"! It's quite a pleasure seeing yours, and also mine. God's favor is all over our lives!
I love the looks of your shelves. I live in a tiny house and have limited space so a lot of my jars live under my bed, stacked along the wall in the loft and under my couch but I make it work.
Hi from TN. I agree with you! I have issues with cold and hot. I have been starting to plant early in egg trays. Our frost dates are coming early and late here in zone 7. I planted peppers a week ago after the frost date, it was 80. I literally dug them up because of a heavy frost this week. Crazy!
LOVE this!!! I saw something on Nextdoor that mentioned some thing with fresh fruit staying fresh for a long time just put in a mason jar in the fridge. They said they learned it on tictoc which I LOATH. I don't do anything but, Patreon, RU-vid and Nextdoor. Does anyone know what is going around on tictok that says putting fresh fruit in mason jars in the fridge and it lasts a LONG time just like that??? I am curious since the strawberries have started coming. Bluberries are next. Wanda, you are living the life!!! 😁
That's my favorite kind of grocery store, Wanda! I call mine 'Molly Mart' and have several big grannie baskets (wicker) that I take when I go shopping. Up north here all I've got outdoors right now is chives, oregano and some dandelions. Hoping this will be a good year for carrots. Bet your meals this week will be delicious.
Nice video and inspiration. If any of you have some land, do you have fruit and nut trees planted? If you missed your chance for 2023, you got 3 months to plan for 2024. I help someone manage a fruit tree orchard and have some fruit tree experience over the last 16 years. I'm no expert by any means, but I have experience with nearly 50 varieties of fruit trees. You know, even if you got fruit trees...they are not permanent. An orchard is continually losing trees. If you wait to find this out, you will be 5 or 10 years behind from where you could be. If disease or animals don't get your fruit trees, a windstorm may uproot, or lightning may split the tree in two. You have to be proactive and not reactive. In other words, you are never finished with your orchard...you keep planting fruit and nut trees forever and ever...even after you plant the bulk of your orchard and think you are done. There is no time to lose with any of this. Some trees may take a decade to produce meaningfully...and then they die. Some of you may not be the right disposition to grow gardens. But most anyone can grow fruit trees. Once trees are established, they generally don't need watering unless it is massive drought. The trees find their own water. But we are talking temperate climates, not the Mojave desert. I gave up my garden after 12 years. To do gardens right you need to be a slave to them. I don't like being a slave to them. But I am successful with fruit trees...as long as you don't not require perfect fruit that needs spraying and chemicals. That is where I draw the line. If a fruit tree can't produce as-is, with only water...then it gets cut down and another tree takes its place. Try to buy older trees that are more developed. Smallish, bare root trees are the worst to buy if you are in a hurry. You have rust, black knot, borers, rabbits can girdle the trees and deer can get a hard-on for your tree and rub it to death. Squirrels are a massive problem unless you have a large orchard of the same trees that produce at the same time and can feed the squirrels and you. Squirrels can strip your fruit tree of all the fruit before it even ripens! And besides squirrels, their little relative, the chipmunk is a big problem with fruit trees. They live in long burrows and have big families. They can start stripping a peach tree before the peaches are as big as a grape. And they also love the fully ripened fruits...it just does not matter to them. You can trap them & poison them. Whatever you do...get rid of them! To kill squirrels / chipmunks, forget BB guns...get the green rat poison blocks and zip tie a few of them to the trees. They will decimate the squirrel population for that season and scale it back some for the next as well. You can buy small traps that kill chipmunks, also put a small chunk of the rat poison near their burrow opening. If you get lucky they will bring the block into their burrow for the family to feast on. Just don't use full blocks, cut it into thirds so the little chipmunk can handle it. If you have animals that may eat the poison, put it in the burrow or use a bait station. One Green Gage plum took 12 years to produce a meaningful crop...then it got black knot and was done for. After that, the rest of the 7 varieties of plums ALL got black knot and had to be cut down within 2 years. Wet and humid Z6 is not good for a lot of fruit trees, but it takes time to find out what works best in your zone. Time you don't have. Same thing with an Empire Apple tree. It took over a decade to produce a decent crop. Wonderful apples, then it got a borer and died. A big, beautiful apple tree suddenly loses all its leaves as well as the crop that was set to grow that season. It is heartbreaking. Some trees are labelled wrong and not the right cultivar. Some fruit trees produce low quality fruit...even though the label shows the most delicious looking fruit. A trend lately with our changing climate is some trees are blooming early, then a frost hits and boom...the entire fruit crop is ruined for that season. If you don't grow enough cherries, the birds will strip one or two cherry trees clean before the cherries can ripen. In other words, you have to plant lots of cherry trees that produce at the same time to feed the birds and yourself. One of the best, reliable and heavy producers with fruit trees are the Asian pear trees. Not all varieties are winners, but Olympic aka Korean Giant is good along with Raja Asian pear - they are 2 of the best. I can say that after 16 years of working with 5 varieties of Asian pears. When planting pears, try to get varieties resistant to fire blight. Depends on the local, but fire blight can be a big problem with pears. Belle of Georgia is a nice white peach. Red Haven is a great yellow peach. But check the chill hours needed for the peach tree. Some trees only produce crops biennial aka every other year. The way you find that out, many times, is only after a few years of growing. When setting up an orchard you need to plan if you want the crops to come in all at once for making preserves / canning or do you want the fruit crops staggered with early, medium and late harvest varieties. Plus, you may need a pollinator tree to produce a crop for certain trees. If you want to produce a crop into early winter / late fall...get a persimmon tree or 3. Jiro, Nakita's Gift, Hachiya or other varieties. Check out if you need a pollinator. That goes for many other fruit trees. Some are self-pollinating, others are not. And you need to see which trees are appropriate pollinators. One tree won't always pollinate another tree if they bloom too far apart. Lots to think about and no time to waste. Fruit trees need to be survivalist under my watch, or they will die. I don't f around with the trees. Now, if I had unlimited land I would not care, the loafers can stay. But being short on land, no room for leaving loafers around...I cut em down ASAP. In the beginning I would give them years to develop and then cut em down.
@WANDA…. Question … So I got a new canner and I don’t think the gauge is working right on it, so I turn it off and I’m letting the pressure come down. My question is do I need to let the jars cool completely before I can put them into my presto, canner, and re-process them or can I take the hot jars and put them in a hot canner and re-process??
