Homestead Pantry Tour | Self-Sufficiency and Food Storage 

A tip that my great grandfather taught me over 50 years ago is to keep an apple in with your potatoes. It will keep them from sprouting even at room temperature. When it gets really soft remove, before it is total mush, and add another. The gas that is released from the apple as it rots preserves the potatoes. If you buy apples don’t get the fancy wax covered ones ❤️ 🍎

My grandmother was born in 1911 and lived to be 99. Her whole life she grew a huge garden and canned everything. All my best memories from childhood were being on her farm and cracking walnuts that fell from the trees and picking peas and beans and corn and helping her can peaches and pears. I miss her so much and am grateful for the knowledge she passed down to me.

I am Korean. You have more kimchi stored in your fridge than I do. Awesome.

It makes me so happy to see families living this way! I’m slowly learning and growing some veggies right now. I’ve never been one to grow things but I’m so excited to see my tomatoes and cucumbers thriving. Every step towards this lifestyle is one to be celebrated!

Can you do a week of dinners! Would love to see how you use this!

We do a lot of conservation and preserving in Russia. I make around 100-150 cans of preserved cucumbers, tomatoes, zucchini, eggplants, bell peppers, mushrooms, cabbages, red beet-roots, sauces and even soups, and lots of seasonal fruits (juice and jam). I do not buy any fruit juices in stores except for tomato and orange ones. That's not too much. In the past we made 2-3 times more. Every week we open 1-3 jars. Let me offer you a popular zucchini salad: 2 kg of zucchini, 350 gr onions, 300 gr carrots, 500-600 gr bell peppers, 1,5 kg tomatoes, 150-200 vegetable oil, about 70 gr of salt, 200 gr of sugar, 80-100 ml of 9% vinegar, 1 head of garlic, black pepper, 3-5 bay leafs. The process: fry onions and carrots, add zucchini cut into quarters , stew for 15 minutes (appx), add bell peppers, stew for another 10 minutes, add crushed tomatoes and stew for another 10 minutes, then add salt, sugar, garlic, vinegar upon your taste (stew for another 5-7 minutes) and then do the canning. You can eat this zucchini salad with bread, potatoes, rice any time you want as an appetizer or part of the main dish. Good luck!

What a DREEAAAMm if every home looked like this we would be so much less sick!!! live so much longer and especially be a lot happier!!! I am very very jealous and in awe of how delicious your canned pantry looks!!! congrats. Wish i had that selection of delicious natural foods at my disposal, your kids are very lucky!

What a devoted mother and wife! Living a productive and constructive life

Forget Kim K pantry now this is a pantry! I feel healthier just looking at it 😊

This will save some post apocalypse survivor life one day

When I was a boy, we lived this way. All our veg was grown in our garden and lasted through the winter. My mom would be canning from September to mid October.

This is SO impressive! Do you have any videos about how you process these foods (the processes of your processing 😂), and how you use them in your cooking? I’d love to see that. Really, absolutely fantastic job in being self-reliant! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

You should do a video on your process for planning your spring garden (layout, spreadsheets, seed purchasing decisions, etc).

Dehydrate your potatoes too. I shred for hash browns, and slice for use in scalloped potatoes, then blanch and dehydrate. They store well for years.

Only people who ever done this knows how hard working you are. Kudos to you!

Eating healthy and homegrown food is the key for a healthy life and body

Can you teach us the process of canning and dehydrating these things? And recipes for how you use these things

Would like to see how you use the dehydrated foods for lunch/dinner meals.

More people should follow her example. I grew up with my grandmother planting a garden and canning for winter. We had, on rare occasions, chicken or sausage but mainly vegetables and June apples. I am now a healthy active 82 woman that stills eats my Vegetables but now live in a condo and try to buy farm fresh if possible.

Wow! You are my new woman crush! I love canning and preserving. It’s actually therapeutic to me to harvest my food and put it up. Sprouting potatoes used to frustrate me.😱 Then one year, after a bumper crop of taters, I canned most of ours. You have to pressure them but talk about ready-to-eat. Open a jar (pints or quarts) and you have the start of potato soup, potato salad, mashed potatoes...the list goes on and on. So wonderful to watch younger folks keeping preserving alive and well. Thank you for sharing. 🙌🏻👏🏻🥰I’m stealing your idea of cardboard on the shelves. Why didn’t I think of that?🤦🏻‍♀️

Reminds me of my grandma’s house. She had an extension to her house where she canned and stored food. I miss her.

I would be interested in seeing you grow your garden too. We can all learn from each other how to be more self-sufficient. Looks like you know what you're doing out there.

Beyond impressed w the variety.

Such a beautiful pantry and beautiful food! Thank you for sharing and teaching us.

Amazing. What a lost art. That’s showing love to your family. I’m working on it.

I don't know why my brain never made the leap to canning pizza sauce, BBQ sauce, etc. Big duh, I know. But that is genius. Mental note made, thank you so much for sharing!

I admire what you and your family have done!! Good foryou!

Wonderful to see others still canning and preserving food. Thank you for sharing. Peace and Love to you and yours.

When I see how much effort you guys put in storing food for the season I get so greatful to live in a tropical country and being able to have easy and cheap access to fresh fruits and vegetables all year.

This is how I want to live. Love it.

You are amazing and a beautiful person. Stay well, thanks for sharing

Great pantry to show off such amazing, hard work! We really enjoyed watching. Of course, now we feel we need to step up our game!

This might be one of the best food storage ive seen so fare on YT

My grandma covers her potatoes completely from light to keep them longer 😊 she uses cardboard to cover over her potato bins 😊 also the slats in the crates would have to be covered to 😊

I'm so glad I found your family's channel! Your pantry is even beyond what we had growing up. Absolutely wonderful!❤🙏

OMG. That's my dream pantry. Thanks for sharing. Excited to watch the video.

quick tip: my dad has been growing all our potatoes for years, and have learned that they keep very well in a completely dark, cold cellar or basement (cover the crate with a thick cloth). We keep ours in a brick garden house, but as most houses in the US are just made of wood, that might not be an option for you. Depending on the size of the harvest and our appetite, we keep them for approximately 10-11 months, and they only start looking funky towards the end of that period.

Great job, love the amount of food you put up! I continue to get inspired by y'all!

I love how background is clean and neat, every jar has its place on the shelf

absolute mad respect for you. if only more people knew and employed these skills.

You are such a darling, thank you so much for taking your time showing everything and answering questions. Great video!

Omg ! This is amazing ! Really admirable pantry , all the work involved ! *claping!*

Glad you are feeling better now, well done.

ok, watched this again! i have pantry envy. so organized and beautiful!!!

Nice to learn some new things regarding canning and storage!

I never thought of using my shelves like that, great idea!

Admirable!!! I wish I could be so determined and dedicated!!!

Beautiful pantry. You have so much work invested in this but your family is reaping the reward! Blessings.

I would feel so guilty removing a beautiful jar from that pantry.

Incredible! Sooo inspiring. Looking forward to learning more about your healing journey

I just want to say thank you for these videos, they are giving me an idea of what I will need to do if I decide to do something similar with my property.

Mom of four, watching so my husband and I can do better!

This is the only school we need and water source. Love that stack, lady!

I'm so obsessed with the organization of your pantry! So neat and tidy, I love it lol

You are an outstanding woman and such a fantastic mom! You are an inspiration and just a really wonderful lady to listen to. You have wisdom and experience that I am so thankful you are sharing! 😍

All your hard work has paid off. Your family did an amazing job of preserving all the food!

Nice pantry, thanks for sharing! Lots of work, but oh so good!♥️

Your pantry is absolutely a work of art! Beautiful and so healthy.

Phenomenal. Wonderful. Pure living. Awesome shelves of gorgeous treasure. Lucky family.

Your pantry makes me so happy

You have a well-stocked pantry. So nice

Aww, reminds me of my grandparents underground cellar with lots of jars and barrels👍

Great tutorial! Wonderfully explained and congrats on your positive experience with growing your own, healthy food.

I love how cute you organized everything. And thank you for the storing idea for the potatoes 🥔

We are so excited for your family for your new homestead. We also grow most of our food and it has made a big positive impact on our health. I found your channel today, Looking forward to future videos. Happy Homesteading!

Congratulations! You've made quite an achievement growing & storing all of that wonderful healthy food! I also love preserving & storing the healthy food I grow.

Beautifully organized. This is our goal! Way to go on such a tremendous job.

Your voice is truly intoxicating. Love your videos!! 💜

If you ever want a lip on your shelves just flip your metal shelves upside down and hammer secure the clips. We used those shelves all the time at my store and would do that. :)

This is the goal. Things like this make me feel so at home. Kind of melts my heart. One day, one day.

What a beautiful job I understand the hard labor and love that goes into what your doing! I’m no where near what you’ve accomplished but I’m slowly getting there!!

Blessings to you and your family! You are an inspiration!

Thanks for taking the time to do this. I keep my winter squash in my utility room (~65f) and they generally last six months. Though I'll lose a couple to rot in that time I still have plenty for my winter needs. Wish I had a cellar but I make use of what I have.

Home grown, home made, and home canned soup! Is there anything better??? Loved the tour! I'm green with envy.

Your soul is absolutely beautiful. Your family is so lucky and blessed to have such a matriarch

Impressive! Great role model for your children, too!

I love how organized everything is. What an inspiration!

I love watching these kind of videos even though I can't eat a lot of what people grow due to allergies. Still a wonderful way to live if you can.

Amazing and beautiful!!

This is amazing. I would love grow and make my own food. You actually know and control what goes in your food. You don't have to do the guessing game.

We're in zone 6b, too! It's so wonderful how productive your garden is! We are planning our garden this year, and I think we're starting small, but your garden is my end-goal!

Mad respect for this. I only have space in my apartment in one small bedroom closet. Would love a full pantry like this one day

I think what you are doing for your family is wonderful keep up the great work. My mother use to do the same thing when I was growing up

Amazing! This is such an incredible video. Great job!

Love that you have kimchi as one of your ferments. Yas queen! You can put that on everything--soups, stews, sandwiches, savory pancakes, etc. So underrated as a staple food storage.

Beautiful garden! Beautiful shelves and an awesome variety! Love all the sweet potatoes and butternut squash! It’s so much better and healthier, if we can grow and preserve our own food!

Wow! That’s incredibly impressive!!

Thank you for sharing your beautiful pantry ❤️🌺

This is amazing and so organized ! I’m inspired

Home canned food to me decorative. It looks so pretty and perfect and lined up. And twice as satisfying when you've grown it yourself.

So enspiering thank you for sharing your hard work .

Wow. You can your own catchup! The pumpkins are beautiful.

goals! I love this 🧡. also, using food as medicine is so important + something that I wish more people turned to when overcoming illness.

I'm a new subscriber today! Looking forward to future videos! Thank you!

Hope your people appreciate what you do. It's a lot of work.

After seeing this I realized I need to get a move on with my dehydrating and canning....😊

This reminds me of when I was a kid living with my grandparents on the ranch

You can use the "yucky" cranberry jars for coffee cake, cakes, cookie filling, sweet sauces, or meatball or ham glaze

Beautiful pantry. Thank you for sharing with us.

Wow, so much variety and ingenuity. 🤗🤗🤗