How I am hoping to save myself $$$ on my Grocery Bill 

Congratulations on the continued growth of your channel. You are such a kind gentle soul and I’m so happy for you!

It's always a treat to see some of your beautiful land and catch a glimpse of the local flora and fauna. You're like Attenborough with a saucepan! Your garden is going to be so impressive, and I am looking forward to watching it grow.

Well done Stacey. Great ideas for filing everything. My late Dad grew a tomato called Dr Walter. Beautiful. Every year, he supplied so many others around the Mt area with plants and tomatoes grown from the year prior seeds. He would go to the hot pools and got known as Tomato Tom, as he gave away either the plants or tomatoes. He was so proud of his garden and I get the guilts, because every time I popped in, before or after work, I busied myself with other things and didn't go out and see it, until I was asked to. I know that it hurt his feelings, but not until after he had left us 😔. An ex farmer, he kept himself very busy, until his heart said no more.

Stacey could you get husband to build a good sturdy fence around your garden to keep the pigs out so your hard work is not destroyed 😩

One should ALWAYS check supermarket receeds. I have found wrong amounts regularly. It is of course better to do that when you are in store. Thank you for interesting video. Everytime I pick some useful idea. Cheers

Even at 9 mnths pregnant, I would be mowing lawns and digging gardens. Planting. I so enjoyed it. So I love watching you now and reliving those days. Piggies, behave! ❤😊

I have been growing for two years and the savings are worth the effort. I am now saving seeds from my plants by letting one plant go to seed and collecting the seeds plus with tomatoes let the tomatoes that are damaged fall onto the ground and new free ones come up new season. Maybe those pigs and chickens could have their own veg patch they can access by throwing all the expired seeds in there garden area and they get what ever comes up. Could be a fun experiment.

A little each day will get things done surprisingly fast. Start with just one or 2 raised garden beds. Best thing I ever did. I still get tired and sore but a lot less!

Love your down to earth attitude and your honesty. I have a small garden but love growing vegetables. We live at the beach so our garden was mostly sand to start with. I bury vegetable peelings instead of having a compost bin. It works so well. Fish frames also get buried and my veggie garden is now good soil with lots of fat worms. Can’t wait to plant this summer’s crops. We are having a holiday for 5 weeks soon so have decided to get planting on our return in mid September so I can keep an eye on everything. Keep doing things your way I love your vlogs. Many thanks for sharing your kitchen, garden and time. 😊

A slice of tomato, with a little soil, is my usual go to. I grow them in pots because it is easier to move them if the spidermites find them or a cold snap hits. You may also find amaranth (we call it morogo but I think it is called baby spinach overseas) makes for a great crop that is more of a weed but great for human food and animal feed. The chickens, especially, love the seeds. Loving the extra diversity and the reality of how not everything goes right - but that its okay when things go wrong.

I’m also trying to come as self sufficient as possible. I just planted 20 potatoe bags today 4 varieties. I set in carrots Florence fennel and will be doing my seeds today after I clean out the pergola. Thank you for sharing it helps keep me motivated. I watch you while I’m seeding, cooking or cleaning.

I saw a homeless guy in the US saving all his receipts so he could do tax right offs on everything he filmed on his videos. Got himself a car, to live in, showed going to garage do repairs,kitting it out. Always showed meals he prepared to eat. Hotels he stayed at to watch sports events, theme parks, a cruise,parties he had with fans. Because he used all these in his videos they were working expenses.😊

Hi Stacey, I’m in Australia and I discovered your channel yesterday and wanted to tell you how much I’m enjoying and appreciating your videos. Sorry the🐖🐖🐖got into your gardens. I’m definitely here for anything and everything you want to share, and I look forward to seeing what you plant and grow. xx

Oh wow! So is that NZ$100 a week for a family of 4 including toiletries etc.? I thought we were doing amazingly spending around A$50 a week on food for 2 of us. (I only keep tabs on food not all the extras) We're growing a lot of veg and some fruit in our garden and don't eat meat every day. Keep up the great work Stacey. Cheers!

It's my favourite time of year. Loving my Kings catalogue as well. It's very exciting flicking through and sorting what's needed for the coming seasons. Can't believe it's August already. Fun times. Hope you got those naughty piggies fenced out Stacy 😄🥰

I am always so envious of people who can grow their own produce. I can kill a cactus. Those things thrive on neglect! I'm not a green thumb at all. Thanks for sharing 😊

After going through a 6 infusion session, this is the video I needed to just relax in bed and veg out 😊 You look lovely with your hair down ❤

Love everything you put out. It motivates me to get out in my garden .

I have 4 of those photo storage boxes for seeds - one for herbs, one for flowers, and 2 for veg. I don't have much space or strength, but I know for sure that I save us a lot on our grocery bills by growing as much as I can, preserving, and meal planning around what is in the garden. Good luck with your planting. We'll all be cheering you on, and the flowering cherry will be BEAUTIFUL

❤ praying for lots of energy and help for this wonderful garden extravaganza ahead of you 🎉❤🙏🙏🙏

I'm loving the gardening footage!! It's so grounding for me to watch as I don't get outside much.

If you put marigolds near your tomato plants, it keeps some bugs away. Nasturtiums add nitrogen to the soil as well.

I found out that the marigolds that help repel bugs, is French Marigolds. The garden ones don't work. Such a bummer, I have tons of garden marigolds seeds and had to buy the French ones. Hopefully that will help you and others. ( Can't remember whose channel mentioned this information.) Good luck growing your garden.

I love watching your channel grow. For your USA viewers (like me) Michael's almost always has those photo keepers on sale about 1/2 the price of Amazon and others. You are a Gem!

You are looking well, glad to see the growth on your channel, it’s greatly deserved, you are a really lovely honest person and love your channel. There’s a space right behind you on that wall for that silver play button which I have no doubt you will get in the future xxxx

Stacey I love all your videos. Can't wait to see your veggies and flower gardens .keep the piggies out..😊

Kings seed catalogue has the prime spot on my bedside table and I always go to the tomatoes first too! Then it's the zucchini... Nothing quite like the first cup of tea in the morning with a perusal of all the seedling possibilities!

Raised beds will help. Little and often is key. Pushing your back will delay your next project. !!😊😊

Inspired me to keep a closer eye on our grocery bill. Our veggie garden is coming along nicely so will definitely be saving there and taking better care of our fruit trees this year for the summer months ahead. Thank you for your videos 😊

Oh boy I hit the jackpot when I found your channel, you cover everything I’m interested in, thank you so much for your time and effort you put into your channel, much appreciated 🥰

Really great to have someone in NZ, Im really enjoying your videos, Thank you. I also love Kings seeds, Im in Auckland 😊❤

So love listening to your accent! I’m originally from Te Kuiti, many years ago, lived in Australia a long time no but so enjoy your channel, love this idea of growing and cooking. I think we all need to get back to this. I’ve started this myself. My dad had the most incredible vegetable garden plus the orchard, asparagus bed and he grew berries and red, white and black currants that Mum made into jams, sauces etc. Its becoming insanely expensive to buy vegetables and fruit now, so great idea! Excited to follow the journey ❤❤

Thats alot of seeds & gardening to get done. At least the weather is getting better so we can get outside to get jobs done. I don't plant a garden. The one & only garden i did with kids, which they loved to do, came out next morning, and the snails had stripped it bare. 😢

I just love your videos, you’re so down to earth and explain things in a way that people understand..thanks a lot ..

Stacey we’ve gone into raised beds to safe our backs, think about your sons offer. Look forward to seeing your garden this coming season ♥️

Love the gardening. I want to try garden this year also so I'm excited to see a nz RU-vidr so I can plant things also in the right month. ❤

ha everytime I see your place I want to scream get some bees! If I lived nearer Id be knocking on the door

I look forward to watching your journey and learning from you 😊

I’m so excited to follow your progress!

I have a big garden but it has never been cultivated, soil is heavy and I am 73 and have recently sown corn, jerusalem artichoke and red beans to dry. But I started on my terrace and have tomatoes, celery, spring onions, zucchini and plants of coffee and am root growing pineapples. I collected the tops from a rubbish area. Some things do not grow but I keep trying. I lice in the tropics and am experimenting wirh rice in a planter. It is fascinating to sea how it develops. I have my first bananas starting.....

Love your vids Stacey , I used to wing it day by day but I’m actually meal planning now and already saved money and free up time . Hope you get them naughty piggy’s under control x

Thank you stacey, wonderful idea, love your show 😊

Not sure what your climate is like where you are in NZ, but where I am in VIC, Aus, we have periods where I can't grow greens outside, especially in summer because they tend to bolt. I bought a little table top hydroponic set-up from Amazon and grow lettuce and Asian greens in it. Over this winter I got a patio type cherry tomato and tried it out as well. Not an every day harvest, but I surprised quite a few people at our local produce swap with tomatoes in August! I got a second one from a friend and am going to try some bush beans next.

I always watch I always love watching your channel you're such a sweet person and so down to earth a very practical and you always have the best tips thank you❤❤

Hi Stacey, just read about your awful condition, it sounds hellish…also read about the nasty message you had..it’s crazy that you have so many messages of love and appreciation, yet one nasty idiot can floor you.. I hope you can put it out of your mind and be assured that your followers appreciate all you do.. Thankyou for being you , you’re amazing x

always worth a watch , you are surely inspiring at least a few of us to try and make the pennies go a little bit further, and try out new recipes ...thank you.

Just love your channel..so refreshing.. I too save my grocery receipts.. but here in the US the ink after a while fades away and you can't read them... I keep them tallied up in a notebook at the end of the month... great video thanks for sharing

❤ love your videos, very interesting and relaxing 😊❤

Hi Stacey! I just wanted to let you know that I adored your video. Your practical ideas were so inspiring, and seeing Miss Piggy's resting spot was heartwarming. Seeing beautiful Trix in her "walk-on role" made my day. Sending lots of love from your fan girl in Pukekohe ❤️

Love your vlogs. From Australia

I just started my seed bank this year too! Seedlings, seeds, food is sooooo crazy expensive here. 2$ per apple, it's more than petrol.

I love the photo album, I think I have one hanging around somewhere lol ....just need to find it. Thanks Stacey, take care =-) and yes I have my catalogue love going through the organics =-)

Thanks Stacey for another useful and enjoyable vid, you are very kind, i love that you want to give produce to your family and neighbours. Oh those little piggies, you need some good sturdy fences to keep them out of your gardens, good luck with the gardens😊

You know I love seeing your property! And I love the plans that you have for planting HOWEVER...I am also happy to hear that your knees are doing better but please don't push yourself TOO hard, and allow people to help you ;-) That practicality of what you are doing and teaching is going to help a lot of people incorporate these things into their own lives. Love & BIG HUGS to you & Husband

Have been keeping track for several year's now, we do treat ourselves mine is dried tropical fruit $20 a month, the other half is beer, ice cream and chocolate buttons. We eat 90% home grown fresh vegetables, and lots of seasonal fruit, still have apples in store and mandarin is nearly ready. Someone gave me two Fontera tins, one is a bit higher, seeds are sorted into now, soon and later. The tunnel house went in last December am learning how to get the most out of it, had Oriental vegetables and lettuce, spinach and silverbeet growing have the third lot planted now. Have two grow bags with some early potatoes, grow spinach for the chooks outside. Have onions, brassicas and peas growing in pots waiting to go outside.

Hi, your channel is great. what an eye opener,j the price different on food to Uk.

❤❤ love all your videos, I'll be watching your gardening ones closely as we're restarting our vege patch this year and need all the help we can get. Hopefully our weather is similar to yours as we live in north BOP.

Stacey, U need to put in raised beds bigger then the strawberry and garlic... see if someone has a sale on them...or old bath tubes like an opshop... It will help your back in the furture... I got my Seeds containers from Kmart $15 I tried the photo Album can't put alot in... So I can't that Idea... Put in Collards good for pigs Sugar Cabbages...also saw beetroot that if U grow big U can use it for Foder...it's a beetroot family... Why can't U get your son too build a pen for pigs... I have past your utube channel to lots of people here in Aust 🇦🇺... U know if U klip rings in the pigs nose they want do that to the grass...saw it on a Vet Show...😢😢😢😂❤

Thanks

We are starting our seeds too, even bought a greenhouse…. Rural life is great.

From one avid gardener to another & others.....check out and have a go at using the maramataka calendar or any other kind of moon calendar for planting out your vege gardens ive found it to be really successful as well as crop rotation which also makes a big difference. Love your paddock garden patch lots of room for all you're bigger crops that like lots of space

What about herbs and chillies? We did this with our seeds about two days ago! Great minds think alike!

Another great video.Stacey I can recommend planting Hollyhocks (flowers) they come back the second year.❤🇦🇺l also made your crumpets will never buy shop bought again😋

I put the year on the packets ,so I know when I bought them

Ive had large vege gardens on the farm before. Now have raised beds..will never go back to in-ground garden. So much easier..so much easier to get it truly fertile, and far easier all round. Its an investment thats really worthwhile. Try building just one.....see how it goes. Didnt have to weed at all for first couple of years...last few years..we do have to..but its literally a 20 minute job, once a month or so.

Hi Stacey ❤ you could use the photo album to store your open seed packets, for seasonal succession planting/ summer in front,winter in the back. ❤

What about squash family do you grow them? Love this idea i am going to do it for six months. Then analyse it. Thanks great idea.

You are such an inspiration Stacey❤. If you can afford raise beds I can vouch that they are so much easier to manage, but I can appreciate it’s not something everyone can afford. ❤

Great ideas for seed storage Stacey. I recycle the green pill containers from the pharmacy and use my labelling machine to name them.

Hi Stacey,I came across your channel today when looking for a crumpet recipe. I love that you are totally relatable and so down to earth. You have another new subscriber and I look forward to following your journey and discovering more recipes to make and bake.May I suggest Stock to add to your flowers if available....I'm over the ditch in Aus....the perfume from the flowers is just gorgeous 😊

Inspirational ideas for vegies . Makes me want to start digging 😅

Great idea for organizing seeds! Hope you and yours are doing well

Maybe a seed category called "Novelties". Lots of good ideas.

Thanks Stacey Great tips I grew giant Zinnias in Welly they were 2-3 feet tall and lovely and colourful. Also cosmos pink ones I take Glucosamine for my knees it helps a lot God bless you. :)😊

You will save heaps by growing your own. I live on my own and harvested 12 organic, kent pumpkins spray free. Last week they sold at $10 each in Woolworths(not organic quality). Herbs, chillies and garlic are good value too. I find I spend heaps on milk products…cheeses, milk, butter, yoghurt, which have increased dramatically in price in the past 12 months. I now buy raw milk from a local dairy.

I'm so excited for this season, the level up is on. Got a space for corn (if ya grow it)

Thank you so much for your awesome content in this video. You are such an inspiration. I'm a newish Gardener and am looking forward to learning from you as we both live in the Waikato. Kings seeds are my favourite as well and I store mine the same as you in the plastic storage container labelled with my label maker. I look forward to having my first proper garden this summer with your help

I think you someone needs to finance a rotary hope for you Stacey ❤💖❤

Shoebox works for me. But the photo album might be better. You could put a note in showing use by date and when you planted and the weather at the time of planting for reference.

and I love celeriac grew 6 plants this year 🤪need to times it by 10

I suggest that the next time you buy a capsicum that you save the seeds, dry them & then I started mine off by putting them on damp kitchen paper, then popping them into a plastic bag, sealed & they grew in it, then I transplanted the seedlings into containers, until they were big enough to plant out into the garden. I had two years with them before they finally died but by that time I had more seeds. The same goes for tomatoes & other veggies with seeds that you eat & enjoy & so save the seeds. My daughter used to sit on my back stairs & spit her watermelon seeds out into my yard & a couple of them grew between the pavers & I left them & ended up with two huge watermelons that I gave away as I can't eat them. I used to do that with cucumbers as well & even did it with an avocado seed, only I didn't bring it with me & now I regret it as it would have been giving me fruit by now. I have a couple of feijoa plants growing in my planter from seed when Woolies imported them from NZ a few years ago & maybe one day they will flower. Actually when are the fruits ready for eating? I suspect that I should have planted them into the garden as seeing yours, they are rather large! Ooops!! They were really delicious but I have never seen them on sale again here in Sydney.

Thank you so much keep it up xox

Oh to have so much space.

Pumpkins

Tell the little pigs to quit chewing up your dreams or they'll be the star of a cooking bacon video. haha Good to see you back at it again through thick and thin.

Does your climate support ginger and turmeric? What about choko? Too late for fruit this year but my chooks eat the leaves, could be grown over their pen. And I thought since you have lots of room you could grow the kinds of beans that you dry.

Did you buy your seed container from Kmart ? I know that sell them in Australia for about $20 , Spotlight has them but a lot more expensive . I labeled my by seasons rather than alphabetical or individually

I would love a recipe for thick greek yoghurt. Does adding powdered milk improve the thickness??

TRY SPROTING OLD SEEDSSO THEY AREBT A COMPLET LOSS

Parsnip??

Do you think that maybe it's time to put up a fence to keep your animals out of your garden?🤔 👋 From 🇨🇦

I'm trying to only spend $400 a month for just one person

Do you get your vegetables to go to seed, or save your seeds from vegetables for next season

Do you pay for the seeds out of your food budget?

Stacey Pure curiousity, how much meat do you get off your farm, do you have homekill? Those little piggys are very naughty lol, I watch a youtuber woman in Portugal with a pig farm of kune kunes and they keep her on her toes! 🙃

Totally off subject we had an animal. Butchered and the schnitzel we got back was cut to thick to cook as schnitzel but not as thick as stewing meat. Can l can this ? It was beef.If so how long do you think?

Is that Raupo growing in swamp behind your paddock garden?

PUNKINS SQUASH

peas ?

Raised beds are going to save you bending, work, weeding, they warm up quicker and drain faster if it's soggy. Do yourself a favour and put your son to work building you some straight away! Your back will thank you!!!