Large Family Homesteading ~ Homemade Vinegar ~ Sweet Potato Slips ~ Garden Planting ~ Hand Soap 

I just have to say that I am in complete awe of you! You take care of and nurture eight kiddos, homeschool, garden, can, cook from scratch, and more! I only had two kids that went to school, and I sometimes felt overwhelmed with just the basic errands and house work. You are an amazing lady and I love your videos. We even made your peach pie filling! My husband was quite the trooper when I gave him a knife and cutting board to help me peel peaches! Sending love from Oregon!😊

You are doing a great job on not only doing things your family needs but also teaching others. Thank you

Yes Christ the Lord has Risen today!! I Look forward to watching your channel each week! Have a wonderful Easter precious family. God bless you all .

He is risen indeed! Resurrection Day Blessings! Thank you for all of the great tips on your garden, vinegar and soap! Very appreciated! Blessings on you and your precious family today!🌻🐛Carolyn in Ohio 🌿

It would be great if you make a video on making Castile soap. It’s all we use in our household too

I tried something different with my sweet potato starts that you may want to try, also. I had several potatoes that had started to grow eyes, none had yet sprouted. I rolled them out, placed them onto a saucer, added enough water that they were in a wading pool instead of swimming, and waited. I also pulled off the growing sprouts from the potato before cooking it, and put them in a jar of water for growing roots just as I usually do. In just a couple days, the tiny balls had sprouted and within a few days had sprouts about 1 inch long. I put them all in a baby food jar and kept it full of water - even the un-sprouted balls went in between the sprouted which held them out of the deep like parents holding their babies in a pool. They grew fast with thick stems, and each one was so healthy looking. This was compared to the few that grew from actual sprouts from the potato. Give it a try and see if you have similar results. It was an eye opener (no pun intended) about how they really, really want to reproduce!

Hannah cracks me up! I want the eggs! She was working hard to get out of that seat to get to her eggs! 😂

Amen! Ty Jessica. He is alive! I pray He is alive in everyone's heart today.

Happy Resurrection Day! He is Risen! 💜💜💜💜💜

I have never seen a boring meal from your home! Loved the garden reset-seems many of us are doing that. It is my favorite time of year. Thanks for the vinegar clip. I need to get a batch going soon. Have a blessed Resurrection Sunday. Thank you Jessica.

I get very inspire after watching you Jessica! I have a lot of decluttering to do myself! Thank you for sharing! 😊❤

I enjoyed watching the making of liquid soap. Sems like its not hard at all so I'll try it sometime. Hope you have a lovely week!

I save my soap slivers from bar soap, and use them to make my hand soap. It makes good use of the little pieces of leftover soap that no one (me included) wants to use. I make smaller batches, but use the same process.

Your baby girl looked so sweet with her brother

What a busy week you had! I love how he put his sister to sleep 💤 Miss Hannah is growing leaps & bounds. Your children are so sweet.

He's alive. He has risen. God Bless you and yours. Enjoyed your video. ❤️

Jessica, thank you for this video. I marvelled at you working in your garden after the snow melted away. I am in the Netherlands, and I have an allotment from the Town Council, and I have yet NO motivation to start working. It's cold. Next week, I will start, since it's already Spring and temperatures are above 10 degrees Celsius now. Thank you for the INSPIRATION.

A little apple cider vineger + water helps me wake up if I'm trying to cut down on my caffeine intake 😅

I really would love to see the video on making bar soap. I love all your videos.

I love fermenting things; vinegar especially is one of my most used. When I was a little younger and doing a lot of laundry, I made vinegar in 5 gallon buckets, for fabric softener. I don't have a ferment friendly house, so I dehydrate fruit peelings all winter and when the temperature is right my house is obviously a vinegar factory 🤣 My late husband didn't have much of a sense of smell, but he could tell when the big buckets started working 😊 I also ferment wild edibles, grind them up in the blender with the fermenting salt water, dehydrate them on the lowest settings to preserve the live goodness and powder them to use as an add at the table salt; (cooking kills the dormant fermented goodies); the ferment wakes up on its way through the intestinal tract, imparting all kinds of benefits. Modern greens are poor cousins to wild greens. The fermented salt is especially healthy in the winter when can veggies or shipped in from half a continent away veggies are all that are available.

Heprebiotic! I take 2 Tablespoons of Apple Cider Vinegar in my drinks per day. Great probiotics!

A new subscriber and absolutely love your channel so have been binge watching. You have such a soothing and calming voice.

I take a big pot, put soil in the pot, and barely cover sweet potatoes with soil. Keep the soil moist, and slips will pop up everywhere! Leave them until they are about 6 inches tall, and most times the will have roots on them already. I got about 5 dozen slips from one sweet potato last year.

He is risen! Happy Easter! Love your beautiful, innovative videos! We used to make vinegar in wooden barrels 60 years ago in our earthen basement! Wish I could recall all the details..

I love that you said resurrection! That is important to call it what it really is! I truly enjoy watching your channel! I just did some blueberry pie filling and your words rang in my ear to can something even if it is small!

God has blessed you with such beautiful hair!

I love your tip about using the muffin tin for spacing your onion sets. Thanks for the tip. I’ll have to try the liquid soap idea, too.

Happy Easter Jessica and beautiful family! May our Lord and Savior bless yall and all of us! Much love and admiration to yall!

I love making apple scrap vinegar. I use it mainly in salad dressings and as a hair rinse (I use homemade shampoo soap). I love making homemade soap. I planted my onions this past Friday.

Garden burn out!! Totally get this. I'm still burned out that I decided for the first time in 20 years not to plant a garden. I will still have all my fruit trees to process but looking forward to a break. Hope warmer weather is headed your way

Making vinegar is one of the things you taught us, that I love the most. I saw you make it 2 years ago and started right away. We love how yummy they are in things like salad dressings. I also used my pear scrap vinegar for freezer pickles and they are the best I have ever made. My daughter is allergic to apples, so it’s great I now know how to make it with other types of fruit. I wanted to ask if you have ever tried freeze drying the mothers and store them that way? As for the sweet potatoes. You will get more slips quicker, if you lay them down in soil instead of water. If you do it that way a lot will already have roots when you take the slips off the potatoes. I also plant my slips in pots as soon as they have roots. This way I end up with strong healthy slips each with big roots, when I am ready to plant in May. This year my sweet potatoes started sprouting slips after 3 days and I started planting them in pots after about a week. It has been 2 weeks now and I have 60 slips in pots and more in a bucket since I ran out of pots.

Hope you and your family have a great Easter Sunday. Have a blessed week.❤

I have a bunch of bar soap I bought in the hopes of reducing my waste but I can feel my skin drying out as I use it. Maybe I’ll try to make it into hand soap too. ☺️

Hope your family has a blessed Easter

I have a table spoon ( apple cider vinegar with the mother)or so in our sole water ( a teaspoon of Redman salt water in purified water)in the morning, with a half of lemon squirted in it. Cheers😮

He is risen indeed!!

What a great idea to use a muffin tin for planting onions - that will makie it so easy to tell how many starts I will need for the space I have!! and it will keep hubby from planting them way too close together as well :pD

He is risen indeed.

Happy Resurrection day ❤ I would love a soap tutorial when you are ready. Have a great week ❤

I didn't clean up my garden either.☹️. I keep finding things I didn't plant when I was surprised to Hopefully not too late Finally feel some inspiration.

Thank you for sharing! Love your videos and your family looks soo healthy and blessed you take such good care of your family! God bless you!

He's Alive.. Great Video!

Amen! Happy Easter to you and your family! Thank you for the video too💛

He has risen indeed

Happy Resurrection Day Jessica! Wonderful video! I love your beautiful garden! So near to see step by step on the vinegar. Thank you for taking the time for this week's video! It was a joy to watch, as always! ❤

I am making Chicken in Coconut Sauce for dinner tonight and thought of sharing the recipe with you Jessica. It's a Malay dish mostly cooked in South East Asian Countries. Ingredients :- Chicken, 2 onions sliced, 1 tbsp ginger paste, 1 tbsp garlic paste, 1 lemon grass, Coconut milk and salt, fried shallots, celery leaves, cilantro leaves. 1. In a wok, saute onions in oil, till soft. 2. Add ginger / garlic paste and cook stirring it. It cooks fast. 3. Add lemon grass and Chicken pieces, cook till they turn white. 4. Add water to cook the Chicken pieces. 5. Once chicken is almost fully cooked, add Coconut Milk. 6. Add salt, fried shallots, celery or cilantro leaves. Optional : 1. Add sliced chillies or chilly powder if wished when the chicken is cooking. 2. Can add teeny weeny bit of Turmeric to give a bit of yellow colour. 3. Can add chicken boullion if so wished. Hope you give this delicious dish a try.

HAPPY EASTER! He is RISEN!❤️

Beautiful image to end that video.

I love everything you have taught me ... I never make oatmeal any other way now... ❤

Can you show us how you make your soap?!?!?!

Happey Resurrection Day Jessica, Adam and family 🙏❤️. Very productive week y'all had.

Thank you good way of making vinegar. Like the garden have a great time gardening .God bless you and your family

❤my favorite you tuber just wish she had more time to make more videos love you Jessica ❤

Happy Easter, and god bless you.

If you put 2 pounds of raisins in a gallon of water and let it sit in a warm place, in 2 months it will become white wine vinegar. Strain the vinegar off and bottle.

Hello! Happy Easter to you and your family. Thank you for sharing your lives with us ❤

😊 Thk u for sharing .😊 beautiful your great Mother Jessica 😊

Oh how I love spring prep in the garden. It really gets me anxious to get my garden going.

Wonderful video again. Happy Easter to you and your beautiful family.

I grow my potatoes in a similar way. I plant them in raised beds, as my ground is really poor quality, and cover with grass clippings.

Loved the video, as always! I hope you can find time to show us how to make the Castile soap!! As expensive as everything is and the stuff that’s added to everything, I would love to make my own.

Happy Easter ✝️🌸

Thank you so much for sharing your adventure in and out of the garden. Blessings

Happy Easter 🐣

May our Heavenly Father bless you and your family

Happy Easter ❤❤❤

Thanks for liquid soap ,I have a lot of small pieces of soap.

I was wondering if you can show us how to make your Castile soap and any other home made soaps and cleaners?

Happy Easter. Great idea using the muffin tins to plant onions. I'll have to try that. Have a blessed Sunday.❤❤❤

Wonderful video and thank you for recognizing the real reason for Easter Sunday! On a side note, I think you have beautiful dresses. Where do you get them?

I love soap making to ❤

PRAYERS AND BLESSINGS UPON YOU AND FAMILY ON THIS RESURRECTION DAY.

Hope your Easter was wonderful! He is Risen!❤

Happy Easter to you and your family🐇🐇🐇

HE is not here, for HE has risen. Yes indeed! Glad you got some Garden time in and your Spring Break wasc enjoyed by all.

Blessed Easter! I was happy to see how you doing vinager. I love apple scrap vinager! I'm good at it! But sometimes they get moldy after I take out the solids. I'm gonna research that part before next apple season. I am taking a garden break except for the wheat & garlic out there now, because I have a long roadtrip planned right at harvest time. There is still so much to do in the garden even if I'm not planting. I am looking forward to doing that. Cool idea about cleaning cloths.

hey sista the muffin tin method genius x

I hope you & your family have a blessed Easter Sunday ✝️🙏

Saved rhis video for a rainy day as I knew there would be ones this week. Glad its avaliable.

Happy Easter to everyone! He is risen indeed ❤

Love seeing your videos. Look forward to them every Sunday. Thank you and hoping you and your family have a great day.

HAPPY EASTER

Blessings!!!!! Love your content! I know you are so busy but could you share what your raised beds are created from? Love the oval containers.

Enjoyed it!

A perfect video. I started making soap again recently and my granddaughter asked if I could teach her how to make soap and how to make liquid hand soap. I am looking forward to learning to make Castile soap, right now I make a cold processed soap that has a coconut and olive oil base. Thanks again Jessica.

I just love your videos thank you. Looking forward to how you make bar soap. Happy Easter everyone !

Happy Easter. God bless.

Thanks for another great video!

Hi Jessica! Can I make my scrap vinegar without a mother? Can’t wait for the soap tutorial!! 😊 thank you!!

Happy Easter!!

Oh neat. I was wondering if scrap vinegar could be made from frozen fruit. I don't do any big batches of apple stuff but my boys eat a few apples a day so in a couple of weeks I could have enough cores in the freezer to start a batch. That last shot with Hannah and David(?) - sooo precious! ❤

Great video. Happy Easter

Happy Easter x😊

Happy Easter friend. Enjoy your family.. ❤

Blessings ❤ to you and your family🙏

Happy Easter

Happy Easter. Just got back from church great way to start the day

Have you tried making strawberry or blueberry vinegars? They’re so yummy with salad dressings!

Blessing to you and your beautiful family

Easter blessings