Storage Crops to Feed our Family ALL YEAR! 

It’s easier to put the bean pods in an old pillowcase and pound the bag. Not too hard but firmly enough that the beans leave the pods. 😊

Here is a smart idea my husband came up with several years ago. When you are in your 60s and your back is not what it use to be you have to work smarter. Dig your potatoes with your tractor bucket. Put your tractor bucket parrel to your potato bed and take the buck deep into the potatoes plants and bring up the dirt, potaotes and plant in the bucket. Then you pick the potatoes out of the tractor bucket, {so you are not having to bend over) leaving the plant and dirt in the bucket to be dumped back into the place you just dug it up. Move tractor and repeat. when finished put the boxes or crates full of potatoes into the tractor bucket and haul to the house. We grow several hundred lbs every year. We only grow reds. They do better for us in the wet warm springs of southern Oklahoma. We plant potatoes in late Feb and have to dig before the plants die off. Due to our wet springs and potatoes rotting in the ground. Always enjoy your videos

I have 4 liberty apples, 2 are better than the others.. they have different rootstocks. Great video.

Just a question. Do you not like beet greens? I was surprised that you fed them to the cows. Growing up we cut the greens off the beets and cooked them like spinach and added them to smoothies when we dehydrated and turned them into a powder. Love your videos. They are so informative ❤

Sweet potato leaves are so good! Treat them like spinach, they are not bitter at all. …one of our favorite greens. I also dry lots of the leaves for use over winter.

Thank you. Awesome information!

I would suggest you check out more than farmers. They have a lot of tips and tricks

Ok,I feel bad saying anything…. But…. That isn’t a pitch fork. Pitchforks are lighter,with longer,sharper tines. The instrument you are using is a potato fork. Heavier for digging,shorter thicker tines for digging without piercing the spuds. I also wondered if you just didn’t like beet greens. We ate them fresh like spinach also dried some to grind into other foods for added vitamins. Your harvest looks great!!!

What you were using is a potato fork, which is for digging potatoes. A pitchfork with sharp tines is used for pitching hay for cattle. :😊 . I grew up on a farm and used them both 😅 don't you ever grow sweet corn for eating fresh and preserving. Corn on the cob is soooo yummy.

It's BIG Harvest!!! LOVE IT!!!😍😍😍

I love the kids participation!

So fun watching your littles help in the garden! Apples are beautiful 😍. What a fantastic harvest! Have you ever considered growing butternut on trellis? I grow them on cattle panels- so easy and fun to watch them grow!

I've been waiting on this video. I'm not disappointed. I'll be waiting on the next one. This was great! Your harvest is great. I'm so happy for you. I love your great family. Ty for sharing.

What a beautiful, abundant harvest! And so nice that everyone pitches in. So many parents are impatient and shoo their children away rather than taking the time to show them what to look for and how to do the job. And you're so good at praising and including every child. Even the baby was able to contribute. You are such awesome people! ❤