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The day you plant the seed is not the day you eat the fruit!!! I love watching you both be so patient with your garden!!! Learning so much from you both!!!! May God continue to bless you and your garden!!!!!

Don’t ever stop making videos,you just don’t know how much you make my long lonely days better. I can’t wait for the baby to get here, I sure hope Corie lets us see him. I believe you are going to have a huge abundance of vegetables, God is good. I send my love.

Nothing Better than walking in your own backyard and just picking stuff off the garden and eating it many blessings that God gives you ❤️

My Okra is coming up, my squash has flowers. So do my potatoes. Tomatoes the size of golf balls. God is Good 😊

I absolutely love walkin the woods nature is calming

I was raised in the midwest in flat farm country and remember getting almost claustrophobic when we'd travel through mountains on vacation. As an adult and on a business trip, though, we'd stopped to look at a piece of property for sale up in Maggie Valley for a possible retreat. On looking out over the mountains, I had such an overwhelming feeling that God was there. I heard a co-worker ask another why I was crying, but not sure I could have explained that feeling if they'd asked. Of course God is everywhere but on that day, I knew for certain that only God could create something so beautiful.

These are the days we looked forward to all winter long. It's hard to believe that we're only one month away from the longest day of the year, already. We'll be harvesting and preserving food before long. We started with asparagus this week. Another growing season is upon us. Yeehaw! Best wishes for a bountiful harvest!

Lord Matt makes me nervous standing on that lol. I just love y'all together. How couples are supposed to be.

Thanks so much for sharing. Your energy level is apparently recovering from being away from the house during Granny’s hospitalization. There isn’t any reason to worry that your gardens won’t be gloriously beautiful. The house has to be filled with sounds and smells. Activities and emotions of days gone by Having babies in the house and family immediately brings to mind. After you’ve finished your season of child rearing. ‘ How in the WORLD did I manage. 😊 ? But oh the joyful times. Savor the moment. Each and every. It’s great that you and Matt can be together in your hikes. Close to home but the forest. Gives renewed energy and awe of Gods grace. Take care everyone.

⚘ Oh, Tipper. I so needed walking in the woods. Thank you all.

Every single time I watch your vlogs, memories of my family come flooding in my mind. I used to go on walks in the woods with my great aunt and uncle who had a place up near McGrady NC. You took a right up the mountain and then there you were at the end of the road. It was always cooler up there and stepping into the woods was spectacular on the senses. I loved the smell, the sounds, the beauty, and the drop in temps. I especially loved falling asleep to the Whip poor whills.

Matt looks good without beard.😊looks younger. Enjoyed this ❤ my mom was a great cook too.

You are the most humble gentleman I have ever seen. Nice folks!

I can't walk in the woods anymore so I watch y'all and it's almost like being there! ❤

Please give us more updates on Granny, Katie and Ira; and the whole family. I'm still praying for Granny and all.

Another great video Tipper. I'm wondering if you have ever heard of a 3 Sisters Garden? I just learned about it this week and it's an traditional gardening method that puts corn, pole beans, and squash all in the same space. If anybody in the comments has tried it I would like to know as well. I might do it next year.

Not much more I like than a walk through the woods, especially on a hot day. And the sound of that creek flowing is like music to my ears.

God is so good!!! Love you sharing your life with us! God bless you and your family!!🙏💐🌈🕊😃😀💕💕💕💕

So beautiful and lush with all that rain! Would Papaw Tony ever consent to a chatting with Matt on the channel? He sounds like a very special man🩵

A beautiful walk in the woods. Fried fish, hush puppies and slaw sounds like a delicious meal.

Just from watching your videos, my husband and I decided to try to grow okra. We haven't eaten it before so it will be a real experience.

Some folks have green thumbs, and others have a talent for cooking. My mother was like that too. I love you all. Blessings to you always!

This video brings back so many memories to me can I thank you so much. We're still sending the prayer warriors for granny.

My in-laws would place a wooden stake at the end of each corn row and after they plant the seed they would run a thick piece of twine across the row from stake to stake about 4 inches above the ground over the seeds. For some reason it keeps the birds from digging the corn up, and from eating the seedling's. By the time they were 4 or 5 inches tall and touching the twine, they were big enough and they would remove the twine.....they also had a few werlygigs to help too, but this worked like a charm.

I just laughed when Matt said send everyone to town so the two of you could eat the fish 😂❤

Hope to plant peas this week. My 92 year old aunt found a small container of white peas my grandmother use to grow. My grandmother stopped gardening in the early 80s. They probably won't germinate but I'll try. Maybe some will and I can get a start of seeds.

Love your videos! You've inspired me to try gardening, and I've bought my first set of grow bags. Wish me luck!

While waiting for my yeast rolls to rise, I decided to take a pleasant break and watch your video. It's always a great video because it's laid-back, beautiful, and relaxing.

That potato crop is looking great!!!! Your hard work won’t go unrewarded. 🥰🙏🏻

My grandmother made the best salmon patties, fried potatoes, and brown beans. I have tried to make it and it’s okay, just not hers. I think you’re right, it’s the love that she put in it. Have a great week…

You are the first person I have heard beside myself say "teen ninty" I began to think I had made it up 😊

We add 1 tbsp sugar, 1/2 tsp cayenne in cornbread batter with a sliced onion for hush puppies.

Thank you for another peaceful walk in the woods. Calming. Makes me happy. God bless your family! When I was growing up my mentally ill mother did not want me at home and wanted me gone at high school graduation. My dad disagreed but she made home very unwelcome for me. I moved far away and made my own life far from my origins. It was very lonely. It is so important for young adult offspring to have a loving home base. You give your girls that. God bless you all!!

I hang up old CD's that sway and sparkle in the wind, to keep the birds away. The song birds pay no attention to them but woodpeckers and bigger birds keep away from it. The only issue if there is no sun or wind then your CD bird deterrent is useless. Haha

To make papaw Tony's hush puppies all you have to do is hold your mouth just right 😊lol. I heard that saying alot growing up. I've also seen it rain in the front yard and not in the back.

Hi Tipper and Matt, my parents bought a farm in 1953. That's where I was raised and we had a storm cellar. It was built in a hill with steps going down under the ground. It had a pipe sticking out of the top., I would speak into the pipe and it would echo. Thank God we never had to use it, but it was nice knowing it was there if we did need it. Thank you for bringing the memories of my childhood back to my mind. I love y'all. Hugs

When Matt came down the ladder, we could see the happiness he feels just in preparing for deer season.

You might look for shiny Christmas ribbon on a spool at the thrift store to use to scare the birds off.

Matt if you climb that stand put on your harness i have a friend who fell out almost killed him !

When Matt found his arrow my husband said, "he found his own artifact." 😁 Like someone was here... oh wait it was me. 😁 We also thought it was funny that you, Tipper, woke Matt up and let him worry about the tornado. 😁 And oh my goodness how scary with the children and that bus with the tornado! God bless y'all.♥️

What a wonderful walk through the woods🪵 by your home. So peaceful too. Tell Granny hi and asking God to bless her.

It’s awesome to see Matt working on his tree stand! Really cool to have a spot nearby!!😃👍

Love the video thanks for sharing 👍👍👍🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

My aunt used to use aluminum pie pans to scare crows off. Just put a string through them and hand them where they can make noise. It worked for her corn fields.

Shiny pinwheels from a dollar store. Or a few coil-y "foil" gift ribbons pulled apart to tie around the garden. Keep being awesome.

Thank you Tipper and Matt for bringing us along on your doings. Looking for to seeing how your garden grows.

My father in law put a pump in the creek for my mother in law to water plants with. They had a well but they never had enough water from it, especially to water anything outside.

My daddy made the best hush puppies…I make them just like he did, but like you said…they never taste as good as his❤

When you were talking about” alternate housing” like dugouts, I thought about those Soddy kind of houses out there on the prairies. That one always gave me nightmares thinking about it as a young reader. Loved to read about the pioneers . In the library there were picture books with old photographs taken back in the days when people lived in a Soddy. The stories of snakes and burrowing rodents falling right into your house were more than I could stand to think about.

Yes. The storms and tornados in ‘73 or ‘76 were fierce. I was a young child in Chattanooga. These last storms made me mindful of that. We watched it go through us and over us straight towards Elijjay. Sirens going off everywhere here in Chatsworth.

10:10 Oh Tippper yes, so many pioneers to the (midwestern) prairie lived in sod houses, dug-outs. My Norwegian ancestors left an established, beautiful farm back home to go to SoDakota. Matriarch was already 50 yrs. old at the time. She left civilization to live (thank God only for a time) in the dirt of the prairie so that her children would better be able to own land, farm, prosper. She looks pretty pressed (like it'd been hard life) in all the old photos, bless her strong heart. Loved this video, as always. 🙌🏼 💞

That was a great walk in the woods and sounds you can only hear in the woods

ok this isn't on the subject, i saw on a genetics show that the bent little finger is from Viking descendents.❤

I love hearing you talk about your local ecosystem. A person can learn a lot about a place simply by knowing what weather is common. I'm in Ohio, which is both a Midwestern and an Appalachian state (somewhere around 30/35 of the south-eastern counties of ohio are considered Appalachia). Each year, we get our fair share of Midwestern storms and tornadoes (especially in the north-eastern part of the state where it gets pretty flat), so we tend to have wet springs, but our summers dry out pretty badly by mid-july and the heat us unkind. There's this strange mixture of dense humidity but no rain and dry ground. It makes for a miserable time watering gardens each night, even with garden beds that are fully mulched. Even though the weather isn't always ideal, I wouldn't give up my easy access to kayaking through the Appalachian foothills down the Ohio River! I think your channel does a wonderful job of helping people understand why so many of us stick to our Appalachian roots, whether we're in the north, south, or smack in the middle of the mountains.

🤣 "Deer tenderloin need to be as big as a hubcap if you ask me" ❣️

enjoyable video it's like sitting on the porch swing with friends

Thank Y'all For The Walk Through The Woods. I Lived By A Creek,Had Lots Of Hills,Hollers. We Used To Swing Across The Creek On A Huge Vine. Y'all's Gardens Are Beautiful. Y'all Have A Green Thumb 👍

I remember the Tornado that went through Murphy in 1974. I was 21 yrs old at the time.. Me and my wife drove there From Dahlonega, to see the damage. I remember as we were getting close to Murphy, we saw the Tornado had mowed a path through the trees for many miles. Then in Murphy I remember seeing a giant tree that was twisted into, the top gone. That same day in Dahlonega, it took out a chicken house across from Oak Grave trailer Park. Twenty years later in 1994 March 27th. We lived in Oak Grove Trailer park, a Tornado took out the same chicken house, one came down the road and rose up just before it would have hit our trailer. then another Tornado came down the middle of Oak Grove Trailer Park and damaged every trailer BUT OUR Trailer and Yes we were home at the time. .. I always love it when you and Matt go into the woods and along the creek near your home. I spent most of my teen years in the woods near my first home, in Baldwin Georgia. hiking to lake Russell about 5 miles away...

Our woods here on my PA. property the forest floor is covered in ferns.. It is really hard to see the timber rattle snakes and the copper heads... Your lucky to have such a clear forest floor in your area,

Love to come along with you and Matt I am not able to do these things anymore so it is nice to watch you

Here on the coast of North Carolina we heve thoroughly enjoyed some nice cool days which helps keep the ocean cool. No complaints from us at all!!

You two have me hooked on those Outshine Popsicles 😂 I love them!!! Thanks❤❤❤❤ They should sponsor you all.

You are a Good man, Matt!!!

Thank you for this relaxing peaceful video love hanging out with y'all ❤❤❤...Camille 😘❤

My Grandson got Our Garden 🪴 planted. Excited for the Tomatoes 🍅

A "visit" with ya'll, while I had my morning coffee. ❤ I'm in Middle TN, the cicadas are singing loud.

I learned how to do hush puppies from my Papa when I was a kid. The right consistency of batter seems to be the key for me. He and my nanny would always get the batter right with no recipe just mix till it "got right" .

I so LOVE your location. What a blessing to have grown up there and that you both are able to continue to share with many generations of your family. ❤ Lovingly jealous for sure having come from a family that cannot appreciate descendents living together on and off the God given land 😢. I've always been the outsider with the genetic make up of my earlier family members who lived n farmed in Iowa.

I can remember being out with papa in the car we would drive through a rain storm,we would get home and it would be dry,no rain,he would say we forgot to pay the preacher.You ever hear of that old saying?

Y’all com bac na here 😅😅😅😅

This was so pretty. And I am known for several dishes. My mashed potatoes, my gravy, my stock, anything made with chocolate, and my devilled eggs. Seriously, my devilled eggs are a show stopper. My son took a dozen and a half to his boyfriend's house for Thanksgiving with their family and they were all gone in less than 30 minutes... and there were only 4 people including my son eating them 😂😂😂 but I cook by smell and taste. That's the trick. My son only had 2 of the 18 he brought 😂. They asked for the recipe so he texted me to ask if he could share it. Of course I said yes and texted him my recipe... Boil and peel enough eggs, cut in half and add the yolks to a food processor. Pulse until they are like sand. Add enough mayo to make it stiff but combined. Pulse until that happens. Add enough mustard powder until it gets a little bit more yellow, but not much. Add black pepper and salt to taste, pulse to combine. At this point it should be a little dry and starting to crumble again, don't worry. Take a couple of spoons of sweet relish juice (not the actual pickles, just the juice) and add it along with enough horseradish sauce to thin it out a bit. Pulse to combine. Add some garlic juice from chopped jarred garlic, half to a full spoon, however much you need. Pulse to combine. Now taste. Do you want any more of a single ingredient? Add it, very slow. If it tastes great but it's too thick still? A spoonful of mayo is all you need. They have never mastered it, neither has anyone else, but they all get excited when I show up with them 😂😂😂

❤LOVE A GOOD FISH FRY!!!! Love fish!!!!!

I agree Matt. I hunted with my man for 16 yrs here in E. Tn. Mountains. Venison is the Best meat...tenderloins..roasts..or cubed. We also hunted wild boar . He made the Best home made breakfast sausage using an old time grinder. Luv the way Y'all live ❤️🙏

Beautiful! ❤ Nature is such a precious gift. I so love walking in the woods with ya'll. Planting the garden , preparing to reap the benefits of ya'lls hard work. Two words, "Thank you " Hugs 🤗 and God's blessings ❤🙏❤️

My brother says the thing that certain people make is that it is the magic dust.. I truly believe it… ♥️

Hey Tipper, Matt and family. Hope you’re doing well. We watch your channel almost every day and we enjoy it very much. Thank you for sharing. We’ve prayed for Granny and we’re glad she’s doing better. I thought I’d share a suggestion: consider having a drawing once a month or so during growing season where subscribers can enter to have you and Matt visit their garden. You could limit it to a 50 or 100 mile radius (driving distance) and maybe just do shorts to save on editing time and so it wouldn’t take away too much time from video time at your garden. I know you have to be very busy so it may not be feasible for you to do. Just thought I’d share the suggestion. Anyway, thank you again for sharing your home with us. I know it has to be burdensome to provide good content and be public. - Danny and Chris Smith

My grandmother could make the best rib roast and Yorkshire pudding. The tomatoes she grew we’d just eat like apples. She lived in East Tennessee but was from Montreal. Her mother was Scottish and was a professional baker so scones were a daily treat. I can make the scones but the Yorkshire pudding is just not the same. I miss her so much.

Wow interesting stories great 👍 video ❤scary 😨

Now I’m further into the video . Get a sump pump, can be very inexpensive or costly, some water hose, and plug the pump in with an extension cord to the nearest power. You might wonder how I know. For occasional needs it works fine.

Thank you Tipper and Matt for the walk in the woods very nice stay safe .

Storm cellars are everywhere here in our part of Bama after the April 27, 2011 tornadoes. We are 5 Miles from where two F5’s hit that day. Never forget it or the storms of 74, too close to those too.

Can you imagine the size of a deer that had hubcap sized tenderloin?😵 Shewmamma!

My husband always cooked deer in butter. On our second date, I got to watch him and his daddy and brother skin and cut up two deer. They had a commercial meat grinder they had gone in together on. That was my real first exposure to deer & it was a good one.😊

Our front yard is covered with mushrooms! Never have we had this much rain in May here in Ohio!

To a deer hunter, it’s always deer season. It’s just a question of how long until harvest.

You live in a magical place. I only see woods and mountain streams when on vacation.. but never secluded like your piece of heaven on earth and never often enough. My soul yearns to live in a place like that. I dream of it. I'm like Matt, I could live in the woods. A sod house! Little House on the Prairie was my favorite growing up. Matt shaved! Noticed it immediately. Must be getting too hot for facial hair for him lol He is so funny! I'm hungry now too.. fish, slaw&hushpuppies sound so good. 😋 would love to park my feet under your table and join your family for some great food&fellowship!

We too are getting rain and some cool temps. It’s nice but I’m ready for all the planting weather. The forest looks so pretty. I love the animal life all around ya. Thanks for the pop cycle talk. Brooks Oregon.

I Hear Sweet Binks..... 🐈 😺

Tipper, I put my radishes out as soon as the first warm days of spring come on. Two things that may have made your radishes bolt, first the warm temperatures if you've had several hot days one after another. The second would be that your dirt is to rich. Radishes don't need near as rich a dirt as most things in the garden. But now that they have bolted or gone to seed you will have what my girls called 'radish beans'. Let the seed pods get up to where you can almost see the seeds forming and pick them. They are so good in a salad be it a tossed green salad or potato salad or even a pasta salad. I always grow some radishes in the heat of the summer so they will bolt and make the 'radish beans'. Does Granny cook her beans in a cast iron pot? My granny did. No matter how hard I tried to make mine taste as good as hers I never could until she passed away and she left me her bean pot. That first big batch I cook after she passed I sat down and cried. They were her beans and the difference wasn't what she put into the beans, it was what she put the beans in. That pot was her mother's and her mother's before her and was brought all the way from Scotland. It has to be pretty near 200 years old but probably much older because I'm 75 years old, she was 93 when she passed and her mother lived to be 103. I also got her fried chicken number 10 cast iron skillet. There's not a time that I fix beans that I can't hear her telling me I don't need to add much salt because there's enough salt port in there to take care of the pot. I hope maybe some of your questions might have found an answer. But do go on and try those radish beans.

Just today I was setting up drip hoses and lines on a timer for my flower garden. It's a bit of work but I know I will appreciate the ease of care this summer.

My grandmother had a storm "pit" as she called it. She was terrified of storms and would herd us all to the storm pit if a bad storm was coming up. To be honest the storm pit scared me more than the idea of the storm.

Well, that was a nifty find of Matt's arrow after decades! All my indoor starts didn't make it either. I planted the last of my beans & some chocolate mint today, just before it stormed. We've been having lots of them & rain; it's been a blessing for the garden. You're So fortunate u don't have to water! 🙌🏼 I was thinking about you today when cutting up a watermelon and eating it. 😉 Blessings, Ms Tipper. 😊💖🏵️

I was thinking the same thing Tipper!😂 all that talk about yummy fish fries😊sounds so good❤

I live off grid and wish we had a stream like that! I buy drinking water and catch rainwater for bathing and dishes.

My granny and granddad had a storm shelter just outside their back door. It was also used as a root cellar lol..

Matt and tipper, what are hush puppies and how are they made? I’m very curious about this and could you do a video demo, please ? 💕🙏🙏

I like to mix up the hush puppy batter and put it out on an iron skillet, very thin layer. We love it.

Wow Matt. Well done pre-blind sir.

Nice to see you both and spend a little time with you. We are expecting severe storms late tonight. And I'm like you Tipper I will sleep through it .