What’s Growing On 

You can show as much “yard work” as you want! It’s awesome to see how others maintain their garden areas and it’s encouraging for others 🤪☺️☺️☺️

We are in Australia with a 200ac homestead. Your channel is by far our favourite US homesteaders channel. Some of the bigger channels are just difficult to watch. Love the way we see you both and the boys actually doing the work without having employees/interns managing it for you, not plugging books, vlogging about health issues etc. You all do an amazing job and it great to see you teach your boys, and others’ children, the skills they can use for life. Meg is a kitchen wizard and also a wonderful, calm and loving parent. Absolute pleasure watching your family and property grow. Thank you.

I love watching the mowing and weedeatering. your videos are never boring.

Don’t call it mundane. It is fun to watch the progress, improvements & maintenance of your homestead!

The cool thing about your videos is that they are real and authentic which is why I love your channel so much. I have enjoyed watching the growth you have made on your land from the very beginning. And the growth of your family has been a joy to be a part of virtually... I think you are wise to let the twins do their own thing...very smart of you to do in this weird climate of youtube-isms.

Not everyone has a yard to do work in.. it's quite nice to watch someone be oddly satisfied with doing the mundane! TY

Great to get more plants in the ground. Not only good for covering the soil but the more roots in the ground the more the soil organisms get feed and the better the soil becomes!!

I enjoyed the longer video of your farming! It was a delight! I was able too enjoy my cup of coffee watching todays video! It was likes old times, enjoying a good half hour of splendid family farm living! Thank you so much! ❤️❤️❤️

No one shows the reality of “yard work”. Everything always looks pristine. It’s good to find someone willing to show actual reality 👍

It’s not just you wanting to take back your yard edges from the weeds. It IS SOOO satisfying to have a ‘clean’ yard

Hollar Homestead is looking thoroughly productive, you guys are killing it and Thank You for all the hard work of bringing us along 😀

Hey guys. I’m in the UK. Had “extras” just like you. Planted most out : Tomatoes, squashes (no point Sweet Potatoes here), kept last year’s bolted carrots, leeks and parsley, this year’s bolted onions and cilantro… zero honey bees but now there’s an abundance of wasps and hover flies that are pollinating everywhere and predating aphids and other harmful bugs. Spare starts are obviously a boring necessity, but heck! Don’t they just save the day in ground anywhere rather than sit there taking up our time. Anyway, sweet potatoes in the woodchipped orchard could well become a permanent volunteer sweet potato bed like in Back to Eden. If nothing else, the rotating cattle will love the vines next year. 😃👍🏻👍🏻

I absolutely love watching mundane chores and construction projects in fast forward. It's so cool watching things come together.

We love yard work and mundane chores on the Hollar homestead! Everything looks great!

Grow food people! Grow food! It has become a real matter of survival...

I think it’s awesome to see you guys take care of your property

You do Billy and Danny proud with your planting diversity in the orchard!!!!! Don't sweat the potato harvesting timetable. We, in the PNW can harvest til the ground threatens to freeze. The taboes just grow larger!

Loved the weed whacking. Just as satisfying as doing it myself almost.😊 Such a beautiful difference. The garden just looks so amazing. Such beautiful progress. You are making a beautiful place out of your homestead. What a difference you have made from the first reveal a few years ago.

Yes, plz show the mundane, cause that's just what I needed to get motivated to do the mundane!! The grass around my boxes and garden is as bad as yours was. Seeing how much better it is mowed, I must now do the same😭😭, lol. Thanks for the motivation 🥰🥰

What is it now, the 3rd or 4th year garden must be so satisfying to see what you have done in that short time. The garden in the over all looks great. I'm sure there will always be "experiments", but you've turned what you said was depleted soil into a great harvest!

My favorite part of the garden was the toy tractor you were growing!! 😂 I love that you guys show real life gardening and not the perfect picture manicured garden. Thanks!

Yes, everyone does yard work… But, it is so enjoyable watching someone ELSE do their yard work!

I really enjoy watching you do mundane things…

I enjoy watching these videos so very much. Your not pretending! Your as real as it gets and I enjoy that! 😊 Family and what is best for your family and showing us what has worked or not for you with your gardens. Thank you! 🥰 My parents would every year grow this squash that climbed up and grew to look like a baseball bat. It is one of the yummiest squash and very versatile. Let one grow to a huge size and get next year's seeds from it. Just hang it up and let it dry out until next year for the seeds. Wish I knew what it was called. But I'm sure you'd love it.

Glad to see I'm not the only one that lets the weed eating get away from me. Love your idea of finding places to plant tomatoes, potatoes & peppers in odd places. That will be one of my projects for today!

Your homestead gets better and better each and every year because you have removed all of that gross trash from everywhere on it and you continue to feed your soil and take care of it. It says to each one of you, "Thank You!" God blessed you with abundance because of it, lovely to watch.

Everything what you plant and touch is a blessing to your family You put the seeds and God is doing rest 🙏. Love you all

I really love it so much when y’all take us on a walk thru you garden areas!! Ben, I totally get when you say you like to see all the edges after you weed…it is truly a thing of beauty🤗!

Ben an out door shower and mud room would help Meg a lot. Walking into your home clean and fresh goes a long way.

Farmstead is looking really great! We use sweet potatoes as ground cover here in Hawaii. Cools the soil as green mulch and bonus we get edible sweet potatoes! We also use comfrey as a ground cover in our citrus orchard.

I just subscribed today. My first thumbs up for you. We left a city life in our fifty’s over17 years ago. Our home is an oldie and not quite a goodie yet, may never be but as we approach our seventies we learned to embrace our homes blemishes. We lost lots of our retirement savings to savvy double talking financial advisors. One day, down the road from our house I saw a sign that was covered by weeds the size of trees. We looked at each other. My husband pushed the weeds apart and I called the realtor and he met us on the 8 acres. The land was way ver priced, so we put a ridiculously low bid, and put our retirement on the line. Seems the land was on the market for a long time and they accepted our bid. We were happy to get the funds away from the advisors. It’s almost 7 years of up’s and downs but thanks to channels like yours and going to RU-vid school we are finally getting harvest enough for two older people. Keep up the good work. We will be doing a marathon over the weekend watching your beautiful family videos.

I love a freshly manicured yard. It just changes the look of everything

I like how you’re not pitching those plants but using them for purpose. Tip for you guys: with all the heat and dryness we’re experiencing all over the country, put out water sources for your wildlife. That may be why the birds are being jerks and picking off your fruit. For the first time, we didn’t get any of our black raspberries. Usually birds only eat a few.

Luv watching your progress! Missed the kitty cats. Hope all the piglets growing strong. 😃🐞🐝🦋🐾🐾🕊♻️

To protect the fruit trees take two PVC pipes and cross them over the trees to make a tent frame, drive rebar into the ground to put the PVC on, then put bird netting over the pvc. Tie it up so it’s not dragging the ground. My sons father-in-law did it and it’s working. The birds are staying away and the trees don’t get tangled in the netting.

You guys are killing it. Only goes to show what can be accomplished when everyone is on board. Much continued success with your homestead

What beautiful abundance of goodness in the garden! It’s beautiful! ❤️

I just started watching Hollar Homestead and I think you guys are AWESOME !!! I’m up north in Michigan ! I love watching you planting your gardens . I’ve gotten a few gardening tips from you ! Keep on RU-viding !

Whoo Hoo, you are gardening machines this summer. 💪👏 The garden is producting so much food and I am looking forward to seeing how much corn you get from that space. Take care and God Bless.

Hi.... Meg and Ben nice to see you, thank you for showing your video homestead chickens farmer garden 👋 bye 👋 bye 👋 bye 👋 👕🐔🐓🐣🐥🐖🐄🌱🌺🌹🌻🌼🌸🌷🏡🎥👍👍👍

Everyone does yard work...I wish! I wish I could, I'm getting older and I don't have a yard to mow, weed or plant. I miss having a yard! And being able to take care of it. I was very blessed with amazing neighbors who helped cut my grass the last year I had a yard. My kid's are buying property so maybe one day soon I will have a place for yardwork!! 😊 Thank you for your "mundane clips", I miss mundane! You show yard work anytime you want. I am just glad you guys are taking us on this journey with you. Thank you.

Good to see that you show the real “growing stuff” including stuff that doesn’t grow (wheat) and when something doesn’t quite fit into how you want it (yard beans), and the don’t know why it didn’t work(black-eyed beans). That’s part and parcel of being a gardener.

We got behind on our lawn for the last little while since I brought Covid home after my flight back home from visiting family. None of us feel good enough to mow. I guess I brought home a pretty hardy strain of Covid. I keep moving the goats around to help. The chickens like it because there are more bugs. Our chickens and ducks are doing okay so far. I have a bunch of 18 new layers I'm raising this year and I just got 24 Cornish cross in the brooder to raise for meat with the neighbors. What a wonderful tour of the garden. It looks really good guys. Wow, no wheat grew. I enjoyed that tour immensely. Thanks Hollars.

I have had no luck with beets the past 2 years. Very frustrating. If you cut the head off a sunflower, throw in with the chickens. They love sunflower heads. The Tonka truck in the squash bed made me giggle. There is nothing like watching kids imagination on a farm. Warms your heart.

I love yard work and love to see the afterward. Looks a lot better. Please never hesitate in sharing what some may consider mundane as not everyone sees it as that.

Your garden is beautiful! The drought here killed ours. We watered it, but the constant high ninety to 108 degree temperatures just baked everything. Even our established oak, apple, peach, and pecan trees are dying. God bless your family.

Yard work has to be done and let’s be honest makes the gardens look so much better. Enjoyed this vlog

🙋🏼‍♀️🕊. Meg sure needs a summer kitchen. Blessings that’s a lot of food to process 🕊🕊🕊🕊🕊🕊. Hope your grandmother comes ❤️❤️

Hello from TN. Although he passed away this past year, the Old Alabama Gardener has so many videos that can help people get off on the right foot with your Garden, in the South! Like an Egg IN the hole for Tomatoes! Also making a powder from the Eggshells, for tomatoes! Check out his Playlist! He also had some homemade Remedies and DELICIOUS recipes too! Take the time, to make the time, for OAG, Old Alabama Gardener! You won't regret it. Will all of your squash, and peppers cross pollinate. So that you won't have true seeds of the varieties? GOD bless

The time lapse clips are always enjoyable.

Looks soo good guys. All your hard work paying off

My uncle was a farmer in Illinois and we were visiting him one summer and we were out on the tractor. He just had tomato plants on a fence that just grew wild and he left them. He was a little eccentric and he had salt and pepper shakers on his belt like a holster and we were out on the tractor turning over the fields and we stopped and there were these plants on the fence full of tomatoes, big huge round tomatoes and they were hot in the sun and he cut one in half and put a bunch of salt on it and gave it to me and he ate the other half and it was amazing. But he said they were completely wild and probably because he threw some tomato on the ground there at one point and it just grew. I would never just throw them away I would just go stick them out at the edge of your property somewhere and let them go wild if nothing else and see if they keep coming up. Hopefully the work out by the Orchard.

Always love watching your stuff grow. It’s the middle of winter here in Australia and it’s been really wet. I’m just starting my seeds off in pots at the moment. I’ll be ready in September to start planting and I can’t wait. Cheers all.

I did enjoy watching the garden edges pop out of the jungle! This was a very generous episode, thankyou!

Real people doing real chores. Love seeing both of you beautiful people.

I love that for you guys this is the summer of figuring out where to grow all the potatoes!!! I'm so jealous!

Thank y'all so much for sharing your homesteading journey and for being so genuine!! We live in a small mobile home on a little over an acre in SC and enjoy gardening very much!! God bless you all always,much love and prayers,God is so good all the time ❤️🙏🙌

I am never bored with the mundane chores because we all have them. Yours are just on a homestead. I loved the garden tour and seeing your bountiful garden with good and bad. What is going on with your Greenstalks? Maybe having them near your front door with herbs and flowers will be easier to care for and water. Your daughter could help Meg with the watering. My granddaughter has her own watering can to help me in the garden.

I love the way you two bounce off each other........ so thankful you put the effort into saving your marriage - can see that it has worked big time!! HUGS

Everything Yall do is Awesome & Amazing! Much Love ❤& God🙏 Bless 😘Yall

Sometime during the winter I would love to see a compilation of "Thing''s we'll do again next year". This years sweet potato.

30 min video???!??!? Thank you very much

Watching mundane chores on here inspires me to go complete them on my farm.

I diluted 1 gal of milk to 4 gallons of water and gave each tomato plant at least 1 qt to help blossom end rot. It helps. I don't know how expensive the other stuff is, but can use a resource you already have... Maybe?

Tomatoes are very resilient. Plant deep and they will perk up over the next 2 weeks! Save egg shell, dry in the oven on 200 until super dry and brittle (they should NOT be burnt) then blend them into powder.......use a couple tablespoons EACH of the shell powder and Epsom salts stirred in the planting hole. This is the best was to avoid blossom end rot, especially on Roma type tomatoes.

I did the weed eating around the garden beds today myself. Then dug a hole for a clothesline pole and cemented it in. Watered All the beds. Got in the pool for a bit. Then sat on the couch.

Salt both sides of eggplant slices on cookie sheet and weigh down with matching cookie sheet and cast iron skillet for 15 minutes...rinse and cut into bite size pieces (2 or 3 layers). Cover with spaghetti sauce or Alfredo and cheese...bake until golden...no bitter taste!

Absolutely, it does feel great after doing lawn. Looks great

Maybe you should get you a couple scare crows out there or something thats gonna move with the wind that will scare the crows away! Just a thought! Sure is a beautiful garden!! Thanks again for sharing!! 👍💞💖💝💖💞👍

I’m in southern ohio and I had FANTASTIC results out of the mangel beets. They were VERY easy to grow for me.

I love how you're stuffing food crops everywhere. Such reckless food growing - yes! 😃

Here is a recipe that my family and all of South Texas loves that is a great use for cushaw squash specifically. Please try. Feeds an army. CALABAZA CON POLLO Y ELOTE (Chicken with Squash and Corn) 1 4-5lbs. fryer chicken, cut up 1 large tender cushaw squash, peeled, seeded, and cubed (1 to 1 1/2 inch cubes) 1 tablespoon cooking oil 1 tablespoon salt 2 cloves garlic 2 teaspoons mixed spices (comino and pepper corns) * *we use way more than this lol ** 2 large fresh tomatoes diced 1 1/2-2 cups fresh corn off the cob 1 tablespoon flour 1/3 cup water 1. Wash and cut off ends of squash, peel, and cut into cubes. (1 1/2 inch cubes) 2. Grind mixed spices and garlic. Add a little water to make a runny paste and set aside. 3. Brown cut-up chicken in oil. Add salt. Cover and simmer for 15-20 minutes. 4. Add squash cubes, spices, and diced tomatoes. Simmer for 30-40 minutes, covered stirring occasionally. 5. Add corn. 6. Mix 1 tablespoon flour and 1/3 cup water to make a paste. Add to mixture. Cook and stir until thickened and bubbly. It's amazing I promise.

When I first began roaming around in Thailand years ago, eating mostly at street markets, I made the mistake of actually eating a little Thai pepper that I think may have been called something like 'pha krit'. Found that it was in the food to provide some flavor, but was not intended to be chewed and swallowed. WOW! One trial learning about that thing... Probably would have blistered the paint off a Mercedes.

I love the smell of the grass when I am cutting.

Y’all have a beautiful garden I just love your place y’all have come a long way hugs and prayers

Hi y’all from Montreal 🇨🇦 we are so different in growing seasons 🌸 your 🪴 plants are way more advanced! on my top floor apartment balcony ... I am growing green beans, pumpkins, morning glory purple flowering vines and a hang pot of strawberries 🍓 all my vines are just starting to flower and my strawberries give me about 5-6 big treats per day! Enjoyed this today ☮️🌈💚

I’m so envious of your garden!!!!!!! Such blessings are abounding.

Good Sunday to you. I binge watched you last night from California - road trip ,, my son said Not a thing to watch tonight for a weekend, so 😃 I thought to go back to then and see HOW FAR YOU HAVE COME. Ben had said something about 4 years so that’s what made me wanna go watch the journey Not sure what you were all visiting but Meg was totally in awe, looked like you started to get quite emotional 🤗

You can eat the sweet potato greens like a spinach alternative 😊 So, more food! Great video as always!

Ben,that looks so good now. I love trimming everything. So satisfying to stand back and see everything pop

You have so much garden space. Wow. It is amazing how many different things you can grow. 💞

Try some bird scare tape to keep the birds away from your apples. I use it for my grapes, peaches, Raspberries and Apples. I use to lose all my grapes to the mockingbirds and tried netting and other stuff. The scare tape worked and I actually got to eat some grapes last year. Also if they are getting to your tomatoes I tried what sounded like an old wives tale but has worked every year for me. --As soon as you plant hang some red christmas balls out. I put them on my cages. The birds peck them and realized that it is not food and so they never bother the tomatoes when they turn red. I enjoy your videos.

Hi😀 I have been watching you all from the beginning!! I’m from CA as well. You inspire me!! I’m enjoying every new episode.. You all have done such an amazing job!!! The kids bring a smile to my face reminds me of my childhood😀❤️ For future projects I would love to see Ben and the boys build a deck/porch off the sliding door.. It would be added space for you all possibly to eat outside… just a thought Never stop being you!!! It makes every video special.. Always remember you are helping/inspiring others like me!

Mate .. yard work videos are great 👍 I loved the cleanup with the trimmer 💯

When those passion fruit get ripe, take pineapple, banana, papaya fruit, and add the passion fruit juice , seeds all together it makes the best fruit salad!! Went on a mission trip to Africa, and that's one of the things we ate, very good!! You can add some of those melons too..yum..

Always looks great after you trim the weeds and uncover the garden beds

My Lufah is on the ground, I don't have fencing to hold it up. I hope you guys share harvesting them bc this is my first time :) Thanks y'all!

Great garden tour. You can't beat Contender bush beans for the garden. We have been growing them for years and saving seed from them. They are just loaded with great beans every year and they can well. We love them. PLUS, they are not stringy. That is a huge plus for me. Crisp and tender. We eat them fresh off the bush w/a little olive oil, salt and pepper and cooked just a little so they are still crunchy. We also cook them w/bacon and new potatoes and make a meal out of just that. Then we can the rest. Big bang for your buck. :)

Can you give us an update on your "hangin' hammies" Do they suck up smells from the kitchen or do they give off an odor? Meh, gotta tell ya..... I 💘 your well worn pots and pans. It's the sign of a well fed family.

Hello Hollar!

I feel for ya Ben with trying to keep up with the weeds in and around the gardens. Its a never ending battle.

Yes, most insects are our garden friends. If there are pests, there is usually a predator to take them out. I love the natural ecosystem of the garden which is beautiful. Some pests get out of control like the Hoopla and Japanese beetles which need intervention . I am growing Loofahs which are flowering , but yours are pristine. I like your cattle-panel set-up . This is a jam-packed informative and fun garden video. Even your mundane chores look fun ! We wish we got rain to jump-start plants. We need rain here in northern Ca.

What a beautiful bounty. God has given His increase.

I had a pepper plant that all the leaves were just gone. Baffled us! Then a couple days later another pepper was just like it. But, I found a large horn worm eating the last leaf. That was a first for me and I’ve been gardening over 40 years. At least the peppers are getting new leaves and strong stems. 🙂

I love that you gave those poor forlorn plants a chance to accomplish something

Your garden has grown so much, awesome job.

Thanks for the sweet potato idea. I have some in the same condition and I'm working on a fruit tree guild. Great way to use them and not waste them because I didn't get around to planting them.

If it is one thing around the homestead I do not like doing it is weed eating. YES, when you trim around everything and the squareness of all the beds come back it is so very much satisfying. Such a beautiful you both have put so much work in and it shows. Have a wonderful weekend and God Bless

I love to see the yard work…lol! The transformation is fun to see.

Love seeing the before and after. Keep keeping on. One day at a time