What If Next Year There Are NO SEEDS? 

Good harvest. My 104 yr old friend and farmer, said if you have a bumper crop one yr, preserve all that you can, bc it may not be as prevalent the next yr.

We planted pinto beans in our test garden this year. We literally took some store bought beans from our pantry! We planted 18 individual plants and harvested a little over 2 lbs from them! Now that we know we can grow them, next year we will plant WAY more!!

We grew the mammoth gray sunflowers for years. Our tallest was 16'9" but a friend we gave seeds to grew one that was over 17'!

An FYI to everyone, there are lots of ways to get seeds without actually buying *seeds*. You can save seeds from tomatoes you buy. It's better to save seeds from the farmer's market, that means they are varieties that are adapted to your area. I grew some peanuts I got from the farmer's market. You can also use seeds from birdseed - oil sunflower, field corn, sorghum, millet etc. You can grow them for animal feed or for human food. You can often grow dry beans and whole grains you buy from the store as well. So in an emergency, seeds are not that hard to find. You can even grow indeterminate tomatoes from cuttings. Plus you can grow potatoes and sweet potatoes from tubers from the store. It's always better to get certified "seed" potatoes and sweet potato slips if you can. But if you're really strapped for seed and you want to grow some food, there are many ways of propagating plants. :)

I hope you know that a lot of us that do not have the land to garden depend on local farmers selling their excess crops to us. Just letting you know you are very needed and appreciated. I'd much rather go to my local farmers and buy their excess at decent prices than to go to some of the farmers markets and grocery outlets. I've been to some of the Amish auctions and see what the big grocery stores pay these farmers and then see what they sell for in the grocery stores and its NOT the farmers that are making any money from it and they are the ones that NEED to be making money. I don't buy from grocery stores anymore unless absolutely necessary. My hard earned dollars go directly to the actual people growing the produce.......God Bless You

I had bought alot of seeds before everything went nuts. My plans were to quit driving semi 🚛 & have a garden where I would sell the vegetables. I continued driving for the insurance & payoff my bills & get everything I will need ( hopefully) to not have any expenditures except the normal 1s. Bought the seeds in December & January. I was thankful for that & I'm going to do that again this yr to get a bigger variety of seeds. I'm following another guy he says plant a much variety but not many plants of each. That way if something didn't do well you have others, I may do 100% container due to flooding issues I have. Nice video

I love pinto beans cooked with a ham hock or two (depending on how big a pot of beans I'm cooking) and sometimes a few good shakes of dried, powdered chipotle served in a big bowl over brown rice or cornbread. That's good eating!

Once you’ve saved enough squash seeds for future planting, save the rest for eating. Roasted squash seeds are quite tasty and nutritious.

Wow!! Lots of squash! We give our mini jersey cow Butterfly a cup of black oil sunflower seeds a day during milking and it really helps increase the cream.. love watching yalls videos.. please continue to pray for us in Louisiana... thank you and God Bless

What a Fantastic Harvest. I am so very Glad you are sharing this with us. THANK YOU.

Ahhh.. ready for an emergenSEED. I'll see myself out.

Kevin and Sarah: been with for two years now and you have shown/guided me thru ideas with so many good instructions. I learn something from you each time you make a video. I have that seed book and it is an excellent guide and full of info. Blessings

If you get time, I'd love to watch how to turn the dry beans into refried beans :)

I make my own pumpkin pie filling using butternut, pie pumpkins, sweet potato, acorn, sweet dumpling. Roast everything. Puree. Freeze mixture in 3 cups. Really cuts down on adding extra sugar.

Try Adaptive Seed Company in Oregon. They are an awesome Organic Company

Congratulations on 400K subscribers! Are you planting anything in the new greenhouse for fall/winter crops?

I wish we had the land cleared here and could plant more but the deer and coons and opossum are so busy here not to speak of rabbits its a battle. Perhaps next year I can get a tall fence and sturdier sides.....hope springs eternal. My bucket tomato plants have done well but now just turning red. one plant alone has 57 tomatoes on it. I do buckets that feed bottom water and they grow overnight it seems. My beef steak tomatoes are delicious and doing so so well. Still have flowers coming on .......it's been a wild and crazy year around the globe me thinks......... Your crops are fabulous and the tomatoes I saw were over the top gorgeous. Love how tidy and clean you keep your gardens. You are both such an inspiration. Love the recipes and love all your education that you share with us. You are such wonderful people I so appreciate your vlogs and educating us in things you do. Thank you for that! Blessings

G'day Kevin and Sarah, I've been collecting heirloom seeds like crazy and am now going to grow and collect my own seeds. Thanks for sharing and God bless you guys. 🦘👍

Good morning 🌞. Seed saving is more important than ever. Your harvest is beautiful. Have a great weekend. God bless

Will you not plant a fall garden outdoors?

I grow mammoth sunflowers every year to dry and eat ourselves. My kids love them. :) Your chickens will love that treat

I raised them large head sun flowers put them in large wash tup till i had time to separate seed from flower head LOL LOL LOL the mice found them first left me with tub full of empty split shells

Id love to see a seed saving video and maybe an update of what does and doesn't work too :)

Hi Sarah and Kevin! Glad to see you are safe from the hurricane. I’ve been a subscriber for a few months now and have binge watched much of your videos! Sarah turned me onto pressure canning. My senior parents warned me that it would explode, but she put my mind at ease. I’ve started my own pantry of emergency food: canned chicken, canned beets (beef borscht, actually. Hint: you RAW pack it!...after peeling the beets), spicy pickled cauliflower, canned berries (we have Honeyberries/Haskap berries, locally), chicken bone broth, beef bone broth, and Kevin taught me how to make bread! There’s no stopping me now! Your videos are very nice to watch and I know you work really hard on them and your Homestead. Keep living the dream!

God bless you both from PR. God is good all the time. My husband and I are working in a garden for our family too.

Oh my gosh, Sarah, you keep looking better and better since that surgery. Thanks to both of you for taking us along on your journey! Great shooting and editing.

Is Kevin's dad and mom still there? Just wandering how they like MO. Maybe they would like to make MO home. Thanks for sharing. Looks like you have alot of pies to look forward too. some people make butternut soup. All your work has paid off. Your sweet spirits are a blessing to us all. Love you. Sandy

If you roast sunflower seeds with some salt , they would become great snack .

It doesn’t seem possible that gardening is coming to an end, our tomatoes plants are still green with no signs of the leaves turning brown but our neighbors son said that his were coming to an end too so maybe we have freaky tomatoes, we have a very small yard so we got creative where we planted and we’re getting some goodies. We are selling our house to buy one with a few acres, so if you would pray for us I’d appreciate it, thank you, Cindy

Thank you so much for always being inspirational! I grew a small garden on my deck with grow bags I made from landscaping fabric. Zucchini, yellow squash, patty pan, cucumbers, tomatoes, onions, radish and leaf lettuce. I look forward to seeing your videos! Thank you again, God bless.

Those over ripe cucumbers are just right for breading and frying :D .. That's what happens to mine :D

Holy moly is that Squash the Great big cousin of the Penis plant that grows in South Africa. HAHaHAAHaaaa LOL .GOD HAS SUCH A GREAT SENSE OF HUMOR WHEN HE CREATED THAT PLANT. JUST SAYING. Why dose it grow that way. That's Hilarious God Bless. PEACE OUT.

Sometimes when I break the stem off, the squash will weep juices and rot real quick. So those are the first ones I eat. Happy harvesting.

God bless you both. Saving seeds is the way to go. Food security for the next year is smart. If I had my own garden and space to plant, I'd grow organic and definitely save seeds.

Good Morning Sarah , Kevin & girls , A nice garden harvest for you . Ling has planted a small garden for us this year. Where she planted it is interesting. For the past two years ( 2018 & 2019 ) the area had been a chicken run. So it was pretty well packed down. But , Xiaoling dug it up ( all by hand ) and planted a garden in it. Wow , what a productive garden ! I thought that she had planted too much sweet corn. Now that it is all gone , I don't think that she planted enough . From the corn stalk to the pot of boiling water in LESS than ten minutes. Golleee , was that some tender , delicious corn on the cob !. We had a winter type squash that crossed with another type of winter squash. The result ? A butternut squash with the colors of a Lakota squash. Fairly large also . Two of those squash weighed almost 20 lbs. The taste was like that of Lakota squash which was great. I think that Lakota squash is the best tasting squash of all of the squashes. Xiaoling planted both hybrid and heirloom tomatoes. Very good production from each kind. Early in the season , Ling could not wait for some tomatoes so we had fried green tomatoes ! Very good as she would say ! The tomatoes finally started showing signs of ripening. The hybrids are very pretty. Round and symmetrical, and large. Average is about one lb. each. But , even being ripe on the vine , the taste is only so so . For taste we go to the heirloom tomatoes . Ha ha , ugly tomatoes ! All lumpy and mis-shapened. Not what anyone would call a pretty tomato. But they have grown much larger than the hybrids. Pretty close to two lbs. each. One filled both of my hands together so I weighed it. 3.2 lbs. ! What a tomato . And then we ate it for supper. That tomato tasted like what I have thought all of my life , a tomato should taste like. None in the past have ever reached that level. It had siblings that tasted almost as good. But , that ugly tomato was taste perfection . Even thirty minutes later I had the nicest after taste in my mouth . Of course I saved seeds from it !! I hope that we can grow that taste again next year . I'll give you a hint for slicing a tomato such as that . The lumpy shape makes it difficult to slice horizontally. So , you slice it vertically. You also do not lose as much juice when you slice a tomato vertically. I surely hope that I can grow it again. Oh , the variety ? It is the Super Marmande , a French variety. I have to say , the French certainly know how to grow for taste ! I don't remember where I got it from. It's package is long gone . A good reason for saving seeds .

Good Moring Kevin and Sarah.... Kevin, loving the shirt, "This Is Not A Drill!" LOL! Checking to see if it's one of your merch. :)

Nice haul! just starting our spring planting in Australia..we’ll be seed saving. I’ve noticed seeds are scarce here still...thankfully I have a tonne to get the spring/summer garden in..

Great video! You should be happy with your results! How's your dairy cow making it by now? God Bless and Stay Safe.

Self sufficiency gives another level of that great feeling, sort of a "mini-payday". Looking for how well you liked your Opalka tomatoes, my favorite.

When I planned to have a garden this year, I had no intention of saving them. Too much effort, planning, the amount I need is fairly small. However, this pandemic revealed how this is a big part of self-sufficiency. I am still buying when I see them, but I have started saving my own, too!

We put a pulley up high in the barn and hung a rack on it to store things such as your squash. load it up and pull it high in the air and secure it. easy dry out of the way and easy to get to when needed.

I haven't visited for a long time. Glad to see you are still vlogging. You picked a great time for homesteading, what with our country moving into a season of judgment. You are good people, and will be well taken care of by our Father.

being an Avid Gardener and seed saver there is such contentment that comes from growing your own food from seeds you have saved year after year. The Lord's Blessing and bounty is a marvel to behold.

Thats what Ive been doing, SAVE, SAVE, SAVE!!!! Like you guys said, having the issues of finding seeds you like out of stock, like everywhere!!! So anything I harvest, I keep the seeds, cause well we just never know!! Im also buying a lil here and a lil there right now, JUST IN CASE!!! Now lucky me, Im in Phoenix lol our weather has been horrible, Im not getting much from the garden...... but when I do, Im keeping seeds. BUT we also started are garden SUUUUPER late, like May late..... Ive been heart broken, Ive never had this issue before, Ive always had tons of produce, BUT 1 the weather, lack of rain, 2 starting really late! We're in a new house, so we had to start everything from scratch!! I havent had a "real" garden in 9 yrs. This one now is the biggest we have ever had. Our previous house had contaminated soil, even raised beds were a no go, cause eventually all the oils wouldve got into our produce! We didnt know at the time, but the previous owner used to work or store cars in the backyard..... We werent going to take any chances, I was so upset, cause the lot was huge. We had a house fire and moved to this new location!

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Hi Kevin and Sarah, I sure would love to see some video's on some of the side items that you cook, such as the squash you harvested. Your right on about saving seeds, I think there will be lots of new gardeners buying them up!! Have a great weekend and tell the folks hello!!! Jenenda 🍅🍅🍅

Kevin and Sarah, considering where you live is really humid, will you put your seeds in a dehydrator for a short time just to make sure the moisture is out of them and they don't sprout or for over winter? Thank you.

I live in the northern part of Italy, in the alps and my container tomatoes are still producing and my corn too. Though it's raining alot and landslides are happening . Scary but it seems like autumn for 3 days then summer again. Hope to get a bigger garden next year

This was a great harvest

"Somewhere around a jillion." I think that's how many lettuce seeds I collected this year. 😄

Be sure to save your seeds in PAPER bags - not air tight containers or they will go bad

We had many of the same issues you did getting our garden to grow this year. I lost more than half of my tomato plants, which was made worse by the derecho that came through the Midwest the 2nd week in August. It crushed all of my tomato cages, and the tomatoes are all tangled up together on the ground. Harvesting them is going to be "interesting." One spot of good luck...I came across some squash seeds (cushaw, delicata, zucchini, butternut and pie pumpkins) I had saved back in 2013, and had forgotten about them. I planted them and, to my surprise, they had a high sprout rate, and are doing great! All in all, the struggle to get things to grow was worth it. Here's to hoping we all have better weather (and better luck finding seeds) in 2021!

Sarah, Here in Australia Butternut Squash and your squash's are know as punpkins.

Congratulations on a GREAT garden! Good Job. This fall-winter, I will be planting (1st time experimenting) with growing some GRAINS. But because I don't want to fight with "Threshing-winnowing", I searched, and selected some HULLESS Barley (also, some hulless OATS). Good for people or chickens. I selected a Barley that has SHORT stalks (more wind resistant), and LESS nutrients are used to be growing a tall stem. I found a variety that is "purple-black", it should be interesting.

Wow Kevin&Sarah what a beautiful harvest. All your hard work is getting paid of with this harvest. God have really blessed you all this year. Lots of good things for your family. We are all greatfull that God was watching over Sarah this year. And help her to get healthy again. And it was great that Kevins Parents came and his brither came to visit. All beautiful things. The girls are still okay. I so enjoy watching your video's. Every Saturday morning when I wake up, make hotchoclat and watch the new Video from lastweek. That is my happy time. You two are always so enthusiastic and happy when you see pay off all the work. We always did a garden too. But last 2 years I can not do it anymore because 24/7 oxygen. But still have a great life. Together wuth my retired husband. He helps me with everything. Its so great. Married for 46years. I wish you all the health and luck you both deserve. Hope you will be married for long too. God bless you all.🙏🙏 🤗💐🤗🥓🥓🥕🥚🥚🥚🥚🥔🥔🥗🍅🍅🍠🌽🌽🌻🌻🌻🌻

I have always loved saving seeds including the ones that cross polinate. It's like a birthday present. You don't always know what you will get. I have the most beautifully colored and shaped squash growing this year that crossed and can hardly wait to see what they are like inside. I like the ones that come true from seed but the crosses are just so much fun.

Saving seeds here in Missouri.

All of the family went home? I am willing to bet that they went home to pack and move back with you

Please save more seeds than what you need, you could probably sell them next year

Tie to drying clothes rack put them in the guest cabin.

Hi, I didn’t see what you did to them but did you know the leaves of the sunflowers are also edible. Just saying. Not to say you would eat them but maybe the piggies :)

We need rain so badly...these 110-115 temps are really taxing our plants.

Hi Sarah, you didn't tell me how to save the seeds. Do I put them in a jar in the freezer? In a brown bag? How do I save them?

I wanted to grow sunflowers this year to save the stalks to use as trellises the following year after they dry out. I forget where I saw that but it's a great idea!

Loved love love watching. you - I’m a city girl but you make me wished I lived in the country - but I am growing Okra in tubs 😋 and they’re doing good 🙏🏻👍🏻

A jillion looks like you might have actually counted them! What an awesome harvest for next year 😁 we are in our first year and learning how to seed save

Morning, been saving seeds, since you guys talked about it last year! Bought the book you recommended too! Just picked my squash too!

Beans Cross pollinate and will come back as a mix parentage next year from saved seed. Had that with my Purple Podded pole bean and Red Cranberry..

"Somewhere around a jillion." lol! I almost spewed my coffee!

We raised butternut squash this year for the first time, they are delicious cut into bite size chunks boiled to just tender, place on cookie sheet drizzle with maple syrup, a few pads of butter and add some brown sugar and bake. Oh yummm! We will be growing more next year.

I love beans! Think about it! Vanilla, chocolate, coffee, pinto, red, butter, green, garbanzo, pinto, navy, black, wax, and more!

I learned you don't have to rub off the sunflower seeds for the chickens. Such a time saver! TY!

Yes. Give me all the seed saving tips. I managed to get my full order of carefully thought about seeds here in Australia. Ready for our spring to begin. I must commit to save all the seed I can, for my family and for others.💜

I’m sorry, but I can’t look at butternut squash without giggling 😉

Amazing harvest for an amazing and deserving family. Much love and hugs

I love butternut squash... What happens if you pick one too early

I would like to know if you have a "secret" to peeling those butternut squash! They are SO hard to get the skins off! I love them but loathe the peeling process!

my first year growing sunflowers I cut and laid them out in the sun to dry. came out the following day and guess what.....the birds ate the entire batch......lesson well learned

I am kind of selfish, I would be saving those sunflower seeds for myself...forget the chickens! You two are great. Always enjoy your videos!

I got that book because of you guys! Thank you! ❤

I use butternut squash to make "pumpkin pie", as my Grandma did.

The ‘seed to seed’ book is available at our local library, worth a check, for those that may not be able to buy it.

any plans to build a greenhouse to continue growing in the winter?

I always washed with a small amount of bleach in water, paying attention to around the stock ...never got soil spots

I've seen where people have smoked their sunflower heads. Also some grill them on a BBQ and eat the sunflower heads that way.

I would love to grow a few i love sunflowers🌻, but I live in a condo, and I dont think the landlord would like it haha☹

Great demonstration and repurposing seeds

I saved seed from everything this season in my garden here in Cheyenne, Wyoming. If y'all want seeds to try, let me know, I've got loads. Mine are all organic, non GMO, no harsh fertilizers or pesticides. I had the same trouble with my beans this season and also had a horrible time with cucumbers.

If you saved all the sunflower seeds you could plant rows around the chicken coup and feed them home grown seeds

I have definitely been making a push to save seeds. I have always done some before but I'm trying with almost everything now. Glad to see you got good production on the Canada crooknecks. Maybe I will try them again next year. I did seminole pumpkin (another butternut type) and haven't gotten many. I grew zucchini too but I had to micromanage the squash bugs since I don't spray but I got really good production from them.

Are Kevin’s parents still there? What don’t you eat the sun flower seeds yourselves?

Thank you so much for bringing us along on the garden I have learned so much. I actually started canning this year did my 1st pressure canning this last week. You give so much confidence. God bless your family

That part your rubbing off the sunflower onto the ground the chickens and rabbits would love that. I saved that on mine for rabbits and chickens. Pintos (and other typical dry beans)are delicious picked and cooked fresh and freeze well to eat.

I bet those squash will be so good this winter. I've never seen that kind with the long necks. Seed saving is a great idea considering all that is going on in the world these days. God bless you and your family. Stay safe and healthy.

Don’t forget to try turning some of those beautiful butternut squash into “noodles” using a spiralizer. They pick up flavors wonderfully with cream based sauces.

My husband and I decided a few years ago to start saving our own seeds for everything we grow. We haven't been sorry......

Thank you for encouraging the seed saving. This has been a thing with me since I was a child. I'm in Zone 9b, in Arizona, and its funny that you say wrapping up your garden, when I am actually planting my Fall garden to go through until first frost in early Dec, maybe. We didn't really have a frost last year :)

Your vids really make me want to start gardening

After they dry out completely Try soaking the sunflower seeds in salt brine and roasting them in the oven they are just like store bought seeds to eat.

Looks like your having a very successful harvest season! That's great to see! Praying for you all and asking God to give his joy...❤