Your kitchen aide mixers need to be taken apart minimum yearly and the old grease removed, and packed with grease again to keep them running well. Living Traditions you tube has a tutorial on that if you look in their play lists. I believe it's in the DIY and homestead hacks playlist.
Great answers to so many questions! I use the MANY tomato cages I have lying around to hold up insect netting over my brassicas to keep away that irritating cabbage butterfly. Also to protect from the strong winds and hail we get here in CO.
I look forward to your pantry chat videos every week. They are always informative and enjoyable. I have a kettle that goes on the stove or the wood stove and a French press as a backup for coffee when we don't have power or the coffee maker breaks
If your caffeine is getting to the best of you, put coffee in a pan with water bring to a boli drip through a paper filter in your cup. It will work until you get to the store:)
I haven’t watched y’all in a while. But as soon as I heard that music at the beginning, it brought such a sweet nostalgic feeling of when we started our homestead 2 years ago! Y’all were my “bible” of getting started ❤️ I still go back & watch older videos to refresh myself. Thank y’all for doing what you do!
Invest in a pour over…to where you can sit on top of your mug put a filter in it and pour hot water no electricity needed…😊 good investment they’re about $10-$20 for a ceramic
Coffee: the old fashion "cowboy coffee", toss coffee in a pot and bring to temp and let it simmer to desired taste or a French press? I can't image my mornings without coffee, but am trying some lovely herbal teas. Thanks for all the wonderful information.
The best investment I made was a metal framed cheap, cheap, cheap 'greenhouse'. The 'plastic' covering didn't really even last a whole season but...the frame, make sure it's metal and not plastic, has gotten me through 8 years of gardening. I use pieces of it as small arches to hold frost covering, I've used it as a trellising system, I've used it to make a shade cover for my dogs...that one frame, with all of it's movable pipes and connectors are great to just have around. I found out this year that you can buy separately more plastic connector pieces when those eventually break. I'll probably buy a new one this fall when the prices hit rock bottom, that is how useful the framing system is. Oh, and it was a pretty nice greenhouse while it lasted too! :) I also use it as a short coldframe when needed with heavy duty plastic that I have around. Happy gardening! :)
Customer service a Pleasant Hill Grain is amazing! I had a grain mill that needed a new milling stone and I could not find one anywhere. After contacting Pleasant Hill I found out they changed mill stone style and mine wasn’t sold anymore. I was very disappointed and figured I would have to buy a new machine since mine was several years old, but they replaced it totally free of charge. That totally floored me and they won a happy customer for life.
I love your chats. As far as the coffee is concerned I always have a stove coffee pot just in case. I learned very early in my Homesteading journey that I always needed a none electrical back-up just in case and thank the heavens over the years i was not wrong.
So interesting to hear what you do for growing everything as opposed to other areas. When I lived in Redding, CA, and here in AZ, things like tomatoes and a few other things that are supposed to be planted in "full sun" actually work best with corn on their western side to protect from the intense heat & sun in the afternoon.
The most common part in your standard 12 cup coffee maker to go out is a thermal cut-off fuse. They’re about 10-50 cents each and a pretty quick fix to get your machine operational while still keeping it safe. I have a hardy almond and live in 5b in Canada. It’s only my 2nd year with the tree but it was the first to start waking up before everything else.
It's interesting you should mention fruit trees. When we decided to plant them I looked at our zone and won the fight with my husband about ordering trees good for zone 4 and after 2 years my darling husband came to me in the spring and said I was right about the tree zones. We laughed about it every year after.🤗
If you are looking for a cheap alternative for garden netting - visit your local thrift store and pick up some old household sheers. You will need to support it, but it works. You can buy the material too and price works out similar to garden netting. The joys of the composting manure and stuff in the pasture - it keeps the soil cooler so it does not germinate as fast. Good chat!
Thanks for all of the great information in this session. My relatives grew awesome walnuts in Creston, BC. We also found wild hazelnuts in Prince George, BC but it was challenging getting to them before the bears!
For the cicadas, insect netting over any young fruit trees/bushes AND wrap for the trunks. We learned the hard way that they will destroy the trunks, too. Once the cicadas die off, they can be unwrapped.
Cicadas crawl up from the ground. This area had a horrible grasshopper problem 2 years ago. They ate EVERYTHING--leaves, shoots, grapes. The next year, everything came back just fine.
Oh my word! No coffee is just not ok. We have at least 3 ways to make coffee around here LOL We are in north central WA and have the same issues with the tomatoes in tunnels. We put shade cloth over the top of the plastic in the heat of summer, then take it off when the heat of summer has passed in order to get full light for ripening.
Gotta have the coffee. We keep a backup, lol and have an old fashioned percolator. We have to have coffee. My pantry is FULL of coffee. As is my freezer.
My kitchenaid mixer is over 40 years old and still going strong. It mixes 2 loaves of bread a week, all the cookies and cakes, makes meringue and shreds chicken for chicken salad and barbecue with ease. Perhaps it is just the newer models that you find so bad?
Weve had a -4.5 to -8° celsius in Christchurch Nz this week very early as its still autumn and our predicted annual lowest is about -5 ° celsius. Still warm compared to your lows though eh.
Why does the coffee maker only break in the morning??? I feel like I'm behind in getting my garden out. It's been raining so I can't get out there, then it's 90 degrees, then cold, then rain.....it's crazy.
Kitchenaid used to be great, I'm still running my grandmother's (and I'm GenX so it is pretty old). I've also burnt out at least two new Kitchenaids since then.
Cicadas don't eat plants. Grasshoppers or locusts would be terrible, but cicadas are just a noisy nuisance. No need to worry about your trees or gardens.
They lay their eggs in them. Scratching lines into the stems/branches/trunk, damaging the bark, to lay. When the eggs hatch, they crawl down to the ground. It's the egg laying that can kill young plants.
You could just boil water on stove or over a fire. It's very sad they can tell you so much about everything else, but the common sense stuff is not there.
