I love, love, love the sound of a train. It reminds me of being a little girl at my Grandma's house. Hearing your train echoing off the mountains just melted my heart. Thank you so much for all your informative videos and all the time you spend getting them out to us to watch.
@afistfulofdandelions8238
5 жыл бұрын
I canned for the first time today !!! 8 pints of tomato sauce from my urban homestead.Thank you Carolyn for the canning class...great inspiration ...I can hear the little pops coming from the kitchen.
@wendyplear82
5 жыл бұрын
👋👋👋👋👋 good job!!
@mio.giardino
5 жыл бұрын
Fantastic!!!
@heidigib01
5 жыл бұрын
A Fistful of Dandelions congratulations! I’m slowly gathering supplies to start. Im still pretty nervous
@circledoublethomestead1362
5 жыл бұрын
Suggestion for pantry chats - clearing out the garden after harvest--what to do with all the leftovers; winterizing garden; cutting back perennials; etc.
@ginapaquet5563
5 жыл бұрын
Yes, yes... my mom is my go to for all illnesses short of breakage of a bone and more severe issues. I just trust today's prescribed medications. So many side affects... so good to hear from you about healing in one's home. Thank you for that.
@kathyjohnson9288
5 жыл бұрын
Once the harvesting season is over, I would love to see how and where you store everything- do you have a root cellar? Cold storage? Etc. I can't imagine storing food for eleven. And how many freezers does it take for 225 chickens. We are a family of two and I am fascinated how you store food for such a large family.
@stephaniejoyce6896
5 жыл бұрын
I'm wondering if they can some of their chicken. I know we do. I too would love to learn about how to properly store all this food.
@katherinemcloughlin7966
4 жыл бұрын
I lived outside of Nelson, BC...great horticultural and agricultural diversity there.
@lisamoseley9914
5 жыл бұрын
Love to hear other homesteaders' questions! I may not think of some of them, so it helps me to look ahead some and learn before doing my own planting of certain crops. I LOVE the herb garden and look forward to having my own soon! Thanks for your time!
@brushmountainhomestead2918
5 жыл бұрын
Love the Pantry chats and especially the Q and A's. I learn the most from these and learning tidbits is what I enjoy most. Keep doing exactly what you're doing.
@jennythyme1729
2 жыл бұрын
I love the Q&A!
@douggoens5279
5 жыл бұрын
Riiight! Very informative, thank you.
@ritaduncan7508
5 жыл бұрын
Thank you for taking the time to answer questions. God bless
@suehouse533
5 жыл бұрын
Great Pantry Chat. I would love to hear about your sheep. Do you process your own wool? And if so, does anyone participate in the fiber arts, like knitting, crochet, or felting. I am also curious if you sew clothes or quilts.
@shelly5596
5 жыл бұрын
Mountain Ash is a popular tree in our neck of the woods, I’m curious why you’re eggar to grow them? Willows of all kinds are very easy to get going from cuttings but like lots of water. Elderberries are prolific here also. I tried to grow some in past years that failed because I put the on drip irrigation. In the wild they grow in a sunny spot and sometime right out of rock cliffs. If you have a high-tunnel you’d could safely overwinter the potted starts. Pea shrub does get thorny but it can be hedged and which makes it get bushy, i think I’d be a great addition to a hedgerow. Serviceberries are cold hearty and easy to grow, hawthorn trees can actually grow in a zone3 if you get enough snow pack in the winter. Ninebark, naking cherry, mulberry trees, flowering almond, ocean spray, and all varieties of spirias too. Marsh Mallow looks very similar to hollyhocks and is the plant where marshmallows once where made from. You might look at Morgan Gambles KZitem video on a no dig garden. I started experimenting with her tips and tricks in our gardens by adding the wet newspaper on top of the wet compost ( instead of on the ground as a barrier) and then mulch over the newspaper. ( make sure and use a weed free mulch! I made the mistake of using the straw bedding from our fowl which had a ton of seed head in it! The newspaper acts as the “ weed barrier”
@dharper9332
5 жыл бұрын
It is so good to see the bee's!!!
@janetbecker4282
5 жыл бұрын
Thanks for sharing Titles of favorite books. I live in town on a small city lot but enjoy gardening. So I buy a few books to pour over, read and reread over the winter months.
@vallis1469
5 жыл бұрын
This video is so enjoyable. Thank you so much. I so appreciate your expertise.
@triplecreekfarm2007
5 жыл бұрын
I would love to know what your grocery cart looks like when you go shopping. You homemake nearly everything as far as I can tell, but I’m sure there are still things you need from the store. I imagine coffee/tea, sugar, salt, and flour are some of the things you buy, but was wondering - what things do you not produce that must be purchased at the grocery store? Would you be open to doing a video of your “grocery haul”?
@amandaw30
5 жыл бұрын
This would be so interesting!
@lulamamie8524
5 жыл бұрын
Awesome video with Grandma 🥰
@ecocentrichomestead6783
5 жыл бұрын
Elderberry cuttings... I think the more productive way would be dusting with rooting powder and starting them in pots. On the other hand, if you have an ongoing source of cuttings, you could just keep planting cuttings season after season and forget them. what grows, grows. Salad dressings - I've been trying but in stored salad dressing, the oil separates from the rest of the ingredients. More trying to be done Marshmallow is a weed in my garden. I like the basal leaves, haven't gone beyond that yet. The raspberries - are the fall fruit and summer fruit in the same patch? If so, you may have "everbearing" which is actually a fall crop on this years new canes and summer crop on short side shoots of last years canes.
@lynnemoore1515
5 жыл бұрын
For those new to permaculture, there are free online beginner class out there.
@outdoorgal9602
5 жыл бұрын
Can you share links to the permaculture classes?
@lynnemoore1515
5 жыл бұрын
Homesteading Family: Can I share a link to the class I have been following?
@CoffeeLittles
5 жыл бұрын
New subscriber here. 👋😊 I would love to add more homesteading type things to my channel. I love finding channels like y'alls. Great inspiration!
@patriciabeausejour785
3 жыл бұрын
I love your channel. Just found it.
@HomesteadingFamily
3 жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoy it!
@joannbrewer6046
5 жыл бұрын
Try rooting those cuttings of elder berry in willow water . You probably know this.
@rachelc.7152
5 жыл бұрын
Thank you for sharing your seed sources Carolyn! I would love to know your tips and tricks on rooting cuttings Josh. Our cats are the same as Bob; they wait in line for the biggest catnip plant in the garden.
@ashleyhavoc1940
5 жыл бұрын
Liked and commented for algorithm.
@deborahparker7075
5 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the site of Strictly medicinal seeds!!!!
@Thisisit120
5 жыл бұрын
Hey Caroline could you show us how to do the salad that the French says we don’t know how to do? I know it sounds simple but it would be nice to know how to do the vinegar and oil the proper way to where one is not over powering the other. And we don’t have to result to yucky salad dressings.
@donnaadams8902
5 жыл бұрын
Lol!!! "The chicken bucket becomes snacking."😊
@jennifer-gy9xz
Ай бұрын
I was wondering how you can can summer squash like zucchini and yellow squash/crook neck without it becoming just mush? We canned up a few quarts and went to open and eat them and it was just mush.
@jparis1156
5 жыл бұрын
Hello Homesteadingfamily, I was wondering if you could make a video on books that you could recommend about homesteading. Anything from gardening, food preservation, keeping livestock to recipe book with ingredients most people would have in an typical garden. Thank you!
@dharper9332
5 жыл бұрын
Hubby and I have been wanting to come up to see you guys but so busy maybe this fall. Even though we are so close
@nicholaijerome7583
5 жыл бұрын
How are you preparing for the solar minimum? Do you feel like a yellowstone eruption is a risk? If so, how are you preparing to sustain? Love your channel, thanks for everything you share!! Tell grandma I said 'howdy!' #nativetexan
@mollylenz1032
5 жыл бұрын
Do you have any tips on canning pickles, every time I try to make homemade pickles they never turn out crispy after I process them. They're usually soft.
@gemmadurrant7233
5 жыл бұрын
I salt them first to drain some of the water out, and I add oak leaves into the jars for tannin. good luck molly.
@ohioladybug7390
4 жыл бұрын
Do refrigerator pickles like Claussen. They are my favorite and they are always crunchy. We have an extra frig in the garage and we keep those in there along with pop and beer of course.
@megmcginnis239
5 жыл бұрын
My question is have you ever used a steam canner for high acid food canning only? I've done it for years and have liked it. Just curious if you have and your thoughts. I'm excited to do your pressure canning class. Working on the herb health one right now...and my f/w garden.
@suemagyari2992
5 жыл бұрын
The other source with some unique, interesting perennial greens seeds, is www.restorationseeds.com And don't forget stinging nettles, some of the most nutritious cooked greens or dried tea greens you can use!
@rawfoodelectric
3 жыл бұрын
Please...Im seeing your cottage garden...how do you ammend the soil there with so many different types of plants with different needs? Seems overwhelming to me. Id love to know how to simplify it to motivate me.
@TheSjlewis
5 жыл бұрын
Making all my bread from home and I love it! In doing so, with multiple loaves, how do you recommend storage for freshness. Thanks, Stephanie West Union IA
@deborahtofflemire7727
5 жыл бұрын
Do you have videos on freezing and blanching vegtables
@heidigib01
5 жыл бұрын
Maybe there’s a 12 step program for cats addicted to catnip
@gailbryning5835
4 жыл бұрын
Why is the cows head int between boards ? How long do they in that position?
@HighlandHedgehogHomestead
5 жыл бұрын
50 cans is so many! How do you do so many in one day?!?
@dharper9332
5 жыл бұрын
Bob stoned lol lol lol
@mamaAimEC
2 жыл бұрын
I originally learned to can from a family that used the old ball cookbook a couple generations back. They now recommend a different way of canning the beans. But this family & my family used the old way every year for 80 years. 80 years of eating several 1000s of jars of beans in a way that's now claimed to be dangerous. I don't have pride about it, I'm just skeptical when none of our family members got sick in those 80 years. Don't get me wrong, the newer recommended way is much faster, more efficient & possibly safer. But the danger the GOVERNMENT is warning us all about sounds a bit exaggerated (like some other things they warn us about) & could easily be avoided with common sense when using the old methods... like most dangers in life.
@mamaAimEC
2 жыл бұрын
I still use & treasure the canning supplies that were passed on to me by that generation that grew up during the great depression. I don't use the old ball cookbook much, but I treasure having it & knowing they lived off of the food preserved by those same recipes.
@michaelkannegiesser8532
Жыл бұрын
Worm castings for fire ants. Eats their exoskeletons
@ondreacounts2556
5 жыл бұрын
That is too funny...Bob an being addict! You may have to look for your local CNA (cat-nippers anonymous) for him. LOL 😅😂😅😂😅
@daunlinenberger8602
5 жыл бұрын
What do you use to treat and or prevent mosquito bites? I am in central Nebraska, being eaten alive every time I go outside to work in my yard.
@bozboz133
5 жыл бұрын
KZitem search dave Canterbury's self reliance channel he shows a natural bug dope if you don't like deet.
@abidingacreshomestead4925
5 жыл бұрын
Blahahaha you need to do some small videos of Bob in the garden with his catnip!
@ecocentrichomestead6783
5 жыл бұрын
There are some pet peeves of mine that I have to weigh in on. The Botulism hype is one of them. For the USA in 2016, there were 37 [29 confirmed, 8 suspected] foodborne cases, 4 cases associated with home canning. 1.) That makes 90% of food borne botulism from sources other than home canning! 2.) 0.0001% of the US population encountered botulism. In contrast over the last 20 years, the United States averaged 51 annual lightning strike fatalities. So you are more likely to die from a lighting strike than encounter Botulism!!!!!
@colleenfoster6841
Жыл бұрын
I discovered Homesteading family at the very beginning of 2020 when l bought my place. Can watch the videos and all better in the winter. Summer is very busy but l will try to do better with keeping up 🙂
@staceywishart9971
5 жыл бұрын
It was so good to see y’all again I have missed seeing you. Thank you for all the info y’all are willing to share!
@lisalowe6922
5 жыл бұрын
Riiight. :) , Josh, I couldn't resist.I usually don't kid people about their actions, but I just got such a kick out of that "Right" several times. I love your Q&A vlogs.
@abidingacreshomestead4925
5 жыл бұрын
ohh so excited you answered my question about the holly hocks! Thank you! I have so many of them on my new homestead and so many pretty colour...I guess next year they will be in my salads :)
@TheDawn0310
5 жыл бұрын
When we moved I put rings on all my canned goods and packed them ever so carefully but after unpacking many of my tomato jars had lost their seal. What did I do wrong and how did you move all your canned goods when you went to California and then back to Idaho?
@stephaniejoyce6896
5 жыл бұрын
Love your videos. You guys could talk about anything you want and I'd listen. You are both a wellspring of wonderful, long-forgotten skills and I so enjoy learning from you. Thank you for the videos and all the classes! I know that is so much work to prepare and upkeep but I love having them!
@MeganPigeon-kn2dk
6 ай бұрын
Oh my goodness, I thought I had seen every episode of your channel, and I just saw this! I LIVE IN NEW DENVER! Haha and grew up in nelson! Went to pitchfork for my birthday last year!! I LOVE that you guys came up here. I literally teared up and laughed to myself about how much of a hilarious awkward hysterical fan girl I may have become, should I have seen you in my hometown, or ran into you in the coffee shop! You guys have been beyond inspirational in our journey! Caroline, you have ignited a great love and excitement in my life for herbalism! We have a 2.5 acre homestead-in-the-making, south of silverton! It has been a journey, but you have been there the whole way and I look back and search subjects regularly! Absolutely LOVE YOU GUYS! Any time you are in the kootenay area, please please please come and visit our spot! We would be so happy to host you and cook for you from our land! Keep being awesome! You are changing peoples worlds and giving more support than you know! ❤️❤️❤️❤️
@wendyplear82
5 жыл бұрын
I'm so happy to see y'all! Glad you've head a very good few weeks. How do you do your consulting for HOMESTEADing ect? Just for future reference 😄
@carlasohn1632
26 күн бұрын
Have you ever visited Baker Creek? I think it's a neat place.
@heidigib01
5 жыл бұрын
Please write a book! Medicinals and preserving and recipes and gardening! Heck write several, I’ll buy them all. You are a walking encyclopedia of homesteading info!
@Cidtalk
5 жыл бұрын
I bought a purslane plant at WalMart for 75 cents...love it...but someone/something is climbing in my containers and breaking it off, digging it up. I sprinkled cinnamon on the soil and it seemed to help, but as soon as it wears off they are back at digging. Any idea why?
@ohioladybug7390
4 жыл бұрын
I know I’m late in this one but I’m still catching up. Carolyn, can I borrow you for a week? Lol. I think your husband would track you down after an hour with 9 kids 😉. You both are such a wealth of knowledge and how wonderful of you to share it with us. We are moving into a “new” house for us and will have the challenge of putting a new garden and our personal touch of plants. It’s exciting and scary all together.
@saucywench9122
5 жыл бұрын
To assist you with home remedies check out Barbarra O'Neill out of Australia -naturopath. Also check out the channel for She is of the woods. Good books are by Susan Weed.
@megmcginnis239
5 жыл бұрын
Hey, loved the chat. You have trains. We have planes. Live near NAS Whidbey. We live in a wonderful farming area. But when the jets fly you put on the ear protection and garden away!!!
@colleenfoster6841
Жыл бұрын
Catching up on videos. So so happy and relieved Molly got a beautiful home being a puppy dog milk cow and is used to being petted and treated beautifully. 💝
@circledoublethomestead1362
5 жыл бұрын
Besides, garlic wintering over for next year plants, what other veggies can you plant in the fall to harvest next year? I have heard lettuce can do that. Any suggestions?
@melissanash6801
5 жыл бұрын
Shannon Stonger is the gal who wrote the fermenting book. Her blog is www.nourishingdays.com.
@KKing55
5 жыл бұрын
MULCHING LEAVES WORK WELL TO HEAT UP THE GREEN HOUSE. THEY CAN GET UP TO 120 DEGREES, AND FOR THAT SMALL OF A GREEN HOURS.... IT WORKED FOR ME 2 YEARS AGO. JUGS OF WATER ARE GOOD AT STORING HEAT FOR A TIME TOO.
@gailsgardenherbsmore1605
5 жыл бұрын
I love your hollyhocks! :)
@jessiewelch3437
5 жыл бұрын
Where do you like to order your garlic? And also, which varieties are your favorite?
@yvetteoglesby8797
5 жыл бұрын
Thank you guys...great information....
@hannahbutler384
5 жыл бұрын
It would be amazing if you could do a video on seed saving
@richarddvll
5 жыл бұрын
I have a question not on this episode though cant seem to find it on the phone but here it goes if you make a large batch of sauerkraut how can you store it to keep it long term?
@gabrielekennedy7587
5 жыл бұрын
How do you keep rabbits, deer and groundhogs out of the garden??
@gaasyendietha5070
Жыл бұрын
Does anyonde know the name of the book she recommend?
@estherwhite1880
2 жыл бұрын
Love all the helpful information.
@lulamamie8524
5 жыл бұрын
Great video!!!! Thank You 😊
@donholter5792
2 жыл бұрын
Lots of good information
@amypatterson-bocchi2514
3 жыл бұрын
Of course I liked it!
@chrissywood738
5 жыл бұрын
I live in sw Texas so what's your opinion with good crops for my family
@reignofaragon6890
5 жыл бұрын
Great info. Thanks guys!
@rachellebennett4020
5 жыл бұрын
HOT in south Texas! almost everything will burn
@monicag.1527
5 жыл бұрын
Yes ma'am! Around 4:30 this morning the humidity was already at 92%. (Howdy from the RGV 😃) Something I have thought of recently, loofa would be great to get going on a trellis to shade whatever you are growing. Loofa loves and needs the heat, which is great come summer when it's too hot to grow.
@rachellebennett4020
5 жыл бұрын
@@monicag.1527 that sounds like a good idea! I would not have thought of that. RGV? sorry, not sure where that is :( I'm in Montgomery area close to Aggieland. :)
@monicag.1527
5 жыл бұрын
Rachelle Bennett haha sorry, RGV is the Rio Grand Valley. It is a cluster of 4 counties closest to the tip and has towns like Brownsville, Harlingen, and McAllen. If I'm honest, I'm sometimes tickled and surprised how far north in the state will be referred to as "South Texas". San Antonio is 4 hours north so for me that is the cut off line lol I have been on either side of Aggieland, but never driven through that area. I hear you all have some good barbecue out in Brenham. My husband and I would love to go out that way some time :)
@rachellebennett4020
5 жыл бұрын
@@monicag.1527 Oh ok! makes sense now. :)
@rachellebennett4020
5 жыл бұрын
Yes, I mean I know it goes much more South than where I am, for sure. But we aren't central either. Yes, good BBQ and lots of antiques. I guess it would be south central'ish.
@JustLiving2018
5 жыл бұрын
Hi guys, I was searching for other homesteading channels when I came across yours. Love your videos and ideas for our forever property. Hope to connect with you, cant wait to watch more videos.
@grannybee6805
5 жыл бұрын
Very good info. You are doing a good job of helping people.
@TheGlovemonkey
4 ай бұрын
I can't find where to go for free class healthy healing at home
@HomesteadingFamily
4 ай бұрын
Email us at joshandcarolyn@homesteadingfamily.com so we can help.
@vmorganbogart
5 жыл бұрын
I love the Pantry Chats, especially the Q&A ones. I found you when one of your videos came across my screw about saving your eggs by water-bathing. After watching that, I was hooked & subscribed. What’s funny is that I don’t even have chickens. LOL. It just sounded interesting. I’ve learned a lot of new things since. Keep putting out great content. Love & Hugs from Vicki in Ft. Worth, Texas 🇨🇱🇺🇸
@juneannemcintosh6738
5 жыл бұрын
Has Caroline ever thought about selling cottage garden seed packs?
@Freakontheway
5 жыл бұрын
Thank you for sharing! Since I'm Dutch, I had to look up the plant-names, and about the Good King Henry; in our country it was called 'poor man's asparagus', so you can also take out the young stems and handle them like asparagus!
@wendymeredith4077
5 жыл бұрын
Catching up on your videos! Been SO busy canning the beans, cukes and tomato products. Watching during my quiet time at o’dark thirty.
@judylamay3155
5 жыл бұрын
Can you tell me more about Borage. I planted some this year and when I researched its properties I found it is not good for the liver. My Mom died of hereditary liver disease and I am scared to use this other than a pretty flower in my garden, unless I learn more. I am in upstate NY and love to watch your videos and learn so much regarding my garden and my canning and preserving of foods.
@gramalaney
5 жыл бұрын
i live little bit north west of nelson ... revelstoke rocks and new denver is the best ....
@triciasklodowske5653
5 жыл бұрын
Hi. You could use a shade cloth, for the west/south west garden up by the house, by hooking one end to the edge of the porch roof and the other edge to the fence. Rolling it up when it's not to hot. The elder berry cutting's, pot them and keep them in the green house or barn over their first winter, and maybe even their second winter. Then plant. ?? Love the Pantry Chat. Thank's.
@kathleenschaefer8208
5 жыл бұрын
Zones are a running average of the last ten years low temperatures. Pay especial attention to the word average! That means some years will fall on the cooler side of that average. For surety figure 5-10 degrees cooler, at least.
@Angela_Alaimo
5 жыл бұрын
Hi kids! Really enjoy your Pantry Chats, the canning class, and your earlier videos. I was wondering if you all could do a Chat or stand alone video on seed saving? Josh mentioned it once and when I went looking on the googles for instructions it got confusing rather quickly. Thanks for all you do to teach those of us who want to learn to do more for ourselves. 🙂
@donnaadams8902
5 жыл бұрын
BTW, thanks so much for this informative video. I've missed you guys, but am happy to hear that you got to spend some quality time with each other 🙂
@Cidtalk
5 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for your openness and great information. I feel like you are just sitting in your dining room talking to friends:)
@angelacoker9435
5 жыл бұрын
Need a list of your seed suppliers, maybe one day you can give us the sights please and thank you
@Minnesota_Mama_Bear
5 жыл бұрын
Could you start the cuttings in the greenhouse and move them out after all frost next year?
@rhondamontiel3827
5 жыл бұрын
Put some time lapse into that video of the chicken processing!
@catherinekuhl3799
5 жыл бұрын
Was a great question and answer. Love tuning into you two.
@deborahtofflemire7727
5 жыл бұрын
Good q and A. Thanks
@jeannekelley9813
5 жыл бұрын
I am taking the canning class and I have learned a lot. I have been recreational canning for over 40 years and I have learned much from you in these videos. It's a wonder I didn't kill anyone with my canning up to this point. This summer I canned 57 pints of peaches, 49 pints of tomatoes 25 jars of chicken and now I'm canning apples and green beans. No longer with fear and trepidation. Thank you for the classes. Jeanne Kelley, Stewartstown, WV
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