living in south florida, every time you guys show your dog near water i literally hold my breath because there is alligators in pretty much every piece of water down here. then i have to remind myself that you guys are living in a very different world than me so the lil pupper will be okay and i can watch peacefully 🤣❤️
lol I swore you had said "I'm working on getting the garlic BREAD prepared" had to listen a few times to pick up "garlic BED" -- in the end the garlic in the BED may end up on bread ;)
No.... I was thinking “ thank goodness there’s no smell-o-vision” when they cleaned out the chicken coop. LOL chicken poop is probably the most rank of all next to pig. Cow and horse manure is perfume compared to chicken haha
Green tomato’s equals my mom’s green tomato chow. To die for! Green tomatoes Onions Brown sugar Vinegar Pickling spice. May add peppers 🫑 celery and a bit of turmeric. Can and lasts well over a year and it’s delicious with/on everything.
Gotta yell, "TIMBER!" when you cut those broccoli stalks, Arielle. 😂 We see that Bandit's pond is under construction still... no doubt Bandit's making sure those splash zones are up to code 😉 Oh, and let's not forget that intro! 😂 Bo is a boss pup! 😎
Hi :) I have been enjoying your videos thank you so much. I am Germaine from Sunny Singapore, allow me to give you one simple Eggs with Tomatoes Chinese Recipe - Beat 5 eggs together with salt, heat oil in pan (prob 2 tbsp), pour the whole lot onto your pan and fry till eggs are golden brown (this point is important). Use your spatula to break your eggs into pcs. Using 5 palm size tomatoes, remove skin, discard and chop tomatoes up. Once your eggs are kind off brown and broken up, pour the chopped up tomatoes over the eggs, add 2 tbsp of light soya sauce, give a stir, lower your flame, cover pan and allow everything to simmer for a good 20mins - DONE :) You can eat this on its own or pour over boiled noodles / pasta / rice and you have an easy yummy meal for 2.. ENJOY
Great job to Eric and Ariel for all you do. I love your enthusiasm and knowledge. I'm "older" than you both by a lot of years and enjoy seeing younger ones learning these skills. You make it look easy but I know you are working very hard at not just living a sustainable life but by sharing your experiences with all of us. We all want you to know we are impressed and encouraged by your work. Thank you so much for sharing your life with all of us strangers. Keep up the good work and take care of one another and may God bless you both.
Just started the video so I'm not sure what you do with them but pickled green tomatoes are amazing! We do ours with garlic and jalapenos and it's a great way to use them at the end of the season. • a small handful of fresh dill, chopped • 8 garlic cloves, sliced • 2-4 jalapenos (depending on desired heat) • finely chopped onion • 2 bay leaves • about 20 black peppercorns • 2 pounds green tomatoes • 2 3/4 cups of water . 1 1/4 cup white vinegar • 1/4 cup kosher salt • 1 tablespoon sugar • 2 quart size mason jars, sterilized These are technically "quickles" but we have canned them and they keep great!
Bo is so handsome! Thanks for the big smile and giggle. Give him a hug from me.♥️ My thoughts about tomatoes: 1) Use bigger starter plants next year instead of seed. 2) Add a small wood stove in high tunnel for the early season and cold nights. 3) When you add house addition, include a small room for starting plants with access to heat and lots of sunshine. 4) Were your high tunnel tomates on the south side for max sun? If not, move them there next year. Alternatively, add roll-up sides so the tomatoes have more access to fresh air and direct sun during the day. 5) Once the fruit has set, trim back the leaves so the fruit has more access to sun. I am positive you guys know what you are doing. Just some ideas. Thanks again for your awesome videos!
This meat looks sooooo good!!! When you put the 🍄 in plastic, my 🇩🇪 rule came out to NEVER put mushroom in plastic. Sorry, I am not criticizing, I just wanted to share my knowledge .
Hi, I've been watching your videos since you moved to Alaska. You can put a large barrel in the ground and you can store cabbage, kohlrabi, carrots and much more there over the winter. This is how I used to store my vegetables over the winter.
A tip for your unripe tomatoes! harvest the tomato branch with the tomatoes on and hang them in strings from the roof or in a window. that gives the tomatoes more taste and they won't get in your way that much
You might consider shorter maturity tomatoes.I don't grow anything with maturity over 60-65 days. These varieties work well up here. Sun Gold Hybrid (57 days), Stupice (52), Early Girl hybrid (57), Bush Early Girl (54), 42 Day Tomato (42), Red Robin (55) and Tumbler Hybrid (45). And in full sun, the Stupice will grow outdoors. Good luck next year.
Bandits pond is coming along, you’ll be swimming next year 😂 hard to believe gardening season is nearly over. Enjoy the fruits of your labor all winter long.
Hi, I am from Sweden. We have the same mushrooms here. We call them trattkantatreller. I just wanted to say that you have to tear them in half, because there is often eggs inside the stem. At least here in Sweden :-).
You know you can pickle green tomatoes, they do it in East Europe....for winter. They are great to eat...salt garlic water dry dill ....alternate with carrots as well
you have awesome raised beds. I only like large cloves for roasting. Marino is a nice hardneck variety that can be almost as large as Music, at least in my garden (zone 4b). Please be careful with the straw dust in the chickweed barn...”Farmer’s Lung” Helped to kill my farmer uncle.
Homemade soy sauce made with mushrooms! Just made 1.3 gallons! Many different recepies on line. I have tried several different ones. You can use all kinds of edible mushrooms. I use spieces, garlic, jalapenos etc. Its stores for a looong time in bottle or jars! 👍 Best regards, Susanne (Norway)
My Pap and Granny always told us to carry our wild mushrooms in a mesh bag so the spores can drop in the area that you found them in. The spores will spread all through the woods that brings more bounty next year.
why the heck do i end up liking every vid u guys make , i think this channel is one of my top 3 youtube channels that i discovered this year keep it up .
I just assumed that your first frost already came… We had our first frost two weeks ago! I am in northern Saskatchewan Canada your garden is still quite beautiful compared to my greenhouse LOL looking forward to all those awesome winter videos coming up!
I'm guessing their frost was likely around the same time as yours. Ariel said it was early September in the beginning of the film. There must be a week or two delay between filming, editing and posting.
Katherine Miess you’re right! I commented at the very beginning of that video… I Watched the whole vid and then realized my mistake… Fall came early this year! Trees have all turned fall colors. It’s beautiful but my goodness it happen fast!
You look great Bo, love you too. But mommy Arielle Is just fantastic so is daddy Eric. So much work and good food! I guess that’s were all their energy comes from… love also your chickens and roosters accompanying the music of your work, and I mean of your work, it’s.very special!!! Completely rural as you plant all that garlic…. What a team 👍👍👍🙏🙏🙏😘
I seriously love the title of this vid...truth be told that a lot of folks have no clue about where food truly comes from. Food IS life no doubt. Add some basil and mint to your tea mixes, variety is the spice of life, right?! Roast the onions with the tomatillos too! Mushrooms are such an awesome vitamin/mineral addition- plus foraging is FREE food!! You just may love that Music garlic variety, plenty of growers in the midwest have success with it. Lotsa L❤ve from IA!
Please don't put picked mushrooms in a plastic bag, try and place them in a wicker basket so the spores can spread as you carry them around the forest.
Mushrooms need a gas exchange, depending on the mushrooms I prefer mesh or a basket for harvesting and store in a paper bag in cool temperatures. Love the channel.
Try carrying your fresh picked mushies in a net instead of a plastic bag, that way the spores can release and you'll get even more mushrooms in the coming years! Love those chanterelles, my faves.
You should try green tomato ketchup here is the recipe GREEN TOMATO KETCHUP 4 c. ground onion 4 c. ground green tomatoes 6 sweet red peppers, ground 12 green bell peppers, ground 4 c. ground cabbage 6 c. sugar 2 tbsp. mustard seed 4 c. vinegar 1/2 c. salt 1 tbsp. celery seed 1 1/2 tsp. turmeric 2 c. water Grind vegetables using blender or coarse blade of grinder. Sprinkle with 1/2 cup salt. Let stand overnight. Rinse and drain. Combine with remaining ingredients. Heat to boiling. Simmer 3 minutes. Place in sterile jars and seal. About 8 pints.
Reader's Digest published a tale back in the early 80s which informed that if you take the entire coast line of the State of Alaska... when the tide comes in to high-tide, enough real estate has been covered by water to equal the entire State of Texas. THAT is how BIG Alaska is. Divide Alaska in two and Texas becomes the third largest State. Alaska is 1/5 of the entire lower-48. Big country!
I like this kind of film very much. I come from Mongolia. I am a beautiful and life loving girl. I am now showing the colorful life of Mongolian people on the CZcams.
You should try green pickled tomatoes!! I have the best recipe. For 10 kilos of tomatoes you use 5 liters water , 500 gram black salt , black peppercorns, bay leafs, garlic, some small chillies and extra virgin olive oil. You clean the mason jars and put the clean tomatoes cut in half inside . You put inside the bay leafs , garlic, peppercorns, small chilies. In a big pot you boil the water and salt until it dissolves , after you wait till it get bubbling and you pour the hot water in the mason jars. You top it with a tablespoon of extra virgin olive oil and you hermetically close the jars. They can live up to 2 years. Hope you guys try it😊😊
Every homesteader I watch, from all across the US has spoken of later than normal summer temps and earlier frosts. That solar minimum effect is no joke! And this is just year one. Everyone better start paying attention because it's going to drastically affect the way we grow our food and how much food is available.
Today in Wisconsin I also picked tomatoes to ripen inside, and mushroom finds included elm oysters and Grifola Frondosa (hen of the woods). Love this time of year, but there is always so much to do! Thanks for the garlic planting video. I'm going to try planting some in my garden the fall. You are good inspiration. Watching this was a good break, now I'm off to preserve my pepper bounty...
You all should definitely try canning some green tomato relish! I am in zone 6 where tomatoes generally thrive, but the caterpillars eating all of our ripe tomatoes this season meant I needed to pick them all when they were green so we at least got something, and I am SO glad, because I used them to make green tomato relish (found the recipe on Allrecipes), and it is our new favorite!
wifemamateacher i just tried a recipe for zucchini relish, but substituted in shredded green tomatoes for the zucchini! It was delicious! I also highly recommend relish! I’ll be making/canning mincemeat tomorrow for my great grandpa too.
Feeding the bees with mason jars can sometimes cause the syrup to be pumped out when the air in the jar expands, This can dampen the hive. Maybe try ziplock bag method. It works great. Just don't overfill the bag. A couple 2 inch slits on the top will provide access to the syrup.
Hi guys. You are both so beautiful and all your videos are so useful. Good luck to your life. Why they didn't get 1 million like. Friemds. Let they get 1 million like.
Another excellent video. I live in an apartment and y’all have me canning all small batch lol. Cowboy candy, dill pickles, red cabbage and beet slaw, green cabbage and bokchoi slaw, radish pickles, sweet kimchi daikon and zucchini, spicy Napa cabbage kimchi. Soon I will be making small batch summer sausage and other smoked and dried meats. Thanks for the incentive haven’t done this in decades lol.
Have you ever dehydrated your vegatables? That would save on the jars and lids, and possibly the storage. Eric is so handy I am surprised that he hasn't thought of adding on a pantry off of the kitchen. I so enjoy your videos. You two are such hard workers! Stay safe!
I wonder what percentage of your day goes into JUST food production. It is an amazing amount of work to be able to keep your self fed over the course of a year.
Aawww That was so cute adore your dog's Ariel and Eric. Didn't expect that sooo cute. The nasturtiums look beautiful. Your Chicken's look so happy and healthy. Love Capsicum's green, red, yellow put on a flame, blacken outer skin, put in cling wrap or plastic bag, wait, peel black skin off yummy. Capsicum in Australia = Peppers in Alaska I think. I'm so sad for you both that your tomatoes didn't ripen. But making that salsa was a brilliant idea, that's what I Adore about you both you waste nothing. Since your last video, you are both looking Amazing, 10 years younger, so your teenager's. This video like every one I have watched is just so good for my/our soul's, But I know how hard you both work. We Appreciate this wonderful Channel. Hug's from Australia xx
Put them in black and white newspaper and put them in a box in a cool place. You just have to unwrap only a few to find a ripe/orange one. They will ripen off the vine.
use cardboard boxes for the tomato. put a flat layer into the bottom fo the box, then newspaper, then another flat layer for about 4-5 layers. Add an apple in and they will ripen faster. I live in Saskatchewan and that's how I got my end of the season tomatoes to ripen. Go through the box every couple of days to pick out the ripe ones. The apple off gasses a chemical that promotes ripening in tomatoes. Our weather and frost dates are similar.
I just pickled 100’s of jalapeños, Hungarian banana peppers and bell peppers. Would anyone want to share recipes so there can be variety of flavour for preservation? Cheers and love from Canada 🇨🇦
We did: Peppers 1/2 cup white pickling vinegar 1/2 cup Apple cider vinegar 1 cup water 3 tbsp White sugar (want to try brown) 1 tbsp kosher salt 3-5 garlic cloves Boil until sugar and salt dissolved Pour over peppers and then water bath
That Nasturtium just gives me great joy every time I see it. I have meant to mention it many times. I did not know you could make tea out of them! I have three very small versions of yours I grow them for pest control and happiness and we have had two frosts but some of them are still ok. Now I will dry some. I have stuffed them with cream cheese as a special treat, I know you can eat them. Why I never thought to think of other things. But I am always learning new thing from you both so this is great. The jar storage looks great. You will figure out another space to. You have the amazing knack. It is a wonderful feeling to get the garlic bedded down for winter. We are about two weeks away here from putting it in. And I am starving to now lol. Meal fit for a King!
Hey, just a tip I've heard from hardcore mushroom scavengers. Use a wicker basket to carry the mushrooms you've already collected around with you. As you walk, the jostling of the basket will help distribute and scatter the spores for more mushrooms next season!
That intro though🤣
Sooo cute 🤗
I love the intro! Bo is so cool! He pulled it off. He looked like he was ready to get to work!
living in south florida, every time you guys show your dog near water i literally hold my breath because there is alligators in pretty much every piece of water down here. then i have to remind myself that you guys are living in a very different world than me so the lil pupper will be okay and i can watch peacefully 🤣❤️
It’s not a Simple Living Alaska video if Bandit doesn’t get his paws muddy 😂
LMFAO barely started the video lol the dog at the beginning lol
Bo looks like an upstanding individual of society.
He sure does, he even took the time to button up properly
I think it is a side effect of living with outstanding individuals of society.
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lol I swore you had said "I'm working on getting the garlic BREAD prepared" had to listen a few times to pick up "garlic BED" -- in the end the garlic in the BED may end up on bread ;)
Dean Johnson me too!!!! Lol
I did too
Yep, I thought she said "garlic bread" ....silly me!
i always have the closed captioning turned on so i don’t miss anything ☺️
Me too!
With some of the green tomatoes, before they ripen, try a meal of fried green tomatoes! They're really good that way.
We all need "Smell-A-Vision" for the Moose Roast
And taste-a-vision!
I ja e jadtongie and meatballs and they were delish !
No.... I was thinking “ thank goodness there’s no smell-o-vision” when they cleaned out the chicken coop. LOL chicken poop is probably the most rank of all next to pig. Cow and horse manure is perfume compared to chicken haha
ok...If y'all ever do a tee shirt, you need that photo of the dog and your logo... hilarious!!!
I'd fork out for a t-shirt. Great idea!
Ball caps too
Green tomato’s equals my mom’s green tomato chow. To die for!
Green tomatoes
Onions
Brown sugar
Vinegar
Pickling spice.
May add peppers 🫑 celery and a bit of turmeric. Can and lasts well over a year and it’s delicious with/on everything.
2:18 the proude smile he had on his face holding that pumkin was the same as my partner had holding our newborn son 😂😂😂
Gotta yell, "TIMBER!" when you cut those broccoli stalks, Arielle. 😂 We see that Bandit's pond is under construction still... no doubt Bandit's making sure those splash zones are up to code 😉 Oh, and let's not forget that intro! 😂 Bo is a boss pup! 😎
0:04 “sir you’re sure your not dog?”
“No, I’m pawsitive that I’m not”
Hi :) I have been enjoying your videos thank you so much. I am Germaine from Sunny Singapore, allow me to give you one simple Eggs with Tomatoes Chinese Recipe - Beat 5 eggs together with salt, heat oil in pan (prob 2 tbsp), pour the whole lot onto your pan and fry till eggs are golden brown (this point is important). Use your spatula to break your eggs into pcs. Using 5 palm size tomatoes, remove skin, discard and chop tomatoes up. Once your eggs are kind off brown and broken up, pour the chopped up tomatoes over the eggs, add 2 tbsp of light soya sauce, give a stir, lower your flame, cover pan and allow everything to simmer for a good 20mins - DONE :) You can eat this on its own or pour over boiled noodles / pasta / rice and you have an easy yummy meal for 2.. ENJOY
More storage for canned goods? Scrap the red sofa, build a storage box (where it used to sit), and put some nice cushions on top.
Great job to Eric and Ariel for all you do. I love your enthusiasm and knowledge. I'm "older" than you both by a lot of years and enjoy seeing younger ones learning these skills. You make it look easy but I know you are working very hard at not just living a sustainable life but by sharing your experiences with all of us. We all want you to know we are impressed and encouraged by your work. Thank you so much for sharing your life with all of us strangers. Keep up the good work and take care of one another and may God bless you both.
Alaska's # 1 dog is so adorable at the beginning. That meal at the end looked sooo good.
Cheers from Arkansas!!!
My wifes grandmother has a small woodstove in her greenhouse to extend the tomato season a bit.
Just started the video so I'm not sure what you do with them but pickled green tomatoes are amazing! We do ours with garlic and jalapenos and it's a great way to use them at the end of the season.
• a small handful of fresh dill, chopped
• 8 garlic cloves, sliced
• 2-4 jalapenos (depending on desired heat)
• finely chopped onion
• 2 bay leaves
• about 20 black peppercorns
• 2 pounds green tomatoes
• 2 3/4 cups of water
. 1 1/4 cup white vinegar
• 1/4 cup kosher salt
• 1 tablespoon sugar
• 2 quart size mason jars, sterilized
These are technically "quickles" but we have canned them and they keep great!
If you put your green tomatoes in a cardboard box with an apple they will be ripe in a week, lover your videos. Cheers.
That's what I have been doing and its been working amazing
Great tip!!! Thank you Andrew!
Or you could use a banana. They emit auxin, which quickly ripens other fruits and vegetables
@andrew r glad to know that I have a lot of green tomatoes also and in PA tonight they said we could get our first frost👍
Bananas work to ripen too if you can get them up there. Will ripen the tomatoes quickly, just make sure you have them in a paper bag.
Bo is so handsome! Thanks for the big smile and giggle. Give him a hug from me.♥️
My thoughts about tomatoes:
1) Use bigger starter plants next year instead of seed.
2) Add a small wood stove in high tunnel for the early season and cold nights.
3) When you add house addition, include a small room for starting plants with access to heat and lots of sunshine.
4) Were your high tunnel tomates on the south side for max sun? If not, move them there next year. Alternatively, add roll-up sides so the tomatoes have more access to fresh air and direct sun during the day.
5) Once the fruit has set, trim back the leaves so the fruit has more access to sun.
I am positive you guys know what you are doing. Just some ideas.
Thanks again for your awesome videos!
PPS Do you guys like goose, duck, grouse? Wondering, since I haven't seen you hunt for or talk about them.
Never seen any American couple work that hard! Wish you the nicest crop next year and the followings!
I'm in the Cariboo BC Canada.. our tomatoes didn't ripen either... green tomato chutney though!
Use a mesh bag when you are picking you mushroom. The mesh bag lets the spoils drop to the ground from the next year harvest.
This meat looks sooooo good!!!
When you put the 🍄 in plastic, my 🇩🇪 rule came out to NEVER put mushroom in plastic. Sorry, I am not criticizing, I just wanted to share my knowledge .
Hi, I've been watching your videos since you moved to Alaska. You can put a large barrel in the ground and you can store cabbage, kohlrabi, carrots and much more there over the winter. This is how I used to store my vegetables over the winter.
This is an excellent video in so many ways (those mushrooms!!!), but Bo totally stole the show. 😂 Good boy!!!
Oh dear god. That meal. Having witnessed the harvesting of it all, makes me admire more all the work you do. Plus great videography. Thanks.
'who let the dog out?'... Good one 🤣 guys.
I think a long 12 inch deep board across those floor joists would create some storage for jars. Maybe even 2 for deep storage!
My tomatoes didn’t ripen on the vine this year either. Today I’m making/canning green tomato mincemeat. Yum.
Yes! I had been waiting for an update on Bandit's project :D
Thank you for NEVER mentioning politics on your channel!
I could tell you got a great sense of accomplishment from this one and every time you walk past it I'm sure it will look and feel good too!
A tip for your unripe tomatoes! harvest the tomato branch with the tomatoes on and hang them in strings from the roof or in a window. that gives the tomatoes more taste and they won't get in your way that much
Try pickled green tomatoes & fried green tomatoes.
My grandmother used to make piccalilli with green tomatoes.
I have a delicious recipe for green tomato pickles, if you are interested
@Cheri W. I’m very interested ❣️ Thank you 🥰
@@nursecheri62 I'm isterested in that recipe too! *.*
#chowchow required for beans and good as relish as well!
When you go to the store again pick up a bag of apples and put them in with the tomatoes they will ripen faster.
Thanks Guys. ...and you two, too , doing all the work and cooking.
We’ve had 2 nights of frost in PA, no tunnel just plastic. Nice garlic bed!
You might consider shorter maturity tomatoes.I don't grow anything with maturity over 60-65 days. These varieties work well up here. Sun Gold Hybrid (57 days), Stupice (52), Early Girl hybrid (57), Bush Early Girl (54), 42 Day Tomato (42), Red Robin (55) and Tumbler Hybrid (45). And in full sun, the Stupice will grow outdoors. Good luck next year.
Bandits pond is coming along, you’ll be swimming next year 😂 hard to believe gardening season is nearly over. Enjoy the fruits of your labor all winter long.
Hi, I am from Sweden. We have the same mushrooms here. We call them trattkantatreller. I just wanted to say that you have to tear them in half, because there is often eggs inside the stem. At least here in Sweden :-).
You know you can pickle green tomatoes, they do it in East Europe....for winter.
They are great to eat...salt garlic water dry dill ....alternate with carrots as well
you have awesome raised beds. I only like large cloves for roasting. Marino is a nice hardneck variety that can be almost as large as Music, at least in my garden (zone 4b). Please be careful with the straw dust in the chickweed barn...”Farmer’s Lung” Helped to kill my farmer uncle.
I always have mixed emotions about the garden in the fall, sad to see it go but happy that it’s gone !
DUDE! It usually takes about a month before I am planning for next year! By the time snow hits the ground, It's all I can think about!
I’m still in the glad it’s gone honeymoon phase, for 2020 😂.
Homemade soy sauce made with mushrooms!
Just made 1.3 gallons! Many different recepies on line. I have tried several different ones. You can use all kinds of edible mushrooms. I use spieces, garlic, jalapenos etc.
Its stores for a looong time in bottle or jars! 👍
Best regards, Susanne (Norway)
My Pap and Granny always told us to carry our wild mushrooms in a mesh bag so the spores can drop in the area that you found them in. The spores will spread all through the woods that brings more bounty next year.
We live in Michigan, for 30+ years I’ve dug up my tomato plants and hung them upside down in the garage to finish ripening and they taste great.
I love watching Eric cook! He's pretty impressive - for a guy, lol
PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE... can i come for dinner? Eric you are a class A chef!
why the heck do i end up liking every vid u guys make , i think this channel is one of my top 3 youtube channels that i discovered this year keep it up .
I just assumed that your first frost already came… We had our first frost two weeks ago! I am in northern Saskatchewan Canada your garden is still quite beautiful compared to my greenhouse LOL looking forward to all those awesome winter videos coming up!
I'm guessing their frost was likely around the same time as yours. Ariel said it was early September in the beginning of the film. There must be a week or two delay between filming, editing and posting.
Katherine Miess you’re right! I commented at the very beginning of that video… I Watched the whole vid and then realized my mistake… Fall came early this year! Trees have all turned fall colors. It’s beautiful but my goodness it happen fast!
Fermented green tomatoes with pickling spice a hot pepper and garlic. You will love it 😊 and salt of course
I hope they read your suggestion because that seems like something they’d really like.
Mark Whitley thank you 😊. It is one of my favorites.
YUM! i WOULD LOVE THAT RECIPE!
SOUNDS DELICIOUS ❣️🥰
love them green tomatoes fried!
You look great Bo, love you too.
But mommy Arielle Is just fantastic so is daddy Eric. So much work and good food! I guess that’s were all their energy comes from… love also your chickens and roosters accompanying the music of your work, and I mean of your work, it’s.very special!!! Completely rural as you plant all that garlic…. What a team 👍👍👍🙏🙏🙏😘
I seriously love the title of this vid...truth be told that a lot of folks have no clue about where food truly comes from. Food IS life no doubt. Add some basil and mint to your tea mixes, variety is the spice of life, right?! Roast the onions with the tomatillos too! Mushrooms are such an awesome vitamin/mineral addition- plus foraging is FREE food!! You just may love that Music garlic variety, plenty of growers in the midwest have success with it. Lotsa L❤ve from IA!
Please don't put picked mushrooms in a plastic bag, try and place them in a wicker basket so the spores can spread as you carry them around the forest.
Fabric will work too, just anything that will allow the spores to spread as you go. Then you’ll get more
A mesh bag is what is recommended by leading mycologists.
In most cases once the cap spreads and the ribs show the spore's drop in a day or two.
That's what I was thinking. Good job to them on the mushroom hunt, tho.
Mushrooms need a gas exchange, depending on the mushrooms I prefer mesh or a basket for harvesting and store in a paper bag in cool temperatures. Love the channel.
Have you guys thought about adding on a little to the tiny house? Just enough for a little inside storage or even like a grow/storage space
Try carrying your fresh picked mushies in a net instead of a plastic bag, that way the spores can release and you'll get even more mushrooms in the coming years! Love those chanterelles, my faves.
You two are so incredibly industrious + productive
You should try green tomato ketchup here is the recipe
GREEN TOMATO KETCHUP
4 c. ground onion
4 c. ground green tomatoes
6 sweet red peppers, ground
12 green bell peppers, ground
4 c. ground cabbage
6 c. sugar
2 tbsp. mustard seed
4 c. vinegar
1/2 c. salt
1 tbsp. celery seed
1 1/2 tsp. turmeric
2 c. water
Grind vegetables using blender or coarse blade of grinder. Sprinkle with 1/2 cup salt. Let stand overnight. Rinse and drain. Combine with remaining ingredients. Heat to boiling. Simmer 3 minutes. Place in sterile jars and seal. About 8 pints.
They say everything's bigger in Texas but I think it's Alaska
Reader's Digest published a tale back in the early 80s which informed that if you take the entire coast line of the State of Alaska... when the tide comes in to high-tide, enough real estate has been covered by water to equal the entire State of Texas. THAT is how BIG Alaska is. Divide Alaska in two and Texas becomes the third largest State. Alaska is 1/5 of the entire lower-48. Big country!
I like this kind of film very much. I come from Mongolia. I am a beautiful and life loving girl. I am now showing the colorful life of Mongolian people on the CZcams.
You should try green pickled tomatoes!! I have the best recipe. For 10 kilos of tomatoes you use 5 liters water , 500 gram black salt , black peppercorns, bay leafs, garlic, some small chillies and extra virgin olive oil. You clean the mason jars and put the clean tomatoes cut in half inside . You put inside the bay leafs , garlic, peppercorns, small chilies. In a big pot you boil the water and salt until it dissolves , after you wait till it get bubbling and you pour the hot water in the mason jars. You top it with a tablespoon of extra virgin olive oil and you hermetically close the jars. They can live up to 2 years. Hope you guys try it😊😊
Team Bo here. He rocks the flannel 💖
Burpee's Early Girl tomato is a good variety to grow in shorter seasons.
@soaringtractor They are easy to can, dry and ferment. Drying tomatoes is an overlooked option for long term storage.
Roasting really brings out a more rich flavor of the vegetables.
two pigs would love all plants from the gardens and thea would give you some great backen and hams.
Can pigs take that kind of fierce cold?
When you guys cook a meal it's like gourmet dinners. Not like the outback most would think. Awesomeness in two peoples.
Well Done U 2 Enjoy the Harvest , you worked Hard this year and deserve Living Large this winter .. Take care Stay very Well.
The moose roast ? Perfectly cooked. A meal fit for a King !
No matter where you are that's a good meal
OMG Eric and Arielle I love the shelf in your cabin, the coloured vegetables look so beautiful, like a work of art!
Nature's Bounty, gotta love harvest time! Another great job of editing btw. I love your videos.
Every homesteader I watch, from all across the US has spoken of later than normal summer temps and earlier frosts. That solar minimum effect is no joke! And this is just year one. Everyone better start paying attention because it's going to drastically affect the way we grow our food and how much food is available.
Beau the gangsta dawg! Bandit the engineer, tunneling to the center of the earth.
Today in Wisconsin I also picked tomatoes to ripen inside, and mushroom finds included elm oysters and Grifola Frondosa (hen of the woods). Love this time of year, but there is always so much to do! Thanks for the garlic planting video. I'm going to try planting some in my garden the fall. You are good inspiration. Watching this was a good break, now I'm off to preserve my pepper bounty...
love your videos and your dog custom make laugh, blessing to all of you.
I totally enjoy your channel. We live in Michigan, and also try to grow, forage, repurpose and reuse as much as possible.
How about building a storage couch - a storage box below with all your couch pillows on the top - for more canned goods storage.
You all should definitely try canning some green tomato relish! I am in zone 6 where tomatoes generally thrive, but the caterpillars eating all of our ripe tomatoes this season meant I needed to pick them all when they were green so we at least got something, and I am SO glad, because I used them to make green tomato relish (found the recipe on Allrecipes), and it is our new favorite!
We call it chow-chow. My mother used to make tons of it every year. Everyone loved her cow-chow with beans and biscuits.
wifemamateacher i just tried a recipe for zucchini relish, but substituted in shredded green tomatoes for the zucchini! It was delicious! I also highly recommend relish! I’ll be making/canning mincemeat tomorrow for my great grandpa too.
The intro melted my heart😍❤️Love you guys❤️❤️❤️✨
Feeding the bees with mason jars can sometimes cause the syrup to be pumped out when the air in the jar expands, This can dampen the hive. Maybe try ziplock bag method. It works great. Just don't overfill the bag. A couple 2 inch slits on the top will provide access to the syrup.
Hi guys. You are both so beautiful and all your videos are so useful. Good luck to your life. Why they didn't get 1 million like. Friemds. Let they get 1 million like.
Watching 3:30 in the morning here in Philippines 🇵🇭 . I learned a lot from you guys godbless
Another excellent video. I live in an apartment and y’all have me canning all small batch lol. Cowboy candy, dill pickles, red cabbage and beet slaw, green cabbage and bokchoi slaw, radish pickles, sweet kimchi daikon and zucchini, spicy Napa cabbage kimchi. Soon I will be making small batch summer sausage and other smoked and dried meats. Thanks for the incentive haven’t done this in decades lol.
The 67 people that don't like this probably live in New York City
Try some fried green tomatoes, they're delicious. Great video.
Have you ever dehydrated your vegatables? That would save on the jars and lids, and possibly the storage. Eric is so handy I am surprised that he hasn't thought of adding on a pantry off of the kitchen.
I so enjoy your videos. You two are such hard workers! Stay safe!
A pantry would be great, also an area where they could dry most the herbs 🌿. Would love a garden like yours!! Not too sure about Alaska tbough.
I wonder what percentage of your day goes into JUST food production. It is an amazing amount of work to be able to keep your self fed over the course of a year.
I had to pause the video to get something to eat because I was salivating too much. Lol!
Use the green tomatoes for green tomato pickles😀
Aawww That was so cute adore your dog's Ariel and Eric. Didn't expect that sooo cute. The nasturtiums look beautiful. Your Chicken's look so happy and healthy. Love Capsicum's green, red, yellow put on a flame, blacken outer skin, put in cling wrap or plastic bag, wait, peel black skin off yummy. Capsicum in Australia = Peppers in Alaska I think. I'm so sad for you both that your tomatoes didn't ripen. But making that salsa was a brilliant idea, that's what I Adore about you both you waste nothing. Since your last video, you are both looking Amazing, 10 years younger, so your teenager's. This video like every one I have watched is just so good for my/our soul's, But I know how hard you both work. We Appreciate this wonderful Channel. Hug's from Australia xx
Put them in black and white newspaper and put them in a box in a cool place. You just have to unwrap only a few to find a ripe/orange one. They will ripen off the vine.
use cardboard boxes for the tomato. put a flat layer into the bottom fo the box, then newspaper, then another flat layer for about 4-5 layers. Add an apple in and they will ripen faster. I live in Saskatchewan and that's how I got my end of the season tomatoes to ripen. Go through the box every couple of days to pick out the ripe ones. The apple off gasses a chemical that promotes ripening in tomatoes. Our weather and frost dates are similar.
I just pickled 100’s of jalapeños, Hungarian banana peppers and bell peppers. Would anyone want to share recipes so there can be variety of flavour for preservation? Cheers and love from Canada 🇨🇦
We did:
Peppers
1/2 cup white pickling vinegar
1/2 cup Apple cider vinegar
1 cup water
3 tbsp White sugar (want to try brown)
1 tbsp kosher salt
3-5 garlic cloves
Boil until sugar and salt dissolved
Pour over peppers and then water bath
That sounds super yummy, thank you for sharing!
your husband IS A LUCKY MAN
Something you might want to look into for food storage, is a Freeze Dryer. About the size of a washing machine. No more freezers or canning.
That Nasturtium just gives me great joy every time I see it. I have meant to mention it many times. I did not know you could make tea out of them! I have three very small versions of yours I grow them for pest control and happiness and we have had two frosts but some of them are still ok. Now I will dry some. I have stuffed them with cream cheese as a special treat, I know you can eat them. Why I never thought to think of other things. But I am always learning new thing from you both so this is great. The jar storage looks great. You will figure out another space to. You have the amazing knack. It is a wonderful feeling to get the garlic bedded down for winter. We are about two weeks away here from putting it in. And I am starving to now lol. Meal fit for a King!
Hey, just a tip I've heard from hardcore mushroom scavengers.
Use a wicker basket to carry the mushrooms you've already collected around with you. As you walk, the jostling of the basket will help distribute and scatter the spores for more mushrooms next season!