DITL two MAJOR failures turned into Success!! Full Time Working Homesteader
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- čas přidán 21. 05. 2021
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Come along with me on my Sunday as I get the whole garden planted out! Now Sit back and watch the garden grow! I can't wait to see what this harvest brings us this year!
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I line my Pyrex with Glad wrap and once the food is frozen I pop it out and wrap it. When you want to eat something just take it out in the morning, unwrap and pop it back in the Pyrex and let it thaw in the fridge for baking that night. I use the same 6 Pyrex over and over and I usually have 25-30 Pyrex shaped meals in the freezer, they stack well.
That's a great idea! Thanks 💡 👍 😀
That’s genius!
That’s an amazing idea!
Brilliant!
This is a great idea!! I'm new to freezing, I just got a large stand up freezer this year and now I wonder why I didn't get one years ago. What do you wrap your meals in after they are frozen in the pyrex? I didn't know I could freeze in my glass pyrex, I was afraid they would crack. Do you have any tips for freezing in the pyrex? Have a great day, thank you!!
I admire u so much! Your garden, your positivity and attitude and trying new things. U are so real and I love that we get to see your "fails" and no makeup messy morning hair. I literally feel like we would be friends if I lived where u are lol. U are amazing!
Totally would be friends
Always run your soap recipe through soapcalc. Not everything doubles or triples so it will give you the proper measurements. Also never use aluminum with cold process soap. Stainless or approved plastics. I am a soap maker and was inspired by your calendula products. I also grow calendula and I'll make some salve and infuse oil for my soap!
Rebatch is also good alternative to soaps that did not turn out.
I love how real you keep it. Just like real life! You're doing an amazing job motivating people!
Thanks!
No one would ever know you’re a beginner gardener, your garden is so wonderful!
We save our dryer lint also. We use the cardboard eggs container. We press lint in each cup and buy cheap candle sticks, let the wax drip over lint. Let cool and cut as needed. Love our wood burning stove
I think I’d be shocked at how much money we spend eating out. I’d rather have that money in the bank for something else too. I watched one of your meal prep videos and I think that might be the way to go as well. I spend almost 3 hours a day cooking homemade dinners for my family. At 55, I’m just tired of doing that. We have a deep freezer, but it’s full of meat, etc. I’d have to buy another freezer if I were to do the meal prep...which I’m probably going to be doing. Thanks for all the ideas. You have a beautiful garden.
Once we moved 20+ miles out of town and since we both got off a different times and would have to drive home and then turn around and drive back into town just to eat we stopped eating out and the money we saved was surprising. I don't even get carry out because it's cold by the time I get home. Now that we are retired and can eat out whenever we want, we say do we really want to drive all the way into town just to eat?? The money we have saved is shocking.
We have 3 for the 2 of us ,but we live an hour from town ,have a very small grocery in our little town ,but super expensive
@@sharrilswindle752 We are in the same boat, but we still buy things from that little grocery store to help them stay in business, one day I'm not going to be able to drive all the way into town, the price of gas may be too high, the car might not be running well, I might not feel well or I just need one thing. Helping them stay in business will help me in the long run and sometimes I get a surprise, they get something in that is so cheap I just have to buy some. They also procure meat and vegetables from local sources keeping the money here and I know where my meat is coming from.
@@sandylee8184 ,OH I agree, I go to that store for some meat because they are actually meat processors ,they do deer, and things people hunt ,they will process. I buy my ice cream from them ,so I can get home before it melts..I usually by mostly organic or non gmo at least ,but I know as things get harder it may not be available anyway ..we also have a store called needful things ,they have a used furniture part ,then a discount stuff store which can be anything and they have a grocery part , and they kept everyone in our town and area when people couldn't get toilet paper they would take a truck up to Jacksonville, and bring a whole truckload of toilet paper to our town and alot of stuff the stores were out of, they had it ,so I very much appreciate them!! And we have a salon which I go there, and she does great work ,and we have a barber and aesthetician, and nail tech ,so the little town is 11 miles from me, and thankfully hubby has motorcycle, so if need be he can run to store..we stopped eating out ,it's just easier and less time, living so far out ,to just cook at home, now after doing this for a year and a half ,saves money and I try to always keep a year long pantry..so I would always not have something when I needed it , so I just started keeping a large pantry..I just finished canning 27 quarts of potatoes and onions..so worth all the work.
@@sharrilswindle752 Bless that little store for keeping things in stock when other store shelves were bare, it's great that they process the meat you know where it is coming from, not like Sams where the ground beef can come from Mexico, Canada, or the US. Now that it isn't required to label where the meat comes from we are being much more careful where we buy things. Congratulations on keeping a stocked pantry, I find so much security in ours, it is such a small closet next to the kitchen so I have food and supplies tucked everywhere. My husband mentioned we needed to corral it and try to get it more organized and I totally agree, I have considered moving stuff (like Christmas decorations) out of one of the rooms in the basement where we keep the freezer and utilizing those shelves for overflow. I will be able to keep better track of what we have and plan on starting that soon. I haven't taken on canning yet, I feel more comfortable with the canned foods I buy, I would hate to poison someone. I should have paid more attention when mom canned when we were younger. I love this youtube channel, I get so many ideas now I just need to put them into practice, everyone is so nice here.
I really like your make it work attitude, very inspiring, and thank you for not editing out the bits that didn't go as planned. Research shows that problem solving is one of the big things that make us happy :)
A few years ago, I tucked an extra packet of Sweet Williams in my jeans pocket. No room to plant it so put it in my pocket. Threw the clothes in the laundry, hung the jeans out on my clothes line. Long story short ended up with gorgeous Sweet Williams under the clothes line. Didn't have the heart to mow them over so kept hanging clothes around them. It was a great surprise as they started showing up and then grew and grew and bloomed and bloomed. Happy accidents. I love watching your videos. I learn a lot and really appreciate your attitude in life.
small math errors have ruined my soap too!!!!!!!! Nice to see another young person interested in homesteading.
Sometimes I feel alone because most homesteaders are older with a bunch of kids... I'm glad you are here :)
@@AcreHomestead I'm a similar age as you (28) and in the next year or two I'll be moving to a homestead and I am so excited. For now I've got a small herb garden on my apartment deck
@@AcreHomestead I'm 43 and just starting my journey toward homesteading and you are inspiring.
You're doing a remarkable job. Relax.
Yes, thank you lol I need to remember that!
I have a friend that sews a dish towel onto the front of her half cut aprons. I thought you may want to do that to your half (cut at the waist) apron. 🙃😉 It makes it super easy to dry your hands quickly. I love watching your videos. You're so inspirational and I love your down-to-earth personality. Blessings to you! ❤
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Two days since CZcams suggested your channel. I love it here, please keep your videos always like this: authentic!! Much love from South Africa🇿🇦💕
That rogue chicken through the legs was hilarious!! 👌🏼🤣
I didn't even notice that until I was editing lol
True, and she timed her entrance to the chicken yard perfectly. I thought Becky might step on her, but the chicken did very well.
what's great about aprons that wrap and tie in the front is you can hang a dish towel at your waist to wipe your hands on. I also use my towel as a pot holder to put things in and out of the oven but you do that at your own risk ;-)
What an excellent idea!
I wanted to say thank you for posting the content you do! You are so energetic and get so much done! You are crazy efficient and to hear you spend so much time editing on top of the filming makes me realize what a true gift you are giving us of your valuable time. I gain a ton of knowledge and inspiration from you and I’m trying so many things you post on. Please know you taking your time to make and post your videos is helping me and I’m sure many others become more self sufficient and efficient too! You truly are doing all the things you show and then some you don’t even know you’re doing because you have us doing the things too!!❤️
Wow thank you for watching :)
Any soaps that I have made with lye I have ALWAYS left for a year before doing anything with it. It gives it a proper chance to cure and even if you have been lye heavy with it it tends to settle down enough that you can use it for its made purpose. It's a relatively new practise to make soap and use it within a month or 2. Traditionally it was always made a year in advance. That's me though but thought it may help xox
My soap that is 3 years old is so amazing
My mum taught me to do this even with store bought soap, it will last much longer this wary. I have soaps that are 20 years old (still from my mum‘s stash who passed 14 years ago so I am reluctant to use it). If stored right it still smells amazing and works great!
A year?? A month is standard but aged soap is amazing, I agree.
I have kitchen aprons and separate craft aprons ❤️❤️❤️ hate to ruin my clothes also. When you have a food stain if you use dish washing liquid on the stain before you wash I washing machine it will remove it it a food stain which what the liquid for dishes is for, if you wash and dry before treatment the stain will be set in the fabric 🙂
When you increase the batch in soap, it changes the chemical reaction. Also, don’t use aluminum bowls, spoons, molds, etc. as they react with the lye.
Instead of folding the top of the little striped apron down, fold the bottom up and sew the sides. Then , you have a harvesting apron, too! Really enjoy your videos!
For laundry I put large safety pins in the toes of my socks for a pair that way I never lose a sock, because somewhere in the washer or the dryer lives a gremlin that steal socks. So far I haven't lost anymore.
Love that thanks!
They only steal the left socks... did you ever notice?
I had a cleaning business for 22 years ,and one of my clients ,her and her hubby, kept a very little dish ,with tiny gold safety pins ,in corner of drawer then I folded the socks after I took pins out and replaced in the dish..I always thought thats a great idea..I learned lots of tips from my clients..
I put all my socks in a big zip-up laundry bag! Just like you, I still have all my and my husband's socks!
If you cant make laundry detergent try using it for cleaning products dor your bathtoom and tub cleaner.
Love your pups. Thank you for investing all your time to share all info with us. Omg fire starter. Been saving my lint for that.
I like that you share with us how you learn from your mistakes. Your videos really encourage me to start to garden and learn food storage. Thank you!
Am binge watching all your postings. Learn something new every day. Love your chickens. You never tire!
Loving all your videos, beautiful grounds around your property, gorgeous dogs too. I am in awe of what you achieve - you are truly amazing and work so incredibly hard. Keep getting us tagging along with you because it’s brilliant to watch ♥️❤️♥️❤️😘❤️
You are my new favorite vlogger! We started our homestead around the same time as you have on this property. There are so many parallels that I enjoy seeing how you manage all the same tasks. You are so fun, upbeat, and informative! Keep up the good work!
I loved the apron try on!! I am so bad at remembering to wear aprons but hopefully i'll remember! You are a great motivation to cook and do chores around the house!
What a blessing you live in a beautiful home~ the outdoor us everything! Becky your aprons are so cute!
I love to hear the birds in the morning also!
Oh my gosh I love your attitude. Mistakes happen and just try to work them out. I envy your energy.
Love when you post day in the life videos ❤ I just found your channel about a week ago and so happy I did. Im learning so much !! Thank you!!
Aprons are the best! My momma and I wear them all the time, so handy because I’m always wiping my hands on the apron. I’ve been following you for a bit now and love everything you are doing, great to see young folks getting back to the basics. Thanks for sharing!
Funny this should pop up on my suggestion feed just as I was telling my friend that I need to make myself some aprons for canning, gardening and soaping. Thank you for your videos, I love how real and authentic they are.
Great video dear and full of inspirations. Keep it up! You are going far gal. Much love from🇰🇪🇰🇪🇰🇪🇰🇪.
Such a positive attitude. Plus you make me laugh because I’ve done some of the same thing! Replanted cucumbers twice - the ground was too cold first time. Then they all sprouted at the same time!! Keep going girl!
You will love the cross cross apron!! I have one and LOVE IT!!
I see you got MIGardener seeds. I'm so glad to see that. They are local to me (less than an hour away) and I buy all my seeds from them. Your garden is impressive!
thank you!!
I’m finally catching up on your videos! Loved this day in the life!
Yay!
🤣🤣🤣🤣@ 1:47 you scared me!!!!....with "Orbit come!!!" Great video, thank you! ☺☺☺
Love my Pyrex and Anchor (blue) glass casserole dishes! Love your sprons❣
I'm glad you can save your soap!
Fantastic goodwill finds.
Thanks for this super relatable DITL! Love the thumbnail too "Doing All The Things" 🤣 I have the same robe from Costco, and that's the view the neighbors get while I do my morning chores. Going to finish planting my garden tomorrow!
Yay! Thank you!
That's so funny about the robe LOL
These are some of my most favorite videos
Such a beautiful video, thank you for sharing your dad with us. And Heather, it is so good to see your bright and positive heart back here. You are such a joy and your dad is a good sport to come on camera. Blessings to you all.
I will definitely be making this Hal style bramble for my husband and I for a weeks worth of breakfast before work! 💞
thank you. my family is very supportive of this community.
I love your videos ❤🌻🐞 Thank you for making my week!
I love the last apron. It would make a great garden, project, craft apron.
A came upon your channel yesterday. I love it. You remind me of me just a young version . i am looking forward to getting to know you through your videos. Breath of fresh air. Ty
Wow thanks so much! I’m glad you are here :)
My new favourite channel ☺️ I grew up in the countryside and seeing and hearing the animals.....the comforting sounds of the chickens chirping...bliss. Thank you. If you're stuck for apron ideas, wear a raincoat lol 😂 I'm joking but they're great especially for stuff that stains badly like tomatoes or oily stuff
Always run recipes through soap calc. If it happens again, you can grind it down and add the extra oils needed and hot process it. This is why we superfat.
Daughter 17! Son 28 and he just moved back home for a little time! I have always worked late and weekends as I am a hairstylist! So during COVID I had time to cook breakfast and dinner and enjoy normal family dinner hours!
I just found your channel today and I am beyond impressed!! Excellent excellent job and you’re quite resourceful! You will certainly be successful in this CZcams world!
Thank you!
I love your videos and have made some of your recipes. I am older than you and have kids but I live in an apartment and am living on a tight budget so I take what I learning and modify it to my circumstance. Keep learning and teaching
You're doing such an incredible job ...❤❤❤😍
Thanks!
Hi I am a new follower from the UK 🇬🇧, and I'm so glad I found you.you are an amazing young lady and you are doing a fantastic job x
Thank you so much!
You’ve totally inspired me to start making my own food/herbs/canning and storing. We have a very long wide kitchen which we are turning half of it into a walk in pantry with our already very large deep freezer. My husband is so excited that I found your channel, he just bought me a new hydroponic herb garden but we have a lot of space outside that I can start planting things as well…..my favorite video so far is your pesto for a year and breakfast freezer meals!!! Keep sharing!! I LOVE watching!!! I’m subscribed and bell turned on!!
Thanks for sharing with me Julie! I’m so excited for you!
I save my lint too. I stuff it into toilet paper rolls ( and paper towels rolls) and light an end and it burns slower if you pack it in tightly, which gives plenty of time to get the wood going good
When your soap turns out like that you can use it as laundry soap or rebatching it in the crock pot by shredding it and adding some water then cooking it until it’s no longer our heavy. Also, never use tin foil with soap. Aluminum and lye can have a really bad reaction.
Was coming to say the same thing about the foil.
You are doing great.
Love your videos.
Very informative Ive learned a lot in short time Ive been watching
Wow thanks so much!
I'm so glad you are here hanging out with me :)
Love to watch your thrift shopping finds 😍
I noticed you have very little furniture! I live that clean look! I am a hoarder of furniture and dishes!
Watching all that you do is pretty amazing.🍅😄
I built up my glass baking dishes in thrift stores also I have 13 and use as freeze meal storage ❤️❤️❤️🙂
Thank you so much.
It's been so hot lately I try to get most of my gardening done by 11am then go inside and do housework in the ac . On beautiful and comfortable days I'm outside gardening all day long
My hubby watches failblogs all the time as well...love it! :D
GODBLESS sweetie everything looks wonderful
Wow thanks!
I never heard of the lint from a dryer. I’m going to do it thank you
You do have a couple options other than turning the soap into laundry detergent. You can add a small amount of water and melt it back down on low heat stirring frequently. Once melted, stir constantly for 15 minutes or so before pouring into mold - no aluminum foil or pans. You can use cardboard box lined with parchment paper. I would let it set for 2 or 3 days before trying to cut it. If you feel it is lye heavy you just store it longer before using. The longer you leave lye soap the more lather it produces.
Hope you have a bumper crop of tomatillos so you can make a lot of recipes. They are really good added to different veggie blends like an onion substitute. They also tastes good with leeks.
That's such a nice garden. I can't wait to own my own piece of land and grow my own food, too. It's not only enjoyable, it's profitable, too. I think you're inspiring a lot of people to do exactly what you're doing. Seeing you do so many things is very encouraging because we end up telling ourselves that we can do it, too. I'm just hoping I'll succeed in the gardening venture because I don't have a green thumb at all 😆😆😆 My 25 y-o kid basically told me that I'm an expert at killing plants 😂😂😂We'll eventually see if I can end up having a green thumb coz I've always enjoyed being in the garden doing stuff related to gardening.
Good job! Very informative too! Thank you for sharing.
Thanks for watching!
@@AcreHomestead You are most welcome
I don't know anything about soap making but a knife dipped in hot water works really well when cutting chocolate. It might also work for cutting soap. Just an idea.
Great Idea!
I use borax, bar soap grated and doterra essential oils for clothes washing. Love it.
I like the green apron very much!
It was so funny watching the chickens march into the pen and the last one was sneaking in behind you through your legs.
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I have also heard of freezing in your Pyrex then take out of the dish to store in the freezer. Frees up your dish ... just have to remember which dish it fits (I’d label some way)❤️
sorry computer wont let me fix spelling have a fantastic day, GOD BLESS YOU AND YOUR FAMILY HAVE A BLESSED NEW YEAR.
Hi there. Just found ur channel last week. I have used powdered and liquid diy laundry detergent. 1 grated fels naptha bar, 1 cup borax, 1 cup washing soda. Mix together use 1 TBSP per load. So u might can grate some of ur soap in place of fels naptha bar. But I've never used homemade soap b4. I also add some scent beads any brand works but that's optional. I love ur videos and animals.
Not damaged, lol, you just germinated them! Great videos! I just love love everything you share!
just an idea and I'm in the process of watching all your vids as I just found you earlier today but if you sew (I am assuming you can sew basic stuff, at least) you could add pockets to that first half apron using left over scraps of material and it could turn out super cute and SUPER useful! Who doesn't love pockets?! Edited to add: if you find the pockets on the green denim'ish one too high, you could lower them, too! Love them all
Just found you. Really like your channel. Very nice home you have. You are a very busy lady!
Donna, thanks you so much!
Love your page !!!!
I love your kitchen.
My Grandfather used to sprout his bean seed between wet paper towels, then plant them out.
I’m going to start doing that because they are doing so well!
Hope you had a lovely night out Nice video.
I did! Thank you!
THANK YOU, I keep lint too and my husband makes fun of me😅its the best. We only use our woodburning fireplace to heat our house:)
Wood heat is the best!
For your soap you should use a calculator to use the correct ratio of lye/fat even. I used mendrulandia and it worked well. It's good to do it even with recipe you find and you can adjust the quantity to do bigger batch :)
The mistake is a blessing for years to come. You may have a good supply of seed beans for the next few years or an opportunity to sell your extra bean seeds.
Use that soap for laundry. I usually use FN or zone soap. Washing soda. Borax and sometimes dollar tree version of oxy.
That last chicken sneaking up on you had me lol 😆 🤣
WHAT A NICE GARDEN💞
Thanks so much :)
Oh, heartbreak of unintentional watering of seed packets is something I have experienced, too!
Hey girl! I used to make 60+ lbs of fudge during christmas time. I had the same problem you did with the soap and cutting it. Then I bought a pizza blade cutter! Complete game changer. They got one on Amazon for about $13. Another suggestion I had was for seed storage-really useful box cd storage. Staples has them for about $10. Wow! $5k on eating out? Now that YOU are saving all that money by cooking from home there's you should be able to get your greenhouse!!!! Just tell Josh the Snail Slayer to keep his paintballs away from that. LOL
You should use soap calc for soap making. That way, you can make any size batch.
Would love to see a little segment of a video on fire starters with dryer lint! I am so happy I found your channel!
I will make a video on that! It's supper easy! I'm glad you are here!
What a great video !
I’m getting sucked into your video whilst doing my laundry 😁
I really like the crisscross apron. I once poured boiling food down my front. Regular cotton did not help. That half one, I wondered if a simple patch pocket sewn on or a tab like loop would give you some versatility. I really enjoy your videos. Thank you. My fiancé and I are looking into buying some acres and you mentioned buying a homestead. If you don’t mind, would you do a little video on the process? Take care. 🌸
You need to use a soap calculator. It will ensure correct lyr/water ratios. Soapcalc is a good one.
Yes I do!! Thank you!