Here's the link to the homemade bug spray video ♥ kzread.info/dash/bejne/d5aYyZOpqNO1pLQ.htmlsi=dzmdyDI-oLxg9rmt

@karen-hillshomestead

Ай бұрын

Thanks!

We do need to get into.the depression era mindset, with everything so expensive, it should be taught and encouraged to the younger growers.

A woman gardening with power tools! Love it. It's a fabulous idea.

@apace903

17 күн бұрын

Perhaps very soon that will happen all over our wonderful country!🎉😊

Left the chainsaw out... "Sorry Todd!" 🤣🤣

You are living the dream. I’m 53 and counting down the days until I can retire

@tonijohnson7132

Ай бұрын

Same😂

I hope more talk about all the food waste and how much we are not using. It isn't to shame anyone but bringing awareness. Thank you for speaking on it.

You made me laugh when you broke out the chainsaw. LOL

I always ALWAYS use every single possible thing I can out of my garden. For me most of these things get dehydrated and added later to things because my kids are unfortunately super fussy and this is the BEST way to get the added nutrition into their bellies without them even knowing lol

YES!!! If we all grew food and the gov would start planting fruit trees instead of rubbish, we could feed everyone. Thank u for the great ideas😊

I’m recovering from a total knee replacement surgery and coming off the pain meds that have been ordered. I hate being on them so I decided today I was done! Needless to say, I’ve not been in the best of moods. That being said, Rachel, your video gave me a great laugh a couple of times. Thank you for lifting my spirits. I so enjoyed watching you today. Happy harvesting!

I love that you don't waste the greens! Those leaves sautéed and eaten with chicken and a little rice with stir fry sauce is all I would need to be happy :)

Rachel I would have watched this video if for no other reason then the thumbnail on it was priceless you and the chainsaw

😂the 🐖 piglets are enjoying the water. They’re so cute

Loving your retirement! It looks good on you! Sure going to miss seeing you and Todd having a "totty" while picking blueberries though!

“Sorry Todd” 😆

Absolutely loving this Rachael, while I process mullein and haskap Berries!

@juliepoolie5494

Ай бұрын

How are you processing mullein? I’m growing it for the first time this year.

Your garden is looking good. Have you tried sautéing the flowers? When I was able to forage, would gather some flowers . They are delicious. A little sweeter than the greens, and more tender. Retirement suits you well. And. It is allowing you to be much more active.

Hi Rachel. I was soo sorry for what happened to the pig two years ago. I hope this year the cute piggies will be well. This year has its ups and downs, but Rachel, you are a strong willed woman who goes through the season's. Your also fun tovwatch and have fun healing with as well. Those blue berries🫐 and broccoli 🥦 are amazing. God Bless you Rachel. HUGS 🤗 my friend. Mari'a. 🤗🤗🤗❤️❤️❤️🥦🫐🌸🌻🏵️🪻👍👍👍👍👍

Pigs were so cute playing in the water.

That's when I do my garden chores. I'm in Georgia. I made sure to get everything in by late April, including mulch. The heat & humidity is beastly from late May on.

I haven't seen broccoli flowers, and years, I agree, they are very pretty.

So cute shower time with the piggies

The entire rest of June into July will all be in the 90’s for us and I’m in Southern Indiana. I’m going out now at 6:30 am to do garden stuff after letting my chickens out at 6:15 am so I can water and do whatever I need to do before it really gets hot. But it was still 76 degrees at 6:30 am and I was sweating.🥵

Great way to think! Love when I watch I learn new stuff.

Great idea! Bring out the big guns….chainsaw! I have some kale that’s so deeply rooted I can’t pull it out and the stalks are tough. Thank you Rachael, I love these garden videos.

Thanks for reminding me to fertilize my onions! I put you on pause and went outside and did that. Great vlog!

Love the pigs!!!

Such a peaceful video. Thanks for sharing.

I guess you pick your poison.😂 I live in the desert and it gets up to 110-115 in the summer but we don’t have ticks and I can’t remember the last time I put bug spray on. I hate bugs and my garden is full of lizards that eat them up!

@cynthiafisher9907

Ай бұрын

Not to mention the humidity!

Last season was the first time I actually canned the pot liquor from cooking my collards. I have loved it!!! A nice little vitamin pick up. Love how you canned the broccoli leaves. I will try that next. ❤

15:10 I just read a pioneer book. Babies never got in the way of what needed to be done to survive. We are so spoiled 😊

Great tips on the onions & using mulberries for the birds to keep them out of the other berries & garden..

You are too funny with the chain saw. Work smarter, not harder, right? 😂

lol. Love it. Yes pray for us. I moved to north Florida 2 yrs ago from MASS. And I thought I knew what I was doing lol😅

We are in the Michigan heat wave also,I decided to stay in the air conditioning and I canned up 42 quarts of red potatoes for the pantry

Love it! Your not playing around, cut those guys down :) Love the bonus uses for the greens, so want to can some like that. Hope ours will finally grow, such a wet cold spring everything is just standing still.

Using whatever it takes to get the job done! Power tools certainly makes the job easier. I had never heard of using broccoli leaves as greens, but that would be a good idea to add to the meals. Lots of vitamins in them.

I did spinach greens years ago and bathtub of greens got a few quarts. Not worth it. Use them fresh. I am sure other greens don’t wilt as much. I dehydrate my greens now. ❤️🙏

I have to say I have never harvested food with a chain saw.😂😂😂

So gross here in WI, but tomorrow its back into the 70's, thank you good Lord above.

Excuse my blindness but I think I saw some cicada sheds hanging off of your honeysuckle at the entrance. 😂 I live in South Carolina and I’m sooo incredibly happy they have gone back to the earth. They were absolutely everywhere. I felt like they were raining from the sky. 😂

@cynthiafisher9907

Ай бұрын

We don’t have them like that where I live. How long do they stick around?

Nothin happier than a pig in mud! Man they are adorable!

You need a wagon or wheel barrel to haul your greens, love our channel!

About to head out into my garden myself. before it get to hot. Need to weed and pick my swiss chad. Will have peas to pick soon, and dry some of my cilantro. Have a good day

Thank you for sharing! Loving the retirement videos. 💚

That’s an adorable chainsaw. I might even be able to handle that.

@ScottyHunter

Ай бұрын

Look for a "pruning chainsaw" or "mini chainsaw" and you'll find several. I got one from Amazon this year, a random off brand from China called "NaTiddy" (yeah, weird name..) but it has been such a handy little thing for garden work!!

I didn’t know you could eat the greens from broccoli! Thank you!

Beautiful Broccoli flowers. You should put them in your flower arrangement. The one you talked about the other day.

I only got one cabbage that made it. I think I planted too early and then was too wet/rainy to get in the garden to plant. So, I'm going to use it for fermented sauerkraut.

Rachel, you are so so right!!! Your chickens will love them too!!! My chickens love them!!! God Bless Us All!!!

Omg thanks for showing your piggies! It shows people how fun and sweet they can be! I love raising pigs!

You can put coolers out at the stand to keep your stuff the temp you want that way you don’t have to close it down when it gets too hot

I'm exhausted. Nice harvest Rachel. Don't want to overdo it in this heat. I'm also getting old so I'm thinking it's too dang hot to cook ham hocks for the greens. I'd blanch the greens and freeze them until I cook ham hocks separately. It sounds delicious.

Thank you. Fertilizer for onions. Yours are a winner.

Nice vid Rachel. My S I L, bought me a small chainsaw last year, and I love it.

OMG LOL I had the same issue with my Hori Hori this year. I may have to break out my saw as well :)

I truly enjoy that you are using everything from your garden. How exciting! I save all sorts of things to add to soups and I do love the greens. Thank you for sharing the tips. We all need to go back to providing for ourselves in a more sustainable way!

I learned from the Permaculture consultant, that it's the shells of the walnuts that are a allopathic, not the secretions from the tree itself. Thus, the solution is simply to ensure you collect and dispose of all the nut shells.

Note to self, take my mini chainsaw with me when harvesting some things! Great idea. I’ve gotta tell you Rachel that I busted out laughing when you said “with the quickness” I haven’t used or heard that phrase for awhile. We are from the same era. 😂😂😂❤❤❤

You could leave a notebook at the stand, where people can write down what they would like to find. Then you will have a list of what to make, if you can. And a better idea of what and how much to plant next year

You are one hard worker there. Looks like you have a plate full to keep up with. This heat here is rough also. It's good to have projects and I'm much like you in trying to preserve and make use of everything I grow. Another excellent video. Thanks once again for sharing the knowledge and taking all of us along with your journey.

The piggie shower was the best! So cute

I love that couch bench on your front porch. Would like to know where yo get the blue prints. Your channel is so informative and fun.😊

Say, I'm really enjoying your retirement! Another great video!

@kgs2127

Ай бұрын

You just reminded me of my Grandma she always started her sentences with "Say", Thank You for that unexpected bit of comfort😍

@bushpushersdaughter

Ай бұрын

@@kgs2127 Well, you are welcome. Bet the reason I sound like her is because I am an old woman!

@kgs2127

Ай бұрын

She'd be a REALLY old Woman if she were still here, she passed 14 years ago at 96 years old. I wish I was half as fit and capable as she was, she still planted a big garden and preserved her harvest until about a year before her death. I'm 61 and my mind still says "go for it-get er done" but my body says NOPE...to be fair I had a very severe car accident (tree fell onto my car as I was driving causing a thoracic-at bra line- spinal injury) at 35 years old so there's that🙃

@bushpushersdaughter

Ай бұрын

@@kgs2127 Wow! My dad was born in 1918. I got the expression from him, I'm sure! :D (He also had the expression 'It's hell to get old'.) I'm glad you survived such an accident!

The cabbage colors make a beautiful arrangement by both looks and colors.

Love the homestead and you are very knowledgeable, we are in wet wet and cool temperatures so being hammered by slugs etc but seeing your sunshine is lovely

Loved the piggies! Just to be clear, that’s not an oscillating sprinkler, it’s an impact sprinkler. I agree with the mulberry idea. We have two huge mulberry trees and have lots of other fruits and berries and the birds don’t bother anything else much.

lol did you STILL forget the chainsaw??? Everything is looking soooo good Rachel. I am finding myself alternating between joy at watching you do the stuff i used to do and sorrow at not doing what i used to do......i will continue to live vicariously through you :)xxx

😊😊 piggies having a blast with the hose ❤

😊 I thought 'must be harvesting Cole crops or sunflowers', when I saw the title, lol. The tool of choice!

I live in NY and the meteorologist said 95°f and the car said 104°f

Rachael, you need to get the trailer!!

What a lovely garden.

Oh I am doing the same thing trying to get my girls into all the things but they are busy with baby’s… I wish I had a friend who liked gardening and things but not really.. my uncle just got rid of his wine grapes bc they were too much wrk and didn’t have help. But my family still appreciates it all and loves eating it when we are all together 😊

Boy, I wish I lived near you! I’d be knocking on your door to help!!! And learn!

My big suggestion is to install a normal water faucet on a 4x4 post at the garden door. Feed the line from the house, with the same hose and leave it ON. I recommend using steel jacketed water hoses to connect to the faucet. It’s light and durable. Advantage: You can connect things and turn them on at the garden faucet. And you can daisy chain other remote faucets using splits. Disadvantage: You have an above ground hose you’ll have to move to mow around. But you could bury it. You essentially have the same thing with a ball cock shut off valve at the end of the hose. But with the faucet, it’ll be a normal faucet conveniently at ~ 3’ off the ground. I’ve done that. It’s nice having a faucet on me deck and in remote areas.

@1870s

Ай бұрын

Great tips!

Pumpkin seeds and leaves are edible. The seeds are delicious. Same with sweet potato leaves turnip greens and so much more, and I'm not even including things like carrot top (bc they dont taste good to me)

Love when you take us along with you on your new daily journey. I have never had mulberries.. just curious would you ship to northern Wisconsin.

I wonder if a little chain saw would help me with my blackberry invasion.

Oh my goodness ! A wheelbarrow would have been easier instead of the bucket!Lois from Florida

It was in the high nineties this past week with no rain. Here in Columbus Georgia.

If there is a broken egg in the dozen they have to throw the whole dozen away. We got a whole palate of Jasmine rice because 1 bag was broken. Don would dumpster dive. We had flats of strawberries, cantaloupe, grapes, broccoli, all kinds of stuff. It was great but also what a shame.

Rachel you should gather a hose Y send one to pig area and one to pig area then you are not dragging the hose

I have to say the broccoli greens are better to me than the actual broccoli 🤤🥦

Did you make your bug spray? If so, is there a video or could you please do one for us?

@tracyseniuk4033

Ай бұрын

She has one, I use it all the time! Just use the search at the top of their page!

@littlecountrykitchen

Ай бұрын

I make a good bug spray with peppermint oil, and Lavender oil, mixed with water and a pinch of salt to immulsify the oils in water. It cools you off in heat too ❤l 😎

@1870s

Ай бұрын

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@lauriegb7461

Ай бұрын

She does! kzread.info/dash/bejne/d5aYyZOpqNO1pLQ.html

You have to love piggies in a shower!

I used my chainsaw also!

Anytime I add bonemeal to anything, racoons dig it all up. Maybe I can just use a higher phosphorus liquid fertilizer?

Just chopped our cabbage leaves and froze them yesterday.

your staying very very busy

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I love that frame you have set up for your brassicas. Do you have any information on that frame system? That is super nice.

I’m surprised there’s no dedicated video on the farmstand. Seems purposeful, but I’m curious from the lol clips.

@1870s

Ай бұрын

Lots of little bits here and there. And a lot more info about it on our Facebook / Instagram pages.

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Yes, we are too far from the depression mind set. My grandchildren have no idea which makes me sad.

Instead of closing the farm stand when it’s hot.. u can just put fresh produce for anyone who is stopping by to buy.. instead of having it completely empty

How is the landscape fabric working out so far in the garden? Are you happy with it?

Yes Ohio here and boy yes this is not fun for me and the animals, I run hot at this age in life and I'm not a happy camper lol 😂😂😢😢

Rachel do you make blueberry jam???!!! God Bless!!!

What is the gorgeous bush growing on the corner of the garage? Is that honeysuckle? It’s beautiful!

@1870s

Ай бұрын

Yes honeysuckle