In March 2003, my 83 year old mother asked my younger brother and me to plant a garden and grow her some green beans for canning. So we did. In May, we learned she had Acute Myeloid Leukemia and only had a couple of months to live. In the week leading up to July 4th, be picked 300+ pounds of green beans and with the help of mom and 10 other members of the family we broke them up. Then on July 4th, at 6 AM, my brother and I started loading the quart mason jars ad using 6 pressure canners and 3 turkey burners, canned 154 quarts of green beans in 6 hours. We ate some that night and she loved them. She died 18 days later.

@karolmarino7526

Жыл бұрын

God bless you all for going the extra mile to make your mom happy in her last days. She sure raised her children right!!! 🤗✌️♥️🖖🥰

@nancyrea3863

11 ай бұрын

That is such a sad, yet heartwarming story of love of family. I’m crying of course. My mom canned up until she lost that ability to dementia. We sometimes don’t appreciate how wonderful our parents are until we face our loss. You and your brother gave your mom the gift of love.

My grandfather, who passed this January at 92, canned 250 quarts of beans one year (with some harvesting help from my sister, 2 cousins and me). I inherited all his canning equipment, right on time I must say, and have been doing my best to carry on his tradition of food preservation. His canner has wooden handles and it warms my heart to think about how many quarts of food came out of it. I miss him but every time I look at my shelves full of preserves I know he’s still with me.

years ago, my best year at growing green beans, my wife canned 65 quarts. it took us years to eat them. but properly canned, the quality of the bean will last for at least 6 or 7 years. good luck. You guys are an inspiration to the homesteading and homegrown world. Thanks for your work.

@americaneden3090

6 жыл бұрын

thaboomer53 thanx for letting us know the longevity of home canned goods i wonder if lifs available today would hold up as well🤔

@danakarloz5845

4 жыл бұрын

In my house they wouldn’t last as long! We love green beans so much 🥰🤓

@dunyazade

4 жыл бұрын

Really?! That long? Wow!

@MrKen-longrangegrdhogeliminato

4 жыл бұрын

@Lynn Lamont was the beans a pole bean Variety?

@sallygreimes6585

3 жыл бұрын

@Lynn Lamont Kentucky Wonder aka Old Homestead green beans are multi purpose. You can eat them, can them, and dry them to use as dried beans. I prefer them as dry to cook with. The skins are brown and you need to bring them to a boil, take off and drain, rinse, and then bring up to boil a couple times. It also has the way of rinsing off the gas from the beans. When cooked, the beans are a wonderful creamy texture. The best beans i have ever cooked in bean soups. They never are gritty like the navy can be.

Canning beans bring back memories with my Grandparents. Grandpa woke at 4am every day until his last days. He was 89 years old when he planted his last garden and grandma canned so the had enough veggies through the winter.

I will say it again, your garden is the best I have ever seen. I love watching your video. For a few minutes everyday they actually trick me into believing I can grow a garden too. LOL Thanks for sharing.

@GraceHomesteadFarm

6 жыл бұрын

roundmot you can grow one!! Start small! This year is my first garden and I am growing what I like! It took watching channels like this one to just do it! :D. Happy Homesteading!

@royaleclay7966

5 жыл бұрын

Exactly! We try to grow our garden. Green beans to very well, but we have woodland critters that help themselves to the rest of our garden. It's a bummer. All that hard work, but the critters do get full bellies😕 We were told to plant enough for them and the family so this year we're going to try it again. Never give up.

@scottbiz1127

4 жыл бұрын

Roundmot this is my first year growing a garden and it was a challenge, the rewards pays off. I too have a lot of critters and pets running off with my food but you just have to find a resolution that will work for you. Don't give upb/c it pays off in the end.

I so enjoy your videos. Today I processed my first batch of 7 quarts of green beans. Your video makes it so easy as you go step by step and explain in a calm voice! I have always been so afraid of a pressure cooker but today I faced my fear and overcome! Thank you so much for your kind and informative instructions!!!!

Your jars look like mine.....a collection of many generations of hard working ladies treasured jars!

I NOTICED YOU USED LIDS THAT WERE JUST SITTIN THERE AND NOT IN HOT WATER, BRINGS BACK MANY MEMORIES

@phyrewillow6463

4 жыл бұрын

The new ball lids don’t require simmering to soften the rings anymore.

This will be my first year to can Green beans , peas and corn . I am so very excited

I went and got some green beans and today is the day. I have never done them before. Thanks for teaching. God bless

What a wonderful video! You made pressure canning so easy to understand. Congratulations on your great garden!

Omg seeing this in my feed gave me flashbacks to snapping beans every darn day for weeks I swear as a kid... Why did we even grow that many 😂😂😂

Love it!! Congrats on exceeding your goal. It is always a great feeling knowing that the family will be taken care of during the winter months. I have had the Ball canning book for years and it is one of my favorites as well.

YOUR CHILDREN ARE SOO BLESSED TO BE ABLE TO SNAP BEANS WITH THE FAMILY!! ITS SOMETHING I MISS ALOT!! MY NIECES AND NEPHEWS DONT KNOW THE JOY OF SNAPPING BEANS AND SHUCKING PEAS!! 😟 THEY DONT KNOW WHAT THEYRE MISSING!! 😍

Good Morning Sarah !! You are an AWESOME Teacher , Great Video.. and Dinner Looks YUMMY !!

Yes such a beautiful day of harvest. And oh the satisfaction of seeing your own food in jars for later use. I love seeing mine even though it's just a few. Take care.

I’m having SUCH fun watching some of your older videos! I’m all psyched for the gardening season! Thank you

So happy for you that your green beans were so bountiful! Sarah, thank you for the great pressure canning tips! You guys are awesome!

Beautiful jars of green beans. Love your videos, also love your smile and dimples. God Bless

So nice to see your girls in the videos!! Love your videos, you are inspiring, and we are going to try the landscape fabric next year, for 29 years we have tried to keep ahead of the weeds and are still losing LOL. Canned 26 pints of green beans yesterday. God bless!!

I always look forward to your Tuesday video's. You both are a blessing to me. Wonderful instructional video again Sarah.

I just watched your video on canning dried beans. I soak my dried bean overnight or quick soak, usually try to do overnight. Then I cook then in my pressure cooker with onion, garlic, bacon that was cooked in the pot first, salt and pepper for about 10 to 15 minutes depending on quantity I’m cooking. The quick release the pressure and thicken with cold water and cornstarch. My husband who has eaten pinto beans his entire life says they are the best beans ever. No need to can them, dried beans store very well long term as I put them in my vacuum seal canisters and vacuum all the air out. I’m telling you girl that vacuum sealer was an investment that has paid for itself many times over. I bought my fist one years ago and gave it to my friend when we moved to VT. Went to a yard sale and found the newest model for sale for $10.00!! The person who had bought it apparently put the drip tray in backwards and never used it. Brand new still had the instructions and labels on it. Still have it, it is now 8 years old and I am going to get another one. It will be the best money you ever spend for food preservation. The canisters are the bomb!! They do have to have the edge spotless or they won’t seal! Wipe your edge with a damp cloth and then a dry paper towel. I’ve tried all the tricks. I had a couple of my canisters crack on the bottom and I think it was my fault for vacuuming the too long but when I called they sent me out replacements for free and there is also a special vacuum lid for mason jars! I have found them at thrift stores too. I pray God blessings on you and you family and homestead!!

Really enjoyed this one. It was nice to see the canning process. I had no idea that canning green beans was so easy. I've always been afraid of it. Also nice to see the cooking part and your family. You are all an inspiration!

Thank you for sharing your skills knowledge and wisdom. I appreciate the detailed tidbits. That is how I am too when I am explaining. Less confusion less mistakes more success

I love your descriptions and the way you explain everything as your doing it dear!! Also very nice to see the girls doing there part too. Cheers

You have had an absolutely beautiful and abundant harvest this year! I wish I could say the same. The heat and humidity on the coast is almost unbearable. I had a good harvest in the Spring before the summer temps hit us. Enjoy watching you videos!

Doesn't that make you feel so rich seeing all those canned beans!!! Great vlog. I just inherited my husbands gmas pressure canner like the one you had on right side of stove.mthank you for the small tutorial!

Awesome job done Sarah! Your on a roll this year no doubt. Meeting your goals is a good thing! Have a great week!

Found your channel about a month ago, I'm learning so much from you! You're a very good teacher, explaining things thoroughly, at a comfortable pace. Thank-you!

I subscribe to several homestead channels on YT and yours is my favorite of all. I really appreciate the length you go in explaining everyday knowledge that one would need in running a homestead successfully. Thank you for the knowledge and attention to detail you share in everyone of your videos. God Bless.

We always wipe off the rim with a clean cloth just before adding the lid and ring.

So funny. Just finished watching Sara’s video on green beans dated July 31, 2021. Now this pops up from EXACTLY three years ago...altho it seems sooo long ago. Nice to see both glimpses.

A beautiful garden. Green beans have always been my favorite thing to can!

THANK YOU for showing this. I was always afraid of caning beans so I always blanched/froze them.

You just walked me through my very first pressure canning experience! Thank you for making it easier and safer than I had invisioned! I'll be searching for more canning videos soon!!!!❤️

Thank you so much for this video. We doubled the size of our garden this year. I invested in a pressure canner but have never used one before. This was really helpful. In the past I have always put our green beans in the freezer from the garden, but they just do not have the right flavor frozen.This year I am going to can them. I also do have the Ball canning and preserving book as well.

Great video, so very educational. Your dinner looks awesome and very healthy. Thanks for sharing your day.

Great canning series and teaching. Keep up good videos as I am truly learning a lot from you. 👍

God bless y'all! Your family is so inspiring. My wife and I are about to purchase some land and start homesteading. We have been looking forward to this for a few years now. Thanks for all that you do!

A great thing to do while you are cleaning or working outside, you can self teach yourself a foreign language, literature, history, etc. Get books on tape! This also helps to keep you from talking to yourself. As always, Chris Bitonti

I canned green beans for the first time last year , everything went great first time . Can’t wait to do it again. I am going to can pinto, white beans and cabbage next week. And want to try canning potatoes. Your garden is awesome. Hope my garden will do good this year so I don’t have to go to farmers market.

I found this channel recently and let me tell you i really appreciate all the info on here. We bought 11 acres a few years ago and finally ready to start living the homestead life. Thank you

Loved the dinner prep at the end, with all the healthy ingredients!

Snapping beans...the childhood trauma floods back for me! J/K, I'm really excited about my own beans this year

I just watched this video. I am going to have an abundance of green beans, purple beans and peas this season. Also planted some purple tamatillos and planning on them being many as well. This instructional video has been very informative. Thanks!

I recently found your channel. I watch everyday and trying to catch up. I study and practice your as much of your ways as possible. You and your family and those folks like you WORK tirelessly and yet joyfully. I am Susanne, I live in Ayrshire, Scotland and I send you my appreciation and my love. You are an inspiration to us all xxx

Your video is the best I've found for canning. I love the fact that you used two different canners and explained how to use each one.

Awesome! I love green beans! Thanks for sharing the great canning tips 👍

So glad I came upon your channel! I am having a great year with my roma green beans and am fairly new to pressure canning.Looking forward to learning more from your videos!

So proud for you guys on the harvest! 😀

Hello from Texas! I have been watching y'all for awhile now and just wanted to say Hi and I've been canning and learned a new step on tomato sauce AND juice! Thank you for allowing us to learn from y'alls homestead

Great share! Loved it! Thank you for sharing this!

I LOvE the meal compilation at the end! So pretty! And your dinner plates are beautiful- I love that pattern. Thanks for sharing!

Thank you so much for the canning video! I'm definitely putting that book on my Xmas wish list!

Really enjoying how you have changed your videos a little. Loving it very much....

Yayyy! Congratulations on reaching and exceeding your goal! Canning is truly a labor of love. It feels so good to feed your family what you’ve grown and canned, not to mention a lot healthier than commercial stores. Your meal also looks amazing! Great job guys!

Y’all are awesome. Thanks for keeping traditions going.

Thank you for this video. I’ve been watching several videos and they’ve all been wonderfully handy and educational to me about canning. Oh my goodness the video at the end with your dinner! I would love to have that venison recipe. The whole meal looked wonderful!

Just ordered the canning book through your link! I’m excited to learn.Thank you!

That’s awesome! Thanks for all the processing videos.

Green beans canned with diced tomatoes is delicious! I pressure can them on a veggie soup time and they are my favorite way to eat them!

@ChefJenniferParker

3 жыл бұрын

Bonnie Kruch I love that idea. Could diced onions be added?

@dumbbunnie123

3 жыл бұрын

@@ChefJenniferParker ....Absolutely,I forgot to mention them, thank you for the reminder! I dice sweet onions and put them right in, I don't fry them first.

@ChefJenniferParker

3 жыл бұрын

Bonnie Kruch Thank you! I am filing that away for future use. 🙂

Awsome information looking forward to canning for the first time my grandmother always canned fruits and vegetables

I followed along with you I got 2 quarts and a pint. So excited thank you so much God bless

Wow look at all those beans and helpers. I am so looking forward for our beans as well. Oh wow look at those beautiful Peppers, butternut squash, and those Cayenne peppers. Wow dinner looks lovely! yummy

Another great video. Glad you and the girls could go on that church trip and get away for the day. Your beans look beautiful. We eat a lot of them too. My favorite next to the tomatoes.

What a beautiful garden! Love your homestead❤️

I plan on canning for the first time this year. Thanks for the video. You are a great teacher☺️

Try easy tomato sauce. Cut tops off, squeeze seeds out, blend with skins, cook and reduce a third and can. Makes perfect sauce. The natural pectin in the skins keep it beautiful in the jars.

Green beans look amazing, I dont own a canner, I do all my canning in hot baths, way my mom and her mom always did it, we live in , Missouri, right by the Amish, they don't own pressure canners either, I love all your videos, god bless you

I normally bake my pumpkin seeds each year and enjoy them so much even if the hulls are really crunchy BUT, winter squash seeds are even better. I just learned they are edible and tried them, they are way better than pumpkin due to the hulls not being as fibrous - just so good. I give them a little bit of oil, very little bit of salt and roast about 30 min but depends on how moist they are. I used to let them dry first but found that was the wrong thing to do. Now I just bake them in a pan while my squash bakes but remove them when they start getting brown. Such a great snack. I've heard that you can candy the salted seeds to garnish soups but haven't tried it - the seeds are usually gone in a day.

God Bless you all . Love this family, so down to earth ..

OMG - that so reminds me of my sisters and I snipping the beans for Mom to can. Hopefully this year I can buy a bushel or so of green beans from the Farmer's Market and try canning myself.

Beautiful beans. Yay for you all, you’re doing awesome!

Lovely video! My parents never canned beans, they always pickled it and it was yummy as a snack or side dish and it never last the winter because it was so good but I've always wanted to learn to can. Thanks for your video.

My best friend and I just finished a canner load of 14 pints of green beans. We have never canned green beans before and want to give each of your daughters two gold stars for the hard work they put in to filling those 17 jars for you. We had a great time tonight but it’s 11 o’clock at night on the West Coast we are beat. Thank you so much for the information in your fantastic videos and for sharing your beautiful family with us.

Love your wall of cast iron pans. I've enjoy your videos. You explain things in a way that everyone can understand.

Love your videos!!! I can just got my first canner and Ball canning book, I can’t wait to try green beans! Thanks for the video and your supper looks yummy!

Thanks for making this video. It was done well and I was really happy to see your children helping you. They did a great job and hopefully they know how important their efforts are. Moms and Dads can't do EVERYTHING. Lol

I just love your videos. This one especially with the bugs and the music and the peaceful surroundings. Diggin in the dirt is just the best!

Wonderful Gardner’s

Just bought a Presto Canner and I’m going to can my own fresh green beans for the first time. So excited to be able to do this.

@Hagfan789

4 жыл бұрын

Good Luck Greta. Lots of info here on UTube..

@DiannaAtherton

4 жыл бұрын

How did it go?

@eanderson1801

4 жыл бұрын

Took me weeks to find a canner. All sold out when I first looked. Found a Presto 23 qt finally

@DiannaAtherton

4 жыл бұрын

How did it go??

@gretaknebel8495

4 жыл бұрын

Dianna A Got the job done and no problems!

Very helpful with regard to siphoning. I made a vegetable soup and almost every quart siphoned an inch of liquid out. Fortunately the seals did stay intact. 🙏🙏

Great video! Congratulations on meeting your green bean goal! Beautiful green beans!

Thank you for the encouragement to get going on actually doing some study for canning with the green beans so your information is helpful thanks

Extra green beans = extra casseroles🤗😉🤠

Thank you so much, it was a big help

I bought the ball book. It's amazing! Thanks for the recommendation.

I love doing double canning. Hearing those double jiggles is an awesome sound! Wonderful feast for your family. We often have the same meal. Right now we are down to our last two quart jars of vension tho. Hope to replace it during the hunting season. Green beans were the first thing I learned to can 40 years ago. This week we pressured canned 125 quarts of tomato juice.

That was a great tutorial. You covered a lot of issues most people don’t. Thanks

Everything looked great. Well done ty for the video

I have joined recently and am looking through all your videos and you are just amazing in your planning, preparation and storing of food. I am hoping to get more organised when I start our summer season in Sept

great info , thanks ! and the end food looks so yummy !!!! all from your garden !

Thanks for the tip about water siphoning from the jars. This unfortunately was what happened to my first batch of green beans last year. I love your videos!

I got the same presto pressure canner with the dial, this video has helped me feel so much more comfortable canning for my family ❤ I have done water bath canning but I am looking forward to pressure canning!

This video has been so so helpful. Thank you so much 🥰

thanks for being amazing!!

You give me such inspiration to have a huge garden and little farm one day! Thank you so much for sharing!!

I remember doing the same thing with green beans while I was younger too. It is a great memory. We did it on the porch when I was a kid

How awesome. I’ve never canned before but I sure do get encouraged to do so when I watch your videos. It’s one of my goals to accumulate the necessary items and can for the spring season of 2019 including growing my garden size to accommodate for canning green beans and some tomato product. I figure starting small will be the best way to accomplish my goals. Thank you for making such great informative and encouraging videos.

@edieboudreau9637

6 жыл бұрын

Kara Grant if you have a pot that will hold a jar a grill to set jar on & will hold enough water to go at least an inch above top of jar on grill with lid & ring on...then you can can tomatoes from farmers market. Tomatoes are a waterbath food. So start today on that much. Then next year you won't feel so overwhelmed.

@americaneden3090

6 жыл бұрын

Edie Boudreau ty im getting my nerves steady for my first canning experience time to 💩 or get off the pot 😉

@edieboudreau9637

6 жыл бұрын

andria blue you can do it.

I loved this video! I really wish that I was ready for canning. I will be next year, it won't be long at all. Thanks for sharing!