I was told by someone on another app that I couldn't call myself an environmentalist because I wasn't vegan. My family hunts (I never have personally as I take on more of the gathering/foraging side of things). We never waste what meat is harvested, nor do we waste the rest of the animal either. I love that your content doesn't shame anyone for trying to live a more intentional lifestyle. Thank you for providing a safe space for those of us just trying to do better and be more mindful of practices. I've learned a lot from you both and I always look forward to your videos!

@lupineallen5039

8 ай бұрын

Vegans annoy me very often with remarks like that. Especially towards indigenous peoples that have been living in harmony with the land for time immemorial and have a much lower "carbon footprint" than they could ever hope to have by thinking theyre saving the world by shopping at sprouts lmao.

@shefalig93

6 ай бұрын

Vegetarian here. You ARE an environmentalist if you care about environment in your day-to-day living. You eating meat(especially following the cardinal rule of not wasting any part of the animal) is moot to you being an environmentalists.

I've had a very nice day hanging out with my little half brother, then came home, sat down and found this, and I'm very happy. Thanks for these great videos!

@HomegrownHandgathered

8 ай бұрын

You’re welcome, glad we could be part of your great day 🙂

This has quickly become one of my favorite channels. It's perfect to snuggle up under a blanket and watch. Ur videos r so so peaceful. Um they be an hour long and I'd still watch em

@HomegrownHandgathered

8 ай бұрын

So glad you’re enjoying the videos! And that’s exactly how we would recommend watching them 😊

Even your pup knows how to forage! I love your content. 😊

That last shot was so incredible. It made me feel so many things that I know I need not explain because I’m sure I’m not alone in seeing how beautiful that moment was

@HomegrownHandgathered

8 ай бұрын

Same ❤️ sometimes it’s better to not try to explain 😊

This is just sooo beyond lovely! Please do all weeks of living off the land, forever :D What is usually the first food that you run out /cave too much of during these challenges?

@HomegrownHandgathered

8 ай бұрын

We’ll definitely keep sharing weekly videos while we’re living off the land! And normally we run out of black beans first, but we grew a lot more this year so we’ll see

Watching you two shell hickory nuts reminds me of my grandparents and now my husband and I. Only we shell pecans. We have several trees in our property in three varieties. Old growth trees too! Huge spread of shade in our hot Texas Summers.

I love your videos, so comforting and so wholesome. I have just completed my first year of growing food for my little family and foraging when possible. It's been really fulfilling

As always, perfect! I love your ingenuity and calm nature.

i live in the other side of the world with a completely different climate and food available to me but i cant stop watching your videos! realistically i wouldnt be able to forage for the mushrooms and berries that you post because i live in a tropical island but i find myself absorbing all the information that you share. cant wait to see how your living off the land challenge unfolds this year!

@HomegrownHandgathered

8 ай бұрын

So glad you're enjoying the videos even if they're not all relevant to you haha. I bet you have a ton of amazing things to forage on the island though!

Steamed milkweed shoots while the leaves are still parallel to the stem are absolutely delicious. Better than asparagus.

I love these videos! They're so relaxing and informative

The venison is such lean meat with that vibrant color!

❤🙂 you are one of my very favorite channels right now. Always so interesting and classy composure. Thanks!

soooo peaceful to watch and we learn a great deal at the same time. Very fond of this channel. I keep the best time of my day to watch your videos, kind of a feel good moment in our day ❤

You two are the best, thank you so much for sharing this with us!

@HomegrownHandgathered

8 ай бұрын

You're welcome! Glad you enjoyed the video

I do LOVE to cook everything from scratch. It tastes so much better when you prepare everything yourself and that you worked for it. Thank You for your inspiration and those beautiful videos! ☀️🙏

Super cool! I’m excited to see next weeks video.

Our hickory tree put out a bounty of nuts also this year, I have at least four 5-gallon buckets and a huge amount still on the ground. I was not looking forward to shelling them since I know what a pain they are to get the meat out, but I was going to give it a try anyway. This recipe sounds right up my alley since I can crush everything together. Thanks for your awesome videos, I enjoy them and learn from them all.

@HomegrownHandgathered

8 ай бұрын

Yea this was a great year for hickories, glad you’re gonna try the kanuchi, you won’t be disappointed 🙂

I love these longer videos! Thank you

@HomegrownHandgathered

8 ай бұрын

Glad you’re enjoying them 🙂

Really lovely video! I love when you show how you cook

I love this series! Hickory are my favorite nuts as well

I used to watch homesteading videos but I stopped really enjoying them because as channels grew they stopped being realistic. I love seeing things that everyone and anyone can do. The other channels feel like their is a financial barrier to sustainable living but you two show how real people can accomplish health and sustainability. What you to have created together is what true wealth looks like.

your life style is amazing.... and your videos are so relaxing... love it..

Gonna have to shout out your technique for the food prep, outstanding, by your movements I can tell this isn’t your first rodeo

Love the SIMS music 🎶🎶 very relaxing watch. Keep up the good work ❤🌰

Thank you. Fascinating content!

What a beautiful video.

@HomegrownHandgathered

8 ай бұрын

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it 🙂

As Mister Sausage would say: *ahem* “That’s the hickory water” Also Jordan. Loving the fluffy facial hair. I’m growing it out myself, so it’s great to see another fluffy man out there

You guys are awesome

Beyond cool👌

Beautiful music ❤

Great video ❤

Excellent! I need to learn how to forage! I also want to make my own tortillas,

Fantastic video❤! Love what you do!

@HomegrownHandgathered

8 ай бұрын

Thank you!

Glad I found your channel.

Enjoying your videos! I love spreading milkweed seeds 🥰 brings childlike glee 😊

Wonderful editing

Wow, you guys are so fucking cool. I saw your short on processing black walnuts a while ago, and should have subscribed then; I'm so glad you've come back up on my feed.

Great video as always! Looking forward to next week's

Good Evening

I love your dog, hes so cute sadly I've never been able to get the hickory nuts in time

Consider using a finished corn cob to remove the kernels from the next one. Rub the finished cob on the one to be processed. It might save your hands or it might make a giant mess.

What make and model is the grinder for your meat and grains? I’m not sure what one to get and love how fine your grain grinder gets

The head nodding while eating yummy food. 😅

Great Videos!! What kind of nutcracker is that ? ..as I have 3 onion bags of black walnuts hanging in the cellar. Looking to purchase a nutcracker. Thank You.

You both are kin oftheEnergizerbunny eh?😂😉No need for going to the supermarket, your garden is the grocery row gardens.😊👍

Could you please show us how you clean your grinder and if you have it an apple peeler/slicer/corer?

You guys need to put that corn mill on a bike gear. Faster and easier on your shoulders.

5:48 you need a pestle and mortar! Easy to make from wood

Love this what u do with the shells just wondering??

Glad to see you nixtamilized the corn. I have seen people try to eat it with out it. That class is how you get sick from eating corn.

@HomegrownHandgathered

8 ай бұрын

It’s actually fine to eat corn without nixtamalizing as long as you’re eating a balanced diet. Nixtamalization makes vitamin B more available for our bodies so you’ll only run into trouble if ALL you’re eating is raw corn in which case you’ll have a vitamin B deficiency

@swatson1190

8 ай бұрын

@@HomegrownHandgathered I have known people who get on a food jag. They will go for months eating only one thing or another. Not really sure why they do it. There are a lot of people who are on fad diets too. Balance is key. I enjoyed your video.

I love these videos! They are so calm and cozy and a good reminder to appreciate good food and all the work that can go into it! What do you feed your dog during these challenges? Do you mostly stick with venison organ meats?

@HomegrownHandgathered

8 ай бұрын

She gets half kibble and half venison/cooked pumpkin. We give her some organ meat, but also other scraps that from butchering the deer 🙂

@csifan52

8 ай бұрын

I bet she loves that! 🩷🩷🩷

Syl, you are a lucky woman. If my husband was fixing something to eat, all I would get is a fried boloney sandwich 😆

@juneasnider9992

5 ай бұрын

I would get a cold pop tart

@gidget8717

5 ай бұрын

@@juneasnider9992 sssshhh! Don't say that too loud, it might give my husband ideas. 😆

As I watch you crack nuts it reminds me.... modern society doesn't have these family moments really anymore. shelling peas, peeling walnuts, stringing and snapping beans. I think I might need to reintroduce this to my kids so they can be a little more grounded to the earth and feel where their food really comes from.

I cant have mushrooms so what would u do differently if u couldn't have them

I wonder when crushing the nuts,could you put another cast iron pan on top to prevent them from jumping out?

@HomegrownHandgathered

8 ай бұрын

I think a deeper pot would solve the problem. Traditionally it would be a hollowed out log so we might need to make one of those

Can you use corn husks somehow

Do you ever come across any Chinese Chestnut trees? We had one in our backyard long ago. Us kids would gather the prickly little do dads and break them open to retrieve the nuts but that’s as far as we got. We didn’t know what to do next. The nuts were too hard to eat. I had heard somewhere about roasting them on an open fire, but that never happened. I still to this day have no clue what a chestnut tastes like.

@HomegrownHandgathered

8 ай бұрын

There are a few planted in a nearby park, but we don’t get too many nuts from them

are you going to pressure can that cannuci so that it can be shelf stable? or would that ruin it? I suppose you could freeze it, but that would tale up a lot of space in freezer?

@HomegrownHandgathered

8 ай бұрын

We actually just store it in the fridge and drink it over the next few days. We already drank that whole batch that we made 2 days ago 😂

Yay! I love your videos. I’ve been working on growing and foraging a lot more of my own food this year as an apartment dweller with a community plot, and it was very validating and encouraging to find someone doing something similarly (though much more skilled and farther along in the process than me!). I have a couple of questions, if you have the time. One is, does nixtimalizing corn change how it acts when making things like bread vs grinding without nixtimalizing? (As in, does it rise as well, change the texture, etc.?) Second, how the heck do you have such an easy time with that nutcracker? I have the same one, I think, and I’m having trouble finding the sweet spot where a black walnut cracks without exploding. It usually means I have to try several times, shift the nut around, etc., but you seem to do them in one attempt pretty consistently. Do I just need to wait another month for the nuts to dry? Is there a technique I’m missing? Thank you!

@HomegrownHandgathered

8 ай бұрын

Very cool! Our first year doing a “living off the land challenge” we were in a third story apartment with just a small community garden plot (it was a short challenge 😂) To answer your questions, yes nixtamalization changes the texture of the corn. It makes it more sticky and better for things like tortillas and pupusas. As for the nutcracker, it’s kind of just a thing you have to use for a while and eventually you’ll get used to it and it will become second nature!

@plurnagaoithe

8 ай бұрын

@@HomegrownHandgathered Thank you!

Do you use your corn cobs to make corn bisque or corn jelly?

@HomegrownHandgathered

8 ай бұрын

Not the grain corn cobs since they’re dry and flavorless, but we make corncob jelly with sweet corn cobs

3:22 😂

Do u use to corn cobs for ur wood fires

@HomegrownHandgathered

8 ай бұрын

Yup!

I have not long planted blue hopi corn and a special NZ corn called kanga ma i would be interested to know whats your guys process and what you use to alkalise the corn .

@HomegrownHandgathered

8 ай бұрын

We use cal aka pickling lime to nixtamalize

@lindasummer2343

8 ай бұрын

The KZread channel Rose Red Homestead has a video out that details how to nixtamalize corn.

@blablabla2616

8 ай бұрын

@@HomegrownHandgathered thanku 👍

@blablabla2616

8 ай бұрын

@@lindasummer2343 thanku👍

What brand of corn grinder do you use? We’ve struggled to find one that gets the masa fine enough.

@HomegrownHandgathered

8 ай бұрын

We use the Wondermill Junior. It has attachments for wet grinding like nut butters/masa and a dry stone for cornmeal/wheat/etc. it’s a little pricey, but it will probably outlive us

@The_Tuscany

8 ай бұрын

@@HomegrownHandgathered thanks so much! Definitely going to save up for one!

Please don't pop the bubbles, they are supposed to inflate. That's how you know the tortillas are fully cooked

What do you do with your corn cobs?

@HomegrownHandgathered

8 ай бұрын

We use them as fire starters or grind them up and grow oyster mushrooms on them

Which of the hickory nuts is your favorite, Shagbark?

@HomegrownHandgathered

8 ай бұрын

Definitely shagbark! We also harvested a bunch of bitternut/oilnut hickory which were gonna press for oil with some friends soon. That'll be a first for us

Do you, normally leave some for the wildlife too, to get trough the winter?

@HomegrownHandgathered

8 ай бұрын

Oh yea. There are millions of acres of woods full of hickory, walnut and oak trees around us. These trees do something called masting where every few years they produce way more than all the animals can eat to make sure some get to grow into new trees. They did that this year and that’s why we planted a few of them

@silviamagda

8 ай бұрын

Do you really think they took all the food from the forests? 😅

Have you made shag bark hickory syrup yet?

Hickory nuts are almost the best. Hickory Nut Cake is most definitely the best.

Do y'all do this every day, all day? Cus' I can't comprehend how you'll manage it all. Timewise... Human squirrels. You should hire them. The real ones (Like Willy Wonka). Or let them hire you... Idk what's more efficient. Pbl same 😂

@HomegrownHandgathered

8 ай бұрын

Haha no! We cook every day, but the big things like collecting and processing hickory nuts or nixtamalizing and grinding corn we do in big batches and then use them all week. We made enough tortillas to have tacos like 5 more times this week 🤤

@davidmitchell1304

8 ай бұрын

We have a big barrel with a hole in the side in the woods by the black walnuts. The squirrels fill it with walnuts.

2023, the year of just so many nuts??

@HomegrownHandgathered

8 ай бұрын

Yup! It’s a great masting year for black walnuts, hickories and white oak acorns all at the same time

New subscriber here. Great job explaining everything. It appears that you two don't eat a huge amount of food per meal. I love that and your channel. Thank you.

Hmm. You have a communications degree, don't you

@HomegrownHandgathered

8 ай бұрын

Nope, biology 🙂