Background music is by Jordan and our friend Ethan! 😊

@judylloyd7901

6 ай бұрын

Enjoyed my first watching of your channel. 😊 What you called a food mill we call a mouli 😊😊

"I feel a lot of kinship with the squirrels" has to be one of the cutest sentences ever spoken haha

On the abandoned golf course near your house I would double check to see if it’s classified as a brownfield. Golf courses used high risk chemicals prior to them being banned (sometime in the 70’s I believe) that are known to be some of the worst chemicals to remediate from soil. (They’re brownfield classification is sometimes worse than former gas station parcels.) I know you guys are super experienced and careful, but just thought I’d let you know in case this would affect your foraged food! Thanks again for yet another awesome video 😊

@HomegrownHandgathered

11 ай бұрын

It’s not a brownfield, but yea we considered the historical use of herbicides and what-not out there. It’s been abandoned for a long time and before that they wouldn’t have really been using any harsh herbicides under the spruce trees since they provide their own weed suppression, but in general this is a good thing to consider when foraging in a new area like this.

Sorry posting this because i saw you guys using a berry comb collector, You can use those on species that can tolerate them and especially invasives, but promises that you (and anyone reading this) wont use them on any native blueberry bushes or huckleberry bushes since they are very sensitive and can even be killed by the over use of berry combs, granted this is when a majority of people foraging them uses berry combs but as heads up, don't use berry combs on sensitive plants, invasivces are fine.

Great video. We have two apple trees I planted twenty years ago and two more I planted about three years ago. I’ve made apple butter but never apple sauce. I need try making that. We just bought a cider press so I’m excited to try that. Love your videos

I know there are a bunch of forager content creators, but you guys are my faves bc I love how soothing your videos are. thank you! and happy abundance season. 🫶

@HomegrownHandgathered

11 ай бұрын

Thank you! So glad you’re enjoying our videos. We’re having a lot of fun making these longer ones 😊

Apples have been abundant in Illinois, too, including crabapples. Pears were early and prolific, as well. We made a lot of juice and sauce, and even some leather!

Really enjoy all of this information. Thank you!

So inspiring to see y’all living sustainably!! I live in a suburban area but would love to be able to incorporate more principles of living off the land like this. (: thank you!

@HomegrownHandgathered

11 ай бұрын

Thank you! Just for the record we actually live in Pittsburgh 🙂. We rent community garden plots to grow our food and forage on public gamelands

The apples in the northwest have been incredibly abundant this year, too!

I love these harvest videos and can’t wait to see more! Happy almost autumn :)

Seems like the mushrooms are coming up like crazy around here. Every morning I see new ones sprouting up. I don’t mind if a critter takes a little nibble as long as they aren’t living in whatever it is lol.

I'd love to see a video on what you guys eat in a week when living off your stock. Even if it's repetitive, it's insightful!

I'm surprised you guys haven't invested in a freeze dryer.

I wished I knew some purple like you two . Who could take me foraging and teach me how to live off the land

It would be interesting to hear you guys talk about some of the things you don’t forage or grow because you don’t like how they taste, you both just seem to be very not picky eaters!

Cattails 😊

I want to get confident in my mushroom foraging 😭 I have this weird idea / perception that every mushroom is gonna make me trip out , fall down the rabbit hole and end up in wonderland . Idk why 😂

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Great video! Love to see people take care of what nature offers. I was just wondering if you added any sugar to the applesauce? I personally only use Transparente blanche when making my applesauce. Which gives it a bit of sweetness but I still have to add a bit of sugar. So using more acidic apples would make it need more sugar? Or does it taste good without added sugar?

How long the apple sauce can be preserved like this? Very nice, great harvesting ❤

When you cook apples can you still use peels and cores for vinegar or do they need to be raw?

@HomegrownHandgathered

11 ай бұрын

We’ve never used them afterwards because the bacteria (acetobacter) that convert it into vinegar would likely be killed by the cooking. Maybe you could add it to another batch though?

What type of berries were you picking?

Will you ever still collect mushrooms or anything else I'd they've been partially eaten by insects/animals? Or is it not really worth it

@HomegrownHandgathered

11 ай бұрын

Yea, we don't mind a little bit of insect damage on mushrooms, but when they're completely hollow like that one in the video we just leave them out there for the bugs to finish off.

Do you have to add acid to the applesauce to water bath can it??

@heathercook8361

11 ай бұрын

No, the apples are acidic enough as they are

Do you guys have animals that you raise?

@HomegrownHandgathered

11 ай бұрын

No, we don’t own any land yet so we hunt for our meat on public gamelands

I’m 💯 sure whatever you make with the shrooms is going to have the most wonderful aroma - as well as if you bake anything with that applesauce 🫶👍

yeah steady on! Recently an 80mm/3.15inches, live worm, 🪱 was removed from an Australian woman's brain because she was wild collecting greens. Picked up worm eggs on green stuffs she ate. They pulled the live worm from her front brain - yep the "thinking critically" part