I absolutely loved hearing you say you were waiting to wake up the children because you hadn't told them the night before, and it wouldn't be respectful to wake them early. Children learn so much from modeling their parents' behavior, and by respecting yours, they'll grow up respecting themselves and others. Today's video explained part of why your boys seem so peaceful and joyful. 🩵

@rnupnorthbrrrsm6123

9 ай бұрын

I thought the same thing !!!

@lesleywatkins1172

9 ай бұрын

I thought the same! What a wonder mom!

@tabiwatermelon961

8 ай бұрын

Came to the comments to say this. I aspire to be this parent.

@Patricia-cy7ij

8 ай бұрын

I loved the video on “chores”. It shows real love and respect for the children and takes consideration of teaching the children with love and life skills. It’s the only way children can grow up with the right tools for success in life.

@CactusGal

7 ай бұрын

Yes, showing respect should always go both ways. I wished my dad would have done that, but he wasn't brought up to respect women, let alone children.

Oh come on you guys... The likes help Ruthanne too . this video has 4600 views and only just over 800 likes? Lets be morenintentional about showing ruthanne our appreciation for her videos and Recipes! Ruthanne i love your videos. I am so thankful for your channel🥰🥰🥰 ❤❤

@Ruthannzimm

9 ай бұрын

Well aren’t you my favorite hype girl ever to show up here!!! 😍😍😍😍

@jmeyer81971

9 ай бұрын

Ha, ha, ha ha I hadn’t realized I watched the whole video and hadn’t like it… Truth be told I loved it! So thank you for the reminder to go hit that like button!❤️❣️❤️

@luannbowen5836

24 күн бұрын

Great reminder.

I canned 32 quarts of pickled pepper cabbage after watching your video several times! Guilty of absolutely loving this as my grandmother always made this for my German grandfather, and I don't understand why I wasn't regularly canning this delicious side. She served a small bit on all of us kids plates with dinner and supper. I walk backwards in time listening to you gently explain your methods and ingredients, because you help me to understand what I had been too young to know I should of paid better attention when she told me so many of her methods. You do a wonderful job. I had to turn the volume up to listen to your son say he didn't think the dog had a wonderful mother like he did who made [salsa] hahaha. Such a beautiful wholesome way to raise children, I'm happy to see it in today's world. Please know you brought joy to this grandmothers life. Good job!

I lovee your videos. The best crop you are raising is your children. The skills they are learning as part of a family are priceless. You should be so proud.

@ThaomsGabriel

9 ай бұрын

Hello, I hope you're safe over there? I hope this year brings happiness, prosperity, love , and peace all over the world 🌏. I would love us to be good friends in honesty and in trust so as time goes on it will bring something great for us in the future, hope you don't mind? I'm Thaoms Gabriel from Brooklyn New York, where are you from if I may ask??

I don’t know much about KZread lighting, but I thought you looked beautiful sitting in the sun enjoying your morning coffee with your garden backdrop. I love all you share and learn something every time I watch. 🥰Now thanks to Kendrick I know how to make flower garden fairies!

@Ruthannzimm

9 ай бұрын

Yes! Thank you!

Kendrick is such a good helper! He seems to do all things with a joyful heart! Big sister is encouraging and filled with patience as she helps him figure out how to do tasks. You are raising a wonderful family!

God bless your thoughtfulness towards your children in not waking them. I found this so lovely and respectful. There is no age limit to respecting another human being 🙏

@Ruthannzimm

9 ай бұрын

Well said!

What a good helper Kendrick is! And the efforts really showed how bad he wants that salsa hahaha

Your daughter is such a great helper, too! She knows just what she needs to do to help, and that comes with experience. Blessings!

@Ruthannzimm

9 ай бұрын

Thank you so much!

Thank you for these great recipes. It was relaxing watching all of you actually canning them. You’re an awesome woman and mother to patiently do all the things you do…definitely a Proverbs 31 wife! I caught your video 16 minutes after you posted it and am glad I watched it. You’re a blessing! God is so very good. May bless you and yours ❤️

@Ruthannzimm

9 ай бұрын

You are so welcome!

My grandmother came from a Mennonite background. I see similar recipes. Thank you for all your hard work to share with the masses.😊❤

@ThaomsGabriel

9 ай бұрын

Hello, I hope you're safe over there? I hope this year brings happiness, prosperity, love , and peace all over the world 🌏. I would love us to be good friends in honesty and in trust so as time goes on it will bring something great for us in the future, hope you don't mind? I'm Thaoms Gabriel from Brooklyn New York, where are you from if I may ask??

I enjoy your channel so much. Your family projects are so helpful to watch. It is just my husband(age 69), and me(age 68), but we enjoy canning so much. He is so helpful and I could not do it without him, but together we get it done. This week we canned 8 half pints of pizza sauce, 9 quarts and 5 pints of tomato juice. 17 pints of salsa, 14 quarts of potatoes and 14 quarts of french fries. I guess you have to love it to enjoy it. You and your family are so inspirational and peaceful to watch. Thank you.

@Ruthannzimm

9 ай бұрын

Wow!!! It’s harvest week for you!!!!

It so warmed my heart watching Kendrick make his "flower girl"❤

I don’t have a garden, I don’t do canning, and the extent of my preserving is freezing bought produce and making the odd jar of something (not using either water bath or pressure canning methods)…yet I really enjoy watching you doing all this stuff for your homestead! I also love the fact that your kids get so involved. I get that it can be such hard work for you but they are picking up some amazing skills, and when they look back they will know just how fortunate they were to have this kind of background, rather than one where everything came solely from a supermarket shelf (I now know how lucky I was to have a mother who knew how to feed a family, even if I didn’t always appreciate it at the time.)

I can’t get over how much you love and respect your children. You parent from the top down and it’s shows. Respect is given to you as you guide them and respect their hearts. Just a beautiful example of motherhood ❤

You make canning look so easy,really like how the children are involved in the canning process. Really enjoy your channel.

Oh what a little sweetheart…making his momma a “flower girl” from her flowers! A memory/video to keep ~ especially as he gets older! Love boys who enjoy being with and working for with their Mommas! I am a Daddy’s/Grandpa’s girl (more so my Mom too now I’m a woman)…but…It’s beautiful to see Mothers and sons together, as it teaches them how to treat girls/women and others as they grow up…especially if they get married! Obviously, the same goes for girls! I can change my own tires, oil, etc. It’s truly beautiful when we help one another….and as a family…it only brought us extremely close, and remain even more so to this day! Many Blessings🇨🇦❤🇺🇸

I Love the fact that the all the kids jump in and they know the process ❤❤❤❤

You're putting so much love and heart into making food for your family, give advise and teach the KZread viewers your recipes. It's pure pleasure to listen to what you have to say. God bless you and your family.

I love the way you include the whole family with your projects. Even the supervisor (dog) shows up! 😅

Brought back a memory from over 60 years ago. My grandma used to make us hollyhock dolls,

Your boys appreciating what a wonderful momma they have was just the sweetest thing. 🥰 #Blessed ❤

Your children are fortunate in that they know where food comes from. And the labor involved.

I look forward to sharing my morning coffee with you every Saturday morning. I woke up yesterday morning and immediately felt happy because it was Saturday…but by the time I had brushed my teeth I realized it was only Wednesday. Phooey, no morning coffee with RuthAnn! I love your videos. ❤

Another great video, thank you, loved the flower person Kendrick made, very imaginative, good job! Such wonderful helpers you have😁, such a very special family

@Ruthannzimm

9 ай бұрын

Thank you so much!

@lp8650

8 ай бұрын

tell him I loved the flower person he made too.

oh my goodness! Kendrick making that flower lady was awesome! The smile on his face when she was complete!!!! ABSOLUTELY PERFECT!!!!

I’m glad to see you’re passing the cooking skills on to the little ones they will remember all of this

Kendrick wondering if the dog had a wonderful mother like he does 🥹🥹🥹 are you kidding!!! The cutest❤❤

When you are straining your tomatoes, catch the juice...it makes a light tomato juice. I can that also and use it in soups and stews or to rehydrate tomato powder to paste consistancy. I get a plethora of cherry tomatos, so i dehydrate them and turn them into powder...skins and all.

@jenbear8652

9 ай бұрын

Great idea to use the strained tomato juice! I’ve been dehydrating my Cherry/grape tomatoes too! They’re a great size to use in recipes for “sun dried” tomatoes.

Excellent. I never understand removing seeds in Zucchini or tomatoes. Then there are jars of FIBER you can buy. Why? Eat your fruits and veggies, as is. No peeling. This is what I do. Good job, Mrs. Zimmerman. I am on a salsa kick, so this is perfect. Thank you.

@Ruthannzimm

9 ай бұрын

Exactly!

Kendrick is quite the little man! Look at him strong arming that garlic press! Haha, too cute!

This is the 4th time I've watched this video. I just love this and the sunlight is beautiful.

I’m exhausted after watching you work so hard!!

A really fun thing to do is plan a family vacation to Michigan and stay somewhere on a beach for the kids. Then go to one of the blueberry farms and you can pick your own. Friends of mine come home with 10+ ice cream pails full!

Your family videos always makes my Saturday good. So much peace, cooperation, love and just good vibes exudes from it. Has this 72 year old doing a "Happy Dance"! 😂 Oh, love those recipes too!

@Ruthannzimm

9 ай бұрын

Awe thanks for this support

I have just started canning and growing a garden. I just love it. Thank you so much for sharing your videos for those of us just starting out ❤ Great helpers too!

Whenever you show your garden I look for the row of marigolds and kale...that's so pretty! I am going to do that in my tiny garden this year. I've been criticized for "wasting space" in the garden with flowers, but I sneak them in anyway. ( never combine cosmos with dill! Its pretty but hard to sort thru to harvest the dill!) I'm an Iowa girl too, and I really feel the same way you do in the garden and the morning sunhine. That's the best time, and the best way to enjoy a cup of coffee, birdsong, and sunrise!

Yellow tomatoes is all I can eat due to acidity…. So salsa away …. Yummy!!! Love salsa!!

@Ruthannzimm

9 ай бұрын

I feel like it made the salsa sweeter!?? Maybe just less acid that I tasted?? Anyway I may continue to plant them just for salsa.

@maggiedoor6093

9 ай бұрын

​@@RuthannzimmGood to know , plus they would look pretty mixed. I like dipping into salsa with sliced raw zucchini, about the size of a Ritz cracker.

Your daughter is a good helper as well from Philadelphia Pennsylvania

Your yellow tomatoes look like my heirloom tomatoes called "Rainbow"... They have red stripes going through them that are tasty and beautiful. Good for your husband who was sensitive to tomato acid.

Kendrick said he has the most wonderful mom ❤😊

I love seeing kid’s learning the food preservation process ❤ valuable life lessons that will make them stronger in life. Great job 👏

I love, love, love how simple your instructions are. I also feel it’s very helpful when you explain why you do things the way you do. I’m going to be busy this week making salsa and pie filling. I’ll save the turkey information for after Thanksgiving.❤

For those who don’t have the tomatoes to can and have a fruit stand nearby ask them if you can get the tomatoes they discard. Yes some will be bad to bad to make anything from but a lot will just have small bad places to cut out . No they may not be Roma tomatoes by sofas the slicing tomatoes for me have work out great. . Just saying. Hopefully my garden next year will give me what I need to can .

The color of your tomatoes in the sun is beautiful!

just wanted to add a little note that you probably already know. We live in an area with hard water. I put 4 tbsp of vinegar in my canner and it limits the calcium on the outside of the jars.

Your salsa recipe looks absolutely delicious, thank you for sharing.

OHHHH he made a little lady with the flower, I love it

I just love your family and your channel- you are so unprentious which is so refreshing! More recipes please :)

Kendrick seems like a very sweet, gentle boy. Great helper!

The boys are so cute and I'm really impressed with your daughter! She jumps right in and goes to work! She's such a good helper with the boys too!

@ThaomsGabriel

9 ай бұрын

Hello, I hope you're safe over there? I hope this year brings happiness, prosperity, love , and peace all over the world 🌏. I would love us to be good friends in honesty and in trust so as time goes on it will bring something great for us in the future, hope you don't mind? I'm Thaoms Gabriel from Brooklyn New York, where are you from if I may ask??

Hello from Ynys Môn in Wales UK. I can't understand why anyone would feel the need to insult you. I watch your channel after a busy day to unwind and centre myself. I may not be canning but you have inspired me to stop buying ready made products and my fridge and freezer is full of home made meals. I love your channel. Thank you 😘

I'd pay to live with your family for a year I'd learn so much thank you for showing us your lovely family ❤

this is so nice. I woke up and decided I'm making Salsa today, boot up my computer for a recipe and may favorite lady is giving me the recipe. Thank you

@Ruthannzimm

9 ай бұрын

Hope you enjoy

In our household i do all the gardening, canning and cooking. I stumbled across this vid and glad i did:). You have such a wonderful family by the looks of it, and those kids will have skills in life that many dont have. Have a great 2024. Scott

That little flower girl was adorable. What good helpers you have.

I make salsa every year just like you do. It is so easy! Thank you for getting me excited about my tomato harvest. It’s only April so now I wait. And I also enjoy the morning sun, such a peaceful time. ❤

Southern Ohio here. No rain in June did the same. Our tomatoes are just now ripe. Ty so much❤

I save all your recipes on the ‘notes’ of my iPhone/ipad and I save your videos under canning or recipes

Lively video. I love the joy you find from life and surroundings. People just don't understand a country Folks appreciation for nature and our bounty from food we grew ourselves by Gods grace. Well done.

Thank you for clarifying the Dropbox issue! It didn’t seem in nature to your ideal lifestyle and character to offer something us viewers would have to pay for.

@Ruthannzimm

9 ай бұрын

Absolutely!

Are your children adopted, thay don't look like you. You show how much you love them with your patience and the way you talk with and yo them

Your video is great, on so many levels! There is a point where Kendrick mentions how wonderful his mom is, and if his pup could have such a wonderful mom.. that , if nothing else.. says so much about you. Clearly your children are awesome, and you live in a wonderful, magical place, and good life lessons are abundant! Thank you for sharing it ALL! Subscribed!

@Ruthannzimm

7 ай бұрын

Thank you!!!!

you and your family make canning very simple and enjoying, my grandmother and grandfather grew up in the great depression, i learn alot from them ,your way of doing things remind me of them, i enjoy watching your channel, keep up the good work.

Awesome job. I worked out of Goshen Indiana and love how you preserve food! My grandmother did it almost exactly yet we're in North Carolina. Thank you! 🤟❤️🙏

We love you, our KZread sister dear. Thank you for your efforts so that we viewers can learn from you. We hope your family learns that we love you that have never meet you. God bless you and your family.

Awwww Kendrick is priceless watching his face trying so hard to press the garlic. Way to go Kendrick.

we also had double tubs from the wringer washer, I would wash jars in those tubs, would wash cabbage and grate on my great grandma's cutting board, used those tubs for so much large processing of of veggies....in the south it is hot the tubs were under shade trees....one summer mama and I put up 1200 jars of food...she would can tomato juice in gallon jars....jelly in quart jars, my family would go through the different jelly jars that she did like you started using quarts....

Lighting was great ! Good to see you enjoying the morning sun !!!

@Ruthannzimm

9 ай бұрын

Yes, thanks

Absolutely love how you teach your children ❤ you’re a great example! Keep up the great job!

Wow, your tomato plants are huge, and i love the hollyhock doll your son made.

I see Kendrick has his own helper😂😂😂😂. Love your videos!! Thanks for sharing your life and recipes.

How I love your videos! Your smile and spirit with your children and animals and garden is so gentle and healing. You probably have no idea how you have helped others in the most genuine way! ❤

Your children are growing strong and healthy. We grew up in Alaska. So lots of fishing, berry picking and so on. They will appreciate everything you give. The knowledge. The appreciation what the God gives.

I’m in Iowa! I would absolutely love to visit. I’m looking for my own little bit of heaven but land is so pricey now. Especially in Iowa. Glad you’re holding up in the heat. My tomatoes are turning slowly as well. I’ve taken to putting them in the freezer until I get a small batch. If they turn all at once, I’ll be swimming in them. 🙏 I purchased a manual food mill (not expensive) for off grid purposes and it is wonderful for tomatoes. I save the peels to dehydrate into tomato powder which is excellent for thickening soups. Also saves the juice which I can can for tomatoes juice after running through cheesecloth. So many products from a beautiful fruit/vegetable.

I tried your recipe and made 16 pints. I did do a couple minor modifications. Someone asked me on Facebook if I could share the recipe so I posted a link to your video.

He's so cute. I love his little flower person😊

I enjoy your videos , love the recipes. Will you ever do a video about when you left the Mennonite community, how old were the children and how much of the old ways do you still follow or not.

You’re lucky you got tomatoes. I planted 5 plants last year and only got 3 tomatoes. I’m buying them now at the farmers market. Great tips in your videos, as always.

@maggiedoor6093

9 ай бұрын

We are struggling here in Ontario Canada to get any ripe tomatoes, so much rain.

@annabellevaughn5968

8 ай бұрын

Growing my own plants from seed from Bakers creek (Mortgage Lifter and Brandywine) in my garden loaded with old barn manure, chicken poo and mulch gave me huge plants that came out the top of the cages and I added strings and they grew up and finally trailed along sideways. I had around 150 quarts off a 20' row easy not to mention tons I passed along. My all time favorites. Well worth starting.

The morning sun looks fantastic on your face! 🙌

I've been watching a few different videos on canning salsa and so far your videos are the best. Now I am hooked on all your videos.

I made this just now - by myself, no wonderful blessings helping me - I followed the ingredients to a T and only got 4 quarts - what a bummer because in tasting it - it was marvelous! No sugar added. Maybe if the extreme heat doesn't kill the tomatoes we will try again - How do you measure your 14 cups? I measured it after they were cut and drained .. . Thank you!

Wonderful video!! The salsa looks amazing ❤❤. You are a wonderful patient mom!!

@amandaksollid5822

9 ай бұрын

Thank you Ruthann

@amandaksollid5822

9 ай бұрын

I love your instructions So easy to follow. You are patient n knowledgeable. Thank you.

So much wisdom and knowledge and how-to from actual real-liife hard-work experience...not just watching a few youtubes! Thank you....pure gold!

I really enjoy your videos. I am allergic to tomatoes, and yet I still watched it. I made peach salsa years ago and it was awesome. We have five children and now they have their own families. I love canning. I have to can my own due to my allergies. Thank you for your videos🤗🤗💞💞💙💙

Followed the recipe except doubled the jalapeños, but only got 4 quarts instead of 7 and about 30 oz of tomato juice. Simmered for only 10 minutes. It tasted alright (don't have anything to compare to ). Let's just say: all that hard work won't go to waste. I would eat it, it is not bad, maybe better than store bought as it is homemade. Thank you for the recipe.

Oh how l love Kendricks curls

I helped my mother can for years. Then when I had kids at home I canned. Now it's harder to do I don't have the things I used to. I love watching my childhood on a dairy farm

Love your pantry. Thank you for teaching about canning. I really need to do more and your video is giving me more confidence to do so. 🦋

@botanicalbecca8443

9 ай бұрын

Amen! Such an important skill so many of us are doing our best to learn. Videos like this are a great lesson! ❤

In the past I lived in Lancaster county in Pennsylvania and if I had a question on any aspect of homesteading, I would seek out the mentoring from my Mennonite/Amish brothers and sisters. They are the salt of the earth. I learned a lot and I'm a better person for my interaction with this community. Thank you and I subscribed and hit (smashed) the "thumbs up" button. We are programed to use vinegar 5% or higher for proper shelf life. With My salsa (pico de gallo (red-tomato) or salsa verde (green/yellow-tomatillo,) I use lemon or lime juice for a bright flavor that doesn't bite the tongue so to say. Lemon and lime juice are slightly more acidic than vinegar. The higher the acidity the safer the canning. Also, your use less then using vinegar. I prefer the tastes of lemon or lime juice over vinegar, as some people feel it has a milder flavor. I don't remember cilantro in the processing, I use one part cilantro and 2 parts parsley. And I don't cook the herbs, I include raw during the canning. Some people think cilantro by itself is bitter in taste. Another use, and the children may like this, I will blend smooth the salsa (red or yellow) to create enchilada sauce. Enchilada are a tortilla rolled and filled with a seasoned mixture, usually containing meat, and covered with a sauce flavored with chiles.The whole thing is baked in the oven with cheese on top. The people I know where family friends, the husband "English" and wife ex-Amish. I believe during rumspringa she decide to move on from the church. They met and fell in love, married after her decision not to baptize. Well look forward to watching more videos.

Hello there! Watching from Independence, Iowa. You should visit sometime. You would love it and so would the kids. I have used that same chopper for years! I have went through 3 of them. When the last one broke...I invested in the dicer kit for my food processor. Game changer!!!!! I should have done that years ago. I have diced tomatoes, carrots, celery and potatoes in mere seconds. It is amazing!!

This is my new favorite canning channel. 👍

I absolutely love your channel! Your kids are getting an amazing childhood!! ❤

We can that tomato liquid.... It is so versatile and delicious!

@jmgriffin5592

9 ай бұрын

what do you use it for?

@jenniferr2057

9 ай бұрын

@@jmgriffin5592 making rice. Diluting a canned soup that's too thick. Chill and drink. Anywhere we can increase flavor over water in cooking.

It's a pleasure to spend the morning with you ❤just a little tip on chopper if you put your peppers skin down (next to blade) your chopper will not clog up an stick❤

@Ruthannzimm

9 ай бұрын

Thanks for the tip!

@jenbear8652

9 ай бұрын

I was thinking the same thing with the tomatoes

We made girls in ball gowns from Holly hocks as a kid. A good memory. I have been all things tomato for a week, plus cucumber jalapeno relish.

Your boys are so sweet! I love how they were appreciating what a great mom they had, while washing up. How sweet. Such a good example for today's world! My tomatoes also seem lke they are forever green. i go out to the garden, hoping to see some color change, but not yet. This week it is getting hot again, so i am hoping that is the key! I guess that is our midwestern living :) I just made a wonderful chicken salad with some canned chicken from last season, and this years Zucchini relish. It is so nice to have the convience of canned meats. I know a lot of people are leary about canning meat, but I do like to have some on hand as well. Thanks for sharing your wonderful family, and how you do tings. Be blessed,!

Your son is a good helper from a

Beautiful pantry! Full of good canned foods. Like a grocery store only better.

I LOVE the new background music!!!!! 😍. And I appreciate all that you share with us here! May God continue to bless you for your generosity! I know it would be much easier on your time to not have to set up & film everything & edit. I value watching the family working together, learning about homesteading & all your cooking & recipes!