Our corn silking brush came from HOSS! shareasale.com/r.cfm?b=862842&u=3297601&m=65739&urllink=&afftrack=

I have to tell you - some of my fondest memories are of the conversations between my Mom and I while digging up potatoes. She passed away last September. She was happiest when her hands were in the dirt! RIP Mama ❤

The best conversations are while stringing beans. The last time that I saw my sweet aunt was in my Pa and Grandma’s yard and the 4 of us broke up beans, drank coffee, talked, and laughed. She had a brain aneurysm a couple of days later and passed a month later. I cherish that memory and I can never string beans without thinking of her. ❤

@Catherine1151

25 күн бұрын

I know the feeling and feel your heart ❤️

@TrueGritAppalachianWays

25 күн бұрын

❤️💔❤️

@SuzieQ-lw2kp

25 күн бұрын

Precious memories sending blessings and peace 🕊️

When Maggie said "Oh, Lovey you waiting for me?" I melted!

@Laura95000

25 күн бұрын

@@patdavey2690 I know it. That was too sweet!!

@jaybee766

25 күн бұрын

The sweetest 🥰

When I was a kid, my family grew acres of sweet corn. All of the kids would pick at 6am, and then we would sell it by the highway. The money went to our school clothes. Then we would swim all day once everything was sold. We freezed in the husk, cutting off each end. The worst job was sucking a straw in the bag and sucking the air out of the freezer bag. Lol

You know I love watching you’ll because you make me feel normal in a world that thinks we are abnormal. Love you guys ❤

I was always very aware of how grateful I was for the time to chat with my kids doing these kind of chores. Makes me miss them being young.

We are in our 60's now. Don't own a farm but sure do remember back when we were kids and did this kinda thing with our Aunts and Uncles that have now passed on. Nothing like today whatsoever where kids just want to play videos and text their friends on cell phones. Sadly they will never know about our AMERICAN History or know how to survive in any kind of disaster. Love this so much. TFS and God Bless all the hard work. 👍🙏❤

Sitting outside, on the back step, in the evening, shelling peas, snapping beans, and shucking sweet corn are some of the best memories we have. It was the best of times, and we didn't even realize it! Thank you for keeping the traditions alive!! ❤❤❤

We just got a good downpour the last hour PRAISE THE FATHER!

I always loved canning green beans. I used to can anywhere from 100 to 150 quarts. One year I canned a little over 300 quarts. 100 was for my mother-in-law because she was house setting for her daughter and was in another state at the time of picking and canning. She was pretty happy she didn't lose out on canned beans since she was gone and wasn't able to can them herself! I always loved breaking beans too. Even when I was a little girl back in the 50s and 60s, my parents and I would sit on our front porch after supper and break beans. Sometimes our neighbor would come join us! Those were good conversations while breaking beans!

"Here you go, Mudder..."--Maggie is so cute! Jacob is a little man...such good kids. Always enjoy your videos. God bless!

I love to watch the kids just stop and get a snack from garden to eat

Found your channel as I have been recovering from back surgery the past 2 months. Time to go back to work today, and I’m going to miss my morning routine of watching y’all! When there’s not a new video I’ve caught up on old ones! I’ll still be watching but I just wanted to thank you for being there. It’s helped me get through this so much and inspired me to work hard to get better watching how hard you all work. I need to get better to have our small farm in retirement. Even though I only have a small backyard garden right now, especially this year even smaller, my husband has helped me keep up with watering, I put up 8 pints of pickles yesterday and 7 pints of green beans! Anyway, Love your teaching, sharing and your faith. Thank you!!!🤗

@Catherine1151

25 күн бұрын

Aren't they wonderful Deborah? Watching their videos brings me so much peace. I'm praying for you sweetheart - speedy recovery 🙏😘

@TrueGritAppalachianWays

25 күн бұрын

You just made my day and so glad to hear your recovery went well! ❤️

You and your family are doing great. This is what families need to do more of. Good eatin!!!!

We used to pick corn by the pickup load. We would help each other pick shuck and cut off then blanch and freeze. It would be like an assembly line. Grandpa and brother picked after the silks turned black. Good old days. ❤❤

Tipper from celebrate Appalachia grows silver queen now that she has more land

Bird netting over blueberries helps in several ways 1. Keeps birds off 2. Helps stop them from being over exposed to the sun and drying out. It acts like a shade cloth no matter how lightweight it is.

I loved Maggie telling about her perfect carrot!!

@dustcloudfeatherstone8195

18 күн бұрын

I loved when she said" Here you go, Mudder!"....Lol ❤

You look so tired today. Bless your heart. Yummy veggies! ❤

@TrueGritAppalachianWays

25 күн бұрын

Busy time of year ☺️

We have a local farmer who has been bringing us city folks pickup loads of corn early in the morning for over 30 years come mid -late July. It's a tradition that's as sweet as that first bite of summer corn. God bless the local farmers.

This is a great harvest. I was just thinking of all the money country people save. You raise your food,eat the best food and get all the exercise needed to stay fit. I truly love watching your videos. It's families like you that when times get hard you could show the rest of us how to make it thru hard times. Love to all the family.

Megan, that's the best way to eat the corn, fresh and raw yum. I'm 68yrs and still love that first ear picked. Pick it, shuck it, and eat it right there in the garden.

I absolutely loved seeing the pig in the water trough. When I b was a kid we went to the woods to eat brair berries. They are wild black berries. Yalls are bigger and no thorns. I'm still loving yalls channel and glad to see the kids helping

Praise God it is raining good in Tennessee right now.

@TrueGritAppalachianWays

25 күн бұрын

we finally got some yesterday evening!

@bettypogue7021

25 күн бұрын

@@TrueGritAppalachianWays it quit right after I typed that lol

Yall are just a breath of fresh air while I'm at work.

Me & grandma shelling purple hull peas ❤

You can can just blackberries whole. Then you can put them in oatmeal, pancakes, muffins,cobbler, pie, biscuits, scones, ect.. when I make a pie filling I open a jar of berries, fill jar with water and pour in heated pot, add 1 cup sugar and 1/4 cup of cornstarch or clear gel, heat till thicken pour in pie shell. You can always can pie filling so it's ready when you need something fast😉 You can also juice them for a cold drink with ice cubes on a hot day.

Hello, I enjoy yall so much The kids makes me think of my childhood, I Georgia lots farming, gardening canning etc.😊❤🙏 Ms. Ruby

Them pigs are looking good

The Presto canning pot has been used. Every video brings memories back to someone. Thank you!

Megan and Andy do y'all ever plant peaches and cream, OMG you can eat that in the field it is so good... GOD BLESS 🙏🙏🙏

@TrueGritAppalachianWays

25 күн бұрын

Yes we planted it a couple years ago, made a great canning corn

@TrueGritAppalachianWays

25 күн бұрын

we planted it a couple years ago

Little carrots are big carrots, they all cook up

I’m just now getting to watch this and when you said God’s water is different than well water you are so right. I’m gardening this year for the first time since I was a kid and it was quite accidental. I have tomatoes and zucchini only, threw some OLD seeds in dirt just to see if they would grow. I’ve been watering daily due to lack of rain and we got a shower a few days ago. I swear everything is greener and grew so much overnight that it’s obvious that the rain is so much better for them!! Thanks for sharing your life with us, you have inspired me to try and I see with tomatoes on the vine and several fried zucchini suppers that I can garden, even if it’s in a grow bag, even with bad backs, bad knees and a full time job. I have loved dealing with my tomato and zucchini these past few months. It’s calming to me to be able to go out in my little container garden and see them grow!!

That takes me back to when I would sit on my Grandma’s porch and help her and my Mama shell purple hull peas and sit and talk! Love those memories!

Andy can grow some corn.over the years I been watching he knows what's going on when it comes to corn really the whole garden. Amen

@TrueGritAppalachianWays

25 күн бұрын

Yes growing corn is honestly one of his many passions!

You're very lucky to have a husband that wants and willing to help you do your gardening.

I see good, old-fashioned work ethic in this one...and it makes me tired LoL

Make some dumplings to go with your blackberries. We really enjoy watching y'all grow, reminds us when we're starting out

Kentucky wonders are hands down the BEST tasting green bean. Especially home canned. Worth every second snapping & stringing.

Vacuum packing works great. We put up in different amounts to the bags for different occasions. Stacks well and keeps the taste and crunch. Thank goodness our garden is finished for this spring and all put up. "Feels like" temps have been 105 plus for days now. Thanks for vlogs. Truly enjoy each one!

Here in MN we had two years in a row of severe drought. The garden had 4 to 6 inches deep of what was similar to cement from the dryness. This year however we are in flooding territory. In June we had 7 days without rain and all rain up to today in July with another 7 days of rain in the forecast. The fields of corn and beans that surround us are under water and the losses will be enormous for the farmers. I hope you guys get rain soon, Ill talk to the person in charge to send some of mine your way! Blessings.

It’s great that Andy and the kids help with preparation of the vegetables for you to preserve them.

Whenever I have extra berries I make syrup for pancakes and waffles !

I just love your videos. They bring me back to my youth when life was simple and healthy. Keep them coming and God bless your family. ❤️😋🌽🌾

I wish I could string a bushel of half runners with my Mama, it’s been 26 years and every summer harvest I think the same thing. Love watching y’all, hope ya get some rain soon.

Was just stringing and canning beans the other day.

Good Morning! Hope yalll have a great day and get some rain!! Thanks for inspiring me to keep going!

@TrueGritAppalachianWays

25 күн бұрын

We actually got a good shower from an isolated storm last night, praise God!

Megan when my grandmother was living all I ever heard was snap beans I don’t remember her ever saying green beans and she canned hers and they were the best beans to eat and I really miss her when I watch your videos it brings back so many memories of her and I think about my granddaddy when Andy and you talk about your corn I was really close to my granddaddy and where I live now isn’t that far from where him and my grandmother are buried they lived in Webster county in Mississippi and also it’s close to where my mama was born and raised in Webster county

Hi, this channel is wonderful and takes me back to my childhood days. I enjoy learning new things from real people. Thank you.

When you freeze corn in the schuks you just cut the very top and the bottom, and also the outer s, and that will take care of any worns if there are any on the corn. You can put five hears to a gallon bag. It pretty much taste like fresh out of the garden when you cook. I find that it is best to cut it off the cob while still a little frozen.

Corn will dig for water …. I love your sweet family so much got mail coming so pay art I hope you will love it stay here it’s all for you all every one lives to come and the fair Andy would love it all would it’s for you all love prayers

@donnasaylor2778

13 күн бұрын

I cut it off gallon I write you love it you all are my types we love you all one on Chanel’s oh Lord I write in letter be safe those children are adorable the cats. Dogs. Goats chicks horses cows pigs 🐷 cows 🐄 cows our cows black white I do love you all so dear I give a way to every one God is good my cat is Lilly she is all I got I send you it’s delicious 😮 about need jars I am about done canning jars spotless boxed ready to go pints. Qts ready be safe and be alert ‼️ nite nite we to have bad thunderstorm to nite I pray 🙏🏻 for your pretty beautiful home. Garden. And the Children and you both u live it up here we just over the hill 🛌🙏🏻❤️🐷🐷🙌 Bless

❤What a great team you two make!

When you pick it and eat it fresh, leave the shucks on chop off the big end microwave for 3 minutes per ear and when you take it out grab the tussle end and pull the shucks off and it brings every silk off❤

I love that your husband sat there with you doing the corn 🌽 and when you and your son were together at the table doing the green beans ❤it was so sweet him just talking away to you about whatever was on his mind 😊

It was fun and heartwarming to watch your family work together. ❤ I love fresh food from a garden, but for some weird reason, everything makes me itch like crazy when the foliage touches me this year. 😢

I have been canning green beans. I dry canned my. My great Aunt told me how to do them. And they are so good. You pack your jars and the add a teaspoon of salt to the qt. jars. You don't put any water in them. They will have a little water when they get through canning. They are so good this way.

Growing up there were long hedge rows everywhere and tons of blackberries growing there. My siblings, cousins, aunts, mom would get together and spend hours picking. We always got tons, most years we'd get 10 to 15 five gallon buckets full. My mom made stewed berries with dumplings with the fresh ones, canned whole berries, jelly etc. Like you she noticed that seeds in were more pronounced in frozen so she pureed them in the blender before freezing.

Haven't had green beans to can in a few years now. I'am going to the farmers market to get at the least a caner full to have for Thanksgiving and Christmas. Our neighbor always grew them but has moved away. I miss doing that and making elderberry jelly, it's my favorite. I would've loved to hear the conversation you and Jacob had. I loved this video so many memories come back to me. The corn is beautiful and oh so tasty lookin. Be Blessed you all. Hugs, Rebekah.

My husband's parents used to freeze corn in the husk. I tried it once and hated it. Tha silk was hard to get off frozen. I shuck my corn and vacuum seal it 6 to a bag. To cook it I put the frozen corn in cold water and as soon as it comes to a boil its done. So fresh❤

Greetings from Northern California. Y'all don't realize how lucky you are to not have to water your garden every day! Watering is the only way our gardens survive here. It's not unusual to install a sprinkler system in your garden here. Today is 103 with 14% humidity. Tomorrow will be around 110. I love how green the Midwest & Eastern states stay in the summer. Love your videos❤️

I love it when Maggie talks so sweetly. She calls Megan Momma. Haha CREEK WATER.

@randyrejer4219

23 күн бұрын

My wife and I have tried frozen corn ears put in freezer bags. We have also frozen them in the husk in freezer bags with similar results mushy. I am going to try a s mall batch like yours in clear wrap then a freezer bag. Will it be mushy or crisp?

oh reminds of my love for gardening!!! After losing my dad a fews weeks ago... have lost interest in everything!! Gosh... Life is no more beautiful... exciting and nothing is interesting except sleeping.... I don't know how i will live on. I am scared 😱 of life and feel very bad.

I did that with my grandparents, wonderful memories were made back then!

My blueberries didn’t produce much this year either since I didn’t give extra water with my rain barrel water. Your corn looks amazing. Thanks for all your hard work being shared with us to teach and motivate us. You all are so positive despite the lack of rain! Love seeing how you teach your children just by your lives and hard work!🙏🏼✝️❤️

You are making great memories for/with your children. Beautiful scenery you have!!!!

I freeze blackberries and raspberries for holiday pies to remind me how thankful i am for my hard work picking during the hot summer.

When I had gardens, the only green beans I planted were Kentucky Wonder. They were the bush beans, and mom and daddy were always there ti help snap beans and pack n jars. A friend had planted several rows of them one year, ours didn't live, so she shared hers. She said please, pick the vines clean. We did, and got 5 1/2 bushels. That was on a Friday, and mom and I canned 90 quarts of beans over the next two days. We even did 14 qts of dilly beans 😊 They tasted so good

Frozen Worm...lol, just a little protein with your veggies 😂

I found the more mature (older ) the berry's get the bigger the seeds are - afteral, the bushes goal in life, like all creatures and things ( including us ) is to propagate it'self - survival of the species - berry's are so luscious snd tempting to all creatures that they get eaten, carried off into new places and deposited - reminds me of an ancient song, still sung today - Does a bar shit in the woods - oh lord , ya know he does 😊

Good morning that’s some pretty corn

Lord, if that pressure canner could talk😂😂. Much love and respect from Whiteville North Carolina ❤

I’m so happy I discovered your channel, I love it. I love that y’all do a lot the old way and love to listen to you talk.

Niice job👍🤓. Nothing like fresh grown veggies n 🌽.

Here in Portugal the blueberries are huge and so delicious.Love watching as it reminds this country girl that always farmed back home in Texas.

Andy said “we’ll eat it then”. lol. That tickled me

So true nothing like shelling peas and conversation..

My daddy would plant silver queen and Merritt. Yummy!!

I hope y'all got some rain from those storms yesterday evening. I got the wind but no rain. Y'all got the best looking garden I've seen anywhere and that corn is outstanding. Mulching it and keeping it watered has really paid off. Mine is holding it's own but like you said, I think I'm keeping it alive by watering but nothing takes the place of a good soaking rain. Have a great weekend!

Meagan, I made your sweet potato surprise, but I used my last jar of canned butternut squash from last fall. I added brown sugar a little maple syrup and butter and turbunato sugar on the top. It was superb. Thank you so much for the tip. ❤

Next best thing is watching a family string beans together 😊i love to see Jacob and Maggie participating in garden chores and such instead of being glued to devices. You guys are awesome parents teaching your kids "real life". To be so dry ya'lls garden at the house looks great. I love hearing the guineas in the background. We just got rain here a little while ago, hope it made it to your house too.

@TrueGritAppalachianWays

25 күн бұрын

we got some last night and a little this evening! thank the lord!

Silver Queen is my favorite.

So I’m new to your channel, and wanted to say how much I love it! I love all the day to day stuff, the explanations, seeing all the progress (please rain! Btw, we are finally getting a little today and supposed to tomorrow. Most of our farmers have lost their first corn harvest~So. IN). I love seeing you put up and explain food preservation. I canned so much as a kid but I have forgotten so much. The kids are beautiful. I’ve got a 10 year old grandson that threw helping me in the garden over for video games. Unless it involves picking berries he can eat. My 5 year old got bit a couple times horrible bad by horse flies so now he’s afraid of all bugs, but likes to help. Oh well I’ve ran on. Just know I love your channel, God Bless You, and make your videos as long as you want! Have a great day, and I’m praying for rain for you all and everyone who is in need of it.❤ P.S. when I moved to this house, my pickle recipes “disappeared “. I’ve found a sweet pickle recipe that’s similar, but still not like the recipe handed down thru the family. My dill pickle recipe also disappeared the same day. They were the best. I remember I had to soak them 24 hours, but don’t know anything past that. Your 14 day pickles look delicious! I would love if your dill pickle, or others could be tagged. I have a really great zucchini relish recipe that only a few ppl have. I would be happy to email to you if you are in need. Thanks!

I came across your channel a few months ago and i just love it. Reminds me of how we grew up. Everyone in our family had gardens and animals and lived like this. I miss it dearly. It's a far better way to live and to eat. I'm from WV originally, and everyone grew their food like this. Even in the cities. They've since passed laws preventing some of the animals in city limits. Sad. Y'alll are doing it right and I'm envious.

I used to live in California for 58 years. I absolutely loved driving through sweet corn fields at bloom with my windows down because it smelled amazing. I live in Indiana now and the farmers mostly grow dent corn. I was very excited about the bloom, but, they don’t have any smell at all 😢

The world would be such a better place, if more people were like yall. You work hard for your food, dont expect handouts, and mind your business. People dont have time to get into mischief, when they stay busy, and work for everything they eat. Dont know where yall are, but im here in Western NC. We need some rain bad too. Hope we all get some soon. God bless your sweet family.

@TrueGritAppalachianWays

16 күн бұрын

We totally agree, we're in the foothills of NC

@debbiecritcher8436

16 күн бұрын

@@TrueGritAppalachianWays I'm in Wilkes county..

Love conversations while picking and putting up food. Also, I vote to get another freezer. 😂 I’ve not ever seen someone have to many. One for chicken, one for other meat, one for veggies, one for corn. Hahaha! I really love putting up food. I get excited about it.

Give me a jar of canned beans,some new little potatoes and I am happy !!

Merrit corn yellow the silk came off so easy ever make corn silk tea!

LOL 🤣🤣🤣. When you said you just fill your bean jars up with creek water I almost lost it. Hahahaha. That was some serious funny right there. 😅❤

My mouth dropped when you said “creek water” lol relieved I hat it was “sink water” 😅

My parents did this, even up to their old age 💜❤️

Snapping beans is the original Snapchat... Love the channel, enjoy !!!

Ive been so happy to have found your program on youtube thanks to Tipper on Celebrating Apalachia. But I couldn't figure out your corn talk. I grew up in the Southern Illinois River Bottoms. Worked in the seed corn fields from age 12 to 18. Us school kids job was to de-tassel the corn. That's pulling the stalk over and pulling off the tassel on top. What you call the tassel is the silk on the ear later in the growth season. That's pure seed corn once the tassel is gone. Otherwise is just plain old field corn. A lot of teenagers over the decades worked their way thru middle and high school detasselling all that corn by hand. Your sweet corn is so pretty!

I always grew Illini extra sweet corn and blue lake bush beans. So yummy, here in indiana. When I picked my beans, I pretty much stripped them, because the more I picked, the more they grew.my grandkids and kids all remember sitting on the porch swing , breaking the beans.

We vacuum seal all our corn. Shuck and seal. Taste just like you pulled it from the garden in the middle of winter. Delicious!

Megan, I pressure can at 10 lbs. for 20 minutes, then turn canner off and slide off burner and leave for about 15 minutes to cool. Beans perfect. I do hotpack with boiling water, though. I think I must pack my jars a little tighter than yours, too. Love your family and the videos. You keep it real😆 Maggie was precious when she talked directly to the camera about her perfect carrots. Thank you for all the great videos. They bring back so many precious memories of farm life.

I like to get the corn before the squirrels 🐿 decide it’s ready to harvest. They sure seem to know .

Ya'll are just great with the ole family ways

Very cute kittens in the corn field..lol