This has to be one of the best gardening channels i have seen , I really love how you guys interchange in the video and each have a part that you present .

@morethanfarmers

11 ай бұрын

Wow, thanks so much! I hope you continue to enjoy 😊

@kenyonbissett3512

7 ай бұрын

@@morethanfarmersmany people don’t realize that the leaves, shoots and flowers are edible. Sweet potatoes leaves are delicious cooked or in salads the taste like sweet potatoes. I haven’t done it but should work in smoothies. Broccoli, cauliflower and cabbage leaves are all edible. Grapes leaves are edible and lots of recipes in Greek cooking. Raspberry and strawberry leaves are great in teas. Squash and zucchini leaves and shoots are edible, shoots raw, leaves cooked. There are many others, google is your friend. Of course you don’t want to strip plants of all their leaves but a few-some here and there are fine. Some leaves do better cooked, others are fine raw. Research each best ways to eat. You can double your crop this way without planting additional plants. Never eat tomato leaves or stalks, they are part of the nightshade family.

I just found your channel and have been binge watching for days. So much great information and lots of encouragement! One day our family hopes to have our own little homestead.

If I could subscribe 50 more times, I would. Great video and content. Keep up the good work, friends!

@morethanfarmers

2 жыл бұрын

Haha! Thanks Tom! :)

@fiffihoneyblossom5891

Жыл бұрын

I can't believe they don't have more subs. Honestly such a well rounded homesteaders view, and to the point, without using their kids to garner traffic. It's an amazing channel

@kimberlyprieto2846

11 ай бұрын

A big Amen for this comment ❤❤

Blessings ❤

God bless you guys

I have a backyard postage stamp size of a veg and fruit tree garden. I love your channel.

@morethanfarmers

11 ай бұрын

That’s great! Doing what you can is what counts.

Really appreciate yall's channel!

@morethanfarmers

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!

Those would all be on my list too. I love winter squash.

@morethanfarmers

2 жыл бұрын

Yes!

I love my volcano carrots, they got huge and kept well into December. They were pelleted so i got to space them out 2”.

You gardens are amazingly beautiful!

@morethanfarmers

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

So glad I found your channel thank you!

@morethanfarmers

11 ай бұрын

You’re welcome!

So glad we found you guys. We enjoy hearing about you and your family. God bless. Thanks

@morethanfarmers

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!

Nice watching you with your farming and your harvesting and also preserving awesome great guys❤❤❤

@morethanfarmers

Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much!

Great content...practical suggestions...so happy I found your channel...best of luck with your harvests! 🌱🌞🏠🌻

@morethanfarmers

Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much!

Thank you two so much

@morethanfarmers

9 ай бұрын

Our pleasure!

I love growing butternut squash, stored really good, made so much with them, and spaghetti squash and zucchini

Just found your channel. Really love it! Currently binge watching 😁

@morethanfarmers

Жыл бұрын

Welcome to the community! So glad you're enjoying our content:)

You guys need way more subscribers really. Quality content here.

@morethanfarmers

Жыл бұрын

Well thanks 😊 Workin on it 😉

I just found your chanbel and i love it!! Yall are so real and down to earth! Love your content!! Thank you for sharing with us!!

@morethanfarmers

11 ай бұрын

Thank you. You are so welcome!

Love your channel, just found it! I'm also binge-watching 🤩

@morethanfarmers

10 ай бұрын

Welcome here! Hope you continue to enjoy 😊

My wife and I are just now considering planting veg garden above ground. We live In central east Florida. A freeze is really rare and in August, September it can be very wet not to mention if we get a tropical storm or hurricane. I have enjoyed listening to your gardening videos and you are a great teacher. Our house is on a 1/2 acre plot so we have some room to put to good use. I would like to grow potatoes, sweet corn, peppers, green onions and radishes. We can't wait to get started. However we live next to a nature preserve and wild land so there is no shortage of raccoons, coyotes, opossum and varmints and wild hogs. Thanks again and I have learned so much and have subscribed to watch more. Ted in Sebastian, Fl.

@morethanfarmers

9 ай бұрын

Good luck! You might just have to put in a good fence.

I totally agree with what you said even before you start to explain what we need to grow. Because "Why" was the most important reason. Am in Ohio also. Thanks for the video.

Very educational. Exactly the info that I am looking for to start a small survival gardening ops. Thanks guys for sharing your beautifuy exeperience.

@morethanfarmers

Жыл бұрын

You're so welcome! Glad we could be of help!

Sounds sound.

You guys are on to something. You make it look so easy and are so knowledgeable about farming. You take your time explaining the things that can go wrong. I know everything is delicious. Great job!

@morethanfarmers

3 ай бұрын

Thanks for the kind words 😊

Thank you for this general overview for a lof of us novices. The way you presented this content was so apt for millenial viewers. Your channel does that exceptionally well.. Well done! Happy New Year to your lovely, young family..

@morethanfarmers

7 ай бұрын

Thank you 😊

Try electroculture. Copper wrapped rods

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I think apples and walnuts are definitely also survival crops. Way less work than annuals, super nutritious, and apples store through the winter, while walnuts store pretty much forever. The reason why I'm picking them above other fruit trees is because they're the safest. Perhaps this is different in other areas, but where I leave in central Europe, the apple and walnut trees are full each fall. There's never an off year, the way there is with pretty much any other fruit tree. Also, while walnut grows slowly, the flipside of that coin is that a walnut tree lasts a lifetime.

@morethanfarmers

9 ай бұрын

Good points!

Great video thankyou very much from Holland :)!!

@morethanfarmers

Жыл бұрын

You are very welcome! Nice to have you here from that far away!

@mikeyblueeyes8449

Жыл бұрын

Thankyou for replying you're videos give us hope in a very difficult time the world is going crazy due to the greed of a few but we will get through this!!:)

My dad made a large box we kept in the garage and stored carrots in clean sand over the winter if that helps. Potato bugs were hand picked and dropped into a little jar of gasoline.

Thank you all for sharing this! Just an FYI, an antibiotic won't help with colds. Antibiotics only kill bacteria, not viruses. 😊

I've failed twice I think I'm doing my soil wrong but I will see now I planted some of my beans in my raised bed fingers crossed

@morethanfarmers

9 ай бұрын

Keep at it!

Love what you do. I had a very bad bug year 3 summers ago so what I did the next year was transplanted some of my strong smelling herbs within the rows of veggies (lots of spring onions oregano and even some garlic oil spray. Worked like a charm. They were so confused.

@morethanfarmers

3 ай бұрын

Good tips, thanks for sharing 😁

You guys together are amazing Keep it up 😊

@morethanfarmers

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! 😊

I have gleaned many homesteading videos. Most will pass by as there is no real content as I have found on your channels. I'm 60 and hopefully will get a farm soon and then I will be on my Journey to farmland and all that it entails. I find your channel informative as talking me through things and showing as well. In Fact you are one of three channels I favor and I lean more to your channel. Keep up the excellent work.

@morethanfarmers

Жыл бұрын

Wow...we're honored. Thank you so much!

super good info , well presented! Just found this but I know its from a year ago- good info nonetheless:)

@morethanfarmers

11 ай бұрын

Cool, thanks!

My family and friends grow zucchini which we grate up to put in freezer bags before tossing it in the freezer, that supply usually lasts us the whole winter

@morethanfarmers

Жыл бұрын

That's a great idea!

Love it all!!...do you also have a site where to find recepies of the relish, jams, marmelade and other stuff you make, so how to do that. My grandmother died and she could not tell me how to do that properly. Thanks a lot and much apriciated

@morethanfarmers

11 ай бұрын

We do no have a site for all that, sorry.

I love greens, and I don't have room for frozen ones, so I did an experiment, I steam blanched them, and dehydrated them, piling the greens thickly on the trays. They dried fast and I peeled them off the trays and put them in mason jars. Completely crispy fry. They re delicious and can be eaten as is or added to anything.They are rather like nori, in appearance and texture. So healthy and delicious, even my Chihuahuas love them❤

@morethanfarmers

3 ай бұрын

Wow! Sounds great Lisette!

@tammycraine7493

2 ай бұрын

Can you just dehydrate them raw? What is the purpose of blanching them first? Also what was the exact process of how you STEAM blanched them? Thank you.

Do you have a link to your squash soup recipe?

Beautiful channel just found it now and definitely subscribing, ps sweet potatoes can be dried and one could make bread from it.

@morethanfarmers

9 ай бұрын

Thanks! Glad you're here!

@moosa9850

9 ай бұрын

@morethanfarmers love the fact you guys harvest that much on such a small piece of land.

Have you shown the floorpan for your home yet? I'm a new widow, and I need to downsize my home. Yours looks exactly like what I want from the outside and I'd love to see how you designed the interior. Thanks!

@morethanfarmers

Жыл бұрын

No, we haven't done a house tour😊 Maybe in the future!

So glad I just discovered your channel. Like the fast pace, not boring. Interesting all the time!

Have you tried growing the lettuce and spinach on the north side of any building,or corn field?

@morethanfarmers

6 ай бұрын

Sure haven't.

I unknowingly had a spaghetti squash roll back into a corner behind some bins in my very cool pantry in fall of 2020 then in spring 2021 I was taking inventory and way in the back I find it, it was in perfect shape so i said hmmmm and left it. it is summer 2023 now and it is still in perfect shape. It has become my friend so I'm leaving her until I find a speck of mold mildew or funny smells. Maybe ill harvest her seeds and plant next yr.... idk but its fascinating

@morethanfarmers

Жыл бұрын

That's amazing!

@KellySandra716

Жыл бұрын

@@morethanfarmers completely.

You guys are awesome. How deep the raised garden beds? Where do you buy seeds?

@morethanfarmers

11 ай бұрын

16 inches. We get pretty much everything from Berlin Seeds.

Great channel! I noticed when you were harvesting your potatoes it looked like they were planted in leaf mulch. Is this your primary ground cover and where do you get it?

@morethanfarmers

10 ай бұрын

Yes, we use a lot of leaf mulch! It’s amazing. We have a local lawn service dump them for us in the fall.

But you can dry your kales and keep them for stews and soup in the winter

@morethanfarmers

Жыл бұрын

Good tip!

I can’t believe how informative the first two videos I’ve watched on your channel are!!!! Definitely a new fan.

@morethanfarmers

7 ай бұрын

Good to hear 😊 Welcome!

You can sell raspberries I would buy lots from you if I was closer to you I'm in Texas

@morethanfarmers

4 ай бұрын

If you ever move up here let us know!

Where do you get your seeds and what would you do if they stop selling seeds?

@morethanfarmers

5 ай бұрын

Berlin seeds. Let's hope they never stop!

What about drying your greens and using a food processor or mortar and pestle then saving the green powder in a jar? Use it all winter long 😉

@RewiredforJoy

Жыл бұрын

This is what I do! It's so so convenient. I'll add it to anything: smoothies, scrambled eggs, fried rice, etc. Also a great way to get more greens into little ones!

@helenebennie3961

10 ай бұрын

How do you dry your greens? Air drying or dehydrator?

@susankeriacos2892

10 ай бұрын

@@helenebennie3961 I air dry then finish them in the electric dehydrator .

@helenebennie3961

10 ай бұрын

Thanks.@@susankeriacos2892

We live in the Texas Panhandle. Our summer temperatures are 3 digets all summer. We don't have a cellar or a basement. What can I do for storage for root vegetables and squash?

@morethanfarmers

11 ай бұрын

You really just need a cool dark place. Some people find an old non-working chest freezer and bury it in the ground. You’d just wanna do it in a way that no child would ever get trapped inside.

New. Suubscriber

@morethanfarmers

11 ай бұрын

Welcome here 😊

Do you also sell some of your crops?

@morethanfarmers

6 күн бұрын

We do not.

I watch a lot of gardening shows, even though I have been gardening for 60 years, I can still learn something. But,, do you know that you can grow greens all year round? I’m in Portugal now, but in England I grew a large variety of greens outside all winter.

@morethanfarmers

5 ай бұрын

That's so cool! What were some of the greens?

@tamardevane6635

5 ай бұрын

Red and green Mustard greens, leave cabbage plants in, then eat sprouting tops and purple sprouting broccoli (these two are eaten in late winter). parsley, chicorys, leeks, chard, various oriental greens.

@tamardevane6635

5 ай бұрын

I just watched 2 more of your videos, and I learned something new; how to make tallow. The other one was a winter one. Looks like it gets colder, and for longer where you are. We never had snow for over a week in England or The island where I lived on the west coast of Canada. Prolonged and heavy snow, with freezing can damage the plants, mostly due to weight breakage. For a likely to succeed trial, plant mustard variety: greens in snow. Also, you could make another cold frame (like your lettuce ones, by the house). I forgot to mention arugula, or rocket, as it’s sometimes called. If you like bitter foods, try growing the kind of chicory, where you grow the toot, then bring it inside and force it in your basement over winter. That would be fun.. I used to grow sugar loaf green chicory outside. Sometimes the cold would kill off the outside of the plant. I would run it under the tap to find a creamy crunchy buttery interior. These cleaned heads would last for weeks in the fridge, and made a delicious lettuce replacement.

how do you use the garlic for your cow's mastitis please?

@morethanfarmers

2 жыл бұрын

Chop it up and mix with sweet feed. I add dried kelp too for extra minerals, and maybe some extra molasses to cover the garlic better. If it’s a large bulb I’d pry just use half a bulb. Give it to her once a day. The milk will have a garlic taste, but worth it if it means not going the conventional route. The best thing for mastitis is to milk her out often. 3-4 times a day or even more if it’s a really bad case. But the garlic should help!

@charitydavis9159

Жыл бұрын

Garlic definitely healed my goat of mastitis. I blended garlic with molasses, apple cider vinegar, and some of her own milk. I gave it to her with a syringe. She loved it so much she was licking it up. She was healed after one day! Also very important to milk her out I think.

How do you keep the bugs off the strawberries?

@morethanfarmers

5 күн бұрын

Posting a video tomorrow morning talking about that!

It's hard to hear with the dramatic music in the background. Just a bit of feedback. Also I was wondering where you are located, what is your zone?

@morethanfarmers

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the feedback! We are in zone 5 and we're located in Central Ohio.

😊😊😊😊😊😊😊Thank you very much for the information. Im glad I found your videos! 😊😊😊😊😊😊 I put smiley face when I can’t write something. 😊😊😊😊😊

Where are you located? Not being creepy, just need to know if your information is suitable where I live

Wontblet me give a thimbs up.

What hardiness zone are you? :)

@morethanfarmers

Жыл бұрын

Zone 6

@lilly1803

Жыл бұрын

@@morethanfarmers Thanks

You know you can eat the leaves. Dehydrate them

@sarahgrooms5606

9 ай бұрын

Sweet potatoes

Be careful eating sprouted potatoes. I have heard you can get really sick eating them. If anyone else knows anything about this I would like to hear what you've heard.

@Linda-we6en

3 ай бұрын

I grew up on a potato farm in Idaho. We always had russet potatoes for breakfast lunch and dinner. We brought in boxes of them from the potato cellar (so we didn't have to go out get them in the winter) and kept them in cardboard boxes in a cool closet. They would keep well till late spring and then they would start to go a bit soft and have sprouted. We would pull off the sprouts and cook them up like normal. No one ever got sick (and there was 12 of us). But we never ate them if they had green skin, that can make you sick.

@KathyFitz1113

2 ай бұрын

Sprouted is fine, but you can’t eat the green ones.

3:12 I slightly disagree here. Many greens are not only very winter hardy and can keep growing with a little cover all winter, but a lot of them also store well as frozen greens (spinach, kale, chard, beet tops, etc) or in a zero-electricity situation you can dehydrate them and use them for soups, or even powder them for nutritious additive to many meals. Even better than standard garden greens though are excellent survival foods that require zero maintenance and are nutritional powerhouses, as well as being “stealth crops” like dandelions and hostas. I will say though, greens are low on calories…so in that sense, they aren’t so good for survival gardens.

@morethanfarmers

8 ай бұрын

Fair enough 😊