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Exactly! We are getting closer and closer each day to a full collapse. Never would’ve thought that a decade ago.

They can be eaten raw but once you dry them out and they harden, I would definitely cook them!

@ReWildingOffGrid wow thanks! Any recipes you have or cooking methods you recommend?

Guess I’m one of those old country folk 😂 but yes, it is wild passion fruit. There are several species depending on where you live 😊

@@ReWildingOffGrid and they are all good! I live in Texas, South Central Texas. We got Poke Salat too 😘 maybe the best wild plant ever for taste and health! Better than collards. Where are you? Bettcha got Poke too.

All have edible fruit but if you’re using the leaves just make sure it’s the incarnata species! Other species have chemicals that can convert to cyanide. (It’s why I’m a stickler for learning scientific names and their differences 😂😂)

@@ReWildingOffGrid you mean on Poke Salat? No, you have to cook it twice, changing out the water. I never ate maypop leaves though. Don't eat the pretty berries on Poke though, some do eat a few as a purgative, they are poisonous. I am 74 years old and know lots of "free" wild foods. Purslane is a super food that many think is a weed and, of course, dandelions are fantastic, but Poke is probably higher in vitamins and minerals than any other. A very good "Spring tonic" food.

No, not poke. Maypops are scientifically named Passiflora incarnata. There are several Passiflora species out there that produce edible passion fruits. Passiflora incarnata is the only one where the leaves can be used medicinally.

Thank ya!

You can definitely use a dollop of butter too if you don’t have any animal fat!

This was a generational event in an area not prone to Hurricanes. We are about 5 hours from the beach. There is NO WHERE safe from a natural disaster. I hope you never have to go through what we have and I hope one day you find yourself a place where you are truly home. Appalachia is my home, always will be, and I will defend her with my life.

You can customize however you want. I don’t like celery in beef stew.

1000% agree! Most of my friends and family were caught with their pants down in this storm. Hopefully it’ll spark at least a couple to be better prepared.

They have been. A lot of them are coming down to seek shelter and refuge. I feel absolutely awful for the people that lost everything. No amount of preparing can help that.

The citric acid helps with that but also, I recommend cutting them thicker than I did this time. I noticed that the thicker ones did a lot better when frying. I was really happy overall with how they kept and fried up!

AWESOME VIDEO THANK YOU N GOD BLESS YOU.

They really will! 😂

Chickens will eat their own, as will most creatures in the animal kingdom. Morality is a human construct. But IMO, it’s more ethical to feed scraps this way instead of letting it waste and rot in the landfill.

@@ReWildingOffGrid I didn't know they ate their young, in that case I agree with you

Birds will eat just about anything

I do too! He’s the best rooster ever

they love them! they'll happily eat ones that get broken, just need to watch that they don't start to break them on their own. I had a hen that would literally bully my toddler son until he dropped his chicken nuggets to steal, McDonald's were her favorite, followed by Wendy's. burger kings are very peppery, could be why those were a bottom choice 😂 they're mildly cannibalistic and will eat pieces off weaker flock members if there isn't enough food for everyone, and they're badass pest control. mice, small rats, moles, baby rabbits, they'll eat them right up. every bug they find in your yard, eaten. and I have mostly small specialty chickens that are mostly kept as pets because they have no meat on them and only lay the occasional egg, and even as terrible as they are at being real chickens, they're badass pest control

Yes!!! One of the reasons why they’re free ranging right now is because we had a HUGE problem with ants and ticks. It’s only been about 2 weeks and nearly all the ants are gone and I have seen one tick! We were find 1-2 ticks daily!

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Thank you friend!!!

I finally went into town and got me a notebook yesterday 🤣 time to get to brainstorming

👋 Steve 😉

It is!!!!! I am soooo damn ready!

Thank you so so much!!! ❤❤

Thank you friend!! I’m so glad the move is over.

After pouring the liquid in? The liquid is what causes the air pockets. You should be debubbling after the liquid is poured and rechecking headspace. Adding more liquid is normal.

It’s been a wild week! But we are at the finish line now! I’m ready to be settled 😂😂

I do!! I’ve got one video uploaded. I’m getting a propane canner soon so I can can outside and I’ll upload more videos then! Cooking in the camper is too damn hot 🥵

Canning fruit and pickling things is one of the easiest ways to get started with canning. You don’t need much but a stock pot with a towel in the bottom and some jar grabbers. If you go to thrift stores & yard sales, start buying up jars there! Much cheaper to amass a stockpile that way. And I bet you were hurting after eating all those apricots! 😂🤪 I don’t think I’ve ever eaten more than 2 in a day! If you decide to start canning this year and have questions, I’m here!! Been canning over a decade now lol

@@ReWildingOffGrid Thank you for your offer to help. If I have any questions along the way, I will certainly keep you in mind.

Please do!

….or you could ask if we have plans to add in a well in the future so we don’t have to haul in water. And the answer to that is yes, here in a few months. We are doing everything on this property without debt and with cash. But until then, Karl, I can’t control the rain so we have to haul in our water. I hope you know where you can do the same in your area. Thanks for your comment, Mr. Anderson. I hope you have a wonderful day.

We definitely are! A lot of folks around here depend on it but it’s starting to become somewhat of a tourist attraction for those visiting this mountains. We did end up getting a HUGE rain and it topped off our IBC tote off of the outdoor kitchen. We didn’t think it would fill so soon so know we need to add more in line ASAP 😂 Always projects. Glad to hear you were able to top yours off too! It’s bit stressful when there’s no rain for a while.

😂😂 they look so weird!!!

On Amazon! I put a quick link to it down in the description

I love to hear it!! It’s pretty cool looking when you find one with the wasp eggs

Always! 💯💯

Oooh that’s a great idea too!

🤣🤣🤣🤣 That’s stink bug and fruit worm damage….but keep arm chair diagnosing plants, my dude, if that makes you feel important on the internet.

@@ReWildingOffGrid I am not talking about the holes in the fruits, I am talking about certain deformations of the fruits, which shows that - at early age this season - something, either a funghus (most likely) or a virus got in your tree. The fungus infects at early stage every season, and leads to odd deformations of the fruits. Did you notice some oddly curled up leaves on your tree? Then it's the fungus. All what you need to do : 10 liters of water and add some Lecithin (no worries, its a simple biological treatment, its not Monsanto invented), and spray your tree completely soaking wet with it. Three times, at the early stage when spring starts. It Limits the breakout of the fungus, and your tree will be very thankful and reward you with bigger and perfectly shaped fruits. Look, peaches trees are comparably simple, we have 15 hectar of peaches in Europe, and more than 100 hectars of other agriculture in the Phils (my wife is from there), so, yes, I see diseases on trees / fruits straight away; if I didn't have that skill we would lose a big part of the harvest every season. My trees are my babies, and thinking that a domesticated tree can just live and thrive from air and water, without any human helping the tree to stay healthy and fine, is a nice thought, but it's not true. If you have a pet you also take more care for it than just giving it water and food, sometimes you gotta take it to the vet, otherwise you neglect it. Good side effect of the Lecithin-water treatment : the fruits will be stronger and less likely to be eaten / attacked by the bugs.

The tree is perfectly healthy. No curled leaves, no dropping of leaves, no die back, not even a broken branch. In fact, it has put on a ridiculous amount of growth. Nature doesn’t produce “bigger and perfectly shaped fruits” every time and that is OKAY. That’s the entire point of this video. It shouldn’t be an expectation. I also didn’t thin any of the fruit and we had 5 weeks with no rain. Nature still produced us a bountiful harvest off of just one tree and I’m thankful for that. (All without human intervention and spraying) Like I said, you’re arm chair diagnosing random stranger’s tree on the internet without even seeing the actual tree and to be frank, that’s weird. Spray your trees if you want but stay in your own lane. Some of us don’t want to consume that.

@@ReWildingOffGrid "Some people dont want to eat that", Madame, its basically a natural fat, which is in every food you eat, and an essential part of your body. Additionally, It will never touch the fruit, because you do that treatment before blossom. Please just do not propagate information which basically says "neglect of fruit trees is okay, even if your stuff looks odd, because that what nature does", because it is just not true. Nature is a constant fight between species, sicknesses, etc. nowadays Peaches trees are a human breed, originating in China and asia, and the breeds are hundreds of generations domesticated. They did not find their way naturally to your garden. 101 of fruit trees : if something looks a little off the chart, there is a reason for it. I understand what you say, I can hear your words, but the conversation here is basically somebody who studied organic agriculture, and somebody who likes to give out information on the level of Motivational Internet Quotes. All nice and good, but not a good advice for others. The point you want to bring across is that "Nature does such stuff, and it's okay". Well, nature does a lot of stuff which is absolutely harmful to the involved organisms. There are tons of sicknesses for humans out there too, and many things can be solved with house remedies (like for peaches the Lecithin treatment), nobody would ever say "yeah it's okay, Tuberculosis is also a natural thing which wants to thrive, just give it a bit of your lungs" Nature is a constant brutal fight, its not romantic. One wins, or loses in the long run.

I’m not reading all that. We have 2 different philosophies on agriculture. Period. Have a good day, sir.

It most definitely will 😞

Yes!! 👏👏 Excellent point!! Animals are how we have persimmons, service berry, & plums at the new property. It’s a beautiful cycle.

You missed this point. You can do things to prevent deer, rabbits and insects from taking over your garden BUT it’s okay when it happens. Gardens aren’t meant to produce perfect fruit and vegetables every single time. If you have a garden that even nature won’t touch, why would you want to consume that?

I don’t think my content is for you.

Spraying won’t stop the squirrels, unfortunately. Have you tried picking early? As soon as they start to blush?

@@ReWildingOffGrid the squirrels get them when they are still green. And the Japanese beetles are killing the leaves

Might be time to thin the herd 😂😂 Japanese beetles are the WORST! I spent one spring getting up every morning with a bucket of soapy water. It definitely helped thin their population but they’re still out there, munching away at my grape leaves.

🥰🥰 thank ya

Oh my goodness!! That’s wild! I haven’t seen any of their carcasses yet….but hopefully it doesn’t get that bad here…or maybe I can feed them to my chickens 😂

Oh that makes sense that they’d do that! I’ve heard we will see a larger bird population over the next years since they’ll have an endless supply of food and end up producing more offspring.

@@ReWildingOffGrid ya, I wish I only had more birds. I was told the property I bought is right on the border with rattlesnakes on one side and copperhead country on the other. Lol here I was just thinking of getting chickens because I have so many grasshoppers here but I also just seen a bobcat on my trail cam. Gotta love country living. Lol

We have all those + bears + coyotes and still keep chickens! You can do it!! Just make sure your coop and run is secured. The last one we built, we put hardwire clothe but also buried it about 4-6” deep and below the soil line. We’ve only had 1 black snake and 1 raccoon get in during the past 3 years. Still not sure on the snake but a limb fell and created a hole in the top of the run and the raccoon was able to take advantage of it. Raising livestock always comes with a risk of predation. Don’t let that stop you! It’s just a part of this life. Edit: Another idea is you could tell people (ie snake trappers) that they can drop off a few black snakes on your property. You need those to control the population of venomous snakes)

@@ReWildingOffGrid as far as black snakes i think I have that covered. I found one one morning when I came out of my house and in to my garage (their attached) and the wind blew the door shut there was a 18" black snake wrapped around the out door handle and bolt lock. Scared the bejesus out of me. Also, I saw a 6ft one on the dirt road on the way out spread from one side to the other all he did as I got closer to him was flip his tail so I could get by. Lol I never thought about raccoons we have a lot of those also crows and a hawk. But since we have so many grasshoppers I was thinking maybe a movable coop?

😂😂 Yeah I don’t mind them as long as they don’t pop out at me!! A moveable coop would be good! That’s what we are working on now. It’s good for them to help work the soil too. As far as crows and hawks, crows will help protect your hawks from getting your chickens BUT they will eat eggs so just be mindful of that.

Riiight! So weird how ours came out so much later