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First time watching your video. Loved it. Your homestead looks so nice and breezy.

Great video! I am glad to see young people outside in the yard or garden. I would definitely try to save the seeds from that huge cucumber. I would make relish from it as well. Happy gardening! ❤

Peel and cut the cucumbers up, put them in a blender with water and you have agua de pepino (cucumber "spa" water) & it's so yummy and hydrating! Also, make one of those viral cucumber salads. I personally love them with lemon salt and tajin but any fruit seasoning would do. You could also cut and freeze them up for a self care spa day or for a tangy smoothie, or make cucumber ice cubes and add them to your water once in a while. ps. anytime our family has fruit that is overripe and about to go bad, we just cut it up and add it to a blender with water and drink that with our meals instead of soda, tea, water. it usually last only a couple of days with a family of four plus occasional family guest. SOOO when in doubt, make a agua fresca out of it.

We bought the biggest chipper we could afford/justify the expense for. There were dozens of smaller, used one weekend or season units offered on FB, but we needed something powerful enough to handle good sized branches for land clearing.

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Great video!, it will be better if there is no background music.

Hello from Australia - your honesty and talking from the heart was awesome. It was just what I needed to watch today - you came up as watch next after I watched another garden show. Im currently on the lounge with a bad back so im very glad I have all raised beds however Im very frustrated watching you tube and wanting to get out there and plant my seeds before tomorrows rain arrives. However another day will work out too. Happy Homesteading and im looking forward to watching my videos of your journey

You could store the grern pnes for seed potato

We have a Jensen wood chipper and it's fantastic! I would recommend not buying the smallest cheapest wood chipper...ask me how I know! We use the chips in the garden and in the chicken coop!

Hi i'm from Michigan a first time gardener i love it's so much fun . and your right much cheaper. i just scribed to your channel i really enjoyed watching. Can i ask what state your in?

Thanks for the video. So real! You are giving your little one the best gift he could ever have! Off target question but what color is the green at the end of the video? It’s beautiful!

You got a beautiful homestead keep pushing we here for support.😅

Hugs from Poland ❤

Well done. I’m do a similar thing in Queensland Australia. 😊😊😊

A lot of herbs are perrenials

Make relish

Great video 😊 How many plants gave you 100 pounds of tomatoes? I am thinking about that for next year. Were they paste tomatoes?

I put cucumbers in my morning smoothies. I’ve puréed them and then frozen the puree in ice cube shapes. I’ve also just sliced and frozen and added the slices to my smoothie. It’s so refreshing.

I’ve been watching homesteading videos on utube for maybe 6 months now. The benefits of this lifestyle are many. I can’t believe after watching so many of them that this was the first time I actually noticed how everyone looks so healthy. Not like most Americans. 💪👍

I think tzatziki sauce is made with cucumbers, isn't it? That is good on like gyros and other Greek food. It's so freaking good

I'm enjoying your journey. Thanks.

We left the city in 2020 also. In our case, we had to "retire early" because our employers were mandating certain things we weren't going along with. It was a difficult and expensive choice, but God has blessed us in so many ways. We started our off grid homestead in fall of 2020 and recently started a channel to share info for others who might be looking to do the same. There are so many ways to move toward self-sufficiency! However you do it, just do it and don't wait to start. :-) I wish we had started a long time ago! Good for YOU!

We really enjoy your channel. We're off grid - just celebrated FOUR YEARS - and there's always so much to learn! You just don't know what you don't know until you know you don't know it - and then it's too late! :-) Some things you can only learn through trial and error. Hopefully the mistakes aren't too expensive and no one gets hurt. We look at most things we do as "experimental" - sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, but we always learn a lot. Great videos! Keep it up!

Dig deeper for sweet potatoes 🍠

Hello 🤗 I'm MJ khan i like your vlog

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those tiny potatoes will be gone in like two weeks at most, a ay if you cook for a big family dinner. For what you may ask? Beef rendang, which is Minang traditional food that covers Indonesia for most part but also Malaysia. We have a version that includes small-tiny potatoes and it's an absolute delight if you like a strong tasting dishes with tons of herb and spices, kinda curry-like.

Yeah, gardening is a learning experience every year. Wishing you the best of luck. ♥

Thank you! This is a great video. Very helpful. We’re a few months away from making the leap and taking in all of the information that we can.

You can still eat green potatoes. Not all green potatoes necessarily have solanine, and some potatoes that aren’t green CAN have solanine. It’s about what light they are subject to. If it's a reddish light that lands on the potato, it will make chlorophyll, giving the potato a green colour. If the potato is hit by bluish or ultraviolet light, it will make solanine, by a completely separate chemical pathway. But the potato itself will not change colour. If the light contains both red and blue, the two processes can happen at the same time.

The green potatoes are good for seed potatoes, but dont store them inside the house, i would put them in a basket in the garage or basement if you have just a few green ones. Dont store them with the regular potatoes either. The small potatoes will sprout and they make good seed potatoes too.

Coffee first always. 😉

Good fram❤

I dont use cardboard because it has the ink and glue. I compromise and use the brown packing paper

It's simple but its not easy

Tomato's are also a fruit.... so if tomato is a fruit is ketchup a smoothie? 😂😂😂

Great points- especially the concept of deciding where you want to end up after all the work. A good concept to even apply to disagreements with people: "Start where you want to end up". I'd buy high quality tools that will last, infrastructure before animals (seems like common sense, but we got too excited lol), and free range birds (chickens, turkeys ect.) mean poop everywhere! so I think next time we'll do poultry netting from premier one because I like walking barefoot and hate the thought of all of the poo in my house! also animals that cost little to feed: sheep, geese and turkeys! find excess apples, pumpkins from locals and Co-ops to feed the critters. I'm excited to keep infrastructure closer to the house next time around- saves time, energy and better to keep an eye on things.

I loved your Point about networking, I think that most people from the cities dont know the value of cummunities and what they can add to your live. (Coming from a city dweller lol). I have met most people in my complex and try to be on a good basis with them. It already paid off by them getting packages, watering the plants while i am away etc.. Kind regards

Really informative video! You saved a lot of people time and money. Well done 👍 👏💪

I completely agree with all of these. Especially the point to take some time to understand what you want to achieve with your homestead. We dove in and did it all- chickens, dogs, sheep, cows, llamas, garden, orchard. Nothing in place, just lots of ambitions haha! We had animals getting out, gardens and trees dying and like you stated lots of unfinished projects. We are on year 5 and finally are focusing on the stuff that matters and benefits us the most, and we enjoy the most as well. Which for us is the animals. Specifically to supply us with our meat. Which comes back to the point of, take some time! Observe and make stuff semi-permanent, because i have removed and changed fencing so many times, which if i tried semi permanent wouldnt have been such a headache. I've reflected on these mistakes and try to do that as much as possible now going forward.

Can I ask what do you do for living? Like do you have normal 9-5 job, cuz you need an income source, right?

Even waiting the first year to see what the seasons do around the property could be super beneficial

I had to plan before I could even think of buying not really a mistake you can make when you can't afford anything. I'm just trying to use financing to change from renting to at least rent-to-own so all this money going towards surviving doesn't just go to total waste.

Some good advice. Thanks.

Very detailed, I love how you share this [03:10]. If anyone is interested in sustainable farming and agriculture, feel free to visit my channel for more!

What ag zone are you in?

So glad to have found this channel! My husband and I just bought 10 acres and are starting the process of creating a homestead and documenting our adventures on RUclips as well. Will DEFINITELY be tuning into your videos for more helpful tips! ❤

This is so inspirational. Great message! Thank you for sharing!!

Youd be amazed to see how cows will clean up your wooded areas.