Harvesting Honey, Freeze Dried Herbs | Lovely July Garden Tour
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- Опубликовано: 28 авг 2024
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Hi friend, today was a busy day. I prepared all the herbs we freeze-dried together a few days ago, processed some honey frames I harvested from my hives and went on a lovely garden tour. I hope you enjoy coming along with me.
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Your varied interests, mental clarity, drive, and non-stop energy are unbelievable. You are a gem 💎.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge and happiness.
My mum taught me to break a Cauliflower leaf off and turn it over the top of the flower head to stop the sun damage and protect the white of the cauliflower. Her dad taught her and he grew acres of food for his family during the depression. ❤
Love the honey! I have a local honey company come and put 4 or 5 hives on my property. They do all the work and maintenance and then pay me with 2 cases of processed honey for use of my property. So I get the honey and the benefits of the bees pollinating my garden without any of the work. Win win for me.
Your face shows the joy of a happy gardner😊 I am so thankful that it helps bring your spirit peace❤
I often think too, when will I stop doing so much? I think it would only be when the happiness it all gives me wanes. I have had to revise how I garden due to aging...and canning is not the marathon sessions it used to be. But I still love it❤
I love your vlogs but seeing your honey straining system has to be one of the most entertaining vlogs!
God and nature,along with you has blessed you with a beautiful garden.
Your gardens looks very appealing too the eye
I am always fascinated on how you turned something into many kind of dishes. They are so mouth watering 🤤
Our parents shared a cabin in the Caribou on Canim Lake with another family and we would go there every summer. The two things I loved the most were being able to see all the stars (because we can't down here on the lower mainland) and the thunderstorms. I loved watching the storm coming across the lake and we would run out to swim in in the pouring rain with the thunder rolling and lightning flashing. How unsafe we were but we had so much fun. Every time I watch you outside I am reminded of my childhood and all those summers in the Caribou. I know you are further north (we went in from 100 mile house or sometimes via Lone Bute) but I can smell the dry air and feel the rain coming. Love your channel so much.
Nice memories!
Thank you! I’ve been out that way and it is wild and so beautiful!
Thank you Chelsea for sharing your garden with me. It brings me back to a time when I was able to enjoy gardening in space as big and beautiful! I get a feeling like I’m there walking through a friend’s garden talking shop about gardening, preserving & cooking. I hope you and your family are doing well. Hugs, Doc🫶🏻
Freeze dry all that celery and then next year you can take the year off and plant more beans or whatever you need more of.
My husband giggles when I hand pollinate. I sit there pulling squash bugs and hand pollinating since we have a lot of pests and not a lot of pollinators. But I finally got my first zucchini
Haha. Everyone in my family laughs at me for doing this. I just killed 6 Japanese beetles off a nearby flower so they don't make their way over to my veggie garden
I know exactly what you mean about sensing the change in weather, the stillness, then the cool breeze, the fresh scent and the burst of wind. I love it!!! Your garden looks amazing. Thanks for sharing with us. I hope your harvest is amazing.
OMG the honey was my favorite part but I loved watching you show us all your thriving garden(s)!
Gosh, that was a wonderful video, Chelsea. Thank you so much. ❤️
You are so welcome!
I love what you have built .....you are an inspiration, I have enjoyed this video...I love seeing the weekly growths...the joy you have on your face watching your fruits of your labour...
Beautiful honey processing - thoroughly enjoyed it and learned a lot💗💛💚 I absolutely love all your videos, always so informative and your personality adds a lot to the filming💯❤
I love the wild profusion of plants in your greenhouse--it looks so lush and bountiful.
Wow, the herbs and garlic, really reduces down a lot!
I just found this channel a couple weeks ago. I love it!😊❤😊
What a lovely, lovely garden you have. I think you are exactly right to be positive about it. Thanks for the beautiful video.
This year has been rough on all of our gardens, with late frosts, and here scorching heat, and very little rain. But I too am keeping the faith that mother nature will come through and give me a full pantry. It may be later this year, but I am hopeful.
I don’t know how you keep up with such large bountiful gardens! I love the tours!
I take the leftover wax once taken honey off and put it in crockpot on warm for a few hours making sure it’s all melted then turn it off. The wax solidifies on top of useable baking honey. Just a way to get even more out of your stuff. Love all the videos!
Same! I forgot to mention that.
@@LittleMountainRanch I know I’m late to the party but I would love to see your hives! 😀
Good morning Chelsea from New Hampshire. We are presently lamenting over the days and days of rain. We have only cut 900 bales ( out of 7,000 bales ). Worst year in the last 25, but that's farming for you. I hear what you are saying about the work that goes into honey and other farm endeavors. Over the years I have set some of my passions aside. One of them is laying hens. As much as I enjoy them, we currently buy organic eggs delivered to our door for $4.00/doz. It helps to support a younger farm start in the next town. We also buy organic pork and chicken from them. That frees me up to pursue my art classes and try new things. I also support another farm who provides us with honey. And so this practice allows us a break if we want it. As a whole, our farm community is mostly sustainable when we work together. ~ Diane
Beautiful garden update💞. Thank you for the lesson in harvesting honey. So account what God has provided for us. Blessings for everyone's gardens 🙏❤️
Oh my goodness! That Honey!!!! I was completely zoned in watching the process of using the spatula! What an incredible sight. I’m so happy watching your time in the garden and processing in the kitchen. Every bit of the work you do I watch and live vicariously through you. Haha I see a back surgeon Friday and I’m praying he may help me. Then, I can get back to working on my land. Thank you so much for sharing your daily events and work on Little Mountain Ranch ❤
Great to see you! Thanks for sharing your day with us! Love the channel! I enjoyed seeing your honey extraction!😊
Liquid Gold!!
Thanks so much! 😊
garden looks really nice!
You are always such a jewel to watch! Love seeing the fruits your labours flourish! Very encouraging! Thank you!
You are so welcome!
I always enjoy your videos. You are a very good teacher.
I appreciate that!
Ms. Chelsea, I hope you and your family are doing well. Thanks for your response. God Bless
Your knowledge astounds me! I don't grow my own or do any canning but I learn so much from you and use it in other ways. Many thanks from Edinburgh Scotland!
Amazing homestead and gardens! Wishing you a wonderful, healthy garden! So in awe of the incredible vegetables, etc. that you are able to grow and feed your family! A fan from Ottawa, ON (retirees in a smallish apartment, and a smallish balcony to match lol!). I am proud for the first time to grow cherry tomatoes, basil and chives from seeds planted (indoors of course) earlier this year! My tomato plant now has flowers, chives are growing, and basil has been used in recipes a few times so far! The best is yet to come for you! I wish I could grow broccoli and cauliflower, my faves! Thanks for this wonderful video and all your others! A huge fan!
Loved getting a tour of your gardens!! And boy, did that honey look deelish.
Oh my goodness..that's alot of beautiful honey!!! Im growing celery for the first time this year. Seems to be doing good. So glad your mammoth cabbage is doing good. Have a beautiful day.
Just love it when u have a vidio out ,
Thank u so enjoyed it
Beautiful garden ❤. It is so sweet how you talk about being grateful for so many things. What a nice life❤ Good video- thanks.
Your joy in your garden makes me smile. Very peaceful 😊.
Beautiful garden tour and honey harvest! God sure is great in providing all we need, when we put forth the work.
I just harvested all my hard neck garlic. That's here in Northern Illinois. I leave one garlic scape to know when they're done, the scape will go straight up and I harvest before it flowers.
I thank you for sharing your knowledge with all of us. God bless!
Enjoyed your honey process. Very fascinating.
Beautiful garden! Oh, i love sourwood honey, and orange blossom!
Your videos are always so entertaining and lovely! Thank you so much for making them! ❤
You are so welcome! Thank you!
Always so much content - greatly appreciated. Learning lots from you. Thanks!
Everything looks so lovely, and you are so knowledgeable with how to best get things to work out -- smart lady!!!
I agree!
Beautiful garden, honey is yummy. The wax that the combs were closed with it is very good for medicinal purposes.❤️🤗
Dein Mann ist ein Tausendsasser😊😅💪wie mein Mann😅😂....es ist so toll und beruhigend das so vieles selbst repariert oder gebaut werden kann und man sich dadurch sehr viel Geld erspart 🙏🙏🤩
...ein Glück das Euer kleines Häuschen noch so eine tolle Bausubstanz hat 😊.
...ich freue mich schon auf das fertige Ergebnis 😊❤
Lg.Manu 🙋♀️🇦🇹
As Abram L. Urban once said, "In my garden there is a large place for sentiment. My garden of flowers is also my garden of thoughts and dreams. The thoughts grow as freely as the flowers, and the dreams are as beautiful."
I love that.
Im in the same boat with tomatoes. Two years I did so great, and then last year was just miserable. Thought we'd try a tunnel this year, and it seems I'm still struggling. I'm having better luck with tomatoes stuck between everything in my upper garden right now. So many factors went into it this spring, and now, I wish I had just ditched all my starts and started over. Key thing I am taking away is things I can change next year, to do better. I've also been able to add more fenced area to keep our deer out, so have a lot more potential planting space in the next few years. Depending how hard we push ourselves to build it up, means I i can actually get an amazing tomato harvest one of these years. In the meantime, we have a big city market and several other farmers markets near us that I can visit. I do love the chaos of your tunnel, it made me giggle, the joy on your face at potentially just letting it be wild. 😊. Hope your day is going well, Chelsea! ❤
I didn't realize you had so many cherry trees. Don't leave the high tunnel wild, you'll get disease. Just wait, all the tomatoes will be ripe the same week of August.
If you roast the radishes it tastes like cauliflower. WOW your garden looks great.
Light colored honey, my favorite. I get mine locally. So good
I love watching you walk through your garden. It's so lush, something I will never achieve in my garden in California, no matter how much I water, and because you love your garden so much. I love my garden, too, but it's because it tries so hard under not so great conditions.
Soo sweet!
A friend has this pot that spins her honey borads and goes to the bottom of the 🍯🇨🇦🐝
I think that’s what the extractor is used for Centrifuges spinner
I believe that is called a drum extractor....there are 2 frame...4 frame and I think 6 frame extractors.
Sweet !
I get honey from a local bee keeper. It is the best honey I’ve ever tasted. It’s $20 per pint but it’s worth it.
I’ve started my own indoor garden. I have a west facing apartment that gets a lot of natural light but also have a grow light. My cherry tomato plants and peppers and Microgreens are doing very well. But I am having the hardest time with simple lettuce. I planted gem lettuce and a classic spring lettuce mid May and they stopped growing once they got to about 3 inches. I’m trying again using different soil. In seeing your video and how amazing your lettuce looks I’m wondering if I’m missing something.
I find lettuce doesn’t like to grow in small containers. Try increasing you container size and using a gentle organic fertilizer once there’s 4 sets of leaves. Good luck!
Am i only one going 'Welcome to the Jungle, welcome to the Jungle/ Watch it bring you to your shannnnnnnnnn knees!'? ? 😂
Such a nice garden. Ours, here in Eastern Ontario, is way behind. But we're harvesting peas and raspberries, also zucchini. We had a long cold spring but the hot weather has finally arrived . Thanks for sharing your garden with us.
It’s so fun to see at what different stages of growth we are in our gardens. Canada is massive, different zones, micro climates etc.. my cabbages are no where near as big but my zucchini are much further along here in Ottawa.
Garden looks beautiful and the care and love that you put into it shows. Thank you for sharing.
How do you choose what will do best in the high tunnel & what will do best outdoors?
I really love hearing you talk about your garden & how it makes you feel. It reminds me of my mom & I do so miss her & hearing her talk about her plants & how they are doing. She would love the wildness of your forest garden. She loved that part of her garden, the part where the shrubs were up against the trees & flowers.
Amazing amount of produce and the Forest Garden is wonderful. No wonder Nilla loves it there, she protects it for you
We have a beekeeper in our neighborhood who sells his honey every other weekend down on the corner of our street. Awesome honey and it feels nice to support a local seller.
Enjoyed the video very much. The honey looked fantastic!!
I think when you get old and tired and worn out you may quit some of the stuff you’re doing now but I don’t think you’ll quit it all unless you just get to the point that you physically can’t do it. But then I could still see you sitting on the porch snapping beans. Enjoy the fruits of your labor.
Your garden is beautiful. Honey looks amazing. Really interesting.
You are welcome!
I pulled my onions today chopped up have 4 medium tray to put in the Harvest Right Freeze Drier. I didn't prefreeze.
It really really makes me happy that you are happy with how your garden looks. You really brought it up to speed and seem mostly ok, with the yet-to-be, and
ain't-happenin parts too! I adore these walks with you, to be "there" for you reactions, and I'm having my own reactions too!
I'm sorry, you replied to me, but I've forgotten; when is (classical music /no pressure😂/ and) mist season?
Thank You So Much!
From Laural in Connecticut
You can cut and freeze the celery, that's what I do, its good in soups, stews anything !!
Elderberries are pretty resilient I wouldn’t get rid of it just wait till next season and see if it sends up shoots . Oh my ! Me & my husband love radishes, sliced up with lemon juice and salt. They are so good . My husband will have a beer when he eats his radishes & he says it taste so good together.
I saw someone use clothespins to close up the large cauliflower leaves over her heads. It is quick, easy, cheap and worked like a charm. She said she didn't need but a couple leaves to clip together to get the job done. Just passing it on. I do so love your videos and your happy attitude toward life and your garden. Refreshing and uplifting and inspiring. Thank you so much for the videos!
High Tunnel. "Welcome to the jungle. We got fun and games. Tomatoes growin' off the hook, but the peppers they got some game. oh the jungle, welcome to the jungle - - - ah ah ah ah, we we we we got some surprise beans. Oh the jungle, welcome to the jungle. Sha na na na na na - beans beans beans beans. LOL.
I just found your channel and I love it! You are an inspiration!
Hold out hope. If you can believe it, I had REPLANT zucchini and yellow squash! We shall see. I feel the same, I’m very fortunate that I can afford to buy what we need but I’d rather not.
Pulled strawberries, sweet cherries and lemon slices from the freeze dryer yesterday. Tomatoes, garlic scapes and onion too going in tonight! 😊
I love to watch your channel and see your food preservation. The freeze drying amazes me at the beauty of the color it keeps. Those were so green.
We can as much as possible if i don't hand it over to other canning people. But onion, cauliflower, green tomatoes, bell peppers, zucchini, pickles, and radish, red pepper, and pickles it up yum with canning crunch it's a must to keep it a crunch but kids fight over the mix jars.
Your purple lettuce is gorgeous!
'Hop' is the singular form. For example 'hop vines'. Such as you wouldn't say "these are my carrots plants". But you would go pick your carrots and your hops. Sorry we are hop farmers, so I thought I would clarify.
Thanks for sharing! ❤ from Ontario!
Have you ever roasted radishes like turnips ? It’s a game changer
That honey looks delicious!
Thank you so much for sharing all of this useful information :)
I love your excitement as you walk through your garden. Everything looks so beautiful
I was wondering if you take the celery leaves and dehydrate them and make celery salt, yum!
So cool I just love watching these video on the homesteading and such we are having a dry spell here that has Farmers in bit of a worry but it look good on your end love that honey parts of the video :-)
My garden in Connersville Indiana about the same time in growth especially last two weeks with all the rain, I’m 5’ tall tomatoes are 4’ your place is so beautiful wish I could see it with you, so calming, my garden is my oasis, makes me smile I feel the same way, between me and the seed, I watched the miracle of growth! Get excited for your videos I feel at home! God bless!!
You can make celery salt if you have to much celery. Is so nice to use in the kitchen, on meat etc.
Your garden is beautiful!
Such a nice garden my friend 😊
So very awesome Chelsea. I loved when you got excited. It made me happy. Garden is amazing. Thank you so much for the tour. My garden became overgrown with a very intrusive vine. So I live through yours! XO
We purchased a Roo apron - Thx for posting!!!
Fried green tomatoes are good also.
At least you can still plant some green beans anywhere that isn't producing well or even when you harvest garlic beds will have room
Hello! I feel the same way about my garden! I love watching the magic of growing things, plant or animal. Love that apron/basket ❤️ see you next time!
I’m a big believer in companion planting for bug control. Radishes are really great for controlling squash beetles for cucurbit family. If you plant them and let them got to seed the smell confuses the beetles. Marigold are great with beans and thyme is good with cole crops.
Does the thyme have to be planted directly or can it be nearby? 10+-'
Thanks for that information!
@@SallyGreimes it should probably be right in close. It’s a perennial though so if you don’t want to keep moving it you could put it in pots and mulch them if your winters are to hard for it to survive in pots.
The Garden is Looking Happy 🌱..My garden is Good Not Great ..but I have plenty of Tomatoes..Zucchini been struggling because of Vine Borers…but I’m gonna keep trying ..
I store my OA in a mason jar and vacuum seal😊
Hi Chelsea, do you recommend to cut the tops of the onion greens a bit. Some say it helps the growth and some say it stunts the growth. Help please :)
Oh... but celery freeze dries just beautifully. AND I've heard that canning celery broth (celery diced with water) makes a beautiful soup base. My first year with "one" celery plant, lol... not enough for this experiment.
Green Thumb! WoW! Excuse my mistakes. I write English as a second language ! Do you read in French? I love your reciepe !