Love how the baby puts her head down in prayer before eating. She does what she sees and it’s beautiful. Meg is at her kingdom when she cooks and I love it. Blessed you and your children for the lovely examples they have.
I LOVED it when the family held hands before giving thanks for dinner, sweet little buggie bowed her head too, she’s such a pretty child, Meg, I don’t know where you get your energy, your family is beautiful!
Meg is working in her kitchen all day every day! Even though she loves the preserving of food that she does, she gets tired. She also has a little toddler that’s a full time job, too! Yet she continues to do all the canning and preserving of food she must, as she knows the season will be over soon! Also, she prepares meals for her family. Ben stays busy, too, and, wow, he is adding to his outdoor equipment! Great job, Megan! My mother did gardening, canning and preserving of food, along with helping my dad, a farmer, any time she could. I admire these people!
Corbin and Brett are such hard workers. Watching them cut down trees, chip the wood, load the tractor and get the heap ready for the next load, I'm impressed with their work ethic. Buggy sweeping up her mess was so sweet, she is learning fast. Meg, the way you stopped and helped her was so loving ❤.
Poor Meg. You looked like someone stepped on your last nerve! I have those days during harvest and preserving time too. You have a beautiful family. I love how patiently you let Buggie help.
Oh Biggie ❣️❣️❣️. When she came walking in with the broom to clean up her mess, and did a great job sweeping, oh my heart! Then when you say down to dinner and she put her head almost on the table for prayer, again, too, too sweet! You know that baby is well loved!! 😍😍😍😍😍❣️
What a great family. Your sons are such a joy to watch how they pitch in and help the homestead work. My son raised his four kids reiterating often, "this is our home" we work, we play, we love, and that is the definition of a "family".
Meg, you work so hard to make sure the family is fed well, I swear you are squeezing every bit of goodness out of what you all produce. I would have never thought to make vegetable powder. Great idea! I love to see what you and Ben do. You both are amazing!❤️
You guys great children amazing !! Great that everything worked out you as a couple!! This world is hardcore!! May the lord keep blessing you with great knowledge because you are young!!
Can you give the RUclips channel of the woman you were talking about that has the cow and dairy recipes so I can check out their homesteading channel on RUclips I don't know how to find it in the comments
1) YES!!! - so glad to see someone dehydrating the tomato skins for use in rubs, soups, stew, and BBQ sauce. Entered mine into the Fair this year and got a Blue Ribbon! 2) We got lucky with wood chips. The arborists in our area actually followed through and delivered three loads. You are correct - you can never have too many chips! 3) Yours sons sure are a big help! Best wishes from Kate in Olympia, WA - 8/2/2022.
Oh, sweet Buggy, on both sides of the spectrum: from the ultimate fun sweeping to almost exhaustion after the day of her "help"!!!!OMG, the chipper and the tractor, if only you could have had them when you started...but thank God for having them now, such a blessing!
Great wood chip compost pile. Love the boys helping out so well. Meg , you are a kitchen work horse. You get so much done and in a small space. I bow to you my dear. 💜💕💜
I just love seeing buggie doing all the things. She is the cutest little thing ever! We need more footage of Meg in the kitchen. That tired mom sigh at the dinner table, a mom's work is never done.
I love it when Buggy peeks up from Grace to make sure she is on the same page as everyone else. She will quickly lift her head, open her eyes, then just as quickly bow her head and continue with Grace. Soooo cute!
So nice to see the boys working with Ben, learning what projects can help grow the homestead. These are priceless lessons that they will take with as they venture out into the world - learning how to learn and chipping in to help. Working together is the answer to success.
You are a natural momma !, I love the way you teach your young ones, great job ! Also, after watching your home-steading journey...., I feel like you have become one of the best homesteaders out there; brave, real, thankful , energetic and free-spirited and focus-driven in getting the job/quest done. I appreciate your diversity in subjects and your family connection in making the home-stead awesome. You are both tough as steel and wise in your skills of many , thanks for teaching us want-to-be's )
Great to see your boys hard at work right alongside you. Love to see little Buggie help mom in the kitchen... anyway she can... tasting and sampling at times :) Those are the hard days of summer but Meg, you work hard in that hot kitchen and put your heart into preserving every ounce of food for the cold days of winter. Hats off to you Hollars for showing us what homesteading is all about!
Ben and Meg I must say that I remember how you shared the starting of your journey on this property and having little to no infrastructure I'm so impressed with where you are currently and the direction which you plan on going for continued improvement on the property. Thanks for sharing 👍
Thank you for NOT filming a time-lapse at meal time. Today, just a few seconds of you sitting together as a family to eat was a beautiful & peaceful scene.
Meg I just wanted to share a family secret with you all the way from the Middle East from my lovely grandma. If you sauté the onions and peppers and garlic first and get some color or canalizations on them and add tomatoes last then your sauce has this huge burst of flavor ❤️
CARMELIZATION is the word you mean in English, yes? good point but she probably knows but had to get so much done in one day including making this video for us while taking care of the youngest blessing of the Hollar Clan too in between muffins!!!
Was watching some of your first videos. You have accomplished what you set out to do. Having time with your children is amazing. Looking at a moth is time well spent! Letting your little girl help is time well spent. All your children are already helping your homestead grow. Each time I see them help It just makes my day. The long-term results will be wonderful. Not perfect but there will be plenty of joy in the years to come. Tears too but for the most part the joy wins out every time! Love your woodchips! Love every bit of your cooking. Take care! Prayer and love!
really enjoyed the video with Meg working with the tomato sauces, the wood chipping and all the work of the "helpers" great to see the family working together. have a great week
Super family! I love the way you both take time to show your kids how to do things and allow them to help. They will be light years ahead of city kids in life skills and common sense. God bless your little homestead.
Meg, you are truly super woman! I hope your family knows how fortunate they are to have you…you are always in the kitchen cooking amazing meals! Ben works so hard also… y’all are an awesome family and we love your channel… God bless y’all!
Love wood chips thanks so much for posting this, you given some valuable reasons for wood chips!! Yahoo!! So great to see Meg in the kitchen sharing what to do with the harvest! So encouraging! So glad y’all settled in NC- isn’t it great here?! We’re in southeastern with a 3Burdeie bed garden working on veggies and a few fruit trees🤗 we’ve had blueberries for several years which are great and we put in blackberries and a fig tree this year! Love being out in the garden😘🤗!! Bless you all and thanks for the videos which help us all in so many ways!!
Oh and Ben offering Meg a hug was so sweet. Hope you took him up on the offer at a later time. My husband's hugs are one of the things I miss most since he passed.
Hang in there with the wood chips, Ben. If any of those trucks have a name on it, call them...or any other tree service you can find.... even the County you live in or one nearby. The Fit Farmer gets a lot of them from the trees along the County Roads and I remember Art and Bri used to get some too. Art also knew where he could get Bamboo...i don't know how they break down. He use to make a teepee like set up for tomatoes and other climbing things. You can always learn from neighbors. You can make beautiful flooring out of Bamboo. Again you can use that creativity and come up with a lot of things. I love your family. Good Luck with everything you do.
You guys are the best. I think you will have the best memories about your life together. Good luck. Resolve, bravery, Family and hard work. The story of America. You are so refreshing!
Buggy dropped her little head and prayed so cute. You are prospering. Everything looks good. I know canning is hard. Everyone used to go to bed and I was still watching canners
God love you Meg, you looked so tired cranking away at the squeezo, but just think about opening jars of sauce in the winter! You seem to be such a hard working gentle sweet Mama to your kiddos!! You are doing fantastic job!!!!
Meg, I feel your arm pain as you turn that handle! My brother (a lazy engineer-in-training) had a genius idea last year as I was on my third day of straining tomatoes for soup. He wandered outside, got a drill, took off the strainer's hand crank, fitted the drill onto it, and thus was born the drill-powered Victorio strainer. It worked like a dream, and I am never going back to human-powered squeezo-ing if I can help it. Not only was that setup so much easier on my arms and back, it also took less than half the time to turn those tomatoes into puree - a wonderful time savings when one has a half-acre garden in full production and three canning projects lined up for the day.
Meg, you've been working your fingers to the bone. Cabbage rolls, tomato sauce, cucumber chips, muffins....oh my. I must say, today I made your Zuchinni Bread. I waited 10 minutes, then cut a piece for myself. OMG, thank you for the recipe. I will be throwing my old recipe in the trash, and adding yours to my notebook. I made a quick instagram post about using your recipe, and referred everyone to your Saturday's vlog post. Ben, wood chips come in handy for just about anything. It's great getting the big trucks to drop their loads....when you can get them. We have a Troy Built wood chipper, it works just like yours but doesn't provide the quantity you'd get from a large truck. The trash your uncovering, be careful snakes sure like that stuff to use to bed around or in.
I love watching your family. You both work so hard. I love the way your boys will jump in and help you both. Little buggy is adorable I just love the way she wants to help mom with food whenever she can do she can get a bite. lol My favorite thing she does is here praying. She watches mom, when she is ready to pray at meal time. That little love puts her head down as far as she can. I just love your family. God Bless you all.
The sigh Meg let out during the blessing said it all. Hang in their Momma. Believe it or not some day you’ll miss this. That being said, can you hook up a battery operated drill to your food mill? 🤣
My brother set up our strainer with a drill for me last year after a particularly trying long day of preserving, and I am never going back to hand-operated. It saved me hours, possibly days, of work, and I'll definitely be doing it again this year.
@@e.c.5994 Can you share a link to plans or pictures to Ben and the older kids to help Meg out ?? I think their email is in the ’about’ section on their channel page
Never get tired of seeing what y’all are up to awesome family praying together staying together y’all are raising young Americans that’s going to be our future great job parents !
Meg, you always make produce to take care of. There are days when the babies just get in the way, to say the least. Love the chicken compost. Very clever.
You guys are such hard workers, each has their expertise & it makes the Team work. Just awesome. I cant believe Buggie is using a fork already! she seems so advanced for her age.
Watching your family grow and GROW over the years, and now Buggie into a mommy helper makes me wish I could start all over and follow my heart. I pray for God's continuous blessings on yoy all.
You were not joking about that shredder being a beast! It deals with whole trees! And your lads are really organised. They do their jobs so efficiently.
Love to bake and cook, and love watching you Meg as you cut up your foods! Only me so I make note of your cooking and then smallersize it! 😅 I enjoyed seeing the clearance and chipping of the dead trees. Always wobderful to see the family helping! Area looks better even by that, like the shade too. Thanks! Happy Days! ☀️👏😁🤗🥰🙏🏻🥘👩🍳🌳🌳
My Mother was Polish. The stuffed cabbage filling was ground beef, cooked rice, onion & egg. The sauce was tomato, vinegar & sugar. Served with mashed potatoes and that tomato sauce as gravy. YUMMY!
So glad to see you getting to use your tractor to move that stuff. My knees were hurting when you used you wheelbarrow back and forth up and down those little hills.
I see Ms. Buggy has graduated to big girl status and sits at the table on this episode. She is getting so big and it's been such a joy to see her grow up along side her brothers. Children are a blessing of the Lord and yours are wonderful!!!!!
Saw that deep breath and sigh as you sat down for dinner mom :) You are doing a very good job being patient and teaching the little one. However it is very clear who rules the roost in your house :)
THANK YOU for showing some hard moments and that preserving and making things with little kids is hard sometimes!! I so look up to you and all you do for the family ♡♡ Its an inspiration and encouragement to me!
I think your daughter would ENJOY a broom her size. My daughter's loved them with their little aprons. Oh, so cute. When she prays with you for dinner, she bends her way over. She is growing up so fast. Maybe another little sister for her. She'll be playing with the FIT FARMER'S baby very soon. When I had two little sister's playing. They had each other to play with. As you know with twin son's. I think it was easier than one child. Love and PRAYING with you FROM S E MICHIGAN 🇺🇸
Meg - thank you for showing reality. You are an amazing mom, and extremely patient with Buggie wanting to “help”, but toddlers are exhausting as well as wonderful. 🙄🤣. All parents have moments when they want their beloved child to just GO AWAY. 😆
I am 74 and have just spent a very enjoyable 2 days using my new mini 4 inch chainsaw pruner and chipper giving my orchard the pruning it has not had for a couple of years. Could not have managed pruning with manual pruning saw. Best time is to be had outdoors with family can't beat the life
Whee! A Wisconsin expression at high summertime is that we got the harvest "comin' out our ears!" You've got tomatoes comin' outta your ears, Meg. Good thing your ears know how to preserve food. I love your idea for Magic Tomato Dust.
Oh no, I was wanting to see how Meg makes her sauce! I do declare that Meg lives by the "use it up" she talks about. She should write a cookbook!! I LOVE how your family all works together. I really appreciate and admire you guys. You are living my dream life!! I bet your family is proud of you. Your parents did a good job raising you guys and you guys are doing an awesome job as well. I look forward to your videos and just remember "this too shall pass" Buggy will be grown before you know it and so will your other boys (helpers). Savor the moments! They're gone too fast!
Meg and Ben, you both are an inspiration to us. You both have so many talents that we get to see. I just wanted to ask, How do your boys all feel about living where you are as compared to California? Maybe you could answer this on one of you vlogs. Thank you
Meg you are my hero!! The magic you work in your quaint kitchen inspires me. I too have a small kitchen and get overwhelmed trying to cook in it and then think about all the food you serve and preserve and it humbles me.
It is true, it's so hard to get wood chips, and they are useful in so many ways. In may years time, we may have actually gotten two loads of wood chips. Meg had a tough day with the work in the kitchen. I am so amazed at what all she can get done in a day. And with a little toddler helper to boot! And you guys get a ton accomplished as well....you are no slouches! :) Thanks for another great video!
THIS VIDEO is why so many LOVE TO VISIT WITH YOUR FAMILY!!! But you don't really give credit who makes up these videos, but I think it's the Mrs.? so MEG if it is you or with some other help, I have to hand it to you, this video was such a creative example of how enjoyable it is to watch the progress of the HOLLAR HOMESTEAD (when we get a breather from our day's end). What blessings you have been gifted with by God through the agencies of your audience, like the woodchopper & that fabulous tractor, all the contraptions you use in the house to facilitate all the many workings required to build up the land & the hard work of each family member's enthusiasm to prosper& progress the land you chose to put your family roots into!! the musical accents tell the story so well I have to hand it to you, you all show the saga so well with so many talents - even that you can take that woodchopper, take that thing apart & sharpen the blade & make the plan to get those piggies to work ferreting out the mess, put the chickens on the job to make the compost. All bringing into reality THE DREAM FOR YOUR FAMILY & generously sharing it with us to learn & enjoy from your dear hearts!!. THE TREASURE IS Y'ALL ~ THOSE HARD WORKIN' HOLLARS!!!
Thank you, Meg, dear heart. Love seeing the little one. So then, there goes Ben and a few c h i d l i n g s. Really love your channel. The children look forward to some yum.
Meg do you ever get any time for yourself ???? You are amazing.. Do you do anything beside cooking and preserving? I don't know how you do all you do ! .. Buggy is so adorable when she bows her head to pray ! Your boys are really good brothers to her .. I bet they adore her ! They are super helpers too !!!! Ben is pretty amazing too ! You guys work so hard !!!
Love to see your abundance. Here in Texas most gardens produced nothing due to heat and water. Gardeners can count on nothing and be grateful for everything they get.
Those tomatoes look incredible. Nice job Meg in making the spaghetti sauce and cutting, seasoning, and dehydrating the cucumbers. Too bad the wood chipper blade got dulled by the dead trees. It looks a lot better from what you have already done Ben. You guys have had to work hard to clean up the land. Wow, those cabbage rolls look fantastic Meg! You are so good at providing food for your family Meg. That's great that you make tomato powder too. That wood chip/compost building with the chickens is a great idea. Thanks for this Hollars!
I had a chipper like that one. I used it for years I kept trimming all my trees up to 8 feet high and thinned them out so Sun light can reach the ground at a couple of times a day so Grass could grow and livestock could brouse. I added the wood chips in with my compost pile and added it my chicken pens and used the chips in the Barn to make it easier to clean out and place in the compost.
Laughing at Buggie and Meg.... Evidently that girl can eat! Your boys are amazing helpers. Your family is great!
Buggie is so smart and just soaking in all mom is showing. Meg is a great multi tasker. Love it great video👍🏽
Love how the baby puts her head down in prayer before eating. She does what she sees and it’s beautiful. Meg is at her kingdom when she cooks and I love it. Blessed you and your children for the lovely examples they have.
I empathize with Meg’s deep sigh when she sat down to dinner. She’s such a hard worker… you all are.
I noticed that too! ♥ She is amazing! My heart goes out to mamas with small children. The days are long but the years are short. It goes by so fast.
Yes! I came here to say I felt that deep sigh to my core, Meg. 💕💕 we all have days like that.
I LOVED it when the family held hands before giving thanks for dinner, sweet little buggie bowed her head too, she’s such a pretty child, Meg, I don’t know where you get your energy, your family is beautiful!
They always do this before each meal! So nice!
@@janh519 I know, I love that they do that, I thought it was so sweet when Buggie bowed he little head too!
Meg is working in her kitchen all day every day! Even though she loves the preserving of food that she does, she gets tired. She also has a little toddler that’s a full time job, too! Yet she continues to do all the canning and preserving of food she must, as she knows the season will be over soon! Also, she prepares meals for her family. Ben stays busy, too, and, wow, he is adding to his outdoor equipment! Great job, Megan! My mother did gardening, canning and preserving of food, along with helping my dad, a farmer, any time she could. I admire these people!
Corbin and Brett are such hard workers. Watching them cut down trees, chip the wood, load the tractor and get the heap ready for the next load, I'm impressed with their work ethic. Buggy sweeping up her mess was so sweet, she is learning fast. Meg, the way you stopped and helped her was so loving ❤.
Meg, I love to watch you cook and have Buggy by your side in the kitchen!
Meg your exhale at the dinner table when you begin to pray. Such a loving mother and wife. So evident that you do it all with your whole heart❤️
Poor Meg. You looked like someone stepped on your last nerve! I have those days during harvest and preserving time too. You have a beautiful family. I love how patiently you let Buggie help.
Oh Biggie ❣️❣️❣️. When she came walking in with the broom to clean up her mess, and did a great job sweeping, oh my heart! Then when you say down to dinner and she put her head almost on the table for prayer, again, too, too sweet! You know that baby is well loved!! 😍😍😍😍😍❣️
What a great family. Your sons are such a joy to watch how they pitch in and help the homestead work. My son raised his four kids reiterating often, "this is our home" we work, we play, we love, and that is the definition of a "family".
I love that saying!
My husband and I raised three sons! Nothing sweeter than watching all my guys work together, mostly in harmony.
Blessings
Meg, you work so hard to make sure the family is fed well, I swear you are squeezing every bit of goodness out of what you all produce. I would have never thought to make vegetable powder. Great idea! I love to see what you and Ben do. You both are amazing!❤️
You guys great children amazing !! Great that everything worked out you as a couple!! This world is hardcore!! May the lord keep blessing you with great knowledge because you are young!!
I do agree! Meg works so hard in that kitchen!!! Love what you and Ben do on your acreage!!!
Can you give the RUclips channel of the woman you were talking about that has the cow and dairy recipes so I can check out their homesteading channel on RUclips I don't know how to find it in the comments
1) YES!!! - so glad to see someone dehydrating the tomato skins for use in rubs, soups, stew, and BBQ sauce. Entered mine into the Fair this year and got a Blue Ribbon!
2) We got lucky with wood chips. The arborists in our area actually followed through and delivered three loads. You are correct - you can never have too many chips!
3) Yours sons sure are a big help!
Best wishes from Kate in Olympia, WA - 8/2/2022.
Oh, sweet Buggy, on both sides of the spectrum: from the ultimate fun sweeping to almost exhaustion after the day of her "help"!!!!OMG, the chipper and the tractor, if only you could have had them when you started...but thank God for having them now, such a blessing!
Praying for piggies! Busy up to your eyeballs yet taking time to teach Buggie! You a a great mother Meg. I see it with all your kids.
Great wood chip compost pile. Love the boys helping out so well. Meg , you are a kitchen work horse. You get so much done and in a small space. I bow to you my dear. 💜💕💜
I just love seeing buggie doing all the things. She is the cutest little thing ever! We need more footage of Meg in the kitchen. That tired mom sigh at the dinner table, a mom's work is never done.
That deep exhale as mama sat down to supper said it all. Thanks to all the hard working mama's 💪
Buggy is so cute bowing her head for the blessings. Made my day.
I love it when Buggy peeks up from Grace to make sure she is on the same page as everyone else. She will quickly lift her head, open her eyes, then just as quickly bow her head and continue with Grace. Soooo cute!
Produce preserving takes so much time but so worth it. Great job Meg!!
So nice to see the boys working with Ben, learning what projects can help grow the homestead. These are priceless lessons that they will take with as they venture out into the world - learning how to learn and chipping in to help. Working together is the answer to success.
Ben I'm a grandma of two beautiful little boys. It's so lovely to see that you have little helpers. They're just delightful.
You are a natural momma !, I love the way you teach your young ones, great job ! Also, after watching your home-steading journey...., I feel like you have become one of the best homesteaders out there; brave, real, thankful , energetic and free-spirited and focus-driven in getting the job/quest done. I appreciate your diversity in subjects and your family connection in making the home-stead awesome. You are both tough as steel and wise in your skills of many , thanks for teaching us want-to-be's )
Great to see your boys hard at work right alongside you. Love to see little Buggie help mom in the kitchen... anyway she can... tasting and sampling at times :) Those are the hard days of summer but Meg, you work hard in that hot kitchen and put your heart into preserving every ounce of food for the cold days of winter. Hats off to you Hollars for showing us what homesteading is all about!
Greetings from Costa Rica. Love how your farm is doing. You are an example of really hard working family. God bless.
Ben and Meg I must say that I remember how you shared the starting of your journey on this property and having little to no infrastructure I'm so impressed with where you are currently and the direction which you plan on going for continued improvement on the property. Thanks for sharing 👍
Thank you for NOT filming a
time-lapse at meal time.
Today, just a few seconds of you sitting together as a family to eat was a beautiful & peaceful scene.
Love watching Buggie bow her head when you say Grace at the table. Precious!! ❤️
I ABSOLUTELY LOVE watching your boys help you with chores and stuff outside and little Buggie inside helping too!! Great FaMiLy!!!
Baby girl is very smart. I love when she bows her head before dinner for prayer. So sweet
Sidetracked in the moment is awesome, those moments are what shows what type family you are, love that about you and Meg
To me Meg has the hardest job to do just preparing the food. She needs all the praise and hugs she can get! One lucky man!
Awe Meg thought you were close to tears. Some days can be a test. God bless you all beautiful family.
💚 Glad to hear you got the Blessing several good inches of rain! Wonderful works going on, both in the kitchen, and in the wood-chipping department. 💚
Meg I just wanted to share a family secret with you all the way from the Middle East from my lovely grandma. If you sauté the onions and peppers and garlic first and get some color or canalizations on them and add tomatoes last then your sauce has this huge burst of flavor ❤️
CARMELIZATION is the word you mean in English, yes? good point but she probably knows but had to get so much done in one day including making this video for us while taking care of the youngest blessing of the Hollar Clan too in between muffins!!!
Thank you for sharing your family secret❣❣
Future HOMESTEADER here. Absolutely love watching you guys. You guys are LIVING A GOOD LIFE.....
Best of luck on your journey, working on mine too!😊
that shot of you hauling woodchips with the tractor while the boys are piling it up is just awesome!
Oh Momma! How you manage to get anything done with a toddler around blows my mind. I struggle to make a cup of coffee with my one year old! Great job.
Love how your little girl bows her head for the blessing. Well trained!
Wow! Buggy has graduated from her tray to eat at the table! I remember those days with my kids! Now it’s great grand kids! You just blink!
Was watching some of your first videos. You have accomplished what you set out to do. Having time with your children is amazing. Looking at a moth is time well spent! Letting your little girl help is time well spent. All your children are already helping your homestead grow. Each time I see them help It just makes my day. The long-term results will be wonderful. Not perfect but there will be plenty of joy in the years to come. Tears too but for the most part the joy wins out every time! Love your woodchips! Love every bit of your cooking. Take care! Prayer and love!
really enjoyed the video with Meg working with the tomato sauces, the wood chipping and all the work of the "helpers" great to see the family working together. have a great week
Super family! I love the way you both take time to show your kids how to do things and allow them to help. They will be light years ahead of city kids in life skills and common sense. God bless your little homestead.
excellent comment!!
Ben and Meg, you’re raising up such a beautiful family. God bless you always. Meg thank you for showing the cucumber chips. ❤️
It's really good to see the kids. Buggy is learning how to sweep, and the boys running the chipper. And Daddy playing with his new toy.
Meg, you are truly super woman! I hope your family knows how fortunate they are to have you…you are always in the kitchen cooking amazing meals! Ben works so hard also… y’all are an awesome family and we love your channel… God bless y’all!
of course they do & so do we, and guess what? we get to watch the videos she makes too that make us so happy!
You are the best in the kitchen, Meg! Buggie bowing her little head….priceless ❤️
melts my heart every time🥰
What a sweet baby girl she made a mess and sweeps it up. You are such a wonderful family.
What a beautiful family you have! Love when Buggie bows her head for the blessing. 🙏🏻🥰
that part always caught me when its dinner time 😂
Love wood chips thanks so much for posting this, you given some valuable reasons for wood chips!! Yahoo!! So great to see Meg in the kitchen sharing what to do with the harvest! So encouraging! So glad y’all settled in NC- isn’t it great here?! We’re in southeastern with a 3Burdeie bed garden working on veggies and a few fruit trees🤗 we’ve had blueberries for several years which are great and we put in blackberries and a fig tree this year! Love being out in the garden😘🤗!! Bless you all and thanks for the videos which help us all in so many ways!!
Thank You for making this video and sharing your day with us!
Oh and Ben offering Meg a hug was so sweet. Hope you took him up on the offer at a later time. My husband's hugs are one of the things I miss most since he passed.
Hang in there with the wood chips, Ben. If any of those trucks have a name on it, call them...or any other tree service you can find.... even the County you live in or one nearby. The Fit Farmer gets a lot of them from the trees along the County Roads and I remember Art and Bri used to get some too. Art also knew where he could get Bamboo...i don't know how they break down. He use to make a teepee like set up for tomatoes and other climbing things. You can always learn from neighbors. You can make beautiful flooring out of Bamboo. Again you can use that creativity and come up with a lot of things. I love your family. Good Luck with everything you do.
You guys are the best. I think you will have the best memories about your life together. Good luck. Resolve, bravery, Family and hard work. The story of America. You are so refreshing!
Buggy dropped her little head and prayed so cute. You are prospering. Everything looks good. I know canning is hard. Everyone used to go to bed and I was still watching canners
God love you Meg, you looked so tired cranking away at the squeezo, but just think about opening jars of sauce in the winter! You seem to be such a hard working gentle sweet Mama to your kiddos!! You are doing fantastic job!!!!
Ben, those boys helping with those wood chips are such a big help! Great job boys! Great job Ben for teaching them homesteading!
Meg, I feel your arm pain as you turn that handle! My brother (a lazy engineer-in-training) had a genius idea last year as I was on my third day of straining tomatoes for soup.
He wandered outside, got a drill, took off the strainer's hand crank, fitted the drill onto it, and thus was born the drill-powered Victorio strainer.
It worked like a dream, and I am never going back to human-powered squeezo-ing if I can help it. Not only was that setup so much easier on my arms and back, it also took less than half the time to turn those tomatoes into puree - a wonderful time savings when one has a half-acre garden in full production and three canning projects lined up for the day.
Meg, you've been working your fingers to the bone. Cabbage rolls, tomato sauce, cucumber chips, muffins....oh my. I must say, today I made your Zuchinni Bread. I waited 10 minutes, then cut a piece for myself. OMG, thank you for the recipe. I will be throwing my old recipe in the trash, and adding yours to my notebook. I made a quick instagram post about using your recipe, and referred everyone to your Saturday's vlog post.
Ben, wood chips come in handy for just about anything. It's great getting the big trucks to drop their loads....when you can get them. We have a Troy Built wood chipper, it works just like yours but doesn't provide the quantity you'd get from a large truck.
The trash your uncovering, be careful snakes sure like that stuff to use to bed around or in.
I love watching your family. You both work so hard. I love the way your boys will jump in and help you both. Little buggy is adorable I just love the way she wants to help mom with food whenever she can do she can get a bite. lol My favorite thing she does is here praying. She watches mom, when she is ready to pray at meal time. That little love puts her head down as far as she can. I just love your family. God Bless you all.
The sigh Meg let out during the blessing said it all. Hang in their Momma. Believe it or not some day you’ll miss this. That being said, can you hook up a battery operated drill to your food mill? 🤣
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The visual that gave me is hilarious🤣thanks!
My brother set up our strainer with a drill for me last year after a particularly trying long day of preserving, and I am never going back to hand-operated. It saved me hours, possibly days, of work, and I'll definitely be doing it again this year.
@@e.c.5994 Can you share a link to plans or pictures to Ben and the older kids to help Meg out ?? I think their email is in the ’about’ section on their channel page
The dehydrated tomato skin powder can be used to make red pasta!
Your children are such good and willing workers. They will be so knowledgeable by the time they are marriage age. Well done faithful servants.
Hi, Ben and Meg! You two are always working and so are the boys and Buggy.
That sigh Meg, I felt it for you. You put in a day but I have a feeling you enjoy being busy like that.
I just adore it when I see Buggy bow her head to pray. So cute!
Never get tired of seeing what y’all are up to awesome family praying together staying together y’all are raising young Americans that’s going to be our future great job parents !
Meg, you always make produce to take care of. There are days when the babies just get in the way, to say the least. Love the chicken compost. Very clever.
You guys are such hard workers, each has their expertise & it makes the Team work. Just awesome. I cant believe Buggie is using a fork already! she seems so advanced for her age.
Watching your family grow and GROW over the years, and now Buggie into a mommy helper makes me wish I could start all over and follow my heart. I pray for God's continuous blessings on yoy all.
You were not joking about that shredder being a beast! It deals with whole trees! And your lads are really organised. They do their jobs so efficiently.
I love the way Buggy bows her head for prayer. Dinner looked amazing. My farmer won't eat cabbage, but I would belly right up yo your table. Mmmmmm.
Love your sweet family. That baby girl is so precious and serious about her food 😂
She knows good food🤣
Ben, your a raindrop...thanks for thinking about mother earth 🌍
Love to bake and cook, and love watching you Meg as you cut up your foods! Only me so I make note of your cooking and then smallersize it! 😅 I enjoyed seeing the clearance and chipping of the dead trees. Always wobderful to see the family helping! Area looks better even by that, like the shade too. Thanks! Happy Days! ☀️👏😁🤗🥰🙏🏻🥘👩🍳🌳🌳
My Mother was Polish. The stuffed cabbage filling was ground beef, cooked rice, onion & egg. The sauce was tomato, vinegar & sugar. Served with mashed potatoes and that tomato sauce as gravy. YUMMY!
That's exactly how we make and eat cabbage rolls here in PA.!
And we call them pig in a blankets
So glad to see you getting to use your tractor to move that stuff. My knees were hurting when you used you wheelbarrow back and forth up and down those little hills.
Meg puts her heart and soul into everything. 🙂
I see Ms. Buggy has graduated to big girl status and sits at the table on this episode. She is getting so big and it's been such a joy to see her grow up along side her brothers. Children are a blessing of the Lord and yours are wonderful!!!!!
Saw that deep breath and sigh as you sat down for dinner mom :) You are doing a very good job being patient and teaching the little one. However it is very clear who rules the roost in your house :)
and she makes videos for us to watch!!
THANK YOU for showing some hard moments and that preserving and making things with little kids is hard sometimes!! I so look up to you and all you do for the family ♡♡ Its an inspiration and encouragement to me!
I think your daughter would ENJOY a broom her size. My daughter's loved them with their little aprons. Oh, so cute. When she prays with you for dinner, she bends her way over. She is growing up so fast. Maybe another little sister for her. She'll
be playing with the FIT FARMER'S baby very soon.
When I had two little sister's playing. They had each other to play with. As you know with twin son's. I think it was easier than one child. Love and PRAYING with you FROM S E MICHIGAN 🇺🇸
I was think the same thing…lol
When you mulch pine trees the mulch kills off beneficial bacteria and nematodes in your soil. But it's good fore fire wood.🧡🧡🧡🧡
Meg - thank you for showing reality. You are an amazing mom, and extremely patient with Buggie wanting to “help”, but toddlers are exhausting as well as wonderful. 🙄🤣. All parents have moments when they want their beloved child to just GO AWAY. 😆
I am 74 and have just spent a very enjoyable 2 days using my new mini 4 inch chainsaw pruner and chipper giving my orchard the pruning it has not had for a couple of years. Could not have managed pruning with manual pruning saw. Best time is to be had outdoors with family can't beat the life
Whee! A Wisconsin expression at high summertime is that we got the harvest "comin' out our ears!" You've got tomatoes comin' outta your ears, Meg. Good thing your ears know how to preserve food. I love your idea for Magic Tomato Dust.
Oh no, I was wanting to see how Meg makes her sauce! I do declare that Meg lives by the "use it up" she talks about. She should write a cookbook!! I LOVE how your family all works together. I really appreciate and admire you guys. You are living my dream life!! I bet your family is proud of you. Your parents did a good job raising you guys and you guys are doing an awesome job as well. I look forward to your videos and just remember "this too shall pass" Buggy will be grown before you know it and so will your other boys (helpers). Savor the moments! They're gone too fast!
Meg and Ben, you both are an inspiration to us. You both have so many talents that we get to see. I just wanted to ask, How do your boys all feel about living where you are as compared to California? Maybe you could answer this on one of you vlogs. Thank you
Meg you are my hero!! The magic you work in your quaint kitchen inspires me. I too have a small kitchen and get overwhelmed trying to cook in it and then think about all the food you serve and preserve and it humbles me.
It is true, it's so hard to get wood chips, and they are useful in so many ways. In may years time, we may have actually gotten two loads of wood chips. Meg had a tough day with the work in the kitchen. I am so amazed at what all she can get done in a day. And with a little toddler helper to boot!
And you guys get a ton accomplished as well....you are no slouches! :) Thanks for another great video!
Buggie The little house keeper. 😍
THIS VIDEO is why so many LOVE TO VISIT WITH YOUR FAMILY!!! But you don't really give credit who makes up these videos, but I think it's the Mrs.? so MEG if it is you or with some other help, I have to hand it to you, this video was such a creative example of how enjoyable it is to watch the progress of the HOLLAR HOMESTEAD (when we get a breather from our day's end). What blessings you have been gifted with by God through the agencies of your audience, like the woodchopper & that fabulous tractor, all the contraptions you use in the house to facilitate all the many workings required to build up the land & the hard work of each family member's enthusiasm to prosper& progress the land you chose to put your family roots into!! the musical accents tell the story so well I have to hand it to you, you all show the saga so well with so many talents - even that you can take that woodchopper, take that thing apart & sharpen the blade & make the plan to get those piggies to work ferreting out the mess, put the chickens on the job to make the compost. All bringing into reality THE DREAM FOR YOUR FAMILY & generously sharing it with us to learn & enjoy from your dear hearts!!. THE TREASURE IS Y'ALL ~ THOSE HARD WORKIN' HOLLARS!!!
Thank you, Meg, dear heart. Love seeing the little one. So then, there goes Ben and a few c h i d l i n g s. Really love your channel. The children look forward to some yum.
Meg do you ever get any time for yourself ???? You are amazing.. Do you do anything beside cooking and preserving? I don't know how you do all you do ! .. Buggy is so adorable when she bows her head to pray ! Your boys are really good brothers to her .. I bet they adore her ! They are super helpers too !!!! Ben is pretty amazing too ! You guys work so hard !!!
PAMELA YOU SAID IT!!! and she makes the videos we watch with the musical accents too, not just editing!!!
Those boys are just like their parents , really good workers.👍🇬🇧
You guys are such hard workers! I 🙏 pray good wishes for your family. Love your videos.
okay, having "Fargo" flashbacks! Such a nice sturdy chipper, muahaha!
Love to see your abundance. Here in Texas most gardens produced nothing due to heat and water. Gardeners can count on nothing and be grateful for everything they get.
yeah!! they do it first with prayer to the One who blesses!!
Those tomatoes look incredible. Nice job Meg in making the spaghetti sauce and cutting, seasoning, and dehydrating the cucumbers. Too bad the wood chipper blade got dulled by the dead trees. It looks a lot better from what you have already done Ben. You guys have had to work hard to clean up the land. Wow, those cabbage rolls look fantastic Meg! You are so good at providing food for your family Meg. That's great that you make tomato powder too. That wood chip/compost building with the chickens is a great idea. Thanks for this Hollars!
SHARE them with your circles, they work hard on those videos!! They deserve a bigger audience!!
I had a chipper like that one.
I used it for years I kept trimming all my trees up to 8 feet high and thinned them out so Sun light can reach the ground at a couple of times a day so Grass could grow and livestock could brouse. I added the wood chips in with my compost pile and added it my chicken pens and used the chips in the Barn to make it easier to clean out and place in the compost.