wow! This woman at her age and she is spectacular! she looks radiance, happy and she has a beautiful smile! I would like to see myself as beautiful as you when she is her age.
This is Don responding to your note. Yes, Brenda is spectacular and her beautiful smile is the same one I fell in love with 47 years ago when she was 14 (I was 16). Her goofy husband kept her laughing over the years so she never lost the warmth in her smile. Thanks for watching. Don.
Great job preserving! Soups are one thing I need to do more of. This year I did something new! Instead of blanching our tomatoes to remove the skins for making sauces, canned tomatoes, and such, I roasted them. This gave them so much flavor! I saved all the skins, dehydrated them, and then grounded them into powder. The powder can be used to make paste or to flavor soups, stews, casseroles, eggs, and any other dish you want to add tomato flavor to. My mother's favorite saying...waste not, want not!
Careful, wise stewards of the foodstuffs you have. Not modern day peppers but old fashioned, no nonsense stewards. I spent my summers helping my mom. We would plant a garden, harvest the vegetables and can them in various forms. Her goal was to have 52 jars of each item. She was a single mom of 4 children in the 70s. Things are much more challenging then. It didn't matter if she had fewer hours at work one week, or if she had to take a day to care for a sick child. I remember her always being worried about having enough gas money. So she pinched pennies every where to save up for gas. She would garage sale and go to salvation army to get sheets, curtains and extra large clothes. She would cut them up and sew our clothes. She was a skilled, talented, hard working mom. Watching your delight and pride reminded me of her.
Love all the space you have. All the work you've done canning is amazing. We've just started a year ago with peaches, apricot and peach jam. This year we've done peaches and pears and will be doing marinara, salsa, apple sauce, apple pie filling and maybe apple cider. I would love a cold cellar but we are doing "suburban farming" with our backyard chickens and fruit trees and bushes groomed flat and short to go all along our backyard fence, so we don't have much space to store things. They say to store water in all your empty jars for emergencies and have a Berkey Filter to filter the water if you ever needed to use it. I'm starting to do that with my jars.
It's such a good feeling to have food on hand that we grew and to know what is in everything. I think canning is a bit addictive... The more you do, the more you want to do. 😁 I've done a lot more this year than last year. Have fun!!!!
I just found your channel. I have watched several of your videos and enjoying them all. Thanks so much for making this video. I like to hear how you preserved your food. Again, thanks for sharing and have a blessed day1
Just found your channel and enjoy your homesteading excitement. I am now the 3rd generation on our farm. I never dreamed we would retire here. My grandparents raised everything they ate except for salt, sugar, coffee, tea, baking powder, baking soda and corn syrup. They also foraged the farm for things such as spring poke, nuts and berries. I wanted to mention the downside to limiting a freezer to a particular category such as beef. If the compressor goes out, you lose all the beef. I organize my freezers more by dates and we use the oldest first to rotate through. I freeze a lot of corn and place it in two different freezers so as not to lose all of it. The same goes for the meats so all is not lost in one freezer. Yes, I keep a list as things come and go on the top of each freezer. Each freezer is also numbered. My master list in the kitchen knows where everything is and how old it is. Thanks for a peak in the pantry and cellar. I love to see how other people organize their food storage.
You have some AMAZING suggestions. I never thought about the possibility of losing all of the food in a freezer. It would be much more efficient to have all of the oldest food in one freezer. I guess it's time to re-organize my freezers. 😀
@@waardenburgfamilyfarm4764 Thanks, I try to share what I know. Been at it a long time. I spent decades wanting larger property and waiting for the day when my spouses military career would come to a close. In the end, we wound up on a family farm. We carry on to mix the old with the new ways and traditions.
@@horticultureandhomes Being on a family farm makes it extra special. We are the first generation on the farm but our 3 children will eventually all build houses on the farm so hopefully it will remain in the family for generations to come. Much of this lifestyle is new to us so we are learning new things every day. It's much appreciated when someone with more experience can help us along the way. Thanks!
I had to laugh my dad makes fun of me for my inventory list I check every so often before I go shopping. Also, I have two freezers in the basement one for meats and the other one for butter, cheese, and vegetables. I don't own a homestead yet, I have a large garden because of the COVID shortages, My Dad calls them World War Two gardens. I am enlarging them this year again and putting an irrigation system. I haven't tried canning yet.
If I don't use lists, I forget stuff. I always thought canning was complicated, but if you follow the recipes it's really fun and rewarding. The large gardens have really been wonderful during this time of shortages. It's such a relief to know you can always have food.
This was a very helpful video. Definitely going to use the bag idea in my deep freezer. Never thought about that. :) Please share about the varieties of plants that you have found that work. I would love to hear about that. Your farm is very timeless and beautiful!
New to your channel and watched all of your videos, I would love to see some recipe videos of your canning projects such as your berry syrups and i think I saw some pizza sauce love the cold storage!
Thanks for watching!! We'll try to do more of the canning videos this year. I'll definitely be making blackberry syrup and canning it this year. I'm looking forward to having that syrup on my sourdough waffles... Yum.
I love your food storage areas and root cellar. Your farm stand looks adorable and would love to see more of it. Do you have an Instagram channel.? Would like to see how you set up your farmstand
Love this video I too bought an older home and some property and we are working on the house and property trying to grow and preserve our own food . It’s a work in progress but it looks like yo guys have a great start
It's definitely a work in progress. Getting the garden established was a lot of work, but it's so rewarding when you see the amount of food you can grow. We wish you much luck as you take this journey.
I hope to try more new things this coming year. Sweet and Sour Chicken sounds yummy. We will most likely have a ton of tomatoes so I can try the tomato chutney too. Thanks!
Wow, I just found your channel this morning as I could not sleep, thanks to the RUclips recommendations. I am so impressed with everything you have done and I have only watched three of your videos so far. I love your suggestions on organizing your reach-in freezers, which will come in very helpful as my one freezer is just a mess. One thing I would like to suggest to you though would be to consider canning your soups. They will last 18+ months on the shelf, rather than just the 6-months in the freezer. Pressure canning can be a little scary at first, but once you've done it, you're going to love it. I can't wait to watch more of your videos as you are living my dream... Many Blessing to you both and your family. ~SuzyJC-in-Pataskala-Ohio/USA_04.03.2022~
Thanks!!! I'm glad you found us. I have watched videos about canning soups and will probably try that in the future. Our kids & grandkids make use of the frozen soups so the ones that are favorites don't usually stay in the freezer beyond a few months. Some of the other ones that aren't as popular probably should be canned. Thanks for the encouragement.
I just happen to come across this video! Looks like you are loving life. I saw you were sooooo close to 1,000 subs so had to join your followers! Congrats, and hope to get to know you more!
You forgot to say that the pieces of produce not good enough to even can get chucked to the chickens or thrown to your huge compost pile. Literally nothing wasted on the farm.
I used the recipe in "The All New Ball Book of Canning" and it was delicious!!! If you do a search on Google for "Ball Canning French Onion Soup" you'll find it.
Yes, I hear that raccoons can be very pesky, however we removed the corn cribs since we don't use them. Harvested corn goes to market right away. We do have cracked corn in 100 lb sacks in the barn to supplement the grass and hay that the beef cattle consume. Our farm cats keep the mice and rats away from the corn. We don't see many raccoons here...but they are in the region for sure. Thanks for watching!
Believe it or not, I've never caught a mouse in the larder or root cellar. I've set traps, just in case, but not a single mouse in 3+years. I do, however, catch them in my old farmhouse pantry and under the sink. I just keep traps set all of the time.
wow! This woman at her age and she is spectacular! she looks radiance, happy and she has a beautiful smile! I would like to see myself as beautiful as you when she is her age.
This is Don responding to your note. Yes, Brenda is spectacular and her beautiful smile is the same one I fell in love with 47 years ago when she was 14 (I was 16). Her goofy husband kept her laughing over the years so she never lost the warmth in her smile. Thanks for watching. Don.
You have me convinced...next year I will be canning blackberry syrup! 😀
It's worth it!!! Thanks for watching. 🙂
More videos please.. keep encouraging people, thanks!
Thank you so much. We hope that we are encouraging people. We are enjoying life and hope others will be willing to explore new things.
Great job preserving! Soups are one thing I need to do more of. This year I did something new! Instead of blanching our tomatoes to remove the skins for making sauces, canned tomatoes, and such, I roasted them. This gave them so much flavor! I saved all the skins, dehydrated them, and then grounded them into powder. The powder can be used to make paste or to flavor soups, stews, casseroles, eggs, and any other dish you want to add tomato flavor to. My mother's favorite saying...waste not, want not!
That's a great idea. I've given them to my chickens, but I think next year I'll do this and get the powder. Thanks!
Careful, wise stewards of the foodstuffs you have. Not modern day peppers but old fashioned, no nonsense stewards. I spent my summers helping my mom. We would plant a garden, harvest the vegetables and can them in various forms. Her goal was to have 52 jars of each item. She was a single mom of 4 children in the 70s. Things are much more challenging then. It didn't matter if she had fewer hours at work one week, or if she had to take a day to care for a sick child. I remember her always being worried about having enough gas money. So she pinched pennies every where to save up for gas. She would garage sale and go to salvation army to get sheets, curtains and extra large clothes. She would cut them up and sew our clothes. She was a skilled, talented, hard working mom. Watching your delight and pride reminded me of her.
She sounds like an amazing woman.
Love all the space you have. All the work you've done canning is amazing. We've just started a year ago with peaches, apricot and peach jam. This year we've done peaches and pears and will be doing marinara, salsa, apple sauce, apple pie filling and maybe apple cider. I would love a cold cellar but we are doing "suburban farming" with our backyard chickens and fruit trees and bushes groomed flat and short to go all along our backyard fence, so we don't have much space to store things. They say to store water in all your empty jars for emergencies and have a Berkey Filter to filter the water if you ever needed to use it. I'm starting to do that with my jars.
It's such a good feeling to have food on hand that we grew and to know what is in everything. I think canning is a bit addictive... The more you do, the more you want to do. 😁 I've done a lot more this year than last year. Have fun!!!!
I just found your channel. I have watched several of your videos and enjoying them all. Thanks so much for making this video. I like to hear how you preserved your food. Again, thanks for sharing and have a blessed day1
Thanks for watching. We continue to learn more/better ways to preserve food.
I make raspberry syrup- yum! New to your channel and so glad to find you 🥰
Awesome job I think you organized just fine
I learn new things every year and will probably tweak it as time goes by, but it's a good start.
Love your larder and root cellar. I too love preserving what I grow. Too bad we don’t have cellars around here.
We are very fortunate that we have those spaces to store food. It would present a challenge without them.
Just found your channel and enjoy your homesteading excitement. I am now the 3rd generation on our farm. I never dreamed we would retire here. My grandparents raised everything they ate except for salt, sugar, coffee, tea, baking powder, baking soda and corn syrup. They also foraged the farm for things such as spring poke, nuts and berries.
I wanted to mention the downside to limiting a freezer to a particular category such as beef. If the compressor goes out, you lose all the beef. I organize my freezers more by dates and we use the oldest first to rotate through. I freeze a lot of corn and place it in two different freezers so as not to lose all of it. The same goes for the meats so all is not lost in one freezer. Yes, I keep a list as things come and go on the top of each freezer. Each freezer is also numbered. My master list in the kitchen knows where everything is and how old it is.
Thanks for a peak in the pantry and cellar. I love to see how other people organize their food storage.
You have some AMAZING suggestions. I never thought about the possibility of losing all of the food in a freezer. It would be much more efficient to have all of the oldest food in one freezer. I guess it's time to re-organize my freezers. 😀
@@waardenburgfamilyfarm4764 Thanks, I try to share what I know. Been at it a long time. I spent decades wanting larger property and waiting for the day when my spouses military career would come to a close. In the end, we wound up on a family farm. We carry on to mix the old with the new ways and traditions.
@@horticultureandhomes Being on a family farm makes it extra special. We are the first generation on the farm but our 3 children will eventually all build houses on the farm so hopefully it will remain in the family for generations to come.
Much of this lifestyle is new to us so we are learning new things every day. It's much appreciated when someone with more experience can help us along the way. Thanks!
I had to laugh my dad makes fun of me for my inventory list I check every so often before I go shopping. Also, I have two freezers in the basement one for meats and the other one for butter, cheese, and vegetables. I don't own a homestead yet, I have a large garden because of the COVID shortages, My Dad calls them World War Two gardens. I am enlarging them this year again and putting an irrigation system. I haven't tried canning yet.
If I don't use lists, I forget stuff. I always thought canning was complicated, but if you follow the recipes it's really fun and rewarding. The large gardens have really been wonderful during this time of shortages. It's such a relief to know you can always have food.
I love blackberry syrup and I too made only 3 jars the first time and had to make more the second time
Yeah, that's a lesson I will not forget. We are now out of blackberry syrup and I'm looking forward to making more berry syrup this year.
This was a very helpful video. Definitely going to use the bag idea in my deep freezer. Never thought about that. :) Please share about the varieties of plants that you have found that work. I would love to hear about that. Your farm is very timeless and beautiful!
The bags are very handy. As far as variety of plants, we might do a video about that at the end of the gardening season. Thanks for watching.
I love you basement
New to your channel and watched all of your videos, I would love to see some recipe videos of your canning projects such as your berry syrups and i think I saw some pizza sauce love the cold storage!
Thanks for watching!! We'll try to do more of the canning videos this year. I'll definitely be making blackberry syrup and canning it this year. I'm looking forward to having that syrup on my sourdough waffles... Yum.
Love you channel.
Thanks!! We're so glad you found us. 🙂
I love your food storage areas and root cellar. Your farm stand looks adorable and would love to see more of it. Do you have an Instagram channel.? Would like to see how you set up your farmstand
Thanks. We don't have an Instagram, but there are some pics on our Facebook page... Waardenburg Family Farm. Thanks for watching. 🙂
This is so much fun
I LOVE having all of that food preserved. :)
Well done. Lots of hard work. Thanks for sharing
Love this video I too bought an older home and some property and we are working on the house and property trying to grow and preserve our own food . It’s a work in progress but it looks like yo guys have a great start
It's definitely a work in progress. Getting the garden established was a lot of work, but it's so rewarding when you see the amount of food you can grow. We wish you much luck as you take this journey.
We have sweet and sour chicken on our shelves. Highly recommend tomato chutney. Enjoy "putting up" the produce and fruit.
I hope to try more new things this coming year. Sweet and Sour Chicken sounds yummy. We will most likely have a ton of tomatoes so I can try the tomato chutney too. Thanks!
Love it
Thanks!!!
Wow, I just found your channel this morning as I could not sleep, thanks to the RUclips recommendations. I am so impressed with everything you have done and I have only watched three of your videos so far. I love your suggestions on organizing your reach-in freezers, which will come in very helpful as my one freezer is just a mess. One thing I would like to suggest to you though would be to consider canning your soups. They will last 18+ months on the shelf, rather than just the 6-months in the freezer. Pressure canning can be a little scary at first, but once you've done it, you're going to love it. I can't wait to watch more of your videos as you are living my dream... Many Blessing to you both and your family.
~SuzyJC-in-Pataskala-Ohio/USA_04.03.2022~
Thanks!!! I'm glad you found us. I have watched videos about canning soups and will probably try that in the future. Our kids & grandkids make use of the frozen soups so the ones that are favorites don't usually stay in the freezer beyond a few months. Some of the other ones that aren't as popular probably should be canned. Thanks for the encouragement.
I just happen to come across this video! Looks like you are loving life. I saw you were sooooo close to 1,000 subs so had to join your followers! Congrats, and hope to get to know you more!
Thanks so much for the subscription. We are definitely loving life. 😁
You forgot to say that the pieces of produce not good enough to even can get chucked to the chickens or thrown to your huge compost pile. Literally nothing wasted on the farm.
Yes, good point Anna!
Do you have a canning recipe for the French onion soup? How did it taste?
I used the recipe in "The All New Ball Book of Canning" and it was delicious!!! If you do a search on Google for "Ball Canning French Onion Soup" you'll find it.
Prepsteaders....
Have you tried a freeze dryer?
That will probably be our next purchase as we explore ways of perserving food. Our son REALLY wants us to get one. 😁
I second this! We would pitch in some for it. Our family loves freeze dried granny Smith apples.
@@annabarry8694 wow, I guess we'll have to buy one since two of our kids want one. 😁
Do the raccoons pull the corn out of the cribs?
Yes, I hear that raccoons can be very pesky, however we removed the corn cribs since we don't use them. Harvested corn goes to market right away. We do have cracked corn in 100 lb sacks in the barn to supplement the grass and hay that the beef cattle consume. Our farm cats keep the mice and rats away from the corn. We don't see many raccoons here...but they are in the region for sure. Thanks for watching!
Potatoes need temp 50 or below
We now have our roof cellar ready, so hopefully they will last longer this year. Thanks for watching!
Do you ever have a rodent problem in the cellar
Believe it or not, I've never caught a mouse in the larder or root cellar. I've set traps, just in case, but not a single mouse in 3+years. I do, however, catch them in my old farmhouse pantry and under the sink. I just keep traps set all of the time.