Finding Magic in the Gardens of Appalachia
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- Опубликовано: 18 окт 2024
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When you feel down and out, nothing is more heart warming, calm and peaceful than watching these videos. Thank you Tipper and Matt!!!
This is true, Debbie. I think maybe because Tipper and Matt love what they are doing. It’s beautiful to watch them work on the land they love.
(If you’ve not ever seen it, look up The Farm Sparrow. The videos usually are very short. Sometimes she talks, sometimes not. She has lovely, inspirational, heart warming videos as well.)
the simple pleasures (and necessities) or life :)
I love the Farm Sparrow also !
@@bettytenney4353
They are lovely videos, are they not?
The Farm Sparrow loves her land and her life as much as Tipper and Matt love theirs. All those orphaned sheep that they have to feed though!!! ❤️🤍💙
Yes, I always look forward to watching these after work 😆
The sound when the bean hits the container is almost as sweet as the ping when the jar seals....wonderful beans
It is a great sound 😀
I love hearing them snap when you break them... I could do that all day!
@@osmadchlo I’ve done that most of my life and every veg.
Chickens 🐓 LOVE ❤️ to eat Japanese beetles 👍🏻
Someone down below made the statement that they were jealous of your garden.... good grief , I am jealous of your entire life ! That awesome man sitting there by your side who obviously loves you to distraction , your two healthy wholesome girls , your Mother still with you and able to get around . Yeah lady ,you are truly , truly blessed ! And I am happy for yall....
Thank you for the kind words! I am blessed for sure 😀
The magical spot to me as a child was under the neighbors grape arbor. When it was completely covered we played house under it all day long. It was cool and shady. We had quite the setup, not to mention all the grapes we wanted. Be blessed.
Sounds like a wonderful place to be 😀
Thank you for reminding me of my special spot on a summer's day. I had a treehouse, a platform really, up in the branches of our plum tree. We played all sorts of imaginary games there, but even better was to just lie up there and stuff ourselves with ripe plums so juicy that the juice dripped down your chin.
Treasure those moments with your husband! I had mine for 50 years..we worked together on most outside jobs. In 2016 he built me a tall fenced area that the deer couldn’t reach. Sadly he is gone now & I have a lifetime of memories. I really enjoy your channel.
I'm sorry you lost him but glad you have those wonderful memories 😀
One of my favourite types videos! I feel like I’m sitting with you guys under the shade. Thank you Tipper and Matt! 😊🇨🇦
Only thing mussing is coffee, sweet tea, Or lemonade . :)
The sparkle in your eyes when you’re talking about your garden is priceless. Glad you enjoy it so much. My daughter calls gardening ‘dirt therapy’. 😊👍
Love that 😀
You guys are a great example of how a couple could be and should be, working together and just enjoying each others company
Thank you for sharing that wonderful view of those wonderful crops and the magic in it all, loved it!
Thank you from Kentucky
I’m from Alabama and we’ve always grown rattlesnake beans. They are one of the best producers. I’m glad you’re enjoying them. Your garden looks so pretty and clean!
Tipper, believe it or not, in the Midwest, if you’re next to a cornfield (a farmer’s field), you can actually hear the corn grow on a hot & humid summer’s day.
When I was able to do it, I would take a pop bottle 1/2 full of water and flick those disgusting Japanese beetles into it, off the raspberry plants, while saying, “die, you nasty buggers!” They couldn’t hear me, but it made me feel better!
😀 Thank you Mary. I've heard that about the corn and would love to be able to hear it 😀
There is a special power in mother nature when she is so bounful! You have done a wonderful job with the piece of land you have! I really enjoyed watching you guys, and I learn all kinds of things too! I really would like to see you guys do a batch of dilly beans! I don’t grow beans but I want to buy some and try to make a small batch any tips would be appreciated! I wish the best for you and your family! Thanks again 💕💕WV
Thank you so much 😀
You are so blessed to have such a big and beautiful garden. I can only dream to garden on that scale. I have a small one with Peppers, Kale, Basil, Lettuce, Onions, tomatoes, radish, spaghetti squash and peas but that's about all the yard that I have room for. You and Matt have a piece of paradise. Thanks for the update on your magical place.
And it seems like last week when Tipper was looking through and sorting her seeds. Time seems to have sped up even more lately.
Thanks for sharing your garden thoughts. I am enjoying my garden - harvesting beans , tomatoes ,and peppers too. I had same thoughts today. I am proud of my garden and plan to take photos. Gardens are beautiful and provide wonderful food. God bless.
Sounds like yours is doing great!! It is such a joy 😀
You and women like you, are the richest people on earth!! And !! You make my life richer. The sound of jarflies are music to my ears !! They bring out such precious memories. I've heard people complain about the sound ....I love it....
Your garden is beautiful and bountiful!!
Thanks for sharing....❤❤❤
Speaking of bears....I had one on my back porch ....terrified me...
God has rewarded your hard work...
I watch you and The Deer Hunter rocking
and it warms my heart..... My Sweet Husband has been gone since 2012.....and I miss so...we would sit outside like that....
What a gorgeous garden! It’s been blistering and dry here in Indiana too. Been praying for rain and tempted to tack on a rain dance just in case it works 😂
😀 I hope you get some rain!!
@@CelebratingAppalachia thanks so much! 🙏🏻
I absolutely love these kind of videos! Some creators try too hard to give us content, just relax like Tipper and Matt do! Just know that some of us really do appreciate your videos! Wish I lived there instead of in the flatlands.
I appreciate that!
I'm so jealous of your garden. You and Matt are my garden heroes. I'm in McDonald TN and it has been really dry. It's been like Florida rained hard in Ooltewah but not in my valley. I call my land enchanted.
😀 How nice of you to say that! I love that-enchanted land! I bet it's just lovely. I hope you get some rain 😀
What a sweet way to share your love of all these things.Thanks for sharing with us.
I live in Collierville, Tennessee. Absolutely love our State.
I just love how you two work together in your garden 😊
I love popsicle time!!
Makes me miss my hubby David, who died 13 and 1/2 months ago.
I'm so sorry you lost him Rebecca!!
Sorry for your loss.
Love picking pole beans! I have planted rattle snake beans and they are growing quickly. So anxious to try them! Usually I plant Seychelles and Blue Lake.
Thank you Janet! Hope you like them 😀
The mulch y’all been adding sure makes your garden happy. 🙂
It does help 😀 Thank you for watching!
My wife has 20 guinea hens in her fenced garden. No pest problem at all.
Do they eat Japanese beetles???
@@carlabridgesmason3529 they will eat beetles and stink bugs. Great tick eaters.
@@MAM-cy3yy thanks! It’s settled, we’re getting guineas next spring.
Beautiful garden. I always loved going through the corn fields. At the time I never thought of as being “magical”, but looking back yes it was. I always loved gardening. When spring comes I am ready to get my hands in the dirt. I guess growing up on a farm, it is engrained in me. Blessings to you and Matt.
I love the whole process, too. And, when you see those beautiful jars filled with what you have harvested, well, there’s no better feeling. Y’all’s garden looks wonderful. And, Matt, the chicken manure and kerosene will fix Tipper’s hand up real good, won’t it??? Wahaaaaa. You need to think about selling it!! Lol♥️🙏🏼♥️
Hello pretty how are you and how’s the family as well hope everyone is fine ?
Your garden is looking so fantastic! Normally, I'm all about the popsicle break, but tonight you made me so hungry with that mess of green beans! I guess i know what I'll be doing tomorrow! 😊
😀 thank you
I am.no longer able to have a garden and miss it tremendously. I love watching anything to do with gardening. From planting, even weeding and finally harvesting !! Thank you both so much for sharing your gardening videos with us !! It brings so much peace to my heart and soul during these troubled times this world we live in nowadays. Helps me to forget about it all even if just cor a little while. Take care and I'll see you on your nexy video.
Glad you enjoyed this one 😀
😂😂”Taste like SPF 15” “I ain’t got no jump left”
😀 He's a hoot
@@CelebratingAppalachia yes he is! Matt just tickles me. I just keep waiting for his next deadpan funny.
I haven’t even began watching the video, and it brings me such peace and tranquillity. Takes me to a simpler time & place. Thank You Tipper!
I grew up in South Carolina spending most summers at my Grandparents farm but I’ve never heard of greasy beans until I watched your RUclips channel.
Wow you’re garden is doing so good. I just have tomatoes and cucumbers and a watermelon that I bought by accident and it’s actually doing good it’s got baby watermelons everywhere. It’s the first one I’ve ever had any luck with so I’m excited 😊
Yay for the watermelons 😀
My kids tell me that one of their greatest memories is the sound of the canner going.
There is just something peaceful, familiar & comforting about a garden.
The ends of your videos are so precious, with you and Matt just talkin. When you started laughing so hard about realizing the fingers on both hands were red from the blackberries, I started laughing just as hard! 🤍
😊 thank you
I believe there is "magic" in the garden, no matter where it may be. I see magic in the places you mentioned but I also see magic in the stands of sunflowers we grow. The bees and butterflies really enjoy these. The flowers give these special insects what they need to keep going and they also provide the pollination we need for our squash and zucchini.
This year we have planted tomatoes, peppers, squash, zucchini, bush beans, okra, sweet corn, onions, garlic, cucumbers, field peas, Irish potatoes and sweet potatoes. My wife and I have canned 60 quarts of tomatoes, 80 quarts of green beans, and a good many a jars of different pickles and relish. Just last night, I began planting seeds for our fall garden sets. Cabbage, collards, and kale. We will also direct sow turnip greens, carrots, beets and garlic.
Ya'll keep up the good work and great content!
I agree with Matt... coconut popsicles taste like suntan lotion. He's a trooper to eat them - waste nothing.
This was such a relaxing moment. Liked the sitting and quiet pauses. You all have a nice garden. My mouth was watering at the sight of those fresh beans!
I was contemplating getting some cattle panels, and you just convinced me to give it a try. Thank you.
I’m picking wild blackberries and wine berries now for jams. Garden is growing with taters, tomatoes, squash, herbs, and beans. It’s getting there but not as far as yours!
You all are so funny. Love it. Same way around hear when the kids are around.
Thank you Tipper. It's always enjoyable to see how your garden is doing.
Glad you enjoy it!
you guys remind of my mom and Dad (who have long since passed) they used to sit on the porch and sum up everything that happened that day and when a neighbor came by all the subjects were on the table and Mom would holler from the kichen "Who would like some cake or pie" or whatever she had made that day. I didn't realize then just what the good times were!!
We just moved to an old trailer in the country on 15 acres, it is magical for my 2 year old son- he turns 2 on the 25th- 20 big oaks in the front yard making a HUGE shady place for him to have adventures!! 🥰
That is so wonderful 😀
I came across your videos not long ago and it brings me back to my childhood spending time with my great, great aunt. The family lived in a small NC town that holds so dear in my heart. We lived in Va but my best memories were staying in NC.. I called her "aunt Alma", she had a small 3 room house with a garden bigger than the house. She taught me so much, especially cooking meals on the old wood cooker she had. She woke in the morning, cooked and canned all day, then sat in rocker at night reading the bible. She never had no TV so us kids pretty much stayed outside running around. Best years of my life. Watching your videos, hearing the sounds in the background brought a tear to my eye. They brought me back to sitting on the porch snapping beans with her, the smell of honeysuckle in the air. What I wouldn't give to relive that time. Thank you so much for bringing back those memories.
Love those memories 😀
I love those beans also, your rattlesnake beans. Here in SW Virginia, we call them preacher beans! The first ones I ever had I bought from a guy from Mountain City Tennessee at our Farmers Market. I fell in love with them the first time I tasted them! I love watching your videos, they are so informative and entertaining! Thank you for sharing with us!
So glad you enjoy our videos!
What I really appreciate in your videos is the attitude of your men folk. They have a quiet self-confidence that allows them to be kind, helpful and compassionate. No sign of the cowardice that has some so-called men behaving in a despicable macho fashion. No wonder the girls ended up with caring , responsible, hard working men. They have had good role models. Well done dad, uncles grandfathers and friends.
Hi Tipper and Matt,
My wife and I enjoy watching your channel. We have been watching a couple of years and enjoy it. We are like you and Matt, we love to can and put up for the winter months. My wife makes tomato juice and adds vegetables and you can drink it right out of the jar. It's almost like V8 juice but better. In the winter on a cold day here in South Central Pennsylvania she makes cream of tomato soup along with a toasted cheese sandwich and it is very good! But anyway I help her and we put up all that we can. Sauerkraut, picked beets, greenbeans,cabbage,onions,asparagus,squash, zuchinni, cucumbers and tomatoes 🍅. You have a beautiful family and we enjoy you sharing your every day living with us. I was born in Eastern NC in Wilson. My grandparents had a farm there! They are long gone now but watching your videos bring me back to those days visiting them and grandma made biscuits and cornmeal bread everyday. She rolled them out by hand! She was special! Any way Thank You for all that you and Matt do! We appreciate it very much!
So very glad you both enjoy our videos 😀 Thank you for sharing!
Seems like you just planted about 2 weeks ago. Your garden is beautiful. Maybe Matt has it backwards....maybe the suntan oil tastes like a coconut popsicle. Y'all are so funny...sitting there talking about being old & doctoring your poor hands. We had a neighbor kid (years & years ago) who didn't say bermuda grass. Instead he said "tamuta" grass. So for fun my hubby & I started calling it tamuta grass & that's all our daughter heard it called from a very small child. She didn't know any better until she was way in her teens. We laugh about that to this day & still call it tamuta grass. Hugs!
Love that memory 😀
You guys are always a breath of fresh air. I may or may have not been called "motor mouth" when I was a teenager and in my twenties. Lol. Your beans look great! I was look forward to fresh beans, fresh peas, cherry and grape tomatoes, radishes, beets, and swiss chard. Can't wait to see what else you guys produce.
I live in public housing, which I am grateful for, because God has never let me be homeless, but I do long for a space to plant herbs. I love seeing your garden.
You were talking about wasper not being a word and it made me think of chester drawers. I had some age on me when I figured out it was chest of drawers and not chester, lol :)
I say that one too 😀
Matt "the witchdoctor", he went from amputating to putting chicken poop on it. BAHAHAHAHAHA The ending conversation cracked me up!
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Everything about this video did my heart good. Watching you two picking was almost like being in the garden myself. And when you were taking your popsicle break, I was thinking how restful is a conversation with pauses in it. Most people seem to feel so afraid of dead air that they fill it up with talk even when they have nothing to say. Being comfortable enough with someone so that you can enjoy being together without talking is often the deepest kind of companionship. It's a gift.
I had a couple of friends who lived for many years in a cabin north of the Arctic circle in Alaska. They taught me an Inuit word, koviashuvik, which means being fully and pleasantly in the present moment. It's like when you're sitting outside working on some chore and you hear a bird and you stop what you're doing to pay attention to the bird, and to the breeze and the sun's warmth on your skin and the green smell. That's koviashuvik.
What a great word!
Thank You Tipper & Matt, This video I NEEDED, having been overwhelmed to find the cancer I have, now means chemo & radiation, I NEEDED SOMETHING SPECIAL!! 🙏 😢 ❤ It Brought back memories of years gone by of working to pick the fruits of our labor with my Mom & Dad, and all that you spoke of. I also followed my Dad in the cornfield, it was wonderful. YOUR GARDENS ARE BEAUTIFUL & Look to be very Bountiful..We definitely ARE in NEED of Rain in MO. It so Funny to listen to You & Matt have "Popsicle Time" and just relax & talk. Take care of Your Finger Tipper. If most people knew the things used in the past to Dr. with, they would make it illegal. 🤣 such as Matt's idea for your finger..lol. You two are Blessed to be able to grow have one another to talk, share and laugh together ❤ 💖. I LOVE IT ALL TIPPER..Can't pick just one part, except Remembering the Great Taste of Home canned Everything and home grown chickens & pork we raised and butchered ourselves!! GOD BLESS YOU ALL & MUCH LOVE 💖💙🙏🙏 WATCH FOR THAT BEAR 🐻!!!
Thank you Elaine!! I will be praying for you're full healing 😀
Reminds me of my Grandmama and Grandedy working in garden,I hope I get to see them again one day.....🙏
Y'all's garden is awesome. We have the Japanese beetles 🪲 on our beans. Our cucumbers are bitter ... we can't figure what is going on with that. We plant cherry and grape tomatoes for the grandbabies . They stand and pick and eat....😆
The only cucumber we plant is Burpees Burpless. Everything else seems to be bitter. I make old fashioned lime sweet pickles or we eat the cucumbers. My son tried planting different kinds of cucumbers and I fussed at him because they were bitter.
I’m like you, Tipper. I like all parts of making a garden. The satisfaction of hearing the pings of the lids sealing. We had a tornado on Tuesday and the hail beat up my garden. I pruned broken branches from my tomato plants and praying that my beans will survive. I love yours and Matt’s chats.💕
I hope it does survive!!
Celebrating Appalachia,
I Love watching Matt and Tipper work together. I miss my wife.
I grew “half white runners” forever but thought I would try “blue lake” because less strings and more meat. I like them better after all those years.
I hope Kudzu Bugs never get up YALL’s way. They eat anything with vines. I stopped growing a garden because Heart gave out but also, 5 years ago, Kudzu bugs ate All my beans just as I was about to collect them. I tried 7 dust and liquid but didn’t phase them. I had a chest long beard back then, and when I started picking- they swarmed me. Their stink made me sick, bad. They were attracted to white colors and my beard & hair are white. I ran out of garden and git got water hose and started spray myself all over. My immune system is very weak so I started sneezing and couldn’t stop. Took 4 Benadryl and finally got better. But I was mad so I got hose and spray everything and they went flying all over and got on me again but not as bad. I only got 1 mess of beans off 4, 20’ rows.
My favorite part of canning was shelling. My Grandparents raised me and I was with Pappy at 3years old in garden. He would put me on back of mules while he plowed.
Got to stop- crying.
I Love Yall 🙏🏻
Thank you Joe!! Those bugs sound horrible I sure hope they never make it up here!
You remind me so much of my Grandma n Grandpa from Bristol Tennessee. I was born in Louisville Ky. Your way of cooking is the way my mama cooked. I miss her so. She’s been gone 8 years. I used to have your accent when I was a little girl. The Japanese beetles totally ate all the leaves off my late husbands apple tree.😢 we grew a acre garden here in Northeast Iowa. Took tons of vegetables to the Farmers Market. I still live on our 2 acres. You have such a Love as I do for the land. Your videos are so enjoyable. There was a time we grew 1000 hills of potatoes, 300 tomato plants n pepper plants. Hundreds of onions, garlic and spinach, lettuce, peas, asparagus, char, zucchini squash. Love when you have your popsicle break ❤️ . Wish my husband were here and we could still be gardening. Love your channel 😉
Thank you!! Glad we remind you of those good times!!
Thank You Sir,Thank You Ma'am.
DE has always worked pretty well when we fight the japanese beetles. FABULOUS gardens!!!
Your garden is beautiful. You can see the hard work and dedication in your garden....I believe The People of The Appalachia Have Their Own Language...I had a hard time in school in New York because my parents taught us word's that the school said we're not word's. You and Matt are a bunch of sunshine 🌞. God bless yall🙂🙏
Wha hahaha 'Stick with me and get educated.' Whahahaha You two are a stitch! Thank you for sharing your day!!
Small World... I'm sitting here in my Garden in Germany and clean my fresh beans and watching Tipper...👍🌻
Love that!! Thank you 😀
Enjoy God's Bounty and all his Blessings!
For sure! Thank you for watching 😀
I have been watching your channel for approximately a month. I absolutely just love everything about it. You all seem like such wonderful people! I love the recipes, the walks in the woods, the garden, and the take on words! It looks like such a wonderful place to live! Your daughters are beautiful, and seem like such sweet girls. I live in the city, and wish I could get my husband to move to the country!! Of course we could use more money to do so!! We have planted a few things, and I battling the Japanese beetles as well! I'm going to have to look for those rattlesnake beans next year! 😊 Thanks for all the great content!!
So glad you've been enjoying our videos and hope you continue to do so 😀
I love the chairs you’re sitting in🥰. Such a nice video.
Love wins always ❤ Thank you 😊
Grew up in Missouri. My dad had a big garden. Always corn, green beans, strawberries, okra, tomatoes, peas, some potatoes. He was always trying something new. Never heard of rattlesnake beans! So many memories! And so much work. But sure good in winter!
Beautiful tomatoes! I would have a bacon, egg and tomato sandwich with Mayo on sourdough bread. Yummy I wish I was there for taste test.
I like Matt's realism, I had to giggle at his SPF comment
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There's nothing better than fresh vegetables from your own garden 😋 Chitter and Chatter are gone and you and Matt sittin there rockin' in the shade remind me of the song "Rockin Years"🎶
Another word for magic is love .
I love flower gardens. I love planting seeds and watching beautiful flowers with beautiful colors come from that seed, Magical!! "When you put seeds into the earth she is so thankful that what she gives back can be considered nothing less than Magnificent!" quote Maryanne Brown~ I love your vlogs~ Thank You
We lived in Virginia for awhile, and I remember these long steady soft rains. Just the best!
I've never heard cicadas called jar flies but that is one of the most beautiful sounds. I always think of their buzz and the smell of honeysuckle together- the essence of summer.
💕💗🙂your videos always bring a smile and brighten the day - I especially enjoy the times you & Matt sit, have your pop-sickles and chat a while...so special.
It is so beautiful to watch the solitude you and Matt have just being in the same space. As Mimi of five grand babies I can only pray that they can enjoy that stability in their lives. You and Matt have raised two well rounded young ladies that any parent would be proud to claim. What a great job you both have done.
Thank you so much 😀
Thanks for the gardening video and the gardenside chat - yall had me rollin! Have a good one, Mrs Job Foreman and Mr Mule 🤣
Thank you 😀 So glad you enjoyed it!
Magical to see two rows of beans and your husband picking beans
Sitting under the trees, listening to the sounds. Fresh garden goodies. Nothing like it.
Your beautiful garden and home is exactly what I pray for when the good Lord calls me Home! I would love to work in God’s gardens! ❤️🙏
Love that thought 😀
We always planted our beans by our sweet corn after it had a good head start. That way it would climb right up the corn stalk
Granny liked to do that too 😀
I remember picking green beans with my daddy when I was younger. He would put me on the inside of the beans and I'd pick the backside of the bean vines. I remember that it was hot but I did not have to deal with the sun. Daddy always grew rattlesnake beans and mama would can them. He grew beans until the last year he lived and died when he was 81. I'm so thankful for the way I was raised.
Very Nice Garden folks! Yeap Lime works some for Japanese Beatles 7 dust was good but not healthy. Neem oil works too. Tomatoes are my favorite. Love Yellow Crooknecks. You folks are Blessed.
Sometimes I wish we would put out a garden then I remember all the hard work from helping my mom and dad when I was growing up so I’m thankful for my husband’s three tomato plants. Lol
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Everything in the garden is a gift from. God.Lots of hard work but so rewarding!!!!!
It sure is-thank you Diane 😀
I'm really envious of your beautiful garden. We've had no rain to speak of here in the Ozarks in the past 6 weeks. Our gardens are really suffering. City water cannot replace a good rainfall.
🤣 Matt saying the coconut popsicle is like eating SPF 15.
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It’s true…those coconut ones, in that brand do taste like suntan lotion.
You guys are funny 😆
"15 spf". That cracked me up. I laughed about it later and told my mom about it. She's 89 and I have got her watching your channel now, and I told her about the Outshine popsicles. She lives in assisted living and she asked me to bring her one and I told her about Matt eating the coconut one and saying it tasted like suntan oil. We both thought that was so funny!
Love that 😀
I planted half runners in my garden for several years before i moved and they were super producers and so good. Cooked mine with a ham hock and new potatoes. Made a pan of corn bread and sliced a yellow stripey tomato. With green onions is the best meal ever! I miss my garden. 😢
I'm a Christian Woman in Michigan.I do not get jealous, But I an a little envious.I love your podcast.MY BROTHER-LAW just bought him a house in Harlan Ky,He loves it their.We losed our Mother last year in Georga in a senior live. The way u speak remind me of my family in the Appalachia..You and your Hubby have a beautiful soil.Thank you so much.
Thank you Linda!
Late to the video but you two are so sweet together. Matt’s sense of humour is to laugh for. 😂
Thank you for answering so late in the video game. Just so yo know my wonderful man ordered me your cookbook.
Chicken manure and kerosene....that was hilarious! Tipper, that little huff you gave him tells me that ain't the first time he has said stuff like that. I shake my head at my husband all the time. I just love the laughter when you realized that your finger was red from the blackberries. So much fun just watchin ya'll.
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It’s peaceful to sit in the yard and listening to the different sounds it’s a great time
Something about natural rain, can't be replicated by the garden hose.
We are suffering a bit over here in middle TN.
That was a special moment there at the end as you and Matt reflected on the changes in your home life with your daughter away from home.
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One of the personally "magical finds" in my garden is the wonderful taste of the many fresh vegetables that I had never liked before. I did not grow up with a garden...everything we ate came out of a can, or from a fast food joint. My husband was not a vegetable eater either, though he grew up with a garden. At any rate, we have found fresh vegetables and the right cooking methods make all the difference! Taking a cue from you Tipper, last night I made wilted spinach for the first time, or what you call "kilt", with bacon, onion, garlic, and bacon grease. When we tasted it, both of us looked at each other in shock that it would taste soo good! I had only seen slimy cooked spinach from a can...now I wish I had planted more spinach!! So, I am going replant spinach for end of summer/fall eating. I'm going to try roasting radishes soon too. I read on Pinterest that radishes turn sweet, like a lot of root vegetables, when roasted. Thank you for spreading the word about your Appalachian foodways!
That is wonderful 😀
I love your videos. I am from Oregon and my parents always had vegetable patches( plural!). My mother passed in 2020 and since then my father hasn't gardened nearly as much.
The chairs, flowers, vegetables, foliage, you and Matt; all remind me of my childhood. You are so like my grandparents( even though you both are my age). I am tearing up as I write this. ❤
Thank you Kim. Glad we remind you of good memories. I'm so sorry you lost your mother.
It's so peaceful with you two out there. Wish I was there. You kept rocking and rocking and talking softly.....I was nearly nodding off. Then bam....going to granny's to see her peanut beans and peas.
Magical=awe inspiring ✨️
Thank you 😀
In the evening, just as the sun is setting down and daylight becomes dusk, I try to pick my vegetables in the garden. It’s not as large as it ounce was, but I still get a pretty good yield from it. With the summer, it has been very dry here. Seems like the pop up rain showers hit all around us, but not as often over our garden. We could use a good slow soaking. Nothing better than fresh, homegrown produce for me. Thanks for your time and sharing these stories of life in Appalachia. - Tennessee Smoky
I remember the sound of whippoorwills. I heard them in the evening when I was going to sleep. Sometimes I heard owls. I listened until I fell asleep.