I did the class with them during the Homesteaders of America conference. make sure you have your refrigeration for the carcass in line, we made it through the class but an unexpected situation occurred, which with the 2-day pause in the class for the conference, meant we had an essentially frozen carcass to try to process, doable, but more difficult.
You are SOOOOOOOOOOOOO fortunate that Meg is SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO supportive of everything you do!!! She is every man's dream! Always backing you up with her enthusiastic, supportive, positive comments... cheering you on... loving you... just the love in her eyes when she looks at you is amazing!!!! You are truly very, very, very fortunate to have Meg on your team. And the boys.... WOW! What a help they are... so peaceful and calm and barefoot and free to be who they are. And of course... little Lilly flower... blossoming into a beautiful little human being!
Loved seeing the boys in plaid shirts & toolbelts. You have your own work crew! It's great to see you setting them up for success in their future for independence. I can see how much fun you are having with this project. It's good you had a nice long break after the epic house build, LOL! Awesome things coming out of the kitchen, but I hope Meg gets some time out of there. The cooking plus the soaps is a lot of time in the kitchen. Won't be long before you will be planting. Look forward to your videos on the class.
Wow, you show it all. Those bugs! Anyway, I wanted to thank you for showing the sweet potatoes you had to deal with. You know, it's easy to forget that we need to be constantly monitoring food that is kept in storage. Inspiring!
I enjoy immensely watching your progress and how little by little you’re achieving your goals and just plain enjoying everyday life. I love what you two do, but what I enjoy the most is popping “helping elf’s” (your children) in every video, such fun to watch how they help… cooking, cleaning, babysitting, building, gardening, harvesting… those boy can do it all! Congratulations
That is really a SIGNIFICANT amount of improvement via HARD WORK, Ben & sons! You're all going to be thrilled every time you walk in there! Thanks for sharing your projects with us; I've enjoyed watching your plans turn into reality. And MEG....WOW! Your Lady is incredible with all the new food prep and storage projects she's been up to; I'm eager to see those videos when they are ready to be sent to us. God bless your family.
If you want a clean house invite people for dinner. If you want a clean barn, invite someone to give a workshop! 😂 Meg, you are on fire! You have a lot of mouths to feed well and you are rocking it! ♥️👍🙏🇺🇸🤓
Ben, love watching your projects - is there nothing you can't do!? And I love how you stopped to help Meg when she was sorting sweet potatos 🥰 I can't wait to see Meg sharing her knowlege of cooking - she is a wizard in the kitchen!! Love you guys!!
Ben and Meg I am so glad you salvaged your barn and didn't tear it down. The old dwellings add so much character to homesteads. You are blessed. Your little girl is growing so fast. She is adorable!!!!
What a great job you have done in the shed. Love the boys with their head lights just like dads. Megs is so inspiring with her skills in the kitchen. A couple with very limited help, you sure are getting thing’s accomplished well done. Love your videos a lot. Take care, xxx
Well you BOTH have the tricks of the trade 👍. What a NICE spot, and with the lighting - just WOW. Huge difference. Glad you took time just for yourselves but YOU WERE MISSED - glad you’re back 😊
It's so good to see you guys again!! And your helpers really kicked into high gear, especially Munchie with the rafters... or trusses... or whatever those are. Loved watching him help hold those in place. ~ I was just checking your page two days ago to see when you last posted. Can't wait to see more of Meg's cooking. Glad you're back. I hope the Hand Hewn Farm class is a raging success.
Glad to see you guys back missed y'all. Don't you guys have a hillside you could dig out to make a root cellar? If you dug it out like a cave and shored it up you would have the same temperature year-round. Ben you're a smart man and Megan a smart woman. You could think it through and put you a door on it. And have your own storage cooler. Just a thought!!! Y'all take care stay safe and God bless y'all
🤔put up cement cellar elements by the hillside and then bulldoze the hilltop onto that.... My aunt and uncle upgraded their old leaky cellar to elements: they first saved the flowers on top, then removed dirt, removed old cellar structure, put the elements in, dirt back on top, planted old&new flowers. I'm not an expert on cellar building by any means😆
Y' all work so well together, love seeing the kids kickin in with dad and then everyone joining Meg in the kitchen. She can knock out some food! Fabulous Job Everyone!
I really enjoyed this video!!! Lots of work and a lot of great help…love how you all work together and share in all your successes and help each other when you need help! Buggie is growing like a weed and she is a beauty💜!
Yum homemade sausages. Remember doing our pigs, smoking and curing the meat, but never did sausage links, breakfast sausage yes. Nice job on the lights and clean up. So nice to have the boys help, not to mention the are growing like weeds. Can't wait for the specialized pork meat video. Blessings to all. 😊🇱🇷
So good to see you all. That building went from kind of a inconvenient mess to extremely user-friendly. Great job! Meg is doing awesome things in the kitchen!
So glad you are back, really love your videos. Love the barn. Wow. Those lights are BRIGHT. So nice to be able to work longer in the winter time. The boys are such a huge help, you raised the right. You all please take care and be safe
I absolutely love these clean ups and makeover. Decluttering is the best. and to give this barn more purpose. Thanks for taking us with you. And kitchen stuff is also nice. Love it.
Please oil Megs spinning wheel. It looks so lonely and sad. What a wonderful thing you are doing for the barn. You are extending the barns life and giving you a wonderful work/play space.
Wow...so much has been accomplished with your barn. Love the lights, they do give you good vision in there. Your class will be well received I'm sure. Thanks for sharing and Meg, you are really quite the cook. Maybe you could do some classes for your fans on what to do with all the pig parts. Have a Blessed day.
Watching you guys makes me wish my ex & I would have been more aligned and he would have valued the marriage/family enough to tuff out the hard part (I had serious accident, tree fell onto my car as I driving) and work through the rough stuff. Good Job Hollar family🥰
What a transformation! The expressions to describe it made me smile: Holy Cow, Oh Wow, and my favorite, Holy Toledo ( I haven’t heard that one in years). Can’t wait to share what comes next. And Meg, you continue to amaze. I would love to learn at your side. Happiest of New Years to you all.
It is good to see that you all are well! It was so satisfying to see the shop go from disorganized to almost clean and organized. Looking forward to the next video!
Sir, the amount of enthusiasm you had for the brightness of those lights was infectious! 😂🤣 Then you got the whole family involved and they we're just as excited! That was awesome and Meg was right, I think it was brighter in the barn than it was outside 🤣! Looking forward to watching the charcuterie workshop! 😊
I remember working in my parents’ barn long ago before we upgraded the lighting, and how utterly depressing it was, like working in a cave. What a huge difference it made when I finally got around to replacing all the light fixtures with new ones that actually worked! I learned that you can tolerate working in cold temps longer if you simply have ample, quality lighting, and some good music to listen to. 🤠 Good job improving that space! You’ll love working up there now, and it’ll be awesome for classes! (Cause I’m sure this is just the first of many to come) 😉🙌
Phew a lot of hard work, but sure has paid off!! that sausage looks awesome, as kids we got a cow and a pig every year and part of it was making farmer's sausage with beef and pork and we used to cut tiny pork fat cubes to add to the mix. Kids helped as well and the rewards were plentiful
Awesomework. The boys are incredible helpers.....Great lessons they sre learning...They will be appreciative the older they get...nice sausage and brats....Meg !!!!!
Yay my favorite homestead family.... Man those lights are kickin... awesome job Ben 😃 Meg I need your recipes lady 🙂 bratwurst.... homemade sounds amazing... this is stuff I haven't even thought about making homemade. Girl you ROCK !!!!
you all inspire me! Thank you for sharing all your talents and information! Thank you all for being so real and exposing it all! Triumphs, failures and blessings. True life!
Good day to you guys, awesome job in the workshop. The lighting really transforms the whole space. We want more of Meg's kitchen work, she is the boss in there and here good is amazing !! Take care and God bless 🙏💚👍🇬🇧
I love seeing how you interact as a couple. Each of you works hard to make the other happy and each of you celebrates and is openly grateful for what the other accomplishes. I wonder how often people complain that their spouse is lazy, but don’t realize that their own lack of appreciation is a big part of it. Why do anything but the minimum if no one cares?
That space is going to be fantastic for a woodshop! You found something the boys look to really enjoy doing, it will be a great way to spend time teaching them how to use all the tools and what to do with them lol. Those bugs look to be those asian beetles that bite instead of ladybugs. Good that you cleaned them out, they will tear up your garden plants. Great job, can't wait to see you building more stuff in your lighted space!
Meg, you are knocking it out of the park right into next week! You were always cooking good food but you have uped your game to beyond Martha Stewart level and much nicer to look at too🤗😊👍That baby girl is growing so much and the boys are becoming young men before our very eyes! Looking forward to what 2022 brings!
I just love it that the young men/boys have their own tool belts….after all, they are working their hardest, too. When you speeded it up, I couldn’t always tell you from your sons, they are getting so tall. And what a cook mom is…you lucky guys!
OMG. If that was Meg 1st time making sausage she did AWESOME JOB! We do a summer sausage with the venison.every year! It is work. Great job on the barn lighting too. Love how everyone gets involved ❤️
You and Meg are such hard workers. I love how you work and build the homestead and how Meg is such a great cook ….not just typical food…she cooks difficult foods. Your bot amazing to watch.
Wow! You have been busy. For sausage making, we found that leaving a bit of the casing empty at the start helps to prevent blowouts as you're twisting them to length. It gives the meat a bit of room to move. It looks delicious!! Enjoy.
Buggie's face when Meg turned on the lights---priceless!!
Missed you guys! Hope all is well. My favorite homesteaders to watch.
We call them rafter ties. That's what my dad who was a carpenter and a general contractor called them, when I was growing up.
According to the carpenter's I watch on RUclips they all call them rafter ties. Bcuz they tie the left rafter to the right rafter.
@@denisewilson8367 thank you.
I did the class with them during the Homesteaders of America conference. make sure you have your refrigeration for the carcass in line, we made it through the class but an unexpected situation occurred, which with the 2-day pause in the class for the conference, meant we had an essentially frozen carcass to try to process, doable, but more difficult.
Definitely a root cellar! I'm rooting for that one!
You are SOOOOOOOOOOOOO fortunate that Meg is SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO supportive of everything you do!!! She is every man's dream! Always backing you up with her enthusiastic, supportive, positive comments... cheering you on... loving you... just the love in her eyes when she looks at you is amazing!!!! You are truly very, very, very fortunate to have Meg on your team. And the boys.... WOW! What a help they are... so peaceful and calm and barefoot and free to be who they are. And of course... little Lilly flower... blossoming into a beautiful little human being!
I love watching your children assist you.
Loved seeing the boys in plaid shirts & toolbelts. You have your own work crew! It's great to see you setting them up for success in their future for independence. I can see how much fun you are having with this project. It's good you had a nice long break after the epic house build, LOL! Awesome things coming out of the kitchen, but I hope Meg gets some time out of there. The cooking plus the soaps is a lot of time in the kitchen. Won't be long before you will be planting. Look forward to your videos on the class.
Wow, you show it all. Those bugs! Anyway, I wanted to thank you for showing the sweet potatoes you had to deal with. You know, it's easy to forget that we need to be constantly monitoring food that is kept in storage. Inspiring!
Yes!! I am always checking all the fresh stuff to make sure it’s not going bad, and to preserve it in another way if I need to.
Your boys are such good helpers! They are absorbing knowledge that they will use for the rest of their lives❤
Love this boy always helping his daddy
Honestly believe a megs kitchen channel would go viral
Oh my gosh! It's been soooo long! Was worried about you guys.
Meg! You are a rock star in the kitchen and it is such a pleasure watching you in your element! So good to see you having fun. :
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I enjoy immensely watching your progress and how little by little you’re achieving your goals and just plain enjoying everyday life. I love what you two do, but what I enjoy the most is popping “helping elf’s” (your children) in every video, such fun to watch how they help… cooking, cleaning, babysitting, building, gardening, harvesting… those boy can do it all! Congratulations
Looking great! You have a lot of help from those boys! Great kids.
That is really a SIGNIFICANT amount of improvement via HARD WORK, Ben & sons! You're all going to be thrilled every time you walk in there! Thanks for sharing your projects with us; I've enjoyed watching your plans turn into reality. And MEG....WOW! Your Lady is incredible with all the new food prep and storage projects she's been up to; I'm eager to see those videos when they are ready to be sent to us. God bless your family.
My favorite homestead channel❤️
Meg, you are so organized in your kitchen and manage to get so much deliciousness done in there!
I love seeing your boys and how they are helping out and watching you!
If you want a clean house invite people for dinner. If you want a clean barn, invite someone to give a workshop! 😂
Meg, you are on fire! You have a lot of mouths to feed well and you are rocking it!
♥️👍🙏🇺🇸🤓
Absolutely!!👍🏼
🤣🤣🤣 that's right, it always works!
LOL I never have visitors so my place is a mess... I definitely should have people over a couple times a year to get inspiration for a good cleaning😆
@@TT-_- it’s true at my house!
Ben, love watching your projects - is there nothing you can't do!? And I love how you stopped to help Meg when she was sorting sweet potatos 🥰 I can't wait to see Meg sharing her knowlege of cooking - she is a wizard in the kitchen!! Love you guys!!
Ben and Meg I am so glad you salvaged your barn and didn't tear it down. The old dwellings add so much character to homesteads. You are blessed. Your little girl is growing so fast. She is adorable!!!!
WAHOOO just what I needed little bit of Hollar
What a great job you have done in the shed. Love the boys with their head lights just like dads. Megs is so inspiring with her skills in the kitchen. A couple with very limited help, you sure are getting thing’s accomplished well done. Love your videos a lot. Take care, xxx
Happy New Year! Loved seeing Meg’s (Ashford) spinning wheel in the background! Kudos on the bright lights and workbench.
Welcome back! Nice to see everyone. Things are looking good, awesome job.
Well you BOTH have the tricks of the trade 👍. What a NICE spot, and with the lighting - just WOW. Huge difference. Glad you took time just for yourselves but YOU WERE MISSED - glad you’re back 😊
It's so good to see you guys again!! And your helpers really kicked into high gear, especially Munchie with the rafters... or trusses... or whatever those are. Loved watching him help hold those in place. ~ I was just checking your page two days ago to see when you last posted. Can't wait to see more of Meg's cooking. Glad you're back. I hope the Hand Hewn Farm class is a raging success.
There called collar ties, much needed to keep walls from spreading. Nice work
Always love seeing your posts- projects, animals and food! Thanks for the update!
I would love to watch Meg cook.
Glad to see you guys back missed y'all. Don't you guys have a hillside you could dig out to make a root cellar? If you dug it out like a cave and shored it up you would have the same temperature year-round. Ben you're a smart man and Megan a smart woman. You could think it through and put you a door on it. And have your own storage cooler. Just a thought!!! Y'all take care stay safe and God bless y'all
It's too wet there for root cellar
@@lovenotes5299 hey @lovenotes
@@heatherk8931 HI
🤔put up cement cellar elements by the hillside and then bulldoze the hilltop onto that....
My aunt and uncle upgraded their old leaky cellar to elements: they first saved the flowers on top, then removed dirt, removed old cellar structure, put the elements in, dirt back on top, planted old&new flowers.
I'm not an expert on cellar building by any means😆
You guys are AMAZING to me . There is nothing u guys can't do. 👍🏾❤. The boys are as well. They are going to know it All such a blessing.
True on all counts! 😊
Y' all work so well together, love seeing the kids kickin in with dad and then everyone joining Meg in the kitchen. She can knock out some food! Fabulous Job Everyone!
I really enjoyed this video!!! Lots of work and a lot of great help…love how you all work together and share in all your successes and help each other when you need help! Buggie is growing like a weed and she is a beauty💜!
Looks good and I sure love that your family work together on these projects and around the farm. Reminds me of times gone by in my own family.
Now the Hollars have a "People Barn" too :)
Happy new year to you and your family glad to have you guys back. Please let Meg start a cooking video even if it's once a week I love her cooking x
I love it that the boys are wearing tool belts while helping dad out. They are growing up so fast.
Megs is absolutely the best!!
Ben what a fantastic spot to work!!
I have love for everyone, but i ESPECIALLY love my NC homesteaders.
Everything looks great y'all 😃 thank you for blessing us with another video
Yum homemade sausages. Remember doing our pigs, smoking and curing the meat, but never did sausage links, breakfast sausage yes. Nice job on the lights and clean up. So nice to have the boys help, not to mention the are growing like weeds. Can't wait for the specialized pork meat video. Blessings to all. 😊🇱🇷
What a transformation of the barn !
So good to see you all. That building went from kind of a inconvenient mess to extremely user-friendly. Great job! Meg is doing awesome things in the kitchen!
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You guys are slaying it. Love seeing your family thrive and make things happen. Your boys are learning some serious skills.
The lights are fantastic..... Great work
The mini me guys- how cute. Work belts, head lamps, working hard with daddo! Enjoyed it!
So glad you are back, really love your videos.
Love the barn. Wow. Those lights are BRIGHT. So nice to be able to work longer in the winter time.
The boys are such a huge help, you raised the right.
You all please take care and be safe
Happy New Year, Hollar family!!! Best wishes for every happiness in 2022!
I absolutely love these clean ups and makeover. Decluttering is the best. and to give this barn more purpose. Thanks for taking us with you. And kitchen stuff is also nice. Love it.
Just a heads up, those are not ladybugs but rather "Asian Lady Beetles". They are highly invasive, and they bite (not like a bee sting but still).
That was my thought when I saw how clustered they were. They'll do that in a house if they can get inside during the fall/winter.
They are slightly toxic, shouldn;t handle with out gloves or immediatley washing.
Please oil Megs spinning wheel. It looks so lonely and sad. What a wonderful thing you are doing for the barn. You are extending the barns life and giving you a wonderful work/play space.
I pull it out and oil it every now and then.
Lowe’s should totally sponsor you. 🙂
Happy New Year!
Love your family and how everyone enjoys all you do together♥️
Wow...so much has been accomplished with your barn. Love the lights, they do give you good vision in there. Your class will be well received I'm sure. Thanks for sharing and Meg, you are really quite the cook. Maybe you could do some classes for your fans on what to do with all the pig parts. Have a Blessed day.
We love watching Meg cook
Watching you guys makes me wish my ex & I would have been more aligned and he would have valued the marriage/family enough to tuff out the hard part (I had serious accident, tree fell onto my car as I driving) and work through the rough stuff. Good Job Hollar family🥰
Look at the cute boys with their hats and head lamps ~ just like Dad! I so love your boys! You are an amazing Dad.
Easily one of your best videos. There was something for everyone in this one love love loved it, thank you.
Busy hand are happy hands, you guys are HAPPY! thank you stay safe
Nice job family! Looks awesome. You'll be ready and it will go great.
What a transformation! The expressions to describe it made me smile: Holy Cow, Oh Wow, and my favorite, Holy Toledo ( I haven’t heard that one in years). Can’t wait to share what comes next. And Meg, you continue to amaze. I would love to learn at your side. Happiest of New Years to you all.
She needs her own camera for kitchen n cooking vids 😃
Camera's are expensive. Most have to share between the hubby & wife.
It is good to see that you all are well! It was so satisfying to see the shop go from disorganized to almost clean and organized. Looking forward to the next video!
BahaHahahaha “I think it’s missing the MSG” I spit my coffee out...you guys kill me! 🤣
Sir, the amount of enthusiasm you had for the brightness of those lights was infectious! 😂🤣 Then you got the whole family involved and they we're just as excited! That was awesome and Meg was right, I think it was brighter in the barn than it was outside 🤣! Looking forward to watching the charcuterie workshop! 😊
It's so good to see yall back those lights were a great choice! Great transformation already!
I remember working in my parents’ barn long ago before we upgraded the lighting, and how utterly depressing it was, like working in a cave. What a huge difference it made when I finally got around to replacing all the light fixtures with new ones that actually worked!
I learned that you can tolerate working in cold temps longer if you simply have ample, quality lighting, and some good music to listen to. 🤠
Good job improving that space! You’ll love working up there now, and it’ll be awesome for classes! (Cause I’m sure this is just the first of many to come) 😉🙌
We make our own sausage & andouille & smoke it in out smokehouse. We have made it all my life and I’m 68
Nicely done guys!!! Lot's of work, and it looks cold there in the evening. Meg, where do you get your energy girl....all the cooking, and processing 😊
Happy New Year my favourite family on RUclips!
Lots of love from Sweden as always 🥳
Phew a lot of hard work, but sure has paid off!! that sausage looks awesome, as kids we got a cow and a pig every year and part of it was making farmer's sausage with beef and pork and we used to cut tiny pork fat cubes to add to the mix. Kids helped as well and the rewards were plentiful
Cooking food from scratch is time consuming but worth it. I just finished making my first loaf of sour dough bread.
Can you put the sweet potatoes deep into the soil where you want to grow and see if they will grow in Spring? Maybe a few to see if it would work?
Awesomework. The boys are incredible helpers.....Great lessons they sre learning...They will be appreciative the older they get...nice sausage and brats....Meg !!!!!
Lol, my notification just came and I’m already watching your video…
Ben you are an awesome dad. Your boys are blessed to have you as inspiration. Not to diminish Meg as a great mom.
Yay my favorite homestead family.... Man those lights are kickin... awesome job Ben 😃 Meg I need your recipes lady 🙂 bratwurst.... homemade sounds amazing... this is stuff I haven't even thought about making homemade. Girl you ROCK !!!!
Its the little things! :)
you all inspire me! Thank you for sharing all your talents and information! Thank you all for being so real and exposing it all! Triumphs, failures and blessings. True life!
Good day to you guys, awesome job in the workshop. The lighting really transforms the whole space. We want more of Meg's kitchen work, she is the boss in there and here good is amazing !! Take care and God bless 🙏💚👍🇬🇧
I love seeing how you interact as a couple. Each of you works hard to make the other happy and each of you celebrates and is openly grateful for what the other accomplishes. I wonder how often people complain that their spouse is lazy, but don’t realize that their own lack of appreciation is a big part of it. Why do anything but the minimum if no one cares?
That space is going to be fantastic for a woodshop! You found something the boys look to really enjoy doing, it will be a great way to spend time teaching them how to use all the tools and what to do with them lol. Those bugs look to be those asian beetles that bite instead of ladybugs. Good that you cleaned them out, they will tear up your garden plants. Great job, can't wait to see you building more stuff in your lighted space!
Meg, you are knocking it out of the park right into next week! You were always cooking good food but you have uped your game to beyond Martha Stewart level and much nicer to look at too🤗😊👍That baby girl is growing so much and the boys are becoming young men before our very eyes! Looking forward to what 2022 brings!
Happy Newark Year! Let there be light at the end of the tunnel.
Wow! Wonderful difference light makes. Makes doing intricate work easier!
Good Job! looking forward to seeing the result!
I just love it that the young men/boys have their own tool belts….after all, they are working their hardest, too. When you speeded it up, I couldn’t always tell you from your sons, they are getting so tall. And what a cook mom is…you lucky guys!
Hello from Minnesota. Love this channel.
Let there be light at the Hollar Barn! I love it! Your barn is amazing. It has so much character. I bet it becomes your favorite hangout.😊❤❤🙏🙏🙏
Brats look great! Good job guys 👍👍
I love how your boys help you in your work. You're raising good young, hard-working men of God.👍🙏💖
OMG. If that was Meg 1st time making sausage she did AWESOME JOB! We do a summer sausage with the venison.every year! It is work. Great job on the barn lighting too. Love how everyone gets involved ❤️
You and Meg are such hard workers. I love how you work and build the homestead and how Meg is such a great cook ….not just typical food…she cooks difficult foods. Your bot amazing to watch.
You all look happier than I’ve ever seen you! Great job!
Good changes!! The boys are such great helpers!! When you are doing the “shuffle” you are cleaning out not needed stuff…cool!
Wow! You have been busy. For sausage making, we found that leaving a bit of the casing empty at the start helps to prevent blowouts as you're twisting them to length. It gives the meat a bit of room to move. It looks delicious!! Enjoy.
Howdy again, that really looks nice!! Awesome job boys!!